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Ashby Tops Panthers
By 84-73 Margin
Tomorrow night the Rappahannock Panthers will tackle Elkton on the local coi^rt. The Panthers had Tuesday night open due to exams. . _
Friday night despite 29 points by Bobby Settle, the Panthers fell to the Black Knights of Turner Ashby 84-73 at Dayton. Settle and Roy Reeve combined for 50 points, but it was not enough to stop the powerful Knights.
Pete Dellinger led for TA with 26 points while Jodie Wampler contributed 18. Dellinger also controlled the back boards and pulled down 15 rebounds.
The Knights roared to a quick lead but the Panthers came to within four points as the first quarter ended 22-18. The Panthers managed to stay close with the shooting of Reeve and Settle but could not quite catch up.
Missing from the Rappahannock lineup were Wayne Deal, still ailing from a broken arm and Charlie Dodson not having recovered from an eye infection. Deal will be out most of the season and Dodson is unlikely to see action at Elkton
The Panthers are now 3-5 on the season and will end the First half of the basketball year.
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Traffic Deaths for
1968 Reported
The tentative 1211 Virginia traffic deaths of 1968 marked the first year since 1960 in which Such deaths were reduced and were short of the all time high of 1223 set last year,’Colonel H. W. Burgess, Superintendent of State Police, announced today.
“Although the reduction is small and subject to slight upward revision due to late reports and deaths of persons now carried as injure^,” he said, “it was achieved in the face of a 9 percent rise ir traffic volumes. This gives a raU I of deaths per each 100 millior , miles of travel of 5.0 which compares well with the national average of 5.4. Last year ours was 5.3.”
Pedestrian deaths were up from 217 to 231. Crashes killing more than one person were down from 146 killing 363 people in 1967 to 126 killing 307. Non collision crashes, involving contact with no other vehicle or a pedestrian, rose from 389 killing 506 to 456 killing 522. Here, Colonel Burgess noted that the latter crashes result almost invariably from excessive speed, drowsiness or drinking. A Crban deaths were up from 307 to 312 while rural ones were down from 909 to 899. Deaths of servicemen dropped from 75 to 73. Motorcycle deaths showed a sharp drop of from 47 to 36. Virginia saw 756 deaths in 1960, 856 in 1961, 974 in 1962, 989 in 1963, 1050 in 1964, 1062 in 1965 and 1106 in 1966 Colonel Burgess said that he
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