Charlottesville School Fire Probed
Police opened an inquiry into an explosion and fire at Jefferson Junior High School in Charlottesville. Fire Chief Key cited a spark near a leaky gas valve as a possible trigger while investigators considered set charges. Seventeen children were in a basement recreation room but escaped injury as flames rose to sixty feet. boiler room damage was limited and boilers remained operable after about twenty minutes.
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Charlottesville
Jefferson
Lionel Key
Rites Tomorrow For A W Buhrman Richmond Business Leader
Abraham Wesley Buhrman 88 of Richmond dies Monday. He operated a farm machinery firm after moving from southwest Virginia in 1921. Buhrman was president of the Virginia Beef Cattle Producers Association until 1956 and helped found the Atlantic Rural Exposition. Survived by wife two daughters five sons and a brother.
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Richmond
Abraham Wesley Buhrman
Virginia Beef Cattle Producers Association
Buhrman
Virginia
Couple Killed At Railroad Crossing In Virginia
A Botetourt County couple, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Dudley of Buchanan, were struck and killed by a Norfolk and Western freight train at a crossing on Virginia 617 near Buchanan. The crash raised Virginia’s traffic toll for the year to 843, compared with 856 at the same point last year. George Washington became commander of the Continental Army in 1775 at Cambridge Common, Massachusetts.
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Associated Press
Botetourt County
Virginia
Buchanan
Graham Dudley
Norfolk and Western
George Washington
Cambridge Common
Mass
Merger Talks Renewed Between Virginia Teacher Groups
At concurrent conventions in Richmond the Virginia Teachers Association presses for a merger with the Virginia Education Association. VTA leader Dr J Rupert Picott predicts a near term union built on prearranged plans while the VEA debates mixed membership and local options. Gov Harrison and Sen Wayne Morse are slated to speak.
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Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Teachers Association
Virginia Education Association
VTA
J. Rupert Picott
VEA
WTA
Picott
Gov
Harrison
Wayne Morse
D - Ore
Virginia Negro vote rift seen as split voices emerge
Three leading Virginia Negro leaders rejected the Virginia Independent Voters League endorsement of Mills Godwin Jr. as not representing 200,000 voters. They cited loyalties to Holton and pending local meetings while Godwin campaigned for public education in Tidewater.
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Mills E. Godwin Jr
Virginia Independent Voters’ League
Carrington
South Boston
Halifax
Voters’ League
L. C. Johnson
Petersburg
The
NAACP
George Lawrence
Roanoke
Republican City Committee
Linwood Holton
Godwin
Johnson
Holton
Lawrence
Virginia
VIVL
Norfolk
Richmond
Tidewater
GOP
Mills
General Assembly
State Highway Department
Sidney S. Kellam
Unusual dognaping shocks Virginia owner
Peters burg resident A T Stone lost his French poodle after a stranger entered an animal hospital paid a 21 bill and departed with the dog. Stone learned of the loss only upon inquiring about the poodle's condition.
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Petersburg
A. T. Stone
Stone
Orange County Plan Approved for School Desegregation
RICHMOND AP The U S Office of Education approved the desegregation plan for Orange County schools. A total of 124 Virginia localities now have approved plans, qualifying for continued federal school aid. Fourteen plans still await approval.
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Richmond
Orange County
U.S. Office of Education
Virginia
Ex Newport News Officers Sentenced in Warehouse Burglary
Former Newport News policemen Peter H Hart and Theodore B Beets were sentenced to four years in prison for taking part in a December 5 warehouse office burglary. A third participant, Orgia W Tooley of Williamsburg, received a four year suspended sentence. Shirley E Benson of Hampton has been convicted but awaits sentencing.
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Newport News
Peter H. Hart
Theodore B. Beets
Hastings
Conway H. Sheild Jr
Orgia W. Tooley
Williamssburg
Shirley E. Benson
Hampton
Ruben and Harris Co
Motorist Dies in Virginia 3 Crash
George Edward Orange aged 35 of Stevensburg died Monday night in a single vehicle wreck on Virginia 3 east of Culpeper. An autopsy will determine if death resulted from the crash injuries or other causes prior to the accident.
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Culpeper
George Edward Orange
Stevensburg
Virginia 3
Here
Orange
Capon Bridge PTA to Meet. Health Talk Slated
Capon Bridge Parent-Teacher Association plans a meeting at the school tomorrow at 7 30 p m Dr Warren Gregory will speak on child health and wellbeing at the event potential parent involvement noted in community notice
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Capon Bridge
Parent- Teachers Association
Warren Gregory
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S. Braddock St
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Winchester Evening Star
Hart
Teets
Frost
PTA
Ereulom
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Heamer Traffic
Gulistan
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