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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-08

mencement exercises at Vance
boro last week where Mrs.
Wright's daughter, Miss La Rue
Farrow graduated.
Mr. and Mrs, Wright of Ports.
mouth are spending some time
with Miss Olivia Patrick.
John Willis Spencer of Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Tillett and
son Of Wanchese and B. c. Spen-
Ger who recently accepted employ
ment in Norfolk spent the week
end with Mrs. B, c. Spencer.
Miss jamie Mann left recently
for Mass. where he will visit rel
atiyes in Cape Cod
Mrs. Florence Gaskill spent last
week in Vancehoro with her
daughter who teaches in the
school there.
Mrs. Reginald Mckinney and
Mrs. Florence Gaskill are attend
ing a meeting in Greenyille this
week of the Methodist Missionary
Society.
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sTuMPY POINT NEWS

w. A. Best, Jr., of Stokesdale
spent the weekend here with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Best.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Midget and
daughter. Susan, of Norfolk spent
the weekend here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shelton have
gone to Manteo where they viii
live for while.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Payne have
returned home after spending a
few days in Norfolk.
Iva Payne of Raleigh spent the
weekend here with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. ". Payne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Bell and
chillren of Norfolk spent the week.
end here with Mrs. Florine Hoop
er and family.
DR.. and Mrs. Grady Strickland
of Norfolk spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. G. v. Payne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Burgess spent
the weekend in Old Trap with
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Gaskill and
children of Elizabeth City spent
the weekend here with Mr.. and
Mrs. L. w. Hooper. Linda and
Jack, Jr., will remain with their
grandparents while their mother is
in summer school at Greenville.
l.. w. Hooper, Jr., left Sunday
for Greenville where he will at
tend summer school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Midget and
children of Norfolk spent the week
end here with Mr.. and Mrs. C. S.
Midgette.
Mrs. Floyd Hooper left Sunday
for Greenville where she will at
tend summer school.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Hooper and
Wanda Midget attended the grad
uation exercises at Campbell Col
ltge Friday and were accompanied
home by their son. Billy Hooper,
who was a graduate.
Mrs. Edith Hooper and daugh-
ter, Marietta, are spending a few
days in Elizabeth City.
Mrs. R. B. Hooper, Mrs. L. w.
Hooper, Mrs. r. D. Wise and Mrs.
G. E. Meekins attended the Con-
ference of the W.S.C.S. in Green
vile last week.
Little Steve Splitter, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Splitter of Eliza
beth City. is visiting his aunt,
Mrs. Evelyn Meekins.
The W.S.C.S. met at the home
of Mrs. r. B. Hooper Monday
night for the regular monthly
business meeting. Mrs. M. v.
Hooper led very interesting
worship program and the business
session was led by the president.
The hostess, assisted by Mrs. Viola
O'Neal and Mrs. Louise Hooper.
served chicken salad sandwiches
and soft drinks.
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WANcHESE PERSONALS

Erlene Gaskill of Norfolk spent
the weekend here with her par
ents, Mr., and Mrs. Vernon Gaskill
Mrs. Ina Burns Mousier and
Mrs. Lois Saunders of Norfolk Wis,
tied their parents here this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Vance Cudworth.
Bart Garrison is apatient in the
Marine Hospital, Norfolk.
Mrs. Way1and Baum received
merical treatment in Norfolk
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Voshelle and
son Reese of Norfolk were week
end guests of Mrs. Voshelle's pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. R. Daniels.
Buster, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Kalb
Daniels, is a patient in the Norfolk
General Hospital.
Mrs. Pauline Lewark of Great
Bridge, Va. is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Elton Gallop.
Joyce Stetson and Reba Daniels
were visitors in Norfolk Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Jesford and
children have returned to Los An
geles, Calf. after visit with Mrs.
Jesford's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Davis
Stewart Daniels left Sunday for
f. c. c., Greenville, where he will
enter summer school.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest EtherIIge
We're visitors in Norfolk Tuesday.
Mrs. Elmo Utley and baby of
Durham are visiting Mrs. Utley's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bal
lance.
Harry Hayman of Norfolk spent
Sunday here as guest of his mo-
Their, Mrs. Jessie Godsey.
Jennie Lee Hayman of Pante-
go is visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. Jennie Godsey..
Mrs. Della Hooker of Norfolk
spent the weekend as the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Midget.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Edwards
have returned to their home in
Newport News after visiting Mrs.
Edwards mother, Mrs. Rowena
Midget.
Wilson Daniels and son Randall
Of Reidsville have returned home
after visiting relatives here.
Julian Brothers, ST., returned
from the Marine Hospital Nor
folk, His conditioned is improved
Mrs. Harley Rose of Norfolk
spent Sunday here as guest Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Bro
theirs.
Mrs. Rowena Midget visited rel
atives at Mays Head this week.
Joe Meekins of Elizabeth City
spent few days here at his home
this week.
Mrs. Dell Pugh, Mrs. Billy Wro-
ten and son, Charlie, spent Sat
urday in Norfolk.
Mrs. Douglas Guthrie and son
H. have returned to their
home in Sanford after visiting
Rev. and Mrs. G. w. Guthrie.
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MUSIC CLUB HAS FINAL
MEETING OF SEASON

The Roanoke Island Music Club
held its final meeting of the sea-
son Tuesday evening at the home
of Mrs. Victor Meekins, with a
program on composers whose birth
days fall in May and June. Mrs.
Meekins played the Brahms Rhap-
sody in G Minor Mrs. Rennie Will
hanson, president, gave a report
of the state meeting which she
attended in High Point in April.
A social hour followed the pro-
gram.
Special guests for the evening
vert Mrs. Jack Adams, Mrs. Dave
West and Mrs. Inez Davies.
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=NcELHARD PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. f. Marshall
spent Sunday in Greenville. They
were accompanied by Miss Mitzi
Walton who returned to Eco.
where she is student
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Sullivan
and son of Wilson spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Mayhu Sell
by and family. Mrs. John TomiI-
son and sons j. w. and Maurice
accompanied them back to Wilson,
where Maurice will spend the
summer Mrs. Tomilson and J. w.
viii return home this week.
Miss Jane Litchfeld is visiting
relatives in New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wade and
children and Prof. c. L. Mann all
of Raleigh spent part of last week
here.
Mrs. Magdaline Marsholl left on
Sunday for Greenyil1e where she
entered Eco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Hamitt and
two children of Raleigh were
guests of Mrs. Hamitt's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. L. Roper. Mr..
Hamitt returned home, leaving
Mrs. Hamitt and the boys for
longer trip with her parents and
other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Jennings
and little son of Durham are
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Cox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Patrick,
Miss Olivia Patrick and guest, Mr..
and Mrs. Wright attended com
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-08
KITTY HAWK MIDSHIPMAN
TO TAKE FOREIGN CRUISE

One of the members of the u. s
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md,
who will participate in an annual
summer training cruise for officer
candidates this year is Midship-
man R. H. Taylor, USNA, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. H. Taylor of Box
lib, Kitty Hawk, N. c., who will
train aboard ship in an eight-week
tour of European and Cuban Ports
beginning June 2. He will serve
aboard one of Is ships in the
squadron. These cruises, providing
varied on-the-job Navy experience,
include two summers aboard sea-
going vessels and one period of
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-08

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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-08

MISS RITA MARTIN ALEXAN-
DER, a former Dare county girl,
now living in Elizabeth City, will
marry William Jefferson Dean, Jr.,
of Houston, Texas, July 8, and
will make her home there. She is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. V. ].
Alexander, and is a grand-daugh-
ter of Mrs. Caddie Greet of Man
teo. She formerly lived in East
Lake. At the present she is en-
ployed in the bookkeeping depart
ment of Woodley Grocery Co. The
wedding will take place in City
Road Methodist Church.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-08
AVON MAN PROMOTED
TO CORPORAL IN KOREA

WITH THE THIRD INF. DIV.
IN KOREA-A Dare County serv-
icerian, Noah H. Price, has recent
ly been promoted to the rank of
Corporal, it has been announced
by Headquarters, 18th Infantry
Regiment.
Corporal Price, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Noah f. Price, of Avon, N. c.,
is a member of the Medical Com
papy, 18th Infantry, one of the
three regiments of the Third In
fantry Division.
The Third Division has been in
the Korean conflict for more than
six months.
This news comes to our readers
from Charles Pritchard in the
heart of Korea. Mr.. Pritchard is
an Elizabeth City boy.
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on Sunday F.?

WELL, some of US 90 TO church and
SundoY school Some work in the garden
or the garage. SoDs golf fish, ride, look
of tsleyision. Some tcke the kids out
inke the dog out toke the screens out
Some go to boil games, book clubs,
movies or museums. Some have big Sun
dcY dinners or bockYard borbecues.
Some cook cieon closets, take up hens,
fake up Ccnostd. Some cotch up on
sleep Some just sit Some go to work in
jobs that can't stop on Sundays, some
go TO work in emergencies.
that sounds like some people you know
well, II is--because we're talking about the
more than 4.4oo vEPCoWIANS who live in
the communities where they work ]. many
Of them your friends or neighbors. perhaps
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MANTEo PERSONALS

A. H. Ward is in Charleston,
Is. c., attending the commence
ment exercises at the Citadel.
where his SOL, Alvah, Jr., is a men,
Der of the graduating class. Mr..
Ward was accompanied to
Charleston by his sister, Mrs. E..
c. Barron of Washington, D. C.
Bobby O'Neal of N. C. State
College is spending the summer
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
C. O'Neal.
Leigh Hassell, Jr., is home from
State College for a short visit with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh
Hassell, before returning to Ra-
leigh for the summer quarter.
Roger Bell is home from State
College to spend the summer with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. @.
Bell.
Miss Miriam Ferebee, who has
been doing field work in sociology
in Charlotte, in connection with
her graduate work at the Univer-
sity of N. c., is visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Ferebee.
Mrs. Lima Harbour and Mrs. Ed
18th DUDLEY spent last weekend in
Raleigh as guests of Mrs. Har-
bour's niece.
Mrs. Julia @. Gray has returned
to her home on Roanoke Island
after attending the funeral on
Monday of her brother, Edward
Wadsworth Butcher, in Richmond,
Va.
Sgt. Brockie Daniels of the us.
Air Force office in Charlotte visit
ed her sister, Mrs. E. R. Wescott,
last weekend.
Mrs. George Lewis Midget is a
patient in Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City. where she is recov-
ering from a major operation
which she underwent last week.
Woodson Fearing, of the Uni
versity of N. c., Chapel Hill, is
spending his vacation with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. M. K. Fear
ing.
Miss Carolee Ballowe arrived at
the home of her parents, Cmdr.
and Mrs. w. w. Ballowe, last Fri
day after completing the spring
term at Tulane University, New
Orleans. Miss Ballowe attended
series of term-end parties before
leaving New Orleans and stopped
in Atlanta for a short time before
returning for the summer.
Miss Natalie Gould was home
for the weekend from Washington,
D. c., visiting her mother, Mrs.
N. E. Gould, who has been quite
i'll at her home at Mays Head.
Miss Patricia Davis, of the Char
lotte school faculty, is spending
her vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Vernon Davis.
R. D. Sawyer, Jr.. U.S.C.G., of
Norfolk, visited his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. R. D. Sawyer, last week
end.
Cecil Walker, who is working
in Norfolk, is visiting his family
at their home near Manteo.
Roger Meekins has returned to
his home from NC. State College
for the summer. He had as his
guest last weekend Charles Hasa
brook of Bladenboro.
Harry Thomas returned last Sun
day to East Carolina College at
Greenville for the summer quar-
ter, after visiting Mrs. Thomas for
two weeks.
Mrs. Harold White and daughter
Dolores, of elhaven, spent
Wednesday and Thursday with Ri.
and Mrs. L. D. Harrington.
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relatives They have the same Interests You 49,
do >. pay the same taxss ..is spepd their
money with the same merchants. M
WoTkadays. they're busy with dozens Of
different jobs essential to bringing you the
cheap, dependable ELECTRIC service you're a,
used to y. but Sundays, they're Just the "a
folks next door ..3 sitting next to you at
church. swapping recipes or garden tools
over the back fence. vEPCOYANS are
citizens and good neighboEs where they work.
, 1951-12-07

have attacked Pearl Harbor from
the air and all naval and military
activities on the island of Oahu,
principal American base in the
Hawaiian Islands, That is all. I
am going directly to the white
house and I will tell you more
later"
Across the street, Hull-who
had been advised Of the sneak
bombing by the President while
the Japanese ENJOYS were waiting
in his outer office-had them us
hered in. His face a grey-white
mask concealing Iivid anger, Hull
accepted and carefully read the
japanese document.
Then, in a tone as cold as ice,
but in language neither cold nor
diplamatic, he dismissed them. He
said in printable conclusion he !.
had never seen a document more
crowded with infamous falsehoods
and distortions"
Newspaper offices and radio
studios by this time were scenes
Of organized bedlam getting the
SCATTERING news to the American
public and theworld. Forgotten was
the department of commerce an
nouncement that more than five
million evergreens we're going to
be cut that year for use as Christ
mas trees.
, 1951-12-07
By THEODORE KOSLOW

NEW YORK, Dec. Z (INS)-
The Stock Market pressed forward
with renewed vigor today under
the continued leadership of rail
shares.
The pe~rsistency Of the rise,
which has now brought higher
prices in seven of the last eight
sessions, intensified public buy
ing interest. This was reflected in
the transfer of many large blocks
of stocks, running to $4,000 shares
in Armour, which opened l 8 high
er.
Volume for the first hour total
ed $4,000 shares, nearly double
the 100000 shares death in dur
ing this period yesterday.
Canadian Pacific supplanted
Northern Pacific as the pace-set-
ter in the rails.
Buoyant industrials included A
, 1951-12-07

ell Hull. 1t was scheduled for l.
As P. M.
The two Japanese diplomats, who
had been comforting with Hull
since the latter, the preceding
Nov. &c, had handed them a state
ment Of principles" governing
future activities in the Far East,
arrived at the old State, War and
Navy building at 2:05 P. M, 20
minutes late. They had with them
the Japanese reply.
1t was 2:20 P. M. when Nomu-
ia and Kurusu were finally usher
ed into the Secretary of States
office.
At almost precisely that same
minute, phones rang in the offices
Of the three major press associa-
ton. When it was assured that all
three we're on the line, a voice
came over the phone:
"This is Steve Early. I am call
in from home. | have a statement
here which the President has ask
ed me to read: The japanese
, 1951-12-07

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, 1951-12-07
MARKET REPORT

merican Cyanamid up 1 1 a; Union
Carbide up 1; and Dupont up 5I8.
AT II A.. M. the Dow Jones In
dustiral was up $1.57; the rails
gained 90 cents; and utilities were
up II cents.
Curb stocks were fractionally
higher for the most part. Big
board bonds advanced. Cotton fea-
tured a higher commodity list.
, 1951-12-07
Pearl Hurbor-

Continued From Page One
usual routine-church, early Sun
day dinner, football games, the
movies.
In Washington, the scene was
being set for an ugly climax. At
100 P. M. (E.S.T.) the Japanese
Embassy called the state depart
ment ad advised that Ambassador
Kichisaburanomura and special en-
voy Saburo Kurusu would like an
appointment with Secretary Cord
, 1951-12-07

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Evening star., 1951-12-26
District Police Seize
One Of I Men Who
Fled Andrews Base

Metropolitan police this morn
ing picked up one of seven escaped
Andrews Air Force Base prisoners
who decided it would be more fun
to travel on Christmas than re-
main at the base.
Air Force officials said the seven
men, who were allowed to wear
their dress uniforms yesterday
and who were given the freedom
OF the base as a Christmas pres
ent, apparently left unhindered in
a truck they used in their work.
The Air Force classified them
escapes as minimum security"
prisoners who are not considered
dangerous.
Police found Charles S. Haskell,
20, who is serving six months
for breaking arrest, about S am.
at his home in the first block of
Eighth street Sc.
Haskell, the Air Force said,
escaped last August while serv-
ing a previous sentence for AWOL
at the Boiling Air Force Base
Guardhouse. He was sent to An
drews when he was recaptured.
The other escapes are Hamil-
ton Carter, 81, colored, of Balti-
more: James w. Bowlin, %, Brum-
mer. N. c.; Henry S. Hood. %.
colored, Baltimore; Joseph M.
Holmes, Is, colored, Baltimore;
Harry Rucker. 81, colored, Balti-
more. and John H. Shaun, 28,
also of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1951-12-26

the country to Craze on Maryland
grass.
His cowpoke is Bo Hollis, from
Amarillo, Tex, a handsome 27-
Iyear-old husky who is tall in the
saddle or out at 6 feet 2 inches
and 200 pounds.
Bo. in addition to his Texas
ranch background, has given
Iroping demonstrations at New
Yorks Madison Square Garden
and elsewhere.
Western Saddle Is Chair.
Mr.. Ballew, a widower of so,
lives in a two story ranch
house opposite the 5000 acres of
IDooughregan Manor, the ancient
seat of the CAROLS. 1t is about
five miles west of Ellicott City.
He presides from an office in
magnificent disorder. The walls
are covered with Western scenes
and nudes of the art calendar va
lriety. His chair is a Western sad
Idle which he said had survived
Clusters Last Stand at the Little
Bighorn.
1t was the drought of 1886 that
first brought the Western cattle
to the East. The boom in the
beef market and improved grasses
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Acheson 10 Speak
On Policy in Asia
BY The Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 26.-Secre-
tary of State Acheson is sched-
uled to speak on the Johns Hop
kins University campus this week
at a convention designed to spot
light the Nations foreign policy
in Asia.
John Foster Dulles, ranking Re-
publican in the State Department
and Supreme Court Justice Will
liam o. Douglas also are listed to
address the annual meeting OF
the Middle Atlantic region of In
ternational Relations Clubs.
More than 200 IRC members
are expected to attend the con-
Ivention tomorrow through Satur-
day.
Mr.. Acheson is scheduled tc
speak tomorrow afternoon. Mr.
Dulles will address the group that
night and Justice Douglas will
speak Friday night. Their topics
are to be announced.
I. w. hartman, convention Off
Gail, said the general topic of the
meeting is Asia and the Ameri-
can Foreign Policy" He said Asia
was singled out because last year..
convention emphasized Europe
and the IRC feels that the Fal
East needs special examination ir
light of the Korean war.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
D. {. Woman Is Shot;
MARYLAND Man Accused

A Washington woman was shot
yesterday and Prince Georges
County police have charged her
male companion with assault with
a deadly weapon.
Mrs. Marguerite A. Buchanan,
38, colored, of the 1000 block of
Third street NV, was treated
at Gallinger Hospital for a wound
in the thigh. She later was re-
leased by police under $100 bond
as a material witness against
Eugene Deal. 80, colored, of the
1000 block of Sixty-second place,
Cedar Heights, Md.
County detectives said the
woman was shot near Deals home
after she refused to accompany
him and insisted on returning to
her own home.
Deal was released under $2,500
bond pending a hearing in Hyatts-
vile Police Court at 10 am. to-
Evening star., 1951-12-26

The whoopee- -ti-yi-yo and git
along little dogie of the Far West
are echoing over Maryland's gently
rolling hills.
Descendants Of the men who
followed the herds of Texas in the
days of the big cattle drives have
come back East.
The reason: The beef cattle
industry has become so big in
Maryland that it's been necessary
to import cowboys to round up the
strays on wide pasture lands.
And they do it in the best West
ern style-clad in Lewis. chaps,
boots and sombreros, and astride
cowponies trained in the Texas
Panhandle. Roping and bulldog
ging are all in a days work.
The operation is complete with
ranch house along busy Route 40,
where hearty meals are served to
safe the appetites whetted by a
day in the saddle.
Cattle Imported by Hundreds.
Boss of the operation is E. w.
(EdD Ballew, whose spread is in
the Ellicott City area. He's deal
er who imports foreign cattle and
brings in hundreds of beef cattle
at a clip from other sections of
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Augusta County Area
Combed for Fugitive
BY The Assoeiuied Press

STAUNTON, Va, Dec. 26.-
Police were still combing the
Augusta Rockingham County area
today for L. Wilson Via, wanted
on three charges, including one
for attempted murder.
Via, about IS, fled arrest Mon
day night as he was being charged
with disorderly conduct. He raced
away in his car, finally wrecking
it at the Harriston community in
Augusta County where he lives.
Then, police said, he shot at a
service station customer and ex-
changed fire with pursuing Off
GERS as he vanished across field.
The attempted murder charge
is for shooting at the customer
and the policemen. Rockingham
County has also issued a warrant
him with resisting arrest.
His brother. Arnold Via, 26, was
arrested yesterday on a charge of
aiding Wilson in evading the law.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Man Celebrating Birth
OF Son Accused of Murder

A man who police said shot and
killed a friend while celebrating
the birth of a son has been charged
with murder.
Edward Henry Posey, 80, colored
of the 1900 block Forty-sixth
avenue, Hyattsville. was in q
Bladensburg tavern yesterday
police said. when he received word
of the birth of his son.
They said he pulled a .38-calibe1
revolver from his pocket. The
gun fired, killing Leroy Ayers, q
colored, of the 1900 block Gallatir
street, Hyattsville.
Police are holding Posey in the
Hyattsville Jail without bond
pending a hearing in Hyattsville
Police Court January 3.
They said Posey insisted the gun
went off accidentally. He tolo
police he intended to shoot into
the floor.
Posey and Mr.. Ayers worked fol
the City Of Mount Rainier, police
said.