Truitt Criticizes Fashionable Attacks on Public Schools
Danville School Superintendent Thomas Truitt warned Rotary Club members that it has become fashionable to criticize public education. He urged citizen involvement to boost public confidence and urged better teacher pay, noting starting salaries lag behind other divisions and that discipline alone won't improve learning. He highlighted new programs in early child development, emotionally disturbed students, gifted middle school students, adult education at George Washington High, and a bicentennial themed curriculum.
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Murder and arson drug charges head Danville trial docket
Danville Circuit Court begins in the new building with 35 felony indictments from the grand jury. Hopes Young, Willie Lee King face separate murder counts. Anthony Ira Lester indicted for arson. other defendants charged with shooting into occupied dwellings, malicious wounding, burglary, grand larceny, forgery, counterfeit checks, and drug possession cases including a schedule two drug. Several defendants face third offenses and habitual offender statuses, with trials set for multiple robbery and burglary counts.
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Hopes Young
Willie Lee King
Anthony Ira Lester
Charlie Edward Bates
Kenneth McCray Collins
Ann Myers Yates
Victor Marsell Garland
Will Arthur Carter
David Neal Carwile
Alfred Kent Beightol
Beightol
Larry Eugene Burch
Patsy Paul
Robert Dewey Cox Jr
Michael D. Dance
Charles Gilley
Melvin Stewart
Brenda Gail Strader Fitzgerald
Lee Moses Garland
Jom Albert Price Jr
Paul Lynwood Parker
Danville Leaf Market Sets Season Highs in 1975 Sale
The Danville tobacco market posted its highest volume and best average price of the season with 1,123,027 pounds sold for 1,121,734.84 dollars, averaging 99.88 per hundred. South Boston posted 101.57 average on 390,424 pounds. Lawrenceville averaged 98.39 on 314,246 pounds.
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Supervisors Move to Reactivate Pittsylvania Planning Commission
Pittsylvania County supervisors agreed to activate the planning commission and retain County Administrator Anthony Barrett as subdivision administrator. A technical advisory committee may assist subdivision reviews, with the plan to use Barrett’s office staff paid by a federal grant through February 1976. Opposition from some subdivision commissioners and local groups appeared over an agriculture service center site adjacent to the courthouse, prompting consideration of alternative locations.
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John Rasnick
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Chatham Town
Bat Bites Child's Neck in Hampton Rabies Case
A 3 year old Hampton boy began anti rabies injections after a bat pulled on his neck and tests in Norfolk showed the animal carried rabies. The bite is the first rabies case on the Virginia Peninsula in decades, with reports of many bats in Rouden Road area. The bitten boy is Mike Hart and his family.
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Vickie Hart
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Ashton
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Bachelors Hall Fire Department Receives Check
The Bachelors Hall Volunteer Fire Department received a $200 donation from Walker Grove 416 Woodmen of the World, aimed at buying new fire equipment. Fire Chief Billy Weatherford accepted the gift from Miss Mary Allen with other attendees listed.
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Thomas Shelton
Melvin Fowlkes
Cool Barker
Budget amendment call sparks Danville Senate race
Gary L. Bengston urged a constitutional balanced budget amendment before the Danville Civitan Club claiming it would curb waste and inflation. He challenged incumbent Coleman B. Yeatts in the Danville Pittsylvania County State Senate race, promoting conservative leadership and business like government.
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Pittsylvania County
City Council to Intervene in Gas Petition
Danville officials will hold a special Thursday session to consider a resolution enabling city action for Dan River Inc to secure natural gas. The Federal Power Commission must approve transport from Texas via Transcontinental Gas Pipeline. Members will also tackle Worsham Street Bridge, airport paving, Oak Hill Cemetery land purchase, four A-95 reviews, and a county DOC contract renewal.
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Transco
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Worsham Street
Oak Hill Cemetery
West Piedmont Planning Commission
Kerr Lake Landowners To Meet On Proposed Hydro Power Project
Kerr Lake Property Owners Protective Association will hold a public meeting at Sat-terwhile Point on Buggs Island Lake near Henderson North Carolina on September 13 at 10 30 a m The meeting informs the public of two proposals affecting the lake Dr Eugene Stead of Durham president of the association says Dr Arthur Martin of Danville president of the Virginia BASS State Federation will speak on the Randolph Hydroelectric Project on the Staunton River by Southside Electric Cooperative and the daily transport of water from Lake Gaston to the Tidewater region proposed by the Southeastern Water Authority Virginia Southside Co op of Crewe has applied for a preliminary permit from the Federal Power Commission to study up to 14 hydroelectric dams on the Staunton River Petitions of intervention have been filed by several groups including Virginia BASS State Federation Kerr Lake Property Owners Protective Association and the City of Danville interventional status.
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Staunton River
Southside Electric Cooperative
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Tidewater
Southeastern Water Authority of Virginia
Southside Co-op
Crewe
Federal Power Commission
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FPC
Virginia B.A.S.S. State Federation
Kerr Lake Property Owners Protective Association
Neighbors Aid Victim After Stabbing at Lincoln Street
Delores Bigelow was stabbed in the chest near her Lincoln Street home and crawled to the street before neighbors carried her to Memorial Hospital. She remained in critical condition after surgery as detectives Cooper Morris and Garfield Doss pursue the assailant. Also, Richard Payne, 18, was arrested on a felony warrant for possession of Phendimetrazine at his Applewood Drive home.
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Lincoln St. Horns
Memorial Hospital
Morris
Press Stock Report Delayed Until Tomorrow in Danville Register
Technical difficulties with the press forced elimination of the stock market day report. The editor apologizes for the inconvenience and says a full report is expected in tomorrow's edition of The Danville Register.
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