Mount Airy Briefs Highlight Local Water and Parks
Local notes report Mount Airy tops in state water purity. Floyd Poore Park water lilies bloom daily from sunrise to sunset. Calls grow for a municipal swimming pool as private pools are scarce. Volunteer workers support Bible schools countywide. Surry County Health Office has fresh white enamel paint. News correspondents urged to mail weekly by Wednesday.
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Floyd Poore Park
Mount Airy
Surry County
Major Haynes Leads Third U S Goodwill Flight
Major Vance Haynes again pilots a flying fortress on a goodwill mission for the United States. The body of Sabaria, the Mexican aviator who died in an earlier Boling Field crash, was aboard as Haynes departed from Boling Field for Mexico City. The Mount Airy party witnessed the takeoff after the coffin was placed aboard the plane.
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Mount Airy
Vance Haynes
United States
Pranciseco Sarabia
Boling Field
Washington
Sabaria
Mexico
Linberg
Mexico City
New York
C. H. Haynes
Major Haynes
Lucile Haynes
Lester Haynes
Sarabia
Major Haynes called to national duty with air missions
The passage notes Major Haynes being chosen for significant wartime flights to Argentina and to deliver medicine to Chile after an earthquake, highlighting the high esteem placed on him by the War Department and officials in Washington.
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South America
Argentina
Chile
Haynes
War Department
Washington
Lutheran Service Here Sunday
Rev. Virgil A. Cameron of Willis Va will preach Sunday at 2 30 in the Moody Funeral Home chapel. He aims to organize a Lutheran church here with local Lutheran support and invites Lutherans and others to attend the service.
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Virgil A. Cameron
Willis Va
Moody Funeral Home
Cameron
W F Carter Jr Reelected Mount Airy Merchants President
Mount Airy Merchants Association named W F Carter Jr president for the year at a Monday meeting. W S Wolfe is vice president and Wayne Boyles treasurer with committees for Finance and Membership. A drive to establish a credit bureau and hire a full time secretary continues with Wolfe serving as interim secretary.
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W. F. Carter, Jr
Mount Airy Merchants
The
Mount Airy Merchants Association
W.S. Wolfe
Wayne Boyles
H. M. Foy
Joe Hollingsworth
Wolfe
G. L. Byerly
R. R. Jack
Workmen's Building and Loan Association Holds 29th Annual Meeting
The Workmen's Building and Loan Association held its 29th annual meeting at City Hall with about 1700 stockholders attending. Secretary R D George reported on association business and the current debts, and the board of directors was re elected for another year led by W G Brydnor who has chaired the meeting 20 times. The director roster includes Moody Martin Sobotta Williamson Lovill Webb Barber Worrell Sparger Sydnor and M Sparger with Sydnor to serve as president for the new year.
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Workmen's Building and Loan Association
R. D. George
W. G. Brydnor
Association
W. C. Moody
M. 8. Martin
John Sobotta
B. H. Williamson
G. C. Lovill
A. G. Webb
T. C. Barber
Joe Hollingsworth
T. H. Worrell
Geo. W. Sparger
W. G. Sydnor
M. N. Sparger
M. H. Spar
Cripple Clinic Date Set For June 23
Dr. R B A Moore of Winston Salem will conduct the clinic on June 23.
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Cripple Clinic
RB. A. Moore
Winston- Salem
Court At Dobson Makes A Record
The Dobson court term led by Judge Felix Alley set a local record as the sheriff was not charged with selling liquor to white friends. A road sentence was suspended with a promise to stay out of town. Burnie Norman faced assault charges and was ordered to serve time on the county farm. Sheriff H S Boyd notes it is the first term without transporting prisoners to prison.
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Dobson
Felix Alley
Alley
Burnie Norman
H. 8
Boyd
Park Opens Tuesday At New Recreation Center
Mount Airy firms donated to the new directed-recreational center project. Granite City Motor Company Surry Sales Co Barber Hosiery Mills Mount Airy Inc contributed this week. Plans for Scout Camp Pine Kraft improvements are underway and the Kiwanis Club will wire the building for nighttime use.
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Mount Airy
Granite City Motor Company
Surry Sales Co
Barber Hosiery Mills
Mount Airy Inc
Pine Kraft
Kiwanis Club
Judge Llewellyn Announces Liquor Purge in Surrey County
In a Monday Recorder's Court session Judge H H Llewellyn challenged officers and the solicitor to curb illegal liquor sales. He urged the solicitor to review records for prohibition violators and to return nol pros cases for trial. The purge follows trials of Fred Jarrell Early Jarrell and J C Parker for liquor for sale.
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H. H. Llewellyn
Surry County
Recorder’s Court
Llewellyn
Recorder's Court
Tetanus Fatal To Young Man After Motorcycle Injury
Robert William Bilizard about 25 died from lockjaw at Martin Memories Hospital after a heel injury during a motorcycle ride. He was treated too late and interment followed at Oakdale Cemetery with services on Monday.
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Robert Willam Bilizard
Martin Memories Hospital
Hay Street
Mrs. R. Schafer Injured in Fall
Mrs. R. Schafer of this city confined in Greensboro Hospital for two weeks with an injured spine. She fell while visiting her son’s home in Greensboro and is improving satisfactorily. She hopes to return to her son's home soon.
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R. Schafer
Greensboro
Schafer
Lester Nunn Escapes Surry Prison Farm
Lester Nunn who had been convicted of drunken driving and sentenced to four months at the Surry county prison farm near Dobson escaped about 8 o clock Thursday morning. Bloodhounds tracked him toward Mount Airy in the afternoon but gave up due to the heat. He was expected to reach Mount Airy Thursday night as authorities searched the area.
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Lester Nunn
Surry County
Dobson
Mount Airy
Nunn
Carroll County Official Fatally Injured in Auto Crash
Carroll County Revenue Commissioner and former county treasurer, age 68, died after a collision on a highway near Danville Virginia. Semones, a 12 year official and Republican candidate, was gravely injured when his car collided with a Florida vehicle. both cars were wrecked. He leaves two sons and two daughters. funeral was held in Hillsville.
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Danville
Semones
Florida
Plovdia
Rev W A Simmons at Oak Grove Baptist Church
Reverend W A Simmons will preach at Oak Grove Baptist Church in this section. The Seal brothers will provide music for the service.
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W. A. Simmons
Oak Grove
Oak Grove Baptistizing
Seal Brothers
Joe Greenwood to Build Large Farmers Warehouse on Virginia Street
Joe Greenwood has won the contract for a new tobacco warehouse to be built by Jones Bros. on Virginia street. The Farmers Warehouse will span 124 feet on the south side of Virginia below Willow, with 30 000 square feet of floor space, steel beams, brick front, and aim to double selling capacity for the tobacco season. Planters Warehouse repairs continue under Posey Tom and Frank Jones, boosting Mount Airy’s tobacco handling capacity to over half a million pounds daily.
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Virginia Street
Jones Bros
Joe Greenwood
Farmers Warehouse
Tom Jones
Willow Street
Posey Jones
Frank Jones
Planters
Aey Eee Dansee
Surrys Sail Boat Goes Down To Sea
Will D Merritt's large two mast sail boat nearing completion sits on a trailer at Swansboro after being moved from nearby construction sites. The craft features a 38 inch draft a 1600 pound lead keel a nine knot auxiliary engine and cabin space for four plus provisions.
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Surry
Will D. Merritt
Atlantic Ocean
Swansboro
Mr. Merritt
Two Auto Crashes Inside Mount Airy Within Week
A Mount Airy week featured two separate auto crashes. In the West Levan area a vehicle owned by Hemings injured four occupants including a Bennett boy. driver undetermined. Mrs Joyce, driving another car, injured Miss Craddod and her son, both with minor injuries. A police hearing led to bonds for Mrs Joyce and Mr Edwards on reckless driving charges, with the case set for the recorders court.
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Mount Airy
Harry Joyce
Miss Craddod
Police Department
R. E. Lawrence
Goliciter
Westmoreland
Joyce
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First Baptist Church
Wade K. McKinney
University of North Carolina, Chapel
Acx
B. & Cease Association
Mt. Airy
Recorders Court
Robert W. Blizard
Carroll County
Creed C. Semones
Hillsville
Fur Pleasure
Merritt
Atlantic Seaboard
Keys of
Piorida
Virginia Craddock
West Ppeenan
West Levanoo Ulan
Relk
Oak Grove Bible School
Leroy Scott
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