Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 12, 1993 TAG: 9308120138
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
DANVILLE - Sixty checkers players are in Danville this week hoping to dethrone Ron King and become the king of the board game.
The event is the National Go-As-You-Please Checker Tournament, which began Monday and should end late today or early Friday. King, of Barbados, is the defending champion of the event, which has been held in Danville for three of the past five years.
"Go-As-You-Please is the one of the three most popular forms of checkers," said Earl Luffman of Ringgold, who organized the event sponsored by the American Checker Federation. "This is the type of checkers you saw people playing at the country stores years ago."
The goal is to win as many games as you can while trying to complete four games during a six-hour period. Some checker games have divisions based on expertise, but here, all of the players' names are drawn out of a hat. - Associated Press
2 legislators will remain as company's directors
RICHMOND - Two of the three legislators remaining on the board of a fledgling mortgage insurance company said Wednesday they probably will not follow the lead of two fellow lawmakers who pulled out of the venture.
Del. Lewis Parker, D-South Hill, and Del. Alson Smith, D-Winchester, said they are not contemplating resigning as directors of International Guaranty Insurance Corp.
Senate Majority Leader Hunter Andrews of Hampton and Del. Alan Diamonstein, D-Newport News, have given up their board seats.
Another director, House Majority Leader Richard Cranwell of Vinton, did not return phone calls Wednesday.
- Associated Press
Chesapeake won't pay interim authority chief
CHESAPEAKE - The city Redevelopment and Housing Authority launched a search Wednesday to hire a new executive director and has decided to cancel the salary of interim Executive Director H. Scott Hardison.
The authority, citing dissatisfaction with outgoing Executive Director James R. Gurganus, also removed Gurganus from the job 10 days before his resignation was to become effective.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have said the hiring of Hardison, the former chairman of the authority's board, as a paid director would be a conflict of interest.
- Associated Press
2 Purcellville men jailed for killing Canada goose
ALEXANDRIA - Two Purcellville men will spend 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to killing a Canada goose with a baseball bat, a U.S. District Court judge has decided.
Jeffrey Todd Monroe, 18, was accused of beating the 25-pound goose, which was protecting its nest of five eggs in a farm field on April 13.
After the bird was beaten and the eggs smashed, Thomas C. Johnson, 20, put a dog leash around the bird's neck and dragged it a short distance, where he disemboweled it.
One of the eggs survived and the bird later hatched.
- Associated Press
Youth baseball facility upsets some residents
CHESAPEAKE - Some residents of this city's rural Hickory section are worried that a youth baseball complex would bring noise and congestion to the quiet area.
Great Bridge Baseball Inc., the largest youth baseball league on the East Coast, wants to build a $1.2 million facility with 12 diamonds. The facility could handle up to a thousand spectators at one time.
At a meeting this week, residents said the complex could produce traffic headaches and that a 200-foot buffer of trees planned between the complex and homes won't filter out noise.
- Associated Press
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