Waiting to answer the alarm and fling themselves on

Waiting to answer the alarm and fling themselves on the | bright brass supports about the truck is a recently formed Pamp lin Volunteer Fire Department of 49 members, headed by Fire Chief Harry J. St, John. Nov organizing volunteer sup port units in communities where the truck may be summoned are assistant chiefs: Richard Wil liams. at Pamplin. and at Ever green, Hixburc and Madisonville. Their job will be to have fire fighting techniques mapped upon arrival of the truck from the base at Pamplin. The Pamplin volunteer com pany will provide for the opera tion and maintenai.ee of the truck. Its officers are: Carlton Canada, president: T. Cecil Ligon. j secretary, and Tom C Wood, treasurer. Ruritan Project Acquisition and arrival of the truck culminates a long year's effort spear-headed by the Pamp lin Ruritan Club, which char acteristically saw a need and set about to fill it. In the point of the spearhead, Pamplin folks will tell you. was Tom Wood. His .eadership in the early and tough financial going produced somewhere near the first $4,000 in cash and pledges. With such a start, there could he no turning back and—some 12 to 14 months later—there's a shiny new fire fighting machine to re pay for the Ruritan effort and that of friends and thoughtful