North Carolina targets speeding and drunk driving plan
North Carolina motor vehicles commissioner A Pilston Godwin Jr outlined a program to cut speeding and drunken driving after a Traffic Study Authority report. He cited that alcohol contributes to half of fatal crashes and excess speed to nearly two of five. The plan includes broader inspections, tougher license suspensions, and a new computer system to share vehicle and license data statewide.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
A. Pilston Godwin Jr
Charlotte Lions Club
N.C
General Assembly
North
Carolina
Godwin
Accident Drill Shows Danville Crew Rescuing Side-Impact Car
Danville Life Saving Crew practiced a Monday night rescue after a four passenger car crash. They freed three injured occupants and revived a victim thrown from the vehicle using a cutting top joint, field packs, and a resuscitator. The drill emphasized swift extraction, patient care, and coordination ahead of the Roanoke state convention.
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Danville
MYF Team Wins TV Contest at Roanoke Station
A trio from the Danville Methodist Youth Fellowship Sub District won the Klub Kwiz contest last night for Roanoke station. Martha Viccellio Gail Love and Monte Keatts defeated St Elizabeth Episcopal School 110 100 and will return to Roanoke to defend their title. Viccellio and Love are rising seniors at George Washington High School while Keatts is a rising senior at Tunstall High School.
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Martha Viccellio
Gail Love
Monte Keatts
Roanoke
Danville Methodist Youth Fellowship
St. Elizabeth Episcopal School
Misses Love
Viccellio
George Washington High School
Keatts
Tunstall High School
Wall collapses on Spring Street demolishing two cars
A wall at the old West brook Elevator building collapsed while demolition crews worked nearby, crushing two cars parked beside the structure. Mrs. Dorothy Smith and her sons narrowly escaped injury as they had just left an optician visit. The 1957 Rambler belonging to Sidney Whitlow was damaged, and a fire alarm box was smashed, though no fire occurred.
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Dorothy Smith
Chatham
Westbrook
Smith
Sidney A. Whitlow
Bradley Rd
Marshall Sand and Gravel Co
American National Bank
Betty Whitlaw
Gunfire Ends Family Feud in Bassett Home Slayings
Martinsville reports a weekend family feud climaxing Monday night with a gun battle at Robert Lackey’s Bassett Route 2 home. Lackey, 44, and his 63-year-old father-in-law Haywood Davis died from gunshot wounds after a struggle over a pistol. Davis died at Martinsville General Hospital. both bodies were taken to Collins Funeral Home.
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Martinsville
Bassett
Robert Lackey
Haywood Davis
C. P. Witt
Lackey
Bassett Rt. 2
Davis
Witt
Martinsville General Hospital
Henry County
Collins Funeral Home
Access Road Bid Opening Set Sept 14
The Virginia Department of Highways will open bids on Sept 14 for 33 road projects including an access road for Goodyear and U S Gypsum south of Danville. The Danville Pittsylvania project covers 1.45 miles on Rt 737. In Halifax County a Hyco River bridge on Rt 738 with 0.48 mile approaches also awaits bids.
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Virginia Department of Highways
Goodyear
U.S
Ould Attacks Credit Card Philosophy in Richmond Speech
Republican senatorial candidate James P. Ould Jr. accused the Democratic Party of pursuing a "credit card philosophy" that would increase debt and curb freedom for future generations. He spoke to high school newspaper editors, framing the issue against federal dependence and regulatory reach, while opponent William B. Spong Sr. planned to address the group. Ould cited his Lynchburg mayoral experience with federal programs and the Johnson Administration's credibility gap.
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Richmond
James P. Ould Jr
William B. Spong Sr
Lynchburg
Ould
Washington
Another Escapee Charged With Bank Robbery Hundley Back In County
Robert Hundley, an escaped convict charged with kidnapping and rape, is back in Pittsylvania County jail at Chatham after extradition approved by North Carolina Governor Dan K. Moore. Hundley’s second escape from a Chatham-area prison camp prompted state police review. He faces two kidnapping counts, one rape, and two escape charges. bond set at 50,000, unlikely to be posted. A separate case notes Robert Everhard Mann, 26, charged with robbery of a Norfolk branch bank on Aug. 1 after more escape news from the camp. Authorities cite multiple escapes from the same camp during June and July.
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Robert Hundley
Pittsylvania
Chatham
Hundley
Norfolk
Robert Everhard Mann
Mann
Taylor McGregor
Carroll Lancaster
North Carolina
Dan K. Moore
Cleveland County
N. C
Shelby
Belmont
N.C
Callands
Lexington
South Carolina
Handley
Mills E. Godwin, Jr
Circuit Court
Langhorne Jones
Jones
FBI
Davis Corner
Southern Bank
Abduction Warrant Issued For Man In Disappearance Of Teen Girl
A warrant accuses Emerson L. Rawlings a Gretna based bulldozer operator for Albert Construction Co. of abducting 15 year old Judy Ann Moyer from Statesville after a late Saturday visit to a construction site. The girl remains missing and authorities issued a nationwide lookout based on the license 1962 green Chevrolet described by the girl and her cousin.
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Brights
Pittsylvania County
Emerson L. Rawlings
Albert Construction Co
Gretna
Rawlings
Judy Ann Moyer
Statesiville
Eugene Moyer
Coleman Yeatts
Rt. 360
Statesville
Bedford County
Moyer
Virginia Merchants Face Tax Fees as Costs, Not Profit
Sumpter Priddy of the Virginia Retail Merchants Association notes three percent collection fees on the new two percent sales tax, with the average cost around 12 percent nationally. Merchants will net little after audits and recordkeeping for four years, while consumers question whether food is taxed. The seminar at Midtown Motor Hotel involves A S Engram of the State Tax Department and is open to local merchants.
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Virginia
Sumpter Priddy
Virginia Retail Merchants Association
A. S. Engram
State Department of Taxation
Midtown Motor Hotel
Priddy
General Assembly
United States
Virginia Tech names three new deans in admin reshuffle
Virginia Tech announces a restructuring with Dr. William B. Harrison named dean of the new Research Division, Dr. William E. Skelton as dean of the new Extension Division, and Dr. M P Lacy as dean of admissions and records. The changes, approved by Tech president Dr. T. Marshall Hahn Jr., aim to improve services and long range planning for programs, research, and extension.
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Engineering Experiment Station
William E. Skelton
Cooperative Extension
M.P. Lacy
Stuart K. Cassell
Warren W. Brandt
General Assembly
Harrison
Coyt T. Wilson
Hahn
Virginia
Skelton
Commonwealth
Lacy
Evans Thompson
Raymond E. Keller
Desig
Idean
Brandt
Virginia Tech
Georgia Tech
Cornell University
University of Wisconsin
Appomattox County
U.S. Army
Scottsburg
Tech
U.S. Navy
Moore Named Radio Editor for VPI Extension News
Virginia Polytechnic Institute selected Thomas G. Moore of Danville as radio editor for its Extension and University news service. Moore’s career includes WBTM WDVA WGTC WNCT-TV and a stint as farm editor in Greenville North Carolina. He studied English at Atlantic Christian College and served in the Army in Germany before returning to radio work.
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Virginia. Polytechnic Institute
Thomas G. Moore
Danville
Moore
WBTM
WDVA
Greenville
N. C
Atlantic Christian College
Wilson
Grimestand
Reidsville
Germany
WGTC
Wnct-Tv
Conservatives Plan Trip to Chesterfield Campaign Kickoff
A large turnout of Virginia Conservative Party members forecast to travel to Huguesnot High School in Chesterfield County Friday for the senatorial campaign kickoff of the party's two U S Senate candidates. The event mirrors the party’s first campaign for governor held at the same site last year. In other business, the Danville Pittsylvania Conservatives began organizing a city county structure for this fall's campaign.
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Virginia Conservative Party
Huguesnot High School
Chesterfield County
U. S. Senate
Danville-Pittsylvania
Rites Today For Victims Of Accident
Funeral services for Willia Buck Allen a Blairs Rt 1 farmer killed in an automobile collision Sunday will be at McKee Funeral Home Martinsville at 2 p.m. with burial in the family cemetery at Axton Witnesses said Allen pulled from his driveway into a car carrying six injured Negro teenagers ages 10 to 19 from Keeling Rt 1 The dead man born in Henry County leaves a large immediate family plus eight sons three daughters and several grandchildren
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Willia Buck Allen
Blairs Rt. 1
McKee Funeral Home
Martinsville
Axton
L.A. Layne
Allen
Keeling
Rt. 1
John Hutchings
George Washington Carter
James Hutching
Eugene Hutchings
Kenneth Hutchings
Jimmie Lee Mayo
Memorial Hospital
Henry County
Pink
Eliza Allen
Ida Wilson Allen
Fred
Lonnie
Billy
James
Maynard
Clarence
Donnie Allen
Blairs
Danville
James la Williams
Greensboro
N.C
Willie Seearce
Brenda Allen
Jimmy Earles
Emma Compton
Mattie Mills
St. Cross Rd
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MYF
Wall On Spring Street
Harrison, Skelton and
B. Harrison
DE. W. E. Skelton
DK. M. P
VPI
Moore Radio
Holiday Inn Restaurant
Jack Dyer Clark
Wertin
W. Yates
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