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Area Deaths And Funerals Mrs. Smith, S3, Dead On Arrival At Hospital Mrs. Frances Mayhew Smith of ihe OW Yancsyville Road in the Gatewood community was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital this mornirig at 9:40 o'clock. She had been in declining health foe the past two years. Mrs.

Smith, 83, was born in Pittsylvania County near Gretna, a daughter of the late Benjamin Thomas Mayhew and Mrs. Martha Keesee Mayhew. made her home In Gretna until her marriage to Hetfry Clayl Smith when she was eighteen, years of age. Since that time she toad made her home in the Yancey- Harold Warren, Danville Native, Dies In Maryland Harold Eugene Warren of 257 East Montgomery Rock- vilk, died in the Mount Wilson Hospital at Mount Wilson, yesterday morning at 8:06 o'clock. He had been a patient in the hospital for the past three years.

Mr. Warren, 40, was born in Danville, Sept. 4, 1921, a son of the late Gus D. Warren and Mrs. Margie Ingram Warren.

His early We was spent here, and he was employed with the local A Company. From 1943 until 1952 he resided in California, where he operated a restaurant. After he returned to this section of the country, he was engaged in the vjlle Road community until two- furniture upholstery business. At years ago when she moved to SU ch times he was able to be out Gretna. She returned here the firsti of the year.

She was a member of the Shady Oak Methodist Church. Her husband died in 1948. Surviving are one son. Louis Henry Smith, of Baltimore, thiee sisters: Mrs. Mary Schwitz- cdett, Mrs.

Virgie Yeatts and Mrs. P. A. Scruggs, all of Gretna; two brothers: Louis Mayhew of Gretrfa and D. T.

"Doc" Mayhew of Richmond; and three grandchildren. The remains are resting at the Swicegood Funeral Home pending ihe completion of funeral arrangements. The family will be at the home of her sister, Mrs. Mary Schwitzerlett, Gretna. Church A.

0. McCollum Dies At Age 79 In Reidsville REIDSVILLE, N. 0. McCollum, 79, of Rt. 5 Reidsville died yesterday afternoon at 1:30 in Annie Penn Memorial Hospital following a critical illness of six davs.

He was a native of Rockingham County, born in the Midway community, but had lived in the Lawsonville community most of his life. He was a member of the First Methodist Church. Mr. McCollum is survived by his widow, Cora Dixon McCollum; two sons, Oscar G. McCollum and David W.

McCollum, both of Rt. 5 Reidsville; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy M. Sutton of Winston- Salem and Mrs. Thomas S.

Butler of Rt. 2 Reidsville; three brothers, C. A. McCollum of Winston- Salem, W. T.

McCollum of Greensboro and S. C. McCollum of Rt. 5 Reidsville; one sister, Mrs. W.

T. Ferneyhough of Reidsville; and 12 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at o'clock from the First Methodist Church by the Rev. Thomas Stockton. Interment will be in an ds arid one grandson, the Midway Methodist Church Cemetery near Reidsville.

The body will remain at Wilkerson Funeral Home until 2 p.m. tomorrow when it will be taken to the church. Find Extra Activity On 2 Fronts Fugitive Returned, Another Is Nabbed of the hospital, he made his home with his sister, Mrs. F. L.

Cocner, in Alexandria. He is survived by four sisters: Mrs. Libby Emory of Newport News, Mrs. 0. B.

Harbour of Danville, Mrs. Gretta Sharpe of Oxford, N. and Mrs. F. L.

Conner of Alexandria; and five brothers: John W. Warren and Wallace Reid Warren, both of Danville, Thomas D. Warren of Newport News, Garland D. Warren of Charlottesville' and Jack Warren of Washington, D. C.

Funeral services will be conducted from the chapel of the Swicegood Funeral Home, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Rev, James C. Stirewalt. Interment wilt be in Mountain View Cemetery. The remains have been returned to Danville and are resting at the funeral home. The family is at the home of his sister, Mrs.

0 Barbour, 716 Westover Dr. World Received Of Death In Ga. Of J. M. Wells Word was received here today of the death earlier this week in Dccatur, of Johrt Morton Wells, a native of Pittsylvania County and a former resident of ihe Callands community.

Mr. Wells, 72, died Tuesday at 3:50 p. m. He was residing in De- calur at 1854 Cannon St. Funeral services were conducted Thursday from Blanchard Funeral Home in Atlanta, by the Rev.

W. L. Brackman arid the bev. L. B.

Jones. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery in Atlanta. Mr. Wells was a member ol Grant Park Methodist Church and a World War I veteran. He is survived by his widow Mrs.

Margaret Stanford Wells; ne daughter, Mrs. James H. Pen- iaiid of Decatur; one sister, Mrs. J. W.

Marlowe of Martinsville; me brother, Acree Wells of Cal- Police Probe Wide Variety Of Offenses Long-Distance Threat Claimed Discount Variety Tobacco Ruling To Be Appealed Two police officers returning with a prisoner from New York brought about the arrest of an alleged drunken driver as they neared Danville; and tenacity on the part of another officer resulted in the arrest of an escapee from a Rockingham County, N.C. prison camp, in separate police activities last night. Det. W. L.

Brown and Officer Neil Morris were enroute from New York with James Hobart Sturgill, wanted here for breaking and entering and burglary. Approaching South Boston on Rt. 58 from the east they spotted a car they said was "driving all over the road." They radioed Danyille police headquarters, which in turn teletyped state police. Trooper L. A.

Layne caught up with the car at the Municipal Airport turnoff and arrested Russell Home Taylor, of 181 Cumberland Danville, on a charge of drunken driving. Meanwhile, Officer L. L. Haraway had his hands full in capturing the Rockingham County fugitive after a motor chase and then a foot race. The subject, listed as John T.

Southern. 38, was lodged in jail and Rockiiig- ham authorities notified. Southern, a trusty serving 12 months for obtaining money under false pretenses, made his getaway near Wentworth yesterday afternoon in a prison camp truck. Haravvay spotted such a truck on West Main St. and pursued it across Lanier down Carlson Ave.

and up Laurel Ave. As the truck made a sharp turn into Lanier, it teetered on the edge of an embankment with a 40-foot drop to the railroad tracks. The driver jumped out and started running but was handicapped by a limp he later said was due to an old injury. Haraway chased Southern down a dirt road and caught up with him at the edge of some woods. Sturgill, wanted here since April 1961, was recently arrested in New York by the FBI on a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

He is charged with breaking into the apartment of Thomas M. Barkis on Phillips Court and stealing $125 worth of clothing. He allegedly had been engaged in painting the apart ments when, the break-in occurred. A hearing has been set in Mu nicipal Court Monday, at which time the escapee is scheduled for an extradition hearing. Request Full Quota Of Buyers On Small Marts Jaycee Executives Meet At Convention to: DtmlU, II, Integration i In Powhatan County Urged The Danville Civic League will meet Monday night at 6:30 at the Charcoal House.

The business meeting is scheduled for 7 o'clock, ollowing the dinner which is optional. The state executive board of ihe Junior Chamber of Commerce met yesterday afternoon in conjunction with the work and play conference now in progress here. Over 400 Jaycees and their wives are in attendance at the conclave which features forums and workshops at ihe Hotel Danville and various other activities at the Holiday Inn and the City Armory. In conference above (left to right) are Harold Henry of Danville; Phillip H. Kirkpatrick of Petersburg, national director; Dick Davis of Radford, state legal counsel; Ward Edwards Blacksburg, state executive vice-president; Herbert H.

Bateman of Newport News, state president; Albert Teich of Norfolk, international commissions coordinator; Edythe Geipel, executive secretary; and Gene Kokinski, secretary- Most Grades Sell Higher On Border Belt By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flue-cured tobacco sales on the South Carolina-Border North Carolina belt wound up the week Friday with price increases oni about 70 per cent of the grades. The i a were mostly about $1 a hundred, compared with Thursday's averages. Low green lugs were down $1, the only loss. Volume of sales was medium to heavy, while quality of offerings was slightly lower. Sales Thursday totaled 8,354,960 pounds at an average a hundred, a gain of nine cents over Wednesday's average.

Auction bid averages Friday on a limited number of representa- Approval Of AD Sale Due Today Ruling On Deal Delayed A Day NORFOLK, Va. Ml--V. S. District Court Judge Walter E. Hoffman was expected today to issue an order authorizing the sale of the Atlantic Danville Railway tive U.S.

grades: Leaf-- Fair lemon $67, up low lemon $65, up $1. Cutters Low lemcn $71, un- Halifax Mechanic Found Dead In Friend's Home NAACP Files Federal Suit Discrimination At Ft. Lee RICHMOND, Va. The VAACP has sent a telegram to the secretary of the Army citing a Ft. Lee, memorandum which it claims discriminates against the children of Negro military personnel residing on the post.

The memorandum a i white children to Prince George County white public schools and Negro children to Petersburg Nei gro public schools, said the Na-j I Va. NAACP has filed suit in Fed- ieral District Court seeking the desegregation of public schools in Powhatan County. The suit was filed yesterday by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on behalf of 65 Negro pupils in the county. They asked the court to issue an injunction preventing county leaders and the State Pupil Placement Board from denying the i admittance to schools solely on the ground of race or color. Earlier this summer 37 Ne- vancement of.

Colored People. The executive secretary of the Virginia conference, W. Lester Banks, said "the NAACP will not stand Idly by and permit the United States Army to practice and condone racial segregation in the education of military personnel dependents." The Negro rights group urged Army Secretary Cyrus R. Vance to order the Ft. Lee commander to rescind the memorandum.

At Ft. Lee. a spokesman said the memorandum was published "merely as an aid to parents. It does not order them to send their children anywhere." He said it was based on infor- Prince Co. A hearing on the sale of the 207-mile line, now in trusteeship, was continued until today.

The petition for salew as filed by Seaborn J. Flournoy of Portsmouth, a businessman who is the railroad's sole trustee. Following yesterday's hearing, attorneys said there is "reasonable expectation" that a satisfactory proposed order can be prepared. Sale of the AD would have to be approved by the Interstate changed; low orange $71, un- Commerce Commission. warehousemen in 12 one-sale markets of North Carolina and South Carolina have asked major tobacco buying companies to keep a full quota of buyers on the markets until the major portion of RALEIGH There werej tne crop marketed, or until changed.

Lugs-- Good lemon $71, up fair lemon $69, up $1: fair orange $69, unchanged; low variegated orange $58, up $1. Primings-- Good lemon $66, up $1: fair lemon $63, unchanged; low lemon $57, up fair orange $63, up low orange $54 up $2. Nondescript Best thin body LORIS, S.C. (AP) Tobacco i 43 up substandard $33, tin- Sept. 21.

The warehousemen crop is larger and said this indications today that 14 Tar Heel farmers whose tobacco crops have been ruled "discount varie-' ty" by a federal agency will 1 "the crop had been relief in federal court. Thomas A. Banks, Raleigh attorney who represented several Johnston County farmers at hear- Three 5 ASC mittee this week, said Friday he was studying the possibility of court action. One of the 14 farmers, R. H.

McElveon of Garner, said the ruling by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee would cost him $18,000. Discount variety tobacco is eligible for only one-half the government support price. "This is one of the most unjust, unreasonable acts I have ever heard of," McElveen added. He called the action "the death of the tobacco program." The ASC committee made its ruling after hearing appeals by the 14 farmers. The committee had ruled earlier that the 32-acre crop of L.

A. Walters of Columbus County was of. discount variety. Most of the growers involved contended they planted Coker 316, a variety not on the discount list. Discount varieties are described as lacking in qualities acceptable to the tobacco trade.

marketed. At the same time, they said, based on the number of days allotted one-sale markets, 'we have used about 37 per cent of malicious damage, a larceny and issuance of a warrant for a Piainfield, N.J. man formerly of Danville for threatening a local via long-distance telephone marked overnight police! activity here. On complaint of Mary Wood, colored, of 309 Walton that had been directed at her and her life threatened by a caller in Piainfield, a warrant was issued against William Henry Cume, 28, colored, formerly of Danville, with Piainfield authorities to be requested to arrest him. The woman reported that it was the latest in a series of threats she said Currie had made against her allegedly for failing to heed his commands that she come up there.

Police said Currie formerly went with the local complainant. Wilsie Thomas Milam, of 117 Eastwood was treated at Memorial Hospital last night for knife wounds sustained on the driveway of a River St. establishment. He told officers he was in the act of entering his truck when he felt something, turned and took a swing at the assailant and then was cut again. The assailant, he said, ran up Bryant and got away although chased a distance by the man.

No arrest had been- made today. Milam was said not to have been seriously cut. On complaint of James Robinson, colored, of Penn's Row AI- Jey. that he had been struck with a chair, Bruce Hairston, also a resident of the alley, was charged with asscult. changeu.

PROJECT PLANNED WASHINGTON (at--Appalachian Power Co. of Roanoke, applied yesterday to the Federal Commission for a preliminary permit for a 400,000 kilowatt power project on the River in Virginia and North Carolina. A preliminary permit gives the holder priority of application for an FPC license while conducting the necessary studies. The Appalachian Power proj- of our selling days." lect would be located in Grayson Their sent to governor and U.S. senators of the two states, among others, said that to confine these 12 one-sale markets "to a total of 27 selling days this year would result in a tremendous hardship to thousands' of small and large tobacco growers.

It also said this would result "in a tremendous financial loss to about 33 warehouse firms doing business on these markets." A one-sale market has only one set of buyers, and allotted time is divided among warehouses. Youth Convicted Of Murder; Given Life In Prison Five Area Boys On 'Honors List' At N.C. State Five area boys, all residents of North Carolina, are among the 720 undergraduates at North Carolina State College umed to the the past academic year. FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP)-Robert Lee Thomas, 15, of Bennettsville, S.C., was ccnvicted of murder here Friday and sentenced to life in prison.

The Negro youth was convicted of the fatal stabbing of Herbert i Taft Pearce. 74 year old white man, after breaking into Pearce's home last Jan. 27. The jury, which deliberated two hours, recommended mercy, making the life sentence mandatory. Defense attorneys attempted to show that police coerced Thomas to confess the slaying, and pleaded unsuccessfully for a non-suit.

who have been 'Honors List" for They are: Kenneth Elmer Cross of Ruff in: James Lester Cox of Nelson Hairston, of 441 North- Reidsville: Jimmy Abell Watkins ern reported that while of Yanceyville; and John William along Main St. at Jeffer vVoody and James Andrew Smith, son about 11 o'clock last night of Leaksville. he was "shot" with a slingshot. orc er to be included on the No details were available this "Honors List" at State College, a morning. student must have been enrolled for both semesters for a total of 25 semester hours, must have been a candidate for a degree and must S.ave had a 3.0 or average or better for the year's work.

In earlier reports, glass was reported broken in five parking meter heads on West Main St. near Bishop and 10 window panes were broken out of Forest Hills School. i The larceny involved theft of Ocean waters contain by far the roll of felt tar paper from a greatest proportion of fishes, both Sends Gift Of Drinking Doll To Churchill LONDON (AP) A clockwork drinking doll, the gift of a woman admirer, was sent up to Sir Winston Churchill in his hospital room Friday. The doll was dressed like a bartender and. on being wound up, poured a glass otf wine and drank it.

"I thought it might amuse Sir Winston so I sent it up to hisi room," said Mrs. Rosetta Fisher, owner of a nearby tavern. Sir Winston, his broken thigh on and Allegheny County. N.C. Two dams, two powerhouses and two reservoirs would make up the project.

A reservoir would extend abou 36 miles upstream from an upper dam and powerhouse on New River about five miles upstream from the mouth of Elk Creek The Norfolk Western Rail- dead today in the home of an acquaintance, and Medical Examiner Dr. N. H. Wooding said the man's death appeared to be of natural causes. The man was identified as Claude Day and was found in; the front room of the home occupied by Harvey Hancock, who; found the body at about a.m.

today. Dr. Wooding, who had the remains sent to Danville for an autopsy before ruling on the death, quoted Hancock as saying Day had come to his home lastj night around 11 o'clock. The coroner said Hancock then told him he went to bed and Dayi went to sleep on the couch. tional Association for the Ad-! gro pupils applied for transfers to all-white schools in the county.

The State i Placement Board ordered the county of- icials to investigate the genuineness of 29 of the applications. Eight others were not submit- on the official forms. Powhatan officials contended hat because proper procedures were not followed, they had no duty to investigate the applications. They filed suit in Richmond Circuit Court to this effect. The county's Board of Supervisors also indicated that if any Negroes were assigned to all- white schools, they would consider closing the public schools.

Nearby Prince Edward County closed its schools in 1959 to avoid court-ordered integration. The petition from the Negro rights group further asked that Powhatan be forbidden to continue operation of a bi-racial school system or, in the alternative, thai they be required to submit a plan for a nonracial system. They contended in the petition 'that a Negro child seeking transfer to an all-white school is measured against criteria not a into consideration for white children. If the demands of the criteria are not met, the application is rejected. The petition alleged that white small child escaped with only I children are routinely assigned to all-white schools and Negro children are routinely assigned to all-Negro schools.

designated by the U. S. commissioner of education as the local agency responsible for the educa. of the children of military at the post. Four Injured In 2 Traffic Mishaps Here Police Officer Among Victims When he awoke this morning, minor jn uries wnen struck by a Wooding quoted Hancock as say-; tr uck on Nort union St.

about ing, he found the man dead on: tllis raorn i following in- the floor. ury to three, including a poliee- Dr. Wooding said there was: ma n) a four-way wreck at 1 I 1 i CL I 1 WJ way Co. agreed earlier to buy no outvvard evidence of foul Main an( Holbrook Sts. last eve- the railroad for million and fl ruling wiu be issued as I about 6 0 dock Ca SOO as the to this morning's mishap, Rene Day was married and the! Nesm thi colored, aged years, at a public auction.

Court was recessed yesterday .0 permit modifications in a draft of the proposed sale order to meet objections raised by David VL Palley, a New York attorney. The effect of the modifications apparently would be to make it possible for a wider range of prospective buyers to bid on the railroad. Norfolk Western, which connects with the AD at Norfolk and Suffolk and at Denniston, proposes to spend the money necessary to keep the railroad in operation. NW owns more than 45 per cent of the AD's outstanding first mortgage bonds. Flournoy told the court there wasn't "enough cash for me to continue to operate with all the contingencies I am subject to." He said one wreck would destroy the equity that now remains.

father of two children. of Cedar Terrace Apts. was said to have dashed from behind a parked car into the path of a truck operated by Ollie Irving of Providence, Rt 1, C. The child escaped with i nothing more serious than scratches and bruises, police said, following white Landing Gear Okay; Airliner LandS Safely WINSTON-SAL EM (API-Aionerated the truck driver of a deadly weapon connection sponsibility and no charges were! with a fellow workers death. Cose Involving Fatal Plunge Bound To Jury SOUTH BOSTON-Joe Wesley Lewis, a Danville Negro construction worker, has been bound over to the grand jury for ae- on a charge of assault with Piedmont Airlines F-27 airliner with 36 persons aboard landed safely Friday night after circling the airport for 40 minutes be- preferred.

Police Officer Wilbour E. Sheffield of 363 Aderbrook and cause of a signal indicating land-1 two teenage girls were injured iri ing gear trouble. 'last evening's accident when the Traffic accidents cost the lives of 3,160 persons in the U.S. during May, 1962. the South Boston sheriff's office reports.

The action came at a preliminary hearing yesterday before County Court William Waller. The assault charges were placed against Lewis after a fellow employe, George Washington King of Danville, fell to his Just before attempting the land-) The mishap, which caused con- ath fn to the loTnial ing, he flew low so maintenance side rabte damage to the four cars, Store budding adjacent to Legmen on the ground could check toUcurred in a driving rain. Department Store mSoulh see ifthe wheel was down. It was. Sheffield was heading north on! sto apparently died in- falling The pilot had reported he was girls' vehicle struck the police not getting an instrument signal cruiser which was on an emer- that the nose wheel was function- gency call, causing a spectacular mg.

Another dam would be built 12 miles downstream from the upper dam. I smash-up of four cars. -ll-Ult fy CAO -n. OilCLllClU Wao UCdUillg, IIUA 141 uii The pilot then made a quick his siren souriding, when an Uy( touchdown and immediate take-Jan au to operated by Audrey Sue rnm off to test the landing gear, cir-jMitchell, 18, of 931 Green pull- cled again and landed. An from Holbrook into the right tion showed the landing gear of the cruiser, it was claimed.

from the 30 ft concrete. Investigations by the South Boston police indicated a not defective. Radiological Monitoring Equipment Arrives under construction on It, number of species and indi- mend, is expected out of the hos- Darby Rd. Ividuals. pilal some time next week.

Lewis and King had been arguing The impact caused the police th 3Q ft roof and car to veer to the left, striking fell death in a at his caroming into the path and strik- Both Negroes fc for in" head-on another car. i HeIms Roofing Company out of Ra-doloh according to rand a on when cofl cer C. H. Royster. jvenes September 17.

Sheffield was reported in good condition following an ninn tion and admittance to Memorial! nuilicu. Hospital with lacerations abrasions over the right eye '9 GOn contusions and abrasions of the! Aj. right wrist and hip. Hiss Mitchell and a companion, Janice Douglas. 17.

of 135 Kenil-j MINNEAPOLIS. Mirta. (ffl-- Dr. worth were both treated Guy C. Richardson of Bristol, and released from the hospital.

elected surgeon-general of the They both received bruises of Veterans of Foreign Wars yester- both knees. JL-ay at the organization's annual Damage in the four-car smash- convention. up was estimated at $600 to the The delegates chose Byron B. nolice cruiser. S150 to the Mitch- Gantry of Pasadena.

as jell car. S100 to the Feibelman car commander-in-chief. The 49-year- 'and S450 to the vehicle operated entry rac tj es law in Pasa- by Jarrett. idena. He steps up from the post Another mishap which occurred of sertjor vice-commander, sue- yesterday resulted in a call (cedi Robert Hansen of su police headquarters by a woman i Mjnn who reported hitting a blind and; crippled ma Lea while; Dr she was backing into a parking, J() ph ffl feR 5Q with Howard Johnson (squatting), head of the radiological section of the Danville Civil Defense organization, is shown cautiously using a pair of long prongs to handle a bullet-size piece of cobalt, highly-radioactive piece of metal, six pieces of which is among newiy arrived equipment for Johnson's monitoring teams which already have been train sald Other equipment just arrived in the little "pig" shown he- are in boxes in the background.

Death the prongs, which in lurn Mayor Julian Stinson, Civil De- aced th fcnse Director. (left), is being i matter cnecKca shown one of the devices bv Cal. The cobalt can rcmoved Officers said the man. located; vin Barber, a member of the only for short periods of time a the hotel in which he monitoring team. There are a without causing harm, unless told them he was unhurt.

total of 21 boxes of detection touched. equipment, all housed at the Johnson recently held two re- FALLS TO DEATH city water plant for this time, fresher courses for his monitors MORGANTON, N.C. (AP)--The worried later shei MigheU was missed One wuiutii tcuei, of tne children peered over the to nave tne: the and TM.TM v. Johnson is head of the water and plans another general course 14-year-old son of a Mobile, cd at two schools The vessel plant and Barber is chief when the instruments are as- physician, fell to his death Fri- at the end of the'tongs is the erator. sembled and checked out.

The day in the Linville Gorge area heavily insulated container for There are a total of six nieecs i equipment has been on order north of Ihe cobalt. cf cobalL These are first placed since last February. The i i Joseph Richard i HOLIDAY INN RESTAURANT Is pleased to BEN P. MILES fo enjoy complete luncheon any except Sunday. A New Name Will Appear Daily Lillian W.

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