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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1966
Page
14
Royster and Joyce address Rhodesian tobacco sales and Old Belt outlook. With no USDA guidance on loose leaf sales this year, growers are urged to market tobacco as fast as buyers process it. The Old Belt expects higher prices and a larger crop, while advocates call for improved marketing conditions and coordinated effort.
Virginia West McCormick McCaskill, 74, longtime Chatham area resident, died Tuesday in Coral Gables Florida. Born Charlottesville September 16 1891 she was daughter of Edmund N est and his wife. She married Chatham attorney Cutler O McCormick who died in 1946 and later George E McCaskill who survives. Also survived by brother Be Burnely West of Washington DC. Body arrives at Scott Funeral Home Thursday night with graveside service Saturday at 3 p.m. in the McCormick family cemetery near Ruiville.
Graveside rites for Harvey E Ludwick will be held tomorrow at 2 p m from Leemont Cemetery. The 51 year old Danville native died unexpectedly in Nixon New Jersey while working in Baltimore and Nixon. He served in World War II with the U S Army in Europe. Survives three sisters Mrs E W Hyler Gladys Ludwick and Mrs R E O Neal. Remains to Swicegood Funeral Home. family at 328 Moffett Street.
ALTAVISTA Robert Wester Watlington 77 died Tuesday morning in Lynchburg. A retired shipyard guard he was born in Pittsylvania County, son of George and Wennie Adams Watlington. He leaves two daughters Mrs Herbert Roberts of Richmond and Mrs Witcher Jennings of Hurt, and a brother Genie Watlington of Princeton. Funeral Thursday at 11 a.m. Finch and Finch Funeral Chapel. Burial New Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery. Family at Mrs Jennings in Hurt.
Miss Lillie Susan Wyatt aged 77 died Tuesday at Danville Memorial Hospital after years of declining health and weeks of critical illness. Born in Pittsylvania County on March 12, 1889 she was a daughter of Hyram Wyatt and Susan Tucker Wyatt. Survived by four brothers Jackson Acie Acie Abe Wyatt and four sisters Mrs R L Saunders Mrs J H Layne Gretna Mrs Ruth Dodson Spring Garden and Mrs Louise Mabe Kingsport Tenn. Funeral 3 p.m. Thursday at St Andrews Methodist Church Mt Airy with interment in church cemetery. Body at Colbert Funeral Home and family at Rt. 2 Gretna residence.
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Parker Edwards were conducted Tuesday afternoon at Liberty Christian Church by Reverends Marshall Anderson Claude Berry and TR Brown. Interment followed in the church cemetery with pallbearers Max Dell inger Durwood Edwards Billy Brown Jack Edwards Donald P Edwards Jr Lethherd wards A W Nance and Cecil Adkins.
The Piedmont Chapter of the National Association of Accountants will elect officers at its regular dinner meeting tomorrow at Starmount Forest Country Club in Greensboro North Carolina. Norman Black senior partner of Block Meyland and Lloyd will speak on Corporate Taxation. New members will be honored.
Larry Eastwood, a sixth grader from Danville area, tends two 190 to 200 pound hogs for next week’s Danville Area Junior Livestock Show and Sale. The show includes 65 top hogs and 17 steers, with 4-H and FFA participants from Pittsylvania and Caswell counties. The event, now featuring hogs, is sponsored by the Danville Chamber Agriculture Committee with area firms aiding, shifting to an afternoon show and sale schedule.
YANCEYVILLE N C The only Negro to file for the May 28 Democratic primary in Caswell County withdraws to focus on farming He told Elections Board Chairman W D McMullen that politics isn t for me Withers Locust Hill farmer had filed for the Locust Hill Pelham township seat on the Board of Education His withdrawal leaves incumbent Rodell Loftis as the sole candidate in the race barring Republican opposition The filing deadline had seen Loftis as the only member with competition
Ivonne Thompson Hammonds sues James Columbus Crute and Barnes Transport Co. for injuries from a March 26 1964 rear end collision on Riverside Drive. Judge Langhorne Jones of Pittsylvania County Circuit will preside.
Annie Shepherd Hudson 9 of Nathalie Rt 1 died Tuesday in a South Boston hospital. Last rites are set for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at McKendree Methodist Church with burial to follow. Survived by four daughters, three sons, two sisters, 15 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren. Body at Powell Funeral Home South Boston.
Robert S. Blair is named assistant plant manager at the Martinsville DuPont Nylon Plant in a DuPont announcement. He succeeds E. H. Shade, who moves to Wilmington to serve as assistant to the production manager of the Nylon Division. Blair, a 1950 University of Maryland chemical graduate, joined DuPont as an engineer in 1950 and previously was product superintendent at the Richmond Spruance plant. He assumed duties April 15.
Brantley Barr was selected to head Memorial Hospital as it studies expansion under Progressive Patient Care. The plan divides the hospital into Intensive Care Unit Intermediate Care Unit and Self-Care Unit while additions include Inhalation Therapy and Electronic Maintenance. The hospital notes a critical space crunch and discusses Medicare, new dictating systems, and the need to automate testing to reduce costs and staffing.
Building inspector Stoke Daniel issued a permit yesterday to Dr. Joan J. Neal Jr and Dr. Julian Koplen to construct an office building at 1051 Main St.
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