Rural Roads A Problem Forces Area Schools To Open
Danville city schools reopen today at regular hour while Pittsylvania Halifax Hen ry Caswell counties keep closures. Rural roads remain poor from high winds and snow drifting. Martinsville resumes with no issue. make up days reduce Easter break or extend year.
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Danville
Martinsville
Pittsylvania
Halifax
Henry
Caswell
Eudy Wood
T. H. Whitley
O. T. Bonner
Taylor
Bonner
Whitley
Wood
Can River Mills
Dan River
Josephi M. Taylor
VPI
DTI
James VanDot
VanDot
Bad Check Charges Piling Up
Danville youth Jackie Lee Jones, 19, received ten days and a $10 fine for passing a worthless $25 check at Murphy's in Ballou Shopping Center after noting an appeal on a municipal court conviction. Detectives served warrants for five additional bad checks from January 12 to 14 at various stores. Also heard were hearings set for Rennie Edward Hunt Jr. on bigamy and perjury related to a 1961 marriage while still married.
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Danville Rt. 5
Jackie Lee Jones
Murphy’s
Ballou
John Martin
W. D. Rigney
Rennie Edward Hunt, Jr
Hunt
Rosabelle Hampton
Ella Mae Logan
Three Day Bible Meeting Set By Witnesses
A three day Jehovahs Witnesses convention will be held in Waynesboro from February 4 to 6 attended by 45 Danville Congregation, South Unit members. Presiding minister Jesse L. Thompson says the event aims to better equip followers as disciples. The Sunday climax features J A Thompson delivering the public discourse Does God Have Influence In This Twentieth Century at 3 p m.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
Waynesboro
Danville
South Unit
Jesse L. Thompson
Jehova’s
J. A. Thompson
Truck Overturns on Route 58 East
A refrigerated Norfolk truck loaded with seafood slid on ice on Route 58 East and struck the Fall Creek bridge guard rail, ending on its side. All three men aboard escaped injury.
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Norfolk
Rt. 58
Fall Creek
Averett Semester Opening Delayed By Snow
The second semester at Averett College is postponed to tomorrow due to a weekend blizzard. Stratford College proceeds with registration today and classes start tomorrow as campus activity remains limited. Community College and DTI see reduced attendance while weather disrupts plans and delays return to classes.
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Averett
Stratford
Averett College
Stratford College
Danville Community College
VPI
Danville Technical Institute
Virginia
North Carolina
Washington
Mary Fugate
Community College
DTI
S C Textile Executive Ellison McKissick Dies at 73
Ellison Smyth McKissick, 73, Greenville textile executive with Pickens County plants, died at Greenville General Hospital. Lifelong Greenville figure since 1920 marriage, his family ties include Capt. Elliston Smythe and James Rion McKissick, USC president. He graduated Auburn civil engineering in 1915 and served in World War I. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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Greenville
S. C
Ellison Smyth McKissick
South Carolina
Greenville General Hospital
McKissick
Pickens County
Capt
Elliston Adger Smythe
South Carolina Piedmont
Anthony Foster McKissick
Ellision McKissick
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Margaret Adger Smyth McKissick
James Rion McKissick
University of South Carolina
Ellison McKissick
Ala
Pelzer Manufacturing Co
Greenwood
Grendal Mills
Ellison McKissck
Woodberry Forest
Orange
Grendel
U.S. Army
McCubbins To Attend Auto Service Meeting
Mayor W. C. McCubbins will miss the February 10 City Council meeting as he travels to New York City for the Automotive Service Industry Association convention. He will attend a committee meeting in advance of the convention which runs February 7 onward.
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W. C. McCubbins
New York City
MecCubbins
New York
Automotive Service Industry Association
MacCubbins
Snow Drop Airlift Aids Five Caswell Snowbound Families
Danville Civil Air Patrol planned an early morning relief flight to Caswell County to deliver heating fuel and food to at least five isolated families cut off by snow. Weather risk loomed, with two planes due to depart between 7 and 8 a.m. If skies permit, pilots led by Col. Paul Remboldt will seek out the hardest hit pockets, aided by signals from dark markers. Red Cross, Civil Defense and Welfare officials coordinated with local services as Caswell and surrounding areas faced massive drifts, blocked roads, and urgent frost bite and fuel shortages.
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Danville
Civil Air Patrol
Caswell County
N.C
Caswell
CAP
Paul Remboldt
Red Cross
Civil Defense, Welfare Department
Providence Volunteer Fire Department
Civil Defense
North Carolina
Wallace Burke
Yanceyville
Reinbold
Daniel Jeffress
Greensboro
Raleigh
Atlanta
Elbert Smith
Providence Fire Department
Sertoma Club
Memorial Hospital
Kyle Kirby
Bedford County
Bedford Hospital
Winfred (Winkie) Ferguson
Huddleston
Bedford County Memorial Hospital
Bedford
Appalachian Power Co
Ferguson
Jesse M. Tucker, Jr
Huddieston
Pittsylvania County
Germany
Ringgold
Winter of 1918 Story From Jail or Kidd is Reminiscent
A Henry County jailer recalls the brutal 1918 winter when ground froze hard and snow lay waist deep through March. He describes flu deaths, Dr Fuller’s tireless rounds, and life in Axton and Danville with tobacco markets, wagons in warehouses, and small dangers like a kerosene heater fire.
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Henry County
Robert Fulton Kidd
L. E. Fuller
Hughes School
Danville
Holland
Caswell County Awaits Official Go Ahead for Education Plan
Caswell County awaits official word to launch a $300,000 federal program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to aid slow readers in the upper primary grades. Superintendent T H Whitley notes local approvals exist but state authorization is pending. The effort, using federal funds, plans one teacher per 15 deprived students and includes nurses and social workers.
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Yanceyville
N. C
Caswell County
T. H. Whitley
Caswell
State Department of Public Instruction
Whitley
Engineers To Decide Fate Of Union Warehouse
Engineers will determine if Union Warehouse can be rebuilt safely after a weekend snow storm caused roof collapses at the tobacco auction center and other structures. The Danville facility, damaged by ice and snow, faces potential razing or repair as city inspectors assess structural safety and owners decide next steps.
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Union Warehouse
West Paxton St
American Tobacco Co
Danville
910
Fitzgerald
F. W. Woolworth
American Tobacco
Floyd St
Union St
L. T. Ramey
L. I. Ramey, Jr
Ramey
Hollands
Ramey's
Nichols Furniture Co
John W. Daniel and Co
Furniture Company
Stokes Daniels
Daniels
E. E. Watts
Danville Warehouse Co., Inc
Daniel Company
George R. Carter
Haile B. Motley
Planters
Industrial Ave
Danville Tobacco Association
Buses Return to Service After Air Brake Fix
Danville Traction and Power Co. buses, sidelined briefly due to frozen condensate clogging air brakes, were called to the garage at 10:30 a.m. for checks and resumed service at 3 p.m. no shifts missed. Officials ensured no brake failures as the cold spell eased and air pressure was restored.
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Danville Traction and Power Co
Meeting Postponed by South Danville Methodist Zone
A zone meeting of Methodist Churches in the South Danville area at Moseley Memorial Methodist Church was postponed from its Tuesday schedule.
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Danville
Moseley Memorial Methodist Church
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John D. Richmond
S. C. Textile Executive
McCubbins
Auto Service
Paxton Ave
Holiday Inn Restaurant
Whit R. Scott
Lillian
WBTM
Yates
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