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The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 20

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4-B Register: Dcnville, Nov. 14, 1965 Picture Of South Is Seen Distorted And Inadequate Old Soldiers But They Aren't Fading Away to be viewed as "a colorful land peopled by a variety of picturesque types of humanity" is an unfair representation. They point out that the South is not home only to Negroes, Creoles, mountaineers, "crack- ers," sharecroppers, Ku Klux Klansmen and political dema- gogues. Most of them believe, also, tinuity and Change, and whose that the literary and historical findings make up a new work traditions have given a "high- published this week under the distorted" and "grossly in- DURHAM, N. C.

There is a basic similarity of fundamen- tal institutions all over the United States. And the South, in most ways, is an ex- tension of that society. This is the conclusion of 24 authorities who contributed to recent Duke University sym- posium on "The South In Con- same title by the Duke Univer Press. adequate" picture of the South. Although not all of them are The volume was sponsored by southerners, the authors have the Duke Center for Southern devoted much of their lives to Studies and the Southern Soci- ological Society.

The authors examine South's past and present studying the region. They plore the fact that the South the i 0 often depicted as a com- and plctely poverty-ridden, back- ward, ignorant, agrarian region with an extreme resistance to change. Duke sociologists John C. Mc- Kinney and Edgar T. Thomp- son, editors of the work, say the authors view the South's future in the light of change already underway and the sec- tors within which it is now taking place.

review the anticipated nature and extent of the region's fur- ther integration into the main- stream of American life. Experts from the fields of economics, political science, history, sociology, education, and literature probe the extent to which the South is involved in the American society. They analyze Southern urban- ization, economic trends, labor movements, agriculture, educa- tion, race relations, religion and the changing status of of the Virginia-Carolina Space Southern women. Their illustra-jExposition and election of of- tions show how the South are on the agenda for the categorized by its own meeting of Dansyl- modes, regional problems and vania Barracks No. 1081, Vet- ln Farm Bureau Resolution Farmer Control Of Leaf Marketing Is Proposed RALEIGH (AP)--A proposal calling for farmer control of flue cured, tobacco marketing will be presented to the North Carolina Farm Bureau conven- tion in Raleigh next week.

Delegates will be asked to WWI VETERANS TO MEET A membership report, tours Members of Battery the Danville National Guard unit that went to France in World War gather around Thomas Fox of Chatham as he reads a resolution deploring anti-American dem- onstrations and defending this country's role in Viet Nam. The veterans held their annual reunion here last night. They also voted to give their guidon to Memorial Library. Motive For Double Killing Still Sought By Detectives organization. All the authors feel that the general tendency for the South begin at 7:30 p.

m. erans of World War in the City Armory. The meeting will County Line Baptist Plan Homecoming Perplexed detectives contin- ued yesterday to seek without success a reason behind Friday night's double slaying. Both Paul Junior Smith, 28, nd Dorothy Williams, 27, were tilled with the same gun at 721 Beauregard St. in a two-room NEVE TAKING OFF! The "azjfai take-off" success tf tur ntn 1966 Fords has filled our Ms with torgeaut trade-ins and we're taking plenty iff their prict tin ti move 'em! Harry for i fabulous buy! i BARKHOUSER'S ECONOMY SPECIALS 64 FORD GALAXIE 500 2 DOOR V-8 engint, standard radio, heater.

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N. Mor- ris and B. C. Elliott, the woman shot Smith twice before Smith could wrench the gun from her and shoot her once at close range. The detectives said phases of their investigation so far have verified John Mending- tiall's account.

But, said Morris and Elliott, they have yet to establish any reason for the shooting. Mendinghall, son of Smith's landlady, said he had gone to the house to smoke a cigarette and chat with Smith. The wo- man was already there when he went in, he told the officers. The detectives said Mending- hal told them he heard no ar- gument before the Williams wo- Morris and Elliott said Smith apparently came here recently from North Carolina and was employed by Thompson-Arthur Paving Co. He a the small house on Beauregard St.

with another man, also from North Carolina, who was away at the time. Mrs. Florence B. Mending- hall, who rented the house to Smith, said she didn't know what the Williams woman was doing there, that she rented to Smith with the understand- ing he would have no women in the house. The detectives said the back- ground of the Williams woman remains a mystery, although she had a prior police recorc here.

They said they have been unable to determine yet where she was living at the time the shooting and whether, a was reported, she was married Likewise, they have found one who could tell them wheth er Smith and the woman had man suddenly picked up the .22 revolver from a bed and began firing. Moments before this, sh'e had taken off her earrings and a finger ring and offered them to Mendinghall to keep, he said. been going together. The offi cers said their first inclinatio: was to record the double slay ing as the product of a quarre between lovers but they note they have no evidence to sup Average Retail $895 595 EXTRA SPECIAL BITTS 59 FORD GALAXIE 2-DOOR HARDTOP H9NS132143 345 47 CHEVROLET 2-DOOR SEDAN Good Transportation 47 61 COMET 4-DOOR SEDAN Standard der. tranimisiion.

6-cylin- 595 20-year-old Mendinghall said he was getting ready to leave, whereupon Smith said he would keep them, Mendinghall told the officers. Smith then took the jewelry and placed it in a trunk but there was no force used nor animosity shown between either the man or the woman when this was done, the witness said. It was while Smith had his back to the woman that she picked up the gun and shot, he added. Morris and Elliott said Mend- inghall told them Smith had taken the gun out of his pocket shortly before and laid it on the bed. According to Mendinghall, the the woman shot Smith first in the back and then in the chest as he turned around.

Smith then took the gun away from her and fired once as Mend- inghall ran from the house to the home of his mother in front of the Smith bouse. The detectives a i they found Smith sprawled on his back across tie bed while the woman was found on the floor beside Smith's dangling feet. port this theory. Homecoming i for ounty Line Baptist Church lo- ated on State Highway No. 832 ast of Chatham near the Hali- ax County line will be observ- today.

The Church was organized In 771 and is the oldest Baptist Church in this area. Just this year, with the com- ing of The Rev. James A. iVomble as pastor, has the Church had a full-time minister on the field. The guest minister for the morning service will be Rev 3avis H.

Thompson, Secretary of Missions of the Pittsylvania Baptist Association. Dinner on the ground will follow and aft erward the new $20,000.00 pas torium will be dedicated. Th Rev. Latta Terry, a ministeria student at Southeastern and a young man from the commun ity, will lead in the dedication service. The Rev.

Terry helpei supply the pulpit a months before the present pas tor moved into the field. Former members and friend are invited to participate in th homecoming services. approve a resolution instructing the organization's president, B. C. Mangum, to call a meeting of all industry segments for the purpose of setting up a market control committee.

Unler a recommendation ap- proved Saturday by the resolu- tions mmittee, farmers would make ir "50 per cent or more of the membership of the mar- ket control group. All industry segment, including warehous- men and buying interests, would be represented. The resolution committee consisting oi all farm bureau county presidents in the state the recommendation without a dissenting vote. The recommendation, pat terned after a proposal mad by the Wake County farm bu reau, is expected to come for consideration by conventio delegates Tuesday. The far-reaching proposal is a result of widespread grower dis- atisfacUon with the operation flue-cured tobacco markets women of Bladen, Guilford and Wake Counties.

The annual meeting of North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. will be Monday morning. The first gen- eral session of the convention is slated Monday at 2 p.m. with Mangum presiding. The convention is expected to adjourn Wednesday at noon.

WAHTW SAW 091 MAT? switch to his season. Congestion at pro- essing plans, necessitated fre- uent sales holidays and the urtaiiment of daily selling me over a period of several weeks. Farm spokesmen tenn- the situation "chaotic." Other tobacco recommenda- ions from the resolutions com- mittee express strong opposi- ion to a two-price plan for to- bacco, urge that price support on untied tobacco be extended additional grades as soon as mssible and ask the U.S. De- triment of Agriculture to Jnue to measure crop acreage on individual farms to deter- mine compliance with allot- ments. The State Farm Bureau al- ready has recommended to Ag- riculture Secretary i Freeman that the national flue- cured quota for 1966 remain the same as in 1965.

The organization's 30th an- nual convention, expected to at- tract some 700 farm men and women from across the state, will get underway with a ves- per services at the Sir Walter Hotel Sunday at 7:30 p.m. It will be followed by a reception sponsored by farm bureau HEATING OIL fc KEROSENE FILL UP NOW AND err TOP VALUE STAMPS A. Carter Agent HUMBLE OIL REFINING GO. 200 River St. Dial SW 3-5811 63 FORD CUSTOM 4-DOOR SEDAN Solid white, automatic transmis- sion, radio, heater.

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Noah Beverly Funeral Rites Set Monday The funeral for Noah Beverly will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Swicfgood Fun- eral Home. Burial will be in Schoolfield Cemetery. Mr. Beverly, of 199 Banner died Friday night in a lo- cal sursing home at the age of 89.

He had been a patient at the nursing home for three weeks after suffering an injury in fall last August. A native of Floyd County, he spent most of his life in Dan- ville and was employed by Dan River Mills for many years. La ter he worked is a night watch man at DTI. He lived with his granddaugh ter, Mrs. Laura Anderson, am was a member of J.E.B.

Stuar Council No. 115 of the Junio: Order of Mechanics. He wa born Apr. 15, 1876, and was the son of the Jate Mr. and Mrs Madison Beverly.

Surviving are three daughter and one son: Norene, Peggy Dorothy and Billy Beverly, a 'of Hughes Memorial School and one step-daughter, Mrs jlxmise Wilkerson of the Hollam i The body is at the funera ihome. The family is at th home of Mrs. Anderson. BLACKWELL MOTOR CO. YOUR DEALER FOR RAMBLER-DODGE JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENT '66 RAMBLERS AND DODGES TONY AND TOM ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO BE OUT-SOLD IN COME SEE WHAT WE MEAN! RAMBLER 2-Dr.

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Real sharp RKNAULT DAUPHJNE 595 BILLFOLD LOST Edward Alber of 109 South- land Drive told police last night his brown billfold, containing a ten dollar bill, driver's li- cense and other papers was lost sometime Friday night. He jsaid he thought he lost it at the) Capitol Theatre but was not 1 certain about that since the theatre management had been unable to find it since he wai thert. BLACKWELL MOTOR CO. i Diol 318 Floyd SW 2-7411 LkcriM RAMBLER-- Sales Service --DODGE 2373 RIVERSIDE DRIVE Coll For Orel I Dorian, Tommy Gommoo, Nohow, ff Hmrcn KN SW 2-7413.

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