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2 Staunton. Leader, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1973 Survey of old buildings needed Jones escapes, search continues City Rotarians told 1974 may be year of shortages Continued From Page 1) House which must be one of the finest of the earlier homes in Staunton). It became so obvious that Staunton, like Lexington, still has a wealth of fine examples of old town houses reflecting many different periods of our Virginia architectural history. I would recommend a building survey by Russell Wright or someone of his calibre.

Ellen Glasgow symposium set Friday at MBC Ellen Glasgow, the Virginia ByJ.EVERETTE FAUBERJR. Architect, Report to Historic Staunton Foundation, Inc. VI New Town and Madison Place I was provided an unforgettable bus tour through "New Madison Place, including lovely and shady Washington Street with its great Victorian houses and Stuart County zoners grant special use permit Three requests for special use There is much evidence of your cultural maturity, in that you have organized such an enthusiastic, energetic and capable group of people sensitive of these values, apparently intent upon educating Stauntonians to their rich heritage, and ready to the take action, yourselves, on the important task of honoring your town's and valley's unique heritage and construction to the Commonwealth's past history. You also appear to be alert to finding a way of fitting all of this into a solution of current traffic, and merchandising problems. You display this in your quest for a practical solution that can and will accommodate the needs of and take advantage of our present-day living patterns and technical "know The Wharf 'Area and the Pedestrian Mall must "fit in" with this in a proper manner.

novelist who wrote about the social conventions of her time, will have a 100th birthday party Friday. permits sent the Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals to the Dooms area for on site evaluations during a meeting Tuesday. from today the rules may be different, and all that I've said may prove to be wrong if such policies as wage and hour regulations for instance are dropped. In that case it could be a different ball game." Moving to current market trends, Mr. Beaty said that common stocks have come back to a near normal level to some extent from the lows of the past summer.

"There are no dirt cheap he exclaimed. "We're in for a period of more selective trading and investments during the next six months. I don't foresee any runaway prices on the stock market," Mr. Beaty contended. "Overall, 1974 corporate profits don't look like they will equal 1973; interest rates will stay substantially higher with the prime rate on short term instruments of around 6V4 to 7 per cent rather than the current 9 per cent," he said.

"Long term bond rates will stay in the same area, 7Vz to 8Vis per cent or higher. For this reason large money holders will move into such fields as real estate and equipment leasing," Mr. Beaty predicted. "Changes create opportunities and 1974 will be a fascinating Mr. Beaty concluded.

Randolph W. Tucker, program chairman, introduced Mr. Beaty, noting that he is a cum laude graduate of Choat School, magna cum laude from Princeton and holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Graduate Business School. "The year 1973 was ironic and surprising, economically speaking," John Beaty vice president of Davidge Washington investment counselors, told Staunton Rotarians Tuesday. Speaking on the subject "What is the stock market telling us about Mr.

Beaty said: "We think the stock market is telling us that 1974 will be the year of shortages in such areas as oil, gas, fertilizer, paper and aluminum. "The question no longer is one of if you have the money you can buy anything. In many cases the products simply aren't going to be there, and we expect continued and more extensive shortages in 1974," Mr. Beaty noted. "We expect continued bad news on inflation in 1974 as people bid up prices on items in short supply.

Wages will not keep up with inflation next year and, consequently, bargaining will not be as cooperative as it has been in 1973," Mr. Beaty told his audience. "Unions will not accept 5 per cent increases next year, and we will experience an increase in strikes. The rate of inflation in 1974 will be 5 to 6 per cent at least," the investment specialist predicted. "Inflation is built into our economic and political way of thinking," Mr.

Beaty said, indicating that he did not see any end to this trend in sight. "On the other hand, 12 months The "party" will be a sym posium at Mary Baldwin College could be," the Sheriff said. "He violated a direct order; he was negligent." In addition to the standard requirement that an officer or Jailer not enter a cell block alone when inmates are in the dayroom area, security is to be especially stringent on Tuesdays, when prisoners are permitted to receive visitors. During visiting hours, all prisoners are to remain locked in their cells. Sheriff Kent said his investigation showed that Mr.

Iddings had also permitted prisoners in the other five jail cell blocks to roam the dayrooms during the 10 a.m. 3 p.m. visiting hours. In the hours following the escape, police speculated that Jones may have chosen to hide in nearby' wooded areas or old buildings until dark when escape would be easier. Roadblocks were set up on all major roads out of Staunton, and off-duty and reserve policemen from Staunton, Augusta County, and Waynesboro, as well as state troopers from Augusta and neighboring counties were called to assist.

Roadblocks were discontinued about 2 a.m. today. A private plane piloted by Thomas Trott, an auxiliary deputy sheriff, with Deputy Fisher abroad, and a State Police plane piloted by Trooper A. W. Woolfrey, performed an air search.

A freight train which left the Staunton station a block south of the jail around 2:30 p.m. en route for Charlottesville was searched before departure, and later by Charlottesville police, but failed to uncover a trace of Jones. Portions of Lewis Creek, which surfaces next to the jail were also searched. Deputy sheriffs spent the afternoon and much of the night answering citizen reports of possible sightings of Jones, who left the jail clad in distinctive white patent leather boots, blue jeans and a white tee-shirt. Calls were received from throughout Augusta County, but none provided a lead to Jones' escape route.

A major fear of police was that Jones, in a desperate attempt to flee the area, would comandeer a car and take hostages. He is considered extremely dangerous. A nationwide police alert was issued by Sheriff Kent, and police in surrounding states, including West Virginia and Pennsylvania, were personally contacted by him. Sheriff Kent was alerted to the escape by Mrs. Floyd Blackwell, cook and dispatcher who was assisting Mr.

Iddings in the visiting day activities. Mrs. Blackwell became alarmed when Mr. Iddings failed to return promptly from returning Turner to his cell. Other prisoners on the block were Theodore A.

Sparrow, accused of bank robbery; Henry Clark, 21, charged with armed robbery and felonious assault; Cecil Kitchkommie, 22, charged with escaping from Correctional Camp and Charles Phanelson, 25, awaiting trial for armed robbery and murder. Jail employees said the weapon used to force Mr. Iddings into the cell was found to be a kitchen spoon with the handle sharpened like a knife. Another sharpened spoon was reportedly found later in Jones' cell. Sheriff Kent said Mr.

Iddings' set of jail keys, which included a key to the elevator and the women's cell block, have not been recovered. Found in Evans' possession at the time of his arrest was the empty key chain. After being returned to jail, Evans reportedly became disruptive and destroyed a toilet, tossing bits of porcelain through jail windows. He was removed to the "bullpen" cell used for unruly prisoners, where he remains today. He has been charged with escape.

Late into the night he could be heard on the street outside the jaiL banging his shoes against the cell wall and shouting obscenities. This is the second Augusta County jail break in recent months. In June, four inmates escaped, but were apprehended. Minor riots and fires have plagued the jail since then. Jones received a life sentence for kidnaping the Davenport youth.

ROCK fJITE FIN. OCT. 19 10 PM AM ROCK CONTEST TROPHIES SKATETOWN Conditional approval was given to Berleus Lowry for a permit for a body shop for trucks and vans to be located on the south side of Va. 672 approximately .8 of a mile east of Va. 340.

The conditions stipulate the permit is non-transferrable and the property will be kept free of junk. Decisions on two other requests were deferred after visiting the sites: Harold C. Campbell's request for an auto repair and machine fabrication shop to be located on the west side of Va. 340 approximately Vt mile north of Va. 621 near Dooms.

And the request of Gary R. Houghtaling for a repair garage to be located north of Va. 611 and west of Va. 619 east of Dooms. Miller-Michael which will bring together some of the world's foremost authorities and faithful devotees of her writings.

It will be a day of celebration taking note of her birth in Richmond, April 22, 1873, and discussing her works over a 40-year period from "The Descendant" (1897) to the Pulitzer Prize winner "In This Our Life" (1941). Miss Glasgow died in Richmond Nov. 21, 1945. The day's program will open at 10 a.m. and continue through lunch and dinner ending with Howard Mumford Jones speaking on "Northern Exposure, Southern Speakers will include Mrs.

Monique Parent-Frazee, of the University of Paris Vincennes; Dr. Blair Rouse, of the University of Arkansas; Dr. Edgar McDonald, of Randolph-Macon College; Dr. C. Hugh Holman, of the University of North Carolina, and Dr.

Frederick P. W. McDowell, of the University of Iowa. NOTICE Mays Septic Tank Service CLEANING-REPAIRS INSTALLATION Phone 886-2074 or 942-7979 Russell G. Mays, Owner Countering negative thinking is topic of Crusade rally announced Jail security termed lax most FORT DEFIANCE "What ichurch, is everything is wrong is good for the papers, Imeaningful to life." The song service featured WAYNESBORO C.

Edward Clark, Waynesboro attorney, (Paid Political Adv.) but what is right is not always Continued From Page 1 order), but it was gone," he said. happens," he stated, heard," said the Rev. Dr. Ernest "If it had been anybody else then the will head a rally at Ladd Elementary School Nov. 2 from 5-7 p.m.

for candidates Andrew Miller and Harry Michael "There has been a number of times that Sheriff Kent has sent me in the jail by myself to bring a prisoner down to go to court and it is just one of those things that man (Jones) that escaped," Mr. Iddings said, "all this would never have taken place." A reception will be held and a light. supper served. VOTE MASON SPROUL For Commonwealth Attorney Staunton, Va. Talmage N.

Cooley, chairman Changes in jail needed hymns by Charles Wesley, the hymnist who worked with his brother John Wesley in the founding of the Methodist movement in 18th-century England. Charles Wesley who lived to be 81, wrote 6,500 hymns in his lifetime. Dr. Emurian told of visiting the home sites of the Wesley brothers in England and of sitting at the organ that had belonged to Charles Wesley. Attending in a group were members of the Mt.

Sidney Ruritan Club with George E. 4, hi "A jfUMwwrttff i liwMUMfi in in i -1 ii i rrjiV rn iftir ftia Mil -jTWri furi ifii ii" nm am Continued From Page 1 for the Committee to Re-Elect Miller in Waynesboro, said tickets are on sale from members of the Democratic committees in Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro or by telephoning 942-6111. eight-hour shift. "This is quite possible said Sheriff Kent. If wthoritj of Tjtor Stnwt, Cmp.

I MUONSPROUl Kent added, "but now, it is obsolete, compared with many other jails." The jail does meet federal requirements, and federal prisoners are quite often kept there while enroute to other places. "When this jail was built, it was considered to be maximum security," Sheriff Craun, president. K. Emurian in his sermon here Tuesday night at the Mt. Sidney-Fort Defiance Crusade.

Countering negative thinking in which people see mostly what is wrong with self, home, education, country and church, Dr. Emurian said there is much more that is good and right with all these institutions. His sermon topic was "Christian Dr. Emurian said that Christian attitudes enable one to see and follow what is right in the way of the Lord. Among things that are right in the nation, Dr.

Emurian cited the country's religious heritage going back to the spiritual basis of the Mayflower Compact. He commended the religious services at the White House and told of attending a prayer breakfast for government leaders in Washington at which Chief Justice Warren Burger gave an expositional message on Psalm 23. "The church is right," said Dr. Emurian, "because apart from the church, I am nothing. In the IBHIlHBIIBSmBIBlHBBHBSDBBBB wM mm Otl PREMIUM 4 PLV P0LVESTER StlOW TIRES Gwaltney lb.

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