Architects Start Work On School In Caswell County
Caswell County advances a new elementary school with 14 classrooms and library. Top priority in the school program relies on a $503,000 state bond, with local ABC funds to cover remaining cost. Two multi purpose buildings at Stoney Creek and Jones elementary schools will add cafeterias and auditoriums but lack libraries.
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Yanceyville
N.C
Caswell County
T. H. Whitley
County Board of Commissioners
Whitley
County Board of Education
State Division of School Planning
Caswell County Training School
Stoney Creek
Jones
ABC
County Seeks Bids Sept 10 On Southside High Auditorium
Pittsylvania County will seek bids September 10 for a 600-seat auditorium at Southside High School, the final major project funded by the $7.5 million school bond. Superintendent J. H. Combs notes costs align closely with 1961 estimates and expects bids to be opened at the School Board meeting, with three weeks allowed for bid preparation. The bond program also adds eight rooms at Central Elementary and five rooms plus a multi purpose room and kitchen at Chatham Elementary.
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Southside High School
Pittsylvania County
J. H. Combs
Combs
Southside
Central Elementary
Chatham
Chatham Elementary
Spectacular Danville crash tied to kidnapping auto theft
Three Danville men Stonewall Jackson Stultz Carroll Chesley Oakes and Avrid Hartwell Oakes face kidnapping and auto theft charges after a dramatic Norwood Drive crash. Victim Arthur Lee Strader Jr forced to drive to bootleg joints before leaping from the car. Oakes also charged with reckless driving hit and run and related offenses.
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Danville
Norwood Drive
Sunbeam
North Train St
J. E. Tower
Stonewall _ Jackson
Carroll Oakes
Strader
Capt
Towler
Two Older Boys Learn Quickly and Caught Quickly
Police reconstructed a 16 year old attempting to steal shoes at K Mart. He walked out with new shoes hidden inside his old pair while two older youths watched. Staff stopped them as they left. All three charged with shop lifting. Bobby Lee Woodall and Norman Lee Wyatt also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Kmart
K-Mart
W. L. Sheffield
Sheffield
Bobby Lee Woodall
Draper
N. C
Norman Lee Wyatt
Stokesland Ave. Ext
Tech Honors Program For Outstanding Freshmen Inaugurated
Virginia Tech will start a selective honors program this fall inviting about 100 freshmen to enroll in honors courses in chemistry English history and mathematics. Dr Archer Jones says the program emphasizes depth over acceleration with seminars in sciences humanities and social sciences earning two credits per seminar and no lower than a B grade.
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Tech
Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Archer Jones
Jones
Negro Couple Wins Church Wedding Approval
The Lutheran Church of the Ascension approved by a 5-4 vote for a Negro couple to marry in the sanctuary, marking the first such ceremony in the local church. The bride, a Danville native living in West Virginia, is connected to Greensboro’s all Negro congregation, with a white minister, and the ceremony will be performed by the Greensboro pastor.
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Lutheran Church of the Ascension
Church Council
Danville
West Virginia
Greensboro
N.C
Woman’s Church
Missouri Synod
Ascension
Lutheran Church of
Ascension Church
Christ the King
James Stirewall
Poverty Group Given Grant Seeks Director
Danville’s Community Improvement Council led by Charles A. Womack and M. C. Martin has been informed that its application for a $15,534 grant from the US Office of Economic Opportunity has been approved to run a War on Poverty program in Danville and seeks a full-time executive director.
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Danville
Fow
Ripe Leaf To Sell Best Growers Told
YANCEYVILLE NC Old Belt tobacco sales likely to favor ripe leaf says County Agent Ralph Aldridge and Caswell grower who sold to the Belt. James Foster advised letting tobacco ripen. Blanch farmer Carlton Chandler noted buyers pay more for ripe leaf with examples at Fayetteville selling P4F PSF 10 to 12 dollars over grade and some ripe piles bringing 72 dollars.
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Yanceyville
N. Se
Old Belt
Ralph Aldridge
Caswell
North Carolina Belt
Aldridge
James Foster
Dillon
S. C
Production Credit Association
Foster
South Carolina
Carlton Chandler
Blanch
Fayetteville
Four Days Five Fatalities Death Toll Soars on County Roads
Pittsylvania County faces a rising road death toll with five fatalities in four days. The latest victim, Ocie Aker, 31, of Danville, died after a two-car crash on Rt 719 near old Fall Creek Station, injuring four others. The tally includes a Ringgold girl, Sharon Clark, 8, struck at home, and ten-year-old Jerry Williamson killed on Rt 62. Additional crash details cite wrecked vehicles, charges of reckless driving, and multiple injuries across several households.
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Ocie Aker
Danville
Jimmy Wilson Fitz
Blairs Rt. 1
William Lee Robinson
Rt. 3
Robinson
Tim Sanders
Fitz
Emma
Tommy
Susan
Sanders
Memorial Hospital
Akers
Winslow
Sharon Faye Clark
Nelson P. Clark
Ringgold Rt. 2
Jerry Layne Williamson
Ringgold
Rt. 62
Milton Rd
Rt. 277
Ajax
Clark Child
Chapel of Swicegood Funeral Home
David W. Worley
Highland Burial Park
West Lee Jones
Bradley Rd
Jones
Clark Home
Rt. 732
R. MM. MecCrick
James Holley
Clark Yard
John Blair Davis
Wesley Chapel
Dan River
Thomas Allen Clark
E. L. Barker
William M. Clark
Halifax Road
Mule Escapes Injure City Farm Worker At Memorial Hospital
Clarence Gee, a 48 year old City Farm employee, was admitted to Memorial Hospital after being kicked in the stomach by Kate the mule. The animal escaped from City Farm pasture and charged Gee as he tried to catch it near Albert F. Clark's pasture by the Municipal Airport. Gee suffered broken ribs and was knocked back ten feet, witnesses said.
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Clarence Gee
City Farm
Memorial Hospital
Gee
Kate
Albert F. Clark
Clark
W. A. Newell
Municipal Airport
Newell
Georgia Tobacco Prices Steady to Lower at Monday Sale
Valdosta Georgia market reports Georgia Florida flue cured tobacco prices unchanged to lower for most grades on Monday. Losses from last Friday ranged $1 to $4 per hundred pounds, about two to one on declines over gains. Most declines were $1 or $2 per hundred, affecting leaf, smoking leaf and nonde script grades. Quality offered was a little lower with more nonde script and poor tobacco in the grades. Volume of sales ranged from light to heavy.
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Valdosta
Federal State Market News Service
Steady to Higher Prices Paid For S C Tobacco
On the South Carolina belt markets prices by grades were steady to higher Monday with gains from 1 to 3 per hundred. Demand was weak for top grades as bidders held near the support level and growers complained about the narrowing spread between unbted and tied leaf. General quality improved with more fair and good lugs, volume heavy. limited U S grade bids showed mixed but mostly firm movements.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Truck Driver Dies In Crash Near Yale North Carolina
James Ashley Outler, 54, of Columbia, S C, was killed Monday when his tractor trailer carrying 5000 gallons of hot asphalt jackknifed on a curve and hit a bridge abutment on North Carolina 18 near Yale. Coroner W E Jack Bass identified him from personal items found on the body. The asphalt spilled over the cab and surrounding area. he apparently died in the wreck, not from burns.
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Bass
Jacob Fork River
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Wilson Newell Wetm
Casa Italia
Lillian W. Yates
Mar
Willie Robertson
Luna Lake Rd
Ballou Park
Robert N. Collis
Howeland Circle
Bobby Collis
Phillip Bond
Jamie Bond
Walter Johnson
Chandler
Lou
Colt
Georgia
S.C. Tobacco
U.S
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