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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 5

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What A Saturday Housecleaning! Mrs. Eddie Jackson Terry is pictured in the top photo in what was--until about 12:30 a.m. today--the neat living room of her home at 407 Third Ave. The lower photo shows the exterior of the house which was struck by a car (story on Page 1). Police estimated some $5,000 would be required for repairs to the home.

In the top picture the front door, which was broken in by the vehicle, can be seen in the background, lying against the mantle. Other debris includes insulation knocked out of the walls and a large dangling section of Camp Pendleton To Open Beach For Surfing VIRGINIA BEACH (AP)-The surf will be officially up at Camp Pendleton this summer. Brig. Gen. Wililam J.

McCaddin, adjutant general of the Virginia National Guard, said the 300-yard-long beach at the camp will be set aside for the exclusive use of surfers provided the guard or the Navy don't have exercises scheduled there. McCaddin said he was delighted the guard could open the facility to surfers, saying "I'm an old a beach resident and I know the problems the kids have." The East Coast Surfing Cham- The father of the youth who was driving car can be seen with his back the camin the lower photo. He hurried to the scene after daylight to see the extent of damand determine what assistance he might Mr. and Mrs. Terry.

The Terrys ate breakfast this morning in a kitchen prowith a hastily mounted piece of plastic the door to the adjoining living room, to them protection from debris, dust and cold early-morning air. Two Arrested In Whisky Raid; Hearings Set CHATHAM -Hearings have been set Tuesday for two Axton men-Troy John Witt and John It and charged ampton-arrested with possession yesterday of untaxed whisky. The raids, at about 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the homes of the men on Axton Rt.

1, were made by Pittsylvania County sheriff's deputies and agents from the state ABC board. Witt and Hampton were taken into custoday after large quantities of the untaxed beverage were found in their homes. Thel were later released on bonds. Breakfast Not Like This At Home? The state's young the Miss Virginia-Miss at 8:15 p.m. in the city full day of activities with The Bee: Danville, Saturday, May 1, 1971 5 Deaths And Funerals John Robert Tate Dies In Hospital SUTHERLIN John Robert Tate, 53, a farmer, died yesterday in a South Boston hospital.

He was born in Pittsylvania County Dec. 10, 1916, a son of Mrs. Mamie Burgess Tate, of Sutherlin and the late Samuel H. Tate. Surviving are his wife, Mary Tate; eight sisters, Mrs.

Dorothy Irby, Mrs. Bessie Irby, and Mrs. Elsie Johnson, all of Sutherlin, Mrs. Hattie Ferguson, Mrs. Mattie Jones and Mrs.

Myrtle Dawson, all of Danville, Mrs. Louise Hupp of Ringgold and Mrs. Mary Satterfield of Alton; and five brothers, Lester Tate of Halifax Henry, and William Tate of Sutherlin, Berkley Tate 0 Pikeville, and Roy Tate of Newport News. Graveside rites will be conducted tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the family cemetery near Laurel Grove.

The body is at Powell Funeral Home, and the family is at the residence on Sutherlin Rt. 2. Eustace Strader Dies At Age 72 Eustace (Doc) Strader, 72, of 135 Greenmore Stokesland, died in Memorial Hospital last night. He had been ill for four months and was admitted to the hospital Tuesday. He was born near Pelham in Rockingham County, N.

C. Oct. 4, 1898, a son of the late Joseph and Ida Cook Strader. He operated the Stokesland Barber Shop after retiring from Southern Railway. He was a member of the Stokesland Baptist Church.

He was married Dec. 28, 1917, to the former Mary Warf, who survives, along with one daughter, Mrs. Sylvia S. Mabe of Vero Beach, two sons, Dale G. Strader and Loyle T.

Strader, both of Danville; three sisters, Mrs. a mie Branscome, Mrs. Mary Pribble and Mrs. Helen Foster, all 1 of Danville; four half-sisters, Mrs. Onnie Edwards of Sparta, N.C.; Mrs.

Lottie Waddel of Columbia, S.C.; Mrs. Virginia Adkins and Mrs. Barker, both of Danville; one half-brother, William C. Strader of Axton; and five grandchildren. ducted Stokesland Funeral will be conservices.

Baptist Church Monday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. J. C. Raper, the Rev.

Malcolm Jones and the Rev. C. C. Collins. Interment will follow in the Stokesland Cemetery.

The body is at Swicegood Funeral Home until placed in the church at noon Monday. The family is at the residence. Mrs. Nellie Brown. Dies Last Night Mrs.

Nellie Walters Brown of 418 Ferry Rd. died in Roman Eagle Memorial Home last night. She had been in declining health for the past two years and became seriously ill three months ago. Mrs. Brown, 70, was born in the Bachelors Hall community on Dec.

3, 1891, a daughter of the late George Washington Brown and Ardelia Gourley Brown. She was a member of Stokesland United Methodist Church and had worked in the sewing room of Dan River Inc. for 35 years before her retirement in 1956. She was a member of the Dan River Retired Worker's Club and had spent most of her life in the Danville area. The last member of her generation of the family, she leaves a brother-in-law, William L.

Brown of the Ferry and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at Swicegood Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Rev. W. M. Mayton and the Rev.

Carl T. Paughf. Inter- Robert W. Worsham Rites Not Announced LYNCH BURG -Final arrangements for Robert Walter Worsham had not been announced early this afternoon by Finch and Finch Funeral Home in Altavista. Mr.

Worsham, 71, of Lynchburg Rt. 2, died yesterday at his home. He was born in Pittsylvania County March 1, 1900, a son of the late Leonard and Lula Lane Worsham. He was a member of Faith Baptist Church in Lynchburg. are his wife, Lucy Montgomery Worsham; son, Robert Lacy Worsham of Naruna; two daughters, Mrs.

William Doss of Hurt and Mrs. Woodrow Francis of Nathalie; three sisters, Mrs. Willie Hutcherson of Gretna and Mrs. Jim Short and Mrs. Clarence Mayhew, both of Newport News; and eight grandchildren.

VA Guarantees On Home Loans May Be Restored Veterans and servicemen who have used their GI home loan guaranty and, through no fault of their own, are forced to sell their homes for reasons of health, employment, condemnation proceedings of federal, state or local government, or other compelling reasons may have their guaranty privileges restored. Patrick Beville, director of the Roanoke Veterans Administration regional office, noted that VA first be released from liability on the original loan before entitlement can be restored-usually by paying off the guaranteed loan in full. Direct loans must be paid off in full before entitlement can be restored, he pointed out. The VA also will restore eligibility if the property was destroyed by fire or other natural hazards, as well as for certain other compelling reasons which were no fault of the veteran or servicemen. Some of the reasons for which property may be disposed of and entitlement restored by VA include the following: -Limited space in the veteran or serviceman's home, if a doctor it is a health hazard, but an increase in the size of his family is not in itself sufficient grounds for restoration entitlement, -Loss of employment through a reduction-in-force, or curtailment of activities in the 0c- cupation where he is employed--if suitable employobtained in another locality, -Transfer of employment from one locality to another by the veteran's employer, -Voluntary change of employment to another locality offering the veteran more income and opportunity for advancement-provided satisfactory evidence is furnished VA, -Retirement of a veteran, or transfer of a serviceman by his military department while he is still on active duty.

ment will follow in the Davis family cemetery at Bachelors Hall. The body is at the funeral home, and family is at the residence on the Ferry Rd. Jesse B. Bennett Rites Are Tomorrow SOUTH BOSTON -Funeral rites for Jesse Buchanon (Red) Bennett will be conducted tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church.

Burial will follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Mr. Bennett died yesterday in a Durham, N.C., hospital. Surviving the Danville native are his wife, Margaret James Bennett; one daughter, Miss Barbara Annette Bennett of Arlington; one son, Charles P. Bennett of South Boston; one sister, Mrs.

Herbert Mayes of Danville; and one brother, Garland B. Bennett of Arizona. Alexandria School Board To Get Proposal For New Grade System ALEXANDRIA (AP)- School officials here say they will submit to the Alexandria School Board Wednesday a plan that would revolutionize curricula to provide for more student involvement and bring the student racial balance into line with federal requirements. Officials said the proposal has solid backing from principals and administrators, although it has not yet been aired to teachers and parents. The plan, billed as a 6-2-2-2 grade system, would centralize all 11th and 12th grades at T.C.

Williams High School next year and convert Hammond George high schools Washington into schools exclusively for 9th and 10th graders. An eventual goal of the plan would be to operate T.C. Williams much like a junior college, with students choosing two or three courses per day and getting more involved with curriculum planning. Under the plan, Williams would have about 2,000 students LOCAL BRIEFS Revival services will be conducted nightly at 7:30 o'clock starting tomorrow and continuing through Friday by the Rev. Durward Fox at Kerns Memorial United Methodist! Church at Sutherlin.

The Danville Chapter of the National Epicureans Inc. will present the "Voices of Faith" of Cincinnati, Ohio, in a concert tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the John M. Langston Junior High School auditorium. Mrs.

Kushner Earns Sertoma Service Award The Danville, Dan River and Westover Sertoma Clubs presented the annual Service to Mankind Award night to Valerie Moos Kushner for her outstanding service to the cause of aiding American POW's in Vietnam. The presentation was made by James A. Rich representing the three clubs. Mrs. Kushner, wife of Capt.

Harold Kushner, flight surgeon in the 1st Air Cavalry and fouryear prisoner of the Viet Cong, has sought for several to have communications established with her husband and all of the 1,600 American POW's. In his behalf, to help the physician aid his fellow prisoners, Mrs. Kushner personally solicited medicine, drugs and surgical supplies throughout the U.S. and accompanied them to Cambodia where she met with a secretary of the Viet Cong. She tried in vain to get those supplies to her husband for use in treating prisoners.

She, with her daughter, Toni, also visited the Paris peace negotiators with the "United We Stand" organization to plead for more humane treatment for the POW's under terms of the Geneva Convention. She has testified before the House Armed Forces Committee, has talked with Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and has spoken to numerous civic organizations attempting to arouse the nation to the need for identification and eventual release of the American POW's. Mrs. Kushner, also the mother of a son born after her husband's capture, was cited for these efforts last night as a person exemplifying the Sertoma motto and the award's name. Missing Money? Social Security For The Young Know someone who could use up to $434.40 tax free each month? This is the amount many young disabled workers and their families now receive from Social Security, reports Max G.

Boatwright, district manager of the Danville Social Security office. If a person has a physical or mental condition which prevents him (or her) from doing any substantial gainful work, he could be eligible for Social Security disability payments. The disability does not have to be permanent, as many people believe, said Boatwright. It is only necessary that the disability be expected to last at least 12 months or that it has already existed for at least 12 months. Boatwright also pointed out that the amount of prior work a young worker needs to qualify for payments is less than an older persona worker age 31 or older needs credit for five years of work out of the ten years ending with the date he or she becomes disabled.

However, a worker who becomes disabled before age 24 would need only one and a half years of work in the three-year period ending when the disability begins. Someone between age 24 and 31. needs credit for having worked only half of the time between age 21 and the time of becoming disabled. Most young people still think of Social Security as something for the "older folks, but the 2.5 million young people who currently receive disability benefits know that Social Security is a "now happening." Persons wanting to know more about Social Security payments for young people can call the Social Security office, telephone 792-0631, for more information. Man Perishes In Trailer Fire DENVER, N.C.

(AP) Firemen said a 25-year-old Catawba County man was killed today when flames engulfed his trailer home on N.C. 150 about a mile and a half east of Denver. Chief Lee Killian of the DenVolunteer Fire Dept. identified the victim as John S. Shuford, who was pronounced dead on arrival at Catawba County Memorial Hospital at Hickory.

Killian said Shuford lived alone in the trailer. He said an acquaintance told firemen he had left Shuford alone smoking cigarette about an hour before the flames broke out. The cause of the fire was not immediately determined. $130,000 Road Improvements Slated In City A sum of $130,000 tentatively is scheduled to be spent in the city of Danville after July by the State Highway Commission for work on the following projects: -Rt. 86 on Broad St, from Roberts Falwell, supplemental fund; $30,000.

sat -Rt. 86 to relocate the route between Watson St. and Roberts supplemental fund; $100,000. Primary system expenditures in Pittsylvania County call $209,000 divided as follows: -Rt. 29 Danville and north; supplemental allocation for construction and right-of-way acquired; $120,000.

-Rt. 40, Improve sight distance at Rt. 685 east of Gretna; $14,000. -Rt. 51 west of Danville, continue curb and gutter and pavement widening; $50,000.

-Rt. 57 Chatham and west, supplemental allocation for right-of-way acquired; $25,000. Also included in the area figure is a district-wide allocation $285,500 for installation of guard rails, improvements on bridges, preliminary engineering studies and the erection of signs and signals. Rt. 57 at Martinsvilie will receive supplemental funds in the amount of $360,000 for improvements between W.

Church St. and the Chatham Rd. A project for dual-laning Rt. 29 south of Lynchburg and into Pittsylvania calls for an expenditure of $2,300,000. In the Lynchburg District, which includes Pittsylvania County and Danville, primary, system 5 construction cost $10,972,000, while combined primary and interstate allocations will total $11,309,289.

Final action on the allocations will not be taken until after the Commission holds public hearings in June. Lynchburg district, along with the Salem, Bristol, and Staunton Districts, will be heard June 16 at 9 a.m. in Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke. As in the past, federal funds represent 90 per cent of interstate system costs, while by far the larger portion of funds for come from state sourcestems In addition to the allocations tentatively approved Thursday, $80 million was apportioned earlier this month to the state's mile secondary system for 1971-72. Blairs School Sponsors Career Fair Yesterday River Representatives from Dan Chesapeake Potomac Telephone Goodyear, Central Apparel, First State Bank, Memorial Hospital and Danville Beauty Acedemy participated yesterday the Career Fair at Blairs Junior High School.

Each presented a representative the seventh grade students to show the various types of industries and jobs available in Danville and Pittsylvania County. The students had mde exhibits, posters, scrapbooks, essays and displays regarding the different kinds of work. First-place prizes for these entries were awarded to Glen Nations, Mike Edwards, Debra Green, Jackie Ryland and Michael Godson. FAMILY TOGETHERNESS UVa. Law Day Panel Includes Five Senators CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) Annual Law Day festivities at the University of Virginia today will be highlighted by a panel discussion involving five of the seven United States senators who are graduates of the university's law school.

Sen. William B. Spong D. will moderate the panel that will include Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. Sens.

John V. Tunney, Lowell P. Weicker and John Stennis, D- Miss. A group of antiwar students says it will attempt to present a copy of a "Peoples' Peace Treaty" to the senators. The treaty calls for an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam.

The panelists represent five of the eight U.S. senators who attended the university. Included in the eight are Sens. Edward Kennedy, D- James B. Pearson, both graduates of the law school, and Sen.

Harry F. Byrd Ind who attended the university as an undergraduate. More than 500 alumni are expected to attend the 14th annual event which will also (include class reunion dinners and a joint meeting of the alumni with the law school faculty. Scott told a university audience Friday night that Chicago 7 defendant Rennie Davis and "militant revolutionaries" planning to attend the May Day demonstrations in Washington next week are "engaged in a determination to provoke violence." "This is a crowd bent on trouble and not like the good guys Scott said. He was referring to the demonstrations by Vietnam veterans in the nation's capital last week.

Turning to politics, Scott said he felt Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota was the front runner in the Democratic presidential nomination sweepstakes. He said Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine would have to carry primaries in Wisconsin, California and one Southern state to win the party's nomination.

If Muskie fails in two of three primaries, Scott said, he would not be the Democrats' candidate. He said Humphrey would have to succeed in primaries in one or possibly two states to secure the nomination. Scott predicted Humphrey would be the presidential nominee with Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington taking the vice presidential spot. ceiling.

the era shortly age render their vided over give the Library Displays McCarthy Oscar LEXINGTON (AP) The Oscar won by "Patton' producer Frank McCarthy is being displayed on extended loan at the George C. Marshall Research Library here. McCarthy, a graduate of adjacent. Virginia Military Institute said he thought the library a suitable place for the award beof its close association cause, General Marsholl and Patton and Omar Bradley, a key figure in the film. pionships, held on the beach last August, will be returning this year, McCaddin added.

However, 110 picnicking, swimming or other general recreation will be permitted on the camp shore. beauties in Danville for USA pageant tonight auditorium begin a breakfast this morn- Medium Scale NATO Exercise Begins Today SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) During the Mrs. Billy Tresner was admit- and aircraft ted to a hospital here to give nations will birth to her 10th child, a daught-lantic Ocean tr. Two days later her daught- north of the er, Mrs. Pamela Morgan, was to "engage admitted to the same hospital sortment of for the birth of her first child, a will test men son.

The two women were room- the full," mates at the hospital. ported. NORFOLK, Va. (AP) A medium scale NATO exercise designed to enhance the seaward defense of Western Europe will begin today in waters west of Portugal, Atlantic Fleet Headquarters announced. United States and Canadian ships and aircraft crossed the Atlantic to take part in the exercise, dubbed "Rusty Razor." Other nations contributing forces are West Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Britain and the Netherlands.

French minesweepers and a French submarine will participate in some phases of the exercise, headquarters of NATO's Supreme Allied Command Atlantic announced here Friday. next 12 days, ships of the participating deploy into the Atto the west and Iberian Peninsula in a complex asoperations which and equipment to headquarters re- N.C. House Approves Measure Outlawing Desecration Of Flags 80 per cent of them white. Hammond, now 99 per cent white, would decrease to 73 per cent white and GW's white population would increase from 53 to 66 per cent, to reflect the racial composition of the city. Officials said the plan was drawn up voluntarily based on U.S.

Supreme Court rulings. Another aim of the plan is to operate the two grades on a system in which there would be five 45-day course segments to make up the school year. The school day would also be extended into evening hours, and administrators said this aspect would be ready for implementation next fall if desired. The three schools would operate considerably below capacity the administrators said, allowing future expansion and alleviating problems of large student bodies. Lynchburg began a similar plan this year, operating with 11th and 12th graders attending E.C.

Glass High and 9th and 10th graders put into two other schools. RALEIGH (AP) The House has passed and returned to the Senate for approval of amendments a bill to make it again a crime in North Carolina to desecrate the U.S. or state flags. The bill would replace an old law which a federal court ruled unconstitutional last year. It would provide fines up to $500 and imprisonment up to six months to persons found guilty of mutilating, defiling or defacing the flags.

New legislation Friday included bills in the Senate and House designed to help farmers living near expanding urban areas keep their lands for agricultural use. The bills, sponsored by Sen. Russell Kirby, D- Wilson, and Rep. James Speed, D-Franklin, would set up a special property tax classification for farmland. The House passed and held for final action Tuesday a bill which would add student body presidents of state-suppoterd universities to the institutions' boards of trustees.

The House debated at length and then passed a measure to upgrade standards for public water supplies. The bill will come up for furthern action Tuesday. The bill would require the chlorination of all public water supplies constructed after January first 1972 and the chlorination of any existing water supplies which became contaminated. The House passed and sent the Senate a bill to clarify a state law which prohibits loitering or electioneering within 50 feet of a polling place. Rep.

Howard Twiggs, D- Wake, introduced a bill to provide a one-year revocation of the driving licenses of persons convicted of speeding over 90 miles per hour and a two-year revocation for those speeding over 90 to escape arrest. A bill by Rep. Jim Beatty, D- Mecklenburg, would exempt persons over 70 from jury duty and one by Rep. Charles Taylor, R-Transylvania, would exempt legislators from jury duty while the General Assembly is in session. ing at the Virdan Restaurant.

Miss Alexandria, Diane Nash, and Miss Hampton, Linda Lackey, in the lower photograph, smile appealingly at the camera..

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