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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1955
Page
5
The Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold its regular meeting tonight at 7 30 p m at Veterans Memorial Park.
Garland Rhemmn, 27, died when a bulldozer blade struck a natural gas line while deepening a drainage ditch in Brookshire. Flames shot up to 250 feet in the blast.
Criss Sommers Griffith 56 a noted tobacco farmer of near Westfield died Tuesday night of a heart attack. He had worked in tobacco and was milking cows when stricken. Born December 12 1808 in Surry County he leaves a large family. Funeral service at 2 pm Friday at Westfield Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Surviving are wife Martha Mill six sons one daughter seven grandchildren one brother Irvin Griffith five half brothers five half sisters and one sister.
Glenn Hatcher of the North Carolina Highway Safety Division spoke to the Mount Airy Rotary Club about speeding dangers in Surry County where eight deaths occurred in 1955. He cited 440 highway fatalities statewide and urged support for safety literature and local safety committee efforts.
The saying notes that events eventually settle and truth surfaces after a long period. It emphasizes patience and the inevitability of eventual clarity as circumstances mature.
In Bury St. Edmunds England after twenty four hours of rescue attempts to save a cat stuck atop a forty five foot fir tree authorities from the fire department police and humane society finally cut the tree down. The cat landed safely and ran off unharmed.
In Albuquerque New Mexico Ron George reports profit from yard work scraps finding a new 85 bill last year and a $10 bill this year while cleaning his lawn a routine task became a small windfall with hopes to find more cash hidden in the property.
The Toternal Revenue Office in Charlotte, N C received a peculiar letter claiming debt and insomnia. The writer said they owed $200 and enclosed $100, promising to pay the balance next week if sleep did not return.
In Mineral Hills Michigan the resident Everybody's Rick asserts inequitable shares amid a town wealthy from iron ore. Population 293, local valuation stands at 11.1 million dollars with a per capita share claimed at 94 998 dollars not received.
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