Carter Promises VCC To Offer Candidate Attractive To Voters
Virginia Conservative Council chairman John W. Carter told a Chatham Jaycee banquet Virginians will have a gubernatorial candidate “for whom you can vote without holding your nose” at the Richmond convention. He said he will not run and attacked socialism the Johnson Administration and both major party candidates, warning that centralized government leads to tyranny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Carter
Virginia Conservative Council
Chatham Jaycee
Bill McGrew
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Virginia
Carter
U.S
Byrd
Sidney Kellam
Pat Jennings
GW June Graduate Speaker and Honoree At VFW Convention
Linwood Duncan, a 17 year old June graduate of Danville George Washington High, spoke at the Virginia VFW convention presenting his winning Voice of Democracy script The Challenge of Citizenship and received a 50 dollar prize. The event honored active civil defense work. Shortt was cited for outstanding activity in the 6th District. Awards recognized posts and auxiliaries for community service and membership gains across Virginia with top posts acknowledged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
CC. Linwood
Duncan
Danville
George Washington High School
Virginia
VFW
Hotel Roanoke
Wilson A. Shortt
Virginia Office of Civil Defense
Shortt
Radford
A. B. Denniston
Patton-Crosswhite
Bristol
Springfield
Grover King
Hillsville
Long
Fairfax
Claude Dennis
Norfolk
Aries
Emmett W. Toney
Crewe
Agnes Hawthorne
Luther Hoskins
Samuel B. DeVaughan
Cecelia Bryan
Staunton
DeVaughan
Edgar Matheson
Marion Post
George C. Dalby
W. Kline Stallard
Robert H. Riner
Robert Lee Cox Jr
Annandale
W. B. Shafer Jr
Dan H. Surface
Patton Crosswhite
Jacob J. Pearson
Hopewell
Russell Mitchell
Alexandria
Warwick Post
Hampton Post
Escapee Robert Hundley Searched Near Holland Road
A 22 year old convict, Robert James Hundley, who is serving seven years for breaking and entering, escaped from a work detail near the Corning Glass Works plant. Police and bloodhounds searched Holland Road area across the state line in North Carolina after a sighting report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland Rd
North Carolina
Corning Glass Works
Robert James Hundley
Chatham
Botetourt County
Hundley
Ten Prospects Capped In Practical Nurse Course Ceremony
Ten prospective practical nurses were capped at Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Danville last night marking four months of a 12 month program. Danville Technical Institute director James M. Van Oot presided. William J. Lees welcomed the new caps. Mrs Eleanor A. Herndon gave an address, with Mrs Theresa T. Heffinger, Mrs Evangeline Keck, and Mrs Willen Ferguson among the presenters. The Rev R Eugene Tally led the invocation and benediction. music by Mrs A T Gunn and Rufus Scarboro. Caps were awarded to Gloria Burleson Bowman, Isabel Pruitt Collins, Louise Wall Dalton, Anna Gunter Joyce, Margaret Hazelwood Joyce, Eunice Bateman Kirkman, Sandra Keen Luther, Mabel Parsons Moorefield, Ada Walker Pleasant, and Alice Layne Worsham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferma E. Hoover
Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
James M. van Oot
Danville Technical Institute
William J. Lees
Eleanor A. Herndon
R. N
Memorial
Herndon
Danville
George Washington High School
University of Virgin da
Virginia Nurses Association
Calvary Methodist Church
Harcourt F. Herndon
Arnett Blvd
Theresa T. Heffinger
Evangeline Keck
Willen Ferguson
Third Avenue Christian Church
A. T. Gunn
Rufus Scarboro
Gloria Burleson
Bowman
Isabel Pruitt Collins
Louise Wall Dalton
Anna Gunter Joyce
Stuart
Margaret Hazelwood Joyce
Eunice Bateman Kirkman
Cascade
Sandra Keen Luther
Mabel Parsons Moorefield
Ada Walker Pleasant
Yanceyville
N.C
Alice Layne Worsham
Backrow
Mabel Par
Moorefield
Gloria Burleson Bowman
Leaf Service Application Withdrawn
The Danville Tobacco Association withdrew its request for additional USDA grading and price support services for the 1965 sales season. A June 24 hearing was dismissed after the department was notified, as a 4th U S Circuit ruling was pending on a related challenge to Criteria One requiring buyers to precommit to attend sales.
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Danville Tobacco Association
Paul Sanford
U. S. Department of Agriculture
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Danville
Winston-Salem
N. C
USDA
Pair Arrested On Complaint Of Kidnaping
A Peninsula couple were arrested and returned to Danville from Boydton on a waitress’s charge of kidnapping. Earlene Tally Gray wrote a note to a South Boston service station patron, prompting authorities to detain Claude Russell and Martha Russell of Hampton and Virginia Beach. Det. Wade Groff said the pair appear to be married despite differing addresses and were held for local authorities after the note led to the arrest.
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Peninsula
Danville
Boydton
Earlene Tally Gray
Flythe Barr Honored By State Bankers
Martinsville banker S S Flythe was elected president of the Virginia Bankers Association in Hot Springs Va Others named to top posts include Brantly F Barr T E Sebrell III. new board members C A Cutchins III Herbert A Jackson III W M Peltner S Thomas Cox John S Fulcher Genere Paulette and officers re elected Marchant D Wornum Lois Lee Adm Burke warned of economic risks to US prosperity and potential inflation impacting profits and debt levels
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Hot Springs
Martinsville
S. S. Flythe
Virginia Bankers Association
Adm
Arleigh Burke
U. S. Navy
America
Flythe
First National Bank of Martinsville
Virginia Highway Commission
James W. Rawles
VBA
Rawles
State Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts
Richmond
Brantly F. Barr
First National Bank
Danville
T. E. Sebrell III
First and Citizens National Bank
Alexandria
Association
C. A. Cutchins III
Virginia National Bank
Norfolk
Herbert A. Jackson III
Virginia Trust Co
W. M. Peltner
Farmers and Merchant's National Bank
Winchester
S. Thomas Cox
Altanista
John S. Fulcher
Carrell County Bank
Hillsville
Genere Paulette
Bank of Middlesex
Urbana
Marchant D. Wornum
Lois Lee
Adm. Burke
Naval Operations
Center of Strategic Studies
Bethesda
United States
William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Martin
Burke
Virginia
New Hunting and Fishing Licenses Go On Sale
New hunting and fishing licenses will go on sale Monday in the clerk of Corporation Court office. T. F. Tucker, clerk, pointed out that while the 1965-66 licenses will be available in advance, they will not be valid until July 1. They will expire on June 30, 1966.
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Clerk of Corporation Court
T. F. Tucker
Evans chosen as United Fund executive director in Danville
Fred L. Evans Jr., 34, was selected by the United Fund of Greater Danville as its third full time executive director to start around August 1. He leaves Virginia Tobacco Co after a long association dating from high school. John Lynch, a 16 year fund raising veteran, will be a 12 month consultant as Evans assumes duties for the 1965 drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred L. Evans, Jr
The
United Fun of
Greater Danville
Evans
Virginia ‘Fobacco Co
United Fund Post
C. J. Schollenberger
John Lynch
Lynch
W. C
Dan) Daniel
W. Townes Lea
William V. Rickman
United Fund
Young People’s Department
Women’s Missionary Society
Benefield Ave
Evanses
David L. Evans
Martha Lynn
American City Bureau
Beaver Associates, Inc
J. Blair Kerns
Danville
Geneva
John Garber
United Funds and Councils of Virginia
Temple
Allen W. Asbury
United Fund Office
Schollenberger
Asbury
Judge Defends Jury System As Bulwark Against Reds
Judge Langhorne Jones of Chatham defended the jury system before the Westover Sertoma Club at its annual installation banquet at the Charcoal House. New officers installed included Joe Broome as president and a slate of directors, with James A. Rich Jr. presiding as district governor.
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United States
Langhorne Jones
Chatham
Westover Sertoma Club
Circuit Court
Charcoal House
Jack Nowlin
Joe Broome
A. W. Saunders
Joe Elliott
Tink Richardson
M. L. Keesee, Jr
Lawrence Woodson
Nowlin
van Elliott
Gilmer Yates
Bill Hardy
Ed Moss
Calvin Scarce
Carson Green
Jones
Westover Club
James A. Rich, Jr
West
Virginia
Sertoma International
Sherrill Sharp
Virginia-Maryland
Claude Bowman
Henry Davis
Three In One Family Sentenced For Shoplifting Conspiracy
In Municipal Court yesterday a man his wife and his mother were sentenced on shoplifting charges with judge finding conspiracy among them. Janet Christine Jones 30 received 30 days in jail on each of five counts plus $26.30 costs. Junior Benton Jones 32 got ten days on each of five counts with fines and costs. Mattie Gauldin Moore 51 drew ten days and $10 on four aiding and abetting counts and ten days on one more count. Henry Curtis Perkins 42 of Spray NC got six months for repeat drunkenness. John Dowdy Jr 30 bound over to the grand jury on five check cashing counts totaling $1515 from February to March 1962. checks signed Glen Dale Mason after Dowdy left Danville.
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John Dowdy, Jr
Maryland
Glen Dale Mason
Dowdy
Danville
Calvin Berry
Janet Christine Jones
Junior Benton Jones
Mattie Gauldin Moore
Jones
Spray
Henry Curtis Perkins
Still St
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VCC
Lee Carter
Elton Toler
Chatham Jaycees
Toler
McGrew
Joseph M. Whitehead
Jaycees
Cedars Country
Ule
Jack Holland
Ohio State
Ennis
Holland Road
Leaf
Barr
Dr. Schollenberger
Edward Temple
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