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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1972
Page
3
New students entering Mount Airy High School including transfer and community newcomers are asked to register in the principal Billy Tyson's office from 8 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday.
The oldest known Bible manuscript was found in a convent on Mount Sinai in the Arabian Peninsula. Dated to the 4th century this relic is surpassed in antiquity only by pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Mount Airy News, established 1880, is published Tuesdays and Fridays from 319 Renfro Street Mount Airy NC 27030. It notes second class mailing privileges and standard local news delivery.
The notice sets a yearly price of 4.00 dollars for Surry and surrounding counties and 5.00 dollars per year for all other areas. No additional terms or dates are provided in the fragment.
Katherine Fawcett Hennis and Katherine Isabel Johnson receive Piedmont Airlines stewardess wings after four week training in Winston-Salem and at the carrier's home office. Hennis, Mount Airy Miss, graduate of Mount Airy High School, later attended Surry Community College and is based in Washington DC. Johnson, daughter of Wallace A Johnson Sr, of Mount Airy, N C, previously worked at Hospital Pharmacy and is based in Atlanta Georgia.
A heartfelt message from a reader honoring the nurses aides orderlies telephones operators Pink Ladies and doctors at Northern Surry hospital where the late John P. Grubbe received care. The writer commends the staff for their compassion and care and asks prayers for those who work in the demanding health service.
Tobacco prices set new records last week on the eleven flue cured tobacco markets in South Carolina. Prices this week are expected to stay high as last week's totals show 15,270,208 pounds sold for 1,241,000 dollars at an average of 81.4 dollars per hundred pounds.
Mrs. James W. Nichols of Mount Airy North Carolina thanks those who cared for her father in his final hours, praying God bless each person who assisted during his illness.
Dobson’s Citgo station at Main and Kapp Street, operated by Raymond F. Brown, has been named a state finalist in the Wh o Service Station of the Year contest sponsored by the North Carolina Petroleum Council. Brown, a 11-year veteran in business from Surry County, serves as Dobson Saddie Club treasurer and manages a local little league team. He is married to Geneva Wright, with four children, and attends New Hope Baptist Church.
The bottom leaf to paced ranks as the worst of five C. crop tobacco, yet it drew the highest prices last week. Buyers hunted light low-nicotine leaf near the ground per W. E. McElveen of the Federal State Tobacco Market News Service. Baskets down the stalk exceeded price support, while better tobacco generally rose only $1 to $3 above support. Over a majority of warehouse baskets last week averaged above $8 per hundred pounds.
Leroy Brooks of route 2 Platitown reported a theft at 12 40 p m Thursday. An unknown person forced entry into his parked Volkswagen at Perry Manufacturing by breaking a vent glass. Missing are the spare tire and wheel and a roll of electrician's tape.
Surry County aims for 64 per cent of its goal, as stated by county volunteer chairman Thomas Fawrett. The plan outlines bond sales efforts to meet the year’s financing target.
A brief reflection on how government structures reflect citizen influence through organized pressure groups, shaping policy priorities and public debate across institutions and elections. It notes the dynamic between voter representation and NGO lobbying in democratic governance.
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