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1918
Max Guggenheimer, Elon business-
man, will head t he 16-community central district financial campaign for the Piedmont area council, Boy Scouts of America, the council an- nounced.
He will direct door-to-door volun- teer canvasses in the Lynchburg area in an April I "dawn-to-dusk" drive covering 14 cou nties to raise $34,700. The Council hopes to extend scoutinq to more boys interested in such work and to provide more adequate serv- ice.
1919
Jo Pleasants has entered his son
Lawson in school. 1920
James Belote of Goldsboro, N. C.
The wedding of Miss Mildred Bed- ford Edmunds, daughter of J. Easley Edmunds, J r. of Gray Rocks, Hol- comb Rock Road and the late Mrs. Bertha Dingee Edmunds, and Will Gray Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Jones Long of " Longview," Garysburg, N. C., was a recent event here in Lynchburg.
1946
Francis K. Aldred is officer candi- date at the U. S. Naval School, New- port, R. I.
Edward H. Seneff is stationed on the USS Braine, FPO, N. Y.
1947
J. E. Wiggins, Jr. of Asheville is
radio ar•.10uncer with WTOB, Win- ston-Salem.
Perrin Gower was here from Bain- bridge air base in Georgia.
John Page is also at Bainbridge Air Base, rooming wit h Sawyer.
Steve Hammett is at Post Dis- pensary MCS., Quantico, Va.
1948
Cpl. Homer K. "Major" Bowen of the Air Force leaves today for Camp Honeman, California, from where he will go immediately for a tour of duty with the 5th Air Force as an Engineer-Gunner on an Attack Bom-
ber.
Pvt. Joe B. Cherry is with the 8th
Infantry Division, Fort Jackson, S. C. Fielding Lewis married Gertrude
Jacqueline on Dec. 7, 1951.
Cpl. Hinks Rinker is with the IOth
Air Rescue Squadron, APO, 942, PM Seattle.
1948
George H. Andrews is in the Navy
on Guam.
1949
Pfc. J. B. Dent is with the 1737th
Ferrying Squadron, Kelly AFB, Texas. Horace Will, Jr. is with USCG Re-
Milestones
Class of '41
Dr. Winfield A. Worth, Jr.
passed away at 5:50 p.m. on January 25. Surviving him are his wife, parents, a son, a sister, and two nieces. Dr. Worth, 28, attended school here and grad- uated in 1941.
Class of '37
Wm. M. Roberts, Jr. has a
young daughter. The child's mother is the former Betty
Clark.
Inclosure
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ness w~s broken by ~ f~int trickling of w11ter. The w~lls were c~ving in 11nd water w11s seep- inq through them.
"I'll be drowned if I don't esc~pe," he
visited his mother in shortly after Christmas.
Lynchbu rg
1921
The Reverend Francis Craighill of
Bruton Pa r ish, W i l l i a m s b u r g , school on February 5th.
1922
v i s i t e d
thought fr~ntic11lly, "got to digging!"
keep
Recently, the University of North Carolina entertained the members of famous basketball teams of the '20's. Among those present was Howard W. {Red) Barber.
1928
Ernest King, operating a motor
court in Charleston, S. C., visited the school on January 9.
1936
Lieutenant Colonel George Bart-
on, Ill, has returned to the U.S. after extended service in Korea.
1940
Charles P. Nash dropped in re-
cently for a visit.
Willie Long visited school afte r his
brother Bill's (1945) wedding on Feb. 20.
1941
Mrs. Fred Carrington, Jr. and her
younq son left Lynchburg for Charles- ton, S. C. to join Lieutenant Carring- ton, USNR.. who is stationed there.
1945
Corporal H. C. Dunbar is with the
59th Warehouse Supply Squadron, APO 124, N. Y.
t h e
He h~d killed for food six r~ts ond hung
1925 Hutcheson,
J .
was elected president of the associa- tion of Commonwealth's Attorneys of Virginia at its annual meeting in Roanoke on December 7.
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1951
Morris Warner is a cadet at West
Point.
Jo Banks, Jr. spent a few days at
home between terms at W.&L.
J o h n
1950 M. Duke is in
C o a s t
U. S.
Guard Academy, New London, Con-
necticut.
digging . . .
them ~bove the puddled floor, by their t~ils in the cr11cks of the w~ll.
H~fez noted that the w~ter h~d receded slightly now, yet it flowed enough to keep him ste~dily digging.
As he worked, he beg~n dre~ming of the beautiful world ~bove him. He remembered t h e be~utiful s c e n e s h e h~d t~ken f o r gronted 11nd now wonted to see them so f>~dly. T h e b r i g h t s u n w o u l d b l i n d h i m ~t first, but then he would be ~ble to open his eyes ond q~ze upon tho world of light,
D o w n t h e h a l l h e he~~rd
r~ts drowning in ~ low spot on the floor.
w~~rmth, ~nd
c o l o r .
" W h e t h e r
i t w i l l
b e m e e t
be~uliful
m y
o r
h i d e o u s
s c e n e r y , mused.
i t
h e f r o m
h~nds w e r e
the constont digging, but he h~d estimeted he h~d moved ebout forty feet upw~rd.
He h~d conveyed most of his food ~~nd bedding to the tunnel now ond slept there when he w~s tired.
H~fez hed developed 11 wheeze beceuse of this, but he figured it w~s better then s l e e p i n g i n s i x i n c h e s o f w~ter i n t h e dungeon.
His only eim w~s his tunnel end to esc11pe now. He suddenlv noticed the ground wes gelling w~~rmer end dry.
"Any moment now I will bre~k through," he smiled to himself.
The tips of his fingers were now rew, ond his fingern~ils hed long dep~~rted. He dug with insene strength now end finally fell to e~t t h e l e s t r~t.
"The l~st r~t." he conceived es he gorged himself, "got to m~ke it lest."
Suddenly his hand broke through.
H i s
cr~cked
o n d
n u m b
"It
wes e hole . . ." he thought, "but no (Continued on p~ge 14, col. 2)
unforlun~te
s~tisf~ction,"