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Staunton, News-Leader, March 26. 1978 7 Rt. 1, Grottoes, girl is Miss Crimora Ruritan Spanish, working with children and meeting people. The brown-eyed brunette is 5 feet tail and weighs 110 pounds. As Miss Crimora Ruritan, she is eligible to compete in the Miss Augusta year's title-holder, Cynthia Linton.

Miss Fisher is a senior at Fort Defiance High School. She lists reading, growing plants and sewing as hobbies. Other special interests are HfldDMES Continental By MIKE DIXON News-Leader Staff Writer CRIMORA Nellie Malin-da Fisher is Miss Crimora Ruritan for 1978. The 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Vastine Fisher of Rt. 1, Grottoes, was chosen from among nine competitors in the main event of the annual Crimora Ruritan Club beauty pageant Friday night. Contestants in eight age groups paraded on stage before a panel of judges and a packed auditorium at Crimora Elementary School. The beauty pageant is the main fund-raising event annually for the club. Placing second in the contest was Cindy Lou Robertson, 17, daughter of Mrs.

Bet Christensen, third, Karen Bruce, 10; Little Miss (ages 6-8) First, Lynda Jo Baber, second, Sandra Lee Payne, third, Teresa Gail Swink, 6 Little lady (ages 3-5) First, Dana Lynne Blevins, second, Candace Renae Brown, third, Shawn Renee Lambert, Little Lad (ages 3-6) First, John Douglas Carter, second, Jered Weaver, third, Anthony Thomas Greene, Little Tot (ages 1-3) First, Melissa Ann Waugh, second, Kenneth Andrew Lunsford, third, Heather Hite, 2. The new Miss Crimora Ruritan was crowned by last Spring storm dampens Easter festivities PRICES FROM We Arrange The Best Financing For You. 100 Percent On Your Land 95 Percent On Our Land 30-Year Loans fx Mo( Infafinatian lhoo 703 942 5256 oi Mail Thti Coupon Expo Beauty Pageant during the annual Expo fair. She was sponsored by Vastine 's Radio and TV Service of Grottoes. Miss Fisher said the Crimora Kuritan pageant was the first beauty contest in which she had competed.

She was awarded a prize of $25, donated by Comer's Service flowers and ribbon, courtesy of Roy's Eastside Florist, and trophy and tiara, provided by Sammy's Exxon Servicenter. Miss Robertson received a (15 second-plated award, donated by Claytor's Grocery. Miss McCauley's third-place prize of $10 was given by Wetsel Seed Co. louis A. Brooks Jr.

of Waynesboro was master of ceremonies, and Ernest G. Baber, a club member, was pageant director. During the program they awarded door prizes contributed by area merchants. Diane Cash was pianist, and Dorethia Robinson was in charge of stage decorations. "Pageant ladies" for the various contests were Elsie Estes, Beth Kowzie, Dorethia Robinson, Elsie Baber, Minnie Blessing, Carol Underwood and Ellen Arey tK SDC HOMES Wl RT 3.

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and Mrs. Hiawatha McCauley of Rt. 1, Crimora, a senior at Wilson Memorial. Other categories and winners were: Miss Subteen (ages 13-15) First, Robin Lynne Linton, 15; second, Karen Wheeler, 13; third, Penny Yvonne Martin, 15; Miss Preteen (ages 11 and 12) First, Ronda Kaye McDorman; second, Sherry Lea Shaw; third, Carta P. Wharam.aU 12; Junior Miss (ages 9 and 10) First, Tressa Gail Fitzgerald, 10; second, Lisa Ann Winter said.

The glass front door of the restaurant had been smashed from the inside, but Winter said it wasn't clear how it happened. Winter said the victims all were found lying face down on the floor. Although the shattered front door led police to speculate that it may have been blasted out by a shotgun blast, Winter said an examination of the bodies showed no indication that a shotgun was used on them. He said a medical examiner's report would tell what type of weapon was used in the slayings. "But it looks like they were shot with a small caliber weapon, a revolver or something like that," he said.

"No one from the public was inside when this occurred, but some of the equipment had been turned on. An unidentified employee said the restaurant usually closed about 1 a.m. and reopened at 7 a.m. She also said the night porter stayed inside the building all night cleaning and preparing equipment for use. The day manager usually reported to work between 6 a.m.

and 6: 30 a.m., she said. The slayings were the second multiple murder in the Richmond area in less than a year. Last April 2, five persons were found shot to death inside a south Richmond house. No arrests have been made in that case. John L.

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(AP) -After nearly a decade as a snowmobile distributor in the heart of sunny Florida, Tom Gaskins has to admit the business didn't quite catch as he expected. A lifetime resident of the rural area on the northern fringe of the Big Cypress Swamp, Gaskins figured the snow machines would be just the thing for getting around in swampy terrain. Despite slow sales (he's sold five), Gaskins' fervor for the snowmobile is undiminished. Florida consumers have yet to be convinced. Gaskins says he hasn't even heard from the few customers who did buy from him.

He noted that running a snowmobile in the swamp sometimes has drawbacks they'll sink. Meanwhile, Gaskins, 68, contents himself with selling cypress knees (decorative pieces made from gnarled cyress roots) and turkey calls to the tourists who are attracted to his snowmobile parked under an unusual tree which grows oranges and grapefruits. QPld I'll III 1 1 1 111111111111 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An early spring storm coated much of the Midwest with ice, sleet and snow Saturday, dampening Easter festivities with from 4 to 10 inches of snow in some areas and a two-inch glaze of ice in parts of Illinois. Sleet, ice, snow and rain with some local flooding battered a wide area through Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Ten inches of snow fell at Macon in northern Missouri.

The storm caused power outages in metropolitan and rural areas of Illinois and Indiana and made highways extremely dangerous. Strong winds swept stinging ice pellets, and even walking was treacherous and sometimes impossible. Icing conditions closed O'Hare International Airport late Friday and early Saturday the fourth time in its history and the second time this year due to storms but runways gradually were opened after daybreak. Virtually all Chicago Transit Authority elevated lines were shut down for the first time in 20 years. Police and fire departments in Springfield, Decatur and other cities throughout central Illinois were on emergency alert as ice-laden utility lines snapped and poles toppled.

Broken limbs were strewn through neighborhoods and fallen trees crushed many parked cars. In Springfield the top of a main utility line broke and fell into Lake Springfield. Officials could not estimate how many homes were without power but said the outage affected "a large portion of the city. A spokesman for Illinois Power Co. said the 125,000 residents of the Decatur area and all of Macon county were hardest hit.

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Winter said the three were found in the kitchen area in the rear of the restaurant about 6:15 a.m. by a cook reporting for work. Two were dead at the scene from gunshot wounds to the head and the third died at Medical College of Virginia Hospital. Winter said the victims were Harold M. Cooley, 35, of Richmond, a night porter; Ella Agnes Hicks, 43, of Richmond, a waitress; and Stephen Lee Staples, 22, of Richmond, the morning manager.

"It appears to be an execution-type eliminate witnesses," Winter said. "There don't appear to be any signs of resistance." The motive for the slayings was listed as robbery, Winter said, because an undetermined amount of cash was taken from the restaurant in Dumbarton Square shopping center. The victims had been shot in the head with what appeared to be a small caliber handgun, he said. A waitress told police the restaurant safe had been opened and that it usually contained between $700 and $1,000. An Henrico patrolman said he checked the restaurant about 5:30 a.m.

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