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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1979

Page

5

Hit and Run Victim Found After Truck Incident

Virginia Beach high school senior Geraldine Withrow was killed early Sunday after being struck along Dam Neck Road. Daniel Joseph Adams, 22, stationed on the South Carolina, faces two felony hit and run charges as the investigation linked a pickup truck to the fatal incident.

Afterstone Aast Geraldine Withrow Virginia Beach First Colonial Dam Neck Road Body Y Po Daniel Joseph Adams South Carolina Miss Withrow Jerry Hess Jimmy Akers Akers Hess Norfolk Adams Shore Drive

The Pope in Washington on White House lawn

Officials lined up on the White House lawn to shake his hand and some kissed his ring. Crippled children waited from dawn until midafternoon for his blessing and wept during a tender private moment with the pope.

Washington White House

Pastor Digges Preaches Despite Morals Charges

In Alexandria Rev Reid W Digges Jr spoke at Del Ray United Methodist Church amid ongoing Norfolk arrest on morals charges involving a 17 year old girl. He defended his innocence while praising unity and disarmament efforts.

Alexandria Reid W. Digges, Jr Capt del Ray United Methodist Church Norfolk Digges Igges Arate

Episcopal Priest Lewis Named Virginia Suffragan Bishop

The Rev. David H. Lewis Jr of St. Matthew's Richmond was elected on the fourth ballot to be suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. He will be consecrated February 3 during the diocese's 186th annual meeting at St. Pauls Church in Richmond, after defeating Rev. D Raby Edwards in clergy and lay votes.

D. Raby Edwards St. Stephen’s Church

Former Va Governor Aids Prisoner's Fight

Former Virginia governor J Lindsay Almond backs William Jacobsen in a court bid claiming his 1961 death sentence commutation makes him parole eligible. The case seeks a parole date under state law while a Coast Guard probe reports seven rescued from a sunken 30-foot houseboat on the Potomac River.

Richmond Virginia William George Jacobsen J. Lindsay Almond Almond State Penitentiary Virginia Beach Jacobsen Thomas L. Barney James E. Kulp Frederick T. Gray Gray Frederick T. Gray Jr the Commonwealth John Dalton Barney General Assembly Mount Vernon Coast Guard Potomac River Baltimore

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