38 Minute Power Failure Darkens Mount Airy Area
A 38 minute power outage hit Mount Airy and surrounding Surry County areas from 12 22 pm to 1 pm on Wednesday causing widespread darkness. Duke Power workers traced the fault to Bannertown substation and rerouted power to restore service. Affected sites included Mount Airy Beulah Lowgap White Plains Bannertown and Flat Rock with traffic lights out and local businesses relying on manual cash handling. Emergency systems at Northern Surry Hospital operated normally and water and communications largely remained intact.
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Surry County
R. E
Bob) Abercrombie
Duke Power Company
Bannertown
US 52
Abecrombie
Mount Airy
Beulah
Lowrap
White Plains
Flat Roc
Surry Hospital
Duke
Surry
Mount Airy Board Delays Fire Chief Retirement One Month
Mount Airy commissioners accepted Fire Chief J Ed Brannocks request to retire December 28 but delayed his retirement a month. They discussed a possible successor but did not name anyone. Other actions included a water line inspection report and tentative Feb setting for Renfro and South Street projects.
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Mount Airs
J. Ed Brannock
Brannock
F. G. Doggett
Raymond Smith
Renfro
South Street
Mount Airy
Supt. B. Ih
Pine State Introduces Full Health and Life Insurance Plan
Pine State Knitwear inaugurates a company wide health and life insurance program on West Virginia Street. Lindsay Helcomb Sr chair man of the board says the firm will pay all costs for qualified employees including a $4000 life policy and $15000 major medical coverage with optional dependent insurance.
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Pine State Knitwear Company
West Virginia
Frederick Street
Lindsay Helcomb, Sr
Holcomb
Pine State
Granite City Earns Motor Club Rating
The N C State Motor Club lists Mount Airy as North Carolina’s safest city in the 5 000 to 10 000 population class with about 7 500 residents. It notes 13 cities with no traffic deaths, but Granite City tops the list with the largest motor vehicle registrations 14644. The club and the National Automobile Association will present Mount Airy officials with a plaque. Also mentions Thanksgiving visit of AMl and Mrs James B Davis and children Linda Paul and Virginia to Florence Alabama and relatives in Hightower and Goode families.
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N. C. State Motor Club
Mount Airy
North Carolina
Granite City
Flint Announces Resignation as Bannertown Baptist Pastor
Dr. Cort R. Flint resigns as interim pastor at Bannertown Baptist Church effective Sunday January 5 to become executive vice president of a Washington D C religious foundation. He leaves after guiding over 100 professions of faith and tripling church offerings while overseeing improvements. He will remain as minister at large while residing near Washington D C and keeping a home in Mountain Groundho.
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Cort R. Flint
Bannertown Baptist Church
Alph Simmons
Washington, D. C
Flint
Dr. Flint
Bannertown
Mount Airy Livestock Market Sale Totals and Quotations
Market report shows 301 animals sold at Mount Airy Livestock Market on Wednesday. Record high prices include top hogs $17.60, sows $13.75 to $17.25, top calves $48.25, heavy top $36, heifers $15 to $20, cows $10 to $18.25, steers $19 to $25.50, bulls $16.35 to $21, and cows by head $110 to $270.
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Mount Airy
Mount Airy Jaycees Seal Soap Box Derby Franchise
The Mount Airy Jaycees win a franchise with Williams Chevrolet and the Mount Airy News to run a local Soap Box Derby in 1969, with plans for a July race in Mount Airy and a win to advance to Akron Ohio. First Derby Chairman Denny Shelton named, project aims to serve area youth including nearby Virginia.
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Mount Airy Jaycees
Jaycee
Jimmie Miller
Dick Patterson
Williams Chevrolet
Mount Airy News
Chevrolet Zone
Jaycees
Granite City
Wiliams Chevrolet Co., Inc
T. A. Williams, Jr
James F. Johnson
Mount Airy
Winston-Salem
Akhron
Ohio
H. Lo Cheatham
Charlotte Zone
KR. Ingersoll
Jaycees Am
Miller
Denny Shelton
Javores
Virginia
Shelton
Akron
Karl Williams
Elbert Williams
Lakview Drive
Christmas Shopping Hours At Mount Airy Stores
Mount Airy merchants extend hours for Christmas shopping with 9 pm closings tonight and next Friday. Starting Monday December 16 stores stay open until 9 pm through December 23. On December 24 they close at 5 30 pm and shut for December 25 and 26. Reopen December 27, then close January 1 for New Year. Thursday early closing begins January 9.
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Mount Airy Merchantt Association
the Merchants Association
Franklin Elementary Christmas Concert Detailed Schedule
The annual Franklin Elementary School Christmas concert will be held next Thursday at 7 20 p m in the school auditorium. Four choral groups totaling about 200 students will perform under Sandy Beam. The S0-voice 5th and 6th grade chorus begin with a musical pageant The Symbols of Christmas with a narrator verse choir and songs with clarinets bells and piano. Narrator is Mitchell Owens a 7th grade student. The 7th grade treble chorus performs Calypso Noel What You Gonna Call You Pretty Little Baby and Rudolph the Red Nosed.
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Franklin Elementary School
Sandy Beam
Mitchell Owens
Calypso Noel
Pretty Little Baby
Rudolph
States Music Reindeer Chorus Concert Set
The combined boys choir and 7th grade treble chorus perform Laudamus Te from Gloria by Vivaldi and a 600-voice program features Carol of the Bells No Candie Was There and No Fire Jolly Old St Nichols and Holy Night. Franklin Treble Ensemble caps with Gloria In Excelsis Adoramus Te Wonder as I Wander and a dramatized Twas the Night Before Christmas with Noreen Hiatt as alto soloist under Mount Airy Rotary Club sponsorship. Public invited to attend.
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Noreen Hiatt
Mount Airy
Scouts Win Awards For Recruitment
The Boy Scouts of Surry and Stokes districts plan a January 1 merger into the Dogwood District. They will award neckerchief slides to Scouts who recruit a new Scout by December 15, with counts listed for Pack 539 four, Pack 536 three, Troop 421 six, Troop S67 five, Troop 412 four, Troops 596 and 402 two each, and Troops 528 551 and 427 one each. District Scout Executive Roger Harpe will handle distribution once eligibility is confirmed.
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Boy Scouts of
Surry and
Stokes
Dogwood
Roger Harpe
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