Hilaritas Danville Hosts Fourth Christmas Celebration
Danville residents enjoyed the fourth annual Hilaritas program at George Washington High School auditorium despite rain. GWHS concert and brass choirs, Danville Community College Singers, Danville Museum Boy Choir, and Senior Citizens Choir performed. The Yule Log ceremony followed as attendees tossed holly into the fire, a sign of luck for the new year.
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George Washington High School
Hilaritas
Danville
GWHS
Danville Community College Singers
Danville Museum
Senior Citizens
Earl Miller
BCC
Bethlehem
Christ
Mary
Theresa Reid
Michael Bryant
Herald Angels
Scandinavia
Thor
Obituaries From Chatham and Nearby Areas
The Danville Register memorial notices list Lillian Dickerson 89 of New Rochelle NY formerly Chatham with family survivors and graveside rites in Chatham Cemetery. Also Percy Younger 80 of Chatham and Frank Coles 65 of Hampton with funeral details in Java and Riceville Baptist Church. Fannie Gregory George fan N dir Hurt Rt 1 dies in Lynchburg hospital with extensive survivor list and New Prospect Baptist Church service and burial plans.
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Chatham
Lillian Dickerson
New Rochelle
N.Y
Frank
Martha Rhone Dillard
Virginia Cowart
Lillian Fitzgerald
Long Island
Luther Vinson
Henrietta Dillard
M.H. Berger
Miller
Gretna
Percy Younger
Chatham Rt. 5
Memorial Hospital
Danville
Pittsylvania County
Mary Worsham Younger
Lula Younger
Arthur Younger
Akron
Ohio
Merriei Dodson
Frances Clark
Connie Wright
Madie Younger
Darlene Pritchett
Florence Hodnett
Charlie Younger
Gertrude Grubbs
Pittsburg
Java
Frank Coles
Riceville Baptist Church
Ernest McLaughlin
Buria
Java Rt. 1
Margaret Coles
Louise Wilkerson
Beatrice Waller
Chester
James Coles
Upper Darby
John Womack
Baltimore
Len Coles
Charlie Coles
Hurt — Fannie Gregory George, al
Hurt Rt. 1
Lynchburg
New Prospect Baptist Church
Harold Lewis
H.F. Hamilton
Virginia and North Carolina Weather Forecast Snippet
A compiled forecast notes continued cool and cloudy conditions across Virginia with possible drizzle and 40s daytime highs. In North Carolina, Sunday remains sunny in the southeast with highs near 60, then cloudier Monday night and Tuesday with rain chances and 40s to 50s in southern and western areas.
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Virginia
North Carolina
MosUy
Two Killed Thirty Hurt In Bus Crash Near Nashville
An Indianapolis man a Colorado youth and a Colombian teen were among critically injured as a Greyhound bound from Chicago to Miami slid on a rain slick Interstate 24 near Nashville injuring more than 30 and killing two women. The driver William Logan 49 was treated and released.
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Nashville, Tenn
Indiana
Colorado
South America
Greyhound
Daisy Smith
Peru
John Stone
Nashville
General Hospital
Chicago
Miami
Jim Wellens
Diego
Mike Windsor
City
Windsor
William Logan
Franklin
Vanderbilt University Hospital
R.L. Roller
Mideast Situation Advances Toward Peace Talks
Egyptian reports say Begin and Sadat plan a meeting toward week’s end at Sadat’s Suez Canal villa near Ismailia. Sadat, encouraged by Carter’s conveyed concessions, seeks specifics from Begin before moving to Geneva talks. Israeli delegates in Alexandria receive a festive welcome as Cairo talks proceed. Moroccan envoy Buialeb presses mediation between pro Sadat factions and skeptics like Jordan. Hussein visits Riyadh to urge Saudi hosting of a limited Egypt Syria Jordan and PLO summit.
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Sinai Peninsula
Egypt
Sadat
Suez Canal
Ismailia
Carter
Israel
Begin
Cairo
Alexandria
Geneva
Amman
Jordan
Hassan
Hussein
Abdulhadi Buialeb
Morocco
Riyadh
Khaled
Syria
Palestine Liberation Organization
Prison Hostages Rescued at Correctional Center
In Jackson North Carolina corrections officers stormed a cellblock freeing two hostage prison staffers held at knifepoint by John Johnson 33 of Westchester County New York serving 60 years for kidnapping and Mark Schaffhauser 21 of Winston-Salem serving five years for assault on an officer. Both inmates surrendered after a nearly three hour standoff.
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FBI
F.K. Sanders
Fond
Fletcher
YMCA Holiday Youth Jubilee Planned By Local YMCA
The YMCA announces a six day Holiday Youth Jubilee for children ages six to 12 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily during Christmas break with swim gym and special events like Goofy Olympics and Dive For Gold. Attendance covers any or all days, with early drop off from 3 a.m. and the center at 810 Main St. for more details and fees.
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YMCA
Main St
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Xelia Hickson
THE
Danville Register
Lilian Dickerson
Coles
Rowe St
Hampton
Riverside Hospital
Newport News
Thomas and
Josephine Miller Coles
Fuisy
Edward Gregory
Tex Ann Adams Gregory
Brutus Wise George
New Prospect Baptist
William
Qdell
Allen George
Hert
Mabel Jefferson
Bernice Wilborne
Hurt
Willard Eudy
Greensboro
N.C
Essie Mason
Evington
Bethel Harris
Altavista
Elizabeth Newman
Lynch Station
Marie Lloyd
South Boston
Walter Gregory
Kate Hancock
Finch and Finch Funeral Home
Bate
National Weather Service
NOAA
US Dept of Commence
Mideast
the Register Publishing Co., Inc
Union St
Register
Runkle
Johnson
Schaffhauser
Northampton County
Harvey H. Neal
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