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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1968
Page
1
Northern Surry Hospital trustees approve in principle upgrades costing about 85000 to include heating plant addition flooring for operating room and ICU. Finance committee to explore funding tied to failed 1,000,000 bond issue. Architects are preparing plans with no target completion date.
Mount Airy school board expands summer recreation program to include a third site at South Main Street School. The program, directed by trained staff, will run at Mount Airy Junior High School, Jones School, and South Main Street School, allowing children to enroll at the most convenient location each Monday.
Two Mount Airy ministers were elected at the Western N C Conference annual meeting held at Lake Junaluska to four year terms. The Rev JF Swift Cartner of Franklin Heights Church joined the Conference Commission on Worship, and the Rev D Edwin Bailey of Central Church was chosen for the Conference Committee on World Service and Finance. He will serve a four year term.
The second annual wagon train travels from Jonesville to Galax Virginia with over four thousand attendees at nightly events in Lowgap Longap. Wagon master Roland Mati cues the final leg arriving at Galax fairgrounds tonight for overnight then a Galax parade tomorrow followed by a horse show back in Jonesville. Rain showers along the route did not dampen enthusiasm among travelers using track maul camping gear and simple wagons.
Mount Airy employers face teen labor limits as 125 youths seek summer work. John Taylor of the Employment Security Commission notes 60 percent are female, with 14 to 18 year olds restricted by NC law from hazardous tasks and certain hours. Most over 18 find positions. many graduates plan college or permanent work in business.
Enrollment at Surry Community College Dobson extends through today with 152 students signed for the first summer session. Courses include welding philosophy shorthand remedial math drafting psychology auto mechanics remedial English physical education speech physics and dialogue offered in day or evening sessions.
Mamie s a dress shop at Main and Franklin celebrates expansion and remodeling with a new second floor for sportswear and a refreshed first floor for lingerie hats dresses coats and accessories. Principal operators Mrs Alonzo Mamie Taylor and Mrs Robby Taylor host drawings for free prizes during the grand opening weekend with in store registration.
Market report shows 387 animals sold on Wednesday with top hogs at 1975 dollars and heavy top 10.28 per hundred weight. Calves and cows led by top prices of 33 and 32 respectively, heifers 18 to 2050, steers 19.75 to 25, bulls 18.75 to 23.50. Head prices include heifers 91 to 240 and cows 105 to 215 per head. Dr. Cort KH Flint, pastor at Bannertown Baptist Church, hospitalized at Northern Surry Hospital for back injury. progress reported satisfactory.
Hope Valley directors met Monday to approve a tentative first year budget for the new rehabilitation facility on Prison Camp Road near Dobson. The initial offset seeks $21,400 from community segments and individual, corporate, professional, church and civic group donations to fund operations and a retail division.
Mount Airy officials back a plan to use the North Main Street School as the center for the summer Arts Carnival and a related institute. A $400 local contribution and about $300 from unions aid the project, with renovations under way to create studios for art dance drama and music. The carnival runs July 1 to August 11 and aims to seed a lasting fine arts center in Mount Airy.
The Mount Airy News earns a first place typographic award in the NC Press Association contest as featured by Ed Seneff in The Nation al Publisher. The June 8 issue highlights hot metal composition and head sizing, notes on layout, and publisher James E Johnson's expansion plans. A Oct 13 1967 Autumn Leaves Festival front page reproduction illustrates the review.
The Greater Mount Airy Ministerial Association sponsors a Teen Fellowship at Banner Grove Community Center on Oak Avenue Bannertown tomorrow night at 7 30. It is open to area teens and interdenominational with a western roundup western dress music entertainment and refreshments. The program runs through summer with a 6 30 rehearsal for a Christian musical revue before. Next weekend Greensboro teens present a Christian musical revue titled Coed News.
Greenwood of West Lebanon Street Mount Airy is a surgical patient at Forsyth Memorial Hospital in Winston-Salem. Members of his family report he is recuperating satisfactorily.
Kelley Ray Combs 28 of Lambsburg Va was struck by lightning Tuesday afternoon while walking on a highway near his home and died at the scene. Dr Joseph Early medical examiner said he was dead when found beside the road. Funeral services were held yesterday at Lambstore Holiness Church at 2 pm. He was born in Carroll County Va to Lafayette and Ruby Spencer Combis. Surviving are three sisters Ferell Blackburn Jessie Hawks Donsie Bryant and two brothers Paul Combs Gene Combs. Burial was in Chestnut Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery.
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