The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 15

IN? i' Section 2 Pages i ounded ebruary 1899 Danville Va Wednesday Afternoon November 8 1972 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Area Deaths Justified the votes his school class Scott won bv Partment reported today vote of 28 1 i 41 10th District' receive 85983 I crat Paul Beck of Lenoir Continue Here on for officers: James A 1 Perkinson Jr ora re How Danville Voted McGovern SCHMITZ SCOTT NIXON HENDERSON WARD 8 1 I 8 i TOTALS 4148 12463 5106 10772 134 Ui William Ward the only black con candidate in Vir 'I1 the at 298 556 175 810 687 491 527 876 858 1233 468 1390 1091 204 920 757 1122 of $1 to $2 about evenly divided between gains and losses Vol ume was light and quality was down from Monday Gross sales yesterday totaled 584024 pounds that averaged $6923 down $387 from the pre vious day Season sales reach ed some 1978 million pounds and the season average through Mondav was $8256 Volume was reported especi ally light yesterday on the North Carolina Middle Belt where only two markets re mained in operation Prices were slightly lower than on Monday and most of the grades were selling only $1 to $2 above their price support averages of to Lineup Of House Delegation Preserved 4A 4B 5 6 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 8 9 10 11 12 I cent get Vo ire damaged wiring in the! auto of Don Adkins 120 Old Piney orest Rd at 5:30 pm yesterday while the vehicle was on Aiken Bridge the ire De donations Orthodox Mrs Cundiff Services Tomorrow Corporation Court Judge Stuart Craig this morning was engaged in hearing a num ber of appealed misdemeanor cases 'Several defendants fail ed to show up Lynwood Pope who faced three driving charges fared better than in the lower court A 60 day sentence was cut to 10 day to be served during non working hours on a charge of driving without a permit re duced from driving on a revok ed license ines of $50 for hit run and reckless driving were lowered to $25 each with the reckless driving count reduced to improper driving Avg $6571 7207 7160 7136 Ava 6701 $6730 $6923 6 12 7 4 6 12 SPONG The funeral of Mrs Ester Sue Gunnell Cundiff 72 of Blairs Rt 1 will be conducted tomor row at 2 pm at Scott Chapel in Chatham by the Rev James Grant Jr Interment will be in Hillcrest Burial Park The widow of Lewis Edward Cundiff she died yesterday at her home The body is at Scott uneral Home and the family is at Calvin Cundiff residence Blairs 1 283 485 143 648 580 443 435 714 1076 420 1220 929 174 822' 651 975 7 4 I porting in the Democratic Rep 391 305 686 117 210 264 286 109 159 103 268 108 242 507 96 152 145 Danville Scottish Rite Masons resumed the fall reunion of the 50th year of operation of the Danville Bodies last night in the Masonic Temple and con ferred the 15th to 18th degrees on the Hi McCormic Mem orial Class: loyd Bane was director of work Gerald A Gibson and Bernard were degree mastery and Dr Paul Hodge was lecturer Supper was served by the Daughters and their ad visors The class organized with the following Butts Jr president David Smith vice president Law rence tor and Michael Stcphonas secretary treasurer Tommie Lampkin enior warden of the Chapter of Rose Croix was master of cere monies The next reunion session will be held Tuesday at 4:30 pm which time the degrees of the Council of Kadosh 19th to 30th will be conferred A 13 ear OI Boy Runs Into Car Not Badly Hurt The subject' to revision a musical group composed of six young men serving two year missions with the Mormon Church will present free a public religious concert Tuesday Nov 14 at 7 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints at 2950 Main St The 19 to 22 year old perform ers are Wesley Wright Leonard Wing Gerald Griffin Craig Tur ley Robert Barton and Gregory Pitt some of whom were pro fessional musicians before join ing the Mormon group Refreshments will be served after the program The business of voting over shadowed activity yesterday on the Danville tobacco market Volume fell to a mere 180853 pounds that $130345 the average plunged to $7207 more than $2 under figure The dip in prices and pound age came as the auction center here prepares for its final reg ular sales tomorrow Unofficial reports indicate that a cleanup sale will be held on Nov 15 Throughout the Old Belt yes terday prices showed little change There were fluctuations Congressman have laid to would squeak by to victory It was not to be With 176 of 178 precincts reporting Daniel had 57108 votes to 45082 Daniel polled 56 per of the votes with Gibson ting 44 per cent Hardy netes and Ward trailed plurality win in 8th was at 1 the expense of Democrat Robert Horan With 127 of 128 precincts report ing Parris a member of the House of Delegates eased into old seat with 59981 votes to 51084 Inde pendent William Durland a former of the House polled 18501 14 per cent of the vote A fourth candidate inde pendent Robert Harris was far behind victory was 47 per cent of the vote with Horan getting 39 per cent In the 6th District va cant seat was snapped up by Butler who with all 230 pre cincts accounted for had 74491 votes His democratic opponent Willis Anderson had 53947 and independent Roy White had 8654 Butler and Anderson both coveted seat and last year when it was reported Poffwas to be appointed to the Supreme Court Butler and An derson both members of the A special feeder catthf sale will be held at the Virginia Carolina Livestock Market at Blairs next Tuesday in con junction with the reg ular 1 pm livestock sale and a special brood cow sale is set for the night of riday Dec 1 The market's regular sale yesterday saw 160 head of cat tle and 33 hogs changing hands Although volume wasdpwn prices were steady according to the president Starkey Jr or next special sale all feeder cattle to be offered should be brought to the mar ket on Monday for grading of ficials In the meantime a regular feeder pig sale is set for 5 pm tomorrow There will riot be another at' the market until Thursday Nov 30 In preparation for the special brood cow sale Dec 1 preg nancy tests for the animals are scheduled by the market for Nov 30 3 7 11 5 6 7 14 7 12 6 inal plans for the proposed $872000 two deck parking ga i rage were presented to mem bers of the Downtown Parking Association and city officials in Council Chambers this morn ing by representatives of Wil bur Smith Associates con sulting firm from Richmond Consultants Ken Hook and Royer presented the final study and plans which call for a two level garage with a ca pacity for 216 cars However it was recommended by the firm that the possibility of ex pansion to a third deck be kept in mind as parking demand in the downtown area dictates The third level would mean an additional ill parking spaces Also incorporated into the plan was an elevator de signed to carry shoppers from their automobiles to the Main Street level in the downtown area Before the meeting adjourn ed indications were that the possibility of private funding for such a facility seemed re mote One area of considera tion for possible funding men tioned was the Danville Indus trial Development organization Jeff Warner executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce said this was an area that should certainly be explored and at no stone should be left unturned The conference adjourned with the understanding that a committee would meet within two weeks to discuss methods and areas of possible funding and to decide to what extent to proceed with the project 1 2 at Davidson College has been a member of the Mecklenburg County Commission for six years and was commission chairman for one term He tried during the campaign to portray himself as a Nixon man and to link a busi nessman legislator and former track with McGovern Rose was making his second bid for seat The a yetteville attorney ran un successfully against Lennon in 1970 He said in the campaign That the district needs more in dustry and that small farmers need help With all of the 173 precincts reporting in the District Andrews received 71338 votes to 72217 for Hawke In the 7th District with 137 of 175 precincts in Rose had 41249 Scott 27817 and Bal lard 719 With 130 of 133 precincts re porting 'in the 9th District Mar tin got 77038 votes to 54470 for beatty In the 1st District with 258 of 283 precincts reporting Demo cratic Rep Walter Jones armville got 66909 votes 28962 votes for Republican Jordan Bonner of Hertford With 162 of 226 precincts 2nd District II oun uneral Is Tomorrow or Graves a vpftnvilln nvnr 1 Tnrrv Sratf nf WlnifpvillA nnHidcnt is I 1 I The only Republican who 'ap peared in any danger of even a close race was Rep Broyhill of the 10th who with just a trickle of reporting 1 was seen to be in a tight race with Democrat Harold Mil ler But when the Northern Vir ginia district precincts started coming in 'fast and heavy Broyhill pulled away Even so with 141 of 143 pre cincts in Broyhill had the dis tinction of being the incumbent who won by the smallest mar gin getting 57 per cent of the votes He collected 99901 votes Ito 76591 SALEM inal services William Wallace Graves 79 year old general contractor of Salem Rt 1 will be held at 11 am tomorrow John Oakey Son uneral Chapel in Salem Burial will follow in the Siloaf Cemetery at Gretna He died yesterday in a Salem hospital He was born Dec 29 1892 a son of the late James and Nancy Witcher Graves Survivors include his wife Saliljy Graves a brother Claude Swanson Graves of Washington NC and three sisters Miss lorence Lillian Graves and Mrs Charlotte An derson of Salem and Mrs Hel en of Richmond American party candidate Alvis Ballard ol Wilmington All seven incumbents who faced opposition weathered the challenges' Third District Democratic Congressman Da vid illenderson was un opposed for re clcction In the 4th 'District race An drews a Siler City attorney had campaigned extensively on his record as a six term legisla tor and his knowledge of the district Hawke dwelt heavily on na tional: issues and portrayed himself as a strong supporter of President Nixon He tried repeatedly to link Andrews with McGovern Although Andre ws 1 did not 1 4 i openly endorse McGovern he Cross 50 Dies In Hospital Bennie Millard Cross 50 of Cascade Rt 1 died last night at 9:25 in Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient since Thursday He had been in declining health since April He was born in the Cas cade community of Pittsylvania County on Aug 13 1922 a son of Bennie Clarence Cross and Mary Helen Hardy Cross He was a lifelong resident arid farmer in that community arid was a i member of Shermont Baptist Church Besides his parents he leaves his wife Irene Medford Cross two daughters Mrs Judy Mc Elheney of Danville and Miss Sonja Cross of the home two sons Bennie Millard Cross Jr and Gary Wayne Cross both of the home two sisters Mrs Nell McDaniel of Cascade and Mrs Dorothy Haley Wilson of Danville and two granddaugh ters The funeral will be conduct ed at 2 tomorrow at Swicegood Chapel by the Rev Curtis Hall and the Rev Billy Scearce Interment will follow in Danville Memorial Gardens The body is at the funeral home The family will receive friends there tonight from 7:30 to 9 and at other times will be at the residence yesterday were Totals Lbs 16490 180853 68094 265437 Lbs 55669 $6867 262928 318587 584024 above figures Livestock Mart Plans Multiple uture Events tain of Tarboro got 53677 to 27478 votes for Republican Erick Little of Wilson In the 5th District with all 202 precincts reporting Re publican Rep1 Mizell had 101297 votes to 55092 votes for Democrat Brooks Hays 'With 126 of 136 precincts re i porting in 6th District Democratic Rep Richardson Prcycr got 76730 votes to 5378 votes for American party nomi nee Lj nwoid Bullock 'In the 8th District with 216 of '232 precincts reporting Re publican Rep Earl Ruth got 75353 votes compared to 54470 for Democratic state Ren i ivicnuru C13ik Rennblican Optimism Of Scott House of Delegates chose not to run for re election They both wished to be un encumbered so thcjr could runor seat in what they knew would be upcoming la special election in 1971 to fill Poff's unexpired term But Poff asked President Nix on to withdraw bis name rfor consideration to the highest' court and Butler and Anderson were caught without political homes They were ready this year however when Gov Linwood Hollon appointed Poff to the Virginia Supreme Court Incumbent congressmen counted for the other victories Tuesday Downing had absolutely no trouble besting Republican Kenneth Weils beating him by nearly a 4 1 margin Down ing the only Democrat to come out on top in Virginia congres sional voting got nearly 80 per cent of the vote with 163 of 172 precincts reporting The totals gave Downing 96451 and Wells 26940 Whitehurst took a 3 1 victo ry over Democrat Charles Burlage With all 82 precincts in Whitehurst: had 79540 to 28776 Robin son duplicated his 1970 According to the ederal State Market News Service report sales' on the Old Beit markets operating as ronows: a Markets Virginia: Chase City DANVILLE South Boston Totals North Carolina: Reidsville Winston Salem 1 Totals Grand Total (USDA 'Notation: are oreliminarv and They do not necessarily reflect price levels by grades) Section 12 Pages Volume Average Reflect Decline On Leaf Market 'Proclamation' To Give Concert Next Tuesday today that the election were electing Scott to the ate Virginians rest forever the era of one par ty domination in our he said 373 314 678 247 279 279 322 170 238 225 277 217 352 483 186 4 218 248 Bruce Goforth Dies At Age 30 Gbforh 30 of 104 Harris Place died in Memorial Hospital this morning at 2:15 about an hour after admission He had been in ill health since June and had been a patient at the hospital He was born in Danville Oct 25 1942 a son of Ethel Orene Gentry Goforth and Joseph Woodrow Goforth He attended the Danville public schools and had been by Dan River Inc for the past twelve years s'1 In addition to his parents he is survived by two brothers Earl Wayne Goforth and Curtis Woodrow Goforth both of Dan ville The funeral be conducted tomorrow at 4 pm at Swice good Chapel by the Rev Lonnie Cooper and the Rev David Willis Jr Interment will fol in Mountain View Ceme tery The body is at the funeral home The family will receive friends there tonight from 7:30 until 9 and at other times' will be at the residence on Harris Place Giis James 76 Dies In Hospital Gus James 76 of 136 Win sted'd Drive died yesterday at 10 rijJri in Memorial Hospital He had been in declining health for several years A son of the late Yiassemis and Margaret James he was born March 15 1896 in Koma Yialou Cyprus He came to the United States in 1914 and was a well known restaurant owner in Danville A former president of the Greek Community he was a member of St Greek Orthodox CXiurch Surviving are two brothers Mitchell James of Altavista and Demetrius James of Cyprus a sister Mrs Nick Elias of Cy prus and the following niecesand nephews Mary and Mar garet James and Mrs Mildred all of Danville and Ernest James and Gus James II both of Virginia Beach A funeral service will be held riday at 2 pm at St Church by the Rev George Georgiades Interment will fol low in Mountain View Ceme tery A prayer service will be held at Swicegood Chapel tomorrow at' 8:30 pm The family will be at the resi dence And unerals 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH rt Scott declared a victory at 10:20 pm election night opponent was just too liberal for the taste of most Virginians It was as simple as that Scott said was out of touch with the voters of the Was 'he admitting that a coat tail effect put him over the top? said all along that a win for the president would boost my chances to be a member ot the winning ticket The rally with Vice President Agnew in Richmond Monday night had to help he ex plained Was he admitting two loans from one man totaling $200000 made the difference? all fit together We could not have done it without any one Scott said adding: We started this race a year ago We went all around Vir ginia and told our Gov Linwood Holton said results of the grat Police Capt Marion Setliff today announced that parking will be prohibited on Holbrook Ave irom Main to raxton Sat urday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 because it is there that the Veterans Day Parade will form In preparation for a citywide Youth Development Conference 26 representatives of commun ity civic groups government education and industry 'have been named to serve as' an advisory committee Rites Set Tomorrow or Whitlow MARTINSVILLE Last rites for1 70 year old William Jake Whitlow Sr of 1158 Atkin St will take place tomorrow at 2 pm at Stanleytown Baptist Church of which he was a' member Interment will be inRoselawn Burial Park The 'retired carpenter died yesterday in a Martinsville hos pital 1 He was born in ranklin County a son of the late Callie and Elizabeth Whitlow Survivors rinclude his wife i Gracie Saul Whitlow four daughters Mrs' Margaret Ter ry' and Mrs Juanita Choate of Martinsville Mrs Gracie Es telle Shumate of ayetteville NC and Mrs Marcella Slater bf' Baton Rouge La three sons Garland and William Whitlow Jr of Charlotte NC and Carlton Whitlow of lorida and a sister Mrs Beulah Mox ley of Dajiville lllhl 1g 1 1 LI 1 111ft VUL'C I bCltC a I 1 i JLvpuUliLdli VV 111 VW 111 dll Democrat Charles Rose III of saKt he would try to represent james JJroyhilR with 182 ol IfriA npnnln 1 hp nrpsi nrm 4 neDUDiicanr" vy neviiicis favpvruiiu un iine Jerry Scott' of Whiteville and acn' 1S 10th District' receive 85983 Martin a chemistry professor votes 32i962 votes for Demo The amily of GUS JAMES request that in lieu of flowers be made to 1 St Peters Greek Church Republicans Gain Additional Seat In State 10 Member House Group Sen DeckParking Garage Plans Are Presented Scottish Rite Degree Sessions The Associated Services Cor poration has cancelled 5000 shares of stock reacquired from Williamson and Co Inc under articles of reduction by cancel lation of shares granted by the State Corporation Commission The articles entered in the local Corporation Court say that stated capital of Associated Services after the cancellation is $45200 with 'the number of shares listed at 452000 Work with the visually handi capped will be discussed at to 1 pm meeting oif the Danville Lions (Host) Club at the Charcoal House by James Taylor of the Virginia Com mission for the Visually Handi capped Lisa Ann Dixon daughter of Mr and Mrs letcher Dixon Jr of 134 Conway Drive and a junior at Longwood College has been named to the 1972 varsity hockey team Robert Beasley 38 appealed a fine of $100 on a disorderly conduct charge in connection with a speeding arrest for which he was fined $15 in Mu nicipal Court this morning Thirty two other cases at the traffic session were routine VIENNA (AP) The balloting had hardly begun when aides to the Republican candidate in the Senate race began wor king on a victory statement Their optimism was not un justified Rep William Scott with 99 per cent of the vote tabulated is clearly celebrating today a 52 per cent win in the Senate race The 8th District representa tive becomes the first Republi can senator to represent Vir ginia during this century The 57 ear old candidate based his campaign on a con servative stance and his sup port of President Nixon Incumbent Democratic Sen William Spong Jr was la beled by Scott and his forces rom the beginning political observers spoke frequently of Scott hanging onto the coattails of the President Scott was in Vienna as the re turns poured in Tuesday night There was an air of sober calculated observance All emotional signs read vic tory for the GOP candidate Departing from the usual seclu sion a candidate goes into dur ing those tense hours Scott was on hand early to watch the re sults He wait to make the grand entrance once the out come was final Everything at Scott head quarters here indicated cele bration ood and no alco hol lined a table Scott paced through the room often trailed by his 6 year old grandson Lloyd Eldreth of Yorktown Yotfng Lloyd looked at his grandfather then related the outcome of a staw vote held hv RALEIGH I (AP) Victorics by 4th District Democrat ike Andrews and 9th District Re publican James Martin pre served the lineup of North US House delega tion at seven Democrats and four Republicans 1 Andrews barely slipped past Republican Jack Hawke of Raleigh to win the seat vacated when Democratic Rep Nick Galifianakig decided to run for the US Senate Martin defeated Democrat Jim Beatty of Charlotte to win the seat being vacated by the retiremetnt of Republican Rep Charles Jonas In the 7th District where Democratic Rep Alton Len non ic rpfirincr vnfprs splpntnl i RICHMOND Va Vir ginians have given Republicans an additional seat in the 10 member delegation to the House of Representatives in creasing the GOP edge to 7 3 I Rejecting all but one Demo cratic nominee Rep Thomas Downing of the 1st I 'in the eight contested races vo ters Tuesday re elected four GOP congressmen and swept the three races where there 'were no incumbents on the bal lot Two congressmen David Satterfield of the 3rd District and Daniel of the 5th both conservative Demo crats were unopposed The voters re elected Down ing and Reps William Whi tehurst 2nd Kenneth Robinson 7th William Wampler 9th and JoeP Broyhill 10th In races where no in cumbents were seeking re elec tion: in the old line con s'er a tiv once staunchly Democratic 4th District switch ed their allegiance to a Re publican and elected Robert Daniel Jr in the only congres sional upset or me uay in Vir ginia Caldwell Butler won election in the 6th District both for the regular two year term beginning in January and for the unexpired term of for mer Rep Richard Poff Re publican Poff resigned earlier this year to accept an appoint ment to the Virginia Supreme Court Butler now will serve out unexpired term of about 60 days getting a jump in seniority on other freshmen congressmen elected across the country Tuesday 8th District remained in GOP hands as Stanford Parris was elected by a plural ity to the seat vacated when Rep William Scott was re districted out of the 8th and chose to make his successful bid for the Senate Parris was 'denied a majority victory polling 47 per cent of the vote in a four way race with 99 per cent of the precincts reporting Unofficial results with prac tically all of the 1825 precincts 'reporting give the GOP a huge victory in Vir ginia a victory perhaps strong ly due to the coattails of Presi dent Nixon 4 who garnered 69 per cent of the presidential votes in the state While the 8th District race was the closest it was in the 4th that the surprise occurred When Democratic Rep Wat kins home county of Appomattox was redistricted into the 5th District by the Vir ginia General Assembly Abbitt said he would not move and would not seek re election? This threw the field open and Democrat Robert Gibson of Chesapeake a member of the House of Delegates stepped in Gibson was considered by most political observers as the man to beat in the 4th which had been realigned to include some urban areas in Chesapeake and Portsmouth Early in the cam paign Gibson forged a coalition of Democrats labor and blacks and appeared unstoppable Daniel the GOP nominee to succeed Abbitt was considered the second best man in the field of five which included inde pendents John Vonetes and Robert Hardy and a write in candidate Ward was gressional ginia When coalition start ed coming unsoldered about midway through the campaign political stock in creased but it was' still consid ered a race in which Gibson 9 17 14 9 24 13 31 26 17 38 17 9 32 19 25 Gene Wade Steeles 13 of Dallas Ave escaped with only an abrasion ofthe left knee when he dashed into the rear fender of a passing car on Main St at Chestnut about 1:45 pm yesterday The driver Bronwyn Sigmon Burnette of Westover Mobile Court was absolved of responsibility Damages amounted to $400 in' a 10:10 pm accident on Piney orest Road at rank lin Tpke The investigating of report said that John David Smith of Danville Rt 2 emerged from ranklin Tpke through a red light into the path of a car driven by Allen Cobbler of Bassett Rt 2 who was proceeding west Piney orest Driver's Appeal Brings Reduced Term And ines xictory by beating the same' op ponent Democrat Murat Williams Robinson with 224 of 227 precincts in had 67 per cent of the vote 87341 Wil liams with 44774 had con ceded early in the evening when it was obvious the Win ch sle conservative was whipping him Republican Wampler also had his race conceded to him early as Democrat Zane Dale Chris tian recognized that victory was nigh impossible With 253 of 270 precincts in Wampler racked up a 3 1 victory out nollin" Christian 88747 to ac 32524.