Too Tall For Airlines She Drives A Greyhound
Jo Ann Mounce, 5 foot 11, is a Greyhound bus driver in Virginia and the Carolinas, earning about 100 dollars a day on 350 to 400 miles routes. Born in Elkin, North Carolina, she grew up on a farm as the second of nine children and left hosiery work and motel desk jobs for the open road. Some coworkers and strangers doubted a woman could drive a bus, but she defies stereotypes, maintains femininity, and says her job won’t change who she is. Her boyfriend in Winston-Salem worries about her being away.
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Richmond, Va
Jo Ann Monnce
Jo Ann
Greyhound Bus Co
Virginias
Carolinas
Ms. Mounce
Greyhound
Richmond
Durham
Raleigh
Elkin
N.C
Winston-Salem
Jo Ann Mounce
Greyhound Buses
Chess
Senate approves New River Wild and Scenic status victory
Environmentalists celebrate a 69 to 16 Senate vote embedding North Carolina's New River in the Wild and Scenic system and blocking a proposed hydroelectric dam. Local opponents warn of job losses and lawsuits, while residents recall protests and long fights with industry and labor groups.
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Senate
Associated Press
Mountain
Aflcio
F ‘al Power Commission
Hamilton Horton
U.S. Senate
North Carolina
Horton
Winston-Salem
National Committee For
Sparta
Allegheny County
Dan Murray
Murray
Ashe
Allegheny
Roanoke
Appalachian Power Co
American Electric Power Co
WCTU Pushes Law Banning Smoking in Public Places
Richmond AP A late 19th or early 20th century style article reports the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union urging prompt enactment of a law banning smoking in all public places. The convention re elected national president Mrs Herman Stanley and other officers while adopting multiple resolutions on alcohol, narcotics education, and media content.
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Richmond
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
WCU
Herman Stanley
Evanston
WCTU
T. Roy Jarrett
Margaret Gee
Virginia's 22 Million Oil Shortage Deficit Audit Reveals
An audit by State Auditor Charles Trible finds Virginia ran a 22 million deficit in emergency fuel purchases during the 1972 74 oil shortage. Overcharges by distributors and a below cost sale of 7 million gallons to Vepco drove the shortfall, with poor records hampering reconstruction. The 1972 to 1975 actions under Holton and subsequent loan balances are noted as factors in the deficit.
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Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Virginia Energy Office
Linwood Holton
Holton
Department of Agriculture and Commerce
Cheatham Annex
Federal Energy Administration
FEA
Vepco
Girl Fights to Save Drowning Friend at Inlet
In Virginia Reach AP report 11 year old Denise Marsh recounts how she kept 6 year old Tammi Kirkland afloat for nearly two minutes in Rodeo Inlet. Denise held Tammi above water while both were pulled to safety by Denise’s father and an unnamed fisherman.
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Virginia Reach
Denise Marsh
Denise
Fanos Kirk-land
Rodee Inlet
Tammi
Charles Marsh
Graveside rites planned for Rigney infant in Callands
Graveside rites for the infant son of Jerry G and Rhonde Adkins Rigney of Callands Rt 1 will be held today at 5 pm at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Survived by parents, paternal grandparents Billy Rigney of Chatham Rt 4, maternal grandparents Wiley Adkins of Callands Rt 1, and great-grandparent William Keesee of Chatham Rt CLARKSVILLE.
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Jerry G
Rhonde Adkins Rigney
Callands Rt. 1
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Billy Rigney
Chatham Rt. 4
Wiley Adkins
Callands Rt.1
William Keesee
Chatham Rt
Governors urge profit focus and education diversity talk
Governors press for adequate profits to boost oil supply and resist economic regression. Br Robert E R Huntley of Washington and Lee University urges expanding post high school options while Virginia Governor Mills Godwin hosts and reads Ford telegram stressing state and local roles. The group tours Busch Gardens in the late afternoon with upcoming sessions by Secretary Coleman and HEW head Mathers.
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Winger
Robert E.R. Huntley
Washington & Lee University
Huntley
Virginia
Mills Godwin
Ford
Busch Gardens
Transportation
William T. Coleman
Two Men Face Drug Charges In Pittsylvania Court
CHATHAM Two men arrested over the weekend on drug possession charges will be tried Oct. 5 in the Pittsylvania County General District Court. Robert Leslie Goggins 19 of Chatham RL 4 and David Joseph Fuller 19 of Chatham Rt 3 were charged with possession of marijuana. Jeffrey D. Bryant 18 of Chatham was arrested Sunday by Maj. Wallace I. Dawson and charged in a May 19 1976 incident at Chatham High School with feloniously discharging a firearm in an occupied building and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was bonded on all four charges.
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Chatham
Pittsylvania County General
Gene E. Cooper
Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Department
Robert Leslie Goggins
Chatham RL
David Joseph Fuller
Chatham Rt. 3
Jeffrey D. Bryant
Wallace I. Dawson
Chatham High School
Bryant
Swanson to Attend Public Hearing in Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach delegates Swanson Gretna will join a public hearing September 20 at the Sheraton Beach Inn. Four carried-over House Agriculture bills will be studied, including a Plant Pollination Commission, dog laws, animal cruelty, and an Animal Welfare Act. Ferrem College accepts Timothy Neal Carter for the fall semester.
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Virginia Beach
Claude V. Swanson
Gretna
House Committee On Agriculture
Sheraton Beach Inn
Virginia General Assembly
Dept. of Agriculture
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Mary E Cook
City View Trailer Court
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Wildhurst Lane
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Charmaine
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Volkswagen
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Yorktown
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Sizemore
Clarksville
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Qarksville
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Danville
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Sam L. Carter
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Edward R. Pruitt
Danville Life Saving Crew
Weena-Ycotts Funeral Home
Billy Hutcherson
Grays Auto Park
Danville Hearing Aid Center
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aArcede Bldg
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Hiedby
Vignes
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Soxiety
Chad
Plano
Plage
LEED
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Martinsville
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