On July 15, 1961, Royce W. Chesser signed for a new four-year term as superintendent of Accomack County Public Schools. He had been offered a position on the faculty of the University of Virginia. “The public is delighted that he reconsidered and will be superintendent for the next four years,” the Peninsula Enterprise reported.
On July 15, 1958, agricultural harvest worker employment reached its peak for the year with 21,000 working, harvesting, marketing, and processing vegetables.
On July 15, 1958, Herbert K. Baker, a prominent produce dealer and former member of the Accomack County Board of Supervisors from Atlantic Magisterial District, was elected the first mayor of the town of Hallwood in a special election.
On July 15, 1954, the Peninsula Enterprise reported that Accomack County high school students would have driver education courses in the fall of the year. Northampton County schools had offered driver education courses for several years “and authorities there agree with national findings that driver education makes safer drivers.”
On July 15, 1945, U.S. Army Pfc. James Kellam Turner Sr., 34, a Northampton County native, was killed in France and his remains were interred at the Richmond National Cemetery in Richmond.
On July 15, 1938, the Peninsula Enterprise newspaper reported that the boards of supervisors of Accomack and Northampton counties adopted ordinances that prohibit the sale of beer and wine between the hours of midnight Saturday and 6 a.m. Monday. The ordinance does not apply to incorporated towns.
On July 15, 1938, the Peninsula Enterprise newspaper reported that Sophia Floyd, of near Daugtherty, had two geese that laid 99 eggs that season and hatched 52 goslings.
On July 15, 1937, John T. Lewis was appointed by Judge John E. Nottingham to be Deputy Commissioner of the Revenue for Accomack County, succeeding the late Robert P. Coleburn.
On July 15, 1936, Parksley native George Hope, who played football and baseball at the University of Richmoind, was named the head football coach at Maury High School in Norfolk. He replaced Dick Fletcher, who resigned to become head of freshman athletics at the University of Virginia.
