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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1944
Page
3
A reader criticizes locals who complain about wartime burdens while soldiers endure danger. The response argues for understanding, noting a hometown hero and five comrades behind enemy lines capturing prisoners. The writer urges education of indifferent civilians without endorsing hardship at home.
The Red Cross through Mrs. W. E. Merritt Jr. urges balanced diets for all families and especially school children. She notes breakfast, nutritious noon and evening meals, and limits on snacks, with daily milk, fruit, vegetables, and protein. Rural outreach by Mrs. Grace Pope Brown supports Home Demonstration Clubs to improve feeding.
Under an order of the Superior Court of Surry County a commission will sell at Farmers Bank Pilot Mountain NC a 16 acre tract of Ruth Ella Wagner land by cash bid. Deposit 5 percent. Sale starts at 655.20 with confirmation to follow. December 8 1944. Fred Folger and W R Badgett, commissioners.
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