13 Year-Old Charged With Murder In Suffolk Child's Death
In Suffolk, a 13 year-old boy was taken into protective custody and charged with murder after the body of 4 year-old Kelvin Lamont Claiborne was found buried in an outdoor privy. An autopsy confirmed strangulation and the death was deemed a homicide. The suspect will be moved for protective reasons ahead of a weekly hearing. The investigation, led by Detective W. A. Freeman, involved a large search with helicopters and dogs. The boy had been reported missing two days earlier and lived with his mother and siblings in the southern part of Suffolk.
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Suffolk
Raleigh H. Isaacs
Detective Bureau
Norfolk
Isaacs
Kenny Snuffer
Kelvin Lamont Claiborne
Freeman
ROTC regains footing at Washington and Lee University
ROTC enrollment at Washington and Lee University has risen sharply after a postwar dip. Freshman entry doubled year over year and rose 45 percent this year to 34. total ROTC enrollment now tops levels unseen since 1970–71. Cadets cite pay, scholarships worth over 15000 dollars, and a changing image of the Army as major draws.
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America
Mark Twain
Vietnam
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee
Army
Wah
W&l
W&il
Thursday Night Film Appreciation Course At DCC
Danville Community College offers a three quarter Film Appreciation course taught by Robert Shaver. It features classics such as His Girl Friday Casablanca Bus Stop and Mr Smith Goes to Washington shown in a classroom setting with lectures on film techniques directors stars and genres. The program attracts 43 students this quarter and uses a mix of catalog films and items from the college library.
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Northern
Virginia
DCC
Marilyn Monroe
Frank Capra
Orson Welles
Citizen Kare
City and state seek fix for vast erosion wasteland
Wilbur Page, Danville chief engineer, to address the state Water Control Board in Roanoke about a 600 acre erosion site near Stokesland causing silt to clog a city sewer pump. Reybold Homes Inc. of Wilmington developed land for a mobile home park, but bankruptcy left the project incomplete and vegetation absent.
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Wilbur.d. Page
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Danville
State Water Control Board
Roanoke
Water Control Board
Page
Reybold Homes Inc
Wilmington, del
Reybold
Martin Road
Pillsylvania County
Soil Conservation Service
St Paul Insurer Says It Won't Leave Virginia
ROANOKE AP The major insurer of Virginia physicians said it will continue to provide the market even if doctors form a physician owned plan. Physicians Underwriters of Virginia is debated as doctors discuss board control and governance rules amid capital investments by physicians and potential reciprocal structure.
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Roanoke
Virginia
Norfolk
Medical Society of Virginia
Thomas L. Uehlin
St. Paul
Minnesota
Uehlin
Doctors Mutual
Medical Society
Maurice M. Miller
Physicians
William R. Miller
Doctors
Physicians Underwriters
House of Delegates
John G. Day
State Corporation Commission
Bureau of Insurance
Two City Auto Accidents Cause Eight Thousand In Damages
Two separate morning crashes in Danville caused minor injuries and combined damages over $8,000. Officer T. H. Breedlove investigated. First crash at South Main and Levelton when Charles Cox lost control of his Opel, hitting a sign and pole. Cox and a passenger sustained facial cuts. Second crash at Southampton Ave and Hughes St when Jake Agnew ran a stop sign, colliding with John W. Harrison’s Chevrolet. Agnew charged with failure to stop.
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T. H. Breedlove
South Main
Levelton Streets
Charles Cox
Watson St
Cox
Southampton Avenue
Hughes Street
Breedlove
John W. Harrison
Dallas Ave
Southampton Ave
Jake T. Agnew
Pine Hall Rd
Martinsville
Harrison
Deaths And Funerals In South Boston Area
Aubrey John Benson 33 of 1145 South Boston Road died Saturday night at Veterans Administration Hospital Salem after three years of declining health and 11 days as patient. Born in Clayton North Carolina he moved to Danville. He married Beatrice McKnight June 4 1953. Survived by wife son Danny F. Benson five stepdaughters and many relatives. Funeral at Glen Hill Baptist Church tomorrow at 1 p.m. Burial Floral Hills Memory Gardens. Body at Wrenn Yeatts Funeral Home. Also notes other obituaries and local notices including Mrs Rosa Anna Manning Shelhorse and Miss Huth Helen Arrington with funeral details. George Washington High School Band Boosters Club meets tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in bandroom. Further notices list several survivors and service times.
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South Boston
Veterans Administration Hospital
Salem
Clayton
N.C
Herman Henson
Lizzie Adams Benson
Danville
Beatrice McKnight
Glen Hill Baptist Church
Danny F. Benson
Lexington
Carolyn Meade
Daytona Beach
Fra
Sylvia J. Ingram
Lillie M. Shelton
Linda Fulcher
Lou Elia Parker
Colonial Heights
Hocult
Waller L. Benson
Ane Sherwood Benson
Graham
Janice Canady
Louise Mills
Raleigh
Aim
James Land
Floral Hills Memory Gardens
Wrenn-Yealts Funeral Home
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Danville Community College
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Shelhorse Rites
Rosa Anna Manning Shelhorse
Townes Memorial Chapel
Shethorse
Chatham
George Washington High School Band Boosters Club
Miss Arrington
Huth Helen Arrington
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Halifax County
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Vina Hailey Arrington
Mt. Cana United
Methodist Church
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Mt. Cana Church
Lawrence Pritchett
Kenneth Clark
Buriat
Grave Baptist Church
Cheraw
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Marla Wallace Jordan
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Roger Jordan
Kannapolis
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Ladiesville
Velma. Kennedy
Trinity
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Baltimore
Mae Rivers
Nan Lou Williams
Philadelphia
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Alice Burr
Lela W. Melton
Charlotte
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Chatham Rite
Callands Baptist Church
James Venable
Bell Vernon
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