Deaths and Funerals in Ringgold and Danville
A funeral for Mrs. Addie Smith Miller of Ringgold Rt 1 will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Swicegood Chapel with burial in Floral Hills Memory Gardens. She was 82 and died yesterday at her daughter's home after three years of declining health. Surviving are three daughters, three sons, a sister, a brother, nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Visitation is this evening 7:30 to 5 o'clock. body at Swicegood Funeral Home. A funeral for James Smith, 70, will be held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at Loyal Baptist Church with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. He died May 1 in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. He is survived by a daughter and one grandchild. Visitation tomorrow 7–9 p.m. with Masonic ceremonies by Almagro Lodge No. 217. Burial and service details follow.
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Addie Smith Miller
Ringgold
Rt. 1
Swicegood Chapel
Joseph C. Brandon
Floral Hills Memory Gardens
Williamson Memorial Presbyterian Church
William Arthur Miller
Edna Austin
Lynchburg
Lailie Terndrup
Miami
Fila
Tris Gibson
Danville
Clyde E. Miller
DeFunka Springs
Fla
Ray D. Miller
Jacksonville
Robert E. Miller
Jennie Griffin
Clifton Smith
Salisbury
N.C
Swicegood Funeral Home
Gibson
Crestview Drive
James Smith
Loyal Baptist Church
Doyle J. Thomas
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mr. Smith
Mt. Vernon
N.Y
Pittsylvania County
Charlie Smith
Lizzie Smith
Order of Masons
Prince Hall
Smith
Louise Smith
Dorothy Ss. Camp
Cunningham and Hughes Funeral Home
Mrs. Clark Dies At 51 In Danville
Mrs. Willie Mae Burns Clark of 283 Camp Grove Place dies Saturday in Memorial Hospital. Born December 24, 1923 in Rodman, D C to William Burns and Daisy Lillie. Survived by Russell Clark of Danville, a daughter Daisy Lee Reynolds, a stepmother Alberta Burns, two sisters Catherine Poole and Rosa Salter, and a Baltimore brother. Funeral at Camp Grove Baptist Church tomorrow conducted by Rev W J Toomer. Burial at Oak Cemetery. Beavers Funeral Home handling arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Mae Burns Clark
Camp Grove Place
Camp Grove Baptist Church
WJ. Toomer
Oak Hill Cemetery
Clark
Memorial Hospital
Rodman
D.C
William Burns
Daisy Lillie
Leroy Robinson
Baltimore
Russell Clark
Danville
Daisy Lee Reynolds
Alberta Burns
Catherine Poole
Brooklyn
N.Y
Rosa Salter
Bronx
Beavers Funeral Home
Hearing Held On Vepco Fuel Adjustment
A Virginia Electric & Power Co official testified that without the fuel adjustment clause the company would have been insolvent. The clause passes fluctuating fossil fuel costs to customers, and Vepco received 226 million from it in the year ended Feb 29, 1975, with a projected $149 million loss without it. The hearing before the State Corporation Commission aims to inform the public and consider data on fuel procurement costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Electric & Power Co
State Corporation Commission
Menal
Ragone
Vepco
Jordan
SCC
Tom Gardner
Norfolk
Center For United Labor Action
Commission
Gardner
Virginia
Electricity Cost Commission taps Mazze to lead rate probe
Richmond AP. Dr Edward Mazze a Virginia Tech business professor was named to coordinate the Electricity Cost Commission investigation into rising power rates. The panel hired four consultants including Dr Charles Phillips despite questions over past pay from Virginia Electric Power Co. The commission aims to prepare a background report and seek public testimony from utility commissioners in New York and Wisconsin.
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Richmond
Edward M. Mazze
Virginia Tech
Electricity Cost Commission
State Capitol
New York
Wisconsin
Charles Phillips
Washington and Lee University
Commission
Phillips
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Ronald E. Carrier
Mazze
VPI
Carrier
Gay
Mills Godwin
$500000 Claim Filed In FBP Hearst Search
An Alexandria woman injured in a March break in by FBI agents during the Patricia Hearst search filed damages for evasion of privacy and false imprisonment. She alleges agents failed to identify themselves and entered with guns drawn. The Justice Department has six months to respond under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Patricia Hearst
Norton
FBI
Justice Department
Planetarium to Host Water World Program in 2024
Pittsylvania County Schools' Planetarium will show Water World every Tuesday at 7 30 p m except June 3 and on the first and third Sundays in May and June at 2 p m The program explores the solar system and Earth's oceans and fresh waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsylvania County
Anderson cites large arsenal of Viet Cong
Columnist Jack Anderson told Virginia Tech students that with the fall of Saigon the Viet Cong possess one of Asia’s largest arsenals, funded by U.S. taxpayers. He blamed South Vietnam’s collapse on leadership gaps, not U.S. aid, and quipped that Canadians call English refusals separatists while Americans call them economists.
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Anderson
Blacksburg AP
Jack Anderson
South Vietnam
Asia
U.S
Virginia Tech
United States
Saigon
U. S
Canada
DAPE Re Elects T P Houser As President
Thomas P Houser Jr a social studies teacher at George Washington High School was re elected President of the Danville Association of Professional Educators at the May meeting. Jesse Gusler Brenda Harris and Gertrude Stanfield were elected to two year terms as vice president secretary and treasurer respectively. Calvin Fowler could not attend but sent appreciation to CAPE for support. The group discussed membership growth committee work action for 1975 76 school year political activity in the state legislature and Danville's Bicentennial plans.
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Thomas P. Houser, Jr
George Washington High School
Danville Association of Professional Educators
Association
Brenda Harris
G.L.H. Johnson
Gertrude Stanfield
Irvin W. Taylor School
Calvin Fowler
Houser
Cape
General Assembly
Danville
Subcommittee Debates Virginia Drug and Alcohol Abuse Policy
A joint House Senate subcommittee in Richmond outlined issues in alcohol and drug abuse, including decriminalizing public drunkenness with care facilities, funding sources such as taxes and insurance coverage, and merging programs. It reported $21 million planned for 1974-75 and announced public hearings across the state beginning in June.
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Richmond
House
Senate
Virginia
Alco
Subcommittee
Former Nursing Aide Denies Murder Charges in Petersburg
Petersberg AP report states 21 year old former nursing aide Lee Roy Hargrave Jr. denied involvement in the death of 73 year old Josephine Thomas at Petersburg General Hospital and was linked to other patient deaths through prosecutors. Hargrave testified he found irregular heart patterns the night Thomas died and denied giving medicine to Thomas or Wray.
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Petersburg
Oliver Pollard
Hargrave
Thomas
Miss Thomas
Wray
Asst
Commonwealth
Atty
James F. D’alton Jr
Pollard
John C. Baker
D'Alton
Har
Grave
D’alton
Randolph-Macon College
Virginia State College
Har- Save
Carolyn Fraher
Closure Ordered for Holiday Home for the Aged
Virginia Beach circuit judge ordered immediate closing of the Holiday Home for the Aged and suspended all state funding for residents. The restraining order, sought by the state, targets alleged inadequacies and delays in remediation. About 24 residents remain as workers relocate them to Tidewater facilities with social services coordinating the process. Charles Garfield of UCLA began death and family counseling in Los Angeles.
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Virginia Beach
Robert S. Wahab Jr
Howard Copeland
Copeland
Wahab
Frances Etrod
Virginia Beach Department of Social Services
State Department of Welfare and Institutions
Los Angeles
Charles Garfield
University of California
Nigerian businessman loses $148,058 at Waldorf Astoria
Nigerian Dagavan Dijani Dagravan, 43, arrived in New York and befriended a woman outside the Waldorf Astoria. They went to his 21st floor room where he woke to find $148,058 in cash and checks missing. Police report details unclear.
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New York
Waldorf Astoria
Dijani -Dagravan
Lagos
Poli
Dagavan
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Mrs. Miller
Stanley Ragone
Ernest M. Jordan Jr
Division of Public Utilities
District of Columbia
Preston C. Shannon
Tion
Walter Marston
Division of
Consumer Counsel
Marston
Clive L. Duval
Fairfax
Dr. Mazze
Roy Pearson
The
College of William and Mary
Wiliam D. Ditman
Temple Bayliss
State Energy Office
Environmental Protection Agency
Arthur Young Accounting Firm
Consumers Congress of Virginia
Appalachian Power Co
Potomac Edison Electric Power Co
Hearst Search
Planetarium
Michael Connor
Michael Perry Connor
University of Virginia
Dape
T. P. Houser
Jesse Gusler
Department of Welfare
Blacksburg
Winchester
Charlottesville
Joyce Andrews
U. S. Supreme Court
Box Springs
Anderson Furniture CO
North Union Street
Bob’ Tamson
Riverside DR
Addie Smith
Danville Life Saving Crew
Bullington
Willie Bullington
Blains, VA
Mr. Lenard Mttchell
Motley‘s
K. Motley, Jr
B. Bemdall
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