Ten Inmates On N C Death Row Aware Of Ruling
Raleigh AP reports ten inmates on North Carolina death row learned of the Supreme Court ruling against capital punishment before prison officials. Guards heard of the decision as it aired on radio and TV, prompting questions about resentencing and removal from death row.
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the Register
Danville
N.C
Raleigh
North Carolina
Central Prison
Safron
Jack Safron
Witness recalls North Carolina's last execution in 1961
RALEIGH AP witness Reese Hart recalls the 1961 North Carolina gas chamber execution of Theodore Boyshe. He describes being among 24 observers, the chilling moment, and the lasting impact of that morning as the last execution in the state.
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Reese Hart
Rivenbark Rites Set Today This Day in Altavista and Rockingham
Funeral services for Willis Owen Rivenbark will be held today at 4 p.m. from Finch and Finch Funeral Chapel in Altavista, with graveside services Saturday at 1 p.m. Zion Methodist Church. Also notable: discussion of the 3,500 miles of streams in western North Carolina and public hearing on river classifications in Hickory, including concerns from a mining company about possible unequal restrictions and the need for meaningful, enforceable standards. The article also references the 1960s gas chamber case involving Boykin and notes the era’s evolving death penalty practices.
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HART
Willis Owen Rivenbark
Finch and Finch
Altavista
Gerald White
Zion Methodist
Hickory
N.C
North Carolina
North Carolina Board At ‘Water and Air Resources
Piedmont
P. Greer Johnson
Water and Air Quality Control Committee
Rockingham
Rivenbark
Finch
Bill Wilkins
Deeneen Cmica Co
Newdale
Toe
Wilkens
Prince William Asks Guard To Help With Flood Cleanup
In Manassas Virginia residents urge keeping the local National Guard unit to assist flood cleanup before its Camp Drum summer training. Supervisors split on whether guardsmen should stay to help the county and police, while a petition asks for time assisting locals.
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Prince William
Manassas
Cou Brams
Ralph
Campi Drum, N
Charles Colgan
ZAIL
Mrs Flinchum Dies at 82 in Virginia
Funeral rites set for Mrs Mariah Stout Flinchum tomorrow at 11 a.m. in Swieegood Funeral Home Chapel with interment at Highland Burial Park. A Danville resident, she worked before retirement at Dan River Inc. No. 3 Dress. Survived by four daughters, three sons, sisters, brothers, 29 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight 7:30 to 9 at the funeral home.
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Mariah Stout Flinchum
Swieegood Funeral Home
Highland Burial Park
Flintham
Danville
Pitsylvania County
Mt. Cross Road
No. 3
Dress of
Dan River Inc
Bethel Baptist Church
James Flinchum
Flinchum
George Scearce
Andrew Parsons
Louis Ludhvick
Eldin Bowyer
Clarence Flinchum
Bristols
Whitmell
Lied Flinchum
Mage Fourn
Jim Stout
Washington County
Belle Ingram
Scottwing
Edd Stout
Bristol
Break-In Suspect Dismisses Attorney in DNC Case
Washington AP report says James W. McCord Jr. dismissed his attorney and spoke with famed lawyer F Lee Bailey about representation. McCord, a former CIA employee and GOP security expert, received a July 6 continuance for his preliminary hearing. four other defendants waived their hearings in DC Superior Court.
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Washington
James W. McCord Jr
F. Lee Bailey
McCord
District of Columbia Superior Court
Joseph A. Radferty Jey
Bailey
Thiat
Democratic National Committee
Funeral Rites Set Today For J. J. Chandler
Last rites for James Jiggs Chandler will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at Powell Funeral Home Chapel in Halifax noting the family’s request for simple funeral observance and burial arrangements to follow.
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Halifax
Tames Jiggits Chandler
Ipewell Funeral Home Chapel
Police arrest youth charged in burglary in Danville
Police have arrested Alvin William Davis, 18, of 206 Grant St, charged with four breakins at Oak Hill Cemetery tool shed where $200 in tools were taken. No new burglary reports since Tuesday morning’s multi breakin of nine medical offices on S Main St with little loot recovered.
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Danville
Alvin William Davis
Grant St
Oak Hill Cemetery
S. Main St
Castro Visits Soviet Space Training Unit
Fidel Castro and Brezhnev toured the Star City space training center near Moscow. Tass noted only that they visited labs facilities and simulators and placed flowers at Yuri Gagarin’s monument. Burial set for 69 year old J. D. Chandler in Halifax Memorial Gardens.
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Moscow
Fidel Castro
Kremlin
Star City
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Topsecret
Tass
Castro
Brezhnev
Yuri Gagarin
Mars Ingram Dies Graveside Rites Here Today
Mrs Polly Cox Ingram former Danville resident died Thursday in Greenville Memorial Hospital South Carolina after brief illness Born March 12 1902 in Martwell Georgia She married George Ingram of Keeling moved to Petersburg then Danville Lived Hartwell Georgia recent years Survived by husband Funeral services held Thursday Hartwell Baptist Church Body sold Wronn Yeatts Funeral Home Graveside service today at 430 p m Highland Burial Park conducted by Dr William Lynt
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Polly Cox Ingram
Danville
Greenville Memorial Hospital
Greenville
S.C
Ingram
Martwell
Jak Walter
Ian Boleman Cox
George Indram
Keeling
Petersburg
Hartwell
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Chapel Hill
God
Death Row
Supreme Court
Theodore Boykin
Duplin County
W. O. Rivenbark
Boykin
Lena ‘N. Barnes
Duplin
K. B. Bailey
State Supreme Court
Terry Sanford
Gav
Greensboro
Joe Brown
Danville Vault Corporation
Chatham Road
Datsun
Nissan
Swanson Motors, Inc
Riverside Dr
J. J. Chandler
Memorial Hospital
New Memorial Hospital
Vnew
Mr. Chandler
South Boston
County
Richard C. and
Pattie Robertson Chantler
Mary
Guan Chandler
J. J. ‘Chandler Dr
Harry
Richard Chandler
Mars
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