Local Mount Airy Schools See Enrollment Dip
Enrollment across six local units totals 2723, down 298 from last year's first full day. Officials expect about 50 more registrations in four days. Breakdowns include Junior high 708, South Main 318, North Marm Jones 569, Bat City 239, Rockford 315, Senior high 579. No major opening issues beyond buses running late as some students waited for pickup.
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Mount Airy School
South Main
Snorth Marm Jones
Batiertown
Rockford
Nurses Present Marker At Martin Nursing School Ceremony
Graduating seniors at Martin School of Nursing held a lawn ceremony dedicating a granite marker for the nursing school. Miss Linda Cash presented the marker, David Hiatt accepted on behalf of Northern Surry Hospital, with remarks from John I. Frank of NC Granite Corp and John Simmons of the quarry. The granite donated by The Granity Corp was erected for the ceremony led by Rev Ed Dann.
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Martin School of Nursing
Linda Cash
David Hiatt
Northern Surry Hospital
Hiatt
John I. Frank
N.C. Granite Corp
John Simmons
Granity Corp
Labor Day Observed Closures in Mount Airy Area
City and county offices close for the holiday while post offices offer limited box service only for holding mail. No lobby window or delivery services Monday. Regular service resumes Tuesday as merchants in Mount Airy observe the long weekend.
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Sumer
Mount Airy
Thomas Bo Ashire
Cffies
Otice
Mount
Dobson
County Farm Agents
Home Economics
State Highway Patrol
North Carolina
Four young women awarded diplomas in medical tech
After 14 months of study at Northern Sur Hospital four young ladies were awarded diplomas in medical technology. Carrall Kim caid Linda Jones Gail Nussel and Joan Atkins received their diplomas at a Wednesday banquet. They must complete a four year internship before accreditation.
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Northern Sur
Carrall Kimcaid
Linda Jones
Gail Nussel
Joan Atkins
Starlite
Laboratory
Dave McCullough
Policemen End Suffering of Sick Dog in North End
Mount Airy police report details an euthanizing dispatch for a sick dog in the north end. An officer concluded the action after investigation, noting in a terse report that the dog was sent to doggie heaven.
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Mount Airy
Dogutte
Franklin PTA Opens Year With Get Acquainted Session
Franklin PTA invites parents to a 7 30 meeting Tuesday evening at the Franklin school for the first gathering of the year. President Arless McCraw extends the invitation to all parents to attend the get acquainted session.
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Franklin Pta
Arless McCraw
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Market Report From Mount Airy Livestock Market
Market notes 261 animals sold on Wednesday with prices across categories. Top pigs and sows reported, calves, heifers, cows, steers and bulls ranged from lows near 14 dollars to highs in the 30s and 20s, with cows per head from 99 to 225 dollars.
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Mount Airy
Cnies
Local visitor Miss June Hooker visits Creens family
Miss June Hooker of Creens visits her parents Mr and Mrs J Howard Hooker on Wilsen Street.
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June Hooker
Creens
J. Howard Hooker
Wilsen Street
German Youth Studying American Industrial Scene Abroad
Rudiger Kreienkamp, 25, a Hamburg University economics master, arrives in Mount Air for an eight week internship at Perry Manufacturing through the AIESEC program. He will work in accounting data processing and observe production, with tours and social activities, before returning to Germany to finish his doctorate.
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Germany
Rudiger Kreienkamp
Perry Manufacturing Company
Mount Air
Association International Des Etudiants En Sciences Economiques Et Commerciales
Duke University
Perry Manufacturing
Hamburg University
Rudiger
Rudy
Puy
Hell S
Perry Manufacturing Bay
Rudy i
University of Hamburg
Aegre
Dobson Grant Approval Sparks Town Referendum
Dobson officials report a 2000 federal grant and a 400000 local bond issue guarantee for a Fisher River water project. Voters will decide September 15 on the bond issue, with registration closing September 10 and a December contract target for a nine to twelve month build. About 366 eligible voters may participate.
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Fisher River
Flat Rock Church Names New Pastor From Virginia
The Flat Rock Baptist Church in Surry County welcomes Rev Willie Willis 31, a native of Ararat Virginia, as the new pastor. He recently arrived with wife Phyllis Privette Willis and two children Carmen and Ramona after earning degrees from Carson-Newman and Southwestern Baptist Seminary. The church had lacked a regular pastor for about 11 months.
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Lowel
Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City
Tern
Southwestern Baptist Seminary
Fort Worth
Texas
Flat Rock Church
Phyllis Privette
Concord
Carmen
Ramona
Surry County
Fiat Rock
Fivett Baptist Church
Davis
Fiddler's Convention at Bevlah School Saturday Evening
A fiddler's convention will be held at Bevlah School Saturday at 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Bew lah Martian Club the event invites all to attend. Mr and Mrs John Wolfe Pam and Randy spent last week vacationing at Myrtle Beach.
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Bevlah School
Bewlah Martian Club
John Wolfe
Pam
Randy
Myrtle Beach
Ruritans Plan State Special Day in Surry County
The 13 Ruritan clubs in Surry County vote to sponsor a first time State Special Day on September 34 at the National Guard Armory. Russell Burgiss of Ruritan National HQ will speak. district and regional officials expected. Copeland club is the largest in the state. Stokes County clubs invited. Committees set to promote the event with a social hour buffet, speeches, and a dance.
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Surry County
National Guard Ampory
Raritan Cub
Russell Burgiss
Huritan
Dubin
Jean Robertson
Beulan
Herman Griffin
Long Hill
Fred Goins
Bannertown
Bill Atkins
White Plains
Gay Coe
Copeland
Wendell Simmons
Flat Rock
Surry Republicans Set Rally and Dinner
Surry County Republicans plan a fundraiser at Reeves YMCA Mount Airy at 7 30 pm with Congressman James Brosnidl of Lenoir as chief guest Also attending GOP hopeful John Shallcross of Smithfield and county candidates including Talmage Hiatt James Tavier and Bob Mills A YMCA spokesman said 400 reservations are sold admission by ticket only
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Reeves Ymca
Mount Airy
James T Bros Nidl Oef Lenoir
Brovhst
Bam
Elkin
Ctizens
Pam
Pilot Mountain
YMCA
GOP
John Shallcross
Smithfield
U. S
Everett B. Jordan
Congress
Talmage Hiatt
Air Attornes
State Senate
James Tavier
Bob Mills
Ararat
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B& Andrew Kapear
School of Medical Tec
Market Report
Cedures
America
Ruey
Henry
United States
Treny Pations
Aiesec
U.S
Exyerett B. Jordan
DNC
Surry Republicans
North Surrey High School
Brenda Harger
Marcey Mees
Dorothy Salmons
Katie Neely
Nancy Boles
Fred Couke
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