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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
4
The item notes that Mount Airy N C mails are entered as second class matter at the post office under the act of Congress dated March 6 1872.
A compact, period style quotation excerpt contrasts Carlyle's评价 of gentleness with a sharp view of public shaming and reputation. The fragment hints at human folly and the danger of misjudging others in social discourse.
Airy launches its city recreation program with boys and girls basketball leagues from Carolina Duke Wake Forest and Salem. five senior softball teams form. first dance draws eighty youths. weekly dances Fridays 8 to 11 PM. gym hours 9:30–11:30 AM and 7–9 PM. park supervision 2:30–4:30 PM.
An annual home coming service will be held at New Hope Baptist Church six miles west of Dobson next Sunday. Rev. Fred Journey announces worship with special singing and a picnic dinner on the grounds. Attendees are invited to bring well filled baskets.
Vacation Bible School at the First Baptist Church begins Friday afternoon at 3 30 with registration and a short program. It continues Monday through Friday June 12 to 16 each morning 9 00 to 11 30 for children ages four to fourteen with three departments beginners primaries and juniors.
Lindsay Holcomb and Wade Stepp of Macon Georgia won the $150 Walking Horse Championship Stakes with Peggy Bonner and also took first in the mare class. Wade C Moody owned and rode Miss Black Out to third in the Championship and second in the mare class at the First Annual Lions Club Horse Show in Winston-Salem.
Sgt Tuttle B Pardue Jr husband of Mrs Vergie Good Pardue of this city is now located in England at an Air Service Command Station His next post will be a base from which U S bombers launch against the Nazi war machine Before enlisting he was a clerk at Hollingsworth Drug Store.
Mr and Mrs Alfred M Goodwin left Thursday for Raleigh where he sells his stake in Mount Airy Supply Co and resumes his former job. They occupied Carter apartments on Church street and will leave furniture behind while seeking a new home in Raleigh after selling their prior residence.
A. A. Alford announces a Bond Premiere of Gary Cooper in Story of Dr Wassell at Center Theatre as part of the Fifth War Loan Drive starting June 12. Admission by War Bond Series E. show date Sunday June 18. No tickets sold at the lobby booth until June 12. The event aims for a capacity crowd to boost bond sales.
James and Thomas Elder brothers known as the elder twins have been accepted for service and assigned to Camp Peary Virginia for basic training.
Miss Sara Yokley daughter of Oscar Yokley of this city earned a BA in Journalism at UNC Chapel Hill where she won the Ernest H Abernethy Publications Award for the senior with the year's best contribution to publications. She was also named by students as the co ed most likely to succeed. She will work on a Tar Heel edition while remaining at Chapel Hill.
Victory gardens in Mount Airy begin to pay dividends as Mrs. Lola Mabe of Pine Street reports harvesting beans on June 5 along with headed cabbage and beets for canning.
James Franklin Jones aged 82 died at his home on Hines avenue. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James F. Jones and was twice married, first to Catherine Rotterbury who died in 1912, then to Effie Taylor Moss who survives him. Surviving are Lottie Dinkins, Bob and Glenn Jones, James Jones, and Miss Juanita Jones with several grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Old Hollow Church at 2 p m Thursday with burial at Old Hollow Cemetery.
Sgt. Frank Osborne arrives in Mount Airy after 14 months with a bombing squadron in China. He recalls inflation and currency rates, describes turret gunner duties, and shares details from a base near Japanese forces. His brother Sgt. Emmett Osborne, via radar studies, comes home from Miami.
Soldiers returning from China exchange Chinese dollars for American currency at favorable rates, with black market gains possible if bought at extreme discounts. Set. Osborne, once based in India with Gen. Haynes and Gen. Chenault, praises both officers before resuming air corps duty in Washington. Return flight routed via India, South Africa, South America ending in Miami.
At an Indian camp Sgt. Osborne spotted a man he thought he knew and confirmed it after the film ended. The man was Frank Martin of Poplar Camp Virginia, his first cousin and a crew member flying supplies over the Hump into China.
Chester Mays has returned to Norfolk Virginia after visiting his wife daughter and other relatives here.
Corporal Pog Clark of Mount Airy North Carolina and wife Mrs Clara F Clark leads 45th Thunderbird Division with the Fifth Army in Italy. He has been promoted to sergeant and serves as a squad leader near the Italian front.
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