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2-1 The Register: Danville, Sept. 27, 1972 Green Springs Prison Site Subject Of Negative Interior Dept. Report HICOMHND The U. S. Department of Interior has submitted a completely negative tvaluation of the proposed Green Springs prison facility, WTVR News said Tuesday Bight.

The Interior Department recommended no federal funds be made available to build the facility, the television station sistance administration the de One-Year Term Is Punishment For Wounding me Avvai ujc partment strongly recommend- basin landscape would involve ed against any form of federal a significant impact upon the assistance, including LEAA grant funds which would "facil itate an intrusion upon the 5 Green Springs historic area and Corporation Court Judge Stuart L. Craig yesterday sentenced Willie Mae Baker to 12 months on City Farm and fined her $25 on a charge of unlawful wounding. Eight months of the term were suspended on condition of her good behavior for five years. She originally had been charged with malicious wounding of Lillian Crowder last May 24. Mrs.

Baker yesterday denied the charge, but the victim identified her as her as- and claimed she was attacked without provocation. Mrs. Crowder. who is from Florida, said the defendant, known to her only as "soul suddenly attacked her as she arose from her bed. economic justification and ex- be inconsistent with the nation- pedience for the selection of the al policy of preserving the aa- facility site.

The advocative tion's historic and cultural heri- passages of the draft severely 'ige." impair its ability to convey an The letter was signed by W. accurate assessment of envi 3-ROOM GROUP All Furniture '449 FURN. CO. 530 MONROE ST. The department be-came the partment report alleged, "It first federal agency to com ment on the proposed prison pa upo in sual continuity the state wants to build in the to anaiyaze the project impact upon the physical and vi- historic statement Green Springs area of Louisa needs to examine Green County.

Springs' historic area as a un- In an eight-page letter to the ue landscape and me whether or vbual and cultural W. Lyons, deputy assistant Secretary of the Interior, and addressed to Thomas J. Madden, assistant administrator, office of general counsel for LEAA, under the Justice Department. Lyons' letter said the department found a number of what it called "procedural and substantive shortcomings" in the -controversial LEAA draft of the Environmental Impact Statement which recommended federal backing for the Virginia prison system's Green Springs project. the Green Springs Citizens Association went into federal court this summer to challenge the LEAA impact statement.

U. S. District Court Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. has issued an injunction against the spending of any federal funds on the project until all governmental agencies involved comment on the LEAA impact statement.

In disagreeing with the im pact statement the Interior De- ronmental effects of the proposal." The report criticized what it repeated omissions in he LEAA report. Late Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Rae Ely, a member of the association, said when she learned of the letter, "We anticipated stand as the first of many agencies yet to come out against building the prison facility at Green Springs. APPROVE INCREASE WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee approved a bill Tuesday to provide for a 10 per cent increase in pensions for World War I veterans and their widows. ALUMINUM SIDING Let us show you the newest in aluminum designs.

tlilS-STEWART K. 330 FLOYD ST. DIAL 793-4281 MIRACLES At The Tabernacle, we believe in miracles. This past Sunday Mr. Barber gave testimony of a thrilling miracle story as it related to divine healing of one of our members if you're looking for a church that is wide awake, where the gospel is preached and where we have great unusual gospel singing, then you need look no more.

Join us in worship tonight, 7:30 P.M. community. The ty near the focal point of the Laridou Lacey Dies Yesterday Landon T. Lacey, 52, of Newport News, died yesterday at Riverside Hospital in that city after a long illness. of the Dry Fork in Pittsylvania A native community County, he had been a resident of the Peninsula for the past 22 years.

He was a veteran of World War II and was employed by the Post Engineers at Fort Bustis. Surviving are two sons, Jim my W. Lacey and Frederick W. Lacey, both of the home; a daughter, Miss Sheryl Ann Lacey of the home; and his parents, Mr. and Mis.

F. W. Lacey of Dry Fork. Also, three sisters, Mrs. Virginia Dodd, Mrs.

Margaret Adams and Mrs. Helen Easley, all of Danville; and three brothers, Jeoffrey Lacey and Gamett Lacey, both of Dry Fork, and Harold Lacey of Danville. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at the Peninsula Funeral Home in Newport News by the Rev. Gwyn P.

Sullivan. Burial will be in Peninsula Memorial Park. Mrs, White Dies Monday Mrs. Jeraldine White died Monday at her residence on Ringgold Rt. 2 of an apparen heart attack.

She was 60. Bcsrn in Halifax County, she was a member of White Oak Baptist Church at Sutherlin. Surviving are Ser husband Julious White of the home; i sister, Mrs. Willie Gregory Springfield, Ohio; and two Brothers, Oscar Edmonds and Thomas Edmonds, both of Balti more, Md. The body is at Ha.rvey's Fu neral Home, pending comple nerai Oriome, penning comple- IJ i tion of funeral arrangements.

Ctount March 3 1893 a son The family will be at the resi- the )ate A "drew Jackson Me dence Dowell and Albany Jenning McDowell. He is survived by one sister Mrs. Minnie Waytte of Burlio ton, N.C. Funeral services will be con ducted today at 2 p.m. with Graveside services at the Shoe koe Baptist Church Cemetery.

Son ny Chumley Rites Tomorrow John Lynch Rites Tomorrow R.J. BARBER, JR. Watch our ads for special events during the months of October, November, December and remember opening day of New Tabernacle First Sunday in November Freaks (Continued from page 1-B) he paints an eye on the scar. "My face doesn't bother me," ho says. "It probably would if I was in another kind of work, but I've been in this business 25 or 30 years.

"At least nobody looks like me. At least I don't know of anybody." Dirks does not smile because he cannot smile. He may smile on the inside, but It can never come out. His face will not allow a smile to come out. Gladia.

the frog girl, sits in her trailer in a wheel chair. She has finished her act and does not have another for half an hour. She sits alone in hsr contorted state and will not talk. "Don't photograph the freaks," Benjie shouts, and Gladia turns away. Melvin Burkhart, the anatomical man, also plays magician, drives nails into his head and performs the amazing electric chair illusion.

He is 65 years old, started in show business in 1927 has been with Strates off and on from 20 years. "I'm thinking of making a regular job of it," he laughs. Burkhart is the only freak who iaughs a lot. He says he plays MC for the side show. He began with amateur and vaudeville shows, moved in with Ringling played the 1939 World's Fair in New York City wiiii "liipley's Believe It Or wrestled snakes for a while.

"At the tim I wa breaking into show business," he says, "vaudeville was going out, so I went where I could." He is happy where he is because there is no other place to go, nothing else to do now "I've gotten to the point where I wouldn't want to leave show business," he smiles. "If I took up a new line of work I'd start out as a flunky. Here I a star. "Most of the freaks in this business are glad to be here because they couldn't do anything else except be charity cases." Burkhart tells a few humorous stories about Ms past is stopped in the middle of one to go on stage and perform his electric chair illusion: 'The electricity from this boy's hand, and I hope he doesn't have a sonaiity, is this other boy and -'into the fluorescent light. Before he leaves, however- Burkhart turns to pronounced maxim: r.

"It's always been my contention that some of the people in the audience are bigger freaks than we are." He laughs and goes out there. Out there he does his electric trick and then contorts his body for the crowd. As his limbs move. "unnaturally" into odd fe'a- tures on the crowd; dance wildly. The plywood division between oerformer and audience seems to blur, crack apart, disappear.

Board Approves Transfer Of Mental Unit From State To Local Administration FAIRFAX (AP)-The State Hospital Board, in a pioneering move, Tuesday approved ransfer of the Arlington Menal Health Center from state to ocal administration. Dr. King E. Davis, director mental health clinics and enters for the State Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals, said the transfer will rovide a demonstration of tate and local cooperation in he the fields of mental health mental retardation. The Arlington County Department of Human Kesources, eaded by Dr.

Helen Hackman, will be responsible for oper- ition of all aspects of the men- al health center, effective Oct. The Arlington Community lental Health and Mental Rea a i Services Board, which has been serving as the enter's advisory board, will idminister a state grant of ibout $165,000 to carry on the services, Davis said. Local funds wild bring the budget to a total of ibout $308,000. Davis said the transfer Teacher Unit VIeets Saturday The annual meeting of District Retired Teachers Association, will be held this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Martins- vill-e High School in Martinsville.

The session is being held in conjunction with the District Virginia Education Association. All retired teaching personnel are Invited to attend. L. McDowell Dies At Age 79 HILL McDowell died Mond 3j in a Lynchburg Nursing home He was 79. He was born in Pittsylvani Graveside services for John W.

Lynch will be conducted tomorrow at 11 a.m. in Highland Burial Park by the Rev. Curtis Hall. Mr. Lynch died yesterday at his home at 480 Main St.

He had been in failing health for a year. Mr. 62, was born in San Augustine, a son oi the late John Lynch and Vera Willis Lynch. In early life he was a district manager for General Motors later, he edited two newspapers: The Amarillo Times in Texas and the Delta Democrat News in Greenville, Miss. He left the editorship to be affiliated with American City Bureau Fund Raising Associates for 21 years before retiring Danville and in 1968.

He moved to became director of developmenl at Memorial Hospital until last September. Surviving are his wife, Geneva Hall Lynch of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Frances L. Daw son, and two grandsons, Michae approved by the hospital board housed in local government, mental health services because IS raf tha mrtct feasibility of such a relation- affected can more easily peti- ship between the state and a locality. "The administration, of Arlington's mental health and retardation services will now be Chess Tourney Now Under Way; Two Favored is an effort to demonstrate the where the citizens most directly Undertaker Promises Bury Corpse To RALEIGH S.C.

(AP) A undertaker has old the state attorney general's ffice that a corpse displayed publicly for 61 years willl receive "a decent and respectable burial" in "the very near utu're." Deputy Afcty. Gen. James Jullock and Asst. Atty. Gen.

'om Earnhardt said Tuesday his assurance was. received rtonday at a meeting in Laurinburg -with Hewittt McDougald, tie undertaker. "We have every reason to be- ieve-that McDougald will carry out his assurances that the body will be buried within the near future," Earnhardt said. Cedrick Taylor and Robert Harrison have been rated as favorites in a city wide chess tournament now in progress under the sponsorship of the YWCA and the City Recreation Department. Taylor was Class A Champion of Virginia in 1938 and Harrison, a member of the Danville Community College faculty, is currently rated Class A by the U.S.

Chess Federation. The favorites are among the 81 50 in the open division and 31 in the scholastic division participating in the tournament. A modified Swiss system has been used to pair contestants. 'First round winners are paired against each other in the second round while first round losers are matched. As the tournament continues, players with the same scores are paired for the next round.

A win counts one point, a draw one-half point. No players are eliminated until after five rounds have been played Finalists will play one more game at the YWCA on Nov. 4. As many as 20 players may be competing for trophies being awarded in various categories. The tournament is being directed by Peter Hopkins of Chatham, a certified USCF tournament director, executive vice president of the Virginia Chess federation and a member of the board of directors of the USCF.

ioa for their needs," said. At another stage of its meeting, the hospital board heard sharp criticism of the lack of coordination among mental lealth services in the Richmond area. "These services have been fragmented since the Civil rVar," the board was told by Dr. James L. Mathis, chairman of the department of psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, in a report on a psychiatric institute planned for MCV.

Dr. William 5. Allerton, state commissioner of mental hygiene and hospitals, pointed out comprehensive community mental health services are anticipated for the Richmond area. But he agreed Richmond has been "veritably a desert" in HURT Sonny Chumley, 33 died last week at his residenc in Gait. Calif.

In addition to his parents, is survived by his wife, Mrs Carolyn Lambert Chumley; sons, Danny Chumley and Jefi rey Chumley; and one daught cr, Sherry Chumley, all of Gait Also two brothers. Free Chumley Jr. of Hurt and Abe Chumley of Ohio: five sisters, Mrs. C.O. Davis, Mrs.

W.C. Howell, Mrs. Roy Boone, Francis Chumley and Betty Chumley, all of Hurt. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m. from the Baptist Tabernacle in Altavista.

Burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetery at Hurt. The body will be at the Finch and Finch Funeral Home to In loving memory of our lovety daughter and sister. JUDY K. OAKES, who left this life two years ago today Sepr. 27, 1970.

To know her was to love her. A beautiful life so fult and complete walks with God amid beauty and peace for only through death con she live forever. Sadly Missed, MOTHER, DAD and BROTHERS if poor- coordination. The board set its next meet- ng for Oct. 25 in Richmond.

Vative Daiivillian Dies Monday Mrs. Gertrude Kimery, 69, died Monday in a Long Beach, Salif. hospital. She had been ill about three months. A native of Danville, she was a daughter of the late Mr.

nd Mrs. John St. Clair. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Apple of 863 Paxton Ave.

and Mrs. Mabel Fitzgerald of San Diego, and brothers, John St. Clair of Riverside, Leslie St. Slair of Downey, Calif, and Curtis St. Clair of Baldwin Park, Calif.

Burial will take place in Forest Lawn Cemetery Friday. Lisa Hardy Funeral Today REIDSVILLE, N.C. Fun- neral rites for Lisa Deoise Hardy, who was killed in an auto accident Monday, will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the Wilkerson Funeral Home Chapel in Reidsville. Burial will be in the Ruffin Cemetery.

The 14-year-old daughter Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Wayne Hardy of Ruffin Rt. 1 was pro nounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital Monday after 'noon following a one-car acci dent on Park Springs Rd. in Caswell County.

Born in Rockingham County she was an eighth grade stu dent at Piedmont Academy in Providence and a member Vance St. Baptist Church in Reidsville. In addition to her parents she is survived by a sister Sharon Lee Hardy of the home her paternal grandmother Mrs. Andrew Hardy of Reids ville Rt. 5 CHAIN LINK FENCE FREE ESTIMATES Call Us Also For STORM DOOR and SCREEN REPAIRS STORM WINDOWS i ALUM.

AWNINGS DUCT HEAT HAYNES HE) WE. Dial 793-6216 Hardtop Coupe THANK YOU DANVILLE! FOR MAKING OUR NEW CAR ANNOUNCEMENT A BIG SUCCESS! Here Are The Winners Of Our Drawing, Held Saturday, Sept. 23 MAN'S GOLF SET J. M. Farmer Ringgold, Va.

and John Paul Dawson, all ol night. The family will be at the Hurst, Tex. G. H. Vadeii Funeral Held i residence Hurt.

of Mrs. Boone at IN LOVING MEMORY of our lovely granddaughter, JUDY K. OAKES, who left this life two years ogo today, Sept. 27, 1970. September brings sad memories of one we loved so dearly.

We think of you so much in silence. No one can see us weep, but many tears we shed while others are asleep. God gave us wonderful granddaughter, one of the very best. And when her work on earth was done God called her home to rest. No one knows how hard the parting or what the farewelt cost, but God has gained in heaven what we lost here en eorth.

Sadly Missed, GRANDPARENTS, MR. MRS. TOM TALLEY Baptist Tabernacle 83'f j' Funeral services for Giles Henry Vadcn Jr. were conducted Monday from First Bap ti.st Church in Altavista. Burial was in Gretna Burial Park.

Mr. Vaden, owner and operator of Vaden's Farm Service died Saturday in Safem. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Mary Booth Vaden of Dan ville; his wife, Gloria Swanson Vaden of Altavista; two sons Giles H. Vadeo of San Berna dino, Calif, and Kenneth Irvin Vaden of Blacksburg; two brothers, Dr.

Edwin B. Vadon of Lynchburg and William C. Vaden of Columbus, and one sister Mrs. William P. Coles of Java.

The Family of HOWARD B. GRAVELY wishes to express our deepest gratitude to our many friends ond neighbors for their many acts of kindness, for the food and flowers that were sent and brought, during the death of our beloved husband and father. May God bless each and every one for their sympathy. SET 1 Josephine Beverly Rt. 5, Box 496, Danville BAG OF BILLS Reld Tanksley 808 Melrose Danville 20 SILVER DOLLARS (5 Drawings) Esther 'se 122 Briarcliff Lane, Danville J.

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