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4 Section 1 2 Pages Section 12 Pages ounded ebruary 1899 Danville Va Wednesday Afternoon June 28 1972 Area Deaths And unerals aaiiammmnniumunnnnnNiM ROM THE SIZE of the garbage can 73 for in of the being stay gas tap on Ca ap BRIES pre who Seat she County in the late Hill and are Mr Wyatt of daughter York of if re reach 1 he Rep Watkins said Tuesday OEP and the Hospital Home I someone finally moved for ad journment of its bonds The grant to the Elizabeth River tunnels will cover only the fiscal year beginning July 1 and a tunnel commission spokesman said the commission has no assurance that the aid will be continued next year He noted that the new legisla tion under which the assistance was granted mandatory and the decision to allocate funds is left up to the discretion of the highway commissipn A wire egg slicer may also be used to slice bananas cook ed beets cooked carrots and other such foods BOY KILLED CHARLOTTE (AP) A 9 year old boy was killed Tues day when he lost control of his bicycle after the handlebars came off His bike veered into the lefthand lane of North Caro lina 51 near his home in Mat thews near Charlotte and he collided head on with a car con food and sec Na inal rites for Howard White 75 of Danville will Dennis Williams sen of Mr and Mrs Walter Williams of Dover Place has been named to the list in the Uni versity of School of Engineering Thomas Murphy Services Tomorrow Services Tomorrow or Howard White CHATHAM A 46 year old resident of the Sharon commun ity yesterday was sentenced in Pittsylvania County Court to 12 months in jail on a charge of assaulting another man on Ap ril 15 at the Austin Brothers Texaco Station at Sharon The sentence for the defend ant Charles Simpson was sus pended on condition that he re main on good behavior for 12 months that he stay away from the assaulted man Samuel or est Beggarly and that he pay court costs The court initially decided to certify Simpson to the grand jury but the charge was amend ed to that of a misdemeanor by agreement of all parties to the action The court found Simpson not guilty of taking a pocket book belonging to Beggarly and con taining $40 and other items of value Beggarly in turn was found not guilty on two counts of as sault and battery on Simpson in connection with the same in cident Mrs Lottie Pollard Rites Set Tomorrow WINSTON SALEM (AP) Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz speaking to an organ ization of diary men said Tues day is no guarantee of continued plentiful wholesome food for them (consumers) and their children unless there are fair returns for labor and Butz told a convention of the Holstein reisian Association of America at Wins ton Salem that he wished all housewives in the country realize what the 'cxpecicu unui oaturuay The Chesapeake Potomac Telephone Co estimated that Agnes had inflicted about $15 million in damages to company properties about twice that caused by hurricane Camilla three years ago A total of 56000 telephones were out at one time or anoth er the company said Lee Tait vice president said the hardest hit was the Virginia area adjacent to Washington where some 38000 phones were out of service at one time Meantime a spokesman fol the governor said Tuesday the Holton has no intention of using National Guardsmen for flood clean up duties in lieu of send ing them to summer camp The governor has rejected at least two requests that the Guard be used to help remove flood debris and sludge The spokesman said Holton made it clear and un equivocal" during a meeting with state agency heads Satur day that the role is protection of life and property and not clean up State Adjutant Gen William McCaddin said the guard's purpose is emergen cy utilization for the protection of properties and facilties It that we want to co operate" Exchange Club Officers Seated Term Suspended or Sharon Man In Assault Case WDV A Reaches Quarter Century Mark Tomorrow SOUTH BOSTON The fu neral of Mrs Lottie Seat Pol lard will be held tomorrow at 2 pm at Union United Church of Christ of which she was a member Interment will be in Virgilina Cemetery Mrs Pollard died yesterday in an Atlanta Ga nursing care center A daughter of the late Robert and Salhe Tuck was born in Halifax 1888 and married George Pollard Surviving are one Mrs Evelyn Pollard Atlanta four sisters Mrs orlines of Norfolk Mrs Wal lace Ballou of South Boston and Mrs A Lilly and Miss Ruby Seat both of Raleigh NC four brothers Seat of Pompano Beach la A Seat of Virgilina' A Seat of Raleigh and RL Seat of El kins Va and two grand sons The body is at Brooks neral Home and the family is at the residence of Mr and Mrs A Seat at Virgilina Heated Meet Of Council Brings Approval Of Record City Budget NOROLK The Vir ginia Highway Department has announced its first grant to a toll facility in the state State Highway Commissioner Douglas ugate said Tues day the highway commission will allot the neighborhood of to the Elizabeth River Tunnel Commission to ward the maintenance of the two toll tunnels connecting Nor folk and Portsmouth The grant is part of a new highway act approved by the 1972 general assembly in which the State Highway Commission was authorized to make grants for maintenance of toll facil ities in the state A spokesman for the highway commission said after ugate's announcement that similar grants can be expected for the Richmond Petersburg Turnpike and for the Richmond Metro politan Authority which is building another toll road in the state capital A grant for the financially troubled Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel planned for the coming fiscal year the spokesman said Under the new legislation grants can be made to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Commission only under conditions Unlike the Elizabeth River tunnels the longer Chesapeake Bay span has been troubled by shipping accidents and poor revenues which have forced it to postppne interest payments on its bonded debt Since the Elizabeth River tunnels already earn more than enough to pay their operating expenses and interest it's likely that the state grant will enable the tunnel commission to speed retirement of its bonded debt Currently the commission uses its surplus funds for purchase lood Damage May Be Listed On Tax Return air Returns or armers' Labor Investment Urged By Earl Butz proposed $174 mil lion budget became an official $179 million one with a 6 3 vote at last City Coun cil meeting which was marked with heated discussions and flaring tempers The increase in the total an amendment offered by Townes III represented an Public Works Crews Repairing Storm Damage Summer Season At Pine Lake Begins Saturday Virginians who suffered losses or damage due to the floods that occurred last week may be able to claim a casualty loss deduction on their calendar year federal income tax returns for 1972 according to James Boyle IRS district director for Virginia Boyle said keeping records is especially important if a tax payer wants to claim a casualty loss deduction The amount of loss deductible for tax purposes is the difference between the value of the property immedi ately before and immediately after the casualty reduced by any insurance proceeds received and by the $100 limitation pro vided by law he noted Tax payers may not however de duct a loss amount that is great er than their total investment in the property Before and after photographs can be helpful in establishing the amount of a casualty loss Boyle said Newspaper stories about the disaster are import and to verify dates when the casualty occurred To make claiming a casualty loss easier next filing period he advised taxpayers to start now collect ing as many records pertaining to their flood damage as are available IRS Publication 547 In formation on Disasters Casual ty Losses and Thefts" has more information on claiming casualty losses as tax deduc tions A free copy may be ob tained from the District Direc tor Internal Revenue Service PO Box 10025 Richmond Va 23240 James Allen Taken By Death MARTINSVILLE James Allen a Martinsville funeral di rector was found dead at'his home yesterday morning He had been actively in his busi ness on Monday He was born in Danville 'on July 3 1906 a 6on of the late Robert and Ida Reynolds Allen He was educated in the Danville public schools and Re nauard School of Embalming in New' York City In 1942 he began operating uneral Home in Mar tinsville Surviving are his wife Mi riam Duke Allen of the home one brother Dr Robert Leroy Allen of Danville and three sis ters Mrs Isaac Hunt and Mrs Williams of Danville and Mrs Nesbitt of Eliz abeth NJ A funeral service will be held riday at 11 am at High Street Baptist Church in Martinsville with interment to follow in Oak Hill Cemetery in Danville The body is at the Martins ville funeral home and the fam ily is at the residence 313 ay ette St Applications are now accepted for an insurance study course at Danville Community College for persons desiring to meet the requirements of a new state law pertaining to the li censing of resident agents As of July 1 a total of 90 classroom hours of insurance study or related subjects will be required to become a resi dent agent according to Max Glass director of continuing education at DCC Glass said successful students will be issued a certificate showing they have satisfactor ily completed the course and which will be used in applying to the Bureau of Insurance in Richmond for the required ex amination Persons now licensed as resi dent agents but not qualified in the categories of fire auto casualty and fidelity and sure ty bonds will be examined un der current procedures quests for examinations the bureau before July noted Glass said final plans for the course will be announced when approximately 25 applications have been received but because cows will not milked" Butz was critical of sumers who worry about ery little upward move in He said they should re alize the risks and sacrifices farmers make to maintain food producing capacity prices are not strong enough to bring fair returns to farmers for their labor and investments armers do busi ness for profit not for the fun of and the best way to assure food abundance is to give farmers a fair chance' to share in the expanding he said Butz said President action this week to ease beef import quotas would not be det rimental to farmers He said the step will help meet the de mand for beef until American farmers can catch up with it The secretary said the Nixon administration backs him com auuuionai jivu minion was io be sent to Congress today He said on July 1 $925 million in disaster relief will lx? available for the next fiscal year Trent also noted that addi tional aid will be coming from the Department of Housing and Urban Development the De partment of Health Education and Welfare the Labor Depart ment the ederal Highway Ad ministration and the General Services Administration He said Virginia alone will receive $45 million to $50 mil lion from the Small Business Administration In Washington Abbitt Va he has urged the SBA to expedite applications for assistance Virginia Meanwhile flood death toll rose to 18 Tuesday when airfax County author ities announced that the body of 34 year old Michael Dennis Roby had been found Roby the sixth flood fatality in the county was last seen June 21 His car was found the next day on Georgetown Pike in Difficult Run The body was found near the car An aide to Gov Linwood Hol ton said Tuesday that the flood damage estimate of $200 mil lion had not changed Holton had said Monday though that By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President Spiro Ag new was scheduled to zip into Virginia for a 75 minute visit today to review progress of dis aster assistance efforts in flood torn areas of the state Agnew was to meet with lo cal state and federal officials in Richmond after a helicopter survey of the city which was hard hit by the raging waters triggered by the torrential rains of tropical storm Agnes Before arriving in Richmond Agnew was to make brief visits to Elmira NY and Ellicott City Md The White House in announc ing the vice visit Tuesday said the trip was aimed at cutting red tape en countered by local and state of areas far more than Mrs Ruth Charity viewed the amendment as providing way to put in some programs we desperately and Charles Harris saw it as the lesser of two evils the other being a tax increase to finance capital improvements The debate got rough at times especially at the tail end of the meeting When Harris and Win stead objected to pro posal for placing on the agenda an item calling for all future financial discussions to be open to the press Mayor Williams contanented see we have some people who are opposed to open Winstead and Harris both cried foul and accused the mayor of abusing the privileges of the chair Temnnrs rose and wnrrR Vestal uneral Set Tomorrow Afternoon EDEN NC The funeral of Clarence William Vestal 51 year old Eden police officer and fireman will be held tomorrow at 4 pm at air Chapel Burial will be in Overlook Cemetery 4: Mr Vestal died Monday night of am apparent heart seizure A native of Eden he was a 'son of the late A Vestal and Bessie Maddox Vestal Surviving are his wife Louise Johnson Vestal one daughter Mrs Tod DePriest of ayette ville1 three sisters Mrs Payne of Charlotte and Mrs Dan Aherron and Mrs Pearl Dunn both of Eden and one brother Woodrow Vestal of Eden The family will be at the fu neral home tonight from 7 to 9 and at other times will be at the residence 748 Ayden Rd The Danville Little Theatre production of the British farce How They will be presented tonight through Sat urday night at 8:30 in the Stratford College auditori um The opening performance was given last night We wish to thank our many friends for the cords flowers and food during the death of our husband and father Mayor Ronald Williams McCubbins and Onico Barker Williams maintained that the fund transfer was the death for the WGE Department and asserted that after four months of budget study right where we started except that stripping the vital services of our Barker" commented of economizing we will pass the largest budget in the his tory of the and also warned that we demand much of the utilities we will nave to come back and hike Therit Winstead countered not stripping the utili ties' budget In fact we will al low for SI million in WGE capi tal improvements after the re and food during the death of our husband and JOHNNY BUCK Kay Mouring Stephens and Sue Wyatt of Danville have been named to the for the short and spring terms of 1971 72 session at Converse Col lege Spartanburg SC Miss Stephens is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Stephens of Diinam vvooa van Miss parents and Mrs Garland River Oak Drive sems ine secretary i said that purchase stands for sani tation a capital investment of around $2000 a cow high costs thin' re turns on that investment the years it takes to establish a dairy farm operation I hope they realize too that you get up early in the morning seven days a week including the ourth of July and not because you particularly plctcly in his efforts on behalf like to associate with Holsteins of farmers a' Retired Teachers Hear Dr Eargle On Standards Resident's Mother Dies At Age Of 81 1 The funeral will be held all City Wash for Mrs Myrtle Bluher 81 year old moth er of Elmer Bluher of 120 Afton Rd Mrs Bluher died in all City after having been in decliningu health six months In addition to her son here she leaves 10 other children 24 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren be A held tomorrow at 3 pm at Cun ningham Hughes Chapel by I the Rev WJ Toomer Inter ment will be in Oak Hill Ceme tery Mr White died riday in the Veterans Administration Hos pital at Salem A son of the late William fpWhite and annie Russell White he was born in Danville Aug 10 1896 He was a vet 's eran of World War I Surviving are one daughter Vs Mrs Annie Lee Goins of Dan ville one brother Bernice White of Danville and five it grandchildren the figure may eventually reach $300 The governor's office said a revision of the estimates may be available sometime today Meantime the water short age eased in Richmond where officials lowered restrictions on the use of water as pressure built up in water moms However some 100000 city residents north of the James River were still without drink ing water and restoration of Robert Eckels professor of art and ceramics at Stratford College has been elected presi dent of the Virginia Council a group representing folk artists and designer crafts men throughout the state Eck els who came to Stratford in 1965 specializes in ceramics painting and design and sculp ture We also wish to thank the staff of DrS Harvey and Gaddy and Caswell uneral The amily At illA vau appal IUUY redric Mill is expecting a lot of it at his El Paso Tex home Tomorrow will mark the silver anniversary of WDVA Radio which went on the air 25 years ago on June 29 1947 as Southside first 5000 watt station Initially WDVA's officers studios were located on the ond floor of the American tional Bank building at Main and Market Sts while the trans mitter and engineering facilities were situated on a hill west of the city off Rt 58 Early programming included live music presentations and au dence participation programs in the as well as local news coverage aug menting network news from Mutual Broadcasting System In 1957 new offices and studios were built on the 11 acre trans mitter site which by then was included within the city limits In 1966 WDVA added another tower boosted its night time 1 000 watts to round the clock 5 000 watt coverage and changed its programming to full time country music 24 hours a day Tomorrow will be not far from a silver anniversary for vice news Charlie Craig This veteran staff association with the station dates back to August 1947 Others on the present man agement staff are Eddie All good vice president and general manager Homer Thomasson i president and assistant manager Jeff Waugh vice i production and I Ralph Hess Jr vice president sales production President of the Virginia Carolina Broadcast ing Corp is Henry Hogan The funeral serv ice of year old Thomas Murphy of 524 Main St will be held tomorrow at 11 am at Southall Baptist Church with the Rev Bradley in charge Inter ment will be in Highland Burial Park Mr Murphy died yesterday in Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient since suffer ing a stroke a week ago A son of the late Henry Mur phy and Minnie Oliver Murphy he was bom in Caswell County NC July 4 1898 His wife Lucille Butts Murphy died May 29 Mr Murphy operated Union Street Barfber Shop for 40 years He was a US Navy veteran of World War I and was a mem ber of Southall Church Surviving are one daughter 4'V Mrs Anne Morton of Me Lean one sister Mrs Bertha Pace of Burlington NC and one grandson The body is at Swicegood neral Home and the family is at the residence lood Victims May Qualify or Stamps ood stamps are now avail able to victims of the recent flooding in Danville and Pitt sylvania County as well as near ly 80 cities and counties in Virginia Maryland and Penn sylvania designated as disaster areas In making the announcement the US Agriculture Depart ment said the emergency aid will be available to disaster victims who would not normally qualify for the stamps A department spokesman said a simplified application form will be used to speed up issu ance of food stamps in the des ignated areas Hardship disast er cases in localities not desig nated for the emergency aid also may qualify for free food stamps on an individual basis it was noted Meanwhile the Virginia De partment of Agriculture and Commerce has announced that grocery store operators whose food products were damaged in the flooding may not dispose of the goods until the stores have been contacted by a quali fied food inspector This also applies to wholesale groceries storage warehouses and food processing plants ac cording to A Lee Turner as sistant director of the Division of Product and Industry Regu lation Turner said agents of food inspection section are con tacting all food establishments in the state where flood damage has occurred Assisting in the inspection task he said are officials of the US ood and Drug Administration Turner said questions about damaged foods may be directed to the supervisor of the VDAC food inspection unit Room 410 203 Governor St Richmond telephone 770 3533 or 770 3520 duction in utilities improve 1 at aD0Ul ments stripped other I mishap yesterday in volved a driver avoiding a col lision with an unidentified ve hicle that suddenly changed lanes on Riverside at Piney orest The investigating offi cer reported that Margaret Ann Adkins 750 Arnett Blvd swerved left onto the median to avoid a crash and her auto struck a pipe marker for a gas line There was some $200 damage to the front of the Ad kins car with another $10 for the pipe marker Minor damage accidents yes terday included an $85 curb side parking mishap on Main near loyd St and a $15 park ing collision in the King of Sea lot DCC Will Offer Study Course On Insurance Pine Lake located ten miles west of Danville off Rt 58 on Rt 878 will begin its summer season on Saturday at 10 a The swimming pool has been I freshly painted and picnic ta ibles are available on the 25 acre grounds which will be I open Wednesday through Sat urday from 10 a to 8 and Sunday from noon to 3 To provide a more complete recreational program this year shuffleboard and pinball ma chines and pool tables have been added to the existing ac tivities which include basket ball volleyball and horseshoe and croquet games Mrs Janice Kemodlle will supervise the concession stand operated by the senior citizens Bruce Leftwich again 'will serve as youth coordinator with Kitty Chaney as assistant man ager Ella Woods public rela tions director Sharon Hamp ton gate supervisor Jackie Keene recreation supervisor and Byron Wilson maintenance supervisor Weekday admission prices are 75 cents for adults and 25 cents for youths with the prices ris ing to $1 for adults and 50 cents for young people on week ends Special rates are avail able for groups churches so cial organizations civic clubs and private organizations The number to call for lake and table reservations is 685 3082 Highway Department Makes irst Grant To Toll acility ficials assisting flood victims and make sure federal offi cials are cooperating fully" The deputy director of the Of fice of Emergency Pre paredness was in Richmond Tuesday to sec how flood recov ery work was going Darrell Trent told reporters that the federal government is as much money avail able as to assist flood victims in the flood strick en Mid Atlantic states Trent said a request for an complete water service wasn't nrLl if mn ti I ClOA millinn unc tn I Ynnrt nrl until Agnew Reviews Virginia lood Relief Operations New officers of the Danville Exchange Club were installed last night during a meeting at the King of the Sea Restaurant They include Clarke Hodges Jr president Matthew Nelson III vice president William Cch warz treasurer and William Seeley secretary The Key Man Award was sented to Ernest Bolton serves as state president Named to the board of direc tors were Andy Boor Mort Crumley and Warren ulton Mrs Sadler 71 Dies In Hospital ROXBORO NC Mrs Es telle Phelps Sadler 71 of Mil ton died at 11:40 last night in Memorial Hospital in Danville Va She was a native of Person County and the widow of Willie Thomas Sadler Survivors include a daughter i 6 Eunice Sadler of the home four sons Joe Curtis and Thomas Sadler of Danville and Sadler of Montgom ery Ala a sister Mrs A Huffman of Apex two brothers rank Phelps of Alton Va and Tobe Phelps of Milton 12 grand children and five great grand children The funeral will be held ri day at 2 pm at United Methodist Church of which she was a member and burial will be in the church cemetery The body will be at Brooks White uneral Home in Rox boro until an hour before the service Storm damage in the wake last heavy rains and flooding was being repaired by public works crews today in al most a dozen different loca tions They were backfilling wash outs on five streets Memorial Drive Piney orest Road Dud ley St Southern St and Mimo sa St and repairing a cave in on Claiborne St Other work in progress includ ed building a headwall on Pax ton St repairing a broken Dan River Inc sewer line rebuild ing a manhole on Wimbush Drive and patching sewer dit ches on Park Ave and Cole man St At the same time other crews were proceeding with regular work including driveway and drain construction on Major Court driveway construction on Orchard Drive airlawn Drive and Wimbush Place pouring a walk on Third Ave and street maintenance a i on Brightwell Drive Piney orest Road Rosedale Court Halifax St Riverside Drive and Oak I Ridge Ave Today also found gas and I water crews repairing a gas lleak on Aspen St and a water leak on Bridge St at Wilson making saw cuts in the pave ment on Broad St at Main re locating a two inch water main on Walton Ave making water and gas taps on Kirkwood Dr and a tiwo inch hill Court of Quality Public Schools in Virginia" was the topic of remarks presented by City School Supt Zane Eargles at a meeting of District Retired Teachers Associa tion yesterday at the King of the Sea Restaurant Dr Eargle was introduced by his predecessor in the city edu cation post Trent Bonner and used sound film to illus trate methods and materials used in present day educational procedures Other speakers at the meet ing wbich attracted 142 mem bers were Ralph Shotwell who gave brief remarks on the work of the Department of Edu cation Western Division and Lacey of Halifax and Miss Theo Smith of Chatham Pilson of Ridgeway president of District present ed a public service award to David Luther and Miss Ella Ivey gave the invocation Vocal selections were offered by Hampton Benton and red Duncan of the Pittsylvania County Music Department The next meeting will be held in September in Martinsville additional contribution to the general fund from the Water Gas and Electric Department by delaying WGE capital im provements with the $597020 to provide $300000 for airport run way repaving $100000 for a new vehicle pro gram a $155000 contingency fund and $42000 for other pro grams TTn 1 Viiau ivnipuis IOe dim VWIUb cas1 round and round until Pair Of Unusual Mishaps Involve Rock And Pipe 1 4 ff' Instead uwa'1' uiwbtidi uduii inisiidp xii uic VUJ vwil iuajf nui an accident in the usual sense of die word although it in volved an accidental occur rence A driver was proceeding along Memorial Drive behind a dump truck when a rock rolled off the truck and bounced onto the car hood and into the wind shield The result was an auto repair bill estimated by police NAMED TO COMMISSION RICHMOND Gov Lin wood Holton has named Wil carton of milk they buy repre Ham a ui iuuivwh the State Highway Commission to fill the unexpired term of the late red Duckworth of Nor folk The term runs until June 30 1973 Roos is a former member of the Newport News Planning Commission and former presi dent of the Peninsula Retail Merchants Association Holton announced the ipointment Tuesday Mg A jfl MSI 'lip I Ml IEEMlMM.