Impeachment Risk for Two Hamp ton Roads Congressmen
Norfolk AP reports that GOP leaders expect impeachment votes against President Nixon could reduce support for two Hampton Roads congressmen, G William Whitehurst and Robert W Daniel Jr. Voters may react angrily, though leaders predict many will stay loyal if impeachment foes or supporters weigh the alternative.
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Norfolk
Nixon
Hampton Roads
G. William Whitehurst
Robert W. Daniel Jr
House of Representatives
Paul Nelson
Chesapeake
Way
Nelson
Daniel
Wayne Lusting
Norfolk-Virginia Beach
Whitehurst
Divorce Action Separates DMC Branches Across States
A federal judge approved a plan to separate Diversified Mountaineer Corporation branches in West Virginia from those in Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee as part of a bankruptcy reorganization. West Virginia would receive about 1 million dollars from Virginia and 500 thousand from Kentucky, with Tennessee balanced to break even. Debts among the four states prompted the trustees to negotiate a court free settlement, while federal trustee Carl Duttine kept names of potential buyers undisclosed.
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Charleston
W.va
Diversified Mountaineer Corporation
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Dennis R. “Knapp
DMC
Carl Duttine
Duttine
Charles Love II
Ment
Love
Leaf prices rise on Georgia Florida flue cured tobacco markets
Prices continued to rise on Georgia Florida flue cured tobacco markets with most grades up 1 to 3 per hundredweight. Auction top reached 1.11 per pound with selected lots at 1.18. Sales totaled 0.942,187 pounds gross for an average of 104.63 per hundredweight, surpassing Wednesday’s high by 1.62. Season average stands at 92.86 per hundredweight from 76,796,416 pounds.
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Valdosta
Sim
Ford to Attend Salisbury Campaign Event in September
Vice President Gerald Ford will visit Salisbury on September 14 to aid the reelection campaigns of Republican Congressmen James T. Broyhill and Earl Ruth. The pair announced Ford’s appearance at a reception at the Catawba College Community Center with tickets priced at 100 dollars each.
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Salisbury
N.C
Gerald Ford
James T. Broyhill
Earl Ruth
Ford
Catawba College
Huddleston Rites For William B Plymale 89
Funeral services for William Branner Plymale 89 will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Staunton Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. A Bedford County native and retired farmer he served as a precinct judge and longtime deacon of Staunton Baptist. Survived by wife Virginia Elizabeth Johnson Plymale seven sons and four daughters and 20 grandchildren. Body at Updike Funeral Home.
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Huddleston
William Branner Plymale
Staunton Baptist Church
Bedford County Memorial Hospital
Bedford County
Thomas Perry
Mary Hall Plymale
Virginia Elizabeth Johnson Plymale
Thomas W. Plymale
Scotts Depot
W. Va
Clarence KE. Plymale
Gretna
Raymond D. Plymale
Upper Marlboro
Howard R. Plyrmale
Newport News
Kenneth
Plymale
Winston-Salem
N.C
Herbert M. Plymale
E. Russell Plymale
New
Mrs Woods Rites Set Tomorrow In Lynchburg
Funeral services for Mrs Bessie Reeves Woods 56 of Rustburg Rt 1 will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. at Whitten Timberlake Chapel with burial in Meade Cemetery. She died yesterday in Lynchburg General Hospital after a short illness. She was born in Harriet County North Carolina and survived by her husband Silas Jack Woods seven sons and five daughters, four brothers and four sisters plus 25 grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home.
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Lynchburg
Bessie Reeves Woods
Whitten Timberlake Chapel
Meade Cemetery
Woods
Rustburg Rt. 1
Lynchburg General Hospital
Harriet County
N.C
Calvin Jine
Lucy Jane Reeves
Silas Jack Woods
Raymond
Roger N. Woods
Glenn D. Woods
Rustburg
Ralph S. Woods
Madison Heights
James E. Woods
Big Island
Silas (. Woods
Orlando
Fla
Ds L. Woods
Danville
Robert. Tolley
Concord
Charles Hylton
John Stanley
Gerald Harris Jr
John
Posters Cause Suspension Of Welfare Worker
Richmond welfare employee Daniel Begley 26 was suspended without pay for five days for posters in his office that could be political. He refused to remove a Nixon and Agnew in prison poster, citing First Amendment rights, while director Edmond Jones noted officials must be nonpartisan though his own office contains political images. Columbia College students formed a scholarship fund, raising 400 so far to aid underprivileged and minority students.
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Richmond (Ap
Daniel Begley
Richmond City Welfare Department
Begley
Edmond Jones
Nixon
Agnew
Jones
Howver
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
William Leidinger
New York
Columbia College
Border Belt Leaf Prices Move Upward
North and South Carolina tobacco markets show continued price increases on flue cured leaf. Across 12 Eastern Belt markets sales reached 5,946,345 pounds at $91.86 per cwt, while Middle Belt sold 619,812 pounds at $89.41 and South Carolina border North Carolina areas averaged $96.44 per cwt.
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Raleigh, N. C
North Carolina
South Carolina
Federal State Market News Service
Middle Belt
Wreck off Cape Charles not Cyclops, divers say
Navy divers from the USS Opportune report the sunken vessel 70 miles northeast of Cape Charles is not the 1918 Cyclops. The 350 foot wreck lies 190 feet down with scrap metal in holds and a radar antenna, suggesting a World War II freighter. The ship’s name remains undiscovered. a salvaged bell was not the Cyclops’s.
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Norfolk. Va
Navy
USS Opportune
Cape Charles
Norfolk
Atlantic Fleet
Opportune
Martens and
Davis
Brazil
North Carolina Plans Coeducational Juvenile Centers
North Carolina will convert juvenile detention centers to coeducational facilities under a reform by Corrections Secretary David L. Jones. A State Bureau of Investigation probe found lax procedures at three centers including Samarkand Manor, with no evidence of organized prostitution. The plan adds age grouping, higher security, and more counseling while housing boys and girls in separate living areas.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Corrections
David L. Jones
State Bureau of Investigation
Samarkand Manor
Samarkand
Jones
SBI
Eagle Springs
Richard Fountain
Rocky Mount
Swannanoa Center
Concord
Kinston
Hoffman
Mother Leaps From Burning N C Home to Save Baby
Fayetteville AP Ellen Boney leaped from a second floor window with her seven month old son during a blaze that damaged four rooms and a garage. She sustained fractures to both ankles and a spine injury while the child, unharmed, was taken for X rays. The cause of the fire was undetermined. Her husband David was at Ft Bragg.
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Fayetteville
Ellen Boney
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