Funeral set for Louie Arnold Fields in Danville
Louie Arnold Fields 72 died yesterday at his Danville home after long illness. Funeral held today at Main Street United Methodist Church at 4 p.m. with burial in Mountain View Cemetery. He was born July 2, 1902 in Columbus, Georgia, married Annie Hudgins in 1925, and had worked as a dry cleaner before retiring in 1964. He is survived by wife, a son Louie A. Fields Jr., a daughter Mrs. Gus B. Shelton Jr., a brother Curtis Fields, a sister Mrs. Ruth Riley, and three grandchildren.
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Louie Arnold Fields
Main Street United Methodist Church
Albert Schrader
Mountain View Cemetery
Fields
Grove St
Columbus
Richard M. Fields
Nettie Taylor Fields
Danville
Annie Hudgins
Louie A. Fields Jr
Gus B. Shelton Jr
Hamlett
N.C
Curtis Fields
Ruth Riley
Dan
Lewis G Carter Dies At 83 In Yanceyville
Lewis Glenn Carter 83 died in Memorial Hospital after years of declining health. A World War I veteran and retired farmer, he belonged to the Masonic Lodge of Yanceyville and Shady Grove United Methodist Church where he once supervised Sunday school. He is survived by his wife Janie and four sisters and two brothers. Funeral will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Shady Grove United Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery, Masonic rites included. The family home is on Shady Grove Road.
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Lewis Glenn Carter
Memorial Hospital
Mr. Carter
Caswell County
N.C
Lewis Stuart Carter
Mamie Hodges Carter
Carter
Masonic Lodge
Yanceyville
Shady Grove United Methodist Church
Janie Mahan Carter
Townes Funeral Home
Shady Grove Road
Aileen Bowen Dyer
Virgilina
Ida Dyer Stawles
South Boston
George Dyer
Gilbert Dyer
Eugene Dyer
Funerals for Jan B Vassar Tomorrow in Clover
A funeral for Jan Briant Vassar age 32 will be at Rodgers Chapel Baptist Church in Clover tomorrow at 2 p.m. Burial follows in the church cemetery. Vassar died Tuesday in Halifax County and is survived by his wife Jo Ann and two sons, plus parents, siblings, and several relatives. He was an employee of Daystrom Furniture and a member of Rodgers Chapel Baptist Church.
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Clover
Jan Briant Vassar
Rodgers Chapel Baptist Church
Vassar
Daystrom Furniture
Halifax County
Ronald Edward Vassar
Jeanette Vassar Hazelwood
Jo Ann Vassar
Jan B. Vassar,Jr
Jeremy Vassar
Gaynell Wade
Donna Lee Vassar
Sue M. Lacks
Scottsburg
Ronald E. Vassar Jr
Mesa
Calif
James H. Vassar
South Boston
Ira H. Vassar
Blacksburg
Floyd EB. Vassar
Gerald I. Vassar
George Thorpe Final Rites
Funeral for George Thorpe set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Beulah Baptist Church with Rev. H. L. Long officiating. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Thorpe, born August 1, 1902 in Durham, N C, died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Survived by three stepchildren Ella L. Harrison Philadelphia, Josephus White New York City, Rudolph White Danville. Visitation tonight 8 to 9 at L H Brooks and Bro Funeral Home.
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George Thorpe
Beulah Baptist Church
H. L. Long
Oak Hill Cemetery
Thorpe
Memorial Hospital
Durham
N.C
Ella L. Harrison
Philadelphia
Josephus White
New York City
1976 North Carolina House Backing One Year Budget Plan
North Carolina House approves a one year budget resolution aiming for a brief 1976 session to handle budgetary matters. Leaders favor a 5 percent state employee pay raise and a $30 million university system capital bond, while the Senate resists bond funding. a compromise meeting is planned.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House
James C. Green
Senate
Jim Hunt
Hunt
East Carolina University Medical School
Green
Monetary Committee
North Carolina Woman Sues Doctor for 50000
Janet Hoffman Hobbs of North Carolina files in U S District Court alleging Dr Sal D Barranco caused her left lung collapse with a cortisone shoulder injection on February 11, 1974. She seeks 130000 in damages after admission to Montgomery County Hospital.
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Roanoke
Blacksburg
U. S. District Court
North Carolina
Janet Hoffman Hobbs
Sal D. Barranco
Barranco
Montgomery County Hospital
Leaf Growers May Not Grow Quotas Increase WN.C. AP
U S secretary of agriculture Earl L. Butz told a Winston-Salem news conference that flue cured tobacco farmers may not use all allowed quotas despite a 15 percent increase this year. He warned Rhodesia could capture up to 40 percent of the market if political ties ease, and noted higher quotas have not caused a market glut or price drop. He also urged peanut growers to accept possible cuts to the department's support program and forecast strong wheat and corn crops.
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Winston-Salem
WN. C
Earl L. Butz
U. S
North Carolina
Rhodesia
Butz
Congress
Milk Commission Appointees May Be Fought By Legislators
Governor Jim Holfhouser named three to the state Utilities Commission, drawing opposition. Nominee J Ward Purrington faces doubt over credentials and a political loss past, while Thomas Willis Alexander's Duke Power stock and family ties raise concerns. Barbara Anee Simpson appears likeliest to win confirmation as lawmakers debate the panel expansion and pending rate cases involving Duke Power Co and Southern Bell.
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Raleigh
Jim Holfhouser
State Utilities Commission
J. Ward Purrington
Thomas Willis Alexander
Durham Life Insurance Co
Barbara Anee Simpson
Queens College
Charlotte
Miss Simpson
General Assembly
Purrington
Alexander
Duke Power Co
Southern Bell
Hugh Wells
Commission
Wells
Wesley Webster
Personal Freedoms At Issue In Obscenity Bill Discussion
Raleigh AP reports a North Carolina House Judiciary hearing on a proposed obscenity bill. Supporters cite personal freedom yet seek limits, while opponents call current law strong and warn vague terms risk suppressing literature and ideas. Committee amendments passed. fate undecided awaiting next week's vote.
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Raleigh
House Judiciary Committee
North Carolina Low
Jimmy Love
D-Lee
Love
W.W. Finlater
North Carolina Civil Liberties Union
John Brooks
Bild
National Association of Theater Owners
John Bellows
Charlotte
Robert Emanuel
Senate Reverses Stand and OKs Charlotte Hotel Tax
In Raleigh the Senate reversed a prior vote to kill a bill allowing Charlotte to levy a hotel and motel gross receipts tax. The measure passed 24 to 14 after earlier 24 to 200 defeat, with Sen. Herman Moore switching to support reconsideration. Proponents cited statewide implications and tourism funding, estimating a 3 percent rate could raise around $100,000 yearly for Charlotte Civic Center obligations.
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Senate
Charlotte
Raleigh
Herman Moore
D-Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg County
Mary Odom
Scotland
Moore
Charlotte Civic Center
Virginia Scouts to take Virginia map gifts to World Jamboree
Virginia Boy Scouts will travel to Norway for the World Jamboree with Dr. Paul Smeal of Virginia Tech guiding a group. They plan to share 150 copies of the 1975 Virginia official highway map, tying its Bicentennial theme to Virginia’s War of Independence history.
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Scandinavia
Virginia
Paul Smeal
Virginia Tech
Virginia Scouts
Norway
Department of High
Hudson
George, Washington
Dr. Smear
John Dalton
Radford
Barbour Freed After Lie Test In Murder Case
Jerry Barbour, who turned 20 this month, was released from a Charlotte jail after ten months on a murder charge tied to a June 1974 service station shooting. District Attorney Peter Gilchrist ordered the release following Barbour’s lie detector test and statements that he feared conviction and a possible death sentence. Barbour, once employed by the city sanitation department, said he might have to leave Charlotte to avoid staying in jail.
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Charlotte
Jerry Lewis
Barbour
Dist
Atty
Peter Gilchist
Gilchrist
Charlotte's
MacDonald asks dismissal in 1970 Ft Bragg murder case
Attorneys for Jeffrey MacDonald asked a federal judge to drop murder charges over Collette MacDonald and two daughters found dead at Ft Bragg. Defense cites denied speedy trial and illegal searches while the government argues ongoing investigation and no double jeopardy due to lack of formal proceedings.
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Raleigh
N.C
Green Beret
Jeffrey MacDonald
Ft. Bragg
MacDonald
Franklin Dupree
Collette
Kimberly
Kristen Jean
Army
Bernard Segal
San Francisco
U.S. Justice Department
Brian Murtaugh
Segal
Los Angeles
Frank Charged Bond Withheld in North Carolina Murder
WADESBORO North Carolina restaurant owner Henry Frank Hammond was held without bond on a first degree murder charge for the shooting death of Herman R Capell a 62 year old Wadesboro merchant. Capell co owned two Carl's Food Stores in town and served as a director of Associated Grocers Inc Hammond, 65 turned himself in to police after the Wednesday morning killing in the Capell grocery store. Witnesses said no words were exchanged before the gunman fired.
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Wadesboro
N.C
Henry Frank Hammond
Herman R. Capell
Capell
Capelli
Hammond
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Lewis G. Carter
Mary Moore Lownes
Hamer Baptist Church
W. E. Mills
Lawnes
North Carolina Memorial Hospital
Chapel Hill
Warren Moore
Louise Wilson Moore
George Lownes
Jan B. Vassar
Thomas H. Dyer
World Trade Association
North
Carolina
Milk Commission
Ockingham
Senate Utilities Committee
Webster
Carolina Power and Light Co
Cp&l
Duke Power
Holfhouser
Lillian Woo
Consumers Center of
Laura Tally
Cumberland
Christian Action League
William Wallace
CAL
Jane Johnson
Jerry Hooper
Michael Curtis
Greensboro
Thomas Tedford
Boy Scouts
HlasZesz_ OREN
Jerry Barbour
Frank
Gregory General Store
Jove
Dial
Albert P. Maurakis
Shenandoah Life
Albert
Shenandoah Life Insurance Company
Amenaal Company
Maurakis
Cox and Goodridge Insurance
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