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hearing,” Lea wrote, he wouldn’t have filed the application until a month later. His clients would pay the costs of additional advertising, Lea said. Baumgardner had discussed Lea’s request with Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis, and according to Baumgardner, Davis said it would be all right to postpone the hearing.
With 30 some persons sitting in the courtroom for the hearing, Pete Luke made a motion that the Planning Commission go ahead and hear from the opponents that night, and hear from T.C. Lea later.
That suggestion brought James Jackson Kilpatrick, the newspaper columnist who is one of Rappahannock’s resident celebrities, to his feet. “Mr. Chairman, if I may speak?” he said, addressing Herbert Barksdale. ‘‘1 find it inconceivable that Mr. Lea did not know of this hearing tonight. He has cleverly turned things topsy turvy, so that you will hear from the objectors tonight and give him
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