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of Deaths And Funerals J. A. Williamson Funeral Rites Today Dies Yesterday For Norma Jean Love SOUTH BOSTON-Jethro Amos Williamson of Milton Rt. 1, N.C., was pronounced dead on arrival yesterday at Danville Memorial Hospital. He was born in Halifax County Dec.

10, 1890, a son of John Allen Williamson and Mattie Taylor Williamson. The retired tobacco farmer was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church, where the funeral will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Laura D. Williamson; three daughters, Mrs.

Edith Meeler and Mrs. Doris Zimmerman, both of Alton, and Mrs. Joyce Lewis of Danville; three sons, Harold and Robert Williamson, both of Milton, and Johnny Williamson of Danville; two sisters, Mrs. Collie and Mrs. Willie Collie, both of Milton; one brother, Raymond Williamson of De Witt; and 11 grandchildren.

The body is at Brooks Funeral Home, and the family is at the residence. Mrs. Ruth V. Adkins Rites Are Tomorrow Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Vaughn Adkins will be conducted tomorrow at 4 p.m.

at Barker Chapel by Dr. Samuel Greeson. Interment will be in Highland Burial Park. Mrs. Adkins, 71, of 205 Hairston St.

died yesterday at her residence following an extended illness. County Jan. 26, 1900, a She was, born in Pittsylvania daughter of the late James Franklin Vaughn and Rosa Collie Vaughn. She was married to the late Johnnie D. Adkins.

She was a retired employe of Dan River Inc. Surviving are four sons, Edd Adkins of Westover Drive, Dudley Adkins of Danville, Melvin Adkins of Richmond and Albert Adkins of Shelby, N.C.; four daughters, Mrs. Dick Gosney and Mrs. Barbara Ann Murphy, both of Danville, Mrs. Rachel A.

Doolin of the home Rosa Ferguson of Charlotte, N. 22 grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. She also leaves five brothers, Elvin, Charlie and Earl all of Danville, and James and Robert Vaughn, both of Yanceyville, N.C.: and five sisters, Mrs. Thelma Lewis of Danville, Mrs. Ralph Peek of Ringgold, Mrs.

Lena Ward of the Mt. Cross Mrs. Pattie Touchstone of Baltimore, and Miss Bobby Jean Vaughn of Danville. The body is at the funeral home, and the family is at the Hairston St. residence.

Mrs. Dora Chitwood Services Set Monday Last rites for Mrs. Dora E. Chitwood will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at Swicegood Chapel by the Rev.

Gollard McGuire. Interment will be in Danville Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Chitwood, 70, of 164 Ingram Rd. died yesterday in Memorial Hospital.

She had been in declining health since suffering a stroke in February, 1970. Born in Banks County, July 20 20, 1900, she was a daughter of the late John and Neva Nunley Evans. She had made her home in the Danville area for 37 years and was a member of Mountain View Baptist Church in Banks Coun-10 ty. Surviving a are her husband, Charlie C. Chitwood; one daughter, Mrs.

Irene Moran of Westover Hills; three sisters, Mrs. Lydia Gerrin of Cornelia, Mrs. Louise Carpenter of Decatur, and Mrs. Lola Maxwell of Toccoa, one brother, Dorsey Evans of Danville; eight grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. The body will be at the funeral home until tomorrow afternoon when it will be taken to the residence.

SOUTH BOSTON -Graveside rites for Norma Jean Love, seven-month-old daughter 0 Norman E. and Clara Ann Conner Love, were to be conducted today at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Terry Peck in Oak Ridge Cemetery. The infant died yesterday in Halifax County Community Hospital.

Mrs. Bertha Walker Rites Not Announced EDEN, N. Final arrangements for Mrs. Bertha Foley Walker had not been announced early this afternoon by Sugg Harris Funeral Home. Mrs.

Walker, 57, of Eden Rt. 1, died yesterday in Morehead Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Patrick County, Oct. 5, 1913, a daughter of Hugh and Ella Wright Foley. Walker was an employe of Sears, Roebuck and Co.

and was a member of King Memorial Baptist Church. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Barbara Winterburg of Los Angeles, five's sons, Philip Eugene Walker of Woodridge, Jimmy K. Walker of Franconia, Buddie Roger Walker of Annandale, David Walker of Arlington, and Daniel K. Walker with the U.S.

Air Force in Alaska; three sisters, Mrs. Katherine R. Meeks and Mrs. Grace B. Coleman, both of Danville, and Mrs.

Esther L. Riddle of Granite City, and one brother, Frank W. Foley Sr. of Eden. Mrs.

Creasy, 89, Dies Last Night GRETNA-Mrs. Maude Elliott Creasy, 89, died last night in a South Boston hospital. Born in Pittsylvania County May 29, 1881, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Claiborne Creasy and Lavalette Elliott Creasy. She was married to the late Stover Henry Creasy and was a member of Anderson Memorial United Methodist Church. She was a graduate of the Randolph-Macon Institute (now Stratford College) in Danville.

Surviving are two sons. Claiborne Creasy of Gretna a and Stover H. Creasy Jr. of Lynchburg; daughters, Miss Lavalette Creasy of Gretna and Mrs. Malcolm B.

Lacy Jr. of South Boston; seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Graveside services will be conducted tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the family cemetery at Gretna by the Rev. Harold Kirby.

The body was to to be taken to the residence today at 5 p.m. from Colbert Funeral Home. Social Security Pays $3-Million In Area Monthly The Danville Social Security Office is paying over $3 million dollars per month in benefits in the district, said Max G. Boatwright, manager of the local facility. As 06.

June 30, 1970, there were 16,572 people in Danville and Pittsylvania Cunty receiving $1,397,200 per month. The 10 percent increase recently passinto law will mean an additional $139,720 per month for these beneficiaries. The check to include the percent increase will be delivered June 3. This check will be for the month of May only. A separate check will be mailed later in June, which will include increases for January, February, March and April.

The beneficiary does not have to do anything to get the increase as it is automatic, noted Boatwright. The famous Punch and Judy puppet show was first performed in England at Covent Garden in 1661. Action Removes Barrier To Printing Of Council Candidates On Ballots RICHMOND (AP)-The U. S. attorney general has approved an amendment to state voting laws removing one barrier to the printing of the names of all city town councilmanic candidates on ballots for the May 4 elections, says Atty.

Gen. Andrew P. Miller. The amendment, rushed through the General Assembly Monday, relieves candidates for town offices in the May election from having to comply with a new requirement to appoint campaign treasurers before the qualifying deadline, which passed last month. Some candidates in the 66 municipal elections faced the prospect of not having their names printed on the ballot because of emergency legislation adopted by thate 1971 General Assembly advanced the filing deadline to March 5.

Many candidates were caught unprepared and were unable to file petitions with local and state High-Style Housing For The Birds more fashionable these who are Apartment living is becoming, more and birds to let people get ahead of them? The high-rise multi family facility in the photo is sleek, uncluttered, for birds with "mod" tastes, and is mounted on a post tall enough to -provide view the windows of the -story people -residence in the background. For those birds who prefer American her. architectural styles apartment complete with thee accessory multi build- Skyline Council Of Girl Scouts Slates Annual Meet In Roanoke The annual meeting of the Virginia Skyline Girl Scout Council be held at the, Salem -Roanoke Valley Civic Center, April 17 at noon. The speaker will be Miss Mary Burch of Washington, D.C., director of Region II, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Mrs.

Robert Hagan, annual meeting chairman, and her committee follow the theme "Eco-Action '71" in the table decorations, exhibits and songs to be sung by the girl scouts. The speaker will talk on the problems involving ecology and Civil Rights Group Begins 20-Mile Hike PETERSBURG (AP) Civil rights adherents set off a 20-mile hike at 6 a.m. today, their destination the State Capitol in Richmond and a commemorative rally for the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials coordinating the march persons began the trek.

"Police put the number at 30 to 35. Plans called for the walkers to arrive early in the afternoon at Richmond's Monroe Park, where they were to join a local delegation and march downtown to the Capitol steps. The SCLC said a car caravan would be leaving Petersburg at noon with more demonstrators. The Rev. Curtis Harris, executive secretary of the Virginia Council on Human Relations, was to be the keynote speaker at the rally.

Herbert V. Coulton, Virginia field director of the SCLC, said the purpose of the affair "is to show a united force against inst war, racism and repression." The rally comes on the eve of the third anniversary of King's assassation in Memphis, Tenn. Carolina To Get Cooler Weather By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A pleasant, though cooler, weekend is in store for North Carolina and the Greater Greensboro Open golf tournament. The rain that plagued the GGO and other outdoor activities across Tarheelia Friday has moved offshore, leaving behind fair skies, lots of sunshine and typical early spring temperatures. Readings yesterday were in 50s over the eastern half of the state, about what was forecast for today and Sunday, but the mountains had readings of only about 40.

Rainfall amounts were moderate-a quarter of an inch or so -but persistent until the afternoon. Sunday is expected to be fair everywhere. The Bee: Danville, Saturday, April 3, 1971 Governor Holton Discusses Wide-Ranging Issues In 'Rap' Session With Students SALEM (AP) The subject matter ranged all the way from abortion to "carrots" to the Calley court martial as Gov. Linwood Holton took part in a free- Roanoke wheeling College "rap" student session leaders. with No holds were barred the governor took part in the question-and-answer session during his trip here Friday for the dedication of the new $4 million science center at the college.

Everyone must understand, Holton said of the court martial conviction of Lt. William Calley that "he was convicted by a bona fide jury which took long hours to deliberate It (the trial) was conducted in the best way we know about military justice." "The full protection of the U. S. Constitution was available to him and it was a conviction." said Holton. "That's got to mean something.

"It's a tough thing. It's an emotional thing and I think it's awfully important now that we keep a balance about and keep our judgment open about it and not let our emotions take charge." "Carrots?" They came into the session as Holton plugged for regional cooperation in of President Nixon's revenues efforts and explained why he favored appropriating more money for sewage treatment facilities this year instead of taking over local welfare costs Wounding Case, Noisy Prowlers Occupy Police Samuel Jack Craig of 831 Glendale Ave. was reported in critical condition this morning at Memorial Hospital, where he was in the intensive-care unit for treatment of a gunshot wound in the head. Police investigating the shooting released information about how the injury was inflicted or the circumstances surrounding his wounding. Surgery was performed early this morning after he brought to the hospital emergency room 11:30 p.m.

In other police activity during the night, a prowler report took officers to a Cathy Drive home whose owner had been awakened by the sound of someone beating on a window at the back of the house. He said he saw one man go along the side of the house from the rear to the front of the premises and then return to the back. When he opened a back window he related, two men ran from behind the house down into a wooded area in the direction of Starmont, the Drive. prowlers Police, found made enough noise to awaken not only the householder but also his neighbors next door. Also being investigated was a break-in reported yesterday afternoon at the home of Walter Johnson White, 770 Wilson St.

Traffic accidents during the afternoon and night hours included only one report of a minor injury. William Lee Gatewood, 1535 Lansdale Drive, sustained a cut on the chin about 8:30 p.m. when he made a left turn from S. Main onto Pearl St. in front of a northbound car driven by Charles Robert Cuttle, 263 Southland Drive.

Damages to the front of the two vehicles were estimated to total about $700. There was about $95 on Walker Clay about damage in a single car accident 9:45 p.m., but the driver -Otha Vann Barber, 1252 South Boston Road -was charged with drunk driving after his auto failed to complete a left turn from Clay and hit a pole. A collision in the Main-Canal intersection yesterday afternoon resulted in about $100 damage to the left front of the truck driven by James William Harris of Roxboro Rt. 1, N.C., who was charged with running the red light on Main and some $175 to the left side of the car of John Glass of Ringgold, who entered the intersection from Canal St. Also investigated yesterday afternoon were minor-damage collisions on Baltimore Ave.

W. Main and in the Link- Watson lot off Craghead St. NAACP Official Notes Changes In Attitudes A public meeting of the Danville branch of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) last night at Loyal Baptist Church, was addressed Alfred Barker Lewis, national treasurer of the NAACP. who sees an increase primary accomplishments such as the number of Negro officials in government, growing Negro voter registration and improved housing. a preceding interview Lewis, a retired, white Connecticut economist-attorney insurance executive noted, "The NAACP is and always has been working for 'Black Power' in the sense of increasing the economic and political power of Explaining the NAACP's stand on "Black Separatism," sooner.

"I think the next time we make a substantial increase in state support to localities in Virginia we must insist on some protection against this bickering and rivalry about artifical boundaries between cities and counties," said Holton. He said he planned to use the financial aid to urban localities as "a carrot" in a bid to get them working together instead of against each other. Abortion? One student asked whether abortion laws should be amended to allow advertisements in newspapers where abortions can be obtained. He replied: "No." "I'd like to see the draft abolished." he said in answer to another question, but he added: "I don't agree completely with the idea of a professional army. We have had great benefits from citizen participation in the conflicts we have had through history and I'd hope we wouldn't get away from citizen participation like the National Guard, reserve units, etc.

I'd hope people would realize it would be better to have citizen participation than going completely to a professional army, which has a certain amount of inherent danger just in the fact it exists as a professional army." On some of the other subjects, the governor: -Favored steps to have Virginia removed from provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act LOCAL BRIEFS Dansylvania Barracks No. 1081, Veterans of World War and its ladies auxiliary will meet Tuesday at 3 p. m. at the city armory. New officers will be elected, and a full attendance has been requested.

Dansylvania Barracks No. 1081, Veterans of World War and its ladies auxiliary will meet Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the city armory. New officers will be elected, and a full attendance has been requested. Melvin Kenneth Wiles, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Melvin S. Wiles of 130 Meadowbrook Drive, has been named to the winterquarter dean's list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he is majoring in political science. Monday is the deadline for applications and fees to be paid for the General Educational Development (GED) Tests to be administered. in on the Goode Teaching St.

April 17 and 24. City residents may apply at the Danville School Board office, and Pittsylvania County residents may contact Mrs. Audrey Miller, director of adult education, at the Cultural Center in Chatham. Pittsylvania County farmers may sell meat products to individual consumers under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, according to Maurice B. Rowe, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

Clarifying a U.S.D.A. ruling, he stated, "'The law does prohibit him from selling the cured product to a retail establishment for resale to the consumer." he said the so-called militant groups are merely "quitters in the fight for integration. We are opposed to any all- -Negro political party such as the Black Panthers appear to be trying to set up. Instead we want to integrate Negroes into existing political parties." The official is nearing the end 12-week speaking tour and will speak in Martinsville and three other Virginia cities before returning to Connecticut for Easter. He commented that in his travels in the South for the past six or seven years he had noted "very substantial changes in the attitudes of whites in the South" and cited examples of election of black government and public school officials and the recent election of a Negro to head the student government at the University of South Carolina.

because have come completely away from discrimination in our elections." He said any such action in that direction must be done "through negotiation with the attorney general of the United States." The state, he said, no longer needs federal supervision. vetoed a campus demonstration' bill because it but feels its shortcomings unconstitutional" cleared up by changes drated by Atty. Gen. Andrew P. Miller.

Asked if he felt there is a need for such a bill, Holton replied: "I think there is a need for a good trespass law, sure. You do, too." -Expressed disappointment at congressional rejection of further funding of the SST but said he with water and air pollutions results, noting the men he had named to the state boards "are much more agressive" and the state is "beginning see good results." -Said the motives of Urban 12 coalition "were of the highest order. I expect to use their motives and their efforts in the next session of the General Assembly to support legislation which will meet some of the needs we have in our metropolitan areas." -Told the students "you can't take all the sport" out of politics. "I like politics. It is a competitive two-party thing, SO that doesn't bother me." Reports Show Routine Work Of City Crews ings-in the lower photo is an elegant contemporary residence enabling its feathered tenants to maintain a tradition of gracious living combining the best of the past with the convenience of today.

These two local apartment developments are just a sample of the diversified housing facilities awaiting birds this spring in yards all over the city whose approaches are marked with signs designating Danville as a bird sanctuary. what the scouts can do to help the situation. Miss Burch guides and assists local councils in the implementation of national objectives designed to extend Scouting opportunities to all Girl Scouts in the region between the ages of seven and 17. Region II includes the state of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia representing a total membership of almost 75 million girls and adults. The speaker holds B.S.

and M.A. degrees from Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex. prior to her service with the Girl Scouts she was program director of the San Antonio Recreation Department and a Community Center Director in Kansas, City, she was Miss. recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps as a part of the nucleus of young women who helped establish the goals and training objectives for women who served in the Marine Corps during World War II and continued in this capacity for four years.

She is a member of the National Social Welfare Assembly, the Adult Education Association, the Association for Girl's Scout el Professional Workers, the American Camping Association, and a member of the National Board of directors for the National Citizenship Conference. Mrs. T. N. Warren of Clifton Forge is president of the Virginia Skyline Girl Scout Council and will preside at the business sesion of the meeting.

Debate Contest Honors Awarded Tunstall Team Both the Tunstall affirmative and negative teams placed first at the annual Piedmont District Debate Tournament held yesterday at Dan River High School. The affirmative team was represented by Charlotte B. Adams and David B. Rowland while Mary E. Weringo and Steve R.

Dishman won the competition for the negative side. The teams examined the pros and cons control of pollution, said E. of, Gallaher, principal of the host school and chairman of the Piedmont debate district. Placing second was the affirmative team of Michael Gunn and Edwina Beavers of Dan River and earning second place honors on the negative side were Debra Harris, and Tommy Jamerson Field ale Collinsville High School. The competition was sponsored by the Virginia High School League and the nine high schools in the Piedmont each entered four contestants.

The Tunstall teams will represent the Piedmont District in the state tournament April 29 and 30 in Charlotesville. DOUBLE FATALITY BLACKSTONE (P) A tractor trailer and a pulpwood truck collided head-on today, killing both drivers on Virginia 614 about 10 miles north of here. State police identified the victims as Robert Elmore Brown 25, of Victoria and James Walter Flippen 20, of Burkeville. Mercenary comes from a Greek word meaning citizen. Teachers Told To Get Out And 'Sell' Legislators In Their Home Districts RICHMOND (AP) Virginia Education Association lobbyists in Richmond, if they are to "sell" the General Assembly on a course of action, are nearly powerless unless teachers get out and "sell" the legislators in their home districts, says VEA President Don Rapier.

Speaking Friday to about 100 educators taking part in a twoday VEA "political action clinic Rapier said the teachers must find a new "commitment to direct political action at the local and state levels." They must also get over the notion, Rapier said, that "precinct level" legwork "is beneath Rapier, a Fairfax County classroom teacher who's the VEA's first full-time paid president, had some critical words for the physical condition of Powhatan County High School, for which a new building is planned. "I'm from Arkansas but damned if I've seen as bad." Rapier said of a visit he paid the school a few days ago. "It's ridiculous to expect teachers to teach and young people to learn in such a If they are to better such A variety of activities daily occupy city crews maintaining and improving various services, but these projects attract little public attention unless the work happens to impede the flow of vehicles by blocking a traffic lane. Beginning this month, the city's Research and Information Office is compiling daily these activities, with Thursday's listing work in progress in 20 different locations and Friday's showing 11. both days crews were laying gas and water mains on Millerton Road--a new Starmont street, and were also.

extending gas service Rosemary Lane, making water and gas taps for the new Fuquay Pontiac building on Union and renewing gas service on Brooke Drive. At the same time, on both days, Public Works crews were widening Tunstall Road, which was partially blocked in the process; also had Lindhurst Drive partially blocked for regarding the street curb and gutter repairs; and were doing street patching and restoring curb and gutter at several W. Main St. Other activities by gas craws on Thursday's report included repairing a water leak on Alpine Drive, making a water and gas tap on Gay renewing gas service on Dunmore and flushing water mains in preparation for sterilizing them on Andes Drive in the Keen Terrace development, while a consultant conducting a leak survey, was working on the transmission line from Fox Hollow to Mt. Cross Road.

On Friday crews gas service on Granville Drive and Watson St. Thursday's report also showed Public Works employes doing street patching bn Plum, Chatelaine. Levelton, Hunter Mayfield along with patching and curb and gutter on Rosemary Lane and Tyler St. In addition, Bridge St. was blocked for sewer construction at the electric substation.

Friday's report listed patching on Sandy Shores streets and patching and work on low ditches on Lanier Ave. At the turn of the century, there were as estimated two fillion wild horses ranging the grasslands the West. Today, the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of Interior estimates there are now only 16,000. situations, Rapier said, teachers must organize themselves and jump into the political climate" is appreciably better than it has been previously. He said the state has a revised constitution which will say "we are tion" willing to when pay it for becomes quality educative July 1.

In addition, the State Board of Education has a new chairman, Preston C. Caruthers of Arlington, who Rapier said had courage, commitment and a program of action for bettering Virginia schools and wants VEA help. "We have never had an open door at the State Board of Education before," Rapier told delegates representing 50,000 state public school educators who also heard a keynote speech by Eugene Karol, a member of the National Education Association executive committee from Baltimore County, Md. Karol said nothing in education is "untouched by politics. Teachers have got the numerical strength to do almost anything we want to do." He called on the delegates to go home determined to show teachers how to use their untapped political power.

Leaders Of March Present List Of Demands To Officials In N.C. electoral boards listing the name and address of a campaign treasurer. An opioning issued by Miller's office March 15 said candidates that regulation could not have who were unable to comply with 1 their names printed on the ballot May 4. When it reconvened Monday, the General Assembly adopted an amendment saying the requirement would not be applicable to any primary or general election held a before June 1. It was made to apply retroactively.

Miller's office said the change in the election law required the approval of the U. S. attorney general, just as reapportionment legislation and other voting laws now under consideration by the Justice Department. Miller delivered the new amendment Wednesday to U. S.

Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell's office and received word Friday a letter of approval was on the way. RALEIGH (AP) The leader of a Wilmington-to-Raleigh march says "we have been given the runaround so much" by North Carolina school officials that any more "general would be a waste of time.

Milton Fitch, a co-ordinator of the Southern Christian LeadConference, made the statement Friday after presenta list of nine demands to Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor and House Speaker Phil Godwin. Fitch met with the two officials while an estimated 150 black demonstrators waited on the sidewalk in front of the state legislative building. The group had completed a 125-mile riding seek march from Wilmington what they called "relief against oppression." Taylor suggested that since a majority of the demands dealt with the administration of the General Assembly was not directly responsible for implementing them.

He suggested that the protestors take their case to the State Board of Education. Godwin said the demands dealing with legislative matters should be put into the form of a bill and referred to a committee. The list of demands included proposals for an end to capital punishment, support of a guaranteed annual income, an end to to hunters in North Carolina, employment of more blacks in state government and stand against the Indochina War. Receiving the list, Taylor said: "We will see to it that this is transferred to members of the General Asembly." Prior to the meeting, the demonstrators marched down Raleigh's Fayetteville Street under police escort, The group was led by a mule-drawn wagon carrying two wooden caskets, symbolizing two black youths slain during racial unrest in Wilmington..