Bulletin, Thursday, February 28, 1974-Page 5 Police Charge Credit-Ability ility Gap A Roanoke man faces theft charges in Martinsville and Henry County. Roy Edward Dayis, 47, is being held in the Henry County jail on county charges of theft of a credit card and using the credit card to purchase $73.70 in merchandise from K-Mart on U.S. South. A hearing has been set March 18 in Henry General District Court. has' also been using the credit, card to merchandise, from Roses Mall.
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Features control and AFT. for "fiddle free" viewing, and solid state modular: chassis. Mediterranean style cabinet. 25" screen' (meas. a have also arrested a man on a John -Johnson, 1300 Roundabout Road, two worthless reported a 10-speed bicycle, valued at $109, Bowman, 21, Rt.
1, Spencer, has stolen. 0 with writing worthless checks for A break-in at Wickline. Drug Store in He is in Henry County jail. Collinsville is also under investigation. are also investigating two thefts.
Rt. Ridgeway, reported a A spokesman for the store said nothing was valued at $100, stolen: missing, Nursing Home Permits Sought The West Piedmont begin in August and would be Comprehensive Health completed in August 1975. Planning Council recommended Guardian -Corp. had Wednesday that the state helath sought a certificate of need to commissioner issue certificates build a 120-bed nursing home. of need to Facilities of costing more than $1 million on America (Fralin and.
Waldron Fairy Street but planning Inc. of Roanoke) for construc- council felt one home would be tion of nursing homes, in Mar- enough to meet the need. tinsville and Danville. The council's decision must be today by the West Piedmont Planning District Commission, which meets at 7:30 p.m. in Martinsville Municipal Building.
The council heard representatives of the Guardian Corp. of Rocky Mount, N.C. and Fralin and Waldron before going into closed session to make the final decision. Fralin and Waldron plans to build similar, facilities- off Brookdale Road in Martinsville and off Taylor Lane in Danville. Both buildings would have 47,281 square feet of floor space and $2,127,900.
They will contain 120 beds. Occupancy rates would be $17 per day for a four-bed ward; $20 a day for a two-bed room and $24 a day for a single bed room. Each facility would include 90 intermediate beds and 30 skilled beds. Fralin and Waldron representatives said construction Library To Get $78,707 A additional $67,436 $11,271 federal grant allocation and an in a funds have been approved for- Martinsville-Henry County Public Library for expansion of services to county citizens. The library plans to use the $78,707 to rent a store in the Collinsville Shopping Center for a branch library to serve that, area; purchase of books, equipment and shelving for the branch.
office; purchase of a bookmobile to serve residents outlying areas of the county, including shopping centers, nursing homes, recreation programs; purchase of a van to deliver books and audiovisual materials to the branch library and other areas of the county where there is an ongoing library program; and hiring of a professional library employe to supervise the. extension program. The library became a regional facility serving the county and the city in 1972. County users account for 40 per cent of the library's volume although only 15 per cent.of the county population is registered. to borrow books.
The library governing board said the move. toward taking library services to the people is expected to result in an increase in use by county residents and that the board plans to increase the library's potential in the Church Street facility to meet the growing demand for books and materials. STOCKS These quotations, provided by members of the National Association of Securities Dealers, are representative inter-dealer prices as of approximately 12 noon today. Inter-dealer markets change throughout the day. Prices do not include retail markup, markdown.
Noon Electric Power Telephone Continental Can Continental Oil DuPont 184 Fielderest Mills HA 16 IBM. Mead Corp. National Gypsum Norfolk Western Revco. Russel Mills Smith Transfer Texaco Texas Gas Transmission Virginia Electric Weil McLain. William Companies William Companies Wis.
Average down 6.18 Arnerican Furniture. American Standard Homes. 5 Bassett Furniture Bassett Walker Knitting Best Products Brenner Industries Clinton Oil. First Natl. Bank Mville.
40 Gravely Furniture Henry County Plywood Hickory Furniture Hooker Furniture .16 Lane Furniture Martinsville Novelty Northwestern Financial Knitting Piedmont Trust Bank 31 Pulaski Furniture 124 Rex Plastics Service Stewart Sandwiches Merchandise Tully 10 Vaughan Virginia Natl. Bank Washington Group bid TODAY West Piedmont Planning District Commission, 7:30 p.m., Martinsville Municipal Building Martinsville-Henry County. Republican Party, 7 p.m., the Hut Restaurant. American Association of Retired Persons, Chapter 317, of Martinsville and Henry County, 2 p.m., First Baptist Church. A FRIDAY.
Martinsville-Henry County Voters League, 8 p.m., in league Scrap office paper at 215 drive, in front of Cooper and Ratcliff Store in Fayette St. Riverside Plaza Shopping Center, Bassett, today through Saturday at 5 p.m., sponsored by the Fairystone Service Unit of the Girl A SATURDAY. (Nothing scheduled) SUNDAY (Nothing scheduled) Laurel Park Music. Association, 7:30 p.m., Laurel Park High School. The choir will present music program.
Decals Go on Sale In Henry Henry County automobile decals will go on sale Friday at three locations at the same price $10. The decals will be sold in the Henry County treasurer's office and also at Jerry Young's Grocery on Rt. 57 East and at the Collinsville Volunteer Fire Department. The Dyers Store Volunteer Fire Department is sponsoring sales of the decals at Young's Grocery. Decals will be sold weekdays.
'1-6 and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Decals will be sold at the Collinsville Fire. Station. weekdays from noon to 7 p.m.
and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m... Firemen's county license strips will also: be sold at" Collinsville and Young's store. Housing (Continued from Page 1) development firm should have sued in state courts. In his 'decision Judge Turk said the federal court did have jurisdiction but invoked the doctrine of abstention to avoid conflict with state courts, which he said might possibly settle the question without the necessity of afederal court case.
If the land-use laws of Martinsville were overturned in state courts, Turk said, the federal questions raised by Fralin and might. not ruling. But Turk retained jurisdiction in the case in the event those questions were not resolved in state courts. It was this decision that 'OBITUARIES RICHARD J. THOMPSON.
WAYNESBORO Richard Jackson Thompson, 79, of 113 N. Elkins died today in a Waynesboro hospital. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mittie Ramey Thompson; a daughter, Mrs. William Small of Waynesboro; one son; Charles D.
Thompson of Waynesboro; a stepson, Bernard Ramey of Waynesboro; one sister, Mrs. Ida Cook, Washington, D.C.; and two Walter Thompson of Washington, D.C. and. Marion Thompson of Front Royal; five grandchildren. The funeral will be Saturday 1: at 2.
p.m. at Funeral Home with burial in Riverview Cemetery, REV. JAMES W. WALLER The Rev. James Wyatt Waller, of Rt.
1, Ridgeway, pastor of Castle View Baptist Church, Rocky' Mount, died today in Memorial Hospital. He was 71. Born Feb. 10, 1903, he was the son of the late: Jordon and Nannie Sue Price Waller of Henry County. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Vergie M. Galloway of Ridgeway; two sons, James A. Waller and Lewis H. Waller of Ridgeway; sister, Mrs. Mary Wooten of Martinsville; brother, Cephus Waller Norfolk; and 14 grandchildren.
The funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. ate Antioch Baptist Church, Ridgeway, to be conducted by the Rev. Henry J. Mack. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
The body is at Hairston Funeral Home where the family will receive friends 7-8 Saturday evening. EDGAR M. HODGES GLADE, HILLY Edgar M. Mail Rate Gas Climbs 2 Cents It will cost two cents more. to mail letters beginning Saturday.
The rate on postcards and packages will also increase: The increases, postponed" from, January by the Cost of Living Council, are part of a new postal vrate schedule that will gradually increase prices paid: by book and record club members as well as magazine subscribers. First class letters will climb from 8. to 10 cents to mail for 12 ounces or less. Air mail letters will go from to 13 cents for nine ounces or under. Post cards will climb from 6 to 8 cents.
The increase for books; records and publications will be. gradual. A one-pound bundle of books will rise within five years from 14 to 30 cents." Senate Confirms Holton WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Wednesday confirmed President Nixon's nomination of former Gov. Linwood Holton of Virginia as assistant secretary of state for congressional relations. Holton, who was ineligible.to seek.
re-election last. year, succeeds Marshall Wright as the State Department's top liaison man on Capitol Hill. Acting by voice vote without debate or dissent, the Senate also approved the appointment of Donald B. Fasum of Alexandria, now ambassador to Upper Volta, as assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Hutcherson, 47, of Henry, were conducted Wednesday at Old Center Primitive Baptist Church by Elder: Cecil Turner.
Burial was in a the church cemetery. He died Monday in Memorial Hospital. Pallbearers: were Jesse, Clarence, James, Elmer, Johnny and Frank Greer. Collins Funeral HOme was in charge of arrangements. WILLIAM H.
HANco*ck Funeral services for William Henry Hanco*ck, 82, of Bassett, were, conducted Wednesday in Collins Chapel, Collinsville by Elder Cecil Turner and the Rev." Charles Page. Burial was in Old Center Church Cemetery. He died Monday. Pallbearers were grandsons, Robert Wright, Alan, Michael and Bill Garst, Fred Hanco*ck, Jerry, Plaster, Greg Plaster, Wayne and Don Plybon. NEWTON O.
BRYANT Newton Oscar Bryant, 72, of died Wednesday night in Gale Hospital there. "Edge" Hodges, 73, died Tuesday in a Roanoke hospital. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cynthia Ann Campbell Hodges; two daughters, Mrs. Curtis Hubbard of Glade Hill and Mrs.
Lolene. Corron of Ferrum; three sons, Edgar Hodges Jr. and Calvin F. Hodges of Roanoke, Elwood Hodges of Hardy; a brother, Pearly Hodges of Glade HIll; one sister, Mrs. Docie Hodges of Rocky Mount; 13 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
The funeral was to be held today at 2 p.m. at Arrington-Bussey Chapel, Rocky Mount, with burial in Franklin. Memorial Park. JOHNS. HUTCHERSON Funeral services for John'S: (Continued from Page 1) 2 A reported 268 gallons of fuel oil stolen from a trailer in Holley.
Hill trailer Court at Bassett. Absenteeism remained high in the coal fields of Southwest Virginia today; but most mines were open as emergency supplies of gasoline poured into the area. Fred Wilson, secretary-treasurer of UMW District 28 at Norton, said only three mines were reported to be closed today, miners unable to get gasoline to get to work. "We've still got gas problems," Wilson said. "A lot of mines do still have a number of men absent, But it's looking a whole lot better." He said he had no estimate on the number of men absent from the mines today, but that it appeared about 30 per remained cent of offthe area's miners the -job.
Absenteeism had run as high as 50 per cent earlier in the week when an estimated 3,000 miners were' unable: to get enough fuel to drive to work. A number of mines in the southwest were closed Tuesday and Wednesday. The three mines" remaining closed today, Wilson said, employe about 450 men, Wilson said an additional half million gallons of emergency fuel was expected to arrive in. the gasoline-starved southwest coal counties on Friday and he' voiced hopes that most mines would be operating normally by the first of next week. 4 But he said there were some reports of unhappiness among service station owners who were complaining because emergency allocations of fuel were going directly to mining companies.
Wilson said many of the mining companies that received as much as 50,000 gallons of emergency gasoline were selling it directly to their employes. Helms, Rt. 3, Bassett, and will receive friends at Bassett Funeral Home Friday evening. He was born in Franklin County to the late Walter E. and Alza Shelton Bryant.
His wife, Mrs. Ethel Moore Bryant died in 1955. Bryant, a retired painter, was. of the Baptist faith, and was member of the Berwin, Va. Masonic Lodge.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Jeff Philpott of Road, Bassett, and Mrs. Lucille Southern of Walnut Cove, N.C.; four brothers, H. D. Bryant of North Augusta, S.C., Glen A.
Bryant of Rocky Mount, Everett L. (Trixie) Bryant of Altus, Okla: and H. Gray. Bryant of Henry. Funeral services will be Friday at :2 p.m.
at Collins. Chapel, Collinsville, with burial in Town Creek Baptist Church cemetery at Henry. It is requested that flowers be omitted and donations be made to the Heart Fund." ISAAC W. W. Helms, 80, of Henry, died Wednesday in the Rocky Mount hospital.
where he had. been a patient for five days: a self-employed carpenter, was married to Mrs. June A. Helms who died 1968. He was.
Jan. 15,41894 in Franklin, County to the late George L. and Mrs. Ella King Helms. Surviving are two brothers, Clinton Helms of Henry and Virgil Helms of Rt.
3, Bassett. The funeral will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Town Creek Primitive Baptist Church by Elders P. Ingram and Cecil Turner. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
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