United Way Kicks Off 1977 Fund Raising in Virginia
Arthur E. Grady, general chairman, urged campaign workers to reach 35 percent of the $474,651 goal by the first report meeting. He noted Virginia’s past success and momentum from last year, with report meetings set for Sept. 29 and Oct. 13, and highlighted teamwork for a strong United Way campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur E. Grady
United Way
Cam
Commonwealth of Virginia
Grady
Dassville
Warren Fulton
United. Way
Fred Evans
Fulton
United Way Drive
Thomas L. Bailey
Corporation
Huckabee Urges Education Focus Over Policy for Averett
Huckabee stresses learning over rigid rules at Averett addressing policies, know-how, and wisdom. He cites E F Schumacher on education transmitting value plus know-how, warns dangers of unchecked power, and defends liberal arts and academic freedom for students and faculty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huckabee
E.F. Schumacher
Reedom
Tobacco Mart Totals Highest This Season
The Danville Tobacco Market posted its top sales of the 1977 season with gross receipts of 1,272,624 dollars for 45,078 pounds sold. Area growers averaged 134.06 dollars per hundredweight as volume rose by about 300,000 pounds, though quality lower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Leurez
Tha ‘Tobacco Marketing Reporting Service
Raleigh
N.C
Larceny Charge Goes To Jury In Pittsylvania Case
A grand larceny charge against Phillip Wayne Anderson, 20, Nathalie Route 2, was certified to the October Pittsylvania County Circuit Court grand jury for allegedly stealing more than $100 from Andrew Breeden on July 31. A felonious shooting count was not certified. Other pending cases were not pressed or discharged.
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Chatham
Phillip Wayne Anderson
Pittsylvania County
Anderson
Nathalie Rt. 2
Andrew Breeden
Nelson Light
Donald Ray Cockram
Bassett HB. 3
James Allen Wingfield
Edward William Davis
Airport
Drive
Danville
Alfred Franklin Williams
Keeling Rt 1
James Thomas Newby
Indy 90
Convicted burglar Ross sentenced to three years in Virginia penitentiary
Danville Circuit Court jur y found Remus Wayne Ross guilty of burglary and sentenced him to three years in the state penitentiary. Three other defendants were convicted on various charges. Ross alleged he did not burglarize Judy Murray’s Holbrook Street apartment on July 15, while prosecutors said he broke a window and sold items for $40. Other defendants faced charges of assault and unlawful wounding with mixed verdicts and sentences, including six months on the City Farm for Jerome Curtis Fitzgerald and a probation-and-costs condition for Isaac Jones Jr. Darrell Ray Ferrell saw a felony burglary reduced to petit larceny with sentencing set for Nov 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remus Wayne Ross
Virginia State Penitentiary
Danville
Ross
Judy Murray
Holbrook Street
Commonwealth
William 7. Filler
Thee
Fuller
Ms. Murray
Commonwealth Corr
Harry Lee Totten
French Conway
Conway
Jerome Curtis Fitzgerald
James F. Ingram
Issac Jones Jr
Jones
Darrell Ray Ferrell
Hgram
Ferrell
Dan River Extends Brand To Warp Knit Division
Dan River Inc will extend the Dan River name to warp knit fabrics. The Webco Knit Division is renamed Warp Knit Division, part of the Greenville Group in Greenville BC. The unit runs three plants in Burlington and Mebane NC with about 700 employees and 1976 sales around 40 million dollars.
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Burlington
N.C
Dan River Inc
Dan River
Webco
Greenville Group
Greenville
B.C
Mebane
Day River
David W. Johnston
Lune
Robert J. Stahlsmith
Head Start serves hot meal daily under CCC program
Mary Wooding announces Danyilie Head Start participates in the Child Care Food Program providing one hot meal per day to enrolled children. Meals are offered without regard to race and are reimbursed by the USDA. Jack Cooper of Wheat First Securities joins the North Danville YMCA board to fill Linwood Duncan’s unexpired term.
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Danyilie
Mary Wooding
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Wooding
Jack Cooper
Wheat First Securities
North Danville
Danville
YMCA
YMCA Pancake Days to Aid YMCA Youth Programs
The Danville YMCA and North Danville Branch sponsor Pancake Days on Oct 26 and 28 at the YMCA. Proceeds from pancakes and sausages fund transport for camping and youth department programs.
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The
Danville
North Danville
YMCA
Efficient Reading Class at Banville Reading Center
Beginning Oct 5 the Banville Reading Center offers an efficient reading class for average or higher junior high and high school students. Classes meet 3:45 to 5:15 Wednesdays and Thursdays through Oct 27, covering reading rate, vocabulary, note taking, test taking, research skills, and critical reading. Cost for 12 hours is 25 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banville Reading Center
Two Barn Masters Earn Virginia Elementary Education Degrees
Sandra Lovelace of Dry Fork and Dorothy Dodd were awarded master of education degrees in elementary education from the University of Virginia. Mrs. Lovelace is the daughter of J. Ezra Stowe and a 1971 Tunstall High School honor graduate who earned a 1974 Averett College bachelor’s degree. Miss Dodd, a 1970 Tunstall honor graduate, earned a 1974 Radford College bachelor’s degree and is the daughter of Dennis N. Dodd. Both women work at Whitmell Elementary School in Pittsylvania County School System.
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Sandra $. Lovelace
Dry Fork
Dorothy Dodd
University of Virginia
Lovelace
J. Ezra Stowe
Tunstall High School
Averett College
Miss Dodd
Tunstall
Radford College
Dennis N. Dodd
Whitmell
Pittsylvania County
Trucks Collide On W Main No One Injured
Two tractor trailer crashes on West Main Street caused five thousand dollars in property damage with no injuries. Lucien Maurice Beaudry of Irisburg Vermont allegedly made two left turns into the path of Jerry W Cummings of Stuart Road. Cummings reportedly skidded about 125 feet before striking Beaudry’s vehicle. Beaudry faces charges of driving without an operator license and failure to yield.
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West Main Street
TL. Moore
Lucien Maurice Beaudry
Irisburg
Jerry W. Cummings
Stuart Rd
Moore
Cummings
Beaudry
Danville Fair Showcases Freak Acts and Local Exhibits
The Danville fair features Burkhart’s oddities including an electric chair illusion, sword swallowing, fire eating, frog girl, world’s smallest black midget, human pin cushion and two faced man. Local residents display 1,200 to 1,300 exhibits with flowers quilts dresses foods pictures rugs and more. Show tunes run daily with varied hours from 4 p.m. to midnight on weekdays and through Sunday.
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Burkhart
Sakallarig
Danville Fair
James F. Strates
Danville-Pitthylvania County
Disaster Feed For Livestock Cutoff Extended
The deadline for applying to the Emergency Feed Program has been extended from December 1 to May 1, 1978. The program provides cost sharing of two cents per pound on purchased feed, up to 50 percent of total feed cost, aiding eligible dairy farmers and livestock producers due to the summer drought. About 50 producers have signed up. state and local officials expect many more as the deadline lengthens. The Pittsylvania ASC will distribute $18,000 in state funds for drought and flood conservation, with 114 applications totaling $162,000 filed to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rebick
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Caldwell Butter
Rebick
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
Warren Price
Pittsylvania’ County
ASDS
Twitch
Price
Madre County
ASCS
Pittsylvania Asc
ASC
Pittsylvania
The
DYCP
Area Obituary Notes From Reidsville And Gretna
Obituaries from Reidsville area list Onnie Ward Powell 83 of Ruffin Rt2 with long illness, WWI veteran, survived by wife Claudia and four children, funeral at Happy Home United Church of Christ. Also Lelia Edenbeck Gray 99, longtime resident, died. services pending. Mrs Louise Clark Davis of Washington DC returns for Union Hall Baptist service. Gretna: Inez Shellan Yeatts 83, survived by two sons, two daughters, nine grandchildren. services at Springfield Primitive Baptist Church.
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Reidsville
N.C
Onnie Ward Powell
Ruffin Rt. 2
Memorial Hospital
Danville
Claudia Ashworth Powell
Opal Griffin Keen
Velma Christman
Brown Summitt Rr
Linda Schofield
Charleston
D.C
Herman Powell
Ruffin
Norman Powell
Fletctier Lamberth
Belva Dyer Stovall
Burlington
Alva Prillaman
Headaké
Annie Willamson
Cincinnati
Ohio
Leonard Powell
Happy Home
Lelia, Edenbeck Gray
Roman Eagle Memorial Home
Thomas Beastey Gray
Moffett St
Gray
Roman,Eagle
Maffett Memorial Baptist Church
Mary Jennings
Hampton
Catherine Gray
Ethel Burton
College Park
Mattie Lee
Decatur
Cola Cabiness
Barker Funeral Home
Tosp.m
Louise Clark Davis
Washington, D.C
Union Hall Baptist Church
James Venable
Livestock Prices Hold Steady in Virginia Carolina Sale
Volume rose to 467 animals for 38000 as hog prices slipped about 31 per hundredweight. Veal rose roughly 5 while totals included 44 veal 145 slaughter cattle 197 stock feeder cattle 32 baby calves and five cow calf units. Prices per hundredweight listed by Virginia Department of Agriculture covered hogs veal slaughter calves slaughter cattle stock feeder cattle and cow calf combinations with varied ranges.
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Virginia-Carolina
Jimmy Hodges
Hodges
Virginia Department of Agriculture
Culler
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the Regier
Demville, Va
Tobacco Mart
CR Clais
Cooper
Linwood Duncan
W. Main
O. W. Powell
Rockingham County
Robert’ ‘W. “Powell
Mattie Bishop Powell
Citty Funeral Home
Parkinson Road
Mrs. Gray
Mrs. Davis
Washington
Bennie Clark Sr
Earlie M. King Clark
Willie L. Davis Jr
Reginald, Lavense, Evangeling
Debbie Davis
Clark B. Clark
Nannie & McDaniel
Cascade
Annie K. Woods
Bertha M. Hall
Roxanna Padgelé
Jelener Bennett
Inez Yeatts
Gretna
Inez Shellan Yeatts
Leftwich
Mra
Thelma Wright
Concord
George A
Harriet H. Shelton
She
Melvin Yeatts, Gretna
Thomas Yeatts
M&m Furn
Monroe
Mrs
Lelia Gray
Danville Estates
Danville Register
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