UTW Local Seeks Talks Resume For New Dan River Mills Contract
UTW Local 248 will request resumption of talks with Dan River Mills for a new one year contract within days. No contract exists after expiration May 31. Wage hike and July 4 holiday, plus retirement improvements, were offered by management but rejected by UTW. UMW District 50 continues campaigns at the mill gates seeking a union election, after earlier NLRB denial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UTW
Dan River Mills
United Textile Workers
Dan River Mills, Inc
William H. Silcox
Silcox
Union
W. J. Erwin
M. A. Cross
United Mine Workers District 50
UMW
National Labor Relations Board
R. Preston High
District 50
Dan River Mill
NLRB
Three City Projects Backed by Danville Super Committee
Danville’s Super Committee voted unanimously to back a dormitory for the Community College complex financed by self liquidating bonds and urged continuing support for the Armory Coliseum project. It also called to reactivate study of renovating the present City Armory as a civic center auditorium and endorsed a police courtesy initiative. The panel’s actions alongside Articles of Incorporation mark a formal start for a cross‑section group guiding major capital projects.
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Danville
Super
Community College
Defense Department
National Guard
Army
Super Committee
Civic Center
Government Liaison and Coordination Committee
Financial Control
Howard W. Lee
Joseph M. Taylor
Community College of
VPI
James van Oot
Danville Technical Institute
Taylor
Danville Military Institute
Project Head Start Planned In Danville Schools
A summer program called Project Head Start will start June 28 in five Danville elementary schools to aid beginning first graders under the Economic Opportunity Act. W. C. Overton led the announcement, with two co directors and twelve teachers undergoing six days of training in Nashville.
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W. C. Overton
Danville
School’ Board
Office of Economic Opportunities
OEO
Washington
Overton
Virginia
Gordon McCubbins
Curtis A. Richardson
University of Tennessee Extension ‘Center
Nashville
Tenn
Ing
Margaret J. Bowman
Mary B. Clairborne
Mildred D. Echols
Margaret A. Edmonds
Doris O. Fleming
Eldora K. Gabriel
Roxie B. Hughes
Mary Lee Jenkins
Sally Lou Oakes
Cleophin Patterson
Betty Anne Shepard
Joyce F. Swanson
Bellevue
Berkeley
Gibson, Grasty
Westmoreland
City retirement fund loans to Brightwell protected says finance chief
Randall L. Hall, city finance director, says the Employees Retirement System is safeguarded despite Brightwell firms owing substantial sums. Loans to developers are covered by reimbursable agreements that direct repayments to the retirement system, with interest prepaid and conditions tying reimbursements to development milestones. The Brightwell debt, estimated around $125,000, is not in immediate danger due to these protections.
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Brightwell
J. A
Jack) Brightwell
Randolph L. Hall
Sherwood
Hall
Halli
Brightwell Companies
Supervisors Recommend New Deputy for Pittsylvania County
Pittsylvania County Supervisors urged adding a full time deputy sheriff at a special Chatham meeting to be presented to the State Compensation Board on June 22. If approved, Sheriff Henry O Winn would hire the deputy at a 3660 dollar yearly salary with half funded by the state. The board noted industrial growth and population rise to about 63,000 as reasons for greater protection needs. The department now runs with 10 deputies and three jailors, with most civil duties comprising roughly 75 percent of current deputy work.
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Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
Chatham
State Compensation Board
State Board
Henry 0. Winn
State Compensation Boards
Pittsylvania
Virginia
Delaware
Frank T. Walton
Dan River District
Albert Bailey
Tunstall
Winn
Bailey
Dan River
Rt. 58
Glenwood
Langhorne Jones
Local Officer Hospitalized In Accident
Danville policeman Willie Lynwood Gibbs aged 28 of 318 Hughes Street was admitted to Memorial Hospital with a head injury after a two car collision at Lanier Avenue and Garland Street just before he was to report to duty. Officer Donald L. Goss reported Robert Keith Osborne of 111 Davis Street caused the crash by striking Gibbs’s private car. Damages to both vehicles were about 300 dollars each.
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Danville
Willie Lynwood Gibbs
Hughes St
Memorial Hospital
Lanier Ave
Garland St
Donald L. Goss
Robert Keith Osborne
Davis St
Gibbs
Gibbs’ Private Car, Which Was Passing the Intersection Op Lanier Ave
Two Women and Man Charged After Shoplifting Alert
In Danville four stores report thefts tied to a car with a Florida plate. Mattie Gauldin Moore 51 Junior Benton Jones 32 Janet Christine Jones 30 face larceny and aiding charges, with a pistol found in the car. Police credit an alert passer for the tip and say most stolen items were inexpensive apparel.
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Danville
Mattie Gauldin Moore
Junior Benton Jones
Janet Christine Jones
Spray
N. C
Cers
T. G. Faulkner
K. G. Owen
Piney Forest Rd
Taylor School
Nor-Dan Belks
Nor-Dan Woolworths
Riverside Rose’s
The
Belks
Woolworths
K-Mart
Rose’s
Jones
Dansville
Holton backs off meeting with conservatives in Virginia
Roanoke. Linwood Holton declines invitation to address the Virginia Conservative Council saying such a meeting would encourage a third party. Carter accuses Holton of trying to ride two horses while Godwin remains unacceptable to conservatives. Holton favors a strong two party system. council plans a July 10 convention to nominate its own candidate.
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Linwood Holton
Virginia Conservative Council
Holton
Roanoke
VCC
John Carter
GOP
Carter
Mills E. Godwin, Jr
Council
Danville
Richmond
Roanoke County
Young Republican
Godwin
Virginia
Mills Godwin
WEC
Goldwater
Charge Reduced Dismissed In County Court At Chatham
A rape charge against Jesse Lee Moore was reduced to assault and battery at the start of a preliminary hearing and then dismissed. Clarice Brooks testified under threat of jail, Moore claimed she was intoxicated. the judge dismissed the charge. Kenneth M. Collins bound over to the grand jury on breaking and entering theft of $206. Addie Burnett identified forced entry. John and Roy Abbott murder case continued to June 29.
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Danville
Chatham
Jesse Lee Moore
Clarice Brooks
Nelson Light
Commonwealth
Joseph M. Whitehead
Ringgold
C. C. Royal
Collins
John A. Abbott
Roy J. Abbott
Robert Lee Mitchum
Rain Deluge Lifts Danville Tobacco Grains in Sampson Area
Rainfall totaled about .88 inch by 10:30 PM in Danville with additional totals from Charlotte Court House where 1.25 to 1.33 inches fell Tuesday. County Agent L T Richardson called the rain general and timely for crops. Cooler temps followed the storm with Sunday’s high 96 and Monday night’s 6 PM reading.
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Valerie Lynch
Charlotte Court House
L. T. Richardson
Richardson
Danville
Mecklenburg County
Charlotte
Man Found Dead Behind His Home On Mount Cross Rd
Eugene Farthing, 44, was found dead last night behind his Mount Cross Road home. Authorities say a shotgun wound around 9 p.m. caused his death and a shotgun lay beside the body. Farthing had retired from Dan River Mills after health decline.
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Eugene Farthing
Mount Cross Rd
Farthing
Dan River Mills
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