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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
4
Editorials and features column header from Mount Airy News era 1904 to 1934. Includes the editor J B Jomingon and billing notes for Edison. Mentions second class mailing and subscription rates for one year and six months.
A compact reckoning of celebrated lines about love from Virgil to Addison. The compilation links love's power to virtue, time, and mortality, with each author framing love as a force that shapes conduct and meaning.
The article explains USO United Service Organizations as a merger of the YMCA YWCA National Catholic Community Service Salvation Army Jewish Welfare Board and National Traveler's Aid Association. It advocates citizen participation to provide wholesome recreation and religious atmosphere for service members near camps. North Carolina citizens are urged to back the effort to ensure boys return from service in good moral condition.
J H Carter buys Times Leader printing plant from T M George. Lieut Merrill tours locally offering short flights. two boys ride, one pays 15 dollars, another 25 for loop the loop. French Graham named Elkin postmaster after J H Ball resigns. W R Simpson installed Granite Lodge Master. Kate Johnson passes Raleigh nurse exam, graduate from Presbyterian Hospital. Mrs Holcomb and guests honor Miss Minnie Somers, June bride-elect. Packard demo speeds to 60 mph, court fined $10 for demonstration. town warns against speeding. Mount Airy budget sets 90 cent tax rate per hundred. general fund 47, interest 19, schools 24. valuation six million. Matt Hines leaves hospital.
Special investigator opens his records to reveal adventures as a ghostbreaker. The feature recounts many weird cases in the July 6th issue of The American Weekly The Urg Magazine distributed with Baltimore Sunday American. On sale at newsstands.
Surry County men registering for selective service on July 1 were urged by General J. Van B. Metts to give the registrar precise information about permanent residence. The registrar must record the state and county on line two and select a fixed place of residence that will determine the local board with jurisdiction. The residence cannot be changed after registration, though mailing address may be updated.
Rev Mr and Mrs Keye will preach at Union Hill Friends Church Sunday at 11 oclock. The service will feature visiting ministers and is open to all parishioners and guests.
The Air Corps plans fifty-one pilot schools in operation this fall and will establish thirty-four additional ones to train thirty thousand pilots and crew.
The passage lists items including the first five months with 1,302, a reference to a French ambassador to the U S, a belimate claim, government lawyers answering no, production at two thirds of world total, and mentions of nine states with equal property rights, President Coolidge in 1926, and the German Condor line operating 10 000 miles of Pt in Chile Argentina and Brazil.
A quiz lists ten prompts about wartime production politics and law. Topics include longest day, U S spending on aircraft in 1941, counts of British aircraft delivered, Gaston Henry Haye, four motor bombers, NLR Act protections during plant commandeering, global oil output comparison, meaning of community property states, appointment of Harlan Fiske Stone, and German airline activity in South America.
Dr. H F P Eason from State Sanatorium opens a two week tuberculosis clinic with sessions in Pilot Mountain Elkin Dobson Mount Airy health facilities. Schedule begins June 30 and runs July 1 to 11 with appointments via family physician or Health Department.
Asbury College male quartet from WHAS Louisville will give their only North Carolina appearance at Rockford Street Methodist Church on Tuesday evening July first. Members hail from Morea India Ohio and Massachusetts. two are sons of missionaries. The group plans gospel songs Negro spirituals and church hymns in a Christian program. Rev. and Mrs Williams invite the public and suggest arriving early for good seating.
Rockford St Methodist Church announces church school at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship at 11:00. Intermediates meet 7:15 p.m. Evening worship at 8:00. Asbury College Radio Quarter sings Tuesday at 7:46 p.m. Prayer service and Bible Study Wednesday at 7:45. Choir practice Thursday. Daily Vacation Bible school each morning at 9:00.
Miss Katherine Bullons Galax medical patient. Miss Helen Harkrader Dobson admitted for removal of tonsils. John Ralph Creed route 4 surgical patient. Miss Anita Alley Galax surgical patient. Mrs Conner Webb Hillsville Miss Margie Vass Woodlawn medical patient. James Manning Ararat N C Mrs R W Shinault Dobson Conrad Caudle Woodlawn Eugene Hodge route 3 surgical patient. Miss Louise Coffey surgical patient. Prank Key accident patient. Hazel Key route 1 medical. A son was born to Mr and Mrs J B Dalton Pilot Mountain June 20. Mrs Paul Jones surgical patient. Hassell Creed Dobson accident patient. Mrs Howard Jennings Galax surgical patient. Franklin MacMillan Cana Miss Lois Bolen route 5 surgical patient. Mrs J L Stull surgical patient. Mrs Pred Poore surgical patient. Willie Vernon route 5 surgical patient. Discharges: Mrs W B Wolfe, Mrs Earl Peele and baby. Mrs G L Harwick and baby. Curtis Worrell, Miss Princes Montgomery, Mrs W E Gillespie, Charis Yeatts, Miss Nancy Johnson, W H Reid, Buck White, James Wright, Raymond Collins, Mrs C E Holder, Miss Susie King, Mrs W L Alberty.
Evangelists Woodrow and Sam Jones and Rev J P Sellars of White Plains Baptist Church lead open air evangelistic services starting at 7 45 nightly. Special singing featured each night.
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