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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1949
Page
6
The report covers teen group life at Twinlng and Marching Corp practice nights at the warehouse. Rebecca Hatcher is elected president with Billie Hardy and Ann Kerr as VP and secretary treasurer. plans for a bake at Hanging Rock on the thirteenth are noted.
In Paris the Big Four pressed for a working agreement to keep Germany on speaking terms despite deep divisions. Secret talks included Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky and Western ministers with no communiqué issued. Rail workers in Berlin rejected a four power plan ending the strike that worsened Berlin blockade conditions.
The fragment references Willie, Mack, Murf, Clarence Hines, and Peggy Booker among Gilmer Street residents. Mentions Baptist Hospital, a beach visit, a tan, Peggy Booker’s nursing career and a new Chevrolet. Jimmy Pittman returns to Banner Elk, and a rumor notes someone called Teardrop staying home.
Funeral services were held Monday at Indian Grove Baptist Church for Jacob Thomas Hiatt 73 son of G W and Catherine Taylor Hiatt. He was born in Surry County March 1976. Survivors include his widow Callie William Hiatt two sons and four daughters Lee Hiatt Welch W Va Mrs Lee Arrington Greensboro Mrs Nellie Nunn of Francisco Mrs Gaither Smith of Winston Salem Harry White of Mount Airy Mrs Leonard Shelton of Mount Airy route 1.
Mrs Hattie E Thompson 54 and Mrs Pearl Empey 52 of Ottawa fulfilled a lifelong dream by thumbing 1616 miles to Mobile to visit brother W W Mackie in Theodore. The trip took five days cost 11.75 dollars and will be repeated homeward by hitchhiking.
The item lists numerous patients by name and residence, noting a mix of surgical and medical cases. Included are births and patient statuses with several incomplete or fragmented entries across locations such as Pinnacle Yadkinville Millsville and Route addresses, dated in June.
Discharged patients include Stewart Mrs Dallas Randall Pruitt and baby Moir Wilson Belton Jr Mrs Edwin C Banner Mrs Thomas Albert Butcher and baby Mrs Oscar Patton Mrs Raymond Stone Simpson Mrs Claude Ayers Mrs Woodrow Wilson and baby Mrs Dalon Payne Mrs Walter Porter and baby Gilbert Franklin Bowman Arthur Jones Mrs Donald Marry Bateman Mrs Roy Brintle Master Harry Dean James Howard Mabry.
A man resting at Terminal Station in Atlanta awoke to find a thief had removed a new pair of shoes from his feet. Police investigation is underway to identify the culprit and recover the footwear.
A former "Dead End Kid" nicknamed Miity from the original gang is now practicing medicine in Augusta Georgia. The article notes the unlikely career shift from youth mischief to medical professional.
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