Handicapped Children's Center Committees Named
At a Reeves YMCA meeting Mount Airy Handicapped Children's Center named standing committees led by Mike Malmo new president and board chair. A physical therapist is sought as urgent. speed reading and remedial reading plus special education classes are highlighted as valuable.
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Reeves Ymca
Mike Malmo
Mount Airy
Malmo
Jimmy Shaw
William Merritt
Ed Early
Robert Chilton
Trent Harkrader
Buck White
Vance Cox
Charlies Sykes
R. M. Caldwell
Garland Warren
Raymond
Schools Close Third Time In Surry County Weather
Surry County schools released students Tuesday morning due to potential heavy snow. Supt. J. Sam Gentry notes this is the third weather-related day lost this year, extending the term to May 31 with potential Saturday sessions if more time is lost.
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Surry County
Supt
J. Sam Gentry
Gentry
Graves elected President of Reeves YMCA
Ben K. Graves was elected President of the Reeves YMCA at a board meeting. Also chosen for one year were Locke Webb as First Vice-President Bruce Yakley as Second Vice-President Frank Smith as Treasurer and Thomas Faw as Secretary. Graves is a Mount Airy businessman and active civic leader.
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Ben K. Graves
Reeves Ymca
Graves
Locke Webb
Bruce Yakley
Secom
Frank Smith
Thomas Faw
Mount Airy Mantel and Table Company
Mount Airy
City Planning Board
Merchants Name New 63 Officers At Mount Airy Dinner
The Mount Airy Merchants Association elected Gary Pruett president for the coming year at a Tuesday night meeting at the Blu Vue Restaurant. New officers include B A Jarvis as vice president, Doyle Perdue as treasurer, and M A Thomas as State Director. The group outlined plans such as a Downtown Canopy project and 22 other progress initiatives to boost local business. Outgoing president Paul Taylor presided and stressed collective effort and cooperation.
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Merchants Association
Blu- Vue
Paul Taylor
Hollingsworth Drug Company
Gary Pruett
Pruett
Youthwear
B. A. Jarvis
Merritt's Hardware
Doyle Perdue
F. Rees Clothing
M. A. Thomas
J. C. Penney
The
Boyce
Joe King
James Jatgraves
Dennis Moody
Camb
Day Gary Pruett
Paul T M
Market Report from Mount Avy Livestock Market
Quotations from Wednesday at Mount Avy Livestock Market show top hogs at 16 dollars with sown 11.40 and 215.50, top calves 832.04, heavy tops 31, No 2 pen 2845, steers 21.75, heifers 12.50 to 20.50, cows 7 to 15.75, bulls 14.25 to 18.50. Heifers by head 66 to 150, cows by head 102.50 to 167.50.
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Mount Avy
Churches To Engage In Religious Census
The churches of Mount Airywall engage in a religious census on Sunday afternoon. April 24. The committee to handle the details of the census follows: Oren Bradley general director. Howard B. Yow mapping. D. D. McCarty materia. Kenneth Wilson enlistment. Gales Bowman armaments. Ray Troutman publicity.
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Mount Airywall
Oren Bradley
Howard B. Yow
D. d. McCarty
Kenneth Wilson
Gales Bowman
Ray Troutman
County Board OK's Aid To New Airport
The Surry County commissioners at a special meeting discussed aiding a modern airport near US 52 between Pilot Mountain and Mount Airy. Residents raised about 56,000 from private donors, with 37,500 pledged by local towns and industries. The project aims for a federally approved 4,000 foot runway and a total value near a quarter million dollars.
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Surry County
H. ©. Waltz
John Banner, Jr
H. B. Rowe
Mount Airy
Pilot Mountain
Buck White
Howard Hardy
Siloam
Marion C
Muster Day Slated By National Guard
Mount Airy marks National Guard Muster Day with a February 22 proclamation by Mayor Ed Clark. The drive, Operation Muster 1063, includes an open house on Monday Wednesday and Thursday with a veterans focused film shown Thursday at 8 p.m.
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National Guard
Ed Clark
Mount Airy
Guard
Social Security Representative Assigned to Surry County
Barbara G Garland named Social Security representative for Surry County with new office space at MADOC Recreation Center Mount Airy. She schedules office hours Tuesdays 9 to 1 and interviews Wednesdays by appointment. Fridays in Elkin and rest of week in county. Garland, Robin s onville native, born in Winston Salem, is a graduate of East Carolina Teachers College with BS and has six and a half years with Social Security. She has two children Hal, five, and Ann, seven.
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Barbara G. Garland
Surry County
Housing Authority
Mount Airy
Madoc Recreation Center
Virginia St
Elkin
Garland
Robinsonville
East Carolina Teachers College
Social Security Service
Rocky Mount
Hal
Ann
Winston-Salem
Shoot-Out Erupts at Southern 500 Truck Stop
A week-long feud culminated in a gun battle at the Southern 500 Truck Stop near Mount Airy. Thurmond Combs was shot four times, and Winfred and Floyd Montgomery fired on him and each other. The Montg omerys fled, were caught on Virginia plates, and jailed pending charges of assault with a deadly weapon and intent to kill.
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US 62
Mount Airy
Dallas Coe
Surry County
Route 2
Ararat
Winfred Montgomery
Floyd M. Montgomery
Jackson Heights
N. Y
Mercury
Combs
The
New York
Combe
Floyd Montgomery
Winfred
Coe
Floyd
Montgomerys
Montgomery
Virginia
Hillaville
Surry Hospital
Charres
Hundred Sign Area Watershed Petition For Aid
Approximately 100 landowners in the Stewarts and Lovills Creek Watershed Improvement area signed a petition to form a legal watershed improvement district. Surry Soil Conservation Service reports progress in surveys and conservation planning including flood retarding structures, windbreaks, rotation of crops, terraces, strip cropping, waterways, and grass or tree planting on steeper lands.
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Stewarts and
Lovills Creek
Fred Patterson
Surry Soil Conservation Service
Patterson
Ralph Hardy
Hardy
Peter Jessup
Pilot Mountain
Breeders Cooperative to Hold Monday Meeting in Dobson
The Sarry Breeders Cooperative will hold its annual meeting Monday at 7:30 PM in the Agricultural Building, Dobson. President Troy Horton will preside with speakers Fred Knott from N C State Extension, and John Brown of the American Breeders Service.
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The
Sarry Breeders Cooperative
Dobson
Troy Horton
Fred Knott
N. C. State College
John Brown
American Breeders Service
United Fund Annual Meet Set Next Week
The Greater Mount Airy United Fund will hold its annual meeting at the Reeves YMCA Monday at 8:15 p.m. Marjorie Yakley, president, says member agencies will report on progress and new programs. Awards will honor groups qualified in the 1962 63 drive and new directors will be elected. The fund aims to raise 1800 to meet the goal.
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Greater Mount Airy United Fund
Reeves Ymca
Marjorie Yakley
United Fund
Upset Stomach Is Really Twins Surprise Birth
In Eldora, a woman misjudged her due date as she suffered a severe upset stomach over the weekend. She and her newborn twin boys, weighing five and a half pounds and six and a half pounds, were treated at Northern Surry Hospital and later discharged home with two older brothers in the household.
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Surry Hospital
Wallance
Doors Open Tuesday On New Branch Bank
The First National Bank of Mount Airy opens its new branch Tuesday at 9 am at the NC 89 and Franklin Road intersection in the Toast community. Garnett Fawcett, 12-year bank veteran, will manage. The brick Early American style facility was built by George Black, with a drive-in window and four teller cages.
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First National Bank of Mount Airy
NC 89
Franklin Road
Garnett Fawcett
First National
Doris
Bud
Len
T. G. Fawcett
North Main Street
First National Bank
George Black
Winston-Salem
Nina
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Raves
Ben Graves
Merchants Name New
Taylor
Ems
Jarvis
Thomas
Perdue
Market Report
County Board OK
Whitener
State Road
Whitaker
J. W. Roland Gillespie
Haseen
Frank Moore
Bill Hodges
Taft Moser
Moser
Mrs. Garland
Hundred Sign Area
Breeders Cooperative
Eldora
Fawcett
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