Page 8-Martinsville Bulletin, Friday, April 15, 1977 delegates and 40 senators in an 'office building being renovated across the street from the State Capitol. Roy Scott, head of the State Department of Purchasing and Supply, said Thursday each of- buying a lot of fancy furniture. Del. Robison James, D-Henrico, said the legislators easily could have used furniture from their old offices. Calendar TODAY The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 8p.m., Voters League Office, 215 Fayette St.
The Martinsville-Henry County REACT Team 3074 will meet 7:30 p.m., Stanleytown Elementary School. a SATURDAY Samuel H. Hairston Parent-Teacher Association Spring Carnival, beginning at 4 There be games, food and prizes. John Redd- Smith Parent Teacher Association Spring Fair, 11. a.m.
until 3 p.m., featuring a garden shop, arts and crafts, games, bake sale, cake walk and pony rides. Hot dogs, potato chips and drinks will be available in the cafeteria. The main attraction will be an auction beginning at 3 p.m., including furniture and other items donated by local merchants. Camp 48 and 388 Woodmen of the World will have a tree bingo party for 1 members only, 7 p.m, at the hall on Cabal P. Fish Fry at Piedmont Estate at the Safari Cud 11 sponsored by the Piedmont Estate The emphasis on this project is a park; SUNDAY Alcoholics p.m, Strath United Methodist I Goode Rejects New Furniture Sen.
Virgil Goode fice will: have (D Mount) is not in the desk, a credenza, boo market for new furniture for his sofa with Chippendale 1 Richmond office. bronze plated swivel chair, Thursday Goode wrote to Sen. three other chairs and end Hunter B. Andrews, chairman bles. of the Furniture Committee of Scott said the furniture was the Building, General telling Assembly him that he son for I this, said, is that it Office better than average.
The wants to retain the furniture in is to be used for legislators' of his present Eighth Street Office fices. Building rather than receive his The expenditure, he said, share of more than $400,000 doesn't include fabrics to cover which has been authorized for chairs in the offices. Scott estifurnishings for new offices of the mated the fabrics will cost $300. state legislators. per office, or $42.000.
"As you know, I have been In addition, the state: IS opposed to all the resolutions spending $27,000 on expensive and measures calling for this brass lamps for the legislators' building and, too, the proposal offices. at this past session that would asked people to pull allow borrowing for office furni- in their belts. and then we go ture and fixtures from the out and waste money like Virginia Retirement System," a said Del. Richard Reynolds, D- Goode wrote to Andrews. -Richmond, a candidate for the The expenditure averages out Democratic nomination for lieu to more than $2,800 to furnish tenant governor.
"It's a bad exeach of the offices for the 100 ample and we should not be PHCC (Continued from Page 1) board would discuss the matter at its regular meeting Monday. joint "Statement of Facts" gave the following reason why the state sought restitution and return of vacation hours: "The president was asked to reimburse the state for the use of the state vehicle and materials in the amount of $97.96 and to submit a leave slip for 12 hours of annual leave. The Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds was asked to reimburse. the state for the sale of materials in the amount of $125.10 and to submit a leave slip for eight hours of annual leave. Restitution has been made in each case." L.
Daniel Crooks, deputy chancellor of the college system, refused to elaborate on the circ*mstances surrounding the use of a' state vehicle and materials by Dutton, or the sale of materials by Moore. The materials were not identified. Although restitution was requested, Crooks said the State found no basis for criminal charges against Dutton or Moore The full content of the of as the release was titled by the two agencies, is as follows: STATEMENT OF FACTS! irregularities, allegedly occurring at Henry Community College, were reported by an employee af the college to the State Police. The State Police, after reviewing the case, sent it to the Chancellor for his information and action. Chancellor instructed the Internal Auditors to look into the matter and submit findings to him.
"The Chancellor asked the State Auditors to review the findings and make a special audit, which they did. They concurred in these findings and in the action to be taken. Chancellor also discussed the action to be taken with the College Board Chairman and the State Board Chairman. "The president was asked to reimburse the State for the use of the State vehicle and materials in the amount of $97.95 and to submit a leave slip for 12 hours of annual leave. The Obituaries MRS.
EVALINE BRENNEN Funeral services for Mrs. Evaline Watkins Brennen, 40, of 1018 Barrows Mill Road, were conducted Thursday at Whites Chapel Baptist Church by Dr. Carlton E. Blankenship, and the Revs. Hubert Inman and Duffy.
Westmoreland. Burial was in the church cemetery. She died Tuesday. -Pallbearers were Lonnie Burnette, Wayne and Danny Watkins, Donnie Blankenship, Billy Handy, James and Eddie Jones. Stone Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
MRS EVA M. COOPER Funeral services for Mrs. Eva Mae Cooper, 59, of 10 S. Beaver Martinsville, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Mt.
Carmel Baptist Church, Ashland, W. Va. Burial will follow in the Rest Lawn Cemetery, Littleburg, W. Va. Conducting the service will be the Rev.
McKinley Mrs. Cooper died Wednesday. The body will be taken to Sinkford-Richardson Funeral Home in Keystone, W. Saturday morning, from Hairston Fu- FRED J. COMPTON.
FLOYD Fred Junior 75, died Thursday in a Roanoke nursing home. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Vada. DeHart. Compton; one daughter.
Mrs. Newell Thompson of King George; a son, Irvin Compton, Floyd; three brothers. Ward and Larkin. Compton of Floyd, John Compton, Welch, W.Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Claude Lee, Woolwine, and Mrs.
Sadie Agee, Floyd; and four grandchildren. be funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Tuggles Gap Community Church. Burial will be in the Lee Cemetery, Friends may call at Maberry Funeral Home. F.
RANDY DOVE Funeral services. for Fred Randolph (Randy) Dove, 20, of 322 Greyson were held Thursday at Valley Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church. Burial was in the Dove family cemetery. He was pronounced dead on arrival Tuesday at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County. Pallbearers were Eddie Pace, carat diamond cluster 'dr.
$219 VALUE REGULAR $179 For true diamond value buy as the experts do by the carat weight. Now so specially prided, this 7. diamond lovely can be yours for big savings. Lloud's A Name You Can Trust" CHURCH ST. Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds was asked to: reimburse the State for the sale of materials in the amount of $126.10 and to submit a leave slip for 8 hours of annual leave.
has been made in each case." Hodnett, who Thursday he was advised "some time ago" of the investigation, declined to reveal details because: "you start talking about it and the next thing you know you may be guilty of libel or slander." "It's. complicated," Hodnett said; "because all of the people Board (Continued from Page 1) Iriswood District residents Leonard: Stockton and George Martin also spoke in favor of Martin's appointment. George. Martin, who said he did not know Rev. Martinpersonally, said whites exclusively have been on the board for a long time.
"I don't see where they've done no perfect job," he added. After the board 'solicited comments from the candidates's supporters, Supervisor Jack Dalton moved that the board go into: closed session to discuss the appointment. Moran at first protested that the board should "let everybody hear" the discussion, but after Supervisor Sam Gusler: seconded Dalton's motion, the board voted unanimously to go into closed session. After 15-minute closed session, the board emerged and, Spring Fair The John Redd Smith Elementary School PTA is sponsoring a Spring Fair to raise money for playground renovations at the Collinsville The fair will be held from 11: a.m. to Saturday at the school and will feature games, cartoons and pony rides for youngsters.
Adults will be able to attend an arts and crafts room featuring ceramics, aprons, macrame and other items; purchase plants; shop at a bake sale, or browse through a "Sweet Shoppe. An auction will be held int the school's gym at 3 p.m. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at ma Young Starkey, Ru. 3, Bas- Burial was in the Bowling sett; paternal grandmother, Cemetery, She died Tuesday.
Mrs. Avis France Gunter, Pallbearers: were Edward Rocky Mount, and paternal Robert; Curtis, Ralph, Jimmy grandfather, Walter Emmett and Mark Williams and Ben' Gunter of Stuart. Tilley, STOCKS These quotations, provided by members American Standard Homes the National Assortalion of Securities at Furniture are representative inter -drater prices as Damett Walter Knitting approximately 12 noon today Inter -dealer markets change throughout the day: Prices de nut include retail markup, markdown. First Nati Bank Mrille First Nati Bank Piky Mt Gravely Furniture American Electric Power. American Telephone County Plywood Bank of Virginia Hickory Furniture Products Hooker Furniture Can Furniture Continental DuPont Mod A Mille Martin Processing Financial Hecka Knitting.
Trust Bank Mend National Corp, Norfolk a Nationwide AF Ravco Virginia Natl Bank Virginia Gas ROSELAWN FUNERAL HOME Union Campanies 632-1880 Up R. It Located Roselawn Oak Level Baptist Church by the Rev. Charles McGuire. Burial will be in Franklin Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at Collins Funeral Horne Chapel, Collinsville, from 7 to 9: p.m.
today. J. D. REA STUART Joseph Dolphas Rea, 83, of Speneer, died early today in Patrick Memorial Hospital. A' retired farmer, he was' a Patrick County native, son of the late George and Ellen Boaz: Rea.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mabel Clement and Mrs. Elsie Pate of Spencer; a son, J. D. Rea of Spencer; three brothers, Claude Rea, Morton, Rufus Rea, Reidsville, N.
C. and. Ted Rea of Spencer; five, grandchildren; and six great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at Meadow United Methodist Church by the Revs.
Paul Waller and Coy Clark. Burial will be in the Rea family cemetery at Spencer. The family will receive friends at Moody Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, MRS. LILLIE G.
WILLIAMS Funeral services: for Mrs. Lillie Gunter Williams, of Stuart, were held Thursday at Moody Funeral Home Chapel. A Name You CHURCH ST. Burial Park involved are still at the college." seems to me that the action that the state has taken would suggest that it's really tempest in a teapot," he said. The "irregularities," Hodnett said, are "hardly major" but a bookkeeping error.
Hodnett said it is likely the advisory board's discussion of the joint statement will be held in a session closed to the public. wouldn't recommend any. action (by the board) unless there's something else in the picture that we don't know at this time," he added. on a motion from Ridgeway District Supervisor James Wagoner, approved Martin's The new supervisor will serve through November when an election will be held in the Iriswood District to fill out the remaining two years of Kendall's term. County Administrator John Richardson asked Martin to accompany him to the Henry County Circuit Court Clerk's office Monday to be sworn in and to: file his real estate holdings disclosure.
After Martin's election, the board voted unanimously to again go into closed session to discuss a personnel matter with Henry county Dog Warden L. E. Kidd. The board met for about 10 minutes with Kidd in closed session Thursday, but took no action, according to Richardson. The board voted to continue its meeting to 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday when it said it would 'Rim Ride' Tops 1,300 Daffodils Martinsville's Rim Ride" beat more than 1,300 other contestants to win the Silver Cup in competition Wednesday at Roanoke's National Guard Armory. Ride" is not. the name of a race horse or even a professional wrestler, but rather a daffodil. William G. Pannill, Rim Ride's owner, raised the champion in his backyard for 15 years before entering it in the Garden Club of Virginia's annual daffodil show in which two ol other Martingville women: also won The prize winner is a small -cupped flower with creamy -colored petals.
It is white except for a red rim around the cup, Pannill said. All daffodils entered in contests have names, like "King Alfred" or "My Love," Pannill said, adding that he discovered the name "Rim Ride' in California where the area around a canyon of redwood trees is called Rim Ride, he added. Finding new names for daffodils is one of the hardest tasks in the hobby, Pannill said, adding that he has chosen about 60 names. Pannill said he bred Rim the crop" ever returns to Martinsville where the flowers are transplanted in Pannill's backyard. Pannill says he now has "several thousand" plants in his backyard in Martinsville.
Pannill is past president of the American Daffodil Society. His other trophies were the Garden Club of Virginia Cup for horticultural. sweepstakes; the President of the Mill Mountain Garden Club Cup; the' Robert Lynn Memorial Cup: the Mill Mountain Garden Club Cup; and the Mr. and Mrs. Reginald S.
Koehler Memorial Cup. Mrs. J. R. Walker of MarWILLIAM G.
PANNILL, tinsville won two challenge bowls, including. Ride by cross-pollinating the Eleanor Truax Harris, two daffodils with fuzzy red requiring 36 blooms from 12 rims around the cups in the varieties, three stems each, hope that one flower would from at least four divisions, turn out with a clear rim: of daffodils, and the MaryOut of 60 or 70 blooms, Rim McDermott Beirne, Ride was the only one that requiring six all -white turned. wout the way he varieties, three stems each, wanted, Pannill said. from at least four of the first Although germinated in seven divisions of the flower Martingville, Rim Ride show schedule. spent its early days in Mrs.
Paul J. Turner of Oregon where Pannill grows Martingville received the approximately 40.000 Presidents of Member Clubs daffodils on the farm of a Cup for the runner up in friend. Only the "cream of horticultural sweepstakes. budget. Pregnant Student Files Suit Over Sus Suspension From F-CHS An 18-year-old 'Fieldale woman is suing the Henry County School Board, charging discrimination in her dismissal from Fieldale-Collinsville School because she is pregnant.
Lynda Hairston, 18, an honor student and vice president of the senior class at the time of her suspension, is seeking $10,000 in damages from the school board in the suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Danville. Miss Hairston, through her attorney Robert W. Williams of Martinsville," also asked the federal court for a temporary restraining order against School Supt. Paul H.
Jones and the school board to allow her to be reinstated in F- classes so she can obtain her diploma. In the suit, Miss Hairston said Dr. Jones told her she could not remain in school as a fulltime student after. she informed Jones and the school board she was five months pregnant. After being notified that she could not continue her regular classes at F-C.
Miss Hairston said she was offered an alternative of completing her graduation requirements in. a program conducted after regular school hours as is normal procedure in the school system. The alternative program, Miss Hairston said in the suit, would not allow her to complete two courses, typing and office practices, and thus prevent her from obtaining 'gainfulemployment subsequent to her In the suit, Miss Hairston asks against the Henry County school the court, through an injunction, board. to prevent the school board in In March a former the present and future "from teacher, Henry Goff, filed al county enforcing or in any" way $100,000 suit in U.S, District: implementing its policy for Court charging that the school; dismissal of pregnant students board dismissed him in 1976. while matriculating (enrolled) without a fair hearing.
That suit, in the public school system in is still pending infederal court. Henry County." A spokesman for the State Department of Education said Teacher Charged today concerning the Henry pregnant County students policy is. ROCK HILL, (UPI) a local cone and no state York County officials have guidelines. have been er charged with a Virginia shooting schoolteachestablished deal with such a estranged the husband. death of her situation.
York County Sheriff W.E. Dr. Jones could not be Sutton said Nellie Rogers, 54, reached for comment. was arrested at her home in Thursday's suit was the Colonial Beach, by local second in two months filed authorities. We lend dollars on Saturdays For any good reason, we have dollars to lend.
Even on Saturday- -because we know the weekend might be easier for you. 9 A.M. 12 NOON FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARTINSVILLE AND HENRY COUNTY de Martinsville and Henry County BANKING HOURS FULL SERVICE (LOBBIES AND DRIVE INS) ADDITIONAL LOBBY HOURS 39 a.m.-1 p.m, Monday-Friday (All Offices) 3 p.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (Home Office) 3 p.m.-6 p.m, Friday (All Offices) ADDITIONAL DRIVE IN HOURS 9 a.m.-12 Noon. Saturday (All Offices) 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Monday Thursday (All Offices) it Daryal Bondurant, Roy Clark, Don Portis, Dean and Harold Gravely, Gervis Hairston and Robert Hopkins. Members of baseball leagues with which Dove had played served as honorary pallbearers. McKee Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. E. LEE GUNTER Emmett Leon (Lee) Gunter 10, of Rt.
3, Bassett, Franklin County, died Thursday after an accident on Virginia 809 off U.S. 220 North at 5:30 p.m. He was the son of Emmett Leon (Jack) Gunter Sr. and Mrs. Martha Starkey Gunter of Rt.
3, Bassett. He was a fifth grade student at Henry Elementary School and, attended Oak Level Baptist Church. Also surviving are his ternal grandmother, Mrs. Vel. Burial Park.
