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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1975
Page
7
Woodley L. Brandon, 30, of Milton Route 1 Semora, dies in South Boston hospital. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at Brandon Chapel Baptist Church with Rev. H. R. Surgeon. burial details and survivors listed. Elizabeth Hall Cannon, 83, Eden, dies at Moorehead Memorial Hospital. Funeral tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Fair Funeral Home Chapel. burial at Happy Home United Christian Church Cemetery.
Michael Anthony Caldwell one month old son of Victoria and Gary Caldwell of Axton died after a home accident at Danville Memorial Hospital. He is survived by paternal grandparents Vernon and Louise Caldwell and maternal grandparents Daniel and Mildred Minter. Body at Townes Funeral Home awaiting funeral arrangements. Altavista funeral for Fannie Dalton McCormick Saturday at Central Baptist Church. She dies in Lynchburg General Hospital age 63. Burial Green Hill Cemetery. visitation Finch & Finch Funeral Home Altavista 7 to 9 p.m. today.
Funeral services for Edgar Morris Franklin will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Gretna with Rev. W. D. Lilly officiating. Burial with Masonic rites will follow at Gretna Burial Park. Franklin, 68, died yesterday at Lynchburg General Hospital. He belonged to Anderson Lodge 258 A F and A M ACCA Shrine Temple Danville Scottish Rite the Gretna Lions Club and was past worthy patron of CES Chapter 118. A former Gretna auto dealer he had been an insurance agent for 30 years. Surviving are his wife Nettie Simpson Franklin and two sons Edgar Morris Franklin Jr. and William Ray Franklin plus three grandchildren. The body is at Calbert Moran Funeral Home and the family at the residence on Vaden Drive.
Sally Williamson 75 of Pelham Rt 1 died yesterday at Stormont Villa Nursing Home Greensboro. Born Caswell County she was a retired farmer and Gwynn Chapel Baptist Church member. Survived by brother Lewis Williamson Danville VA and sisters Mrs Eva W Saunders Pelham and Mrs Elma Swann Philadelphia. Services at Gwynn Chapel Church tomorrow at 11 am with burial in church cemetery. Body to be taken from McLaurin Funeral Home to church at 10 am.
A 4th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals majority ruled that Pitt County North Carolina officials validly dismissed Mary E. Jones after a single year at an all white school. The decision upheld a lower court finding that the firing was justified by evidence she was a weak teacher. Judge Craven dissented, arguing the district judge erred and that prior grades at the black school suggested no incompetence.
Roanoke AP Virginia Education Association plans a 1976 General Assembly lobby to recover more than 20 million dollars in state school aid cut by Gov Mills Godwin. WEA President Dr Beth Nelson said lawmakers may support restoring funds and even explore taxes on luxuries to fund education. Nelson spoke amid a VEA conference on recent legal decisions affecting teachers.
The Coast Guard announced a U S District Court in Alaska ordered 600000 in penalties against a Japanese vessel for fishing zone violations The Eikyu Maru No 35 was seized 31 miles inside the 12 mile zone after a 14 hour chase near Amilia Island Alaska The fines include 575000 civil and 25000 criminal bringing total foreign vessel penalties in 1975 to nearly 3 million
Two out of state developers plan a $90 million office hotel parking shopping complex beside the Richmond Coliseum. Barge Development Co. of Tulsa and Cadillac-Fairview Corp. Ltd. of Toronto will finance and lease office space to small firms and possibly state government offices. IBM may occupy one building, with a 2000-car elevated parking deck and ground level shops.
An 18 year old Henrico County girl was acquitted in the traffic deaths of two Virginia Beach men. Judge Fred erick P. Aucamp found no direct evidence she consumed enough marijuana or beer to impair driving.
The State Corporation Commission announced on Thursday it will hold on the road hearings before ruling on Appalachian Power Co. proposed 763,000-volt line in western Virginia and will inspect alternate routes. Virginia Tech professor Robert Giles proposed a computer route through Philpott Reservoir and dense areas. APCO counsel argued Giles route ignores land values and is impractical.
The Virginia Supreme Court refused Salem's appeal of an annexation ruling that added Roanoke County territory to Roanoke. The action, approved last May, transfers 1 square mile and 16 square miles with 16 500 new residents effective at midnight December 31. Salem officials criticized haste. Roanoke officials anticipate needing 100 new staffers.
A Prince William County man, John David Rash, 43, was charged with murder in the death of his elderly father Lee Roy Rash, 68, found shot with a teen from Spotsylvania, Eugene Johnston, 17, in a ditch near Spartanburg, North Carolina. Autopsies planned. extradition for the son set for Friday in Spartanburg. An FBI agent was assaulted in Charlotte, with Darrell Tate, 27, charged.
CHARLOTTE AP A Cabarrus County high school principal with 25 years in education urged the state Commission on Public School Laws to lower the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 14 and restore authority to principals and faculty. M L Barnes told about 200 at a public hearing that a restless, rebellious student cohort now exists, with 5 to 10 percent of his students bored and disruptive. He argued 14 year-olds in the job market would motivate attendance and place responsibility on parents. Wednesday's hearing was one of eight scheduled this month.
Tennessee Williams style praised for fast mood shifts in a vivid Averett production featuring a large cast. Performances run tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. A school PTA fundraiser at Irvin W. Taylor Middle School hosts a spaghetti supper Friday from 5 to 7 30 p.m. Tickets sold by students to fund stage curtains for the auditorium.
In Richmond an armed man robbed Bank of Powhatan, forcing manager Bill Telloh to hand over cash. He fled after riding in Tellohs pickup about a mile on U S 50. FBI noted the bandit appeared in his early 20s and returned later to obtain money before police were alerted.
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