Lions Schedule 25th Birthday Fete Next Week
Mount Airy Lions Club marks its 25th founding anniversary next Tuesday at the Reeves YMCA with a 7 p.m. ceremony. Wallace J. West Wilmington school principal and Lions International Board member will give the after dinner address. President John Hamilton will preside and introduce guests as past presidents and charter members are invited.
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Lions
Mount Airy Lions Club
Reeves Ymca
Wallace J. West
Wilmington
West
Lions International Board of Directors
Wilmington Club
Wake Forest College
John Hamilton
Hamilton
Abattoir Break-In On Monday Night Reported
Stewart's Abattoir off South Main Street extension was entered Monday night. Roscoe Stewart discovered the break Tuesday morning. Intruders shattered a glass window, reached in to unlatch it, and entered the office. The desk was rifled and papers scattered. They then forced a door to the work area and fled.
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Stewart
Roscoe Stewart
South Main Street
Alee
Bannertown Raritan Club
Raritan
Raritans
Seourth Main Street
Westfield Road
Bannertown
ZIP Code System Adopts Mount Airy Post Office
The U S Postal Service will introduce ZIP codes nationwide on July 1. Mount Airy will use 27030 for general delivery and 27049 for Toast post office. ZIP codes aim to speed handling and reduce errors by letting clerks identify area and office at a glance.
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U. S. Postal Service
Zip
Mount Airy
Toast Post Office
Post
Bloodmobile Visit At Mount Airy For Holiday Effort
The Mount Airy Rescue Squad sponsors a two day Red Creek Bloodmobile drive on July 1 2 at the YMCA from 10 50 a m to 4 30 p m. The drive aims to raise 200 points to support hospital fees during the Fourth of July weekend. Donors from local industries will be sought as workers take vacations and donors from the last visit may donate again. A full team of doctors nurses and volunteers will operate the air conditioned YMCA site with sandwiches and cake served.
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Red Creek Bloodmobile
Mount Airy
View
YMCA
Raritan Zone 2 Meeting Called by Lt Governor Robertson
Glenn Robertson lieutenant governor of Zone 2 district 31 of the Raritan Sear calls a zone meeting at the Blue Ridge Restaurant this Saturday at 7 PM. Beulah Franklin White Plains Eldora Copeland and Shoals clubs are invited along with all officers and directors and other interested persons.
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Glenn Robertson
Raritan Sear
Blue Ridge
Beulah
Franklin
White Plains
Eldora
Copeland and
Shoals
Robertson
Thieves Break Into Odell’s Sandwich Shop Warehouse
Early Monday thieves broke into Odell’s Sandwich Shop storage warehouse on Highway 80 near Tonat by breaking a back door glass and entering. They battered the safe and rummaged two filing cabinets but found nothing of value. the owner summoned a Winston-Salem firm to open the safe. Surry County Sheriff’s Department investigates.
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Odell’s
Highway 80
U. S. 52
Tonat
Cullen Odell
Surry County
Blood drive plans include new committee leaders
Lee Creed of the Rescue Squad leads the blood visit efforts and is expected to announce the appointment of various committee leaders today.
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Lee Creed
Comer Heads Welfare Unit
Frank Comer of Dobson was named chairman of the Surry Welfare Board succeeding Marion Allen who will stay on until July 1. The state Board of Public Welfare will appoint the next member after its meeting this week. Rusty Foy, a Mount Airy commissioner, remains on the board with Sherley Blackburn directing the county welfare agency.
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Frank Comer
Dobson
Surry Welfare Board
Marion Allen
Elkin
Allen
N. C
Public of Welfare
W. H
Rusty) Foy
Mount Airy
Sherley Blackburn of
State Candidates Ending Sessions At Girls and Boys State
Local youths returned to Mount Airy after a one week session at the Girls and Boys State conventions in Chapel Hill and Camden Place. Rising seniors attended to study citizenship. Two girls and thirteen boys from the area participated and yesterday the sessions named a governor and three other officials. On Saturday candidates will receive certificates of participation in the state events.
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Mount Airy
Cxanmenro
Chapel Hill
Market Report from Mount Airy Livestock Market
Wednesday quotations show top hogs at 17.25 with heavy top 146.25. Sows 10.50 to 12.25. Calves top at 26, heavy 25.50, No 2 pen 22. Heifers 8 13 at 15.75. Cows 10 to 16, bulls 15.25. Heifers by head 46 to 100 credits.
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Mount Airy
Bannertown Fire Unit Formed and Approves New Truck
A Bannertown fire unit gains state incorporation and orders a truck. Citizens funded the project with a six week drive that yielded over 14000 dollars toward equipment and a station on US 52. The four mile response zone includes Bannertown Elementary, eight churches, and many homes and businesses.
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Bannertown
US 52
Holly Springs
Reeves Road
Smith
Stony Creek Church
Four Mile Circle
Franklin Fire Department
Women Republicans to Meet in Dobson With Mary Ellen Miller
A combined meeting of the Republican Senior Club and Young Republicans will be held tonight at 7:30 at the Agricultural Building in Dobson. Guest speaker is Mrs. Mary Ellen Miller of Mobile Alabama a Tulsa and Alabama Extension graduate with a varied career in education and public service. She serves on Mobile GOP County Executive Committee the Alabama Federation of Republican Women board and is a field representative for the GOP National Committee Southern division. The gathering will consider forming a Surry county Republican women organization.
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Republican Senior Club
Young Republican Lab
Dobson
Mary Ellen Miller
Motile
Ala
University of Tulsa
Okla
University of Alabama Extension
Katy
Venezuela
GOP
Mobile
Alabama Federation of Republican Women
Alabama Republican Executive Committee
GOP National Committee
Surry
Juveniles Nabbed In Auto Larceny Piggy Bank Theft
Two Yokum area youths under 16 confessed to auto larceny and stealing piggy banks from a Marsh township resident. The 1957 Chevrolet was left at Wil moth Cafe, located on Yokum, later recovered off US 601. Authorities recovered the piggy banks and pennies from an abandoned garage and returned all items to owners.
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Yokum
Marsh Township
Marshall Phillips
Wilmoth Cafe
Arlis White
Dallas Coe
Coe
Blackburn Family Reunion Moves to Veterans Park
The Blackburn Family Reunion, started three years ago by the children and descendants of the late Lee and Louise Blackburn of Lambe burg Virginia, will meet at Veterans Park this Sunday June 23 with a picnic lunch at 12 00. The event relocates from Smart View Park on the Scenic Highway to a more central site.
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Blackburn
Veterans Park
Smart View Park
Scenic Highway
Lee
Louise Blackburn
Lambeburg
Virginia
Local Chief Endorses Kennedy Youth Employment Bill
Mount Airy Police Chief W H Sumner endorsed President Kennedy's Youth Employment and Conservation Bill urging community support. If enacted the program would pay 60 dollars monthly to youths who will gain work experience and leadership roles aiming to reduce unskilled labor barriers amid a potential seven and a half million participants.
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W. H. Sumner
Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Senate
House
Mount Airy
Congress
Youth Conservation Corp
Civilian Conservation A «Occ
Sagigaminanar Yyaligeeerming Lis
Sumner
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