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The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 12

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2-B The Register: Danville, April 3, 1962 James Webb, Head Of Space Is Tar Heel With Outstanding Record By LEON ROOKE record as calling him "one of the CHAPEL HILL From Tally nation's best administrators and Ho, an out-of-the-way place not organizers." listed on North Carolina maps, to; -r ao no know any man in The head of an organization of government" who has "a greater; genius son Funeral Rites Set Today For Mrs. Mitchell Scottish Rite Bodies Hold 79th Reunion M. Revere, Clerk Of Court, Dies In Wake February Business Here Up 12.3 Pet. Over 1961 Nuclear Studies. more than 17.000 employees wiin'genius for organizing, a an annual budget of about Sl.OOO.- or understanding how to 111 -LJllvl All W1L1IAMSBURG, Va.

Busi-liihed monthly by the Bureau and economic activity hi Easiness Research at the College Danville in February William and Mary, showed I2.3?c over February of last year, substantial improvement over the ed at 2 p.m. got underway last iiight i Le monin j'f 5655 increase similar to that ex- iame month last year, and this cnapel Oie Masonic Temple erienced by most of increase rented in a Iar per- 'Revere was affiliated with ma dlies niage sain for almosi aU candidates for'Bank of Middlesex for 29 vears.i Tnis increase foUows a trend llie fourteea Clties iacluded ffl the followed by was a member the back's 'established througfcout "Virginia as'report. the Directors (substantial increases in new car; The largest gairf over last year He was a member and 5 0113 add a decided im- madeby of Donovan Lodge No. irovement newspaper at Deitaville and ai tisiD 2 lineage offset small de-; crease compared with a 27 be from the wne, his.pmfej-ai Home and daugh-jBaj-jjom- Rev i ey en hospital Sunday. She was a aa- tient at Hilltop Nursing most iliusirous political sons it'all the competence that they, ty schools, was the route taken, and the fact have." i that few had traveled it before; High wor) indeed for a boy didn't slow him down a bit.

rom the sticks. From Tally Ho For James Edwin Webb, ap- Webb attended nigh school Li Ox- pointed head of the giant Nation- ford, and worked during that al Aeronautics and Space Admin-'time at a dime store in that istraiion by President Kennedy Next came the University. "I last year, it was only the latest entered the University of North rise in the outstanding career of Carolina in 1923," he has the 55-year man who since "and completed one year but was i i his undersraduate days at the Enable to continue due to finan- Three cases were quickly dis-jJosh Caleb Mitchell, died in 1947. with the exemplification oron the church board of University of North Carolina has.cial difficulties." He had to bor- sed yesterday as the Aprili She is survived by "ball of row money to finish out 1 tcim of Corporation Cpurtit npvr vpnr HrnrviCOnxened with Judge A. M.

Alken Her condition had been critical for three days. eleventh A native of the Hinesville com- conferred munity, aU of her h7e was sprat tomorrow evenmg, after CIub Methodist Church. Her treasurer ofi'Uary of 1961, resulting in over last and re Churchjsteady growth of business sales, a key economic indi- 4. three daugh-j'he fourteenth degree, "Pertect Surviving are his wife, oBt A few years later he was pro-. The following Masons composed! Funeral to sune Bur, 0 as Held W.

Mohrman of 'Shaw AFB, Sumter, S.C.; one jciiy maiccs registering increases. Funeral services for G. Burton The Bureau of Business Re- Time Magazine as "another of reau of Educational Research not iked. i Louis Mitchell of the Kennedy's Phi Beta Kappa one of his responsibilities; Removed from the docket and Clyde Mitchell ihalf-brother." Luther 4 Revere were conducted from St. Search studies the following four grandchildren, Episcopal Church at Mt.jdicators ai making report: Iniece.

and one nephew. iAiry Monday at 3 p.m.. by thejbank debits, biuiamg permits, Funeral services will be Stephens Gulbrandsen consumed, newspaper Walters Mill! the Jucted Tuesday at 2 p.m. fromithe Rev. R.

D. Waters. advertising lineage, new car reg- ell of Reids-isamuel Clifford Crutchfie'd Eu- iHarmon Grove Baptist Church. Interment was in the church Ration. stal receipts, retail gene Upon his resignation as Under-i saw sen-ice in World War II.

be-j secretary of State in 1952, Tru-'coming commanding officer ly man said: "We have First Marine Air Mrs. W. T. Nunn driven bv Carswell and owned jDies The Smithers action collision on Riverside Dr. "At Age Of 81 man said: "We have worked together for a long has been an association I have greatly valued." Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson is on 1961.

in which the plain- aye worKea claims he was injured when time and it Group. He is still in the nm hpWnH his car was struck from behind Reserve holding the rank by the Tharp auto lieutenant colonel. Webb's Washington career be- 1932 when he was secretary The first case scheduled for I trial, on the docket for Thursday, is the $25,000 suit of Lee P. Bur- SOUTH BOSTON-Mrs. Martha Yancey Nunn.

of Aarons Creek commurtity, Virgilina, RFD 3, died Monday at her home. She was born in Halifax Counto North Carolina Congressman nelt Marv M. Yeatts for iy on Januar 17 1378 and was 117 Inf I Ril-VAS VC-A Edward W. Pou. Two years later juries allegedly sustained in a why pay more when no other headache powder can give you better or faster relief.

Ask for Goody's! I lie was assistant to 0- Max Card- lra ffi acc ident May 1, 1061. ner, general counsel to the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce; of America. In 1936 he joined the! Sperrv Gyroscope 1 T7 1 Starting as Personnel Directorpel 1 CHlclY and Assistant to the President, he rernainded eight years, rising to the position of Vice-President and almost the one-man force which Fimeral Rites C. F. Hundley HAMFXV She was the daughter of Charlie Franklin and Almary Royster Yancey.

Mrs. Nunn was educated iin tha public schools and was married to Willie Thomas Nunn. She was a member of the Aarons Creek Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, Willie Thomas Nunn. Virgilina; tow daughters, Mrs.

Estelle Pyrant Elliott, Charles; Francis, George pointments. first as go into law, another love. (Corp. against John J. Smith or grandchildren and 1 tary of State and then as Directon Later, he studied law at George; automatic food equipment.

children. Tr "all of of the United States Budge. i Washington University. He was! Eight cases were passed by and; The remains will rest at Ri He has been respected in to the bar of the District afnc vlw fnr 10 nth If 1 (1 his assignments as "the fair-lof Columbia in 1936. He holds! Tiie haired boy," an appositive degrees from UNCj-i unes clawed to have been on the Mount Cross Rd.

dates back to his student days University and the Col-i sustamed accident June Carolina when he made Phi Beta orado College. I 21 which plamtuf. Kappa while still a junior, after) Webb is a veteran of more than! 3 Parian, struck by compiling a brilliant 30 years in Marine Corps aviation.icar driven record. won wings in 1931 be in the Lower cemetery at ates were set for 10 home and the family Matherly action was for be at the home of Cecil Mitchell Boston. Mrs.

Morris Dies Danville: I Willie H. McNeelv Last Rites Held cemterv I sales, water consumed and nou- Pallbearers were Charlie Wyatt agricultural employment. Jasper Edwards Dewey Edwards I Cities charted are: Alexandria. Ben J. Julian Charlottesville.

Danville. Harold Pickeral, Allison Tower jFredencksburg, Lynchourg. New- and James Thompson. At Age 54 At sendees for Willie H. McNeely held Monday afternoon from the Wrenn-Yeatts Chapel with Elder Walter Lewis and the Rev.

Charlie M. Shelton of- Archie T. Brown Final Rites Held Funeral services for Archie T. Brown, age 74, of Java were- ficiating. held at RiceviUe Baptist Church! Interment was in Highland Sunday afternoon by the Rev.

B.i Burial Park. iR. Cook and the "Rev. Charlie 1 Pallbearers were Samuel Me-'Shelton. Interment followed in Daughters Home ALTAVISTA Mrs.

Flossie McDaniel Morris, age 54, wife of! Neclv Maynard Shelton, Samuel Mulberry Baptist Church ceme-: the late C. R. Morris, died Mon-j Jones, Wistor Collie, A. B. Cas-itery, Halifax County.

i sada. C. S. Adams, Dr. Robert.

Pallbearers were C. F. Adams. McNeely, Audy Anderson, James Wilmer Adams, W. T.

Snow. Noel port News, Norfolk, Petersburg, Richmond, Roanoke. Staunton, Wiiliamsburg and Winchester. Takes the tout of Heartburn Tuns antacid relieve the stop the soothe your stomach fast. 3 rolls, whipped that huge organization foi charl Fietche.

Hundlev 25 into one whose reputation became i day at 12:15 p.m., at the home of her daughter. Mrs. H. M. Palmer, 1003 Broad Street.

She was born in Campbell County July 21, 1907. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church near Altavista. Mrs. Morris was a daughter of the late Andrew Jackson McDaniel and the late Rose Breszen- tine McDaniel. Survivors include five sons, Jack, Russell, Jesse, Charles and Ronnie Morris, all of Altavista; five daughters, Mrs.

H. M. Palm- Dawson, Paul Marshall and Kenneth Bonner. that of one of the most efficient conc uc ec i servicesjvaughan, Virgilina: Mrs. Ralliei Hite, Clarksville: two sons, winCj of Glen Jeaili Mrs.

er. of Altavista: Mrs. Kyle Board- from the Powell Herbert A. Nimn and Cabbie W. Home 1 will be in Mary Y.

Talbott. Clarksville, 15 grandchildren and 12 great Robert Harper, of Lynchburg; Mrs. Don Jennings, of Lynch- -rvices will be held burg: Mrs. William Denton, of Gladys; two brothers, Oscar McDaniel, of Hurt and Bill McDaniel, in the country. Although active in private busi- ch "a pe Mcrment ness, his public sen-ice interests i over Cemetery i have been numerous: he has been! 0 rnf i TT rtunciiey.

resiclca in Hah- a member of the Advisory Coun-1f as was i i ure( as wh cil of the School of Industrialihie'rar Ipft wi a nri Management. MIT: Visitins Com-; tree Hp treek Ba chlirch Budal will mittec. Graduate School ofpublic! Hospital in Durham NCwhSe 1 theHch rc meTtery th surviving are 10 grandchildren. Administration, Harvard Univer- he LcUhe foEn, day Land Jr 'sity: Visiting Committee of the; Witt, of Hurt and Mrs. Barrette, of Altavista.

Also mothHalifax: 2 POWDERS 12 POWDERS The body will rest in the church one hour prior to services. Harvard-MIT Joint Center forL t- o. j- i i i er mrs Jotin 01 namax: Urban Studies: Industrial Ad- ifour Mrs Lawrence Smith yisory Board of Oklahoma of San dston: Miss Frances Hund- TIT- TT cr University; and the Research ln-ji er Atlanta, Ga Mrs Kenneth i-HlSS LaiTlC Hoffinilll stitute of the University of of Scottsburg and MrsJFJivil llOma. irpri! Wniil- f.r i Adams, Otis Davis, Stuart Yeatts, Fred Brown and David Ragsdale. Cecil Houk of Portsmouth: and He has also served as trustee to j0 ne brother, Thomas Y.

Hundley many non-profit organizations of the TJ. S. Marine Corps. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m.,! from Calvary Baptist church. Interment will be in Adams cemetery near Hurt.

The body will be taken to the home of her daughter. Mrs. Palm- jcr, Tuesday morning and placed iin the church an hour prior to Vii Take a simple, leisurely tour through the Yellow Pages Let your fingers do the walking! Final Services Held For Brian K. Gentry Gentry, three-morfth-old son oi -Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest R. Gcntry Last services for Miss Carrie! service were conducted Sunday! (from Beth Sholem Temple by! Rahbf Benjamin Kelson. Inter-! ment was in Oakland Cemetery, in Statesviile, N. C. i Pallbearers were Louis Ber- man.

Dr. Harry Calisch. Dr.) Louis Calisch. Junius Brown, Mc-j Lin Choate. A.

R. Hill. Mil-j The Virdan Restaurant had fi jton Herman and Ruthcrfoord! couple of guests to drop in Harvie. literally for lunch yesterday. The pair, H.

S. Brown and (W. G. Gourley. came by way helicopter.

They dropped the whirlic-bird in a field behind the restaurant, had their lunch and Final services for Brian Keich were on their way again. Brown, a technician for Appa-j lachian Power was in Providence. N.C.. were con- area checking Apco's jcrucfed yesterday morning was his pilot, flying Barker Funeral Home by Father i Campbell Air Service of Roanoke. 'Charles E.

Ferry. Interment was! B. E. Willis, proprietor of the Danville Memorial Gardens, i Virdan Motel, said helicopter Pallbearers were Edgar Gentry, travelers are welcome there any 'Walker Gentry. Johnny Johrfson time.

"We have about three and H. A. Walker. i places they can land," he said. Explosion Rocked Negro Home In White Neighborhood Watched Today's Yellow Pages is Virginia's handiest shopping guide Find ii fast tn the Pages Every product or service you appliances to listed under the handy Yellow Pages headings.

Before you set out to shop, take a finger-stroll through the YellowPages. You'll save time, temper and tiresome and you'll find your purchase faster! DEEP CREEK, Va. gating a "probable cause of ar- County police have ordered closer! son" in the fire. sun-cillancc of a Negro home in Jic said aftcr meetin in a white neighborhood near nere, Inspector Lamt) offjce jn which was rocked oy an explo-; he sion touched oft by fire early Sat-; Washington this afternoon or Wed- t0 iDbpcctorCK. Lamb said.

cvidcncc found at the are watehmg the place ore ithe FBI laboratories there, closely than we did before thej fi rc Tne FBI offered its laboratory liie inspector made the an-i ff iIl Lies to determine whether nounccment Monday after me t-: the "re-caused blast was arson. ing with police and fire officials; FBI Agent Robert Hancock of and the owner of the house. An- the Norfolk office said Monday: thony Gist, 43, a Naval Shipyard! "We're maintaining close liai- crilier. with the'Norfolk County po- At the meeting, a Gist re-iterat-1 lic We are waiting to find out ed his determination to move into whether any of the aspects of this the house once it is fixed up. come under our jurisdiction, is expected to learn today from they do.

we may enter it, but insurance agents the cost and thai decision will come from the time required to fix up. the home'Justice Department in Washing- at 5235 George Washington High-'ton." way in Washington Manor. Certain evidence gathered from The one-story frame the scene was studied Monday at which Gist bought from a trans-j the State Crime Laboratory in fcrred naval officer Feb. 2, was Norfolk. Alexander will hold up damaged by the explosion and release of any findings there until fire that set off the blast.

Win-j after the FBI laboratory report fHB CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA A SeU Sfitom Company dows were blown out, walls knocked from their foundations, cinder blocks tumbled and doors ripped from their hinges. Gist said he was to have moved into the house with his wife and completed, he said. The fire appeared to have been set from a fuse ignited near the back door of the residence. Police said some person or persons apparently poured oil in the house. hroc children today.

The home.The fumes apparently exploded lad just be repainted and 'c-jwhcn the fire from the fuse finished, he said. i reached the kitchen. A. Alexander, district Gist told police IIP paid $10.000 vestifiator for the slate fire mar- for the home. Police estimated shal'i office, s-jid he is invcsti- damage at about $5,000.

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