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NEWS OF AMELIA AND POWHATAN COUNTIES

Powhatan ( ierk Returns Home A 13-state police search for James A. Ti'man. ill 37. and his on. James. 1" mied Sunday morning; v hen the Tihnanx re turned to their Powhatan home Taman. Powhatan county clerk, took lu.s son on a fishing trip last, week end. He told his wile that he would be home by Monday eve ning. or that he would call her. Friday, when no word from Til-; mar. had be n received, alerts w -re broadcast m the Eastern Seaboard .slates and checks were . s rerai j,; av when Til man had fished brfgn Tilmsn father. who was! county clerk before his sen. has b i n actm- as deputy clerk. f Vroolhi Students To Enter Meet Six Amelia High Scho.il stu cirri’ .'..11 take part in the* dis trict 3. group '2. forende inert a: limn. r. .ck April 13 at 3 p in. rJi.ialilK selected :n school ci>n.;'sir'll an* Fi ..nkltn 111:! id <iaii lush. public speaking. E.hvin Sm,ih and Lac Burnt-; P . pis,.*, reading; Annette Reid, poetry reading, and Eliza Southall, pch ing

. SiOfis \ri (ioodwyn and Johnny Boggs, both i iir him i.n their athictu prowess, have major roles jn the i ■«;> Hi rheol senor class play. “Susie the Siren." whieh will l» pi idueeil I riil.iy and Saturday night in the high school auditorium.

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(SO Amelia Scales Termed ‘Correct' A report showing that 87 per cent cf all Amelia county scales tested were correct was presented to the Amelia board of supervisors Mon day. In 1965. 25 per cent of the scales tested were incorrect, as compared .with this year's total of t:i per cent. The hi per cent which were re jected will be retested as soon as elapst to pet mil necessary repairs and replace ment. Of. the gasoline pumps and grease measurers in use at service sta tions. 21 per cent of those tested were rejected. Only 17 per cent were measuring inaccurately The others which were rejected failed to conform to. specifications. Correct devices are marked with a black and white approval sticker p."eentacewlse the greatest in accuracies came in warehouse scales, with 50 per cent found in accurate. Only two were tested. Eight computing scales were incor rect. two hanging scales, and one paltfnrm scale, tor a total of 12. in correct scales of the 92 tested Ail of the weights tested were cor rect. and 39 of the 51 kerosene pumps wen* correct. Of the gaso line pumps. 81 of the 1U2 tested measurers, all were correct Powhatan Considers He- \ ssess m e n t P1 a n s F. C. Forberg, director of the division of appraisal and mapping of the State Department of Taxa tion was to meet with the Pow hatan Board o! Supervisors Mon day morning. Forberg was to explain te-as sessment procedures.

PHS To Show Susie The Siren' Powhatan High School seniors will present tht ir class play. "Su sie the Siren." a three-act comedy by Anne Coulter Martens, Friday and Saturday at 8 p. m. in the high school auditorium. Linda Parkins, class president, will play the title role. Others cast in the play are Jo seph. Lewis, as Mr. Reynolds: Anne Bodie. Mr: Reynolds. Leon ard Walker. Petty Frances Blankenship, Midge; Archie Gcodwyn. Jim: Johnny Boggs. Blimp: Kh/.abeth Denton. Agnes. Nancy Waldrop Beverly Nonna Jean Lawson. Nona: Melvin Frame. Jumbo: Price Johnson. Dumbo: Stuart Da\: Mr Foley . Gail Denoon. Mrs Comstock: Ja nice Blankenship Miss Oakey. and Louis Urbirie, Dugan. Ellen Williams and Jean Tin sley are student co-directors of the play. Proce ds will be used for the senior class trip to New York. SOCIAL SECURITY Social security representatives will be at the courthouse in Amel ia April 15.

6Hometown Jubilee * to Take 1 metia Stage 7him, Fri.

Amelia Lions will present a ' Hometown Jubilee' Thursday and Fiiday at the War Memorial build ing:. at 8 p.m, * Local talent will be featured, with all proceeds to be used for an Amelia schools eye clinic. Mrs. Mary K Brown, of Denver. Colo., is traveling around the country or ganizing similar shows for the Lions. In Amelia. James Allen, Robert Willis and Walter Combs are plan ning the event, which will honor two, leei] couples who have been mar ried over 50 years One couple will be honored each night. A king and queen of the baby con test will be crowned at the Friday performance, and the Amelia High School girls’ chorus will sing. Tom Start. masquerading as Bob Hope, will be' master of ceremonies, and Mary Woodford Ward will be the pianist. Mrs. George Anderson will imi tate Dinah Shore, and Wiley Paul will imitate Bing Crosby. Other impersonations to be given are Leroy Smith and James Allen as Toby and Ephoh. Mr. and Mrs Alexander Jones, as Fannie and Ernest, will demonstrate an old fashioned proposal, and Eddie and Gail Ashman, as Butch and Babe, will demonstrate a mod ern version. In the old-fashioned melodrama. Lewis Butler will play the hero, with Mrs Robert Willis as the heroine, and Donald Flippen as the villain. A five - man f a s h i o n show —of

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I worsen s styles—will be presented, with Robert Jones. C P Kaugfman. James Anderson. Jr.. Henry Vaughan and Raymond Morris as models. James Boyer. John Ingram and Walter Combs will do a pantomine, ! narrated by Miss Beverly Draucher. The Rev. Ray R. Jenkins is scheduled to present a tribute to the churches, and Annette Reid is i to sing a hymn. A final feature will be a talent. | contest, with Talton Handy Mary Elizabeth Anderson. Ruth Griles. Carol Wills, Alice Anderson, Jimmy Royal and John Winfrey participat ! ing. Homemakers Meet In Amelia Homemakers from 10 Southside Virginia counties met in Amelia Thursday to elect district officers and to hear tiie state Home Demon stration club president New president of district 2, Home Demonstration clubs, is Mrs. Sam uel H. Moseley, of Brunswick Mrs R. E. Moore, of Dinwiddie. was elected vice-president, a n d Mrs. Robert C. Clary, of Brunswick, sec retary. Mrs. J. Blaine Gwin. of Fairfax, state president, spoke at the dis trict meeting, the first held in Amelia.

5he commented on the emphasis put upon family life in club pro grams in five of the counties, and went on to disscuss "Women in Com munity Service " Mrs. Gwin noted that men "are much more conservative than women, and they are very reluctant to instigate changes. Most advances in better standards in our homes, recreation, social life, school con ditions. libray facilities and medical conditions have resulted from woman’s demand for changes in the traditional and long-established pat terns." Man Defends Self. Found Guilty by Jury A Powhatan man who defended him -if on a charge of beating his wife last week in a jury trial was fined $250 and sentenced to nine months at the state farm. He was George W. Gough, who previou.-ly had succt?-fully de fended him? elf again- a charge of driving while under the influ • enc? cf intoxicating liquor. Two similar charges have been placed aim-t him in Cumberland coun ty Xu one lie was found guilty and the decision was appealed. The other cusp is pending. Powhatan P-TA Installs Officers Powhatan Parent-Teacher A - sociation officers were installed Monday to serve for the coming year. New officers arc Mrs. Robert Cosby, president; Mrs. Raymond Hudson, first vice-president; Mrs Edward Tilman. second vice-pre sident: Mrs Oren Collier, record ing secretary: Mrs. Stuart Jones, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Raymond Boelt re-elected treas urer. A total of 5.556 people lived in Powhatan county’s 268 s q u a r e miles in 1950.

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