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Removal From Neiv Orleans Ordered Danville Trio To Be Returned Here To Face Federal And State Charges T-W Three Danville youths, facing both a federal charge of theft from an interstate shipment and a state charge of murder in Pittsylvania County, probably will be returned to Danville in a week or 10 days, Assistant U. S. Attorney William Davis said last night. The trio, arrested in New Orleans, will be returned here on the federal charge following a removal order signed by U. S.

District Judge Herbert W. Christenberry of New Orleans Thursday. Billy Ray Powell, one of the three, waived his right to extradition and the court ordered the other two, Allen Derrick Putman and Bryant Davis Stoneburg, returned. Davis said it was his understanding the trio will be returned to Danville by U. S.

Marshalls since the alleged federal crime was committed in Danville and the trial probably will be held here. He added the Danville jail is an approved federal lockup. When the three are returned to this jurisdiction on the federal charge, they will find awaiting the detainers filed by Commonwealth Attorney Joseph Motley Whitehead through the State's Attorney- il 9 Last Day To File For ASC Adjustments Farmers i Pittsyllvania County have until April 9 to appeal for downward adjustment in their conserving base, if they feel the base linits them in operating their farm profitably, according to Guy a 11 chairman of the Pittsylvania County ASC committee. Three guidelines will followed by the county committee in adjusting conserving base for changes in farming operations: adjustment of a base will be made only if the farm has changed from con serving to. non conserving crops, or is about to make such a change.

removed from the conserving base will be United to land suitable for continuous corping. adjustment will not made to accomodate a farm's required a i'd acreage under the 1971 farm programs. "Rules on conserving bases are being modernized to apply to modern farming operations," Yeatts said. He pointed out that today's market-oriented policy requires more freedom for farmers in operating their farms. The 1971 set-aside farm programs provide for this freedom by avoiding the limitations of older programs, he said.

"In- some instances conserving bases tend to keep producers in farming operations that are no longer in their best interests," he said. Funeral Rites Set Today For W. T. Abbott Funeral services for T. (Tap) Abbott, 77, will be conducted today at 4 p.m.

at Swicegood Chapel by the Rev. Robert J. Day and the Rev. R. Eugene Talley.

Interment wilJ be in Highland Burial Park. Mr. Abbott died Thursday in Memorial Hospital following an illness of 17 months. He had been hospitalized 11 days. A son of the late David Burger Abbott and Sally Finney Golem an Abbott, he was born in Pittsylvania County.

On Sept 30, 1931 he was married to the as secretary! former Bessie Parrish. MI- Vi VOUVIIUdlCO He spent his entire life in itiated at the meeting, and Pittsylvania County, where he buffet supper was served in the was engaged in farming. He auditorium at the conclusion of was a member of Mt. Olivet the session. United Methodist Church.

In addition to his wife he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Bessie Abbott Carter of Danville; one son, William T. Abbott Jr. of the home; and three sisters, Mrs. Gillie Ellen Inman, Mrs.

Mary Jane Davis and Miss Annie Empress Abbott, all of Danville. on Iris Lane. Mrs. Sparrow's Graveside Rites Slated Today SOUTH BOSTON Graveside services for Willie Sparrow Henderson, of South Boston Rt. will be XrVOlltS Set held toda at 2 in held today at 2 p.m.

in the cemetery of Union United Methodist Clwch. Mrs, Henderson died Thurs- a South Boston home. She was born in County Aug. 11, 1883 derson. Surviving are one sister and one grandson.

The body is Home. General's office, to be turned over to county authorities. The three are suspects in the Feb. 10 slaying of 59-year- old Robert Marks, manager of the Danville Railway Express Agency office who was shot two miles off of the Franklin Turnpike. Marks died of wounds in Memorial Hospital.

Marks, officials said, pursued a car into the county following' theft of merc- chandise from his office platform. It was this alleged theft that brought the federal charge against them. The trio were arrested in New Orleans Feb. 14 after fleeing the Danville area. Gilbert Hensley, of Carriage Hills Trailer Court Danville Rt.

5 was charged with aiding and abetting the trio by providing them with funds for their flight. Taken, into custody, they fought extradition on the slaying charge. They were represented by a p- pointed attorneys at the time. The firm of Garre.lt, Garrett and Smith has been retained by the family to represent Putman on the slaying charge only. 'Mod Squad' Crew Runs Destroyer All Officers One Rank Below Normal NORFOLK (AP)-Capt.

Richard E. Nicholson. doesn't like is destroyer squadron called le "Kiddie Squadron" or the 'Junior Squadron" or the "Bob- Tunstall Senior Has Two Goals: Pursuit Of Peace And Pharmacy Rick Weringo, a Tunstall High senior, wants to devote his life to helping the world achieve peace by working in his chosen field of pharmacy. The contemplative 18-year- old son of Air. and Mrs.

Leroy Weringo, of 520 Church Avenue, began working a 40- hour week at Super Drug two years ago and has learned much about the pharmaceutical business during that apprenticeship. Next year he hopes to attend the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs to study pharmaceutical chemistry. It has been his goal to attend' the Academy since he was nine years old. Although that dream still is not fully, realized, Rick already has been successful in several areas. He is president of the Student Cooperative Association at Tunstall High and, as such, has been the main student coordinator of activities this year at the school.

"I have tried to improve student relations and student- faculty relations by working with SCA representatives and the he says adding that he feels black- white relationships at Tunstall have improved this year. Rick and the SCA will coordinate the 1 participation in the country clean-up campaign this spring and then Rick's main task will be to initiate the In-coming SCA president to the responsibilities of the position. Rick is also vice-president of the Beta Club honor society at school and a member of the First Presbyterian Church basketball team. His hobbies include fishing, sports and sports cars, and he enjoys reading mysteries and sports stories. He has opinions on several current topics.

The voting age should be lowered for state and local elections as well as national elections, he says, because New Exalted Ruler Of Elks Meet Delegate John G. Roberts the newly-elected exalted ruler of the Danville Lodge of Elks, will serve as a representative to the grand lodge and attend the organization's 1971 national convention. Roberts succeeds David L. Brooks who will be alternative representative and will serve a five-year term as trustee. Other officers elected at the lodge meeting Thursday night were Howard W.

(Stony) Bolton, leading knight; Henry Staley Earp, loyal knight; Lloyd Tommy Dudley, lecturing knight; Clyde 0. Clark, tiler; and Charles A. e's 1 1 treasurer. Armistead Womack was reelected to his perennial position A class of candidates was in- Five Years 111 Statutory mittee is taking a close look at student publications, especially newspapers, at state supported institutions of higher learning. The bodv is at the funeral esteraa was convicted of Del.

W. Roy Smith Jr. of home The family wll be at the statutorv ra ifl a Petersburg said the committee's nome. xne lamiiy will be at tne rial and sentenced to five years concern was sparked by recent in the state penitentiary by controversial issues of student TMi r- I- Henry Wayne Ferrell, yesterday was convicted 34. of Judge Stusrt L.

Craig. Accused of raping a 15-year rapn a -year- old girl, Ferrell was prosecuted Washington College. by Commonwealth's Attorney assistance of Ruth Harvey. Thompson and Jerry Williams. Elks Speaking At Camp Grove Baptist Church Sunday of tryouts Halifax district oratorical was sponsored by the Morning Start married to the late Algie Hen- Lodge.

The tryouts will start at 3 p.m. place to be announced Jater Rick Werringo, Tunstall Hi Senior the "drug store has taught me local elections are the ones youth votes will effect most. He agrees with President Nixon's plan for ending-Hhe war in Vietnam because that is the way he thinks will be most successful in all respects. He has a "hand-off" attitude on drugs: "My work at thaf drugs should be used for medical purposes only. They shouldn't be used for experimentation." Before everything else, Rick is a serious student and a thoughtful leader of classmates.

His goals are.set high and he reaches. Training And Re-Training For Local Police Announced for upcoming training and re-training programs for members of the local police department have been announced by Chief E. G. McCain. A school for rookie officers will begin Monday.

Two members of the Danville force and members of enforcement apencies in the area will participate. The new appointees to the local force are George Daniel Holland, 21, of 181 Riverview Drive and Laurence Estes Johns, 27, of Ringgold Rt. 1. Both men are single and have served in the armed forces. Instructors will be veteran members of the local department.

A re-training school for all force members will begin April 5. Classes will be held once a week through August 16. The purpose of refresher training, McCain said, is to keep members of the department abreast of new events and problems and changes in laws. Speakers for this course will include Judge Stuart Craig of Corporation Court, State Police Sergeant J. Hutcherson, F.

B. I. agents and others. Topics will include search and seizure, drug abuse, field inquiries, disturbances, interrogations and interviews, sketching crime scenes and developing informers. In addition the department plans further classes i specialized categories to be in charge of outside instructors.

Topics include counterfeiting, bombings and automobile theft. A one-day, two-session school was held earlier this month with judges and commonwealth attorneys as principal speakers. Student Publications Get Close Look In Legislature RICHMOND (AP)-The chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Virginia House of t. mittee of the Virginia House of pay fees whm the register and Delegates said Friday' the com- part tnat goes toward tjjg support of studcnt publications over which no one seems to have any control, Smith said. He said there is no intention by the committee to try to exert any censorship over campus publications without any thought of trying to dictate cotitcnt.

publications at the College of William Mary and Mary He referred specifically to the LU tU6 William H. Fuller III with the Dec. 10,1970, issue of the Bullet, published at Mary 14C14. Cj -iTJLCH IT CL 3I11JJ LUII. Defense attornies were Paul "which had stories on birth control methods, women's liberation, an abortion information center in a dormitory and used alleged obscene language.

Criticism of using alleged obscene terms has also been leveled at the Feb. 12 issue of William Mary's Flat Hat. Smith said the two issues have been discussed by the commit- said this raise the whether some publications should be supported re A winner will be selected toby a compulsory student fee, sold. At present, students have to they register and "It's the 'Mod 'squad'," he says. Nicholson has a point.

For in mod Navy of mod Chief of Operations Adm. Elmo R. there can be little doubt that Destroyer 26 is the mod squadron. Other destroyermen gave the squadron its first three nicknames after it was selected for a unique experiment: to see if an entire squadron could be run ay officers one rank lower than normal. "The "young look" is beginning to pervade each of the seven ships in the squadron.

Instead of a commanding of- leer having the rank of commander, he is a lieutenant commander; instead of an executive officer being a lieutenant commander, he is a lieutenant; and for department heads, instead of lieutenants they are either ensigns or junior grade ensign. Even the division commander within the squadron will be a commander instead of a The one exception in the sev- ships of the Norfolk based squadron is the guided missile destroyer leader Josephus Daniels. Since it rates a captain as commanding officer because of its size, it will now have a commander. "The CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) wants to see just how much experience it takes to run a. ship," Nicholson said in an interview.

In a Navy that has suffered a drastic cutback in personnel during the past couple of years, that's an important question. The experiment that has suffered a drastic cutback in personnel during-the past couple of years, that's an important question. The experiment is "geared to retention," Nicholson said, by offering young officers and enlisted men the challenge of greatly increased responsibility. Because of the youthfulness of squadron officers, enlisted men will have to shoulder additional responsibilities, Nicholson said, so the challenge will be shared by them. The idea for the experiment is said to have originated with old destroyerman Zumwalt himself.

Scholarship Award Given BY McGoverns Dr. and Mrs. Francis McGovern will establish a $500 scholarship award at Danville Community College in August, Joseph M. Taylor, president of the college, has announced. The McGovern General Excellency Award will be presented each year to a graduating student who has fulfilled the requirements for an Associate in Science degree or an Associate in Arts degree.

The recipient must be a legal resident of Virginia Community College District No. 12, and must be in the process of transferring to a senior institutuion in pursuit of a bachelor's degree. The purpose of the scholarship is to recognize scholarship and to further the cational development toward leadership and citizenship of students. This is the first scholarship of this type to be established at the college. Dr.

McGovern is a member of the D. C. C. board. YOUNG CANDIDATES ALBUQUERQUE (AP) Brad Gates, a 20-year-old New Mexico State University student, recently lost his bid to win election to the Bernalillo County Republican Central Committee.

Cates is believed the youngest person ever to have sought election to the committee in New Mexico's largest county. "It was quite an experience," Gates, a NSMU student body official said of the election. "I was a little disappointed, but I could see why it didn't happen. "With 27 people running for a slot and so many big names that wiped me out. Youth wasn't an issue at all." Asked if he would run again for the committee, Gates said, "Oh, yes.

If you don't lose a few you don't appreciate the onos you win." Jhe Register: Danville, Va March 20, 1971 Expert Advises Regional Teachen A Positive Approach To Subject' Creates A Motivation For Math It is the responsibility of mathematics teqchers create motivation in students by emphasizing a positive approach to the subject, said Dr. Lola J. May in a talk here last night. Speaking before teachers attending Regional Mathematics Conference, Miss May said ts should be encouraged to "open up" to mathematics. She has named her method of opening up students Students should be praised for work well done and given as much aid as possible, the mathematics consultant for the Winnetka, 111.

public schools said. A further responsibility teachers have, she added, is that of learning to ask the right questions of students questions which will encourage understanding as well as correct answers. Dr. May also emphasized the importance of using models, especcially geometric forms, to 1 ain mathematical abstractions. She said the models always should precede the abstractions.

She advocated finding new ways of evaluating students' progress in mathematics. Simply listening to a child talk about his math work, she noted, sometimes can be more revealing than correcting his paper and pencil work. She said that teachers should use their eyes and ears more often instead of relying on examination as the primary determinant of a child's understanding. Using an overhead projector and various models, Dr. May explained and illustrated how her theories could be put into practice for elementary and secondary school children.

Miss May was the first of a series of speakesrs to address the Conference at the The meeting Continues today with speakers Virginia colleges and May conclude the T. H. Gough Dies; Former Lumber Dealer Funeral Rites Set Today For Mrs. Jennings HALIFAX Funeral services for Mrs. Elyin Motley Jennings 55, of Halifax Rt.

will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of South Boston. Interment will be in the Motley family cemetery. Mrs. Jennings died Thursday in a South Boston hospital.

A daughter of the late John Thomas Motley and Emma Anderson Motley, she was born Halifax County Oct. 19, 1915. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. Surviving are one son, Petty Officer First Class Ray A Brown, aboard the USS John F. Kennedy; five sisters, Airs' Elizabeth M.

Ingram of Halifax, Miss Mary Motley and Miss Milhvee Motley, both of South Boston, Mrs. Vincent Terry of Nathalie and Mrs. Flora Brown of two brothers, Archie Motley of Vernon Hill and Calvin Motley of Appomattox; and four grandchildren. The remains are at Powell Funeral Home. The family will be at the residence of Mrs.

Ingram. Thomas Henry Gough, 77 well-known local lumber-dealer, died in Memorial Hospital Friday" afternoon. He had been a patient the hospital since suffering ah apparent stroke at his home near Ringgold on February A son of the late Nickolas Frank. Gough and the late Blanche Edna Cardwell Gough, he was born, at Rustfaurg, on October 15, 1893. His early life was spent in that area, but he moved to the Danville area as a young man and for many years had operated the T.

H. Gough Lumber and Supply Company on the South Boston Road near Ringgold. Mr. Gough was an active member of the Ringgold Baptist Church. A Navy veteran of World War he belonged to the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

On December 23, 1962, he was married to the former Elizabeth Smoot. The last member of his generation, his survivors, in addition to his wife of the home, include a step-son, Fred. Davis of San Jose, California; four grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Ringgold Bap List Church on Sunday at 3 p.m. by the Reverend John J.

Goff and the Reverend Charlie Shelton. Interment will follow in Highland Burial Park. The body is resting at the Barker Funeral Home where the family will receive friends on Saturday evening from. 7:00 until 9:00 At other times they will be at the residence on the South Boston Highway. 'Drag Symposium Set For Chatham A symposium on "Drug Abuse" Monday at 7 p.m.

in. the Cultural Center in Chatham will feature talks by Lieut. Lonnie Riddle of the Danville Police Department and Dr. Norman E. Lau, VPI Extension Specialist.

Young people and adults in Danville and Pittsylvania County are invited to participate in the discussion and to ask questions aimed at beco.ning better acquainted with the drug problem in the county and state. Panel participants will include Dr. Claude Whitehead, president of the Pittsylvania County Mental Health Association; Dr. a Spradlin, Pittsylvania County Ministerial Association and Mrs. Hyrum representing the county home demonstration clubs.

HERE IT IS-THERE IT IS-Dr. Lola J. May, mathematics consultant for the Wmnetka, Illinois public schools, points-to a rectangle within a rectangle on the face of "an overhead projector. Overhead her finger points'lo the enlarged rectangle the screen Dr. May used the projector to illustrate mathema- ical models during her talk before the Regional Mathematics Conference last night at the Downtowner conference this afternoon by discussing the practical ap- pliactions .0 "laboratory Geographic Seldom-Seen Mercury Now Herald Of Spring -I'- As Mercury orbits into sight, "can spring be far behind?" It can't be, according to astronomers.

Mother Nature's signs of spring may appeal slowly some places, but- officially the fresh new season will arrive punctually a 1-38 a.m. on Sunday March 21. That's the moment of the spring, or vernal, equinox north of the equator. This year sharp- eyed-sky watchers, scanning the evening skies around that date may. spot the seldom-seen planet.

Mercury. On days the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox September 23, daylight and darkness are each 12 hours, the National Geographic Society says. Seasonal changes take place because as the Earth rotates 1 axis ls not Perpendicular 'he plane of if orbit around the sun. If it were, days and nights would always be the same length, and there would ne no spring, summer, autumn or winter. But the Earth's axis tilts So as the Earth moves around sun, the Northern Hemisphere gets more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere for six months, and the South Pole gets more sun than the.North Pole or six months When the North Pole leans toward the sun; days are longer than nights 'in' the Northern Hemisphere.

As a sun-scorched harbinger of 'spring, Mercury actually has nothing 1 to do with tthe-- change in few: times a' as this March-does the planet swing; outward far enough in its journey around the sun to. be glimpsed'from Earth. Mercury will appear low above the western horizon shortly after sunset toward the end of 'he month; and on 27 should be visible just south of the waxing crescent Even when viewing conditions are best, Mercury is still so difficult for astronomers to "observe that its surface markings, indistinct at best, have shown up. on only about 100 photographs. Hardly larger than the Earth's moon, Mercury is believed about times as heavy, or dense, as water.

It is thought to be about 75 percent metals and 30 percent rock. The sun. shines mercilessly, on the slowly rotating planet, pushing temperatures up 'to 750 degrees while they drop to minus 450 degrees F. on the darkened side. False Arrest Suit Ruling Upheld; Police Get Lecture RICHMOND AP)-A federal plained of court appeals court Friday affirmed a said.

"He went, talked with of lower court's dismissal false arrest suit but lashed out at what it called "inexcusable appeaTs court saiT police neglect" in. the case that led to the youth's Wendall but 'returned' home without him." Later the sai stemming crime. The 4th from a fictitious U.S. Circuit Court, was exposed as having "a complete hoax." Despite this, the judge in was not located until the at- court. "The father was advised that he could the 're- in upholding the lower court's dismissal of the suit brought on behalf of Wendell J.

Evans, said "It is frightening to think that a person could be deprived of his liberty through such neglect and stupidity." Evans, the court said, was held more than 24 hours in jail although police discovered only hours after his arrest that the "crime" with which he had been charged had never occurred. In its caustic per curiam for which no specific author is named the appeals court noted Evans was arrested by Alexandria police after he fled from officers investigating a report of a burglary in which a woman was said to have been stabbed. Evans was arrested on a Friday afternoon in 1967. A court appearance was scheduled for Monday, and Evans was confined on the basis of a formal complaint in accommodations provided for youthful offenders. The boy's father sought unsuccessfully to visit his 18-year-old son, but the opinion noted the father was told he could neither see nor talk with the boy.

The court said young Evans' release, "was refused except upon order of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court judge" who had handled the original complaint. IV M( vuac A ax Afterwards, the father was yor to secure his freedom for a requested to come to the station 'crime' which police knew had house where Wendall com- not been committed." Saturday night, after youth's father had to have his son freed from confinement and had hired an attorney, according to the court's opinion. The judge when finally reached, immediately ordered Evans' release. "The indifference of the police was flagrant," said the appeals never seek bail for his son. Wnen'the judge.

was found unavailable Friday afternoon, seemingly no effort was made to contact the substitute judge or any of judges of record for Evans 1 lease on bail. "This disregard continued despite the boy's illness when, evidently, the police knew the reported felony was a fabrication." Evans also was charged with violating a city ordinance for his alleged refusal to answer "routine" police inquiries a charge lhat. later was- dismissed. In the suit, Evans accused police of malicious prosecution, false arrest and false imprisonment but "did not establish the blame as charged," the appeals court said. The court said in its opinion young Evans "was imprisoned for a night and day and forced to incur the expense of a law-.