City Hosts Colorful Christmas Parade Through Mount Airy
The city stages a festive Christmas parade today starting at Veterans Memorial Park at 5 50 PM, with a 6 30 PM finish pending weather. Units move from Main Street to the intersection of Main Church and Cherry Streets, featuring Miss North Carolina, Miss Mount Airy, local floats, marching bands, and Santa Claus leading the finale. In bad weather the parade shifts to Saturday at 1 PM. Sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce with Chamber support.
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Main Street
Veterans Memorial Park
North Carolina
Mount Airy
Main
Church
Cherry Streets
Wake Forest Band
Miss North Carolina
Copeland
Boyles Shoe Store
Tippy Cox
Prince
Mount Airy Band
Jsm
Buck Pruitt
J. J. Jones
White Plains
T. B. Association
Gail Richards
Kiwanis
Franklin
Flat Rock
Walnut Cove Band
Coca Cola
Beulah
Shrine
Workman's Federal
King Band
Fire Truck
Tyndall Auto
Evans Chain Saw
Post Office
Jolly Old Saint Nick
Santa Claus
Orchard Street
Rawley Avenue
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Cooperation Chamber of Commerce
Mount Airy Jaycees Host Notables At Dinner Meeting
Worth Bacon of Winston-Salem managing editor of the Journal and Sentinel will speak at the Mount Airy Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting at 7 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Hotel. Guests include Elaine Herndon Miss North Carolina and Glenda Llewellyn Miss Mount Airy.
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Worth Bacon
Winston-Salem
Journal and Sentinel
Mount Airy
Olive to Attend Loan Conference
Olive will attend a state loan conference sponsored by the North Carolina Savings and Loan League. Managing officers from associations across the state will participate. The meeting runs from Wednesday evening through Thursday.
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Olive
N. C. Savings and Loan League
Bake Sale by White Plains Friends Char Society
The Junior Missionary Society of White Plains Friends Char will hold a bake sale at Wade Venable's in White Plains at 11 am Saturday. Cakes pies cookies candies and other baked goods will be for sale.
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Junior Missionary Society of
White Plains Friends Char
Wade Venable’s
White Plains
Mount Airy Mirror Firm Fined in Price Fixing Case
A U S District Court in Roanoke Virginia fined Mount Airy Mirror Company 2500 and related firms 9000 total after a jury found price fixing conspiracy across 19 defendants. Guilty verdict followed review of post agreement price practices and calls for extending penalties under the Clayton act.
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Mount Airy Mirror
Mount Airy Mirror Company
U. S
Roanoke
Southern Mirror
Carolina Mirror Co
North Wilkesboro
Gardner
Stroupe Mirror Co
Thomasville
Virginia Mirror Company
Martinsville
Weaver Mirror Co
Rocky Mount
Paul
Ilers
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Messer
Asheville
Karp
Congress
Department of Justice
Chicago
Girl 19 Denies Forgery Charge In Mount Airy Case
Mrs. Shelby Nelson Phillips 19, a Pine State Knitting Company employee, denies forging and cashing 12 checks totaling about 1200 dollars. Police identified her in a lineup after five businessmen, plus signature and red ink details, linked her to the counterfeit checks. She posted a 2000 dollar bond and is from Mount Airy with husband and baby at 535 Penn Street.
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Shelby Nelson Phillips
Pine State Knitting Company
Phillips
W. H. Sumner
Mount Airy
Pine State
Lindsay Holcomb
Sumner
Ice and Mud Cause Local Vehicle Crash
Ice and mud were listed as the cause of a Wednesday evening automobile accident. Ray William Childress, 36, drove a 1957 Cadillac owned by J. A. Cox and slid on the icy intersection of North Main Street and Oakdale, striking a guy wire.
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Ray William Childress
J. A. Cox
North Main Street
Oakdale
Man Burns To Death In Virginia Home
Sidney Smith 90, partially blind retired farmer, died after his three room frame house burned eight miles northwest of here near Ararat Virginia. Fire started from a coal stove installed last night. a son Ed Smith assisted. Survived by four sons and four daughters and many grandchildren. Funeral at Dee Run Baptist Church with interment in church cemetery.
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Sidney Smith
Here
Ararat
Patrick County
P. L. Baliles
Stuart
Ed Smith
Mount Airy
Route 2
Smith
Baliles
Dennis
Sam R. Smith
Route 6
Joe Smith
the Hollow
Emma Tolbert
Frank Tolbert
Granite Quarry
Ellen Cool
Alice McHone
Pine Ridge
Dee Run Baptist Church
Criss Sowers
Carl Lackey
D. L. Paulson
Possy Chitterlin Club Plans Big Feed at Armory
Cards announce the Surry County Possum and Chitterlin Club Inc big feed at Veterans Memorial Park Armory on Thursday December 12 at 7 p.m. Members without cards should notify secretary Dr. Carl L. Thomas by December 10. Menu includes possum chitterlings coon squirrel spare ribs baked ham pumpkin pie sweet potatoes green beans rolls and coffee.
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Surry County
Possum and Chitterlin’ Club, Inc
Armory
Veterans Memorial Park
Carl L. Thomas
Central Telephone Truck Collides At Renfro and East Oak
A Central Telephone Company truck and a motorist's car collided at the Renfro street and East Oak Street intersection Monday after noon at 4 35. The truck driver Robert James Dodson 26 of Lawsonville route 1 and the Chrysler driver Eugene Gray Smith 69 of 137 Taylor Street reported they had green lights. Both vehicles sustained considerable damage and no arrest was made.
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Central Telephone Company
Renfro
East Oak Street
Robert James Dodson
Route 1
Lawsonville
Renfro Street
Chrysler
Eugene Gray Smith
Taylor Street
Charity volunteer Archie Carter aids Empty Stocking Fund
Granite City attorney Archie B. Carter of 204 Grace Street has served 25 years on the Empty Stocking Fund committee. He praises the fund as a wonderful cause that brings toys and treats to less fortunate city children at Christmas, letting them share in holiday happiness. Celestial Seeger reflects on doing what aligns with inner sympathies.
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Happi
Archie B. Carter
Grace Street
Mount Airy
Mr. Carter
Handicapped Center Planned For Mount Airy
Felix Barker of the North Carolina State Board of Education met Tuesday with Mount Airy center directors at the YMCA to discuss plans for opening a new Handicapped Children Center. Attendees included Dr. Charles L. Sykes and Bruce H. Tharlington, with 21 directors present. the center aims to open soon after January 1.
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Felix Barker
North Carolina
Buck White
Vance Cox
Saint Paul Church To Have Guest Speaker
The Rev. G. L. Baker of Alum Bank Pennsylvania will speak at 11 o clock services at Saint Paul Church of the Brethren next Sunday. He is being considered for a cooperative pastorate for Saint Paul and Bremort Church near Hillsville with potential charge of both churches around January first.
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G. L. Baker
Alum Bank
Saint Paul Church of the Brethren
Baker
Saint Paul
Bremort
Hillsville
Crete
Moet
Flat Rock PTA To Feature Panel
The Flat Rock PTA meets Monday night in the new cafetorium for a panel on homework with chairwoman Mrs. Alvis Love and other listed members. A sale of parent and teacher contributed items will raise funds to improve the school grounds.
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Flat Rock Pta
Alvis Love
B. G. Parkes
Ralph Slate
Gray Simmons
Wendell Simmons
J. Quincey Shelton
Elbert Hunter
No Divorces Reported By Surry County Deeds Office
The Surry County Register of Deeds in Dobson reports no divorces for the past week. This is the first time in about five weeks that no divorce actions were recorded, per the office.
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Surry County
City Board Moves to Clear Far Road With Suit Against Rail
City officials authorize attorney Wilson Barber to sue Southern Railway to open Virginia Street at once. Barber says no reply received from the railroad on repairs needed to allow traffic. The extension from Highway 89 is partly open but blocked at the railroad. railway would owe about 10 000 for repairs.
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Wilson Barber
Southern Railway
Virginia Street
Barber
W. F. Carter, Jr
Southern Railroad
West Pine Street
the Square
Fancy Gap
Lovills Creek
Sides Mill
School Board Honors Pair With Dinner
A special dinner at the Blue Ridge Hotel honored Mount Airy citizens Dr Moir Martin and Prof L B Pendergaph for lifelong service to education. Dr Martin chaired the Mount Airy School Board for many years and Prof Pendergaph led City Schools as superintendent for 29 years.
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Blue Ridge Hotel
Mount Airy
Moir
Membe
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Bake Sale
John Messer
Galax
John Paul
John A. Messer, Sr
Edd F. Gardner
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Galax Mirror Company
W. J. Sessoms
Southern
Girl
Frank M. Jones
Mount Airy Funeral Home
C. F. Chauncey
Chauncey
Jones
Mr. Chauncey
Possy Chitterlin’ Club
Alan Seeger
A. B. Carter
Saint Paul Church
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