Facing two lawsuits - one from a hog producer seeking to triple his operation and one from a farmer proposing an 11,520-swine operation - as well as overwhelming constituent opposition to large-scale hog operations, the Board of Supervisors voted 4-3 Monday night to impose tighter swine setback restrictions.
Supervisors R.L. Smart, Garland Ricketts, Bill Abbott and Earl Watts voted for the proposal.
The supervisors' action followed a four-hour public hearing which drew about 600 people with about 60 speakers.
Struggling to reach a compromise, supervisors approved the Planning Commission's recommended Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) ordinance with three exceptions.
Supervisor Robbie Smart's successful motion removed the Planning Commission's sliding scale for increased setbacks, reduced from four to three miles the distance between CAFO facilities and accepted the county attorney's ordinance language.
The language changes to the ordinance make it "more legally defensible," explained County Administrator Dan Sleeper yesterday.
The sliding scale removed from the Planning Commission's proposal was seen as crucial to both CAFO proponents and opponents.
The scale required that for all swine facilities there would be an additional 1,000 feet of setback for each 500 additional swine over 750.
"We were betrayed by the people we elected to represent us," said Southside Concerned Citizens Chairman Jack Dunavant yesterday of the supervisors' action Monday night.
"I'm disappointed," said Halifax County farmer Don Reese yesterday. "With a 1,000 feet setback, if anyone would take an objective look at farm sizes in Halifax County, it would show clearly it doesn't leave many doors open for future CAFOs.
"Even though disappointed with the outcome, I'm a little relieved that now maybe we can put this thing behind us," added Reese. "Having said that, I'm not sure that we really have."
The new CAFO ordinance's mandates include:
---A 5,000-swine maximum at any one CAFO
---1,000-foot setbacks from property lines and highway center lines, and 3,000 feet from an existing dwelling.
---One-mile setbacks from the Dan, Staunton, Banister and Hyco rivers as well as Aaron's Creek for a confined animal feeding structure.
---1,000-foot setbacks for confined animal feeding structures from any stream, river, pond or lake identified as a blueline stream
---Land application of liquid wastes shall be no closer than 500 feet to an existing dwelling for a non-stationary application system. Permanent, stationary pipe and discharge systems shall be no closer than 1,000 feet to an existing dwelling.
Immediately following the vote, supervisors went into closed session with their attorney, Greg Haley of Roanoke, to discuss their defense against the two writ of mandamus suits filed by Ray Link for Link Farms, Inc., and Leo Hinson, who is seeking an 11,520-swine operation permit in Birch Creek. No action was taken, according to Sleeper.
Supervisors did not discuss the Town of Halifax's proposed annexation suit in the closed session because of the late hour, one county official reported.
The majority of speakers Monday night clearly opposed expanding existing swine CAFOs or permitting new ones.
Almost five years into the hog issue debate, many speakers, as well as Supervisor R.E. Abbott, called for a vote Monday night.
Calls for protection for clean water, air and quality of life were aired by Southside Concerned Citizens.
"Water is as important as odor," said SCC member Polly Ratcliff.
CAFO swine producer Billy Wooding asked supervisors to make their decision on proven technology.
Ruth Morris asked supervisors to be fair to farmers and asked them not to make Halifax County into a bedroom city of Danville or a retirement village.
Roger Ford of the NAACP said he "didn't think any of us are against the family farm, but this is not family farming we're talking about." Ford called the bottom line money in hog production and said he didn't think it fair "for you to make millions and make me miserable."
Dr. P.J. Parker of Blackstone described the hog farm across from his church. "To say this is not a health issue is a lack of intelligence," he told the audience.
Halifax farmer Mike McDowell said it was "not just a hog issue. It is an agriculture issue."
McDowell said agriculture was very much misunderstood by the public.
Calling on elected leaders, McDowell said, "I challenge you for the good of agriculture to enact something we as farmers and agriculturalists can live with."
Bill Confroy of the Industrial Development Authority asked supervisors to adopt the proposed Planning Commission ordinance and to act to bring closure to the issue.
"This is going to be your legacy," auctioneer Bob Cage told supervisors.
If you want to put a lot of hogs together, you need to put a lot of land around it, said Dr. Ed. Purvis. Saying it was not a question of hog farms, Purvis said the issue was what protection from hog farm odor the public should expect from county government.
Kathryn St. John noted the expansion of tourism at the Staunton River Battlefield State Park and the resulting state and national recognition.
"If Halifax County becomes an industrial hog county it will kill tourism in the county," St. John told supervisors.
John Parker of the Virginia Pork Association said it was unfair to paint Virginia with the North Carolina brush. Parker also told the audience that Halifax County is not considered a large hog producing county. He also suggested that the 1.2 million hogs raised the old way in 1980 did pollute rivers.
Allen Harper, an extension swine specialist with Virginia Tech, said that he was concerned the large setbacks may eliminate some from hog farming. He noted the low farm commodity prices and tobacco's weakened condition and said there was no single alternative enterprise that could correct these, but that farmers needed options.
Al Zimmerman, SCC vice chairman, said the issue was about hogs not other crops. "People who brought suits against the county are hog operatives, but it is your duty to protect us," he told supervisors.
At the close of the public hearing, Supervisor R.E. Abbott said, "This thing has bothered me a long time." He also said telephone calls to his home were 10 to 1 in support of the Planning Commission recommendations.
Numerous speakers called for action from supervisors on the issue to bring closure for county residents.

County Planner Jerry Lovelace said yesterday he would evaluate the two applications filed by Link Farms, Inc., for tripling the farm's swine operation and Leo Hinson's application for a proposed 11,520-swine facility as soon as possible in the context of the new CAFO ordinance.
The new Confined Animal Feeding Operations ordinance was adopted by supervisors Monday night.
However, Ray Link of Link Farms, Inc., and Hinson both filed a writ of mandamus to force county officials to execute the local government ordinance required in the CAFO permitting process before Monday's adoption of a new ordinance.
One of three options is possible as the county faces the suits against them, explained Lovelace. The two parties could settle, the petitioners withdraw or the case go to court.

Leon H. Carter has been named sports editor of the New York Daily News, the fifth largest newspaper in the country. Carter, who had been deputy sports editor since 1996, was appointed last Thursday by editor-in-chief Debby Krenek.
Carter becomes the paper's highest ranking African American journalist. He's also the country's fourth African American sports editor among large papers, and he is the country's first to head a sports section of a paper the size of the Daily News, which has a daily circulation of 750,000 and almost a million on Sundays. The News also is the No. 1 paper in New York among readers, outselling the New York Times, The New York Post and Newsday.
"This is awesome," said Carter, a 1977 graduate of Halifax County Senior High School. "This is what I've worked so hard to achieve. I hope the appointment inspires others to work hard, to not give up when a mountain gets in your way. And if one does get in your way, keep climbing until you reach the top."
Carter began his duties last Friday. He leads a staff of 70 writers and editors who could face a tremendous challenge this fall. "The whole city is getting caught up in the Yankees and Mets," he said. "Everyone is hoping both get to the World Series or Subway Series as it is called Fans will shuttle from one stadium to the other by subway. Our goal is to provide the best coverage and beat the city's three other papers. I look forward to the challenge."
Carter said another goal of his is to take "the city's best sports section and make it better.'' The News recently won the coveted Triple Crown Award for excellence from the Associated Press Sports Editors' placing in the Top 10 in daily, Sunday and special sections.
"It has been a tremendous year for the News," said Carter, who accepted the Triple Crown award during a ceremony in Phoenix in June. "To place in the Top 10 in the three major categories is extraordinary. Give credit to our tremendous staff who try to hit a home run each day."
Only two other large-sized papers, the New York Times and Atlanta Journal, won the Triple Crown this year. Double winners were the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Dallas Morning News.
Carter, the son of John Carter and the late Mary Carter of Alton, became interested in journalism at Halifax County Senior High while working on the school's paper, The Star, under the direction of Richard Fitz. He studied journalism at Norfolk State University from 1977-81.
Since then he has had a distinguished newspaper career. He was the first African American copy editor hired in sports at the Louisville Courier Journal in 1981. In 1984, he was the first African American copy editor in sports at New York Newsday. In 1991, he was the first to receive a journalism-in-residence fellowship from the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Va. In 1994, he was the first African American to be hired as an assistant sports editor at the New York Daily News. In 1997, he was the first American journalist invited to speak at a nationally televised sports awards ceremony in South Africa.
Yet he prefers not to talk about his firsts. He would rather talk about giving back. He often quotes an inscription on the grave of Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier. It says "A life is not important except in the impact it has on others." While on his fellowship, he helped create an institute to train minority college students to be editors and writers. Since its inception in '92, the institute, which is held for eight weeks each summer, has trained 80 students and the majority of them have gone on to get newspaper jobs. Each summer the Daily News allows Carter 10 days off to kick off the instructional part of the institute. He gives 10 to 15 college juniors who have been selected to the program a crash course on sports writing and editing. The 10 days have been dubbed "Sgt. Carter's Boot Camp" because classes begin at 7 a.m. and end at midnight. Those who survive get an internship and scholarship at the end.
"I'm very proud of what the program has accomplished," he said. "It has diversified many sports departments and helped students get their foot in the door. But the fact still remains, there are 1,600 daily newspapers and more than half don't have any African Americans on staff."
This is why he and others applaud the Daily News for recognizing his talents and elevating him last week. His phone rang off the hook when word got out that he had been named sports editor. "Calls came from around the country and in New York," he said. "The New York Knicks sent over a big fruit basket, and guard Charlie Ward called. Former NBA player Alex English also called."
But the most surprising call didn't come from an athlete. It came from O.J. Simpson's lawyer Johnnie Cochran. 'I was stunned when I heard him on my voice mail," Carter said. "I don't really know the guy, but he called to offer congratulations after hearing about my appointment. That was really nice of him. Other Daily News readers also called throughout the weekend. Some friends sent champagne. My appointment caused a lot of people to rejoice."
Carter, however, has little time to rejoice. He's gearing up for a busy fall, one that could stop everything in New York in October if there is a Subway Series. If that happens," Carter said, "my staff will be ready to take our readers on a historic ride."

By PAUL TOLME
Associated Press Writer
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore on Tuesday proposed a transportation spending program of about $2.5 billion, much of it for projects in fast-growing and traffic-choked northern Virginia.
The money will come from the general fund and a portion of the $1.6 billion tobacco settlement, he said in remarks on radio station WTOP in Washington.
''This plan will produce more money now and more money in the future with less debt and no tax increases,'' Gilmore said.
Traffic congestion in the Washington suburbs has prompted a political outcry that Democrats hope will give them an edge in the General Assembly elections this fall, when control of the legislature is at stake. Gilmore was under pressure to respond to transportation initiatives announced by Democrats over the summer.
Stephen J. Farnsworth, assistant professor of political science and international affairs at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, said the issue is a crucial one in northern Virginia, and Republican legislators there are clearly concerned that they could lose seats in the General Assembly.
It may be enough for Gilmore to show that he cares and that he is trying to do something about the transportation problems, Farnsworth said.
There were few signs Monday that the Gilmore proposals would end the political jockeying.
State Sen. J. Randy Forbes of Chesapeake, chairman of the state Republican Party, said Democrats really want to raise the gasoline tax to pay for more roads.
He cited remarks by Del. Vivian E. Watts, D-Fairfax, at a public hearing conducted Monday by the Governor's Commission on Transportation Policy. Ms. Watts said Virginia could raise its 17.3 cents per gallon gas tax by 8 cents a gallon and remain competitive with neighboring Maryland's 25.3 cents per gallon tax.
A representative of the Virginia Association of Counties suggested a 5 cents per gallon increase in the tax. Gilmore has adamantly opposed tax increases.
Gilmore appointed the Commission on Transportation Policy to make interim recommendations by December and final recommendations by the end of 2000.
The commission heard from dozens of speakers who said billions of dollars would be needed to solve transportation woes in all corners of the state.
Sen. W. Roscoe Reynolds, D-Henry, had not gone a minute into his presentation before he identified $5 billion in road projects needed in economically depressed Southside Virginia.
Other speakers identified transportation needs of $20 billion in northern Virginia and $10 billion in Hampton Roads.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - You say tobacco, Brent Rowell says tomato.
Rowell is a University of Kentucky vegetable specialist studying  ways to make the Kentucky-grown tomato a viable alternative to  tobacco.
''I think after this year we will have one that will work,'' Rowell said.
His work is part of efforts by family-farm advocates, including the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Community Farm Alliance and Commodity Growers Cooperative, to help the state's 62,000 small farmers retool if they can't live off the state's No. 1 cash crop anymore.
Agriculture leaders want to use half of Kentucky's $3.45 billion  first-phase tobacco settlement money to hire field staff and conduct field trials into alternatives.
''Lots of tobacco farmers are on the outside looking in and wanting to test the water,'' Rowell said. ''But when you're starting with a whole new technology, and in this case a real cultural change, you've got to have lots of hands-on help.''
But it could be a tough sell for a state outpaced by vegetables grown in other tobacco states. Vegetables are a $40 million crop in Kentucky. Fellow tobacco state North Carolina already sells 10 times that amount, according to the USDA.
''You still can't get any crop insurance because the quantities of vegetables grown in Kentucky are too small to attract an insurer,'' said Georgetown grower Ann Bell. Without insurance, bankers won't lend money for horticulture ventures and start-ups.
Overall, $900,000 in state and federal matching money has gone into cooperative marketing efforts in the last two years trying to promote that market.
State agriculture officials have lobbied grocers like Kroger to get more Kentucky produce on the shelves, with labels that stand out. And the agency has granted $2.2 million to value-added farm products like horticulture last year.

By JUSTIN POPE
Associated Press Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The cost of lighting up has just gone up.
Smokers already hit hard by price increases stemming from the $206 billion tobacco settlement are being hit with another double-digit markup.
The nation's leading cigarette manufacturers have raised wholesale prices 18 cents a pack, anticipating an upcoming excise tax increase and higher costs associated with their settlement with the states over health care costs.
After markups, retail prices are likely to increase by about 22 cents per pack, analysts said Monday. Cigarettes now cost about $2.50 to $3.25 a pack, depending on the region of the country.
Philip Morris USA, the world's biggest tobacco maker, initiated the increase last Friday. Competitors matched the increase, which had been expected but came earlier than some analysts had predicted.
Retail prices are likely to increase immediately in some outlets, such as newsstands, where cigarettes are generally sold per pack. Increases may take longer at tobacco-only stores, said Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst David Adelman.
Spokesmen at Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. all confirmed the increase but refused to comment further. A spokesman at Lorillard Tobacco Co. did not return phone calls.
The price increase announced Friday to wholesalers is the second largest in industry history after a 45-cent increase last November. That increase followed a $206 billion settlement with 46 states suing the industry to recover costs of treating ill smokers. The industry previously settled for $40 billion with the four other states.
Now, the industry faces further cost increases, including a 10-cent increase in the federal excise tax set for Jan. 1, and an increase in settlement expenses from about 46 cents per pack to about 50 cents, Adelman said.
The remaining 4 cents of the price increase amount to a real increase in cigarette prices, or the amount the industry would normally have raised prices, Adelman said.
Roy Bury, an analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman, said experience with past price hikes indicates this increase of about 8 percent is likely to decrease demand by only about 2 percent.
''It clearly shows that the industry has the ability to offset higher costs with higher prices,'' Bury said. ''The key factor here is that profit per unit for domestic tobacco continues to go up.''
The industry's obligations under the settlement will increase again in 2001 from 50 cents per pack to 58 cents per pack, before decreasing in the following years, Adelman said. A further 5 cent increase in the federal excise tax is slated for Jan. 1, 2002, and state excise taxes may also rise in the coming years.

Attacking good health with boundless energy, brains and determination, Margaret Covington leads her YMCA aerobic class into fast-paced action.
Add grace, as well as her lifelong commitment to her own good health, and the image of a lady who lives her philosophy emerges.
She is also an achiever, a certified Yoga instructor, a dancer, musician, teacher and, most recently, a certified aerobics instructor.
She studied two months and mastered three books on fitness theory and performance to pass the Aerobic Fitness Association of America's exam her first try, not a typical performance.
Physiology, anatomy, formulas for figuring difficult exercise target zones and a choreography exam working every major muscle group in the body in a balanced program were part of the test.
Three judges scored her performance, one the aerobics program instructor for East Carolina University.
Six people took the exam with Covington in Greensville, N.C., but four of those were repeating the test.
On the written exam, Covington missed only two of 100 questions, a testament to her determination and skill.
The performance exam never threw the Halifax teacher.
"I knew that I knew my stuff," said Covington with a smile. "But I was extremely nervous."
Covington spent the entire day taking the written and performance exams.
Well aware that "most women" get into aerobics to lose weight, she has personally walked the same road.
As a youngster, Covington described herself as taller and heavier than her classmates.
"I was conscious of being bigger and I had some health problems," she recalled. Fainting spells were part of her personal health package.
When she was a sophomore in high school, her parents took her to Duke Medical Center to a specialist in diabetes and weight management.
The doctor diagnosed hypoglycemia and prescribed a well-balanced diet. He also told her she needed to lose about 40 pounds.
"It changed my life, the quality of life," recalled Covington. "I had energy, was alert and felt better about myself."
She continues to follow the healthy diet and exercise plan.
"I realize the value of feeling good and know I have to maintain it," she emphasized.
She also learned that concentration spilled over to other parts of her life and she became "a more focused student."
For those who know Covington, the rest is living history.
A wife, mother of two, Project Idea teacher in the public schools, a teacher of aerobics - up to five days a week, a Yoga substitute teacher at the YMCA - and an active member of St. John's Episcopal Church, she is also a familiar figure along the streets of Halifax as she hits her fast-paced walking stride.
But it is while teaching her YMCA classes that Covington's "good health" enthusiasm turns contagious.
For almost an hour a dozen students follow her lead to the quick beat of the aerobics routine.
Energy may ebb and flow among students during the exercise session, but Covington never misses a beat.
Student Suzanne Bark obviously enjoyed the Monday afternoon workout. A former dance teacher, Bark takes Covington's class not only to exercise but "because it is fun" with Covington as the teacher.
"I have exercise equipment at home gathering dust," she added.
One of Covington's students has seen "dramatic results" by exercising three times a week and following a diet. She has lost almost 40 pounds, according to her teacher.
"You are the one who has made the commitment to yourself," Covington counsels students.
She is also quick to laud aerobic exercise's special dividends:
---A great stress reducer
---Reduces body fat
---Speeds up metabolism
---Promotes self-esteem
---Cardio-vascular enhancement
---Respiratory enhancement
---Flexibility
---Good for coordination
"Aerobics is really special," added Covington. "I just enjoy moving and being innovative.
"Wellness is an issue - a high level of wellness - in the new world," she added.
Typically, Covington was on the leading edge of the "wellness" issue decades before exercise and healthy diet became fashionable. Not only that, she mastered the intellectual and performance road to wellness and enjoys nothing more than sharing it with others.

When Daniel Strange turns 19 years old this month, he will embark on a journey of a lifetime - not only physically, but spiritually, as well.
Unlike the members of other churches, Strange, who is a Mormon, will spend the next two years of his life shunning the secularism of the modern world as he spreads the word of God.
Raised as a member of the original local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located off of Route 92, just west of Chase City near Barnes Junction, Strange, a native of South Boston, has long awaited his chance to test his faith and devotion to the Holy Father.
"I'll be serving in the Provo, Utah, area for two years," Strange said.
The word "serving" is an understatement, however. The devotion he will develop and practice will strengthen his resolve to serve his God and cultivate his faith. "For two years, I will go out and proselyte and spread the gospel and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."
His time will be spent out in the community doing public services such as cleaning up school grounds, yard work, helping with disaster areas or just doing what needs to be done while spreading the Word of God.
While Strange will spend his missionary years in Utah, which is well known for its dense Mormon population, a large percentage of Mormon youths (who are encouraged but not required to complete the two-year training missions) are assigned to places across the world.
For instance, local chiropractor Dr. David Milot spent his missionary work in France from 1986-88, while his wife, Glenda, did her missionary work in Los Angeles, California.
"It's different in Utah. In this area it is common to go door to door asking if the resident would like to hear about the church. In Utah, this practice is done by member referral," Strange said. "If I wanted to share my faith with a friend, I would refer him, or you can be exposed by a media referral system, television or radio, and call to make the contact yourself. We also share our faith by participating in community projects like group clean-ups."
Strange, who graduated from Halifax County Senior High School in 1998, may be the only local teen departing on this strenuous journey of Mormon faith and values, but he is not alone in his moral and spiritual convictions.
Worldwide, there are over 50,000 missionaries his age, and three other Mormon teens in the area.
"We average about 85-90 people in church every Sunday," Strange's mother, Patricia said. "We serve people from Halifax, Mecklenburg and parts of Charlotte County up to Drakes Branch.
However, in Utah, Strange will be of the majority, as he explained that for ratio of Mormons to non-Mormons in Utah is about 5 to 1.
But why, many people ask, go to all the trouble?
"I'm excited about it and have been looking forward to this since attended college for a year in South Virginia College in Buena Vista," he explained. "A few years ago the school was purchased by a Mormon board of trustees, and they transformed the school into one with Latter-day Saint (LDS) standards. A number of the guys on my soccer team had already completed a mission, and I gained a bigger desire to go."
Strange, who will be addressed as "Elder Strange" when he returns, shares the gospel whenever he gets the chance, even while shopping for new clothing for the mission.
When Strange and his mother say goodbye for the final time following a two-week whirlwind trip together in Utah, it will be the final embrace they share for two years.
Once inside the mission boundaries, which cover a little north of Provo, some of Arizona and Colorado. Strange will remain.
His activities will be strictly limited, his appearance and demeanor monitored, and his mind and heart honed to worship and spread the word of the Holy Father.
"You're always with your companion. You don't go 'hang out' with your friends and there is no dating, because someone could assume the worst," he said. "You are also required to keep your mind spiritually centered, so there's no television, radio, or newspapers allowed. You are strictly doing spiritual work for these two years."
The first part of Strange's journey will consist of an intense training period where more experienced missionaries will teach him appropriate behavior and how to spread the word.
"It's not that we're not allowed to do anything. We have free time to clean our living quarters, wash the car, do other community service, and when we finish that we can play basketball," he said.
Of course, there are pretty strict rules here, Strange explained, for their own safety.
If we are injured playing, say soccer, or break a leg skiing, we cannot spread the word of the Holy Father. We would be unable to serve. Modesty is another form of safety for Mormons, as they are protected from the dangers of the flesh.
Other rules, such as modest dress codes and abstinence from alcohol, caffeine and tobacco, are a way of bearing testimony.
"You know, a lot of young men were immature young men to begin with. They could have gone back to school , but instead they completed their missions and came back with a better aspect of what they wanted in life," Strange said.
"The thing is, we try to be in the world, but not of the world," he said. "Right now I have no idea what I want to do with my life; perhaps this will teach me."
All missionaries (boys who go at the age of 19, and girls who must wait until they are 23 and then stay only 12 or 18 months) are required to pay their own way throughout the two-year period, something that runs around $9,000.
"We have been blessed that many from our Mormon family have helped to pay for my food, clothing, luggage, etc.," Strange said.
But the most stringent part of the missionary experience is the dislocation from all things familiar and familial.
"While you are on a mission you may have no contact with your parents except to call home on Mother's Day and Christmas, and we can exchange weekly letters," Strange said.
"You must dedicate yourself to serving the mission and to your Heavenly Father for the entire two years. Family can be a distraction to that," he said. "It's not easy, it's just something I have to do. It is a time of dedication for the soul, body, mind - the whole nine yards. There must be a commitment not only on the part of the missionary but of his family, as well.
"I could leave for college, and then who knows what I might do. This way my mother knows where I am and what I'm doing. She knows I'm safe," Strange said.
And with the tears barely unchecked as she considered her baby's impending departure, Patricia said with obvious pride for the fine young boy who is growing so quickly into a fine young man," What mother wouldn't be proud of her son giving two years to the Heavenly Father?"
Patricia, a recent convert who was baptized into the Mormon Church in 1972, encourages anyone with questions to feed their curiosity.
"This is a family-oriented church where the children are included and encouraged to develop strong faiths of their own," she said.
A missionary couple, Elder and Sister Allen, currently reside in South Boston and welcome all inquiries by calling them at 575-5018.
For more information about the Mormon faith, contact the Internet: www.lds.org.

Ora Lee Morris Farmer Bagshaw, 85, of 207 N. Randolph Road, Fredericksburg, and formerly of Altavista, died Thursday, August 26, 1999 in Fredericksburg Nursing Home. She was twice married, first to the late Kelly Farmer and second to the late Herbert Bagshaw.
Born May 21, 1914 in Hartselle, Alabama, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Morris and Sarah Parker Morris. She was a retired employee of BGF Industries, Inc.
She is survived by many nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, and friends living in Virginia and Alabama.
She was preceded in death by a son, Warren Farmer.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. today (Monday) in Green Hill Cemetery by the Rev. Jeff Allen.

Melvin Jackson Dunn of Alton, died Thursday, August 26 at Halifax Regional Hospital in South Boston, at the age of 61. He was born in Halifax County on October 24, 1937.
Mr. Dunn is survived by a sister, Joan Boxley, of Alton.
Funeral services for Mr. Dunn will be held today (Monday) at 1:00 p.m. at Dan River Bethel Baptist Church, Alton with interment in the Dunn family cemetery.