Five Area Women Escape Flooding In So Dakota
Five women touring the Black Hills arrived in Rapid City on Friday June 6 after visiting Badlands Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial. A hail storm and wall of water caused evacuation and power loss but none of the group suffered personal losses. motel staff sheltered displaced residents.
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Rapid City
Badlands
Mount Rushmore
Keystone
Custer Park
Custer
Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse
Local one percent sales tax shows May receipts across counties
Surry County reports 78 thousand 649 dollars in May from the one per cent local sales tax with neighboring Wilkes Yadkin and Alleghany counties posting 65 thousand 611 dollars 25 thousand 288 dollars and 7 thousand 937 dollars respectively Mecklenburg totals 736 thousand 369 dollars for May as 77 of North Carolina’s 100 counties have enacted the local tax and May collections reach 5.9 million dollars statewide.
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Surry County
Wilkes County
Yadkin County
Federal Funds Approved For Area Schools Title III Programs
Federal money totaling 2,800,000 from Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is approved for three local school units in North Carolina. Mount Airy and Wilkes County schools will receive allocations to continue differentiated staffing programs.
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N. C
Leghany County
Mount Airy
Jones Elementary School
Bic Begins Seeking Porous Pen Sales
New York reports Bic Pen Corp after securing 6 percent of the ball pen market in the United States shifts to porous pens with a $3 million ad push for the new fineline Bic Banana. The porous pen market grows 18 to 20 percent annually as Bic targets schools and educational programs while emphasizing strong marketing and low prices.
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Bic
New York
UPS
United States
Marcel Rich
Bic Pen Corp
Robert Adler
Milford, Conn
Adler
Garon Rich
International Yachtemian
Waterman Pen Co
Baron Rich
U. S
Martha McCann Spicer Funeral in Traphili
The funeral for Mrs. Martha McCann Spicer 78 of route 1 Traphili widow of Coy Harri son Spicer was held Sunday at Wilson Knob Pentecostal Church of God with burial in Knobba Baptist Church cemetery. Survived by sister Mrs. Grace Harris of State Road.
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Martha McCann Spicer
Traphili
Coy Harrison Spicer
Wilson Knob
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So. Dakota
Winfred
Pharmacist
John Vallance-Owen
Wolfe Drug Co
Main Street
Tras
Jeannette
Bel-Aire Dining
9” JR
Lee
C. H. Spicer
Tey & Tauhegt
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