Dollar Days Begin in Mount Airy Stores for Record Weekend
Mount Airy merchants anticipate a record crowd as Dollar Days sales launch with four days of deep discounts. Stores offer thousands of bargain items from clothing to appliances, with fresh stock daily. Police warn shoppers to guard pockets and vehicle contents amid heavy traffic and shopping activity.
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Mount Airy’s
Merchants Association
Mount Airy
Merchants Association Office
News earns top typography award from North Carolina Press Association
The News was chosen by the North Carolina Press Association for the top typography award in the semiweekly stakes, with area readers also naming The News a favorite choice this year.
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N. C. Press Association
Mount Airy Country Club Elects Officers and Directors
At the club meeting on Tuesday evening Mt Airy Country Club elected officers Jimmy Miller as president with Leonard Parker as vice president and Bob Abercrombie as secretary and treasurer. Three new directors were named Sam Vaughn Emmett Forrest and George Wells while existing directors include R L Williamson K A Henry and Smith Hetcom. Proposals for improvements such as a putting green a new equipment shed kitchen remodeling a new dishwasher and a septic tank and sewage system were discussed along with routine year end reports.
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R. L. Williamson
K. A. Henry
Smith Hétcom
Five Highway Contracts Let in North Carolina
Sherman Simpson Inc of Mount Airy won five State Highway Commission contracts totaling 4 638 595 43 for sites in five counties including grading paving and signing on Interstate 85 in Vance County. A bridge project on Market Street Elkin will go to John H Brinkley for 98505 34.
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Sherman Simpson, Inc
Mount Airy
State Highway Commission
Commission
Raleigh
Big Elkin Creek
Market Street
Elkin
John H. Brinkley
Thomasville
Simpson
Whiting Teaches Art Classes At Mount Airy Carnival
Edmund Wilson Whiting, Lancaster Pa, nationally known sculptor and Franklin and Marshall College art chairman, is teaching figure sculpture at Mount Airy Fine Arts Carnival in the former North Main Street School. Classes meet twice daily through Friday, with high praise for student work. Whiting has work in seven museums, six solo shows, and major commissions on four campuses including a 14 foot piece at the University of Iowa.
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Edmund Wilson
Whiting
Lancaster
Fpa
Mount Airy
North Main Street
Franklin and Marshall College
Robertson Outlines Final Report Work To Surry Group
Glenn Robertson, director of the Surry County Headstart program, told Surry County workers Monday about final reports due. Mrs. Almarie Sims, consultant for the four county program, praised the workers and spoke to Stokes and Davie County staff during the week.
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Glenn Robertson
Surry County
Almarie Sims
Sims
Stokes
Davie County
Town Adopts 1968-69 Budget Amid Hearing
Meadt Airs board of commissioners held a public hearing on the 1968-69 fiscal budget. The board adopted a budget of 1,041,800 with a tax rate of 31.50 based on an estimated valuation of 34,500,100. Commissioner Maynard Beamer urged a reserve- funds tax hike, which was rejected. Pay increases for Kiwa employees are retroactive to July 1.
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Meadt Airs Board of Commissioners
Hamby Shop Damaged by Lightning Fire Westfield
Jesse Hamby’s workshop two miles west of Westfield off N C 84 was damaged around 3 p m Friday afternoon. The Westfield Volunteer Fire Department extinguished the attic fire with some damage to materials furniture and tools. Firemen said the blaze was apparently caused by the attic being struck by lightning and the shop can be repaired and put back into use.
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Jesse Hamby
Westfield
N.C. Highway 84
Westfield Volunteer Fire Department
Hamby
Cage Coach Quits Mount Airy Post
Mount Airy High School head basketball coach James Holleman resigns after two seasons to join Elkin School system as assistant basketball coach and football assistant. He will teach driver education and relocate to Elkin with his wife. The vacancy shocks the varsity squad and leaves no announced successor.
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Mount Ay
James Holleman
Elkin
High Point College
Holleman
Wampee-Liderock High School
Ocean
Hellemman
Pitkin
Helleman
Jonesville
Fletteman
J. D. Bartley
Mount Airy High School
Supt
B. H. Tharrington
Destroys Leal In Barn On Farries Farm
A tobacco barn on Ralph Farries farm in the Francisco community Stokes County burned down causing about 1000 dollars in losses. The department answered the call around 1 am Monday.
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Ralph Farries
Francisco
Stokes County
Youth Crusade I Scheduled In Mount Airy
Florence Alabama soloist Buddy Burton will perform at Westfield Baptist Church on Sunday at 7 30 pm and again August 11 and 14 at Bannertown Baptist Church as part of a county youth crusade planned with Evangelist Wayne Poplin. Burton will also direct a county youth choir and serve as music director for the citywide revival at First Baptist Church. Burton, formerly minister of music at Highland Baptist Florence, recently left to pursue evangelistic singing full time. Dr Cort Flint Bannertown pastor praised the engagement. A separate fire destroyed a log barn, badly damaging the structure and ruining the tobacco being cured there.
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Florence
Bannertown Baptist Church
Burton
First Baptist Church
Wayne Poplin
Florida Street Baptist Church
C Greensboro
Surry County
Highland Baptist Church
Cort Flint
Thieves Break Into Surry Central High
Thieves broke into Surry Central High Sunday night through a classroom window but nothing was taken or damaged. Police Chief Jack Marioni reported the incident and said the investigation continues.
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Swurry Central School
Dobson
Jack Marioni
Marion
Martin Memorial School of Nursing to graduate 14
Carlos Surratt will deliver the principal address at the Martin Memorial School of Nursing graduation at Central Methodist Church on Aug 9. Fourteen nurses will receive diplomas from John K. Lockhart as Haymore Memorial Baptist Church hosts a pre-commencement service, with awards and pledges and a reception to follow.
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Carlos Surratt
Surry Community College
Dobson
Martin
Central Methodist Church
Martin Memorial Alumnae Association
St. Richard of Chicester
Martin Memorial Chorus
Edwin Bailey
Lockhart
Surratt
Eloise S Neal
Choral Presentation Opens Week of Arts Events in Mount Airy
A choral presentation led by Linda Louella Blevins and others from Virginia and North Carolina groups will kick off a week of Mount Airy Arts Carnival events. Students and adults will showcase chorus work and art, with a 6:30 pm start on Monday and an outdoor band concert at 7:30 pm by the Mount Airy Band. admission is free.
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Linda Louella Blevins
Glade Valley
Virginia
Darleve Bowman
Ararat
Agnes Lorene Buretiom Barnette
Woodlawn
Carol Ann Clark
Pulaski
Wanda Dehthit Felts
Canay
Marion Kay Starning Hiatt
Mount Airy
Bessie Ann Hilton
Wytheville
Vao- Tida Gay Smith Holbrook
Konia
Withdhy Lara Nichols
Pinsiies Trendane
Turday
Mount Airy Arts
Oidth Main Street
Madge Johnson
Dents
Nurses Week honor spread across Mount Airy and nearby
The observance highlights Linda Gayner of Winston-Salem and Carolina Bann Williams of Tampa in a regional Nurses Week feature celebrating nursing contributions and local healthcare teams.
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Tes
Mount Airy
Linda Gayner
Winston Salem
Carolin Bann Williams
Te Gep
New Girl Scout Director Named for Tar Heel Triad Council
Miss Martha Auten of Newville Tennessee a Charlotte native becomes first executive director of the Tar Heel Triad Girl Scout Council formed by merger of Pilston Winston Salem and Piedmont Ju inseboro and Keyauwee High Point area groups. The council serves Surry County with 12 205 Scouts and 3 000 members. Headquarters move from High Point to a new 22 acre site on State 40 by mid August with moving Sept 1.
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Martha Auten
Newville, Tenn
Charlotte
Tarbee Triad Girl Scout Council
Surry County
Miss Austen
Greensboro College
Cumberland Valley Girl Scout Council
Fat Nashville
Ovey
Tarheel Triad Council
Pilston Council
Winston
Selcm
Northing Carolina
Piedmont Council
Ensboro
Keyauwee
High Point
Piedtt
Bhar Baily
High Pont Aesident
Cee
Council He Im & New
State 40
Versatlle
C. L. Ames
High Int
Hayden Pace
Incil
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