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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1948
Page
2
State Sen Rivers Johnson says Kerr Scott opposed tobacco farmers in 1939 and quotes Scott in a radio speech. Johnson accuses Scott of political manipulation and notes Scott’s East tour as part of a primary campaign effort.
In Bismarck North Dakota nurses report panties vanished from hospital drying lines over months. Police planted a photographer near the line. On the second night a man, 28, was caught as a prowler reached the line and a flash bulb flashed. He confessed to raiding the lines for over four years.
Kerr Scott is accused of political reversal from opposing NC public health programs to courting merchants and civic clubs. Critics say his 1947 Assembly record included sharp attacks on those groups, while supporters view the switch as pragmatic politics.
The Lowgap Boosters elected a program committee to provide community entertainment each month in summer. They introduced Mr Wolfe of Mountain Park as next year's principal. Baseball beat Fairview then lost to Beulah with Junior Lowe hitting two homers and a triple. Upcoming games: Beulah at Lowgap and Coal Creek at Coal Creek. Mr and Mrs Monroe Lowe and son from California visiting. Sterling Lowe caught a 24 inch brown trout weighing 3 pounds in Cooper Creek. Deputy Sheriff Pearl the Ramey bagged the limit in several hours. Take the first right hand road above Lowgap and park at A C Lowes lumber.
Sunday Mrs. Gladys Christian Katheryn Hendricks and Helen Watson attend summer school at State Teacher's College East Radford as part of a local education program
A list of hospital admissions including surgical and medical patients from multiple towns such as Westfield Fancy Gap Galax Ararat Pilot Mountain and Stuart. Births noted for Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Smith June 16 and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cruise June 15. Several discharges and a long roster of patients and guardians listed.
A guest at Joseph Jones’s home in Llanfachreth Wales opened a door to a horse in the hall. She alerted firemen who escorted the horse named Dobbin back to its owner without injury or further incident.
Dr C Sylvester Green will supply the pulpit at the First Baptist Church Sunday morning for the 11 o’clock worship service. His sermon topic is The Cry Of A Reclaimed Soul.
Virginia residents report land purchases by Elliott Tilley from C A Simmons on Mount Aliry Stuart Highway and Jimmy Craughn buying Herbert Culler farm near Brim. Mr and Mrs A R Vaughn spent the weekend with friends as the Brim family hosts relatives including Mrs Raymond Brown of Dobson. Dale Rierson and daughter Charlotte Lou visit Mary Jessup on Route 2 and Emmett Culler in Brim with Brim, Va.
Packard Motor Car Company announces an across the board 13 cent per hour raise for hourly workers with higher boosts in many classifications and a 9 percent raise for non executive employees with a $20 minimum monthly. President George T Christopher also reveals new car price increases of about 5.7 percent, ranging from $75 to unspecified amounts, due in the third quarter of 1947, to cover rising material costs.
Ernest F. Hedge from Cambridge sued after a bus accident where his head was bumped. A sympathetic court awarded him 3000 dollars in damages for the loss of his sense of smell.
The story notes a mother with eight children seeking a permanent home after eviction from a rented apartment last December. Police reported no serious problem handling the situation as she asserts repeated landlord refusals and a desire to settle.
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