Dec. 22, 1965

Staff

Published Monday, December 23, 2002

The lead story in the Suffolk News-Herald on this date 37 years ago:

American given German jail terms

BERLIN - Two American men today were reported sentenced to eight years in an East German prison for helping refugees escape to West Berlin. A Tennessee girl is being held in East Berlin apparently on the same charge.

Jail Service

Christian Homebuilders Prayer Band will conduct prayer services at the Nansemond County Jail at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Mrs. Essie M. Jones will be in charge. The prayer band will meet in the home of the president, 318 Webb St., at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Cold start hurts Raider Five in loss to Packers

Suffolk's Red Raiders, who finished "cold" in the Franklin game last week, were still in the icebox at the start of their non-conference game with Smithfield last night.

The Suffolk boys could muster only three additional points in the opening period against the Packers and this weak effort, plus many costly mistakes which followed, helped bring on their second defeat of the season, 52-45.

Suffolk's junior varsity won the opening game, 50-43, with Tommy Harry's 15 points leading the way.

Cheer fund needs $535

Time is running out for the Cheer Fund. Only Thursday and Friday remain and the $2,850 goal is still $535 away.

Response has been gratifying. Contributions, both large and small, have been coming in steadily in reply to the Cheer Fund's plea for funds to supply food for the largest number of needy persons in the history of the fund.

Shopping center to include 16

Officials of a company developing a shopping center for the Suffolk area said this morning that 16 national concerns are coming in on the center.

Leases have been installed for three of these and the others are in the final stages for the new Suffolk Plaza Shopping Center.

Off-duty deputy finds still

An 1,800-gallon whiskey still capable of distilling up to 200 gallons of corn whiskey was found Saturday by an off-duty Nansemond County deputy sheriff.

Deputy Sheriff J. Irving Baines said he was hunting on land belonging to Ellen Horton in the Liberty Springs community when he and Charles Russell, his rabbit hunting companion, came upon a vacant house. The chimney and windows to two rooms where the still was were stuffed with burlap.

Baines arrested one man but the other fled into the woods.

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