Down Memory Lane

Aug. 10, 1972 Charles Manuel Campbell, 32 of Alexandria and Amissville, was convicted on four charges, including first degree murder, in Rappahannock County Circuit Court Friday following a day and a half of testimony by a dozen witnesses. The 12-person jury recommended a total of 51 years in a penal institution for the crimes....
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August 3, 1972 Mrs. Irene Frazier was hostess to a picnic supper, Saturday, July 29 at her home in Sperryville in honor of her son Wade Frazier who leaves Aug. 3 for Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. Those attending were Wade Frazier’s fiancee, Miss Rosie Thomas, Eddie Frazier, Charlie, Jerry, Ann and Linda Thomas, Johnny...
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July 27, 1972 Mrs. James F. Massie of Amissville has been named to represent the Jackson District on the Rappahannock County School Board. She was selected to serve a four-year term and takes the seat formerly held by Ralph H. Rowzie, who has served since 1947. Mrs. Massie, in addition to being a full time farmer’s...
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July 20, 1972 A herd of black angus cattle owned by Washington residents D.D. Miller and son fared badly during the weekend. Four of the animals were injured or killed in three different crashes. An investigation disclosed a fence had been cut once and a gate left open by an apparent trespasser. Wade Hampton Evans, of...
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July 13, 1972 Saturday, three girls from Rappahannock participated in an All-Comers track and field meet held in Winchester. The girls were running in the 14-15 age group against competition from Virginia and Maryland. Leverne Summers and Ruby Faye Dunn, both of Washington and both inexperienced in track, combined for a total of six wins....
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June 29, 1972 In the 1950 election, Mrs. Dorothy C. Davis was named mayor while council seats were taken by Mrs. Acsah Miller, Mrs. Louise Price, Miss Ruby Jenkins, Miss Elizabeth Racer, Mrs. Bobbi Critzer and Mrs. Dorothy Hawkins. Mrs. Hawkins remains a council member and is the only lady official who has served continuously since...
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June 22, 1972 Raynor V. Snead Jr. received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Virginia at commencement exercises June 4. Mr. Snead will be associated with the law firm of Edmonds, Williams, Robertson, Sackett, Baldwin and Graves in Lynchburg. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1966 and served three years with...
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June 15, 1972 Four teachers retired from the Rappahannock County school system at the close of the 1972 session. Two of these have dispensed the three R’s in excess of 40 years, while the remaining two have been instructors for six and 15 years. Miss Garland Riley of Amissville has completed a teaching career which...
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June 8, 1972 Col. E. A. McNear was given back $4,000 for his zoning office – to allow him to stay open an extra day a week, to keep up with development pressures – when the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors met last Thursday to adopt the budget and set the tax rate. Restoration of...
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June 1, 1972 Every Tuesday and Saturday, the old Washington School House is open from 11 to 4:30 p.m. to receive donations of things to be sold in the Rappahannock Library’s Super Flea Market. “We beg everyone in the county to get his and her things to us just as soon as possible,” said...
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May 25, 1972 Patricia Saltonstall, owner of a farm near Massie’s Corner, received her bass fingerlings from the hatchery specialist. Saltonstall is one of 23 new pond owners who received the final shipment of fish for their ponds. Ponds are stocked with bluegill, redear sunfish and channel catfish for the fall by the Soil...
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May 18, 1972 In an effort to improve the summer baseball program for boys in Rappahannock County initiated last year, three local teams have been entered in the Fauquier Recreational League: Midgets, ages 8-11, coached by Newbill Miller; Pee Wee, ages 12-31, under the direction of Julian Brown; and Pony, with Maury Nichols as coach....
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May 11, 1972 Following the May 2 election, the government of the Town of Washington has taken on a “new look.” Two men have joined the former all-woman executive and legislative branches. Elected as mayor of the town was Andrew F. Kozik, while Kermit A. Weakley joined the five ladies who were reelected to the council....
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May 4, 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Sung Pil Han of Woodville became citizens of the United States in naturalization  proceedings Monday in U.S. district court in Roanoke. The Han family, who are Koreans, have been in this country since 1964. The Hans have two children, Nancy, a fourth grade student in local school who will...
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April 20, 1972 Mike Bass, Washington Redskins cornerback, signed autographs Saturday night following the local high school athletic awards banquet. Bass was the guest speaker for the dinner meeting and urged the establishment of an improved athletic program for all schools. Wendy and Wanda Jenkins, Girl Scouts and Cadets of Rappahannock, are promoting the...
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April 13, 1972 Circuit Court Judge Carleton Penn called a recess during Wednesday’s hearing in Leesburg that saw Robert M. Gamble, owner of the Big Devil Ski Area in Washington, attempting to stop foreclosure on the 370-acre property by alleging that the initial transaction that involved Gamble with Jenkins Mountains Associates was a case of...
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March 30, 1972 For the second time in the past few months Castleton firemen have been called on to locate missing elderly persons. The group banded together at the request of the county sheriff to find an 84-year-old man who was reported lost. Sixteen men spread out to cover the area in which C....
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March 23, 1972 Witold Kuncewicz, who owns a farm near Flint Hill, painted a menacing picture of Virginia Electric & Power Company at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Leeds Ruritan Club, likening the utility to “an invading army” bent on imposing its will on hill farmers in Fauquier and Rappahannock counties. A proposed 500...
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March 16, 1972 An unidentified white man apparently set fire to several tablecloths, a chair and cardboard box Friday evening in the dining room of Hampton Inn, located on U.S. 211 west of Washington. The man, unfamiliar in this area, was served in the front of the restaurant where the bar and booths are...
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March 9, 1972 A long era of “petticoat rule” will come to an end in the town of Washington when the election of city officials takes place in May. Tuesday, the deadline for candidates to file for the election, found a male candidate for the mayor’s seat and one man filed for a council...
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Feb. 24, 1972 A near-tragic incident in the recent snowstorm involved a 15-year old boy, Thomas Menis of Gaithersburg, Md., a hiker on the Appalachian Trail. He passed through Chester Gap late Saturday afternoon, and followed the trail into the Shenandoah National Park for about two miles before making camp and retiring for the night...
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Feb. 17, 1972 Rudasill’s Mill, once a thriving business establishment, like many “old times” concerns, is slowly disintegrating and will soon collapse, like the nearby bridge which was taken down this week. Flour was milled from the local farmers’ wheat and their corn was ground into fine yellow and white cornmeal to sustain families...
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Feb. 10, 1972 It all began with a phone call from Alexandria. “Hey, mom, okay if I bring a few boys home for the weekend to go skiing?” This query was put to his mother by Bill Snead, a student at Episcopal High School. With an affirmative reply, Bill and his friends packed up...
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Feb. 3, 1972 The Rappahannock Polo Team will play against the Valley Forge (Pa.) Alumni All Stars in the indoor arena at Valley Forge on Feb. 13. Members of the local team are John Lyle of Walnut Hill Ranch, Washington; Jim Hourahan of Mountain Shadows Farm, Washington; and Bill Fannon of Castleton. Fannon, however,...
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Jan. 20, 1972 Amissville Ruritan Club, for the second successive year, has received the Citizenship and Patriotism Award offered in the Rappahannock District of Ruritan National. This district is composed of most of Virginia and part of North Carolina. The Amissville club will be represented at the national convention in New York City this...
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Jan. 20, 1972 After serving as cashier of Rappahannock National Bank for a year, H. Lee Payne has tendered his resignation and plans to return to a former position in Christiansburg. He and his wife will move to that city early in February from their present home near Amissville. Mr. Payne will be senior...
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Jan. 13, 1972 An automobile stolen on Jan. 4 was recovered Tuesday in Chillum, Md. The 1963 Chevrolet, owned by James Menefee of Washington, was parked in front of Washington Baptist church while Mr. Menefee was working inside the building. The ignition keys were in Menefee’s pocket, but the doors of the white, two-door coupe were...
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Jan. 6, 1972 Officials for Rappahannock County elected in November have been sworn in and assumed duties, as of the first day of the year. The Board of Supervisors will hold its first meeting of the new year today (Thursday). Mrs. Virginia D. Smith, newly elected to the post of Commissioner of the Revenue,...
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50 years agoJan. 10, 1962 Washington Elementary School was broken into on Wednesday night and Thursday morning was the scene of general vandalism and wild disarray. Raisins were strewn throughout the whole building, Christmas trees were overturned and packages that had not been delivered due to the early dismissal of school for the Christmas...
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50 years agoDec. 20, 1962 E. M. Jones of Washington, has been selected to replace James M. Settle, clerk of the Circuit Court and County Clerk of Rappahannock County. Mr. Jones, a prominent farmer and apple grower, has been chosen by Judge of the Circuit Court., R. V. Snead, upon recommendation of the Rappahannock...
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50 years agoDec. 13, 1962 Fire gutted the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harve Williams at Chester Gap last Tuesday afternoon. Front Royal and Flint Hill Fire Departments answered the alarm, but the structure was damaged beyond repair and most furnishings were destroyed. Firemen thought a faulty flue caused the fire. Aubrey H. Keyser of Washington, who...
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50 years agoNov. 29, 1962 Albert Williams and Ermand Morris of Chester Gap continue as patients in the Fauquier County Hospital for injuries near Marshall, while en route to work on Friday morning. They are reported to be slightly improved. The November meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Washington, after routine business,...
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50 years agoNov. 22, 1962 Hunting season opened with a bang, literally, in Rappahannock on Monday with Clarence Baldwin shooting a 175-pound spike in Hampton District at the Baldwin home place in Gid Brown Hollow, a little before seven o’clock. Last year at this time 14 deer had been checked at the Game Stations....
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50 years agoNov. 15, 1962 Raymond M. Johnson of Woodville, who has been employed part time with the Virginia Division of Forestry since 1948, was given full-time status Nov. 1, as Chief Forest Warden for Rappahannock County. A two-way radio in his forest service truck enables Mr. Johnson to communicate with Red Oak fire tower,...
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50 years agoNov. 8, 1962 Mr. H. S. Barksdale of Flint Hill has accepted the position of Vocational Agriculture instructor at Rappahannock High School temporarily. Mr. Barksdale, a prominent farmer, is a former county agent and well qualified for this work. Mr. C. B. Palmer of Washington resigned from this position Oct. 1 after...
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50 years agoNovember 1, 1962 Mrs. W. H. Moffett was hostess to the Washington Bridge Club and additional guests at her home Thursday evening. Those playing were Mrs. Harry Lee Smith, Mrs. T. C. Lea, Mrs. Rayner Snead, Mrs. George H. Davis, Jr., Mrs. W. H. Moffett, Jr., Mrs. Charles Bruce, Mrs. Wade H. Massie,...
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