Martinsville Bulletin from Martinsville, Virginia (2024)

a 7. 7. Page 2-Martinsville Bulletin, Monday, Dec. 20, .1971 OBITUARIES HARRY L. YOUNG Funeral services for Harry Lee Young, 63, 1401 S.

Askin who died Friday, were held Sunday at Calvary Christian Church by the Revs. Robert Mitchell, H. Prillaman and Phillip Duckett. Burial was in Roselawn. Burial Park.

Weaver, Tommy Leath, John D. Pallbearers were de Milford Herndon, Carroll Carter, Curtis Johnson, Tarlton Andes, Thomas Mitchell and John Stultz. Honorary pallbearers were friends. McKee Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. MRS.

BELEN WILSON Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Price Wilson, 42, 115 N. Dunlap who died' Friday, will be held Thursday at at. Mount Zion A.M.E. Church by the Rev.

R. T. Anderson. Burial will be in Carver Memorial Gardens. The body will remain at Hairston Funeral Home and the family will be at 407 Armstead Street, Two Sought For Robbery In Patrick Co.

Two Patrick men are being sought by deputies in nection with the Sunday night beating and robbery of Cleotha Samuel. Hooker, 36, 213 Wilson St. Hooker was treated abrasions to the face and released from- Memorial Hospital after being assaulted about midnight by -two men on a Critz Road, ac cording to sheriff's deputes and at hospital spokesman. A wrist watch and $132 were 1o the robbery. The names the two men were not available from the Patrick County sheriff's department.

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Delicate raised front panels: FM. Tuner 25 Watts EIA Sealed Air Suspension Speaker. Garrard Custom Automatic Turntable: The Weather LOCAL STATISTICS The City Water Plant reports the following statistics for 24-hour, period ending 6 a.m.i high 49. low 38, .10 Inches AREA LAKE Philpott: normal 971.50, actual 792.54 Smith normal 795.0, 794.6 STATE FORECASTS: Virginia: Rain ending in the west portion tonight and in the east tion Tuesday. Low tonight in the low 40s mountains.

to the mid 405 High Tuesday In mid and upper north portion to around 60 south portion. North Carolina: Occasional rain or showers ending in the west portion tonight and in the east Tuesday, A few in the southeast. Low Tonight in the. mid 40s to the low 50s. High Tuesday in the low 60s, ranging to the upper 60s and low 70s.

In the southeast: A 3 VIRGINIA ZONE FORECASTS: Henry County Area: Rain tonight, coming partly cloudy. Low tonight In the 405, high Tuesday In the upper 503 and low 60s. Chance of rain decreasing to 80 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Tuesday. Area Eastern Shore: through Tuesday. Low tonight In the 405, high Tuesday in the upper 50s.

Chance of rain decreasing to 80 per. cent tonight and. 50 per cont Tuesday. Shenandoah Valley, Upper James River Area Allegheny Highlands: Rain ending later. tonight and becomIng partly cloudy warm Tuesday, Low tonight around 40, high Tuesday In mid to upper 50s.

Chance of rain decreasing to 80 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Tuesday. Southwestern Plateau: Rain ending later: tonight and becoming partly cloudy Tuesday Low tonight In the 409, high Tuesday In the 50s. Chance of rain decreasing to 30 per cent late tonight' and 10 per. cent Tuesday. WHY THE WEATHER RICHMOND (AP)." A large block of warm, moist air dextending from the Gulf, states to the Ohio Valley brought rain and generally mild.

tem pertaures 10 Virginia today. Thieu Cease-Fires SAIGON (AP) President Van Thieu has andounced 24 hour cease-fires for allied forces in South Vietnam for Christmas, New Year's and the Tet celebration of the lunar new year in mid February. Thieu coupled "his announce. ment with an appeal to the "Communists won the occasion of Christmas to "end the fighting immediately. and completely" throughout Indochina So that prompt and serious discussions could be held to restore peace.

Convention Hall in Atlantic City, N.J.r seats 41,000. HERBERT NICKELSTON Funeral services. for Herbert Columbus Nickelston, Rt. 6, Martinsville, who died Thursday, were held Sunday at Grace Baptist -Church by the Rev. Oscar Adams, assisted by the Rev.

Glenn Voss. Burial was in Smith Chapel Cemetery near Sandy Ridge, N.C. Pallbearers were William Hopkins, Bobby Lankford, Danny Atkins, Woody Beasley, Hardy Joyce, and Lowell Stone Funeral Home handled arrangements. Man Returns On His Own After Escape Police. say Onis Alton Clark, 41, who slipped away Saturday night being charged with drunkenness and resisting arrest, returned voluntarily.

Sunday. Clark leit the rear of the Munt1pal building about 8 p.m. Satur, day as police processed warrants on two misdemeanors against him. The charges stemmed from an alleged scuffle with an off patrolman at the J. P.

Penney Store. Clark was arrested on the additional charge of escaping custody Sunday when he walked into police headquarters. He is free today on $500 bond and 'a hearing date has been set for Jan. 27 in Municipal serves, as the Honor Guard communal violence years of porting air, operations over the for the academy, escorting In Northern northern. part of Laos Sunday the during ceremonial Ireland.

0 when its electronic formations. Three Roman Catholic youths indicated that a radar site on 18 and 19 years old blew them. the North Vietnamese side of the border was tracking his 14 QUALIFIES Cadet Buddy Hooker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A.

Hooker, Ft. 1. Mar-3 tinsville, has" qualified for membership on Camden Rifles, the precision drill team representing. Hargrave Mili-: tary Academy on parade and in competition, The unit terrestrial and never. go near the water.

Selected Stock Quotations OPEN NOON Allegheny: Airlines 117 Amer, Chrysler 29 Clinton dOll Crane DuPont: Elect. Easco: Musical. Ind. 4 General Motors Litton a Martin Marlotta Mead Corp. Mobil.

Ou1 56 Notional: Nationwide Homes Homes 33 Norfolk Western 744 Olin Mathiesun Penn Central 4 Phillips Petroleum Reynolds Tobacco: Santa Fo 31. 32 Vepco 20 Well-McLain A Drug 4134 Standard: Oil of N. LOCAL STOCKS Bid Asked American Furn. American Standard Homes Bid Bassett Furn. 55: Bassett-Walker Knit.

14 Hooker. Furn. 24 26 Gravely Furn. First Nat. of Mvl.

HC Pannill Knitting 10 Pledmont Trust Bank 31 33XD Pulaski Furn. Sale Knitting Bid Tri-South 33 34 Virginia National Bank 23 Vaughn Furn. 12. Noon Stock: Average: Up $9,18 The gopher turtles of. the south and west are.

exclusively THINK OF THE FUTURE! Start a savings today for your childs education at Imperial Savings and Loan. Just $1.00 per week would amount to a sum by the time your, child will be ready to graduate IT IMPERIAL TO Savings and Loan assn. SAVE 33 SPENCER MARTINSVILLE, VA. -70 638-7545 On Regular Accounts On 1 Year Accounts $500 Minimum: On 1. Year Accounts $5.000 Minimum Deposlt In $500 Multiples 90 Days withdrawal Notice Required get Year Accounts $5,000 or More 1 Staff Photo IN APPRECIATION Raymond.

Martin of Fieldale receives a gift from a trio of Martinsville Girl' Scouts in appreciation of his aid to them in the recent Christmas Parade in downtown Martinsville. "He" provided the truck which they decorated as a float in the parade. To show their gratitude the scouts gave a party for him Saturday at the home Mrs. Glenwood Martin of the city. The three girls here presenting him with a gift are Cindy Gregory, Teresa Jamison and Lisa Parcell.

TOUGHER THAN PRESENT Drinking Driver Bill Proposed RICHMOND (AP) make It tougher on the driver was proposed to ginia House' of Delegates The measure, prefiled A bill to An Identical bill was drinking last week by another the Vir- today. The new Chesterfleld by Del. blyman also proposed a -elect A.B. McMurtrie, D-Chesterfield, for consideration by the General Assembly opening Jan. 12, would drop the blood alcohol content that is a presumption of drunkenness from .15.

per centto .10 per cent. McMurtrie's bill would also drop from .10 to .05 the blood alcohol content that falls under the impaired driving statute. 4 Teenagers Killed In Bomb Blast BELFAST. (AP) Bomb blasts killed four teen-agers over the weekend and a fifth died in a collision with an army vehicle, sending: the death toll to 203 in nearly selves up in a car Saturday when a 15-pound bomb one of them apparently was cradling in his lap detonated, a British army spokesman said. The wreckage of the small car was found in Magherafelt, 30 miles north of Belfast.

The youths apparently, intended to plant the bomb elsewhere but made a mistake with the timing, the army spokesman said. A bomb explosion in crowded bar in. Belfast's Catholic Springfield Road district killed a 16-year-old and. injured five other persons. A 16-year-old girl was the weekend's fifth victim when the ice cream truck she was riding in crashed into an army armored truck at a roadblock.

Three companions were Injured. The. troops were investigating reports of a bomb blast in a Catholic district of Belfast. Officials of opposition parties from. Northern Ireland, Britain and the Irish Republic met: in London to seek a formula for a solution to: the political- religious strife.

prefiled tutional amendment. that legislator- prevent a city annexing a all county unless the voters in assem- city, and county had given consti approval. U.S. Jet Hits Near Hanoi SAIGON (AP) A U.S. fighter bomber attacked antiaircraft defenses within.

miles of. Hanot in the closest strike to the North Viet namese capital since the unsuccessful attempt to free Americans from the Son Tay prisoner of war camp more than a year ago. The U.S. Command still refused to comment on Hanoi's claims that four American fighter-bombers were shot down over the weekend. But the command said an Air Force F105- fighter-bomber was.

sup- flight preparatory to firing a surface missile. The pilot: "fired, his missile first, and the command said the action caused the site to cease operating. The command said the action took place within a mile of the Laotian border and 90 miles west-southwest of Hanoi. It was the 98th U.S. strike reported inside North Vietnam this year, On the ground, Communist forces marked the "25th versary Sunday.

of the start of the Indochina war and the 11th anniversary today of the founding of the National Liberation Front with attacks in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia: North Vietnamese Pathet Lao troops overran a Thai fire base on the Plain of Jars in the third day of a dry-season offensive in Laos. Two howitzers and two" other artillery pieces were reported captured by the enemy. It was the second allied position to. fall in 24 hours. Cambodian troops reportedly recaptured the key hill position of.

Phnom Baset, 14 miles northwest, of Phnom Penh, without fight. This raised speculation that the North Vietnamese land. Viet Cong may be withdrawing from 7 a positions threatening the Cambodian; capital for more than a month. The Cambodian command reported: heavy fighting. continuing at.

Peam. Chhkork, on the Tonle, Sap. River 46 miles north of: Phnom A staging area, it. was attacked before dawn Sunday. Jubilation Turns Into Savagery (Continued from Page 1) haris, but that seemed unlikely.

bodies are a common sight in the streets. Everywhere there is a lust for blood. A Bihari, student who" the whereabouts of a mass grave was seized and bound. Only the appearance of an" Indian patrol him from the mob. Four bound men were blud: geoned and bayoneted to death Saturday at the end of a public meeting called to celebrate the victory over Pakistan.

Abdul Kader Sadiq, a selfstyed guerrilla general, told the crowd anyone who took the law into his own hands would be punished. He said his prisoners. would be given a proper trial; as soon as he ended his speech, he gave the onder. for their execution. With each bayonet thrust, the crowd roared, "Joi Bangla," the Bangla Desh battle cry.

As the blood flowed, Gen. Sagat Singh, commander of the Indian troops in Dacca, was telling newsmen at his headquarters, see a rosy picHe said he hoped the government of Bangla Desh could persuade the Bihani community to remain. THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TASTING EGGNOG IS MADE WITH Captain Apple Jack BOTTLED Contain IN. BOND Jack Apple Brandy Brandy BOTTLED IN BOND 100 PROOF. QUART 515 PINT 700 VIRGINIA FRUIT BRANDY DISTILLING CO.

NORTH GARDEN. VA. Li IN CITY Motorist Charged After Accident Police charged one motorist with drunken -and- reckless driving in one of two car accidents over the weekend. Patrolman J. Willis arrested Mrs.

Monnie Smith Davis, 8124A Jefferson with the double violation 'after her 1868 Nixon Signs Four Bills Into Law 3 White House says three appropriations bills and the Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act, passed by Congress- before it adjourned Friday, have: been signed by President Nixon. The money bills include $70.5 billion for the Defense Department in 1972; $166 million la federal funds for the current District of Columbia budget; and a measure continuing the present level; of spending for foreign ald, the Peace Corps and various other agencies. The, Alaskan claims bill provides 40 million acres and $962.5 million in settlement the loss of land once held by Eskimos, Aleuts and other native Alaskans. Still awaiting White House action is the 2 economic measure. extending "to 1973, the president's authority to control wages, prices, rents and other.

phases of the nation's economy, The measure contains provisions for a- federal pay raise to go into effect earlier than Nixon wishes, and for retroactive pay raises that the wanted to leave to the Pay Board. How. ever, he is not expected to veto the legislation on those accounts. WASHINGTON (AP) The Robbery Suspect Arrested Here Sheriff's deputies Saturday charged Emmanuel Easley, Rt. 3, Bassett, with the robbery of $34.50 from Buford Easley.

Easley was freed after posting $2,000 bond pending Jan. hearing. The American Bible Society catered to midwestern football fans last fall when- it published the Tedition of its WE RENT EVERYTHING For Christmas Parties TO RENTAL CENTER 708 N. Memorial Bird. Phone 832-1550 car crashed into.

the rear of a 1972 auto operated -by Duval T. Conner, Collinsville. The Conner auto had stopped at Mulberry Road 'and, Starling Avenue to wait for a change in the traffic light when the other car struck "his, according to Willis. Willis estimated damages. of $350 tr the Conner auto, but none: to the 1968 car.

The second two occurred on Liberty at Clearview Drive, according to Patrolman Wesley Ashley. He placed no charges. Ashley sald a 1971 "auto driven by Charles Tracy Beard, Rt. 5, Woodland Heights, struck a 1967 auto driven by. Kenneth Earl Pauley, Rt.

2, when Beard attempted left turn onto clearview during break in traffic. Pauley's car was traveling west on inside traffic lane when struck, according to Ashley. The patrolman estimated dam. ages of $150 to Beard's car and $300 to the Pauley vehicle, AQUARIUM SALE! We've knocked ovor prices to. the Floor this Christmas.

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