County Jail's Character Reflects Years Of Use
Chatham Pittsylvania County's jail is one of Virginia's oldest built nearly eighty years ago. Officials clash over repairs citing overcrowding and limited funds while inmates endure sagging floors corroded pipes and heat and fumes from aging boilers. The brick structure sits behind the courthouse with two exits and a single external fire escape.
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Daniel Campaign Committee to Stay Active for 1976 Race
W C Dan Daniel confirms the Daniel for Congress Campaign Committee will remain in operation for the 1976 campaign. Surplus funds from 1976 will be retained by the committee under federal election rules. No further contributions may be made to the Daniel Congressional Account as House rules require funding from federal sources.
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Averett Adds Christian Studies Degree Program
Averett College will add a Department of Christian Studies with emphases in Bible theology music and youth and religious education. The program begins in fall and includes internships supervised by field experts. Dr. Mills says the degree trains leaders for dual roles in churches and notes collaboration with state Baptist officials and pastors.
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VFW Honors Strange For Hope Harbor Work
The VFW honored Rev. Russell Strange for work with Hope Harbor in Danville a halfway house for alcoholics. The January 1975 board split from Hope Harbor Greensboro NC and named Strange executive director of the Incal unit. He had been Hope Harbor assistant director since October 1973. Strange, a recovered alcoholic, is a seriiacy trained ordained Presbyterian minister from Sumter South Carolina, married to Margaret Cubbage, with three children and three grandchildren.
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Adopt A Grandparent CIC Program Aids Loneliness
The Community Improvement Council sponsors an Adopt-A-Grandparent program pairing youths with seniors in Danville area housing. Volunteers visit weekly call thrice weekly and share meals, stories, and companionship, with matches based on proximity and common interests.
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Jessie McLarty
Cardinal Village
Allen Roberts
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Ann Edwards
Jaycette
Jessie
Allen
Stephens
Professor Finds Tax Rates Have Not Shifted Much Over 30 Years
University of Virginia law professor Edwin Cohen reports in the Virginia Law Review that federal income tax rates, when adjusted for purchasing power, remained largely the same from 1946 to 1976. He notes offsetting changes across years, with single and married taxpayers largely in similar relative positions to decades earlier despite inflation and bracket shifts.
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