Funeral rites for Robert J. Bowles held today
Funeral rites for Robert J Bowles will be held today at 2 p.m. from Swicegood Chapel by Rev. Earl Dalton and Rev. John Finklea. Interment in Mountain View Cemetery. Bowles, 92, died at home Friday night after a year of declining health. Born May 28, 1881 in Pearisburg, he was a retired farmer long in the Danville area. Survived by daughter Elizabeth Hyler and sons Robert R Bowles and Ernest S Bowles, all of Danville, 16 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. He was married to the late Nannie Eggleston. He was a member of Forest Lawn Baptist Church.
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Robert J. Bowles
Swicegood Chapel
Earl Dalton
John Finklea
Mountain View
Bowles
Walton Ave
Mr. Bowles
Pearisburg
Marshal
Martha Petty Bowles
Danville
Forest Lawn Baptist Church
Nannie Eggleston
Elizabeth Hyler
Robert R. Bowles
Ernest S. Bowles
Mrs Delilah Wade Stewart Final Rites Set in Philadelphia
Funeral services for Mrs Delilah Wade Stewart will be held Tuesday at 8 p m from Clarence Fontaine Funeral Home in Philadelphia Burial will be in Philadelphia She was a former Danvillian and teacher in local public schools and died in Philadelphia Survivors include son Herbert Stewart Jr daughter Joyce Stewart two sisters Gladys Lloyd and Dorothy Martin and the family home is 7124 Forrest Ave Philadelphia
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Delilah Wade Stewart
Philadelphia
Clarence Fontaine
Oxford St
Stewart
Charlie
Peggie Wade
Herbert Stewart, Jr
Joyce Stewart
Gladys Lloyd
Dorothy Martin
Danville
Forrest Ave
Mrs. Fannie Snead Terry Funeral Today at Powell Chapel
Funeral rites for Mrs. Fannie Virginia Snead Terry are set for 3 30 p m at Powell Chapel South Boston. She dies at 70. Burial will be in the Terry family cemetery. She is survived by her husband Henry Paul Terry three daughters two sons and five grandchildren. She was born in Halifax County and was a Fork Baptist Church member.
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Scottsburg
Fannie Virginia Snead Terry
Powell Chapel
South Boston
Terry
Henry Paul Terry
Scottsburg Rt. 1
Halifax County
Henry Noel Snead
Sarah Elizabeth Allen Snead
Fork Baptist Church
Ed Bates
Brooknell
W. H. Jones III
Alvin Tucker
Henry P. Terry Jr
Halifax
Nathaniel A. Terry
W S Pippin Final Rites Set Monday
Funeral services for Walter S. Pippin will be held Monday at Henderson Funeral Home with burial in River View Cemetery Abingdon. The 86 year old died at his home after a week of illness. He had lived in the city at different times and is survived by wife Lillie of Danville a son Sterling of Pittsylvania County and three daughters Mrs Burton Mrs Hopkins and Mrs Mobley all of Danville.
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Walter S. Pippin
Henderson
River View
Abingdon
Pippin
Lillie Pippin
Danville
Sterling Pippin
Pittsylvania County
R. L. Burton
J. G. Hopkins
R. S. Mobley
Bank Robbery Suspect Identified From Lorton Escape
Frederickburg authorities hold Aaron H. Kenner 24 in bank robbery case tied to Lorton escapee. Two other Lorton suspects sought. Kenner charged with bank robbery and felonious assault for shooting at a pursuing officer. Robbers fled on foot with about $12,000. Additional loot found later in Fredericksburg. no injuries reported.
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Fredericksburg
Federal Reformatory
Lorton
Aaron H. Kenner
Kenner
Federal City College
Washington
Reformatory
Committee Plans Talk With Butz Over Tobacco Policy
A 10 member Johnston County committee in Smithfield requests a meeting with Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. They fear changes to flue-cured quota policy could end the price support and production control program. Farmers and businessmen met Friday to discuss the possible acreage-poundage increases or quota lifts for next year.
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Smithfield
N.C
Johnston County
Earl Butz
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Taxpayers group opposes Virginia real estate tax reform
The Virginia Taxpayers Association opposed a state advisory committee plan for a uniform statewide real estate assessment system. In Charlottesville, the group called the study a power grab by the State Department of Taxation and criticized secrecy and lack of taxpayer input. The committee, led by William H. Forst, cost 200000 and aims to value property near market value while localities keep setting tax rates. The VTA represents 8000 to 9000 members statewide.
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Charlottesville
Virginia Taxpayers Association
VTA
State Department of Taxation
Taxation Department
Linwood Holton
General Assembly
VPA
Kennth White
William H. Forst
Holton
WPA
Body Found On Road Identified
The body found on a road shoulder near an intersection in Fairfax Virginia has been identified as Walter Clarence Moore 19 of Norristown Pennsylvania. A state medical examiner said Moore was shot in the chest with a shotgun. Fairfax County and Virginia state police are handling a joint investigation after a tow truck operator reported helping two men change a flat tire on a Cadillac with New York plates.
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Fairfax
Walter Clarence Moore
Norristown
Moore
New York
Fairfax County
Virginia
Tobacco quotas protest grows as farmers resist plan
Supervisors urged the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz to keep tobacco marketing quotas and acreage allotments for 1974-75. Growers fear economic chaos. Danville and Pittsylvania County plan or have moved to oppose the proposal. The Board also plans to appoint five members to three stabilization boards to oversee potential federal price and rent controls.
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U.S
Earl Butz
Agriculture Department
Danville
Pittsylvania County
Virginia
Prison Fence Voltage May Be Cut
Raleigh AP Central Prison Warden Sam Garrison says he will pursue reducing the 4,300 volt fence to a level that could stun a would be escapee without killing him.
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Raleigh
Sam Garrison
Henry New Ramah Lodge Head elected as Master
Melvin R. Henry has been elected and installed as Worshipful Master of Ramah Lodge No. 70 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Henry, a Danville Police Department lieutenant, will serve the coming year with Melvin Jefferson as senior warden and Jackson Brown as junior warden.
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Melvin R. Henry
Ramah Lodge No
Henry
Danville
Virginia Coalition Seeks More Black Appointees to State Boards
The Black Higher Education Coalition approved a plan to boost black representation on Virginia state college boards of visitors. They seek a meaningful share of 40 to 50 annual appointments, noting only 21 of 172 board members are black across five senior colleges.
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Richmond
Black Higher Education Coalition
Virginia
Curtis Harris
Hopewell
Charles W. Howell Jr
Coalition
Elnet Mills Godwin
Howell
Godwin
Clarris
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W.S. Pippin
Council
W. C. Bray
Marvin D. Haraway
N. Main St
William R. Brown
Keens Mill Road
J. C. Thornton
Courtland and
Lancaster Streets
Sue Cook Tilley
Laramie Circle
Forst
New Ramah
Melvin Henry
Motor Inns
Anderson Furniture Co
Downtowner Motor Inn
Main ST
Coalition Group
Harris
Memorial Hospital
Duke University Hospital
Swicegood
Tina P. Kendrick
Memoriam
Nannie Bet Hall
Husband
B. L. Hall and
B. L. JR
Lawn Crypts
Danville Memorial Gardens
Finney Mortage
Insurance Agency
B.T.U
WKBY
Chatham
W. C. Bradley
Southall Baptist Church
Southampton Avenue
Swicegood Funeral Home
West Main Street
First Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n. of
First Federal
Conyriant
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Main Street
Danville, Virginia
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