Floods and fires disrupt Danville streets and homes
The Danville flash flood caused four feet of water in basements at multiple residences including William E. Land’s 146 Canterbury Rd and Roy H. Skinner’s 123 Wilton Ave. Water breached Union Street Bottoms and Riverside Drive, flooding businesses and washing out streets and a rock wall. A culvert failed from the surge and a rockslide occurred near Memorial Drive. Life Saving Crew aided trapped children and remained on scene nightfall.
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Ous
William E. Land
Canterbury Rd
Land
Cecil Saul
Roy H. Skinner
Wilton Ave
Abe Koplen
Purity Market
Nick's Barbership
Shields Realty
Modern School of Beauty Culture
Reynolds Furniture
Union St. Bottoms
Spring St. Municipal
Union St
Whitcomb Scott
Rison St
Memorial Drive
GWHS
Watson St
Riverside Drive
Main St. Bridge
Gray St
Albert Lane
Gray
Market Gardens
Prospect St
Cleveland St
Cleveland
H. D. Bowling
Scott
Funeral Rites Slated for Reginald Laymon Wood
Funeral services are set for 12 o'clock today at Townes Memorial Chapel for Reginald Laymon Wood 56 a former AP newsman who died Sunday after a year long illness. Interment will be in Highland Burial Park. He owned Layman Studios since 1958 and held posts at Kingsport Times AP NY Buenos Aires coverage. Survived by wife Daisy Hamlin.
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Associated Press
Reginald Laymon
Reggie) Wood
Townes Memorial Chapel
Highland Burial Park
Wood
Layman Studios
WBTM
Kingsport
Richmond
New York
Columbia, S.C
Funeral Rites Set Tomorrow For Mrs Hawker
Final rites for Mrs Mary Harrison Hawker 56 will be at 2 p m tomorrow in Wrenn Yeatts chapel with interment in Old Mill Primitive Baptist Church cemetery. She died yesterday at Memorial Hospital after years of declining health. A Halifax County native, she was daughter of Mrs Myrtle Harrison and the late John Harrison. She married Howard Earl Hawker on February 10, 1928 and lived most of her life in Laurel Grove before moving to Glenwood ten years ago. She was a member of Old Mill church. Survivors include her husband a son Pfe Earl Wayne Hawker in Anchorage Alaska a daughter Mrs Joyce Marie Elliott of Richmond two grandchildren a brother Harold S Harrison of Glenwood and two sisters Mrs Jean H Booth of Danville and Mrs Lottie H Henderson of Roxboro N C. The body rests at Wrenn Yeatts Funeral Home and the family will be at 230 Haymore St
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Mary Harrison Hawker
Wrenn-Yeatts
Old Mill Primitive Baptis Church
Laurel Grove
Glenwood
Old Mill Church
Pfe. Eark Wayne Hawker
U.S. Army
Anchorage
Alaska
Joyce Marie Elliott
Richmond
Harold S. Harrison
Jean H. Booth
Danville
Lottie H. Henderson
Roxboro
N.C
Wrenn- Yeatts Funeral Home
Haymore St
Funeral rites for W. H. Maxie set in Danville
William Holsie Maxie 50 of Baltimore dies after five year illness. Funeral today at 5 p m from Townes Memorial Chapel with burial at Mountain View Cemetery. Survived by four children Rena Penny and Morgan Maxie in Baltimore and Clarence Lee Maxie in Danville plus three sisters and a step mother. Family gathers at sister Mrs David East 17 Ashlawn Dr.
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William Holsie Maxie
Baltimore
Townes Memorial Chapel
Mountain View Cemetery
Maxie
Peahook
Danville
Clarence Lee Maxie
Rena Maxie
Penny Maxie
Morgan Maxie
J. E. Ashby Jr
David East
George Stroud
South
Boston
W. L. Maxie
Townes Funeral Home
Ashlawn Dr
Legion Spring Conference Set for Danville in March
The Virginia Department of the American Legion will host its 1966 spring conference in Danville in late March. Danville’s bid won over the First District’s at a new executive committee meeting held Sunday in Roanoke.
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Virginia Department of the American Legion
Danville
Department
Roanoke
Telephone dealings push desegregation plan approval
Danville school officials expect only minor technicalities to be settled by phone with the federal Office of Education. Three Civil Rights Act consultants will meet Virginia superintendents in a three day desegregation conference for federal aid. Danville Superintendent O T Bonner was told he need not attend. Bonner believes Danville is among 46 Virginia localities needing only telephone corrections. so far all talks with Bonner have been by phone. The hold up hinges on wording in a few spots.
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Danville
Federal Office of Education
Virginia
T. Bonner
State Department of Education
Bonner
Office of Education
William S Shelton Dies at 75 in Reidsville
William S Shelton, 75, of Reidsville Rt 5, died Monday at 4 AM at Annie Penn Memorial Hospital after five months of illness. He was a native of Patrick County, Virginia, lived 50 years in Rockingham County, and 22 in Mizpah Church area. Survived by wife Jettie Amos, five sons, one daughter, siblings, 20 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at 2 PM at Wilkerson Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Reid Lawn Cemetery. The body will be moved to the home Tuesday morning and back to the funeral home Wednesday at 1 PM.
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Reidsville
N. C
William Stephen Shelton
Reidsville Rt. 5
Annie Penn Memorial Hospital
Patrick County
Rockingham County
Mizpah
Jettie Amos
Moir
Otis Shelton
Reidsville Rt
Roy A. Shelton
Russell T. Shelton
Reidsville Rt. 1
Alvis J. Shelton
Greensboro
Henry F. Joyce
Bertha Flynn
Stokesdale
Jonah
Cephas Shelton
Summerfield
Jesse Shelton
Texas
Reginald Shelton
McLeansville Rt. 1
Clyde Shelton
Wilkerson Funeral Home Chapel
Reidlawn
Funeral Rites Set Today For W. R. Palmer
Last services for William Robert Palmer 88 of Chatham Rt 4 will be held at 3 p m today from Oak Ridge Christian Church with burial in the church cemetery. He died yesterday at his home after a three year health decline. A Pittsylvania County native he was married twice to Tillie Kendrick and Ada Bell Kendrick, who survives. He leaves two daughters Mrs Charlie Coffey and Mrs Dorothy Hatfield of Danville one son Mark Palmer of Mexico Missouri four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The body is at Scott Funeral Home and the family at the residence on Chatham Rt 4.
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William Robert
Bob) Palmer
Chatham Rt. 4
Oak Ridge
Dorothy Hatfield
Danville
Mark Palmer
Mexico
Scott Funeral Home
Rules On Safe Pesticide Use Given By Club
The Tunstall Future Farmers of America warns that children face poisoning from pesticides and promotes four key safety steps. Read the label, control use to keep kids away from spraying areas, store pesticides in labeled containers away from food and locked, and promptly dispose of used containers.
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Tunstall
FFA
Sligh Williams Post 8977 VFW to Meet Tonight
Sligh Williams Post 8977 Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a meeting at 8 oclock this evening at the post home located at 829 North Main Street.
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Sligh 'T. Williams
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post
Main St
Rockingham County Votes Today on ABC Stores Referendum
Rockingham County voters head to the polls in a Tuesday referendum on establishing Alcoholic Beverage Control stores. Polls open 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. across 30 precincts with prior votes in 1935 and 1946. Notable supporters include Reverend Carl E. Jones and Eldred Cherry. opponents cite dry concerns led by Citizens for Christian Action. Separate town votes occur in Elkin with ABC plans elsewhere planned for North Wilkesboro, Blowing Rock, Taylorsville, and Lexington in August.
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Rockingham County
ABC
Reidsville
N. C
Greensboro
Danville
Citizens For Christian Action
Drapper
Eldred Cherry
Russell Newman
Rockingham County Board of Commissioners
Newman
Rockingham
Elkin
Surry County
Sparta
North
Wilkesboro
Blowing Rock
Taylorsville
Lexington
Louis Powell Dies at 60 in Memorial Hospital
Louis Powell age 60 died Sunday at 9 30 p m in Memorial Hospital after five weeks of illness. Born November 17 1904 in Halifax County he was a self employed carpenter who lived in Danville area for 20 years. A Grove Street Baptist Church member he leaves no survivors. Funeral at 5 p m today at Schoolfield Cemetery with body resting at Wrenn Yeatts Funeral Homes.
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Louis Powell
Memorial Hospital
Tlalifax County
Powell
Danville
Grove Street Baptist Church
Ite
Schoolfield Cemetery
Wrenn-Yeatts Funeral Homes
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Piedmont Airlines
Reginald Laymon Wood
Buenos Aires
First Presbyterian Church
Danville Lodge of Elks
Maryland
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Brooke Circle
Mrs. Hawker
W. H. Maxie
Legion
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Dorothy J. Reed
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Lillian W. Yates
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Mayodan
Messian Episcopal Church
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