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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1971
Page
7
The Danville ledger shows residents buying works on history, biography, and instruction rather than pure entertainment. Purchases include Douglas biographies, Lambs Tales, Bagby Addams letters, and Shakespeare, with Milton, Byron, Dumas, and Scott present among fiction. Violin and guitar guides appear. readers favored pragmatic self improvement and moral instruction over frivolous reads.
Duke University launches an oral history project with North Carolina Central University to collect black and white recollections from the post Reconstruction era. Led by Dr. Lawrence Goodwyn, the effort seeks to balance white controlled sources by interviewing residents who lived through Populism and biracial politics in Texas and the South.
Keister Jones Sr. 77, prominent farmer of Shady Grove Road North Carolina, died after a seizure while working on his farm. Born April 7 1894 in Halifax County, he moved to the area in 1916 and held roles in local service groups and on public boards. He is survived by his wife three daughters two sisters and a brother eight grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Funeral services are set for 4 p.m. tomorrow at Swicegood Chapel with Masonic rites at Hishland Burial Park.
Anderson denounced a small group pushing busing to achieve racial balance and warned against tobacco tax increases. He cited Gov. Holton backing higher cigarette taxes in 1970 and urged continued resistance to any new tax hikes. He warned opponents aim to renew the tobacco tax battle.
A group of Black individuals threw bricks and bottles at two Raleigh police vehicles around midnight Friday, causing minor damage to both cars. No injuries reported and investigation underway by police.
World War I veterans of Bar Racks No. 1081 will meet Tuesday at 5 p.m. to partake of water-filled melons provided by Henry Terry at American Legion Post No. 1097 on Fairfield Avenue.
A private kindergarten elementary school backed by the United Klans of America held a Saturday groundbreaking in Belton South Carolina about 15 attendees at the event. The UKA said the brick building costing 30 000 to 50 000 will open in January with four classrooms an auditorium and a cafeteria serving kindergarten and grades one through three.
Final services for Crawley M Bryant will be held tomorrow at 2 pm at Shiregood Chapel with Rev. J C Raper and Rev Cabot Inman officiating. Interment in Danville Memorial Gardens. Bryant, 58, of 139 Cumberland Drive, died yesterday at Memorial Hospital. He moved to Danville in 1954 and worked for Dun River Inc until retirement. He married Myrtle Barker on March 6, 1954. she survives with a stepdaughter, three half-sisters, two brothers, and a half-brother.
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