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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1977
Page
8
Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller ends his political career with a farewell dinner in New York attended by 2200 guests including Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger. Rockefeller hinted at future plans but did not disclose them.
Mrs Edith C Paradis from Arthabaska Quebec Canada came to North Carolina to attend the June 4 wedding of her son Jean Noel Paradis and Mary Charlotte Cooper in Pilot Mountain. She had lived with the James R Martin family in Dobson as a four year exchange student and praised Surry County. Other Canadian relatives attended including Mr and Mrs Roger Croteau Mr and Mrs Jean Paul Carignan Miss Alice Paradis and Mr and Mrs Jean Louis Giguere the godfather.
Katherine Comer 15 of Dobson is named a finalist in the 1977 North Carolina United Teenager Pageant in Fayetteville with finals in Washington D C. She could win trips, scholarships, and an expense paid trip to the national finals in December with cash awards totaling $15,000 plus a new car, appearance contract, and wardrobe funds.
Sue Bauquess Construction is removing 61 year old cornice at the historic 1916 Dobson Courthouse to inspect brick behind it. The six day project proceeds as Surry County considers brick repairs and stucco finish. Community events include the Surry County Democratic Convention at the courthouse and library programs for children and summer bookmobile stops.
Evangelist Billy Graham praised Anita Bryant for standing against homosexuality yet said he is not called to join any anti sin group. He urged vigilance that high visibility religious movements may risk compromising convictions. In Marshall authorities charged four people in two Tennessee and Colorado deaths linked to missing men Norton and Hudgins whose decomposing bodies were found in Madison County.
Leslie Van Houten testified she could not say she would kill her father if ordered by Charles Manson. She described a confused state of mind during the August 1969 LaBianca killings and said Manson sought to kill a preacher and stage a cross ritual. Her first degree murder conviction with Manson was overturned last year due to ineffective counsel. her attorney died during the trial.
Kim V. Hill, a junior at Lynchburg Virginia's RMWC, has been named to the Dean's List for the spring semester for outstanding second semester academic work.
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