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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
8
The article lists service members and relatives visiting in town on furloughs and leaves. Hale Yakley heads to Hollywood for Navy training while Ernest Randleman A/S and Thomas C. Boles return to duties after visits with parents. Others depart for Duke University Camp Peary Camp Shelby and Harvard Naval Training.
A Mount Airy High School class prepared over 200 buddy kits for soldiers overseas last autumn. This week a Brooklyn native now in England sent a letter praising the school for its Red Cross support and Southern hospitality.
In its 100 plus year history the Northern Baptist Convention elects a woman president for the first time. Mrs Leslie F. Swain of Providence Rhode Island, wife of a Brown University professor, is chosen for 1944 45. Swain has led in Women’s American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society and other church bodies. The piece also notes Miss Chang Shu yi of Shanghai and Chungking, a China church worker studying in New York to support Chiang Kai shek era rehabilitation efforts.
Miss Mary Stone M D a Chinese physician and Bethel Mission president in China travels to America. Daughter of a Chinese Christian and an American missionary she trained as a physician and served a five million person district in Central China. She founded a hospital and nurse training school and helped establish Bethel Mission in Shanghai with hospital and obstetric school before the war displaced much of the work.
Rev. Felix Wagoner leads 25 Flat Rock Baptist Church youths on a Tuesday morning trip to Ridgecrest for the North Carolina State Baptist Training Union conference. The group travels by chartered bus with Wagoner serving as councillor.
Rev. Palton Lytle attends the Presbyterian Young People's Conference at Glade Valley this week delivering inspirational addresses and leading the singing.
Officials of the Office of Price Administration issued instructions to all local war price and rationing boards. After July 10 records must be kept of all used car sales whether from dealers or private sellers to curb black market activity as ceiling prices take effect. Warranty prices above basic for as is cars allowed only for dealers with repair shops or contracts, allowing a 25 percent warranty price or $100, whichever is greater, to encourage upkeep and reconditioning of autos.
Torpedoman Charles Seldon Davis Jr. is spending a 30 day survivor's leave at his home after his destroyer on escort duty to Italy was destroyed. His mother Mrs Seldon Davis moved from Knoxville to be with him and Davis will join his family later this week.
Mr and Mrs James Roberts of Washington DC visit his parents Mr and Mrs Dick Roberts during a family trip.
The AAA office announces a supply of feed wheat for feeders in Surry County stored in Dobson. Deliveries, once flexible, will occur only on Fridays each week due to limited help. Anyone needing feed wheat may obtain it by coming on Friday.
The church lists weekly services and events: Sunday School 9 45 A M Worship 11 00 A M Baptist Training Union 7 00 P M Worship 8 00 P M Bible study and prayer Wednesday 8 00 P M Choir rehearsal Thursday 8 00 P M Boy Scout meeting Monday 8 00 P M Deacon's meeting Wednesday 6 30 P M Supper and church business with Sunday School officers and teachers meeting
Mr and Mrs Dixie Ramey and family of Lowgap express gratitude for the sympathy shown by friends and relatives at the Mountain View Baptist Church memorial service for their son Private Dixie Ray Ramey.
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