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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1966
Page
14
An imagined scheme uses 50 robotic hands to mimic President Chancellor and Governor handshakes at UNC. Students line up in 60 rows, each 10 seconds per handshake, completing diplomas in about 16 minutes with computer controlled automation, replacing personal contact with machines.
A 24 year old woman already facing up to 3 1/2 years in prison for prostitution had 1000 dollars and 1 year 140 days added to her sentence. She was tried in her absence on drug charges and false registration at a Rt 58 motel.
Albert H. Bailey president elect of Danville Rotary Club departs Friday for Denver to serve as the local delegate at the Rotary International convention from Sunday to Thursday. He is executive vice president of Mahan and Tyree wholesale grocers and holds roles as Chamber of Commerce director and County Board of Supervisors member.
A building permit was issued yesterday to J&B Builders for construction of a day nursery on Holcomb Street. The project is for Clyde B. Fleming and has a listed cost of $17,442.
Mother Teresa announces NYC opens summer jobs for high school youths 16 and older at a Sandy River facility near Bachelor Hall. About 130 in the program in under three months, with 15 placed in permanent jobs. Trainees earn 1.25 dollars hourly for 32 hours weekly, building a recreation park with golf course and pool.
Central YMCA schedules three beginner swim classes for 6-12 year olds commencing June 13 with sessions at 9:30 10:30 and 11:30. Summer Kinder Camp at North Danville runs four weeks starting June 20 for 4 to 6 year olds at Trinity Methodist Church with four counselors guiding activities. Day Camp opens June 13 for six weeks for boys and a week for girls with $8-$9 weekly fees and activities including archery fishing rifle range and track and field day under director Bilk Bryant with assistant Bernie Hardy.
Roy Burton Hensley 41 of Rural Hall North Carolina Rt 1 was charged with drinking and driving after his 1965 model car struck a parked vehicle on Main Street near the Trailway Bus Terminal. Officer Nostrandt said Hensley sideswiped Max G. Boatwright’s car at 120 Clarendon Circle. Damages totaled $450 with most to Hensley’s vehicle.
Trial on motions for judgment on the current civil docket is set to begin June 14 in Corportion Court. Willie Owen Hosley sues Judy Frances Meadors for 50000 for injuries in a collision July 29, 1964 at Park Ave. and Browder St. A non suit was entered in the Newman and Price actions. Plemmons and Irvin Wholesale Produce Inc. and Phyllis Sites suits were dismissed.
Riley William King, 31, weighing 301 pounds, was returned to Danville to stand trial on three counts of obtaining adding machines by false pretenses in April last year. He allegedly rented machines from Southern Office Machine Co., Danville Office Supply and Berry's Business Machines and pawned them. He has been in Lynchburg jail most of the time since. In other police news, a 1958 Chevrolet stolen from Snead Motor Sales on Edgewood Drive was found wrecked and abandoned on Hunter Street.
Grace Watkins daughter of Mrs S H Talbott of 536 Parkland Dr has been elected to membership in Phi Theta Kappa Ferrum Junior College national scholastic honor society for junior college students She is enrolled in the liberal arts curriculum Election requires a 20 average a rank in the upper ten percent and good moral character with leadership qualities.
Butter wholesale prices unchanged with AA 93 score at 6534, 92 A and 90 B unquoted. Eggs prices paid delivered to Chicago vary, with grade A whites and large mixed percentages, standards and extras noted. checks cited around 72.2.
Area school integration will rise next fall with Halifax County adding 130 Negro students to formerly white schools, reaching 165 total in integrated spaces. Halifax will focus at Halifax County High School and Clover Elementary, while Caswell County adds 23 Negro students, mainly at Bartlett Yancey High School and Pelham Elementary, under the freedom-of-choice plan.
Mrs Emma Smiley Price 516 North Main Street Danville died yesterday at 2 45 pm in Memorial Hospital after eight days as a patient. Born September 8 1896 she was daughter of William J and Media Hines Smiley. She was a Mecklenburg County native who lived much of her life in Danville worked as a bookkeeper for Sparks Giles Hardware before retiring and belonged to Grace Methodist Church. Survived by husband John Thomas Price two daughters Margaret and Doris Youngblood four sisters and two brothers. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm in Wrenn Yeatts Chapel with burial at Highland Burial Park body at funeral home family at North Main Street residence.
The funeral for E. Howard Young was held yesterday afternoon at Swicegood Funeral Home. The service was conducted by Rev. George H. Gravitt Rev. A Rosser Fowlkes and Rev. Richard E. Bethune and burial followed in Danville Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers included Charles Robertson Willie Robertson Jr Dr John T Baggerly Lawrence Youngs Jimmy Wayne Capes Richard Moss David H Robertson Irvin Young and Dr S C Hail Jr.
Funeral services for W Hansford Canady of Sarasota Florida were held yesterday afternoon at Dan River Primitive Baptist Church led by Elder W C King. Burial followed in the church cemetery with pallbearers named Spangler Hodnett Graham Weatherford Tilley Strader Carter and Strader.
John Thomas Ganey, 40, of 140 Stonewall Ct., was convicted in Municipal Court for two drunk driving counts tied to May 21. He received a $200 fine, 30 days suspended, and a 12 month permit revocation on the first count. On the second, as a repeat offender, he faced $200 fine, 60 days in jail, and a three year permit revocation plus a 90 day suspension for refusing a blood test. The penalties were appealable. Frank Lewis Davis, 40, of 233 W. Main St., with two pending DUI appeals, was treated as a first offender in another case and fined $200 with 30 days suspended and a 12 month permit revocation. a 90 day suspension followed for refusing the blood test. The case stemmed from a minor traffic accident on W. Main St. May 28. Joe Calvin Elliott, 44, of 211 Rosemary Lane, appealed a $10 fine for cursing and abusive language toward Charuf George Solomon of 644 Lee.
Medical panel argues expansion of Memorial Hospital is essential to serve 150000 residents, justify high cost cobalt therapy unit and training programs. They warn new hospitals could drain workload, harm accreditation and radiology, and stress public funding and community support.
Funeral services for Moyal Conaway Bedwell, 50, of 366 Piney Forest Rd will be held at 4 p.m. at Wrenn Yeatts chapel for death by self-inflicted gunshot wound. Interment in Danville Memorial Gardens follows. Bedwell, a loom fixer at Dan River Mills Riverside Division, was a World War I veteran and member of First Evangelical Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, one daughter Myrtie Frances Bedwell, and one sister, Mrs J B Dunn. The body lies at the funeral home. residence access remains at 366 Piney Forest Rd.
Caswell County Farm Bureau president Herbert McDowell criticizes calls for farmer-unified action as hollow. He says such unity would cost farmers a voice in setting regulations and defends the Farm Bureau’s stance for farmer participation. The piece notes Carolina farm groups and Stabilization Corporation debates over who shapes market rules and a Bright Belt Warehouse Association proposal.
Secondary Marvin Scruggs notes purchase of three voting booths for the Chatham precinct which currently has none. Heard School Superintendent J H Combs says negotiations are underway for a 15 acre site near Chatham High School for a school bus garage with a 600 foot frontage on Rt 703. The group sets June 30 for their next meeting to serve as the regular July meeting.
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