Stick With Jordan Favor Bowles In Surry County Races
Surry voters favored state and local winners in the May primary. Bowles Holshouser Ingram Creel won county races while Galifianakis bested Jordan statewide. turnout was light but totals rose to about 1,100. Officials planned an official review the next day and a full precinct tabulation appeared on page 8A.
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Surry County
Surry
Hargrove
Skipper
Jim Holshouser
Jim Gardner
Boone
Gardner
Holshouser
John Ingram
Russell Secrest
Ingram
Car Hits Pole Injuring No One In Mount Airy
Lee Shelton 6 of Toast told Mount Airy police he sought a side street when his car veered from Lebanon Street and struck an electric utility pole at 11 10 am Thursday. Damage to the 1963 Chevrolet was about 150 dollars. no charges were filed.
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Lee Shelton
Toast
B. J. Williams
Mount Airy
Lebanon Street
Shelton
Willow Street
Sgt. Williams
Mount Airy Police Record 25 Arrests in 12 Hour Span
Mount Airy police logged 25 arrests from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. yesterday. Of the charges, eight were liquor law violations, eight were auto related including five drunken driving counts, and the remainder covered miscellaneous offenses. Tilot Mountain State Park attendance for the week ending Sunday totaled 4,088, per park superintendent Larry Milten.
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Mount Airy
Tilot Mountain State Park
Larry Milten
Curve Claims Seventh Eight Victims Of Year
Two more truckers died on Fancy Gap Curve along US 32 as a tractor trailer loaded with steel plunged down the mountain. Workmen heard a racketFriday morning as the fatal incident echoed earlier deaths on Tate Curves.
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Curve
Fancy Gap Curve
Fancy Gap
C. E. Pennington
Forsyth County
Larry Joe
Debbie Smith to Represent Mount Airy in N C Pageant
Debbie Smith, the reigning Miss Mount Airy, is recovering from surgery and plans to attend the state pageant in Charlotte. She was released from Northern Surry Hospital and will modify her performance to suit her recuperation while chaperone Linda Gray will accompany her during the week of judging.
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Debbie Smith
Mount Airy
Miss Smith
Linda Gray
Mount Airy Faycettes
Ovens Auditorium
Mount
Dies In Vietnam Rites Pending for Sgt Mont Smoot
Funeral services for Sgt. Mont Steven Smoot 22 of Mount Airy are incomplete awaiting the body at Moody Funeral Home. He died Thursday in Vietnam with the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Bien Hoa details unavailable. He was born in Surry County to Mont and Pauline Smoot and was a 1968 North Surry High School graduate. He attended Surry Community College before enlisting in December 1970. Surviving are his parents three sisters and a brother. The page only partially lists the full obituary.
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Mont Steven Smoot
Mount Airy
Moody Funeral Home
Smoot
Vietnam
Bien Hoa
Surry County
Mont and
Pauline Centry Smoot
North Surry High School
Surry
Darrell Hawks Os Dean
Ronald Hawks
Charlotte
John D. Smoot
Women Lead Cavity Prevention Drive Across State
The State Board of Health Dental Health Division promotes plaque control to prevent tooth decay. Women volunteers learn daily brushing and flossing techniques at demonstrations in Dobson and will train home economics clubs to spread the program across counties and regions.
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State Board of Health
Dental Health Division
Dobson
Methodists Head For Conference in Western N C Area
Ministers depart tomorrow for the Western N C Conference at Lake Junaluska. Before the business session ends a number of area pastors will officially receive reassignment. Several local ministers have heard of pending transfers but await conference approval this month. The conference closes Sunday.
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Jordan
Bowles
Taylor
Boone Man
Billy Creel
John C. Brooks
Nick Galifianakis
Durham
U. S. Senate
Downing
B. Everett Jordan
Elections Board
Mount Airy No
Jones School
Joe Watts
Jane Patterson
Board of Elections
Marge Folger
Jamie Key
Bryant
Surry Co
Debbie
N. C
M. 8. Smoot
H. D
Duke) Fowler
Martha Myers
Wilkes County —News
Methodists
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