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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1960
Page
1
Surry County manufacturing value added rose about 30 percent to 39,913,000 in the 1958 Census of Manufactures preliminary report, up from 30,626,000 in 1954. The census, run by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, notes North Carolina total at 3,079,961,000 vs 2,210,463,000 in 1954, with revisions possible.
Mount Airy post office to receive about 260 new lock type mail boxes within the next week or so, announced Postmaster Thomas B. Ashby. The office now has 532 boxes all set when the 1932 building was built. The General Services Administration supplied the boxes. Citizens are urged to apply for the new boxes, including several large boxes requested by residents.
Franklin volunteers fought a fire that consumed an old empty store building in the Toast section early Sunday. Wires overhead suffered about several hundred dollars in damage. The owner was Charlie Fulton. adjoining structure burned years earlier. No cause given. witnesses suspected arson but not by the owner.
Rhoten Garfield Cox aged 47 of route 1 Mount Airy died yesterday in Northern Surry Hospital from cancer. Born August 14 1912 to Jim and Sallie Cox he married Mabel Easter August 14 1933. Survived by seven sons Jack Ted Jimmy Jake Paul Dennis Michael one daughter Sarah Francis and brother James W Cox. Burial at Banner Town Baptist Church with Rev Joe Crewa and Rev Walter Walker in Mount Carmel Cemetery after viewing at Moody's Funeral Home.
The NEWS will not publish on Tuesday July 5 as staff take vacations for the Fourth of July. Employees will be on leave July 1 to July 4 and return to work on Tuesday. Publication resumes July 6. The paper normally appears every Tuesday and Friday except holidays.
Mount Airy Police Headquarters records reveal sixteen arrests made Saturday morning to Sunday night. Eight offenses involved intoxicating beverages while the rest included damage to property hit and run reckless driving assault profane and indecent language and city ordinance violations.
Cecil L. Warren of the Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. and the Massachusetts Protective Association attends a three day sales conference at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.
The Reverend and Mrs Preston J Taylor and children will depart Thursday morning for a month away. They will spend two weeks with Mr and Mrs C J Taylor of Pecomoke City Maryland, two weeks in Staunton Virginia, then one week with Mr and Mrs C G Alfriend of Richmond Virginia. Mr Taylor will preach four Sundays in July at First Baptist Church in Staunton while living in the parsonage.
Tickets for the Miss North Carolina Pageant at Ovens Auditorium Charlotte are sold by Gene Frye Jaycee president or Jackson Bros Store. Eleanor Blackburn Miss Mount Airy will compete. The three night program runs July 21 22 23 with prices 1 50 2 00 2 50 and 3 00. Deadline is Friday July 8.
If Democrats win this fall Terry Sanford would become North Carolina's youngest governor in 52 years at 42, turning 43 Aug 20. Only Aycock and Kitchin were younger when taking office, with several others in their late 40s or older. Sanford would enter office in January, barring a GOP upset, about two months older than Kitchin was at his oath.
William David York, 29, chased a 1950 Studebaker driven by Chester Louis Tucker after a minor collision on Sunday noon on W. Pine Street. The Studebaker bumper struck York’s 1956 Chevrolet, causing $160 damage to the fender. Tucker faced charges of hit and run, reckless driving, and damage to property.
Dr and Mrs Paul Moorefield and their daughter Laurie are enjoying a seaside vacation with sunny weather and planned excursions along the coast. Laurie joins family walks on the shore as the adults discuss local attractions and dining options.
Last rites were conducted Sunday at Asbury Presbyterian Church for Walter Bealsey 81 of 909 N South Street after a heart attack en route to Northern Surry Hospital Born March ? 1879 in Stokes County he was night watchman at Lynn Hosiery Mills He is survived by wife Beulah Cassady four sons Leonard Walter Clyde Welborn six daughters and many grandchildren Burial was in Asbury church cemetery
Fay etteville lawyer Terry Sanford defeats Dr I Beverly Lake in the North Carolina Democratic gubernatorial run off. Sanford led early and held 352,946 votes to Lake's 275,512 from 2,094 precincts. Mount Airy and Surry County backed Sanford. western counties mostly favored him while Alleghany flipped to Lake in the run off by a slim margin. Final canvass and certification set for upcoming dates.
Miss Glen Yokley a UNC Chapel Hill student spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Hale Yokley at their home.
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