Mount Airy Ministerial Association names 1963 officers
The Mount Airy Ministerial Association elected its 1963 officers during a combined ladies day and business meeting at Blu-Vue Restaurant. Giles O Bowman became president with Robert Kizer vice president, Charles Vaughn secretary, Paul Taylor treasurer.
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Reeves Ymca
Blu-Vue
Mount Airy Ministerial Association
Nom
Giles O. Bowman
Rockford Street Methodist Church
Robert Kizer
Fancy Gap Baptist Church
Charles Vaughn
Central Methodist Church
Paul Taylor
Salem Methodist Church
Kizer
Northwest NC awards banquet announces development winners
The Northwest North Carolina Community Development Association planned an area awards dinner at Gilvin Roth YMCA in Elkin at 6:30 pm to announce contest winners. Prizes total 4400 dollars with 3900 for top communities and 100 per activity for top counties in development travel recreation industrial agriculture and youth programs. Dr. William H. Plemmons of Appalachian State Teachers College was guest speaker and Hugh A. Crigger Jr. presided the annual report.
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Northwest North Carolina
Community Development Association
Elkin
Gilvin Roth Ymca
William H. Plemmons
Appalachian State Teachers College
Boone
Association
Hugh A. Crigger, Jr
West Jefferson
Democratic Meet Reset For Monday In Dobson
A county wide meeting of the Surry Democratic Women moves from Tuesday to Monday night. About 100 women are expected to attend to hear Mrs. Martha McKay NC National Committeewoman speak at 7 30 p.m. in the Agriculture Building, Dobson. All Democratic women or interested women are invited.
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Surry Democratic Women
Cama Merritt
Martha McKay
N. C
National
Market Report From Mount Airy Livestock Sale
Wednesday sales at Mount Airy Livestock Market show top hogs at 17.80, sows 13.50 to 14. Calves peak at 35 with heavy top 28.50. No 2 pen 28.40, steers 18.50 to 22.50, cows 7 to 14.25, bulls 10 to 17. Heifers in head 35 to 68, cows head 65 to 140.
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Mount Airy
Mount Airy Board Keeps Routine Meeting Notes
Mount Airy town board met Tuesday night at City Hall approving Nov 22 minutes and department reports. They set pay range for sanitation supervisor, eyed annexation near Banner Street housing, approved 625 for 26 new trash receptacles, and deferred bids on a trash truck and air compressor. An ordinance limits parking on Pender Street south side and a 2,500 lumen street light was approved on Kerner Street with a 240 lumen light moved to the street end. City Manager Peter Lydens announced his January 14 resignation.
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City Hall
Mount Airy
Pender Street
Hale
Spring Streets
Kerner Street
Main Street
Peter Lydens
Carolinas Blood Group Meeting Here Today
The Piedmont Carolinas Blood Program Committee will meet at the Reeves YMCA with a Dutch luncheon at 12:00 and business starting at 1:50. Volunteers from Charlotte Greensboro Winston Salem High Point Thomasville Mayodan Asheboro Yadkin and Stokes counties attend this quarterly meeting. Dr Inez Blunt, director of the Piedmont Red Cross Blood Center, will preside.
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Piedmont Carolinas
Reeves Ymca
Charlotte
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
High Point
Thomasville
Mayodan
Asheboro
Yadkin
Stokes County
Inez Blnxt
Piedmont Carclinax Red Cross Blood Center
No Assistant Named As Judge Recorders Court
New Mount Airy Judge Carroll Gardner will head Recorders Court without an assistant. County commissioners add the assistant salary to Gardner, with a substitute named from his salary if needed. They estimate saving about 200 per year. GE radio equipment brief studied. towns to provide input on county two way radio needs.
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Recorders Court
Carroll Gardner
Mount Airy
Gardner
General Electric Co
Hillsville Yale Parade Set For Tonight At Seven
The Hillsville Christmas Parade will march tonight at 7 o'clock. Sponsored by the Hillsville Business and Professional Men's Club, the event steps off with local backing and planned route through town.
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Hillsvile
The
Hillsville Business and Professional Men's Club
Surry Realtors Organize Into County Association
Mount Airy and Elkin real estate brokers gathered for a dinner and meeting to discuss forming a Surry County Board of Realtors linked with the state group. State leaders urged a regional MLS exchange, while John Banner Jr was elected temporary president and Jack Underdown named temporary VP.
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Mount Airy and
Elkin
Blu-Vue Restaurrant
Surry County
Farrell
Kenneth Maultsby
John Banner, Jr
Robert J. Lovill, Jr
Tucker
Porary
Jack Underdown
Ken Maultsby
Mount Airy
N. C. Association of Realtors
I-r
Glenn Tucker
Vernon Farrell, Jr
James L. Bichsell
John Banner
Ken Maulteby
Local Guard Drills After False Alert At 6:33 Last Night
Mount Airy residents heard a moaning siren from city hall signaling an attack alert but it proved to be a practice drill. National Guard units rushed to the Armory and assumed posts despite frigid conditions, with no frostbite incidents and officials pleased with the smooth operation.
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City Hall
Mount Airy
National Guard
Dobson Man Is Key Banker For 1963 In County
A prominent Dobson banker, W. Frank Comer, named by NCBA President Oscar J. Mooneyham to coordinate farm activities as County Key Banker for Surry County for 1963. Comer, vice president of Northwestern Bank, Dobson, joins a group noted for aiding farm programs and county agrarian efforts.
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Dobson
N.C. Bankers Association
Surry County
NCBA
Osrcar J Mooneyham
Forest City
W. Frank Comer
Comer
Northwestern Bank
North
Board Names Tax Listers At Dobson Meeting
At a Monday Dobson meeting the county board of commissioners named tax listers for multiple townships. Appointments include Claude C. Traughn in Dobson, Cay Boyd in Ara rat, Mrs. Sarah Harris in Elkin, Charlie J. Carwon in Franklin, Sam Falk in Long Hill, J. W. Denny Jr in Pilot, Ralph Snow in Rockford, Clyde Allen in Shoal, Fred Whitaker in Siloam, Robert Richards in Stewarts Creek, Raymond Joyce in Westfield, and Chester Brinkley in South Westfield. Bryan and Marsh townships were left vacant awaiting appointees.
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Dobson
County Board of Commissioners
Claude C. Traughn
Elkin
Eldora
Cay Boyd
Ararat
Sarah Harris
W. Main St
Franklin
Charlie J. Carwon
Lowgap
Long Hill
Sam Falk
Pilot Mountain
Mount Airy
R. Lester Badgett
Wileen
Pilot Township
J. W. Denny, Jr
Pinnacle
Rockford
Ralph Snow
Deteon
Shoal
Clyde Allen
Siloam
Fred Whitaker
Stewarts Creek
Robert Richards
Westfield
Raymond Joyce
South Westfield
Chester Brinkley
Bryan
Marsh
Trucker Hurt In Mountain Wreck Near Mount Airy
On Highway 52 north of Mount Airy a tractor-trailer skidded in fog onto two other trucks at Fancy Gap mountain in Carroll County Virginia. Cleo Handley seventy four? No, 44 of London Kentucky suffered serious burns and was admitted to Northern Surry Hospital. State Trooper F. S. Glover investigated the crash.
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Mount Airy
Fancy Gap Mountain
Carroll County
Cleo Handley
London
Surry Hospital
Trower
F. S. Glover
Virginia
Two Named To Vacancies On Local Hospital Board
Northern Surry Hospital trustees, Dobson meeting, Buck White reappointed after term expiry. Rev D D Hodges term expired. Guy Dozier of Mount Airy Route 1 appointed to fill the vacancy for the upcoming term.
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Northern Surry Hospital
Dobson
Buck White
D, DD. Hodges
Guy Dozier
Route 1
Mount Airy
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Forrest Church
Methodist Church
Howard Yow
John Pipkin
White Plains
High Point College
Duke Divinity School
Betsy Khostner
Deborah Kay
Ministerial Association
Giles Bowman
Market Report
Salvation Army
L. P. Wrenn, Sr
Joe Jackson
Army
L. P. Wrenn Sr
Brigadier Earle Lord
Major McFartien Crawford
US 601
Carolinas Blood Group
Hillsville
Yale
Surry Realtors
County Association
Frank Toler
Board Names
Tax Listers
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