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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1956
Page
5
Old Age Assistance led with expenditures totaling 28 744.64, ahead of the Surry County Welfare Department’s 48 252.04 outlay for May. Other aid lines include Aid to Dependent Children 14 208.40, P and T Disabled 4 999.00, with 1 069 families receiving various financial aid totaling 48 252.04.
Raleigh reports North Carolina produced about 157 million eggs in May, up 9.8 percent from 143 million a year earlier and the highest May output on record. The state averaged 8.626 million layers, with a rate of lay near 18.14 per 100 birds, offset by more hens on hand.
A simple supper draws a surprisingly large crowd, with attendees coming from the town and nearby areas to share food and conversation. Organizers say the event promotes community spirit and fellowship.
Donna Marshall Gibson presents Samuel Ray Brown in a Friday evening recital at Pilot Mountain High School auditorium. The bass baritone performs works from Bach and Handel to Kern and Hammerstein, with Mrs. Wilma Swanson and Mrs. Gibson contributing two piano pieces. Brown, a Pilot Mountain HS graduate, plans to enter State College Raleigh this fall.
The Leonard family reunion will be held at Flower Gap Church Sunday with services at 11 a.m. followed by a picnic lunch on the church grounds. All friends and relatives are invited to attend and bring a picnic basket.
A historical comparison shows accident fatalities surpassing casualties from the Korean War in the prior year, indicating higher tolls from uncontrolled incidents than from the armed conflict.
Local notices list visits and travels of residents and relatives. Names and hometowns include Mr. and Mrs. Pred Hall of Rocky Mount Virginia visiting Ara rat, and several families from this city and nearby towns vacationing, touring, or attending events in Florida, New York, Canada, and Pennsylvania with mentions of Belk’s Stores business trips and hospital observation.
The Western North Carolina Conference of the Pentecostal Holiness Church held a session in Greensboro with an ordination for ministers meeting educational qualifications. Rev. R. T. Lawrence and Rev. C. M. Triplette were reappointed locally. Rev. Jack Coe will lead Mt Ararat P H Church replacing Rev. F J Burroughs and joins the Conference Evangelistic Board and Winston-Salem district secretary duties.
Mr and Mrs Lonnie W Bledsoe of Dobson route 2 announce the birth of a son Lonnie Wesley Jr weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces on June 17 at Dobson Hospital. The mother is the former Betty Lou Newsome of this city.
In colonial America nine of ten people worked the land to provide enough for themselves and the remaining resident in town.
Universal Credit Corp official Thomas F. Moore predicts NC passenger car registrations will top 1.927 million by 1965, a 31 percent rise from 1.01 million. He also foresees population up about 471,000 by 1968 and 1166 thousand families, with credit fueling higher living standards.
Family reunion held at Stone Park on Sunday June 16 drew members from North Carolina Florida and Virginia. Rev Powers Pullen of Nettle Ridge Church Patrick County led grace and helped install 2024 officers including president Charlie Hylton Danville vice president H J Hylton Roanoke Va secretaries Kathleen Tatum Griggs and Aubrey Strange Danville and treasurer G C Rangeley Fieldale. A $50 collection supported reunion expenses and Pullen presented a Bible to H L Hylton 87 Burlington the oldest member who has attended all five reunions.
The department reports that the surplus food from the United States was distributed to hungry people in 70 foreign countries around the free world last year. The effort highlights broad international relief and confirms ongoing government food aid programs.
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