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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1965
Page
7
Sacred Heart plans to add seating by removing a wall to the Parish Hall, expanding the church by about 150 seats at an estimated cost of $10,000. Masses at 11 a.m. are standing room only, prompting the temporary expansion. Father Naro comments on future needs for a larger church.
Karen Cecelia Calixto, 10, stepdaughter of Roberto G Calixto Sr and Mary Williams Calixto, died after being found in a pond near the Oceana Naval Air Station housing area Virginia Beach. She was pronounced dead at 6 45 p m. Survived by two sisters and two brothers. Body to Sim#ele Funeral Home. arrangements incomplete.
A long read on the Swiss Gothic Blue Cottage at Reid Street in Chatham. Built 107 years ago by Professor Griffith D. Neal for Miss Mittie Spriggs, it changed hands many times and earned a famed nickname The Gingerbread House. From 1860 onward ownership passed through Hutchings Lovelace Hodges Norman Smith Whitehead and others, with 12 owners and numerous tenants. Despite upheaval the house remains beloved with Gothic gables a lyric stairway and continued pride in the town.
Edna Hunt Epperson recalled the house on Reid Street as the main road to Danville with a semicircular driveway lined by boxwood. A tragedy occurred when a cook died after flames erupted, smothered by Mr. Huot with a rug. The George Norman family had it in earlier years, and the Frank Normans rented it later. Papa Dan Norman died there in 1951.
North Carolina towns and cities feel financial strain ignored by the 1965 General Assembly says the NC League of Municipalities. The body backed a power compromises pact ending a feud between private power firms and rural electrification authorities, blocking municipal systems from extending into annexed areas where others supply power. The league criticizes lawmakers for slow action on new revenue sources and notes the failed measure to raise state franchise tax shares for cities and counties would have added about 18 million biannually to towns and 5.5 million to counties.
William Alfred Walton of Chatham has been assigned to an eight week basic training at Fort Dix New Jersey with the Army Infantry He will receive further training in business administration after basic He is a Southside High School graduate and attended Johnson Smith College prior to service Charles F. E Anderson of Danville Rt 3 has completed Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB Texas and is to be a vehicle operator at Lackland He is a 1964 Dan River High School graduate and was employed by Danville Implement prior to enlisting Army Private Daniel M. Pon Private Charles J Harrell of Danville Rt 1 has qualified as expert with the .45 pistol and is in the Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas He is a 1964 graduate of Brosville High School and attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute before entering service
Police raided yesterday morning and charged two individuals with possession of illegal liquor. Otha Frank Lumpkin, 47, of 312 Mabin St., found with six gallons of bootleg in a car behind his home and beer and legal whisky inside. Othello Motley, 21, of 2280 Stuart St., charged after bootleg, beer, and wine found in his possession. Raids led by Lt. L. A. Howerton, Sgt. F. H. Duncan and Officer C. L. Morris.
Mrs. Steed warned the amended 1967 law will hurt cities with own systems and weaken franchising authority. The bill, passed by the House but killed in the Senate, risked unequal tax burdens and altered city funding as property taxes funded 37 to 67 percent of revenues in earlier years.
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