Snow Sunday Wrecks Prompt Slippery Highways
Light Sunday snowfall and freezing drizzle left highways slick and several minor crashes reported by patrolmen as vehicles skidded and slid across the area.
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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1963
Page
1
Lions Meeting Features W-S Canine Corps
Mount Airy Lions Club will host the Winston Salem Canine Corps at 6 30 PM this December meeting at Reeves YMCA. Chief Tucker and two officers will join the presentation to demonstrate trained canines and discuss program benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy Lions Club
Reeves Ymca
Winston- Salem
Red Cross official Miss Grace Vaughn wins Sertoma award
Miss Grace Vaughn Red Cross Chapter executive secretary received the Sertoma Service To Mankind Award at a Saturday banquet in Mount Airy. Dr Carlton Everhart announced the winner noting many nominations and praised judges for selecting Vaughn, who is active despite being handicapped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Vaughn
Red Cross Chapter
Blue Rage
Carlton Lt. Everhart
Sertoma Club
Sertoma
Dr. Everhart
Vaughn
Mises Vaughn
Red Crown
Bloodmobile
Surry Red Cros
Mount Airy Rescue Squad
W. Vallehn
At Rock
Central Methodial Church
Doyle Perdue
Miss Vaughn
N.C Sertome
Mis Vaughn
Mount Airy
Perdue
One Killed One Hurt In Wreck Friday
Mrs. Geneva Creed Southern 48 of Mount Airy died in a head on collision with a pickup on Flattop Church Road eight miles north of Dobson. The pickup driver William Hodge 24 and his grandfather Luther Hodge 74 were in a trucking collision. Luther Hodge hospitalized with rib and leg fractures. Surviving relatives include husband three daughters and numerous siblings. Funeral held at Beulah Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva Creed Southern
Route 6
Mount Airy
W. A. Southern
Flattop
Church Road
Dobson
William Konmard Hodge
Luther Hodge
Robert Montgomery
State Highway Patrol
Southern
Four Surry Communities Earn Honors at Elkin Banquet
Surry County earned recognition Thursday night at the Northwest N C Development Association banquet in Elkin. Salem Fork received 75 dollars for farming improvements, Fiat Rock won 75 dollars in rural poultry, and Poplar Springs earned 125 dollars for new communities. The group totaled 5200 dollars in awards for the 11 county area. Dr. Pierce Harris urged continual learning as media consumption rises. Dr. William H. Plemmons was named the new association president, with John Olive named a new director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surry County
Elkin
Northwest N. C. Development Association
Salem Fork
Fiat Rock
Poplar Springs
Pierce Harris
First Methodist Church
Atlanta
Georgia
William H. Plemmans
Boone
Appalachian State Teachers College
FE. Hight Helms
Were Wilkesboro
John Olive
Mount Airy
State Road Man Burned To Death In Friday Blaze
Olin Lee Rose died in a western Surry County house fire reported around 5 am Friday. Fire officials could not determine a start due to the fire’s advance. Rose served in the U S Marine Corps and is survived by his wife Corina Bates and multiple relatives. Burial followed at Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Road
Surry County
Olin Lee Rose
Dale Pierce
Rose
Pierce
Corina Bates
Tom Bates
Bates
Annes
Rey Kane
Elkin
Harlan County
Charley
Bonnie Norman Rose
U. S. Marine Corps
Ervin Gray Daniel
Route 4
Mocksville
Orville Ray Rose
Route 2
Dobson
Billy Gene Rose
Cincinnati
Hfe
Rachel Rose
Measant Baptist Church
Tommy Johnson
Church
Two Firms Low Bidders On State Road Projects
The North Carolina State Highway Commission announced the apparent low bidders for monthly bids. Sherman Simpson Inc of Mount Airy offered 498 496 40 for 4 644 miles of NC 181 work from SR 1248 near Oak Hill School in Burke County to beyond SR 1445 over the Catawba River in Morganton. Troy Smith Construction Co of Mount Airy bid 182 885 38 for 1 189 miles of grading base and surfaces and for structures on a connector from US 52 north of Stanleyville south about 0 3 miles in Forsyth County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C
Raritans Install New 1964 Officers
Franklin Raritan Club members installed 1964 officers at a regular meeting led by district governor Cheater Simpson. Clinton Moseley heads the group with James Bray as vice president, Douglas Butcher and Wayne Cooke as co secretaries, Johnny Stamper as treasurer, and Reid Vernon as director. The club plans about 75 baskets for shut in residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Raritan Club
Raritan
Cheater Simpson
Clinton Moseley
Vicw
James Bray
Douglas Butcher
Wayne Cooke
Johnny Stamper
Reid Vernon
Mount Airy Christmas Parade Draws Large Crowd
The 1963 Mount Airy Christmas Parade under clear skies drew about 25 000 spectators along Main Street, up from last year. Miss Mount Airy led floats, Emmett Kelly Jr. performed, and Sedita Claus rode a sleigh to end a 45 minute event kicking off the holiday season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy
Main Street
Mount Airy High School
Rawhey Avenue
Cherry Street
Mount
Adult Education Starts Thursday at North Surry High
An adult education course begins Thursday night at 7 36 at the North Surry High School agriculture building. Fred Bond will discuss Flue Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation and there will be other comments on the banco system by a representative from the evading service. More courses will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Surry High School
Fred Bond
C Operative Stabilization Corporation
Methodists Name Delegates to Two 1964 Conferences
The Western N. C. Conference announced committee assignments for 1964 delegates. Robert M. Smith of Mount Airy is named to the General Conference Lay Activities committee in April and to the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference Lay Activities and Temporal Economy committee at Lake Junaluska July 8-12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C
Robert M. Smith
Mount Airy
Lake Junaluska
25 Arrests Recorded During Past Weekend
Mount Airy police records show 25 new cases over the weekend with 17 by local police, five by the sheriff, and three by the state highway patrol. Offenses include ten auto violations ten liquor law violations and five miscellaneous offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy
Sheriff's Department
State Highway Patrol
Archibald McCormick Dies at 72 in Winston-Salem
Funeral for Archibald Grady McCormick 72 of Winston-Salem conducted yesterday at 1:90 o clock. Native of Surry County he died Sunday morning in a nursing home. He lived near Dobson before moving to Winston-Salem about 30 years ago. Burial was in Dobson cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald Grady McCormick
Winston-Salem
McCormick
Surry County
Dobson
Dobson Cemetery
Cinema Gets New Manager
W. E. Hayes takes over as manager of the Cinema Theatre on Main Street replacing George W. Wolfe who moves to another Charlotte area theatre. Hayes is a 31 year old Atlanta native and Marine Corps veteran with five years of prior management experience. He is married to Hazel Webb of Anniston and they have a five year old daughter. The family plans to join him in Mount Airy later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. £. Hayes
Charlotte
Main Street
George W. Wolfe
Wolfe i
Atlanta
Hayes
U. S. Marine Corps
Hazel Webb
Anniston
Ala
Mount Airy
County ACP Group Meet in Dowbone Agriculture Building
The County ACP Development Council will meet Thursday at the agriculture building in Dowbone. County programs are developed by ASC County Committees with local representatives from the Soil Conservation Service Forestry Service extension service and other agricultural agencies to assist with education and technical work for ASCS programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dobeon
ASC
Soil Conservation Service
Forestry Service
Extension Service
Water Sapere
Ratrieets
ASCS
Woman Charged In Sun Wreck On Worth Street
A 1856 Chrysler traveling west on Worth Street Sunday evening around 5 struck a parked 14 Rambler causing about 100 in damages. Kasas Branch of Route 1 Mount Airy was charged with hit and run and operating a car intoxicated. No injuries reported. Trial set in Mount Airy Reeders Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worth Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lions Meeting
Fancy Gap Mountain
Fancy Gap
Santa Claus
Red Cross
Sertoma Awards
Mrs. Southern Was
George and
Leartie Lowe Creed
Wayne Atkins
Janice
Pamea
Longap
Raymond
Bernie
Alfred
Buddy Wayne Creed
Lwean
Roxie Warren
High Point
Ben Brad Oburgh
Mobile
Bob Tannehill
Inverness
Itc
Annette Eller
Calax
Beulah Methodist Church
Rows Francisco
J. S. Gardner
Grover Flippin
Surry Communities
Yale
Jane Davenport
Walkertown
Snappy Hilleville High School
Methodists
Archibald McCormick
Surry
W. L. Hayes
Cinema
Carlton Ewerbart
ACP
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