RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Bush administration would drop the Justice Department's lawsuit against the tobacco industry to recover Medicare costs, Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush said.
''I don't think you can sue your way to policy,'' Bush told Media General News Service in an interview published Sunday. ''We've had this giant series of lawsuits that the industry settled where the states ended up with a lot of money. I think what we ought to do now is work on preventing children from smoking and at the same time keep the compact (between the states and the tobacco industry) in place.''
The Clinton administration sued the industry last year for more than $500 billion in payments to make up for Medicare costs of treating tobacco-related diseases. Republicans in Congress have have attempted to block the money to pay for the litigation, but the administration has vowed to keep it alive.
''The lawyers I talk to don't feel they (the Justice Department) have a case,'' Bush told the news service.

WILSON, N.C.,- (AP) North Carolina now has the lowest number of tobacco warehouses in 50 years, leaving the rural landscape dotted with empty buildings where growers once celebrated or mourned the market.
Fifteen warehouses have closed in North Carolina this year, bringing the number of active warehouses down to 89. Warehouse operators blame the decline primarily on a 53 percent cut in the federal tobacco quota over the past three years.
As they prepare for sales that start next week, the operators say they expect more warehouses to shut down because they don't have enough work to stay in business.
In some communities - Wendell, Mebane, Ahoskie, Aberdeen - there are no tobacco warehouses left, meaning many farmers must pay more to haul their leaf to market somewhere else.
"When that happens, the whole community is haunted by it," says Mac Dunkley, director of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association, a trade organization for auction houses in the five states that produce flue-cured tobacco. "When the market closes in a place, everybody associated with the market - the farmers, the buyers and everybody else - goes somewhere else with that tobacco, and the money goes with them."
The ripple effect, Dunkley says, may be felt by fertilizer salesmen, tractor and car dealers and clothing retailers, all of whom count on tobacco-harvest cash from July or August to the beginning of November.
W.L. Hopkins Jr. kept the Piedmont Tobacco Warehouse in Mebane open for as long as he could.
This year, he and his wife, Lou, who kept the books, called it quits.
Two years ago he was down to two sales a week.
Last year, his growers could produce only enough tobacco for one sale a week, and this year, he would have had one every three weeks.
That's not enough to pay the workers it takes to run the warehouse.
His wife says she will miss the fellowship of the farmers and their families she used to see at the warehouse every year.
What I enjoyed about it, you'd meet all kinds of people, really nice people who worked hard," she says.
"That's not an easy job. I enjoyed being around them."
Hopkins, 72, still raises tobacco with his son on the family farm in Alamance County.
For now, he will rent space in his warehouse for local manufacturers to store finished goods until customers are ready for delivery.
In headier days, Tar Heel farmers grew more than 700 million pounds of tobacco a year. Workers, most of them migrants for the past 10 years, were hired to unload the tobacco from the farmers' trucks, weigh it and place it on the sales floor, then bundle it up and prepare it for delivery to the manufacturer whose representative had placed the highest bid.
When times were good, warehouses had several sales a week. Opening day for each market - the Border Belt first, in counties along the South Carolina line, followed by the Eastern Belt and then the Old Belt, at the Virginia border - drew state and local politicians.
Most of the more than 220 flue-cured tobacco warehouses in the state are old buildings, dating from around the turn of the century to the 1940s and '50s.
One of the newest warehouses in the state is the Carolina Pride Warehouse in Wilson.
Kay Fisher built it in 1990, never dreaming tobacco production could drop by more than half over the next decade.
Carolina Pride was state of the art, fully insulated and equipped with a sprinkler system.
Fisher is still making payments on it.
Last year, when she was down to about 175 growers, she spoke with Tommy Faulkner and Kenneth Kelly, who ran Liberty Warehouse on the other side of town.
They had about the same number of growers at their warehouse, an older, 200,000 square-foot facility, and figured that together, they could offer buyers more selection.
That, in turn, would give farmers greater leverage.
So this year, Carolina Pride Tobacco Warehouse is now B&F Storage.
Fisher's storage clients include a drink-bottle manufacturer, a cotton wholesaler and a farm-machinery sales outfit.
As the market season approaches - the first sale at Liberty Warehouse is scheduled for Wednesday - Fisher says she is getting excited.
She says she hopes to stay in the business for as long as it lasts.
"It's just in my blood,' she says, "and I didn't want to get out."

There are only three active warehouses left on the South Boston Flue-Cured Tobacco Market, a decline from as many as seven, said Extension Agent Larry McPeters.
"We had seven, then there were six, five and now there are three," he said.
And sale dates have declined too, he said.
Sales, during the peak of the season, went Monday thru Thursday with full sales in each warehouse.
There are only 13 sale dates scheduled this year on the local market.
And South Boston will not be opening on the August 14 Old Belt opening day.
Instead, the local warehouses will have the first sale of the 2000 season on Tuesday, August 15.
The tremendous quota cuts have had a lot to do with the reduction in warehouses, McPeters said, but a bigger factor is the number of contract buyers out there.
Star Tobacco is the largest contract buyer right now, he said, with barn space to handle 20 million pounds this year.
Contract leaf is counted against the quota, he said, but it never sees the warehouse floor.
R.J. Reynolds is also making a big push for contract leaf and it's only a matter of time before the other manufacturers follow suit.
Early sales further south seem to indicate buyers aren't paying top dollar for this year's leaf, much of which is carryover from last year's crop, but McPeters said he is unsure how good the quality is for that leaf.
"We have an excellent carryover crop," he said.
"We got that rain in September which filled out the leaf and made it heavy.
"Our best leaf from 1999 hasn't been sold yet," he said.
"I'm hoping for a good opening day sale," he said.
Sales on the local market are scheduled for August 15, 23. 28 and 31; September 6, 12, 14, 18, 21 and 27; and October 3, 10 and 16.

Blue mold has been found on a 10-acre tobacco farm in the Virgilina area, and unlike an earlier outbreak, this one is "very active," said Extension Agent Larry McPeters.
Neighboring farms should be on the lookout for possible outbreaks of the spore, McPeters said.
"If farmers can top their tobacco and pull those bottom leaves, they shouldn't have any problem with blue mold," he said.
For more information contact the extension office at 476-2147

A 86-year-old Clover man was killed Friday afternoon when his vehicle left the road and struck two trees.
Trooper S.L. Noblin said the driver, Bryan Wilson Nichols, apparently fell asleep at the wheel of a 1995 Oldsmobile on Route 58 and ran off of the left side of the road.
Noblin said the vehicle traveled 280 feet through the median and struck two trees, one quarter of a mile east of Piney Grove Road (Route 751).
The trooper said Nichols died at the scene, marking the second fatality in a week and the seventh for the year for Halifax County.
According to Noblin, the driver was wearing a seatbelt and the air bag had deployed.
The 1:50 p.m. crash totalled the vehicle.
· Steven Davis Marable, 32, of Halifax, was charged with reckless driving Saturday morning after he fell asleep at the wheel of a 1998 Nissan pickup and ran off of the road.
Trooper G.M. Gilliam said the driver was injured when the vehicle ran off of the left side of Wilson Memorial Trail, came back across the road and ran off of the right side of the road before it overturned.
Gilliam said the 5 a.m. crash occurred five-tenths of a mile north of State Route 360, causing an estimated $2,400 in damages to the vehicle.
· A 24-year-old Florida man was charged with reckless driving Thursday morning after his 1988 Dodge van ran off of Crystal Hill Road, (Route 610), two miles west of Howard P. Anderson Road ( Route 626).
Trooper S.M. Krantz said the 5:45 a.m. crash occurred when the driver, Roberto Aguirre, of Bartow, Fl., ran off of the left shoulder of the road, came back across the road and ran off of the right side of the road before striking a ditch and a tree.
The vehicle then flipped on to its right side, according to Krantz.
Krantz estimated the vehicle as totalled with $6,000 in damages.

Clarence Gordon Conner, 39, of Halifax, was charged with following too closely by Va. State Trooper S.L. Noblin as the result of a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Highway 360 and Route 760.
The incident occurred at 5:50 p.m. on Tuesday.
William Sutphin III, 53, of South Boston, had stopped behind a vehicle making a left turn and Conner could not stop, according to Noblin.
The 1989 White tractor-trailer Conner was driving sustained an estimated $300 in damages, while the 1989 van driven by Sutphin received about $400 in damages.
· Susie Ann Carver, 52, of South Boston, was charged with following too closely by Trooper C. M. Fleming following a Thursday afternoon collision on Highway 501 about 100 feet north of Route 638.
Catherine Shavonne Jones, 20, of Nathalie was slowing down for a slow moving vehicle when her car was struck in the rear by the 1986 Chevrolet driven by Carver, according to the police report.
The vehicles driven by Carver and Jones each sustained an estimated $1,000 in damages, according to the trooper.
Several passsengers reported injuries, according to Trooper Fleming. Passengers included two six-month-olds, Mazia Shatiese Jones and Shaguard Coreiena Jackson, as well as Shelly M. Jones, 19, and Shelly M. Jackson, 22.
· No charges were filed by Trooper G.M. Gilliam but damages hit an estimated $3,000 when Ike T. Bowen, 47, of Buffalo Junction, struck and killed a cow owned by Stephen Woltz of Virgilina Friday evening.
Bowen sustained an estimated $2,500 in damages to the 1988 pickup he was driving, according to police reports.
The incident took place on Route 601 about three-tenths of a mile east of Route 732.
· Sarah Jane Metcalf, 51, of Keysville, was charged with failure to yield the right of way by Sgt. J.L. Hopkins following a Thursday afternoon collision at the intersection of Highway 501 and Route 58.
The 1997 GMC Jimmy driven by Metcalf ran through a traffic signal and struck the 1990 pickup driven by Lacy Edward Bowen, 61, of South Boston, according to the police report.
The GMC sustained an estimated $7,000 in damages and the Bowen vehicle sustained $5,000, according to the trooper.
· Deborah Givens Terry 44, of South Boston, was charged with improper turning by Trooper C.M. Fleming following a 4:30 p.m. collision Thursday on Highway 501 about two miles north of Highway 360.
Trooper Sgt. Hopkins reported that both Terry and Carl B. Allen, 33, of Halifax, attempted to turn into a store lot when Terry hit the Allen vehicle.
The 1987 Buick driven by Terry sustained $1,000 in damages and the 1993 pickup driven by Allen received $400 in damages, according to the trooper.
· No charges were filed by Trooper C.M. Fleming in a Sunday 2 p.m. mishap when Stanley Britton Jr., 27, of South Boston lost control of his motorcycle after a pack of dogs ran onto the road.
The incident took place on Route 863 about one mile south of Route 685.

Estimated property damage soared over $38,000 as South Boston police worked a flurry of accidents last week.
A Saturday collision resulted in a third of the damages when a 1993 Ford driven by Sidney Mitchen, 19, of South Boston, and a 1993 Jeep Cherokee operated by Octavian Brandon, 25, of Clover, collided at the intersection of Hamilton Blvd. and Highway 360.
Cpl. F.M. Edmunds charged Mitchen with failure to yield the right of way.
The officer estimated damage to the Jeep at $9,000 and to the 1993 Ford at $2,000.
Aurelia Virgen, 44, of South Boston, was charged with hit-and-run property damage and with having no operator's license by Officer D.H. Snead on Saturday.
Virgen was charged by Snead with striking a stop sign at the intersection of Hodges Street and Highway 360 Saturday afternoon and then leaving the scene.
Snead estimated damage to the stop sign at $40 and to the 1990 Dodge driven by Virgen at $300.
· Other police reports included an accident Friday at 1:15 p.m. involving a 1998 Oldsmobile van operated by Simeon Phipps Jr., of Virginia Beach, and a 1983 Toyota operated by Derrick Jackson, 19, of South Boston.
Sgt. D.L. Blanks reported that both vehicles were traveling north on Broad St. when Phipps attempted a left turn from the right lane and was struck in the side by Jackson's vehicle.
Phipps was charged by Sgt. Blanks with improper turning and causing an accident.
A passenger, Virginia M. Phipps, complained of neck pain following the collision, according to the police officer.
Blanks estimated damage to the Phipps' van at $2,000. The Jackson vehicle sustained an estimated $400 in damage.
· On Thursday at 1:45 p.m., three vehicles were involved in an accident at Wilborn Ave. and Crescent Dr.
Kenneth Stanfield, 39, of Alton, was charged by Sgt. R.E. Redd with following too closely.
A 2000 Ford operated by Lisa Lewis, 22, of Clover, and a 1992 Toyota operated by Thomas Crowder Jr., 49, of South Boston, had stopped for traffic, according to the police report. Redd said that Stanfield was unable to stop and struck one vehicle, which caused that vehicle to strike the vehicle in front.
The officer estimated damage to Stanfield's 1991 Ford SUV at $2,000, with an estimated $3,000 in damage sustained by the Ford driven by Lewis. Crowder's 1992 Toyota sustained approximately $150 in damage, according to Redd.
· Also on Thursday afternoon, Charlie Ragland, 76, of South Boston was charged with hit and run by Officer T.L. Freeman following a collision near the intersection of Halifax and Powell roads.
Henry Davis, 68, of Vernon Hill was traveling Highway 501 south when Ragland changed lanes suddenly causing Davis to strike Ragland's vehicle in the rear, according to the police report. Freeman reported that Ragland continued on but was later charged in the incident.
The officer estimated damages to the 1965 Buick driven by Davis at $2,000, and to Ragland's 1985 Pontiac at $2,000.
· Thursday at 8:55 a.m., two vehicles collided at the intersection of Broad Street and Webster.
Charles Jones, 57, of Skipwith was driving a 1998 Honda north on Broad Street when Dion Stanfield of South Boston started from a stop sign and struck Skipwith's vehicle in the side, according to Officer C.L. Carswell.
The officer charged Stanfield with failure to yield the right of way.
Carswell estimated damages to the Honda driven by Skipwith at $4,000 and to the 1997 Kia driven by Stanfield at $5,000.
· Two vehicles collided Wednesday at 4:14 p.m. on Highway 501 about one-fourth of a mile north of Route 58, but no charges have been filed by South Boston Police Officer T.M. VanAernem.
Renee Tucker, 28, of South Boston sustained an estimated $5,000 in damages to the 1994 Mitsubishi she was driving and Carrie Elliott, 45, of South Boston, sustained about $1,000 in damages to the 1993 Ford van that she was driving when Tucker's vehicle struck Elliott's vehicle in the rear, according to VanAernem.
· On Tuesday afternoon, Emmett Edmonds, 18, of Halifax was charged by Officer S.L. Warf with failure to yield the right of way following a collision with a vehicle driven by Kimberly Murray, 32, of Clover.
Murray was traveling south on Watkins Ave. and Edmonds allegedly failed to yield the right of way at a stop sign and struck the 1996 Dodge van driven by Murray, according to the police report. The Dodge van sustained an estimated $3,000 in damages.
Edmonds was driving a 1992 Toyota and sustained an estimated $2,000 in damages to the vehicle he was driving, according to the officer.
· On Saturday, Stephanie Reed, 27, of Clover was charged by Officer D.T. Frazier on with being drunk in public and also with assault on a police officer.

South Boston Town Council's Current Issues Committee (CIC) will consider a Virginia Main Street Start-Up Community Program application at its council committees' meeting tonight.
The session will begin at 5:45 p.m. at council chambers on Yancey Street.
The Virginia Main Street Program helps localities revitalize the economic vitality of downtown commercial districts using the national Main Street Center's successful Main Street approach.
Start-Up Community services help communities build an appropriate organizational and funding base to effectively implement a Main Street Program and help the locality prepare for the Main Street application process.
Community Development coordinator Tamyra Vest will give a short presentation on this issue to recommend participation in the Virginia Main Street Start-Up Program.
Other CIC agenda items include consideration of an agreement with Re-Use Technology for fly ash placement on a seven-acre tract on town land adjacent to the Dixie, Inc., complex.
· Jacqueline Crosby has applied for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to establish and operate a new taxi cab service, Jackie's Cab Company, at 900 John Randolph Blvd.
The South Boston Police Department has completed the required investigation and does not oppose the application.
A public hearing on the application has been advertised for the August 14 council meeting.
· The CIC will consider a request from McLaughlin Shopping Centers L.C. to amend zoning and subdivision ordinances to allow individual lots without frontage to exist within shopping centers.
The lots in question are in the Halifax Square Shopping Center.
·The CIC will consider a request from the Halifax County school system for a Special Use Permit to erect a modular classroom on the high school campus.
The applicant has requested the permit for an expansion of a use operated by a government agency in an R-1 District.
The expansion is a 24-foot by 44-foot modular classroom for the purpose of instituting an in-school suspension program at the high school.
The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider this application on August 9.
A public hearing for Town Council has been advertised for the August 14 meeting.
The Finance Committee will present a review of year-end finances, consider expenditures budgeted for 1999-2000 requested to be carried over to 2000-2001 and present its annual listing of delinquent taxes and utility bills.

South Boston's decorative Bradford pears are suffering from a high-salt diet that no amount of high-blood pressure medicine will fix.
Trees, already suffering from two straight years of severe drought conditions, were hit with a double whammy this summer.
Extension specialists theorized that heavy piles of salt-laden snow, remnants of this past winter's 15-inch snowstorm, saturated the soil with the road chemicals and moisture.
Then this spring and summer have been wetter than normal, with torrential downpours more the norm than the exception.
The combination is essentially causing the trees to suffocate, bringing about leaf scorch, causing the trees to drop leaves prematurely.
Most of the trees are located on downtown street corners, where the heavy piles of snow sat for days, said Extension Horticulture Technician Bill McCaleb.
Leaf scorch, he continued, is normally caused by one of two conditions.
Either too little or too much water.
This year the trees have had too much water what with the slow melt of 15 inches of snow and upwards of 18 inches of rain in June and July.
The water deprives the trees of oxygen suffocating them, he said.
Another contributing factor is the heavy clay content of the downtown soil that compacts around the root system leaving the tree few air pockets to get nutrients from, he said.
Also figuring heavily into the equation is the small growing area given each downtown tree.
There's no way to tell without doing a soil test, he said, but there may be some problem with the trees using all the available nutrients from the soil.
No soil test was taken because of the heavy iron grates surrounding each tree.
Most trees get their nutrients from feeder roots, that usually extend far beyond the tree's dripline.
These trees' dripline is under asphalt and concrete.
As for the prognosis, McCaleb said all that can be done is wait for next summer and see if the trees come back and what shape they are in.
Bradfords usually have a lifespan of about 15 years, with these planted in staggered fashion during the revitalization work in the late 1980s, early 1990s.
"These trees have lost a lot of leaves, but there are signs of secondary leaf growth, which should continue through the middle of August," McCaleb said.
Then the nights will begin to get cooler and the trees will begin preparing for another winter.
Downtown trees help to add beauty to city streets, said McCaleb, and Bradfords were designed as an inner-city tree, able to take the added abuse of acid rain and carbon monoxide.
As for South Boston's trees, wait for next year and pass the blood pressure medicine.

Softball all-star Amber Lowery is back home from the Netherlands, a little tired, but a lot better for her experience.
Lowery was part of a 13-player USA all-star softball team that travelled to Holland on July 6 to play against all-star competition from Holland and Belgium.
"I met my teammates in New York before the flight overseas - they were from all over, including Missouri, Colorado, Pennsylvania and California," Lowery said.
The nine-hour flight and the resulting tournament was the opportunity of a lifetime according to Lowery, who began playing on the softball diamonds of Halifax County in the second grade.
Lowery's softball schedule, although limited by rain, still had room for about seven games.
"I think we won three or four games, although the rain cut many of them short, said Lowery.
The competition, as expected, was tough, according to Lowery.
"The other teams had an advantage at first, because they had practiced together for about a week or longer before we arrived.
"Once we began to play, we started to do better and won more toward the end," Lowery added.
Although a veteran of state and world series softball championship tournaments, Lowery found much to learn in Europe, particularly from her coaches.
"I had two excellent coaches - I learned more from them in two days than in the two years I've spent in college," Lowery said.
But Lowery's most important coaches - her parents - did not make the trip to Holland this year.
Her parents had seen every one of her games before the trip. Her father, Wayne "Cotton" Lowery, has worked with her on pitching her entire softball career.
"He's the reason I had the opportunity to go to Holland," said Lowery.
"Before my first pitch of every game, I would look to find him on the field or in the stands - it helped my confidence."
Lowery plans to do a lot of networking now that she's back.
"My phone bill is going to be sky-high. I'm talking to new friends from Philadelphia to Florida.
"I plan to meet with one of my coaches, Larry Cooper, in September for more instruction. I hope to increase the speed on my pitches by eight miles-per-hour by next season," she said.
A Growing Experience
Meeting people from different cultures and visiting zoos and the towns of Belgium and Holland were the most obvious benefits of Lowery's experiences.
" There were no radios, televisions or clocks in the players' rooms, so the players spent a great deal of time getting to know one another, and going out," said Lowery.
"Meeting people with the same goals helped me grow as a person, and made me realize what a big world it is outside of South Boston. It made softball less prominent.
"The people I met in Europe were friendly once they got to know you. I plan to stay in touch with several of them. Language was not a barrier since most students are required to learn English."
Lowery played in Holland while not being at her best physically. However, a sore, scratchy throat didn't prevent her from cheering on her teammates whenever her voice permitted it, or dampen her attitude.
"I was on cloud nine the entire time I was in Holland," said Lowery.
"All my teammates said I was smiling 24/7."
Lowery admitted that her practice regimen has suffered somewhat when getting ready for her first tournament overseas, but she has developed new ideas for the next spring's softball season.
"I plan to play tennis at Averett College, although I haven't picked up a racket since I played tennis in high school.
"Tennis is a more individual game than softball - that's what I like about it," said Lowery.
"I like to challenge myself. Tennis will also help me be in better shape for softball season."
Lowery's goals and focus, however, remain the same. The sports psychology major plans to play division one softball in college and possibly play in the Olympics.
There is another tournament overseas next year, and Lowery plans to be a part of that one also, with one major difference.
"When I go back next year, my parents will definitely go with me. I'll do anything possible to make it happen," said Lowery.
The international exposure of the softball tournament and its accompanying experiences have not made Lowery forget her roots.
"I'm glad to be a farm girl - it gives you a better work ethic and makes you want the best of life.
"I have my father, mother, brother and sister to thank for that," she added.

Bryan Wilson Nichols of 1099 Mt. Laurel Rd., Clover died Friday, August 4 at Halifax Regional Hospital. He was 86 years old.
He was born September 29, 1913 to the late Coleman and Fannie Nichols, and was married to the late Lucille B. Nichols.
A retired farmer, Mr. Nichols was a member of Clover Baptist Church, and a charter member of both the Clover Lions Club and the Clover Volunteer Fire Department.
He is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Sam B. and Ann Nichols of Martinsville, and two grandchildren, Emily and Evan Nichols.
In addition to his wife and parents, Mr. Nichols was preceded in death by two sisters, Alice Salmon and Elizabeth Nichols; and three brothers, Thomas Nichols, Sr., W.O. Nichols and Louis Nichols.
The funeral will be held at Clover Baptist Church today at 11:00 a.m. with the Rev. Tom Walker officiating.
The family will receive friends at the home of the deceased.
The family requests that those wishing to give memorials to please consider Clover Baptist Church, P.O. Box 306, Clover, Va. 24534.

John Junior Poindexter, age 58, of 1011 Cousins Lane, Nathalie, died August 3 at Halifax Regional Hospital.
Mr. Poindexter was born in Halifax County on July 8, 1942, the son of William Edward Poindexter and Sadie Miller Poindexter and was married to Elise Townes Poindexter. He was a member of Republican Grove Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Felicia Poindexter and Erica Poindexter, both of Nathalie; four sons, Curtis Tucker, John Poindexter Jr., William Poindexter and Darren Poindexter, all of Chester, Pa.; five sisters, Marie Henricks and Barbara Poindexter, both of Nathalie, Inez Majors of Virgilina, Luvene Hill of Richmond and Maxine Watkins of Philadelphia, Pa; one brother, Claude Poindexter of Boston, Mass.; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mr. Poindexter were held yesterday at Republican Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. L.S. Otey officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the home of the deceased.

Roosevelt Barksdale of South Boston died Sunday, August 6 at Halifax Regional Hospital. He was 58 years old.
Mr. Barksdale was born August 16, 1941 to Herman Hubbard, Sr. and the late Geneva Barksdale. He was married to Phoebe Sydnor.

Survivors include his former wife, Phoebe Sydnor; one son and daughter-in-law, Darnell and Myra Barksdale of Halifax; one daughter, Mary Barksdale of Danville; one granddaughter, Domiakea Barksdale of Danville; his father, Herman Hubbard, Sr. of Maryland; two sisters, Gladys Crawley and husband, Michael, of Alton; and Joann Harrison and husband, Allen, of New Jersey; four brothers, Charlie Barksdale of South Boston; Varney Lee Barksdale of Crystal Hill; Herman Hubbard, Jr. and Lewis Hubbard, Jr., both of Baltimore, Md.; three sisters-in-law; five brothers-in-law; a devoted cousin, Elizabeth Frend; and two devoted companions, Barbara Lindsey and James Williams.
Services were held yesterday at Banister Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. William Carr officiating. Burial took place in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Darnell Barksdale, 1095 James Trail, Halifax.