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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1965
Page
1
After three days of frigid air a warming trend began with clearing skies and temperatures climbing from the mid 50s to the 60s. June rainfall totals have reached about four inches with two and a half more today, prompting mixed feelings among farmers. Reeves YMCA pool closed earlier for cold wet weather and hopes to reopen as warmth returns.
The funeral for Nancy Ella Brannock 77 of 408 Junction Street Mount Airy was conducted at Moody Funeral Home chapel. She died Wednesday at Northern Surry Hospital. She was born in Stokes County to Sam and Betty Flippin Beasley. Surviving are her husband Charlie Brannock a son Bill Brannock Mt Airy a daughter Ia Wolfe Mt Airy and a sister Ida Laing New York City. Burial was in Oakdale Cemetery.
Lowell Hiatt 22 son of Mr and Mrs Louie Hiatt Route 1 Mount Airy will deliver homecoming address Sunday at 6 30 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Sheltontown after a two year mission in the northwestern United States. Church leaders invite the public to attend.
Britt Penn 34-year-old store operator will face a murder hearing Tuesday in Mount Airy Recorder's Court. The victim, 22-year-old Clayton Moore of Reeves Road, died after a Saturday shooting at Penn's Ward's Gap Road store.
Quotations from Wednesday sale show top hogs at 24.80, heavy tops 22.50, sows 18 to 22.75. Calves top 27, heavy tops 24.50 to 26, No 2 pen 25. Heifers 12.50 to 19.25, cows 8 to 18.75, steers 19 to 20.25, bulls 14.50 to 19. Heifers head 45 to 82, cows head 80 to 137.
Robert Pennell, 26, a prisoner from the Yadkinville prison unit, had his left hand sewn back to his arm after an axe accident. Doctors at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem report restored circulation and a hopeful chance of partial use. Surgeon Dr. Jesse Meredith led the eight hour procedure as the severed hand arrived by ambulance from Northern Surry Hospital. Pennell remains under guard in ICU. The operation is described as a local medical first.
The Leaf Group will hold the 19th annual stockholders meeting on Friday June 25 at 10 a.m. in the Carolina Room Memorial Auditorium Raleigh. President Carl T. Hicks and General Manager L. T. Weeks will present their annual reports to members.
Mount Airy commissioners examined a tentative 1965 66 budget totaling 855 800, with no tax increase at a $1 28 rate. General fund 513 592. Fire 35 895 Streets 97 965 Water 104 508 Sewer 36 506 Debt service 169 800. No major service cuts. public hearing planned after publishing.
Greensboro police and Pilot Mountain officers arrest a 13 year old in Pilot Mountain after he fled a traffic stop and car theft. The youth faces multiple charges including theft of a vehicle breaking and entering hit and run driving without a license and failing to stop for police. He had recently been released from Jackson Training School.
The Tri County Mental Health Authority based in Elkin received tentative approval for a 23 216 dollar budget from the State Dept of Mental Health. Wright Mc Kenzie says approval depends on funds available and includes salaries for a clerk typist social worker psychologist and psychiatrist plus quarters equipment and services. State and federal funds total 15 477 33 with Surry County contributing 3 005 47 and Yadkin 1. Surry officials Marion Whitener Dr Robert Caldwell and Sherley Blackburn attended the meeting.
The Rev. Anselmo Corral of Cuba, chaplain at the University of Panama, will speak at 9:30 am Sunday worship at Trinity Episcopal Church. He is in town on an Episcopal Church study committee tour, invited by Rector W. E. Pilcher. A coffee hour follows.
State official Robert Scott Lieut Governor of North Carolina will deliver the dedicatory address at the Copeland Ruritan Building. Bryce Johnson serves as club president. The building was constructed by voluntary labor of club members over the past year.
Hugh Chatham of Elkin, president of Chatham Manufacturing, was named chairman of the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission in a sudden move at a commission meeting. Lee L. Powers resigned, followed by letters from two other members. The panel approved statewide hunting and trapping rules and special game land regulations with no major changes to last year’s standards.
The Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce committee reviewed resumes of four candidates for executive vice president. Floyd S. Pike chaired the panel and said more applications may follow. Interviews for two candidates are planned next week with two more soon after. The position has been vacant since Al Howell’s resignation.
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