Dec. 28, 1972

Staff

Published Sunday, December 28, 2003

Stories featured in the Suffolk News-Herald on this date 31 years ago

include:

Only family, close friends present for Truman's burial

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UPI) - Harry S. Truman, the straight-talking son of a Missouri horse-trader who rose to the presidency and led his country during two wars, was to be buried today in the Rose Garden of his presidential library.

Only his family and closest friends were included in the ceremony to bid farewell to the 33rd president.

Truman himself selected the burial spot in the grassy courtyard. He looked out on it often from the glass wall of his library office where he spent his last years happily surrounded by his White House mementos.

"I want to be buried out here so I can get up and walk into my office if I want to," he once old Army funeral planners.

Scouts face crisis, leaders told at U-C

"Boy Scouting in the Old Dominion Area Council is facing a serious, financial crisis," said Council President Willard M. Brown Jr. at the Union Camp Training Center in Franklin last week.

Brown, a Chuckatuck resident, told representatives from six counties and four cities served by the council that the council had fallen almost $13,000 short in meeting its budget costs of operations in 1972. For this reason, it has become necessary for expenses for the month of December to be paid from funds currently being pledged for the 1973 scouting year.

Nansemond Bank robbed 2nd time

For the second time in 32 days, four gun-shooting blacks herded employees of the First Virginia Bank of Nansemond on U.S. 17 into its vault and escaped this morning with an undisclosed amount of money.

A spokesman for the FBI in Norfolk said the four robbers, who fired a single shot during the holdup, were not disguised.

The source further refused to tie the holdups to the same group.

John Gayle, an assistant vice president of the bank, said no customers were in the bank at the time of the holdup.

Bridge would bring

more prosperity

A projected bridge-tunnel across Hampton Roads that would connect Hampton and Newport News with the new City of Suffolk by the mid-90s would bring a big development in the northern portions of the city, according to Nansemond City Manager George Cornell.

Now under study by the state Department of Highways, the project is slated for public hearings in this spring.

Under present proposals, one route would enter Nansemond near Tidewater Community College. An alternating route would enter Norfolk at Craney Island.

But studies indicated a southern entry through Nansemond

would offer the most "desirable routes from the standpoint of traffic planning." This is defined as "connection with major employment centers and new residential areas in Chesapeake and Nansemond."

Staylor selected by 1st Federal Savings

Mills W. Staylor Jr. was elected vice president and secretary of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association by the Board of Directors, President J.R. Dixon III announced today.

Others elected were Roger D. Vann, treasurer and assistant secretary; Stephen E. Blythe, assistant secretary/treasurer; and Mrs. Anita Byrd, assistant secretary.

...Staylor is married to the former Virginia Simons and has one son, Bud.

Joe Lee

Funeral services for Joe Lee of 3899 Old Norfolk Road will be conducted at 2 p.m. in Tabernacle Baptist Church Driver by the Rev. Henry Taylor. Burial will be in Carver Memorial Cemetery. Cooke Funeral Home is in charge.

Jaycees seeing outstanding man

The Suffolk Jaycees are soliciting nominations from the community for an "Outstanding Young Man of the Year Award."

Eligible candidates are men of Suffolk-Nansemond between the ages of 21 and 35. Past winners include Kermit R. Kelly, Colin R. Davis, Jack W. Nurney Jr., Robert C. Wrenn, William J. Spain. Jr., Charles Abernathy, M.E. Floyd Jr., Frederick Whitfield, C. Aubrey Smith, James B. Boone Jr., J.R. Dixon III, Stewart Levy, Bill Peachy, George Birdsong, and Robert W. Harrell Jr.

- Compiled by Allison T. Williams

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