Godwin Touts Virginia Progress At Chatham Meeting
Lt. Gov. Mills E. Godwin urged Virginians to seize an era of unprecedented progress in a Monday night talk to the Chatham Chamber of Commerce. He cited lower unemployment, rising per capita income, and strong education gains while praising Pittsylvania County’s growth and urging acceleration of development. He referenced Jamestown experiments in socialism and free enterprise to illustrate change as Virginia’s norm and warned against clinging to the past.
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Chatham
Chamber of Commerce
Godwin
Pittsylvania County
Virginia
Jamestown Colony
Jamestown
Virginia Tech to award 1390 degrees next Sunday
Virginia Tech will hold commencement with Gov. Harrison delivering the address at 16 a.m. in the Coliseum. Dr. T. Marshall Hahn Jr. will confer degrees as about 1,390 degrees are awarded including 1,117 bachelor’s, 205 master’s, and 68 doctoral. Danville and Pittsylvania area candidates include many engineers and administrators.
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Squires Hall
Danville
Tony R. Adkins
David Earnhardt
Ormond N. Bliss
Hugh E. Brown
Averett’s Two Top Graduates Close In On Friendship
Joan Johnson and Jackie Coleman top Averett College’s 1965 graduating class with near perfect records. The duo shared leadership and editorial roles, earned the C. L. Davenport Award for General Excellence, and plan to continue together at Radford College.
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Averett
Jean Marie Johnson
Jacquelyn Lee Coleman
Averett College
Mary C. Fugate
Joan
Jackie
C. L. Davenport
P. L. Coleman, Jr
Brightwell Dr
James G. Johnson
George Washington High School
Dan River High
CPA
Dan River High School
Radford College
Radford
Jamies G. Johnson
Jackie Coleman
Joan Johnson
Parrish Reappointed Lifesavers Captain in Danville
W Henry Parrish, former captain of the Danville Life Saving Crew, will again head the unit starting July 1 after an unanimous election. He succeeds James Perry who did not seek reelection. The new roster includes Tommy Gatewood as first lieutenant and several second lieutenants along with renewed officers and board members. Medical and legal advisors are named from Danville and surrounding areas.
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W. Henry Parrish
Danville Life Saving Crew
Irvin Hogan
Harold Cordell
Russell Perkins
Averett Brumfield
George Shields
Parrish
Gardner
Hogan
Clayton Lester
Gatewood
G. W. Thompson
Chatham
D. L. Arey
Baxter H. Byerly
Jefferson D. Beale
Martin E. Doneson, Jr
J. J. Neal, Jr
Delos W. Boyer
Clifford G. Gaddy
Danville
T. Ryland Dodson
Supervisors Approve Plan for New Regional Court District
Halifax and Mecklenburg Boards of Supervisors approved creation of a regional Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court district serving three counties and a city. South Boston Council awaited Monday night approval, with Pittsylvania already authorizing. The district mirrors Fredericksburg as the second in Virginia under 1964 legislation. The judge must abandon private practice and serve full time, paid by the state with localities funding courtrooms. Appointments come from two circuit judges overseeing the district. Members named include G. E. Mitchell Jr. of Mecklenburg Halifax and South Boston and Langhorne Jones of Pittsylvania.
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Halifax
Boards of Supervisors
Mecklenburg
South Boston
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
General Assembly
Fredericksburg
G. E. Mitchell Jr
Langhorne Jones
Pittsylvania
VFW Post to Hold Important Meeting Tonight
Hugh T. Williams Veterans of Foreign Wars post at 829 North Main Street will host an eight o'clock meeting. A post spokesman said the year’s finance report will be made and several important committees named.
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Hugh T. Williams
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post
North Main Street
Imade
Gov Moore backs commission on Speaker Ban Law stance
CHAPEL HILL NC AP Gov Dan Moore said a nine member commission offers the surest direct solution to the Speaker Ban Law controversy and told UNC graduates it would be presumptuous to tell members in advance how to decide He urged impartial inquiry hearings and warned findings without weight unless the commission is allowed to proceed independently The General Assembly considers a bill to create the commission and Moore pledged to call a special session if its findings warrant action He noted the UNC trustees and accrediting bodies want amendment to grant schools more control over speakers.
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Chapel Hile
N.C
Dan Moore
University of North Carolina At
Douglas Knight
Duke
Moore
University of North Carolina
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges
General Assembly
Graduates at Three County High Schools Hear Call to Statesmanship
Howard University dean urges 389 Dan River Northside and Southside graduates to seek freedom of the human spirit. He warns against power without sensibility and political apathy, urging moral, religious understanding and anti poverty work. 155 Southside diplomas. 119 Dan River diplomas awarded with honor students named.
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Howard University
School of Religion
Southside
Pittsylvania
Dan River
Northside
Chatham
Gretna
Turnstall
Samuel L. Gandy
Grandy
Gandy
Sally Haraway
Joyce Oliver
Judy Scott
Betty
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