The World-News from Roanoke, Virginia • 14

ROANOKE WORLD NEWS riday July 23 1954 Jzigrf'i 'W vvfc'v Jps WlH' I wi I A 5 1 In I 1 i fe Jj mf lilRr fc'ijywfW Ah 3S "WMcaia ga A x0' iSMffiaatesL NEW BLACKSBURG Work on a new Methodist Church building is advancing in Blacksburg The sanctuary is going up ad jacent to the present church which will be used for other church activities on completion of the new building The Rev Robert Wilkerson is the church pastor free Advice She Was Runner Up Until Protest Registered County Netrs Roanoker Wins Beef Steqk for Mercy House 5 CV Mercy House patients will be eating beefsteak soon at the rate of about four pounds per persons All this came about when Roa noker Robert Rector appeared earlier this week on network TV give away show originating in Chicago He designated Mercy House Roanoke County convalescent home to receive all prizes he won In addition to the 400 pounds of steak Rector won and Mercy House will get: Beefsteak sauce to accompany the rpeat a freezer to store it in and a large pedestal fan presum ably to assure the steaks being eaten in comfort Rectors of 412 Allison Ave SW is th organizer of the Roanoke Granddaddy Club Ice Cream Slipper A benefit ice cream supper'will be held on the lawn of the irst Christian Church of Salem at 4:30 pm Saturday The event is open to the public and all proceeds will be applied to the church building fund Many items of food will be served in the Loyal Daughters Class sponsored affair Case $2000 Press Bulwark Company Guardsmen f' at noon A Non 6295 spearmint in be he Long Beach Calif (AP) quiet on the international front today final day of the Miss Uni verse contest although many contestants come from nations bute to the support the papers have given Lions Club activities and objectives A new man made clement No 99 in the scries counted by atom ic number has been produced It has an atomic mass of 247 mak ing it the heaviest thing on earth to date During that time they ques tioned Detective Capt Kermit Allman of the Roanoke Police Department Allman took the statement last March 4 in Roa investigation of the armed robbery of two ABC employes A portion of the statement as read by Mrs Weiss said also know of the Speedwell bank rob bery last June which Shirley told me he is mixed up During a conference yesterday the woman said that the sentence was not in the document when she signed it After court resumed today and the jury had been told of the Chicago XUP) Letter writers I oil nvBrthp United States Attorneys were tied up with Judge Matthews for two hours on a motion to strike I All Roanoke units of the Vir ginia National Guard will leave tomorrow morning for two weeks of field training at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Penn sylvania About 350 officers and enlisted men the largest group ever to go from PnnnnkA will make the trio state court ap the im thls role edi ob A PROGRAM of athletics and recreation has been planned for the troops 1 Capt Turner said There are a swimming pool ball parks service clubs and theaters available at the camp The units will return to Roa noke Aug 7 by motor convoy Handicraft Session Held A special handicraft session was held by the Busy Bee 4 Club at the Roanoke County Court house today President Dennis Clark presid ed as bird houses and camp stools were made A picnic followed the work session New Clinic Opens Tire new Cave Spring medical clinic one fourth mile southwest of Cave Spring proper off Route 221 is now open Dr Bartlett operator of the center said a second physi cian Dr Thomas Christie will also be at the clinic after Aug 1 Refreshing DeHcio3 DR ESCHENBURG SAID his daughter was heartbroken about her disqualification and cried all night He said it was explained to the sponsor of the state contest in Maryland that his daughter was only 16 and he was assured that was all right He said a representative of the Miss Universe pageant told him that age was not a factor only consideration was that if she were under 18 her consent would be needed should she be awarded a movie Dr Eschenburg added i 1 1 12judge Jack Matthews today struck the evi dence given yesterday by Mrs Alta King Weiss at the retrial of Shirley Ray Nelson Radford soldier charged with the Speedwell robbery The evidence Included fi ment Mrs Weiss read in implicating Nelson in the robbery last June He paid tribute to the home town newspaper as an integral part of the community which engenders community spirit elevates civic sights inspires ac tion on worthwhile objectives and awards merited praise School Meeting The Roanoke County school system will be represented at the Virginia Advisory Commission on Schools and Colleges meeting by DeWitt Miller administrative assistant to Supt Douglas Nininger The session to be held in Rich mond July 29 31 will include a study of the exceptional student problem and counseling services Bedford (AP) Company A 116th Infantry Regiment Bed ford unit in the 29th Division will leave Saturday at 9 am for two weeks of sum mertime training at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Pa Capt Ward A Dean will be in command They will join other units from Western Virginia and stop overnight on the farm of US Sen Harry Byrd near Winchester The units will return Saturday Aug 7 cruit' training senior guardsmen will weapons and training The units will move by motor convoy from Roanoke joining with other units of the 29th Division Rocky Mount A Martin has been re elected chairman of the ranklin County School Board Renamed vice chairman was Jamison Mrs Clara Greer will serve as clerk again A contract was awarded to rith Construction Co for repairs to the roof of the Rocky Mount Ele mentary School i The board decided to transfer the sixth grades from Doe Run and Jjanahan Schools to Mount Elementary School next session as a temporary solution for relieving overcrowded condi tions Delegates from Redwood com munity appeared before the board asking for improvements to Red wood School such as painting general improvement of building heating and boiler facilities and grounds The board took this mat ter under advisement and pointed a committee to visit school to' determine what provements can be made at time at HMrinnnrtprs Cnmnanv Kprvice Company Medical Company and I Headquarters Company irst Bat talion all of the 116th Infantry and the attached 90th Army Band All the companies except Serv ice Company will take part in tactical training The service group will have on the job train ing Newer men will undergo a re program while fire combai striking action Attorney Edwin Shaffer rest ed his case 1 irst defense witness was Har old Clark dispatcher on duty at the Wytheville State Police substation Young and old alike can enjoy the comfort of good with proper glasses Dr Victor Harasty Optometrist Prescriptions illed burg father of Barbara Ann com plained to contest authorities and last night Miss Virginia had to give up her trophy One contest spokesman said Dr Eschenburg a Berlin Md dental surgeon here with his wife could not understand why his daughter was not allowed to go into the final field of five and Miss Vir ginia was was a simple explana the spokesman continued discovered MisS age before the Contest was decided and we discover Miss Vir hhsheh your TASTE! Bedford Churches Plan Union Worship Service Bedford (Special) The Bed ford County Cooperative Parish of the Methodist Church composed of eight pastoral charges in the county area will hold a union worship service at Bedford High School Sunday at 11 am Dr Bell new superintend ent of the Lynchburg district will be the guest speaker He was formerly pastor of the Main Street Methodist Church in Bedford the early 1920 This will his first appearance here since received his new appointment I he Rev Griggs presi dent of the parish and pastor of Epworth Church at Thaxton will preside ranklin Board Headed by Martin rrnncivril mononnt1 rf Covington Virginian and rank along the route They will camp Parsons editor of the Dally Re I'n Saturday night and view Chairman McCoy paid tri arrive at the reservation Sunday costs SO little good 5 Hours: 9 to 5:30 Doily Enjoy it lively delicious flavor Cool mouth freshens taste Swell to chew anytime I turies But not so with those two sis ter states of the Confederacy Maryland and Virginia Civil War between them may break out at any moment It began over the disqualifica tion of Barbara Ann Eschenburg Miss Maryland This classy beauty was a ucivy lavurrvt ru uzv USA finals Wednesday night until it was over when her true age 16 was learned That disqualified her with the judges Minimum age for the con test is 18 Miss Virginia' Ellen Whitehead of Chatham stayed in the contest and became first runner up to Miss South Carolina the winner Yesterday it was discovered that Miss Virginia is only 16 Pageant officials explaining that her prizes werei only honorary anyway decided at first to let her keep them figuring no harm was done But then Dr Richard Eschen Speaking of his combined as a commentator and an torial writer he said the jective of both posts is not to tell people what tp think but rather to stimulate them to think He lamented a growing tend ency for public bodies both local and national to hold discussions in secret and allow the press only to hear the formalizing of de cisions A responsible press is en titled to hear discussions on mat ters of public interest he said and ths best ffovernmental bodies hold i 1 1 roui Xv0arioKc win hiiku liiv few secret meetings Capt Herbert Turner Roanoke In a stirring closing statement? relations officer said Eure said strength of your community the strength of this THE ROANOKE units consist beloved nution lies in a wellin rnmnontr corvino formed citizenry capable of judg ing men and issues and of uniting' behind leaders of their own' choosing in policies they them selves have helped formulate and understand A strepgth thus firmly grounded will prevail against any enemy however powerful and threatening in the battle for the minds and hearts of major bulwark of that strength is the free press of Amer ica Don't sell it Eure was Introduced by red McCoy of the publicity committee under whose auspices he appeared Special guests were Richard Letters Swamp The Coroner in Ready for Camp Trip Sweeten breath too Chew Wrigley' Spearmint Gum County Realty Transfers Cedar Club Inc to I Graham and Lewis A Scott 751 acres Catawba District $2000" A Dillard and wife to Tru man Warren and others lot 2 block 3 section Starmount $1 000 Weldon Lawrence and wife to John Butcher and wife lot 2 block 1 Plymouth Colony $850 Walter Estill Jr and wife and others to Carlton isher and wife lot 7 block 2 Dansbury Acres $10 Bettina orbusti and hus band to Bullington and Wife three acres Cave Spring District $10 Jimmie Radford and wife to Ralph Decker and wife lots 5 and 6 block A Spring Garden Development Corp $707249 Ralph Decker and wife to Ethel Hamby lots 5 and 6 block A Spring Garden Develop ment Corp $10 Mary Jane Givens Bright and husband to Bickley Bright and others lot 12 section 2 Bellview Park map (revised) $5 James Martin and wife to Marvin Himes and wife lot 14 block 2 Brooklawn subdevelop ment $11 '500 Eva Owens Wood and husband to Howard Schilling and oth ers lot 21 and part of lot 22 sec tion 4 Riverland Court map $1 000 Helen Smith and others to Robert Harris and others one half undivided interest in lot 70 Dropmore or Burwell Addition No 2 Salem $3000 Sallie Crosley to Bowles Co Inc lots 2 and 3 section 1 map of Aetna Land and Im provement Co addition Town of Vinton $10 A Bailey and wife to Marcus Blankenship and wife parcel Salem District $960 irom au over me umveu flooded Coroner Walter E' Me which have been warring for cen Carron with' free advice today as his investigation into the strange death of 'Montgomery Ward Thorne appeared to bog down McCarron said he has been able to read only 50 of the letters that have deluged his office since the Throne case caught national at tention' THRONE '20 year old heir to a mail order fortune was found dead in a tiny studio apartment June 19 There were needle marks on his arms evidence of a sex narcotics party in the room and a disputed will in the background Most of correspon dents concluded Thor was murdered i a authorities wish they could be as certain They have yet to determine the cause of death Miss Virginia Is Disqualified Nearly 17 Shotild Be 18 Evidenee of Witness Struck in Robbery Of reedoms Newsman Says Clifton orge (Special) free press is a' bulwark of all other John Eure Roa noke radio newsman and editorial writer told members of the Clif ton orge Lions Club last night The speaker urged the Lions to guard the independence of the press so long as it attended faith fully to its job of informing in terpreting and commenting or criticising The one thing worse than no press is one that has lost its integrity to the point where it is controlled by selfish interests he said I mar i i fl I ABNER After a tour of the: erry MOON MULLINS By Oskar Lebech TWIN EARTHS A LONG SESSION! 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