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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1976
Page
3
Ray Handy, a retired mill worker living at 220 Park Circle, pursues hunting and autoharp playing. At 3-year-old director of the Dan River Retired Club Band, he reflects on life with humor and contentment, smiling toward Ballou Park as his music fills his home.
Handy grew up in Southsiders and Danville with a farmer and blacksmith father who taught him hard work and to play an autoharp. He joined Dan River Inc at 16, rising from No 4 Card to supervisor of No 1 Card, retiring in 1969 after 46 years. Now he leads eight retired Dan River employees in an electrified autoharp band that plays regionally. He also hunts foxes with 11 hounds near Pigg River, gardens, and attends Afton Road Primitive Baptist Church, cherishing wife Ada, three daughters and one granddaughter.
In Danville, seven spectators watched the Southern Railway Piedmont’s last trip to the station, with two train buffs planning to wave goodbye. The ICC had discontinued Piedmont service, though a Holiday Special train would follow the schedule. The Crescent will be the sole passenger train serving Danville, amid rising costs and aging equipment.
Local residents enjoyed unusually warm weather with daytime highs near 70 and nighttime lows around 54 in Danville. Rainfall totaled 0.96 inches in the 24 hours ending 1 pm, as NWS had warned of a colder East Coast winter.
State Bureau of Investigation probes Sunday into a blaze that gutted the Terminal Hotel early Saturday killing four people and leaving a fourth victim unidentified a man believed to have checked in Friday afternoon. The hotel near the Seaboard Coast Line station housed about 21 guests at $20 a week or $7.4 month. Firemen found one body downstairs and flames were seen shooting from a second story window as investigators sought clues and autopsy results.
Robert Erskin Thomas, 21, of Mecklenburg County, tells the Charlotte Observer he and another man kidnapped a Mourne department store official during a robbery. He says Lonnie and Sandy Sawyer of Mint Hill are serving 22 to 40 and 28 to 32 years respectively for the same crime. Thomas seeks to exonerate the Sawyers, while NBC coverage and a governor's review add national attention. A separate arrest in Danville targets Ralph Edward Fannin as a fugitive. The Register issues a correction about a 1918 Spanish influenza burial claim.
Lillian Mosseller, almost 80, from Tryon North Carolina, drafts a four page presidential platform. She seeks to place humor in policy and favors handmade goods, self employment, and education reform. Though not a serious bid, she shows a sharp political awareness through reading and life experience.
Pittsylvania County received 26031 dollars in federal anti-recession funds under the Public Works Employment Act of 1976. County Administrator Annette Crane says the board must decide on use, possible application to schools, with six month obligation, while other Virginia counties received smaller grants.
Ferrum College drama students present Jack Tales, a children's folktales play, in Danville Schoolfield Johnson and Bellyue elementary schools as part of a statewide tour funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and Humanities. Rex Stephenson notes the 2024 tour aims to reach over 20,000 children with original mountain tales blending English Irish and German immigrant roots.
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