UVa Receives Largest South Grant From Woodrow Wilson Foundation
The University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will get $32,000 this month from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, $8,000 more than last year and the largest grant in the South. Johns Hopkins ranks second with $30,000, while Duke and UNC receive $20,000 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Graduate School of Arts and Dieries
University of Virginia
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
South
Woodrow Wilson
Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
University of North Carolina
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Ford Foundation
Sir Hugh Taylor
Foundation
Knitting Mills in Martinsville plans new plant
Martinsville plans an 80,000 square foot plianton at Franklin Street, expanding for the fifth time in two years. Sale Knitting Mills will consolidate the under construction building with an adjacent unit. The new addition costs about $325,000 and should be finished by year end. About 225 new workers will be hired for cutting, sewing and dyeing duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsville
Plianton
Franklin St
Sale Knitting Mills
Bradley Johnson
Johnson
Funeral Rites Held For J. W. Pinchback
Last rites for J. W. Pinchback of Blanch, North Carolina, were conducted yesterday afternoon at New Hope Methodist Church by the Rev. C. C. Stokes. Interment followed in the church cemetery with pallbearers named as John D. Smith Ed W. Thompson James Bryant J Alvis Cheek Charlie Grant Jr Ralph Vernon James Walker Jr and G Julian Myers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Pinchback
Blanch
N. C
New Hope Methodist Church
C. C. Stokes
John D. Smith
Ed W. Thompson
James Bryant
J. Alvis Cheek
Charlie Grant, Jr
Ralph Vernon
James Walker, Jr
G. Julian Myers
Friends Pay Pamela Visits Sick Soldier
Pamela Stokes a second year nursing student from Virginia Beach left Washington for London after classmates and donors raised over 500 dollars in hours. The hastily arranged trip included securing a birth certificate and a passport, with the plan to reach her ill Air Force boyfriend in Cambridge, England. Exact return date remains uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Pamela Stokes
London
Pamela
Virginia Beach
Medical College of Virginia Hospital
Air Force
Cambridge
England
Florida
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Washington, D.C
Washington
Dulles International
Harper Lee Questions Hanover Ban On Mockingbird
Harper Lee voices doubt about Hanover County School Board readers as they ban the novel To Kill a Mockingbird from county libraries. She calls the board illiterate in a letter to the Richmond News Leader, notes the book’s moral code, and donates to beadle bumble fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Harper Lee
Miss Lee
Monroeville
Ala
Richmond News Leader
Beadle Bumble Fund
Anover County School Board
James Jackson Kilpatrick
News Leader
Hanover County High School
Mrs. Della McDonald Dies at 75 in Reidsville
Mrs. Della McDonald 75 of 415 Harrison St Reidsville N C died Friday at Annie Penn Memorial Hospital after a two week illness. Native of Pittsylvania County Va former Della Gourley long resident of Reidsville member of First Baptist Church and Know North Carolina Club. Survived by sister Mrs N G Olive Richmond Va and brother C H Gourley Danville Va. Funeral from First Baptist Church Sunday 2 pm Rev Donald Myers pastor. Burial Greenview Cemetery. Body at City Funeral Home until placed in church one hour prior to service.
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Reidsville
N.C
Della McDonald
Harrison St
Annie Penn
C. H. Gourley
Danville
First Baptist Church
Donald Myers
Greenview Cemetery
City Funeral
Insurance Stocks Market Update From New York
Insurance stocks and dealer quotations drift through a wide NASD style listing from New York as of 1:15 pm. The report details bids and asks across many life and fire insurers including Am Fam, Mass Gen, Nat Fire, Philadelphia Life, Travelers, and United States Life, noting implied dealer prices with retail markups not included and highlighting the day’s changes and market breadth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
KyCen
As of Life
Monu Life
Mutiv LE
Aetna
AifAm
Life
New Ham
Noreast
Phoenix
St Paul
Excel NY
Feder Ins
FidUn
T&g
LfAm
Rein
Galnt Lf Sa
Inla
Fen
Travelers
Globe
InsAm
Igvemp
Greatam
Gulf Life
US Fire
Hamlin
US Life
Hart Fire
VarAn
Hart St
Volks
Wabash Va
Westches
Zenith
Safety Plan Outlined By Gov. Moore
Gov Dan Moore presented a three step highway safety program at the State Women’s traffic Safety Seminar. He urged stronger agency coordination and public understanding to curb rising North Carolina highway deaths and injuries from 1961 to 1964. He praised the Legislature for inspection laws driver education the highway Safety Research Center and larger patrols.
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Raleigh
Dan. Moore
Moore
North Carolina
Highway Patrol
Special Music and Sermon Planned at Delta Church
The Rev. Ritchie Ball, pastor of First Methodist Church in Delta, Pa., and Clair Saxmon of Putneyville, Pa., will join services at Schoolfield Methodist Church today and tomorrow. Ball will preach at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. tomorrow, lead devotions for the Methodist Men tonight at 7, and Saxmon will give a sacred music concert at 7:30 tonight and 7 p.m. Sunday, planning more than nine instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ritchie Ball
First Methodist Church
Delta
Penn
Clair Saxmon
Putneyville
Schoolfield Methodist Church
Mr. Ball
Saxman
Mrs. Annie Reeves Dies In Hospital
Mrs. Annie Wilkinson Reeves, 74, of Semora North Carolina route 1, died Friday in a South Boston hospital. Survivors include her husband Eddie W. Reeves, two sons Alex Reeves and A Wade Reeves, two sisters Evelyn W. Adams and Johnnie W. Lawson, and four brothers Harvey Wilkinson Joseph Wilkinson William Wilkinson and Denry Wilkinson. The remains rest at Brooks Funeral Home until noon Sunday at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Boston
Annie Wilkinson Reeves
Semora
N.C
Rt. 1
Eddie W. Reeves
Alex Reeves
A. Wade Reeves
Evelyn W. Adams
Greensboro
Johnnie W. Lawson
Chase City
Harvey L. Wilkinson
Danville
Joseph B. Wilkinson
William W. Wilkinson
Lynchburg
Denry F. Wilkinson
Brooks Funeral Home
Providence Volunteer Firemen Meet Monday
Providence North Carolina hosts the annual Providence Volunteer Fire Department meeting at the first station Monday night at 7 30. Officers for the coming year will be elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
N. C
Providence Volunteer Fire Department
New High Lows in New York Egg Market
AP reports from USDA on New York egg sales. Demand varies by size with large eggs in good demand, mediums fair, and smalls irregular. Spot quotations show various price ranges for whites, salts, and yellows across standards and fancy grades, reflecting exchange and volume effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
USDA
Agaa
Shooting Case Bound Over To Grand Jury
A Negro man and woman charged with trading bullets were bound over for grand jury action after a Municipal Court hearing. Fred Waddill 46 and Mary McCain vukman 43 of 763 Leeland Rd faced counts of wounding each other in a dispute over a telephone plug. Waddill allegedly fired first, wounding the Johnson woman in the forefinger, then fired a 32 pistol that struck her arm. Waddill helped bandage her wound and called police. Also bound over were Raymond Paul Barker 21 of South Bend Ind for stealing a television set from his Holiday Inn room. He recently completed a federal sentence. Foster John Martin 58 of 213 Bellevue St appealed after a 60 day City Farm sentence, $200 fine, and a three year permit revocation. Raymond Alvin Hicks 19 of 30 Morris Ave appealed from a $10 fine for threatening Clarence Ridgeway Jr. Jan 7.
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Fred Douglas Waddill
Mary McCain Vukman
Leeland Rd
Johnson
Waddill
Raymond Paul Barker
South Bend
Ind
Holiday Inn
Foster John Martin
Bellevue St
Raymond Alvin Hicks
Morris Ave
Clarence Ridgeway, Jr
Paxton St
Ground Breaking Set Sunday For Church Unit
Ground will be broken Sunday at noon for a new sanctuary at TrinBY Methodist Church on Arnett. The $135000 project adds a front annex with a pipe organ, allowing the present space to become a social hall. Construction starts immediately, ready by early fall.
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Trin- BY Methodist Church
Arnett Vd
Harold H. Fink
Danville Methodist District
Kenneth Calvert
Calvert and Lewis
Raymond Elliott
P. Ul, Anderson
Locust Lane
John Willie Waller Final Rites Held
The funeral for John Willie Waller was conducted yesterday afternoon from the Wrenn Yeatts chapel by Dr. Luke Smith. Interment followed in Highland Burial Park. Pallbearers were Raymond Whaley, Bill Dalton, Tom Booth, Frank Chaney, Clarence Dishmond, Carroll Mays, Nolan W. Cole, Charles W. Teal and David Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Willie Waller
Wrenn- Yeatts
Luke Smith
Highland Burial Park
Raymond Whaley
Bill Dalton
Tom Booth
Frank Chaney
Clarence Dishmond
Carroll Mays
Nolan W. Cole
Charles W. Teal
David Wright
Episcopal Laymen Seek Restraint on NCC Political Actions
In Richmond Virginia executive committee members of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia urged tighter limits on the National Council of Churches political activities. The 27 to 2 vote with 11 absent aims to back the 1964 general convention resolution asking Episcopalian reps to restrain NCC efforts on legislation.
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Richmond
Episcopal Diocese of
Virginia
National Council of Churches
The
Episcopal Church
L. A
Episcopalian Executive Council
St. Stephen’s
St. James and St. Thomas
Grace Church
Goochland County
St. Anne's
Albemarle
St. Stephen's
National Council
INCC
Executive Committee
NCC
Three Gray Brothers Lead Will Bequest Push at Randolph-Macon
Three Gray brothers from Virginia Beach now students at Randolph-Macon College signed wills cards to push the college’s wills and bequests program past 500, joining 560 alumni and friends. Bill, 24, Bob, 21, and Jim, 20, are among many who have placed the college in their wills or intend to.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph-Macon
Bill
Bob
Jim
Gray
Virginia Beach
Virginia
J. Earl Moreland
Bob Gray
Jefferson Senior High School
Roanoke
RMC
Thomas Jefferson High School
Richmond
Roy L Tanksley Final Rites Held
Final services for Roy L Tanksley of Washington DC were conducted yesterday afternoon from Swicegood Funeral Home chapel by Rev R J Barber Jr and Rev Kenneth Storey. Interment followed in Highland Burial Park with pallbearers Cleo Hundley Jack Blankenship Curtis Wells Woodrow Haynes Edward Keatts James Hall George Abbott Wade Carson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy L. Tanksley
Washington, D.C
Swicegood Funeral Home
R. J. Barber, Jr
Kenneth Storey
Highland Burial Park
Cleo Hundley
Jack Blankenship
Curtis Wells
Woodrow Haynes
Edward Keatts
James Hall
George Abbott
Wade Carson
Area Church Services Preview in Local Notices
Area churches list schedules for Sunday school worship and activities. Emmanuel, Stester, John’s Methodist, Christ Episcopal, Northview Presbyterian, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Druid Hills Baptist, Design Methodist, Lutheran Ascension, and Blairs Baptist present service times pastors and programs including sermons on What Makes a Church Great and Prepared with youth groups and BTU sessions.
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Emmanuel Church of
Druid Hills
Robert P. Wyatt
Blairs Baptist
Roger Lovette
Markeys At A Glance Market News Lights Trading Tone
New York stock activity shows gains amid heavy trading. Wheat futures slide in Chicago with light trade while soybeans firm on new crop months. Hog prices fall 25 to 50 cents, top at 30 dollars. Slaughter steers rise up to 50 cents, top 28.50.
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Markeys
New York
Chicago
Joe L. Cox Funeral Rites Set Tomorrow
Joe L. Cox 76 of 195 Charlotte Ave Westover Hills dies at Memorial Hospital after years of illness. Funeral at Swieegood Funeral Home chapel tomorrow at 4 p m led by Rev Charlie M Shelton and Dr S L Greeson, with burial at Highland Burial Park. Survived by three daughters and four sons, three sisters, one brother, 18 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Family at Aubrey Cox’s home 516 Third Ave.
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Joe L. Cox
Charlotte Ave
Westover Hills
Chapel of Swieegood
Charlie M. Shelton
S. L. Greeson
Highland Burial Park
Cox
Memorial Hospital
Pittsylvania County
Malmaison
Westover Wills
Abe Koplen Clothing Co
Kentuck Baptist Church
Esther Richardson Cox
Pattie Burks
Charlotte
N.C
Ruth Davidson
Norfolk
Peggy Willis
Richmond
Joe Cox Jr
Earl Cox
Nathaniel Cox
Aubrey Cox
Danville
Frances Bray
Pelham
Ella Reynolds
Minnie Franklin
Lynchburg
Coleman Cox
Alexandria
Third Ave
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Uva
Knitting Mills
Lakewood Evangelical Methodist
P. H. Ricketts
Higley’s
Broadman’s
Peloubet’s
Rozells
Douglass
Tarbell’s
Market Street
Freewill Baptist Mission Lamberth Drive
Westover Drive
Daniel Robinson
Putney
Karl L. Crowe
Forest Lawn Baptist Church
West Main Street
Earnest Bowles
Robert Shore
Bill Adams
Gilmer Settiff
Richard Smith
Naval
Savannah Gaz
F.a
ATFA
Gov
Annie Reeves
McCall Ir
Ross Air
Allen
Moss Chalm
Occi Central AM Cyan Opel
Ika
Anaconga Sl
Pan Am Sul Alchison Pa
Ewi von
Storer
Emer Rae
Real Erie
Engel Indus
Soi
Aion
EnoFaduclear
Warner Bro Fruehauf
Am Inves
WarnBro
Globe Ua
Pep Globe
Ginopap
Tony Eli Coil
Herl
Édser
Merck
Rt Minerals
Nat Stand N Kays Roth
Gamb Kennecott Ohm Haas Ludiow
Sears Roeb
Madison d
Episcopal
Gray Brothers
C. Eaton Gray
LeKies Methodist Church
Area Church Services
St. John’s
Christ (Episcopal) Church
Glenwood
Harold N. White
Northview Presbyterian
R. E. Lethune
Franklin Toke
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
West Unit
Jehovah’s Witnesses
House of Our God
Design Methodist
Grubbs
Sledd Memorial
Luthern Church of the Ascension
James C. Stirewall
Strange
N. Main ST
West Main
Craghead
Brett Beggel
Guise
Danville Dairy Products CO
Walter Taylor
Martin Ave
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