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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1954
Page
2
Mount Airy High School reports 108 students named to the final honor roll for the period. Senior leaders include 34 students, followed by 27 freshmen, 24 juniors, and 24 sophomores. The announcement lists numerous names of honor students.
Mrs Lester Brown hosted a luncheon at her Dobson Mill road home near Pilot Mountain for bride elect Miss Josephine Thore. She will marry Jordan Charles Ploch of Normandy Beach New Jersey on June 26 at First Baptist Church Pilot Mountain. Guests included Miss Marjorie Thore maid of honor and other relatives and bridesmaids.
Mrs. George L. Caraway Jr visits with Mr. and Mrs. James Dunn in Winston-Salem for a week of social calls and shared time.
Cpl Luther W Brown of Westfield and his Heth Military Police Company in Korea received their third Meritorious Unit Commendation for security duty at Eighth Army headquarters. Brown has served overseas since May 1969, entered the Army in September 1962, and trained at Fort Riley. He previously worked for Western Electric in Greensboro. his parents Mr and Mrs C W Brown live in Westfield.
Mr and Mrs Emory Bray entertained a group of out of school girls and boys with a picnic lunch at their Blue Ridge Parkway cabin. Attendees included Debby Hauser Charter Carter Mary Catherine Carter George Pace Marilyn Petrick James Merritt Betty Jo Bray and J C Kirkman.
June garden guidance covers dividing and transplanting iris jonquils daffodils tulips and Dutch iris. Prune stake and tie dahlias and tomatoes, mulch to reduce problems, side-dress sweet corn with nitrate when knee high, and give the lawn a top dressing.
This item highlights a single floor plan emphasizing comfort convenience and economy. It notes spacious room dimensions ample closet space and an efficient arrangement. Exterior lines reflect pride of ownership and includes a mail order offer with design number and price.
The article advises watering vegetables with about one inch per week during summer heat, either by rain or irrigation, to protect quality at critical times. It suggests sowing tomatoes, collards, and broccoli in June or early July for fall harvest, using wilt resistant tomato varieties, and notes fall crops benefit from July to August sowing to mature before freezes.
The plant tolerates some flat conditions but can suffer severe harm at times. DeCicco proves a suitable garden choice for North Carolina climates and soils when managed carefully.
Graveside services were held at Oakdale Cemetery for Lyman A Williams 65 who died Tuesday in a Chicago hospital after a long illness. He was born October 5 1888 in Chapel Hill son of Alfred and Hallie Williams married Susie Hodge November 10 1910. He lived in Chicago where he worked 36 years as a Pullman conductor and was secretary treasurer of the Pullman System Order of Railway Conductors for 20 years. The body arrived here Saturday and Rev K Carrington Paulette of First Baptist Church officiated. Brief services were held in Chicago Wednesday.
James P. Platek of Battle Creek Michigan selected a sleepy parking spot near a railroad in Omaha Nebraska. A freight train approached as two youths pulled him from the car. The vehicle was demolished and Platek was fined 25 dollars for illegal parking.
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