WASHINGTON (AP) - Cattle feedlots and large hog and poultry farms will face tighter regulations under a new national water pollution control strategy from the Clinton administration.
But some of the more stringent requirements, including compliance with permits under tougher federal standards, would not go into effect for several years under the plan, some environmentalists complained.
The federal strategy for reducing nutrient runoff into waterways from large, concentrated agricultural facilities was being announced today by Vice President Al Gore.
Environmentalists briefed by the plan on Monday said it does not go far enough to address the severe problems of pollution from thousands of large ''factory farms'' including poultry producers, hog farms and cattle feedlots.
''It will not solve the growing problem of factory farm pollution soon enough,'' said Robbin Marks of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The environmentalists said the government should impose a moratorium on permits for such facilities and move to close open-air waste lagoons at such sites.
Administration officials said the plan will require thousands of additional facilities to get permits and develop nutrient management plans. While the regulations will not go into effect until after 2001, thousands of additional operators will have to get permits under existing standards.
''This comprehensive strategy tackles a major threat to water quality. Through tough standards and flexible new approaches, we can ensure communities across the country cleaner, safer water,'' Gore planned to tell environmental and agricultural leaders at a meeting at the White House.
The broad outline is similar to a draft version released last September and is aimed at providing the blueprint for new regulations to control runoff from feed lots, large hog farms and poultry farms.
The Environmental Protection Agency is to develop the new technology standards for reducing pollution, mostly nutrient runoff into lakes and streams.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, called it ''a giant leap toward holding the biggest livestock producers accountable for water pollution.''
But environmentalists were not as enthusiastic.
''It does nothing in the near-term to address the serious shortcomings of current animals waste practices,'' said Joe Rudek, a scientists for the Environmental Defense Fund.
Kathryn Hohmann of the Sierra Club said the plan provides ''no real protection of groundwater'' and will do little to address air pollution from such facilities.
''Instead of cleaning up, the plan will have many of the largest factory farms writing up strategies for storing and disposing large volumes of manure, based on existing federal waste management standards and practices,,'' said the Environmental Defense Fund in a statement.

As expected, South Boston Town Council approved a zoning change Monday night that clears the way for development of another shopping center in the newly annexed Centerville area.
The 16.68-acre tract, located on the south side of Route 129 just west of the Halifax County High school campus, was rezoned to general commercial, the designation for shopping centers.
Council acted after a public hearing that attracted no one, either for or against. Previously, the Planning Commission had recommended approval.
Requesting the rezoning was Chester (Buddy) Arthur, representing the owners of the property, which reportedly would be developed by the Richmond-based firm of DeFoggi Development and Construction.
Plans for the development could come within 60 days, according to Mike Saunders, speaking for the DeFoggie company. Construction could start by mid-year.
This would be the fourth shopping center is the mushrooming business community at Centerville, joining Centerville Shopping Center, Tri-Rivers Shopping Center and Halifax Square Shopping Center.
There were two other public hearings on the Council agenda Monday night, one of which was on an application by Terri F. Spell to operate a certified massage therapist business at 1606 Wilborn Avenue.
In favor were Carol Betts, a client, and Ms. Spell, who informed Council that she holds state certification, has hospital privileges, and gets physician referrals. There was no opposition.
Council followed a Planning Commission recommendation and granted a non-transferable special use permit for one year, subject to certain restrictions.
The other public hearing was on a request from Centerville Baptist Church to close a portion of Worsham Street. If approved, part of the closed street will be added to the site of a gymnasium the church hopes to build.
Among supporters were Mrs. Glola Osborne, who lives on Worsham Street, and the Rev. Richard Saunders, pastor of Centerville Baptist.
No one appeared in person to speak against the street closing, but there were letters of opposition from the Covington Company and McLaughlin Shopping Center.
Council named a Board of Viewers made up of George Tunstall, Addison Marable and Jeff Wilborn to observe the property in question and determine if the closure would result in any inconvenience to the public.
In other matters Monday night, Council:
*Adopted an updated Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance conforming to the new state model and prepared by Building Official Mark Estes, who has been certified as an E&S Program Administrator and E&S Certified Inspector.
*Approved the refund of $122.41 in 1998 real estate taxes for the Community Arts Center Foundation.
*Added 0.46 lane miles to the local/collector street system for street maintenance state mileage payments--for parts of Oak Lane, Brentwood Drive and Edgehill Lane.
*Authorized the preparation and filing of an application for a 1999 Planning Grant of $18,000 through the Virginia Community Development Block Grant Program, which should lead to an application for up to $700,000 in improvement funds.

"The only guarantee is change," said CCI president John Cannon as he sprinted onto a open slab of concrete high above the two-story atrium in the birthing process below.
Totally at ease with only a stranded cable railing between him and a dramatic drop, Cannon pointed to an elevator door.
"It's the first elevator in Riverdale," he quipped.
Within 45 days, Cannon estimates the glass walls enclosing the atrium will be in place, a dominating CCI entrance and an equally eye-catching addition to the Riverdale business community.
Inside the new facility a multitude of exposed steel joists crisscross ceiling space in artistic geometric design.
"The look is open and exposed," said the president, pointing to a ceiling gallery of painted joists. "A very mechanical thing because that's what we do."
The general contractor for the CCI 26,000 sq. ft. renovation and expansion job, Cannon's design aim was clear: "Getting the synergy of various departments in the right working spaces and increasing efficiency."
To do that he cut the roof off the old office building and added a new floor, pulling engineering, estimating and project management close together.
Always an advocate of workforce training, he also incorporated 3,000 sq. ft. of space for that purpose in the new facility's "everything's so flexible it's fluid" design.
It is a "fluid" design he specifically placed three to four feet above the 100-year flood plain. The bottom floor of the three-story structure is the only one below the flood line but it is protected by a levy.
If change is life's only guarantee, Cannon is in a whirlwind.
The CCI chief sold his business to Texas-based Comfort Systems USA last November, a move he acknowledges made him a wealthy man.
And, he retained ownership of CCI's building's, about 80,000 sq. ft. under roof along Highway 58.
The transaction also left him at the helm of the business he began building in the early 1970s, one which has soared to 250 employees.
"Selling," he says, "was one of the toughest decisions I've had to make in life, but the only guarantee is change.
"We are a hot commodity on the leading edge of change in the industry. But if we didn't get on board, we might not get to bid."
Pending deregulation and freewheeling of the electric utility companies is at the crux of the change in Cannon's business.
Anticipating change, companies like Cannon's - a single source contracting firm for Mechanical-HVAC, electrical, plumbing, controls and service - are joining national providers like Comfort Systems in quick succession.
While the sale took some personal pressure off the CCI chief, he is well aware the new mantra is delivering to the corporate bottom line.
The result: "Now we work for the stock exchange," said Cannon of the publicly traded company.
Another factor in the sale that pleases Cannon, he sees it as a plus for employees.
"I wanted employees to have part in the new operation. So $1.7 million went to employees ...because they helped build the business. Part of it was ESOP (Employe Stock Ownership Plan) and some was the new stock given to me and minority stockholder Mark Glasscock, which was transferred to the employees. We didn't have to do that."
Settled "in a choice location" within easy reach of Raleigh-Durham and Richmond, Cannon sees the company's future as very bright.
"We are a single source responsibility. We do it all. If there's a problem in a building, one call and we do it all."
Virginia and North Carolina malls, hospitals, power companies and school systems are among CCI's customers. "But if they want us to go to Georgia, we'll go to Georgia," shot Cannon.
In CCI's technological world, if there is a problem an entire building system may be checked by computer at a distant site and put back on-line.
Yet in this high tech, fast-paced setting it was the human element that ultimately decided CCI's new fate.
"The pressure was starting to get to me physically," said the hard-driving executive. That and "the money they were willing to pay."
It was a business bottom line.

The Halifax County School Board adopted a Local Optional Retirement Program Monday night, but not without opposition.
Under the plan, the Optional Early Retirement Program will be made available to 49 school system employees in VRS-eligible positions who reach age 55 and have 30 years of service (the last five of which must have been in Halifax County Public Schools) as of the end of the school year on June 30.
But school trustee Steve Anderson cast a negative vote to the plan after hearing from school superintendent Dennis Witt that there is legislation pending that could lower the state's retirement eligibility of 55 years and 30 years of service to 50 years or age and 30 years of service.
Anderson, who wanted the program to include those employees that would be 50 years of age and have 30 years of service if or when the pending legislation passes, balked at the adopted plan which passed by a 6-1 vote.
Witt, in explaining the pending legislation to the school board, appeared to favor including the younger retirees in the plan should the pending legislation pass muster.
"I don't know why we we would discriminate against that group," Witt said.
"It's my opinion that you would have few, if any, who would, or could, take advantage of the program."
Witt told the school board the county school budget would not be impacted by lowering the age.
"It will not affect money," Witt said.
"It will only affect 22 people.
The 22 people Witt mentioned in that remark were 22 additional individuals that would have become eligible to participate in the early retirement program if the age standard were to be lowered.
School board member D.H. McDowell, Jr. told his fellow school board members "we can revisit it in another year if we want to."
With the Local Optional Early Retirement Program now having been created by the school board, the school board will now ask the Halifax County Board of Supervisors to set up a Trust Fund from which payments will be made to employees.
Deputy School Superintendent Dr. Bobby R. Hall said yesterday that memos will be sent out in the near future to announce a date for a general meeting at which time the program will be explained.
Dr. Hall added that he felt that it would be sometime after April 1 before eligible employees would be allowed to sign up for the program.
In this program, the school system will pay 125 percent of the salary that the employee received in his final year of employment into the trust fund. The 125 percent figure is based upon the employee's salary and the fixed charges that the school system has to pay on that salary.
Under the plan proposed for licensed and professional personnel employed in a VRS -eligible position, the employee, in the first year of his or her retirement, would receive 25 percent of his or her previous year's salary in the first year. If the employee should choose the five year option, the employee would receive 25 percent of that salary each year over the following four years.
The plan adopted by the school board Monday also includes a seven year option. The employee would receive 25 percent of the salary the first year and 17.86 percent each year over the following six years.
Also, the board included a third option, an option for a three year plan, that will be available only at the inception of the plan. That option is limited to persons who are age 60 and above during the 1998-99 school year. The annual payout percentage will be 25 percent the first year and 20.83 percent the next two years.
As part of the conditions of the program, the retiring employee will agree to work 96 percent of their contract period from the previous year during the first year of their retirement under all of the options.
The employee will be terminated from the local optional retirement program at the time the employee becomes eligible for full social security benefits. Also, the employee may remain enrolled in the school system's group health insurance program for the first year with active employee status. After that, the employee may continue to participate in the health insurance program by paying the full premium at the blended rate.
Similar requirements have been established for the optional retirement program that was established for support personnel who are employed in VRS-eligible positions.
The only difference is that the first year payout from the program would be 30 percent with the successive percent of annual payout being 15.83 percent under the seven year option, 23.75 percent under the five year option and 16.25 percent under the three year option for those employees aged 60 and above.

The new Halifax Career Center which will house the school system's Alternative Education program will offer training in specific career fields as well as classes that will lead to a student being able to obtain a GED.
William C. Moore, Director of Adult/Career Education and Vocational Education for the county school system, said that the new center will offer GED preparatory classes, computer literacy classes, a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistants) program and a Fast Food Preparation and Management program as part of its offerings to students.
In addition, students that will attend the center will receive pre-employment job skills training that will help enable them to find jobs when they finish their stint at the center.
Construction work on the Halifax Career Center is expected to start by the end of April, Moore said, with the facility being ready for entry by the first or second week of September.
Moore displayed drawings made by the Dewberry & Davis architectural of a proposed floor plan of the new career center to the Halifax County School Board Monday night and gave an overview of the programs that will be available to students.
The cafeteria, which will be capable of seating up to 98 persons, will be a fast food restaurant, Moore said. Local fast food restaurants Hardee's, Burger King, McDonald's and Wendy's have agreed to donate items to the facility's fast food kitchen and to help provide training for the students that would be able to participate in the program.
"They will help with the instruction," Moore said, "and will help pick out the curriculum. When we teach and train the students it will be a cooperative effort."
The students in the program will be responsible for preparing, cooking, and serving the meals for the cafeteria which will feature a fast foods menu.
One of the major positive aspects of that program, Moore said, is that not only will the students receive valuable training for jobs, officials of the participating local fast food restaurants have agreed to give first preference to hiring students that satisfactorily complete the program and guaranteeing them a higher rate of pay than the standard entry level pay rate.
Approximately 24 students could participate in that program at a time.
The Certified Nursing Assistants program would accommodate approximately 12 students at a time, Moore said. And, it too, represents a cooperative venture between the school system and the public sector.
The Woodview is donating a couple of beds and other equipment that will be used to recreate a hospital room at the career center. Also, a CNA instructor at The Woodview will come in for two or three hours a day and work with the school system's instructor to provide training for the students.
In addition, the instructor will take the students to The Woodview for on the job experience. And, at the end of the program, the students will be taken to Pittsylvania County to take the state CNA exam.
In addition, the facility will contain computer labs where students can receive computer literacy training. And, there will be GED classes and pre-employment classes where students can learn how to find a job and, after they find a job, how they can keep it.
The faculty and staff of the Halifax Career Center will consist of four staff members from the school system's Project HOPE program, one additional teacher, and one computer lab manager.
"We might should call it the Opportunity Center," said Moore.
"Instead of warehousing students, instead of trying to keep them away from the rest of the student population, we're telling them we will do everything we can to help them get a GED."
In addition to outlining the floor plan and the preliminary details of the programs that will be offered at the Career Center, Moore described how security will be maintained at the building.
Moore said that metal detectors will be placed at the designated doors through which the students will enter the building and that students will have to pass through the metal detectors each day.
In addition, four surveillance cameras will be placed at specified locations in the building to monitor activities within the buildings. One of the cameras will be located at the front door of the building and one will be located at point where the lobby area can be monitored.
While the programs will, by and large, be geared toward those students that have been placed under long term suspension or expulsion from Halifax County High School as the result of discipline and or attendance problems, county school superintendent Dennis Witt said the goal is to help the students get their high school diploma.
"Our true goal is to get them (the students) back to the high school to get a regular high school diploma if that is what they want to do," Witt said.
"Our goal is for every student to get a high school diploma. Every student does not want a high school diploma and does not want to do what is required to get a high school diploma."
"If, in fact, you don't want one and don't want to be there and you're going to keep other people from getting their high school diploma, we need some form of alternative program for that person," continued Witt.
"If you happen to get a situation where you have a good student that gets into trouble, there will be an avenue where the student can go back to the high school and get a high school diploma."
School board member Patricia Nelson voiced concern over the fact that no classes that will offer credit toward a high school diploma will be offered at the Halifax Career Center.
Witt said he didn't feel that anyone is opposed to offering high school credit classes. The problem is, he explained, that there would be such an extremely small number of students that would request such classes and that a certified teacher would be required.
Along with serving the student population, the center will also serve adults seeking adult basic education instruction.
The school system will offer adult education programs at night at the Mary M. Bethune facility as well as programs for students that could not be accommodated in the daytime programs at the Career Center.

Four more people were arrested in conjunction with the Halifax/South Boston Regional Narcotic Enforcement Task Force Operation Street Sweep.
Agents began rounding up the alleged drug dealers Friday afternoon, and by Saturday morning had arrested a total of 19.
Sunday agents arrested John Conrad Miller, 27, of Pine Heights Trail, Halifax, and charged him with distribution of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
The following day, Kelly Layne Foster, 38, of 4135 Chatham Road, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, distribution of marijuana, distributing drugs to a minor, and possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
Agents also arrested Nanette Mills Foster, 37, of the same address, and charged her with possession of marijuana.
Also arrested Sunday was Angela Foster Jones, 18, of Chatham Road, Halifax. She was charged with possession of marijuana, distribution of marijuana, and conspiracy to distribute marijuana.´
Operation Street Sweep brings to conclusion a six-month investigation primarily focusing on the street level drug dealers. As a result of this investigation, the Task Force has placed a total of 71 charges on 42 suspects.
The investigation will continue and more arrests are expected in the future, said Sgt. R.S.B. Pulliam, Halifax County Narcotics Task Force Coordinator.

A Nathalie man arrested last fall on multiple drug charges pleaded guilty in Halifax County Circuit Court Monday.
Circuit Court Judge Charles L. McCormick III found Stephen Michael Bomar, 40, of Boxwood Road, Nathalie guilty of four counts of distribution of cocaine and three counts of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and ordered a presentence report to be prepared for the May term.
Bomar was allowed to remain free on bond until he is sentenced in May.
Also tried in Halifax County Circuit Court Monday were the following:
· Michael D. Blanks, 27, of Eastover Drive, South Boston, was sentenced to serve 12 days instead of 30 in the Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority in Halifax for driving under the influence (subsequent offense).
· Joseph D. Crawley, 54, of Crawley Trail, South Boston, improper driving, case dismissed.
· James W. Faulkner, 40, of Johnson Street, South Boston, show cause and capias, 12 months of suspended sentence revoked, comitted to jail to be released upon payment of restitution and cost, at which time probation will resume.
·Lorrie A. Faust, 28, of Rustburg, harass Timothy J. Carr by telephone, show cause for failure to appear Feb. 5, all dismissed.
· Noel Lee Farrell, 31, of Blackwalnut Road, Clover, pleaded not guilty to operating a motor vehicle after being declared an habitual offendor, found guilty, presentence report ordered for May term, released on bond.
· Sterling Lynn Lacks, 30, of Timberlake, N.C., capias for failure to appear and driving after having been declared an habitual offendor July 18, 1998, show cause against bondsman Gatha Richardson all dismissed, pleaded not guilty to driving after being declared and habitual offendor July 18, August 3 and August 11, 1998, driving while intoxicated (subsequent offense), possession of a firearm after being convicted of a felony, found guilty, remanded to jail, presentence report ordered for May term.
· Robert Gene Long, 36, of Dan River Church Road, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm after being convicted of a felony, found guilty, free on bond, presentence report ordered for May term.
· Clinton Miller, 39, of Route 3, South Boston, notice of appeal of bond on charges of attempted capital murder to Wallace Wayne McCain, motion to reduce bond denied.
· Timothy Edward Noell, 26, of Philpott Road, Alton, show cause as to why his previously suspended five year penitentary sentence for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle should not be revoked for probation violations, capias for failure to appear, revoked three years of suspended sentence, at time of release to be replaced on probation for two year period.· Albert Poteat, 37, of Lincoln Drive, South Boston, show cause as to why his previously suspended penitentary and jail sentence for breaking and entering and petit larcenty should not be revoked for probation violations, capiasfor failure to appear in court, ordered to make $100 payments in April, May, and June to pay court costs, case continued to July term, if bill paid in full by that time not required to return to court, supervised probation extended until July term.
· Donald Watkins Vaughan, 40, of South Boston, failure to appear in JDR court on October 26, 1998, pleaded no contest, sentenced to 10 days jail time,all suspended.
· Wilma L. Elliott Vaughan, 25, of Bagwell Drive, Scottsburg, failure to appear in JDR court on October 26, 1998, pleaded no contest, sentenced to 10 days jail time,all suspended.

NEW YORK (AP) - RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., the nation's No. 2 cigarette maker, announced plans today to separate its food and tobacco interests and sell its troubled international tobacco  business for nearly $8 billion.
The twin announcements today would mean a breakup of a company that was acquired just over a decade ago for about $25 billion in what was the biggest leveraged buyout to that time.
The company had told analysts last month that it was looking to sell or find a partner for its struggling international tobacco business. The buyer announced today is Japan Tobacco Inc.
But it came as a surprise that its board had also endorsed a plan for subsequent spinoff of the domestic tobacco business into a separate company. Its R.J. Reynolds Tobacco division makes Winston, Camels and Salem cigarettes and is second in the U.S. only to Philip Morris Cos. Inc., the maker of Marlboro.
On the news, RJR Nabisco stock jumped more than 5 percent, rising $1.50 to $30.12 1/2 a share by early afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange.
The company has been under pressure from shareholders, including onetime corporate raider Carl Icahn who threatened a proxy fight to force RJR Nabisco to separate the tobacco and food businesses. Icahn faced a deadline of Friday for filing a slate of candidates for election to the RJR board in May. A call to Icahn was not immediately returned.
The advocates of a splitup of the tobacco and food ties argued the market is undervaluing the food business because of its connection with the potential liabilities of the tobacco operations.
The spinoff would leave RJR Nabisco with an 80.6 percent stake in Nabisco Holdings Corp., which makes products like Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Planters nuts.
''We believe that the food and tobacco businesses will be best able to achieve their full potential under separate ownership structures,'' said RJR chairman and chief executive Steven R. Goldstone.
But analysts have warned that a deal to separate all connections between the food and tobacco businesses would likely draw legal challenges from people who may have legal claims over tobacco-related illnesses.
The domestic tobacco company was among the four major U.S. tobacco companies that recently settled claims by 46 states for the expense of treating sick smokers by agreeing to pay $206 billion over 25 years.
The industry earlier agreed to settle suits with the four other states for about $40 billion.
Goldstone had told analysts last month that finding a way to give the international tobacco business greater stature was a top priority for the first half of the year.
The international tobacco business is a distant third to Philip Morris and British-American Tobacco PLC, and its earnings have fallen amid financial turmoil in its key Russian and Asian markets.
Analysts had expected the sale to generate $6 billion to $6.6 billion, but the sale to Japan Tobacco topped that.
Japan Tobacco, the leading tobacco company in Japan and a growing overseas business, is paying $7.8 billion and is assuming $200 million in debt to acquire the international tobacco operations.
The sale is subject to approval by RJR Nabisco bondholders and regulators, but is expected to be completed within two months.
RJR said it would use the proceeds to reduce its debt and for other corporate purposes, including strengthening the position of its domestic tobacco business.
''The deal will allow us to secure a base for future growth overseas and establish us as a global player,'' Japan Tobacco said in a statement.
RJR said it would announce specifics on the domestic tobacco spinoff, pending final board approval, after the sale of the international tobacco business is completed.

Major Presley Tuck, 70, son of the late Edward Presley and Pattie Adcock Tuck, died Sunday, March 7, 1999 at the home of his daughter in Henderson, NC.
Mr. Tuck was a native of Virgilina and was a member of the VFW Post 8163, the Virgilina Masonic Lodge # 248 and a member of Nelson Baptist Church. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and retired from Burlington Industries.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, March 9 at 2 p.m. in Watkins Cooper Lyon Chapel with Revs. William Bess and Jack Stewart officiating. Masonic rites were held at Nelson Baptist Church Cemetery.
Surviving Mr. Tuck are daughters, Bonnie T. Ashworth of Clarksville and Patricia T. Allen of Henderson, NC; one son, W. Presley Tuck of Oxford, NC; sisters, Pearl T. Adcock of Nelson and Mariam T. Hayes of Hopewell; brothers, Warren E. Tuck of Silver Springs, MD and Walter Tuck of Los Angeles, CA; grandchildren, Larry D. Allen Jr. and Patricia Lynn Allen, both of Henderson, NC, Keith Presley Tuck and Lindsey Diane Tuck, both of Oxford.

Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider Hospice of Louisburg, NC.

Charles Sheppard Pringle of Nathalie died Tuesday, March 2, 1999 at Guggenheimer Nursing Home in Lynchburg. He was born in Pittsburgh, PA on July 18, 1937 the son of Dorothy B. Logan.

Survivors include four daughters, Edna M. Pringle of Springfield, Wanda Pringle of Richmond, Cynthia F. Pringle of West Palm Beach, FL and Sandra Y. Pringle of Charlotte, NC; two sons, Charles Stanley Pringle of Lithonia, GA and Rodney Leon Pringle of Fredricksburg; his mother and stepfather, Robert Logan.
Funeral services for Mr. Pringle were held Saturday, March 6 at Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Nathalie with Rev. Wyatt Venable conducting the service. Burial followed in Mt. Airy Baptist Church Cemetery in Gretna.

Virginia Washington Loftis of 2137 Wolf Trap Road, South Boston died Monday, March 8, 1999 at her home. She was 87 years of age.
Mrs. Loftis was born February 22, 1912 in Lunenburg County the daughter of Willie W. Hood and Ilor Carver Hood and was married to Stuart O. Loftis. She was a member of Cedar Grove United Methodist Church where she was an honorary member of the UMW.
A funeral will be held at Cedar Grove United Methodist Church Thursday, March 11 at 11 a.m. with Rev. Michael Sullivan officiating. Burial will follow in the Virgilina Cemetery.
Survivors of Mrs. Loftis include her husband; three daughters, Virginia W. Hackney of South Boston, Kathryn W. King of Cluster Springs and Mary W. Bartley of Scottsburg; three sons, Charles E. Waltman of South Boston, Elmer C. Waltman of Ringgold and Royie W. Waltman of Wilmington, NC; 19 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one son, Sherman Waltman.
The family will receive friends at Brooks Funeral Home tonight, March 10 from 7 until 8:30, and other times at her home.
Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider Cedar Grove United Methodist Church.

George Arthur Kilgore, 84, of Henderson, NC died Friday, March 5, 1999 at Maria Parham Hospital.
Mr. Kilgore was a native of Whitesburg, TN, the son of Arthur Seit and Lucy Durham Kilgore. He was a veteran of WWII, having served in the Army. He was a retired Manager of Leggett Stores, Inc., was a member of West End Baptist Church, the J.W. Pulliam Sunday School class, and was also a member of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars. He was a former member of the Norlina Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, a former member of the Warrenton Lions Club and the Henderson Golden K Club.
Funeral services were held Monday, March 8 at 3 p.m. at West End Baptist Church by Rev. Robert L. Yates. Burial followed in Sunset Gardens.
Mr. Kilgore is survived by his wife, Marian Shepherd Kilgore of the home; three daughters, Elizabeth A. Kilgore of the home, Mary Ellen K. Hupp and son-in-law, Jack of South Boston, Amy K. Jeffrey and son-in-law, Terry of Fayetteville; two sons, Robert G. Kilgore and daughter-in-law, Gladys of Henderson, and William M. Kilgore and daughter-in-law, Martha, of Statesville, NC; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one son, Arthur Raymond Kilgore.
Memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.

Willard C. Long Jr. of South Boston died Monday, March 8, 1999 at St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond. He was 69 years of age.
Mr. Long was born in Halifax County on October 26, 1929 the son of Willard C. Long Sr. and Elsie Hudgins Long. He was a self-employed furniture maker.
Survivors include his mother of South Boston; one daughter, Janice Long of Richmond; three sisters, Edith L. Crute of Christiansburg, Betty L. Whitaker of Raleigh, NC and Linda L. Martin of Danville.
Graveside services will be held Saturday, March 13 at 2 p.m. at Olive Branch Methodist Church Cemetery in Alton with Rev. Kenneth Williams officiating.

The family will receive friends at the home of his mother, 1219 Fenton Street.

Helen J. Simonson of Apex, NC, 84, died Monday, March 8, 1999 at her home.
A funeral mass will be held Saturday, March 13 at 11 a.m. in St. Andrew The Apostle Catholic Church in Apex. A graveside committal service will be held in the St. Ignatius Catholic Church Cemetery in Yardley, PA at a later date.
Mrs. Simonson was preceded in death by her husband, Anthony J. Simonson. Survivors include three daughters, Sarah Helen Seubel and husband Jeff of Ponte Vedre Beach, FL, Suzanne S. Edney and husband Edward of Apex, and Helen Jean Cheely and husband G. Ray of Raleigh, NC; one son, Joseph Anthony Simonson Sr. and wife Susan of South Boston; 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider Hospice of Wake County, 1300 St. Mary's St., 4th FL., Raleigh, NC 27605, or the National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1150, 17th St., NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036 or the American Cancer Society, 620 W. Morgan St., Raleigh, NC 27603.

Mary Elizabeth Fountain Smith of 111 Rosehill Drive, South Boston died Sunday, March 7, 1999 in South Boston at the age of 50.
Mrs. Smith was born in Mecklenburg County on January 10, 1949 the daughter of Vilrecer Fountain and Criscilla Faulkner Fountain and was married to Billy Lee Smith. She was a member of Banister Hill Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Dorothy Fountain of Baltimore, MD and Diane Hargrove of South Boston; three sons, William D. Fountain of Virgilina, Billy L. Smith Jr. of Alton and Tony B. Smith of South Boston; nine grandchildren; four sisters, Ocleaver Fountain of Richmond, Nancy Brown of Brooklyn, NY, Juanita Bell and Rebecca Oliver, both of Clarksville; one brother, Leon G. Fountain of Clarksville; two brothers-in-law, George Bell and Bobby Oliver; five aunts including the devoted Clara Darden; one uncle, Sanford Faulkner; and her fiancee' Frank Walker of South Boston.
Funeral services for Mrs. Smith will be held Thursday, March 11 at 2 p.m. at Jeters Chapel Baptist Church with Rev. Roderick Fitz officiating. Burial will follow in the Fountain-Faulkner Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the home.