The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 15

Second Section I Local THE DANVILLE REGISTER FOUNDED FEBRUARY, 1847. Job Picture In Caswell Brightens New Plant Acquires 425ForEmployment What once was a dark em- ployment picture has brightened considerably thanks to the Cooperation of Caswell County officials, spokesmen for the county's newest industry re- ported last night. Vernon Jones and Byrce Haynes told the Pelham Ruri- tan Ciub the Williamsburg De- corative Plant of Burlington Industries, now being built in the northwestern end of the county, will employ 425 to 450 persons and it now appears most of the jobs can be filled by the time the plant begins full operations later this year. Jones, personnel manager for the plant, and Haynes, plant superintendent, praised the work of Caswell's county com- missioners and school princi- pals in helping find employes for the plant. After contacting these officials, "we were very delighted indeed with the results it brought," they said.

Job applications still are be- ing accepted, Jones told the Ruritans at a dinner meeting at Mary's Diner. These should be made at the Ossipee Weav- ing Plant until facilities are ready at the plant, he added. Haynes said manufacturing part of the plant has been built and work was started this week on the office space. The plant, to be Caswell's largest industry, -will have 260,000 square feet of floor including 18,000 feet of office space. It will be air con- ditioned throughout with acous- tical tile ceiling everywhere but in the warehouse.

Once the new plant is open, the Ossipee plant will be closed and the eqiupment there trans- fered. The Caswell plant have a spinning department that will be entirely new. The operation will be auto- mated as much as it is possible to automate a weaving plant, Haynes said. It will be named the Williams- burg Decorative Plant and will specialize in home furnishings, being one of 10 plants in Bur- lington Industries' Burlington House Division. The Ossipee plant will be converted into a company transportation center.

Haynes thanked the Ruritans for their interest in the plant. "We certainly appreciate the welcome we have had in Cas- well," he said. "You folks cer- tainly have gone all out to wel- come us We're real de- lighted to be members of the industrial community of Cas- welJ." DANVILLE. FRIDAY MORNING, Local 1 Second Section Death In The Afternoon On Mam St. Three Hurt, Two In Car Accidents Pedestrian Falls At Work Project persons were injured in NO.

27,055 24 Items On Agenda Roads, Bridge, Airport Resolutions Before Council For Action Tonight Appropriation ordinances re-1 session. The meeting starts at solutions to pave the way p.m new industry, a new Up for passage is an ordi- and to improve the airport and ordinances to bring the city code in line with state laws on nance appropriating $8,450 as the city's half the salary for Junior Judge Designate Body of Mrs. Virginia Price Mann, 42, is wheeled away from Main St. entrance of Eric's Restaurant. Authorities said Mrs.

Mann shot herself in restroom of restaurant. Mrs. Virginia Mann Shoots Self; Dies In Restaurant Rest Room Warren Fulton Instated As Red Cross Head Warren C. Fulton was install- ed yesterday as chairman of the Danville Chapter, American Red Cross, for a second term. Following his installation by J.

William Clement, member of the board, the chapter chair- man installed other newly elect- ed officers as follows: Harold E. Cornell, first vice chairman; Major H.I. Slayton, second vice chairman; James A. Mot- ley, treasueer; and Mrs. James A Robertson, secretary.

Fulton also installed the fol- lowing newly elected directors: Mrs. Charles R. Haynsworth, Mrs. Walsa R. Henderson, Robert T.

Hundley, R. Russell Neely, Miss Mary A Stephens, Mrs. W.E. Suddarth and Mrs. F.W.

Townes, III. Directors re-elected to the board were Mrs. Richard E. Campbell, Mrs. William E.

Clark and R. Haywood Thomas. Fulton also serves another term as chairman of the ex- ecutive committee. Other com- mittee chairmen appointed in- cluded Maj. Slayton, service to military families; Louis Ber man disaster service; Mrs.

Louise F. Wells office of vol- unteers; Archer L. Fuller, safe ty services; Mrs. Teresa Heffinger, nursing service; Mrs. Wayles R.

Harrison, Red Cross youth; George S. Hughes, fi- nance; Clyde Cassells, per- sonnel; J. William Clement, United Fund liaison; Harold E. Cordell house committee; and R. Haywood Thomas Jr.

pub lie information. Executive Director William Heffernan gave the board high lights of the American Red Cross national convention which he attended last month in San Diego, Calif. Mrs. Cecile Rey nolds, director, service to mill tary families, and Mrs. Flor- ence Vogel, chairman, report- ed on tho ARC conference on service to military families they attended in late April at King of Prussia Pa.

Fulton appointed Mrs. Vogel chairman of a special commit- tee to pUn for the celebration 1967 of the 50th anniversary of the Danville Mrs. Virginia Price Mann, 42, shot herself in the temple and died yesterday afternoon in the upstairs restroom of Eric's Restaurant on downtown Main St. The woman, who lived at 915 a short while earlier had convinced three offi- cers that she had purchased the 22 calibre revolver for protec- tion against prowlers. Mrs.

Mann left a note in a sooth at the restaurant, at 238 Main before climbing up- stairs to the women's rest- room, police said. The note was rurned over to Dr. Kenneth 3. Sizer, medical examiner. Dr.

Sizer could not be reached late yesterday afternoon or last last night. The note was ad- dressed to her son, "Bill." Mrs. Mann was separated from her husband, William How- ard Mann, who is living in Lexington Park, Md. Her son, William Howard Mann, lives here, and a daughter, Miss Karen Mann, resides in Baltimore, Md. Capt.

N. H. Boswell, after discussing the case with in- vestigating detectives and offi- cers who went to the scene, gave the following account: Mrs. Mann went to Lowen- stein's yesterday and purchas- ed the German-made revolver. She then went to Eric's and sat down in a booth.

Mrs. Frieda F. Rosenbaum, pro- prietress of the restaurant, no- ticed the woman had the gun in her hands and was trying to load it. Mrs. Rosenbaum called po- Wright Clarifies Bi-Racial Stand Council Candidate Raymond Wright clarified last night his position on a bi-racial commis- sion, saying he does not favor formation of such a body.

Wright said he was making the clarification because he misunderstood a question put to lim at a forum last week in Bibleway Worldwide Church. His answer to that question left the impression that he fav- ored such a body but, he said last night, "I'm not in favor of a bi-racial commission whatso- ever." Wright also said that his plat- form calls for a complete re- view of the City Employes Re- tirement System which, he said, was erroneously termed City Employes "Welfare" System in an account of a councilmanic forum Monday night. He said some people might think the city's welfare program is a part of his platform. Al- though it is not, he added that there are parts of the welfare program he would like to see changed, too. lice headquarters, and three officers F.

B. Riddle, C. L. Morris and R. J.

Daniel went to the restaurant. They talked to Mrs. Mann, and were told she had been bothered by prowlers and intended to take the gun home and sleep with it under her pillow. "She must have told a convincing Capt. Boswell said, because all three officers believed They told her she was loadingi the gun improperly, but added that she had to take it home in the package and could not load it until she was at her home.

The officers left, and im- mediately afterward, Mrs. Ros- 12 Additional Scholarship Atvards Made In addition to an- nounced previously, several members of the 1966 graduat- ing class of George Washington High School have been award- ed scholarships locally for their college studies. They include: Rennie Lee Smith, Rotary Scholarship; Maurice Oakes, Thalhimers; Linda Boyd and Mary DeHaven, Averett Col- lege; Sandra Abbott and Julia Green, Stratford Robert Agee, Key Club; Bar- bara Owen, Women's Society of Christian Service, a i Street Methodist Church; Janet Arnold and Becky Kendrkk, Schoolfield Methodist Church; Martha Sue Shelhorse, Moseley Memorial Methodist Church; and Fran Robertson, Piedmont Tuberculosis Association. enbaum told police, Mrs. Mann wrote the note, left it in the booth and went upstairs.

Mo- ments later, Mrs. Rosenbaum said she heard the sound of a gunshot from upstairs. At 2:44 p. Mrs. Rosen- baum again called police.

The same three officers arrived to find the woman seated in the restroom, her head under a wash basin and a small amounl of blood on the floor. The pistol was on the floor, near her right hand. She had been shot in the right temple. The officers said the woman gasped for breath twice, then died while an ambulance was awaited. Detectives M.

H. Henry. Wade Groff and B. C. Elliott were called in to take over the investigation.

Dr. Sizer also was called. The officers said one bullet had been fired and six re- mained in the chambers of the revolver. A daughter of Harvey Price and Verna Haraway Price of 915 Claiborne Mrs. Mann was born in Danville on Oct.

21, 1923. She spent most of her life here and attended the local public schools. She was a for- mer employe of L. Herman's, now Thalhimers. In addition to her husband, daughter, son.

and parents, she is survived by one sister, Mrs. Cathleen Swinson of Norfolk; and four brothers, Horace Price of Danville, Melvin C. Price of Greensboro, N. Franklin D. Price of North Wilkesboro, N.

and Ronnie D. Price of Lynchburg. Funeral arrangements are in- complete. The body will be at Townes Funeral Home on Main and the family will be at her parents' residence at 915 Claiborne St. Registrations Taken Today For Summer Session Registration will be taken to- day for students wishing to en- roll in Avcrett College's 1966 summer session who have not pre-registered.

Students wishing to register can do so during the regular hours in the college library on Mountain View Ave. Classes will begin Monday, and students must register to- day if they have not already done so. A wide variety of subjects is being offered for students want- ing to make up work or recent high school graduates who want to get a head start on their col- lege program. The summer school is open to both male and female students on a non-boarding basis. and a pedestrian was hurt when she stumbled at a downtown construction 24 items facing City Coun-Court.

cjjjonjght at the regular June 1 This item was introduced at bruised forehead and cuts on he lower lip in a mid-afternoon accident at Franklin Turnpike and North Main St. Buettncr saidji a passenger Start On Head Start Speeded Up For Deadline car driven by Ruby Earlene Steven- son, also of 143 Tamsworth, who ran into the rear of a car operated by Sharon Widenhouse Coggm of 1644 Leemont Court. The Coggin car was stopped on Franklin Turnpike at a stop sign at the time. up for a slow start on its i Head Start program this sum-l prc scho01 trainin before en- termg the first grade in the the May meeting and will be dealt with tonight. At the same time, an ordi- nance will be introduced to ap- propriate 518,000 as the city's share of the Mental Hygiene Clinic for the year beginning July 1966.

This must tie over 30 days. A companion resolution to this item is one directing City Manager T. E. Temple to con- ifer with the Mental Hygiene officials to see if the state will not enlarge its contribution to the local budget. Under the new formula, tha for the speciality must match dollar for Sl mer.

As arrangements with teach- fa11 ers are being confirmed, today! School officials plan to notify at 3 p.m. is the deadline a of their children's ac- application forms to be com- pleted and returned to the Damage (o the two vehicles ffice an nc totaled $525, with $400 of this being to the 1966 car driven by Miss Stevenson. Mrs. Ila Bcasley Chancy of 1232 North Main St. complain- ed of pains in the head and neck following a two-car colli- sion last night at Drive and Trade St.

Riverside Officer Hugh C. Wyatt said Mrs. Chaney pulled from a crossover into the path of the car of Eugene Rowland, 86 Glen Oak Drive. Damages to- taled $850. The injured pedestrian was Mrs.

Frances P. Womack, 55, 1214 South Main who stum- bled in soft gravel at the Main and Union intersection. When she fell, her head hit the curb. She suffered injuries to the knee, elbow, wrist and head but fortunately sustained no broken bones. The side of the street where she fell was opened earlier this week for laying of pipe under- ground.

A'o one was hurt but dam- ages totaled $650 to a car in a late afternoon mishap on Bar- ter St. According to Officer R. L. Arthur, Lawrence Edward Howell of 1230 Aspen St. was backing a tractor-trailer up to the loading dock of Old Domin- ion Freight Lines when Royal David Waller of Dry Fork Rt.

1 skidded into the rear of the truck. wanting to fill one of teacher aide positions. At least some of the 12 teach- ers and 12 aides will leave here 5unday afternoon for Radford be given a week's specializ- ed training at Radford College. Those who do not go to Rad- ford will begin Monday ready- ing classrooms and materials for use when the Head Start activities begin a week later, June 20. By that time, applications taken by the visiting teachers on their calls at homes will have been screened to deter- Bagley Committee Is Set Up In Nearby N.C.

County George D. Dyer Candidate For Degree At VMI Cadet George Dickerson Dyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Dyer, 279 Mountain View is a candidate for a Ba- chelor of Arts degree in biology during commencement exercis- es Sunday at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington.

Dyer has been enrolled in the armor branch of the Army ROTC program, and will be commissioned in the Army Re- serve. During his cadetship he has been a member of the varsity cross country team, Virginia Academy of Science, Armed Forces Club, Pioneer Invest- ment Club and the Flight In- struction Program. He is a gra- duate of George Washington High School. Plans Announced For New Plant At Altavista ALTAVISTA Plans for a new metal fabrication plant that would employ about 50 initially were an- nounced Thursday by Piedmont Manufacturing Co. The 105,000 square foot plant is expected to be constructed this summer on a 25-acre site, said Piedmont President Harry W.

May. May said the plant, which will manufacture fluid control valves and inflatable products, eventually will employ about 300 persons. May said Altavista was se- lected because "we were im- pressed with the community's excellent labor force and favor- able attitude toward new in- dustries." E. R. English, president of Altavista Area Development said the new plant "will help to diversify AltaVista's industries and will add to its overall prosperity, growth and development." Mary E.

Oakley Receives Degree At Wake Forest Mary Eunice Oakley, daugh- ter of Mrs. Eunice Oakley of 161 Virginia was gradu- ated recently from Wage For- est College, Winston-Salem, She was among about 550 who received degrees. Miss Oakley majored in math- ematics and received the B.S. degree, she was a member of SOPH Society, women's social organization, and of Kappa Mu Epsilon, mathematcis frater- nity. She also was a member of the Young Democrats Club.

ceptance by mail the latter part of next week. The hectic pace of prepara- tion was caused by the late date of receipt of approval of the federal grant to finance the project, covering only 180 pupils instead of the 240 originally requested. Last year, the first, 220 youngsters took part in the program. The 12 classes for the pre- schools will be provided at five schools Bellevue, Berkeley, Gibson, Grasty and Westmore- land. Classes will meet Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.

to 1:30 p.m. for seven weeks beginning June 20 and ending Aug. 5. dollar whereas formerly its share was only one-third the budget. When the budget was presented to the Finance Committee, members objected to the increased share for thai city and were told this is be- cause the Federal govern- ment's allocation in the mental lealth field in Virginia has een reduced until it is negligi- ble.

Thus, it was said, stata officials worked out a new ormula whereby city and stata 'hare and share alike. REIDSVILLE, N. C. A steering committee to aid Con- gressional Candidate Smith Bagley in Reidsville and east- ern Rockingham County was announced Thursday with E. C.

Merricks as chairman. Merricks, a Redisville insur- ance man and civic leader, was Rockingham campaign manag- er of Harold Thomerson in the first primary. Bagley, of Winston Salem, andand Nick Galifianakis of Durham are in the June 25 run- off to select the Democratic nominee for the Fifth District seat being vacated by retiring Ralph Scott. Serving with Merricks on the committee will be: Mrs. Ho- ward Roach, a Mutual Savings and Loan Association executive; James E.

Everett, insurance agent; Paul Hastings, furniture dealer; DiUard McMichael, to- bacco warehouseman; Dr. Hun- ter Miricle, surgeon; W. Leon- ard Pryor, Mayfield farmer- merchant and member of the County Boardof Education; and G. Ed Smith, Reidsville tobacco warehouseman. said the committee will work closely with Hugh P.

Griffin, Reidsville at- torney and Bagley's Rocking- ham County campaign man- ager. He said the committee will make an intensive effort to get out a big Bagley vote "be- cause we are convinced he is the man who can best repre- sent the entire Fifth District." Bagley said he was pleased to have "this fine group of people" working for him and predicted they would be vital "in a i Rockingham County a second time for our cause." Reimbursement Rided Out On DTI Facilities The state will not reimburse localities for their investments in schools to be incorporated into the community college sys- tem, according to the coordina- tor of fiscal affairs for the State Department of Technical Education. If a college is already es- tablished, the state is not going back and pay someone for something that is already there," said Fred O'Connell. "Reimbursement for present facilities is not a part of the 0' Connell's words appeared to squelch any hopes here that the city might be reimbursed the one million to one and a half million dollars it has in- vested the one million to one and a half million dollars it has invested in Danville Techni- cal Institute, one of the schools scheduled to go into the com- munity college system. Top city officials, however, have indicated they did not expect to be reimbursed but do expect the new State Board of Community Colleges to recog- nize this investment and com- pensate for it by speeding up the development of the school.

Man Fined $175 Given 60 Days In Speed Chase Fines totaling $175 plus costs and a 60-day sentence were im- posed on a 24-year-old driver in Municipal Court yesterday on four charges growing out of a high-speed police chase along Westover Dr. on May 28. The defendant, Willie Scott Kernodle of 193 Melbourn Cir- cle, appealed all the penalties. He was sentenced to 60 days and fined $50 for driving with out a permit: fined $50 and costs for reckless driving a speeds up to 80 miles an hour; fined $50 for impeding an offi cer, State Trooper C. E.

Ply male; and fined $25 for failin to heed the red light and siren of the officer's cruiser. Trooper Plymale testified he pursued Kernodle into the city and kept beside him at an 80 miles per hour clip for a shor distance before Kernodle turnec into Bel Air Dr. near the tri angle, where he was stopped. The trooper said a woman, noticing Plymale was having trouble with the man, offered assistance and was asked to call local police. Several men also responded and helped Ply- male got handcuffs on the struggling man, he told the court.

The actual Mental Hygiene Clinic budget is a trifle over $65,000 with the city's share being $33,811.17, but this in- eludes salaries for several po- sitions that have never been and appear unlikely to ba in the next year. Dava Spangler, Clinic Finance Com- mittee Chairman, thus reduced amount asked of the city to $23,000 for the next fiscal year with $5,000 of this being said by the Danville School Board for clinic service to tha schools. Temple, while agreeing to make another attempt to have the state share more of tha expense of the budget, pointed out with emphasis "that in my opinion we can do nothing that would permit the closing of the Mental Health Clinic." He said should the clinic have to be closed for lack of funds it would, no doubt, "mean many years before another Clinic would become operative in tha community." He strongly ommended that Council make sufficient appropriation to cov- er the local share of the opera. tion. On the agenda is a resolution designating Route 86 and Route 29A as limited access highways.

City Manager Temple advises in his memorandum that origi- nally the city had asked for sidewalks on the new bridge in connection with these roads but that now it is advised these routes are to be designated as limited access without any con- ditions. The new resolution will amend the original one. Also, in connection with tha new Broad Street bridge pro- Ju 'c. are resolut authorizing the State Highway Commission to acquire rights-of-way on both sides of the river to build ap- proaches to the bridge. There a ne TM- 3 which Permits the Mate Highway Department to seek nghts-of-ways in cities where projects are constructed with state and federal funds.

Heretofore the job fell on tha city engineer. Council will consider also a resolution asking for an exten- sion of six months for removal structl in the glide path of the approach zones to tha runways at the Danville Mu- nicipal Airport Kernodle's driving record in- cludes a number of speeding and reckless driving cases and notes that his permit has been suspended several times. Site Sought For Hanover Mills Expansion YANCEYVILLE, N. Tha Caswell County Board of dm- taken steps to acquire additional land ne development ot tne school. 5171,000 structure Harri Uvic tenter Study Group Hopeful On Armory Renovati The Civic Center Study Com- others rt Minn, for expansion.

The board is looking for a site for a new Health Center building so that the present sita the cente adjacent to ithe milts can be sold NAME BUILDING FOR GOV. I Hanover. STAUNTON (AP)-- A newj As soon as the Health Center dining hall at the Virginia school for the deaf and blind (VSDB) be named for cx- Gov. Albcrtis S. Harrison Jr The VSBD board of vistors voted Thursday to name the 8171,000 structure Harrison Hall.

Study Com- mission's hopes for renovation of the City Armory soared skyward both literally and figuratively yesterday and last night. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, chairman of the group, was elected last night after hear- ing the reaction of a group of civic and business leaders who had been shown rough plans for the renovation. But if one businessman had not literally taken to the au- to get those plans here, she admitted, the outcome might not have been nearly as fav- orable to her group's cause.

The blueprints, as drawn by local architect Kenneth Cal- vert, were made into slides for showing to last night's guests at the Armory and others to follow. However, as of yesterday afternoon, the slides had not arrived from Washington. But then a member of the committee thought of Fred Leggett, and his private plane. Leggett accepted with- out hesitation, flying to Wash- ington and back with the slides in plenty of time for the presentation. Invited by the committee to tour the Armory and see how the committee proposes to re- make it into a modern, multi- purpose civic and convention center were representatives of such organizations as the Chamber of Commerce, Retail Merchants Association and the Danville Civic Council the later made up of representa- tives' of the city's various ion civic clubs.

They were told of the com- mittee's work thus far, in- cluding field trips to various cities with facilities similar to those envisioned here, con- sultation with experts and the questicnaires sent to many more cities to find out what they have in the way of civic centers, what they cost and other information. Mrs. Smith issued informa- tion sheets which contained a statement by an expert on theatres, Michael Rabbit, tec- nical director of the Museum Theatre at the Virginia Mus- eum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Rabbit went over the pro- posed plans with Calvert, and concluded that the Armory building is "complexly oper- able" aud there reason why it cannot handle any of the facilities planned. W.

H. Luther, director of the City Parks and Recrea- tion Department, told last night's visitors that regard- less whether it becomes a civic-convention center, the Armory will be put to some use and will have to be re- novated. He pointed out the old struc- ture is still a sound building. The group then was shown the slide blueprints showing how each floor would be re- novated. Starting on the top floor, the visitors then were taken on a complete tour of (he building to see what is there now and get a better idea of how it would look if renovated.

Mrs. Smith said the principal reaction was one of surprise as size and shape of the Armory. She said most of the group had not toured it com- pletely before. After doing so and seeing the plans, Mrs. Smith said, the visitors were excited over the possibilities.

If carried out, the plans call for the civic-convention center to handle a area for exhibitions, a large audi- torium for theatrical presen- tations and the like, a gym- nasium, banquet halls, meet- ing rooms and other facili- ties. this one would. Among the visitors was Mayor W. C. McCubbins who, said Mrs.

Smith, was enthusi- astic over the idea and said it 5s something Danville needs. The committee plans to make a similar presentation and a full report to City Coun- Mrs. is made available and new addition built to Hanover's Plant, another 100 workers will be employed, according to com-, pany spokesmen. The mills, which have grown from a score of employes in 1961 to more than 200 at pres- ent, recently received an Army contract for nine million of nylon netting for use by American fighting men in Viet Xam and elsewhere to protect them from mosquitoes and other jungle insects. It has been reported that up- wards of 100 soldiers a day have been incapacitated by ma- laria carried by mosquitoes which infest marshy areas in which the men are engaged.

The study commission, first named by the Super Com- mittee, and was given official status some months ago by Council at the Super Commit- tee's request. It followed up on a study made and dropped Mrs. Smith said her com- by Counicl in 1963-64, and con- mittec was struck by the fact that of the cities replying to the questionaircs, none had centers which would cn- coi.pass as many things as eluded that the Armory could be renovated feasibly for the purpose proposed. It then em- barked on ststudy of facilities in other Hanover bought and occupied the old Caswell Knitting Mill building, it has made a num- ber of expansions in its and equipment. The num- ber of employes has doubled in the past year.

Ronald Green, vice president of the firm, estimated it would take three to four months to complete a new building, but he had no estimate as to how long it would take to install new machinery. i.