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The Charleston Daily Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 2

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Charleston, West Virginia
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ties, we. wo Charleston 3 PUPS ADMIRE NAMESAKE Mrs. Clarence While of Dan ville pets her two English Springer Spaniels while they gaze up at the slreet marker of the lane which bears their names. Cindy is the blonde one on the Ml, Sissy is the coal black one at right. ROVING THE VALLEY Danville Street I named ror uoqs Vou'd do a double take too.

you just happened to drive by and see the street name. We were heading "back" tc Charleston from Madison, pass through Danville, when the. street sign of our eyes. ight the corners: named her Sissy. It looked like tlic name of the! street looked right GW1N at the black and white, conventional street sign.

"Cindy Sissy Ave." were the! words on it. All the way home we wondered about that little street in Dan ville. How'd come toi name a street with TWO And who or the two! girls it was named for? VISUALIZE LADIES TWIN DAUGHTERS visualized two dear tittle; line of "Chum of Tuscawilla" cf south Charleston. they named the blonde pup. and when she was two years old "Sissy" was born, a coal black daughter of Cindy.

And they The Whites lived on Hopkins Avenue, paralleling the main street of Danville which is TU. 119. Beside the house is a narrow lit tle lane connecting Hopkins with the main road. PUPS ACT LIKE THEY OWN STREET Cindy and Sissy romn un and down the little street every day when they're turned out for exercise, and for eight or nine years they have acted like they own the street. So when the town of Danville decided to put up metal street markers two years ago, they de cided there ought to be a name; for the little street running off the main road up toward the White's home.

"We decided (hey had praclic ally owned the street for so Jong, we might as well name it for! them," chuckled the quiet spokeni Uarence White. "I can I really remember who it was who pro posed the name, but it was taken old ladies, quite elderly mo Plate made, so really knew how old they 11 IS and they were very coy about: Mrs. White, always the gracious mcir ages! wno fiad lived in Hostess, was Kind enough to take Danville all their long lives. Right; on that one biock long street. Never had moved away, both; unmarried, both very respected! riders of the town.

And the town. honoring thorn, just named theiri slreet for them out of respect. And then again we visualized (wo little girls, about five or six years old. Twins, perhaps. Their falser is the mayor and when the town decided to put up new name plates for all the streets, the mayor asked to name the lane beside his house for his two cute little daughters.

Or maybe there were two girls or two ladies who perhaps were lost in a fire on the street, and the town wanted to memorialize their names. 0.h. a hundred or so mental pictures, imaginative thoughts on how the street came to be named for "Cindy" and "Sissy." DANVILLE SHOPPER KNOWS THE STORY So (he other day wc pulled into the Danville Supermarket and ked Mrs. Jack Mover about it. "There's Mrs.

Clarence White now, who knows the story," Mrs. Mover said, pointing out a neatly dressed young matron behind a chopping cr.il. "It's her Cindy and Sissy I he slreet is named for." Clarence and Kalhcrinc White sire respectively executive vice president and cashier, mid vice president and auditor of Ihe Bank of Danville. Mrs. While is Ihe former Kalhcrinc White, daughter of Ihe Sheriff of Boone County.

Tbev're both natives of Boone, have resided in Danville since i They never had any cni; dien. And one day 11 years ago) they bought a registered English' Springer Spaniel pup from the part of her lunch hour from the bank to get the two butterball fat pups to pose for the camera. And Oiere's the story of "Cindy inssy Ave. in Danville, WT It was named for two of the nicest spaniels we've met in long tune. I bet it's the only street in the state which bears the name of two household pets.

Strippers For 'Plume' NEW YORK The long in Broadway hit "La Plume de Ma Tante" is adilinr spice for its visit to Las Vegas. The French gags and gals re uc plans to add strip tease performers for an engagement at the gambling resort starting Dec. 23. When it later goes on national tour, the exotic additions will be subtracted. PEEK AT SANTA FATAL TO CHILD AS MANTLE FALLS GARDENDALE.

Ala. A large picture of Santa Clans was painter! on the mirror atop the mantel at the W. B. Stubbs home. Three year old Kristi Karen Stubbs, her older sister and a cousin were admiring the picture yesterday.

Kristi raised up on tiptoe and put her hands on the large stone mantel piece. Police Chief K. B. Lewis said the Mono, about eight feet, long, toppled over and killed Kristi. The other children were not injured.

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114,805
Years Available:
1914-1977