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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1966
Page
9
Snow plus heavy traffic clogged Danville area lines causing record call volumes Monday. Operators, mostly women, worked nine hours to handle about 500000 local calls and 7085 long distance calls while call blocks and busy signals spread across the region.
Percy Oatneal was fined $50 and ordered to post a $1,000 bond after being found guilty in County Court at Chatham of possessing illegal alcoholic beverages for sale at the premises in Whittletown. He announced an appeal and faced 21 units of home brew in the rear of his premises.
Nello Teer construction vice president is injured at the Goodyear site when a Haul Pack back wheels narrowly miss him. Charles Waller of Durham suffers a compound femur fracture and leg lacerations. The Goodyear project, costing about 1.1 million dollars, moves over three million cubic yards of earth.
Detective Neal Morris of Danville will attend a 12 week session at the FBI National Academy starting March 7. The invitation came from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to Police Chief Eugene G. McCain. Morris has served since 1959 and has been a detective for two years. He is married with two children and resides at 105 Parrish Rd.
The Danville Seventh Day Adventist Church reported 1965 offerings of 36217.89 for 75 members, a per capita 482.90. Welfare notes cite 904 items of clothing and food valued at 47 aiding 128 people, plus 13 large clothing cartons sent to Staunton for emergencies.
Mount Hermon volunteers planning to separate from the Tunstall Department received permission from the Pittsylvania Board of Supervisors to apply for a state charter. The move follows prior board authorization and ongoing, amicable negotiations over equipment division and costs.
A civil defense course for Danville teachers scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in the George Washington High School auditorium has been postponed. It was to be the first of four four hour sessions and will be rescheduled.
Mildred Blackstock Baize, 42, collapses moments after thanking Ruffin N C bus driver Sam Flynn at Trailway Bus Station in Danville after arriving from Brooklyn New York. She dies en route to Winslow Hospital likely from a ruptured brain blood vessel. Ernest Baize and her husband had visited Brooklyn for nine days. she showed no prior illness.
An air ground mission by the Danville Civil Air Patrol located and aided six to ten snowbound Caswell County families yesterday. Planes pinpointed homes for possible land rescues, volunteers reached all affected households, and no one was found in immediate distress. Coordinated by Civil Defense chief Wallace Burke, the effort drew on rescue squads, Red Cross volunteers, and local fire units. In Pittsylvania County, police and Life Saving Crew helped transport a young appendicitis patient to hospital after road clearance.
An Alexandria couple facing fraud charges over a stolen car sale will be sent to a Corporation Court grand jury at the March term after Municipal Court certified the cases. Brennie Burnett Gilbert, 23, faces $575 fraud and false pretenses charges for allegedly selling the car stolen in Alexandria. Elmer Lee Gilbert, 26, is charged with aiding and abetting in the alleged fraud. In separate matters, Paul Edward Waller, 24, received ten days and a $10 fine on a vagrancy charge. John Henry Williams, 38, of 102 Vann Street, appealed a $5 fine for firecrackers, with a $15 drunkenness fine suspended.
Weather chatter weights Groundhog Day with a forewarned stretch of cold and snow. Officials expect below normal temperatures across much of the nation and above normal precipitation, much in snow north of the Atlantic and Gulf states.
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