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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1945
Page
5
Horticultural specialist H R Niswonger urges farmers to cultivate after rain and plant vegetables. Plans for small grain harvests and tobacco cultivation are outlined. Advice covers hay crops, pest control, fertilization, and strawberry bed thinning with yield notes.
Obituary notices for Orange Savannah King aged 79 of Ararat Virginia recount a sudden death and family survivors including three sons and three daughters. The piece also reports Dr. I O Schaub and James Silver outlining new 1945 fish pond stocking policies effective May 1 and showcases 4 H summer programs under J Sam Gentry with poultry project visits and plans for shows in Winston Salem with hundreds of pullets and entries expected.
Pfc. Herbert White writes from Germany to his mother Mrs. J. G. White in Brim Virginia. He describes cold May weather, rain, wet letters and candy, bombed city views, damaged buildings, trenches of bombed cars, Rhur valley scenery and a highway that survived intact. He mentions Gladys and Howell and notes Howell was wounded.
William Henry McGee age 21 son of William Ernest and Alma Hodges McGee died at his Route 2 home Sunday afternoon after about a year's illness. He is survived by his mother and three sisters Mrs Burgess Mrs Monday and Mrs Kirk. Funeral at home Tuesday then Lowe's Grove Church near Durham where burial followed.
Mount Airy football star Harry Monday travels to Wake Forest University for summer school and football practice under coach D. Walker. He recently graduated from Mount Airy High School and has drawn interest from Duke and Carolina. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Monday of Mount Airy.
Funeral services for Pete Hicks 43 were held Monday afternoon at his home with Rev. Lonnie Fleming and Rev. Gurney Holder officiating. Burial was in Old Hollow Cemetery. Survived by widow Mary Branson Hicks four sons Ralph Eugene Edgar and P D Hicks two daughters Geneva Hicks mother Mrs J A Wilson and brothers Howard Arlis Arnold one half brother Lester Cor one sister Mrs Harris and grandchildren.
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