Mount Airy Faces Federal Cutback in Sewage Plant Aid
Mount Airy NC confronts a 60 percent federal funding cutback for its sewage treatment plant expansion as officials seek the $13 million project. City Manager G Doggett remains hopeful the town will receive its full requested share despite delays and priority-based allocations.
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Richard Nixon
Mount Airy
Carolina
North Carolina
Ount Airy
Charles H Bradshaw
State Department, Natural and Economic Resources
Doggett
Oil Spill Cleanup Uses New Wet Scrubber System
Home Oil and Gas Company faced disposing of fifty barrels of oil soaked Sorbent C after a spill of 5,000 gallons into Tumbling Rock Branch and Dry Lake. Roddy K Street of Commercial Fabrication and Machine Co. proposed burning the contaminated material in an incinerator equipped with a wet scrubber, a plan approved by state officials, to avoid air and water pollution while safely disposing of the material.
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Home Oil and Gas Company
Tumbling Rock Branch
Oil Company
Roddy K. Street
Street
Commercial Fabrication and Machine Co., Inc
Willow Street
W. E. Knight
Tobacco quota hike worries Surry growers in Old Belt
Surry County tobacco farmers fear the 1973 quota rise will depress prices as leaf quality concerns surface in the Old Belt. Harold Hodges says 1973 leaf may be same grades earning 65 to 60 cents late season, while top halves shown poorer quality. Jackson notes higher quotas could lift carryover stocks and price support, with a county meeting set for January 2 at Surry Community College to discuss 1973 crop strategies.
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Old Belt
Surry County
Harold Hodges
Hodges
Charlies CC
Jackson
Stabilization Corporation
Surry
Hodges Jackson
Surry Community College
N.C. State University Extension Department
Weather disrupts some Virginia school schedules
Lee Comes Close Patrick County, Virginia, schools were closed yesterday while Carrol County closed at 1 pm due to ice and freezing rain in the Mountaintop areas. Mount Airy and Surry County kept normal schedules as temperatures stayed above freezing most of the day, reducing danger.
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Patrick County
Carroll County
Mount Airy
Surry County
Althrough
Mount Airy to Open Bids on New Gym Plan
Mount Airy officials push ahead with a two story gym at Mount Airy Senior School with basketball facilities on the top floor and locker rooms below. The board seeks bids to demolish the condemned gym on the site and begin construction after funding and drawings clear state approval.
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Mount Airy
Supt BH. Tharrineton
State Division of School Planning
State Insurance Department
Elks Lodge Holds Memorial Service Sunday
Mount Airy Elks Lodge will conduct a memorial service for deceased members Sunday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Tom Bagnal will speak. Special invitation extended to families of the deceased, lodge members, and the general public.
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Mount Airy
Pilot Mountain appoints youngest police officer Floyd Gwyn Jr
Floyd E Gwyn Jr 18 becomes Pilot Mountain Police Department's youngest officer replacing Sgt G E Hudson who leaves after three years in the force. Gwyn attended Mount Airy and North Surry High Schools and has been studying at For-
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Pilot Mountain
Floyd E. Gwyn, Jr
Floyd Gwyn
Route 3
Mount Airy
Gwyn
G. E. Hudson
North Surry
Funeral for Harrison A Johnson Held at Cox Chapel
The funeral for Harrison Albert Johnson 79 of Pilot Mountain was held at 2 pm today at Cox Funeral Chapel He died Wednesday morning at Baptist Hospital Winston Salem born in Surry County to Mr and Mrs Albert Johnson a retired farmer Surviving are his wife Maude Hicks Johnson three daughters Mrs Lloyd Turney Route 2 Pilot Mountain Mrs Gurnie Culler of Ellerbe and Mrs Rufus Nelson of Greensboro two sons Jack and Woodrow Johnson of Mount Airy and Ernest Jones of Mount Airy Burial is in the Midkiff family cemetery near Mount Airy
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Harrison Albert Johnson
Route 1
Pilot Mountain
Cox Funeral Chapel
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Surry County
Albert Johnson
Maude Hicks Johnson
Lloyd Turney
Gurnie Culler
Ellerbe
Rufus Nelson
Greensboro
Jack
Woodrow Johnson
Ernest Jones
Mount Airy
Midkiff Family
Theatre vandalized at Mount Airy Drive-In
Police reported thieves visited the Mount Airy Drive-In during the night. Six speakers were stolen from the parking area and menu signs from the concession stand ripped down. A light bulb was broken and the missing speakers valued at 120 dollars. Phillip King reported a Hawk tachometer stolen from his 1082 Ford.
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Mount Airy Drive-In Theatre
Phillip King
Galloway Street
New Bank Opens Doors in Dobson Monday
Peoples Bank of North Carolina opens its third branch in Dobson at Main and Woiltz as a temporary trailer facility from 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Thursday and 9 am to 6 pm Friday. Ron Hodges will manage. tellers are Debbie Marion and Becky Haymore.
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Dobson
Peoples Bank of North Carolina
Main
Woiltz Street
Ron Hodges
Madison
Dobson Area
Debbie Marion
Becky Haymore
Joe J. Marshall
List By Mail Forms Are Being Prepared
Surry County will mail 26 000 abstract forms to taxpayers on December 2 30 with an instruction sheet. Tax listers will assist in January in townships, penalties apply if not returned by January 31. Tax bills go out by late July. forms include one per property.
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Surry County
Katye B Simpson
Mount Airy Livestock Market Sales Report
Market totals 413 animals sold on Wednesday at Mount Airy. Top hogs 28 05 per head, heavy hogs 28 to 34, sows 20 to 25, top calves 84.10, heavy calves 52.50, calves by head 35 to 40, bull and steer calves 38 50 to 47, heifer calves 26 to 82, 50. Steers 23 to 30, good butcher cows 21 50, canners and cutters 16 to 21 25, bulls 34 25, cows by head 125 to 380 with calves in some lots.
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Mount Airy
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Syth Technical Institute and
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Winston- Salem
Peoples Bank
Hay Street
Carolina Industrial Plastics
Calvin Leon Creel
Taylor St
Ptl
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Creel
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