Oct. 6, 1966

A pair of vandals caught stealing gasoline from a county school bus last Thursday were apprehended and held at gunpoint by a local citizen until an o cer could be summoned.

Loring Anderson of Washington, who lives just o Route 211 near the Covington River, observed a car parked in a lane near his home around eight o’clock. He saw two subjects emerge from the vehicle with something in hand, cross the highway and disappear into the darkness. With gun in hand Mr. Anderson concealed himself in the shadows and awaited their return, which was not long.

The two men approached their car with a ve gallon can, loosened the cap to the vehicle’s gas tank as Mr. Anderson shouted “Halt” and red a shot over their heads.

He ordered them to raise their hands then marched them about a hundred yards to his house and called his wife. Unable to make Mrs. Anderson hear his shouts, he tossed a small stone on the tin roof to attract her attention and when she appeared at the door he asked her to phone the police.

Sheriff Charles Estes arrived in minutes and his investigation disclosed the can with about four gallons of gas in it and a siphoning hose.

For the second time in three years Mrs. Barbara S. Gentry of Flint Hill, editor of The Virginia Postmaster, has been awarded a certificate of honorable mention as one of the top ten chapter publications in the nation. Rudolph Yeatman of Merkle Press, Washington, D.C., presented the awards at a breakfast honoring chapter editors at Louisville, Kentucky, at the national convention of the National Association of Postmasters.

A panel of professional journalists judged the publications submitted by editors of the y state chapters of the organization. A fact sheet was given the editors so that they would know the points on which the papers were judged. The Virginia Postmaster was pointed out as “an excellent example of nameplate simplicity and directness.”