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The Daily Progress from Charlottesville, Virginia • 13

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Charlottesville, Virginia
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I 1 i 1 1 at id li lt PTA Opposes A 'JLd OnUHBand City County On 3 Amendments Planned Here School Plan I i 'I Pledge Allegiance to the lag Permit Set Ruth Jordan William Record for County Public Health Official Talks Charlottesville Virginia 13 MONDAY ATERNOON EBRUARY 4 1M3 Af HEW Meet Heart und Names Beagle Collector fire out car had Higgins said Bagley was headed north and Smiley was going south when they collided in the north bound lane Bagley told the deputy he was coming over the crest of a hill 3 4 4 Avenue is in satisfactory condition with back injuries and Earl de Witt Leach 52 of Sunset Avenue is in satisfactory condition with a cut over his eye the hospital said Deputy Higgins said the injured men were passengers in a car driven by Wayne Everett Bagley 53 of Greenleaf Lane who was treated for chest injuries and released The driver of the other car Claude Elliott Smiley Jr 21 of Banbury Street was treated for back injuries and released He was alone in his car Higgins said MADISON Two Madison High School students were named to the concert band at the All State Band estival Saturday in Win chester Sandra Wolfe who plays the clarinet and James Hiram Aylor who plays the baritone saxophone were accorded the top honor of playing with the concert band They were among 202 students from 33 schools competing Two other Madison students re ceived places on the workshop band They were Carolyn Rast and Donnie Gallihugh Six Are Sent to Hospital In Two Weekend Accidents Madison Students Win Band Honors Mrs red Jordan (left) regent of the Shadwell Chap ter Daughters of the American Revolution and Mrs John Knapp chapter flag chairman lead children at the Greenbrier School in the pledge of allegiance to 'the new flag The chapter made the pres entation this morning during a recess period at the school Others taking part in the ceremony were TEMPERATURE UP Winter relaxed its grip on Char lottesville over the weekend as temperature soared to a high of 42 on Saturday and 36 yesterday less may make their contributions to the 1963 campaign with a min imum of time and Early said Contributions may also be mail ed to the Heart Sunday treasurer The National Bank and Trust Co One of Every 68 Alumnae of UVa In 'Who's Who' One of every 68 alumnae of the University of Virginia is listed in Who of American Wom the best percentage in Vir ginia and one of the best among 29 colleges and universities in the country who have at least one of every 100 listed Mary Baldwin College has one of 88 Randolph Macon College one of 99 Sweet Briar one of 125 one of 127 at Hollins and one of 130 at Richmond Uni versity Best ranking are Vassar with one of every 31 and Bryn Mawr with one of 33 The information is contained in a report presented to the annual meeting of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Sci ence by the Educational Records Bureau in New York Three persons are in University Hospital and three others were treated and released as a result of two automobile wrecks Satur day ive were hurt when two cars collided head on on Rt 20 near Store eight miles south of Charlottesville about 4:20 pm the Albemarle County department reported Henry Ralph Tapscott 31 of Locust Avenue is in satisfactory condition with back injuries Ed gar Houston Turner 37 of North permits issued in 1961 $6082007 the 1959 total $5039205 and the 1956 total $5044730 Totals for 1957 1958 were both below $5 million The first full year permits were tabulated in Albemarle was 1956 Except for this record size per mit construction totals in Albe marle have fallen off since the city annexed the area in which the greater part of area con struction has been occurring in recent years The county tjtal for January war $240625 lowest for the month since 1959 Only 13 permits were for private homes lowest num ber for the month since 1958 OREITS BOND Beverly A McCullough 84 of Cynthianna Avenue forfeited a $25 bond today when she failed to ap pear in Municipal Court to answer a charge of failing to stop at a red traffic light Dickenson Man Heads Va Young armers RICHMOND (AP) Jack Chil dress who farms in the Apron section of Dickenson Coun ty is the new president of the Young armers of Virginia He was sleeted at the closing session here Saturday 'Dr David Price deputy surgeon general of the United States Public Health Servicespoke this afternoon at a seminar here of the Region III headquar ters of the Department of Health Education and Welfare His topic was "Emerging New Concepts and Responsibilities in Dr Emil Palmquist director of the Region III Public Health Service was chairman of the seminar I Dr Price met with the regional director Edmund Baxter and oth er top officials of the regional office during the day and a lunch eon was held in his honor at the Monticello Hotel Recognized as an international leader in the field of public health Dr Price has devoted all his professional career to the Public Health Service He has been af filiated with the US Public Health Service since 1941 He has been associate director of the National Institutes of Health assistant surgeon generaldeputy chief Bureau of Medical Services and chief of the Bureau of State Services i He was chief of the cancer re search grants program of the Na tional Cancer Institute from 1947 to 1948 and in 1948 he became chief of the division of research grants and fellowships at NIH Dr Price was graduated from the University of California where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa He also received his AM and MD degrees there He was a Rockefeller oundation fellow frdm 1944 to 1946 at Johns Hopkins University where he received his Public Health degree regular procedure which requires that three days intervene between introduction and passage of an ordinance Other items on the agenda in clude recommendation of the air port commission that the airport lease expiring June 30 1965 be renewed for ten years and that a license be authorized with the ederal Aviation Agency for in stallation of an instrument land ing system inal vote on a change in the eight member McIntire Library Board to give Albemarle the seat formerly held by luvanna County and on a $10000 ap propriation for a state traffic survey Request for acceptance of Holi day Drive into the city street system Plumbing Board recom mendation for amendment of two subsections of the piping ordi nance city state salaries and expenses and a refund from the Atlantic Seaboard Corp Nannette Morrison Alice Hall and Wayne Harrell members of the seventh grade class and Mrs Ora Lee Starnes school princi cipal DAR chapters in the state of Virginia have presented more than 900 flags to schools organiza tions and individuals during recent years photos by Talmont The $6500000 building permit issued riday for an American Telegraph Telephone Co un derground microwave station atop Peters Mountain in northeastern Albemarle County is the largest permit ever issued by the coun ty It is larger than the $5072259 total of permits issued by Albe marle in December when a number of builders obtained per mits ahead of the annexation ef fective date deadline and is larger than the total issued by Albemarle in any one year ex cept for 1962 and 1960 It makes ebruary 1963 the biggest month on record in Al bemarle (December 1962 had earned this title) even though the Vote on three ordinance amend ments presented ata public hearing riday is scheduled for City regular meeting at 7:30 tonight in City Hall Nine other items are also docketed ranging from a parking survey appropriation to renewal of the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport lease Two of the proposed amend ments involve the zoning ordinance: addition of a per cent structurally mini mum requirement for completion of a building made non conform ing by annexation and a change to allow soft drink bottling plants in Business 1 zones if interior loading space is provided The third amendment would allow Council to suspend the second reading of a general or zoning ordinance or zoning amendment by a four fifths vote A unanimous vote is now re quired for suspension of the Charlottesville Postmaster Eu gene Beagle of 309 12th St NE will be a Heart und Col lector again this year Heart und contributions for 1963 may be mailed in an en velope addressed' to care of Postmaster Charlottes and they will be forward ed promptly to campaign head quarters This was the announcement made today by the post office making it easy for residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County to make their contri as well as expediting handling of the stack of mail di rected to the Heart und at this time each year will be credited to the town indicated by the post said red Early Heart Sunday chairman are again indebted to the post office and to Postmaster Beagle for this valuable service through which those residents who cannot readily be reached by Heart und volunteers neverthe Cigarette Cause Of Minor Blaze About 4 pm yesterday someone dropped a lighted cigarette into a bag of garbage and firemen were out in force to 1884 Westview Road the home of Ross The fire caused little damage firemen said In other fires over the weekend firemen were called to a car fire on 15th Street NW at 8:32 pm yesterday Saturday some gasoline on fire in the basement of 1106 Altavista Avenue the home of Edd Gentry had firemen at 11:48 am and another fire on the Black Cat Road firemen out at 3:06 pm At 12:35 this morning a near a bathroom light switch brought firemen to 104 Nassau Place month was only a day old when it was issued The total of county building was was was and A limited range commercial television station is planned here by William A Marburg a stock broker who is widely known in the folk music field for his recordings under the name of Bill Clifton Marburg is president and prin cipal stockholder of the Virginia Broadcasting Corp which has been organized to operate a UH (ultra high frequency) television station from the National Bank A Trust Co building Programming would be P4 marily from a national network 7 with emphasis in local program ming on artistic and features The station would oper ate from 3:15 pm to 11:15 pm on weekdays and from 11 am to 1 11:15 pm on Sundays An application has been filed with the ederal Communications Commission and Marburg said definite planning would begin aft er approval is received At minimum of six weeks is usually required before action is taken on these applications Marburg said A 1953 graduate of the Univer sity of Virginia Marburg worked as an entertainer for Radio Sta tion WINA here soon after it was organized in 1949 He returned to Charlottesville to earn a degree in busi ness administration in 1959 and returned again in 1961 to affiliate with the office here of Abbott Proctor Paine as a stockbroker He has worked for broadcasting stations in Baltimore where he was bom and in Washington and in Wheeling WVa The only other stockholder to John iery who moved here last March from the Eastern Shore where he was in the real estate business iery is vice president and treasurer of the Virginia Broadcasting Corp and Leigh Middleditch an attorney is a director The station would cover Albe marle County and parts of Greene and luvanna Marburg com mented that Charlottesville is the only city in Virginia of its size which have primary cover age on television The UH station would be the first one in the state to operate on a commercial basis under policy changes earlier this year which open UH to commercial broadcasting New television sets are equipped to receive both UH and VH (very high frequency) the conventional operating band but older sets can be converted at nominal cost to receive UH broadcasts Cost of the station is estimated at over $100000 The transmitting facilities would be on top of the bank building and the station would be housed in the building Marburg would supervise the ac tual operation of the station An initial staff of six persons is planned The station would be on Channel 64 Marburg said network affilia tion is already arranged provided the application to the CC is approved Council Will Vote! TV Station 1 I I The Jefferson (Negro) Elemen tary School PTA has added its voice to the growing protest over plans to perpetuate the city county operation of high school facilities for Negro students from Char lottesville and Albemarle County A resolution passed by 200 Jef ferson PTA members urges School Board of the City of Char lottesville (to) proceed with the selection of sites for the construc tion of entirely city owned and operated junior high schools to meet the needs of all the children of the city without regard to race or Adolphus Paige PTA presi dent said that the resolution has been sent to School Superintend ent Ellis for presentation to the School Board The resolution states that the Jefferson PTA parents of the junior high school program proposed to meet the need for added high school fa cilities but that joint operation of Bur)ey (Negro) High School "sets up certain disadvantages to the students parents and teach The School Board authorized last month by City Council to proceed with site selection for three junior high schools has not announced any plans for location of the planned schools However Council has approved the School Board resolution requesting au thority to deal with the county in developing the junior high pro gram Negro spokesmen have appear ed before City Council and the city and county school boards to protest construction of a junior high at the Burley site on Rose Hill Drive on grounds that it would perpetuate a to Burley High School was opened in 1951 and is operated by a joint board including members of the city and county school boards The enrollment of some 750 stu dents is divided almost equally between the city and county SOUTH NOT NORTH A County Court story Saturday stated that a motorist was fined and given 10 days in jail for driving north in the northbound lane of US 29 north of the city The story should have said he was driving south in the northbound lane when he saw car turning left into a service station Both cars were demolished No charges had been placed this morning Higgins said Bagley and his front seat passenger were wear ing seatbelts which had just re cently been installed probably saved Higgins said In another wreck Curtis Daniel Seiler 28 of Harris Street was treated for a cut forehead and released after the car in which he was riding sheared off a utility pole at Oak and irst streets about 5 pm Saturday Police said the car driven by Robert August 28 of Mon trose Avenue was going east on Oak when it went out of control sheared off one pole and came to a stop against another August was charged with reck less driving and driving while his permit was revoked Seiler list ed as the owner of the car was charged with allowing an un licensed person to drive About 6 pm yesterday a car driven by Otis Haney 20 of East Jefferson Street failed to make a curve on Blue Ridge Road at Pine Top Road and crashed into a tree police said A passenger Richard Lane 19 of Rugby Road suffered head cuts police said but was not treated at the hospital Haney was charged with reck less driving to fl i I I alL (wl Hl Ml' 1 Sil Aiifiiinninn 4nr I inne Cllih AAincfrAl Miss Josephine Peebles (left) strums her ukulele and sings about a mountain girl for the director Bill Armitage auditioning yesterday for the Lions Club 'Minstrel and Show whitt will be presented in the Lane High School auditorium eb 20 22 In center girls raise hands to volunteer for the kick line and at right Pete Duey and Jim Kemper audition for a night dub scene Rehearsals begin tonight for the show the Shoe a spoof of the story Proceeds from the presentation go for Lions Club ac tivities in the city which have included contributions for the Lane High stadium picnic shelters at McIntire Park and eye conservation work photos by Reckley and Haile.

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