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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1965
Page
1
Residents of Fancy Gap urge a connector between the new I-77 and US 52 to a location near 775 rather than Va. 608. They contend the linkage would better serve the Fancy Gap area and want construction to begin soon. North Carolina officials attended but did not participate.
Carroll L. Perkins of route 2 Dobson will join a special NDEA Summer Institute at East Carolina from June 16 to August 3. Sixty coordinators of educational media from 30 North Carolina counties and nine other states attend. The program aims to improve instructional materials in public schools. participants receive stipends of 75 dollars weekly plus 15 dollars per dependent. Tuition is free with on campus housing and meals.
Three people were treated at the local hospital after a collision Saturday evening at the North Main Street and West Poplar Street intersection. A 1965 Ford driven by Phil Bullins 16 of Danbury pulled in front of a southbound 1960 Oldsmobile driven by Ioe Wortman Jr. 27 of Mount Airy. The Olds struck the Ford on the right side. three passengers in the Olds Ivo Wortman III Frances Wortman and Frank Baker were hospitalized. Damage totaled about 800 dollars. Bullins was charged with failure to yield the right of way.
Two Mount Airy businessmen, John Gardner and John H. Brown, bought the New Willow Hotel from the G. C. Lovill Estate. They plan to renovate all three floors into office suites, relocate their firm offices to the first floor, and create an 80 car parking area near Franklin and Willow Streets. No sale price or renovation cost estimates were disclosed.
The United Cerebral Palsy Foundation of North Carolina reported Friday on the Mount Airy campaign drive. A total of $1,188.64 was raised for the organization, according to Frances Cathey of Charlotte, campaign director.
The Surry County Agricultural Workers met Thursday at the Agricultural Building in Dobson chaired by John Hewett. They planned the annual county tour for July and heard Judge Carroll Gardner discuss the Economic Opportunity Act and its relevance to Surry County.
A Pilot Mountain woman, Irene Smith Badgett, 55, was treated at Northern Surry Hospital after a collision with a heavy 1964 International tractor on US 52 near Mount Airy. Davie County truck driver Glenn Stevenson Howard, 39, was taken to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. The crash began when a car pulled from Haymore's Service Station prompting Badgett to veer into the northbound tractor side ditch. her Oldsmobile overturned, the cab detached, fuel leaked, and fire crews helped clear debris as Patrolman Buck Edwards investigated.
Mount Airy police will crack down on abandoned vehicles parked on town streets. A reprinted local ordinance bans stopping or parking such vehicles for more than 72 hours. violators will be towed and stored with owners paying retrieval fees.
An escapee who fled during road gang duty in the Pilot Mountain area was recaptured Friday night by prison officials and Surry officers. The man returned to custody Saturday morning at the northern end of Pilot Mountain after being spotted. He said he got a soft drink from a box in front of Denny's Service Station during the night. No charges were filed in that incident. Yadkinville Prison Camp officials took custody.
A North Carolina House approved bill to curb gun use by minors now extends to Surry County. It bans anyone under 12 from possessing or operating air rifles BB guns and pistols unless supervised by a parent. Penalties would be assessed to the parent, not the child.
Walter Franklin Boyles 83 of Pilot Mountain died Friday at his home. A native of Surry County he spent 35 years in the general mercantile business. Survived by wife Mary Frances Venable Boyles four sons four daughters and burial in Pilot Mountain City Cemetery.
Two men arrested in Danbury on break in charges gave fictitious New Mexico identities. They had escaped from an Army stockade at Ft Belvoir Virginia about a month earlier and broke out of Danbury jail gaining three hours freedom before recapture. Investigators question them about break ins across Surry County and a cross state trail from New Mexico to North Carolina.
Funeral for Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Belton Thomas aged 46 of 302 Lenden Lane was held at Bannertown Baptist Church by Rev. Joe Crews. Burial followed at Oakdale Cemetery. Mrs. Thomas, wife of Lester Thomas, died Thursday.
The annual Decoration Day at Union Hill Cemetery near Mountain Fork will be held Sunday June 6 with services at 10 a.m. Claude Harris, cemetery supervisor, requests decorating of graves before the service. Worship follows at Union Hill Regular Baptist Church at 11 a.m. All are invited.
The funeral for Mrs. Gladys Worrell Pruett 64 of 113 W Oakdale St wife of Samuel R Pruett was held at Grace Moravian Church at 2 30 Sunday led by Rev Ray Troutman. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Mrs Pruett died Thursday.
W. B. Oliver, area FHA supervisor in West Jefferson and longtime Surry County administrator, was honored in Washington as one of 72 national recipients. He joined FHA in 1947 after serving with the Resettlement Administration and Civil Works Administration. Oliver received a civil service medal and lapel emblem for his work strengthening rural communities and supporting family farms.
Taylor Inman of the Surry ASCS outlines a uniform pricing plan for the current crop year. Remeasurement costs are $1 per acre with a minimum of $8 per farm, while checking excess acreage disposition costs $5 per farm. The minimum covers farms with a single disposal location. $1 extra is charged for each additional disposal site.
Dobson police reported a burglary at Ray's Pharmacy on courthouse square in Dobson. Entry occurred by forcing the front door while the store was checked earlier and found undisturbed. About $100 in small blue and silver was taken from the cash register. Investigation continues with SBI assistance.
Mount Airy police headquarters logged 32 arrests over the weekend with 17 by police, 13 by sheriff deputies and 2 by state patrol. Liquor violations led with 14 cases, seven were state violations, the rest for miscellaneous offenses.
A Valdez report from PPC Jerry W. Marshall describes Alaska weather with a 44 degree night and 61 degree day high. Sunrise came at 2 09 am and daylight lasted 19 hours 21 minutes. Barrow showed snow at 82 degrees, Nome 37 with snow, Kotzebue rain at 38. Mount Airy mentioned a different temperature.
Galax Va businessman A Glenn Pless president of Pless Furniture Store received the Virginia Small Businessman of the Year honor from Clarence P Moore Richmond SBA regional director. Pless also serves as Virginia Retail Merchants Association president and is vice president of the Southern Retail Furniture Association. He champions local industrial development and sits on the Galax City Council.
Odell Quesinberry 29 of Meadows of Dan Va was killed in a shooting at Alexander's Diner eight miles west of Stuart. Curtis Wimbush 28 of Stuart route 4 held in connection. Wimbush captured about 6 30 am Sunday. Joe Wade 40 of Stuart route 8 treated for stab wounds from an incident about 30 minutes earlier. No relation between the incidents, according to authorities.
Two Mount Airy contractors submitted apparent low bids totaling over 2 million dollars to the State Highway Commission for work on state highways. Sherman Simpson Inc was low bidder on four projects including 11.7 miles in Macon County and 19.28 miles in Cleveland County with bids of 1,062,164.02 and 67,265. E. R. Short and Sons was also among the low bidders.
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