Remarkable career ends with Floyd Pike fate in Mount Airy
Floyd Pike, founder of a major electrical contracting firm, died last week after building a regional empire in Northwest North Carolina. He expanded into the Southeast, faced energy and environmental crises, and pushed for local growth, earning honors as Citizen of the Year and leading regional development efforts with the Northwest North Carolina Development Association and Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce. His work helped secure an airport for Mount Airy and shaped local business and civic life.
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Floyd Swanson Pike
Pike
United States
Mount Airy
Northwest
North Carolina
Jim Grimes
Chamber
Floyd Pike
Secrecy and Scrutiny in CIA Report Reflections
The Rockefeller Commission report is judged as not sensational but highlights ongoing secrecy in CIA operations. Critics note no proof of broad illegal domestic activity, yet debates persist about drugs tests and potential assassinations. Congress faces oversight challenges while acknowledging espionage realities and historic moral debates.
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Rockefeller Commission
Central Intelligence Agency
Castro
DeGamle
Washington
Rockefeller
CIA
Congress
American Dream Through History and Hope
The piece traces the American Dream from its Revolutionary roots of life liberty and happiness to a modern vision including home, family college and security. It argues the dream endures amid change, with freedom of speech worship and due process as core elements, and asserts opportunity remains a universal goal for Americans.
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United States of America
George
Grand Champion Steer Honored At Northwest Junior Show
Ten year old Jean Seal led 1095 pound Blue Boy to grand champion at the Northwest Junior Steer Show in Winston Salem. The win brings recognition to Surry County's cattle industry as growers face high feed costs and low prices with local business support sustaining beef and pork production growth.
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Surry County
Winston-Salem
Jean Seal
Blue Boy
Television cameras for New Hampshire Senate contest
Senator Robert Morgan argues the New Hampshire contest between Louis Wyman and John Durkin should be judged on legal and constitutional grounds, not party lines. He supports televising Senate deliberations to show the decision process while emphasizing the Senate's role as final judge of elections.
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Senate
New Hampshire
Louis Wyman
John Durkin
House of Congress
Senate Rules Committee
Rules Committee
North Carolina
Washington
Raleigh
Congress
Gage’s 200 Soldiers Fail at Grape Island Ambush
Report from Boston circa 20th instant describes General Gage sending 200 armed troops by two boats to Grape Island near Weymouth beach to seize hay and cattle. Provincials amounting to 4 or 500 men with one 70 man boat attacked, drove off regulars, who fled to Boston after four hours of fire, with eight regulars killed and several wounded. Provincials burned 100 tons of hay and took all cattle on the island. No colonial deaths or injuries reported.
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Charles Thomson
New York
Boston
Gage
Grape Island
Weymont Beach
Falls
Readers call for more little league coverage in Mount Airy paper
Letters from Scotty Parker and Roger Puckett urge more sports and pageant coverage. Parker, a Mount Airy Optimist Park coach, invites editors to Friday games and praises local youth talent, while Puckett defends the Mount Airy Jaycees Miss Mount Airy Pageant, denying misquotes and stressing long term planning and standards.
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Jaycees
Law demands Senate fee reports spotlight outside income
A new law requires senators to file public reports detailing fees from speech and lecture circuits. Two senators earned more on the stump than from government pay of 42,500 dollars yearly. Ten percent failed to file their outside-income reports by the deadline.
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U.S. Senate
Street Lights In Mount Airy VICTOR H. DENTON
Mount Airy operates 927 street lights ranging from high to medium mercury vapor. Lights auto on and off via light sensors. costs exceed $26,000 this past year, up from $17,000 in 1970. Lighting decisions weigh safety, pedestrian traffic, complaints, and pole availability, with requests investigated by staff and recommended to the Town Board.
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Mount Airy
Wagner
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