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75 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, June 28-July 4, 1934
Martinsville claimed the first-half title of the Bi-State League with a record of 30-10 while two Rockingham County teams were in the league’s basement with records of 13-24 for Tri-City and 11-26 for Mayodan.

In a game between Tri-Cities and Mayodan, Tri-Cities was the winner 8-3. Archie   made his first appearance for Tri-Cities and struck out 12.

He gave up 13 hits but kept them well scattered until the ninth inning, when Mayodan scored all three of its runs.

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Rockingham County has received an allotment of 156 teachers for the next school year from the state school commission. Leaksville was assigned 121, Madison 28 and Reidsville 75.

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Nello Teer of Durham was low bidder at $19,625.60 on a Rockingham County highway project calling for topsoiling, grading and structures from Draper toward Mayfield.

In another project, Pitt Construction of Ayden was low at $6,006 for grading of approaches to an underpass on Route 70 at Ruffin.

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The Ruffin Woman’s Club took up the subject of cancer and heard Dr. William Hester, a surgeon at the Reidsville Hospital, deliver an instructive talk on the subject.

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The Reidsville Luckies defeated the Unique Furniture team of Winston-Salem 3-0 in a baseball game played in Winston-Salem.

Meanwhile, during the week, Draper took the measure of Reidsville Rayon Mills 14-12. None of the teams is in a league.

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Refrigerator: $139.50

50 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, June 28-July 4, 1959
Miranda Jones — better known to television viewers as “Sammy Jones” — returned to her native Reidsville to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Duncan Jones on Maple Avenue.

She was accompanied by Suzanne Pleshette, who, like Jones, has appeared in numerous TV shows and expects to be in many more. Jones and Pleshette lived together on the West Coast before returning to New York. Jones drove to Reidsville on Friday, and Pleshette came the next day.

Jones has appeared with John Russell in “The Lawman,” Richard Boone in “Have Gun, Will Travel,” Will Hutchins in “Sugarfoot,” and John Compton in “The D.A.”s Man.”

Both Jones and Pleshette have roles in a new series called “The Third Man” with Michael Rennie that will open this fall, but they will appear in different episodes.

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With a survey of sewer pipe lines complete, the Meadow Greens Sanitary District governing body will go before the Leaksville Township school board to see what its contribution to the sewer system will be. It also will appear before the trustees of  Tri-City Hospital to find out what help it can be.

If approved by Raleigh, the Meadow Greens district will serve more than 100 homes, Morehead High School, the Meadow Greens Country Club and Fieldcrest Mills office building.

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Guerrant Avent Tredway, 75, a longtime public figure in Leaksville and a justice of the peace for 25-plus years, died in a fire at his home on Bridge Street. The fire was spotted by a newsboy, who alerted a neighbor.

Firemen found Tredway lying on the floor of the front room adjoining the bedroom.

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Rickey Gerald Baker, 7, of Greensboro drowned in an accident at Madison Beach. He was visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Welcome Baker of Route 1, Stokesdale, when he went with several other children to Madison Beach, a lake, for an afternoon swim.

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Refrigerator: $189.95.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro News & Record, June 28-July 4, 1984
Clarence and Nancy Evans didn’t let an accident that halved their fleet of tractor-trailers slow them down too much.

The accident occurred Oct. 19, 1977, in a wreck on a New Jersey highway. The accident left them with one rig and a $10,000 check.

Today, C&N (for Clarence and Nancy) Evans Trucking Co. of Stoneville owns 270 tractors and 550 trailers, has more than 400 employees and is authorized to operate in 48 states. This compares with two rigs prior to the 1977 accident and to 11 trucks by the time they incorporated in 1979.

In a nation of 30,000 trucking companies, C&N Evans is among the 300 largest, according to the American Trucking Association. And it leaves Nancy pondering a question of “what would it be like to go home at 5 p.m. and not worry about it anymore.”

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State Sen. Conrad Duncan is seeking $150,000 and State Rep. Robert McAlister is seeking $50,000 in the state budget for a variety of Rockingham County projects.

Duncan’s requests include $100,000 for capital expenditures at Western Rockingham High School, $15,000 for the Eden Historic Properties Commission and $5,000 for special recreation programs at Madison-Mayodan Recreation Center.

McAlister wants $15,000 for renovation of the Rockingham Theater, $10,000 for renovation and improvements to Penn Civic Center, $7,500 for Eden Historic Properties Commission, $5,000 for Madison Historic District Commission and $5,000 for the Madison-Mayodan Recreation Center.

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The skies were lighted on the Fourth of July, with fireworks displays concluding Independence Day programs in Eden, Reidsville, Stoneville and Mayodan.

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The county commissioners gave the Western Rockingham County Board of Education the approval necessary to buy land needed for a new high school on a 177-acre site in Mayodan where a high school will be built to serve Western Rockingham students.

An electrical outage at a substation in Reidsville darkened sections of Williamsburg, Reidsville, Ruffin and Monroeton and a number of Southern Bell customers in the Reidsville area were without service temporarily as a thunderstorm swept across the county Friday.

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Refrigerator: $479.99.

10 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro News & Record, June 28-July 4, 1999
The city of Eden has hired a Greensboro firm for $1.18 million to convert the basement of City Hall into a police department and create a new meeting area in the building for City Council.

The council voted unanimously to accept the low bid of Bar Construction Co. to make the necessary repairs at 308 E. Stadium Drive. The basement renovation will give the police department much more space than it now has in a building at 344 W. Stadium Drive, about half the size of the basement in its new location.

The $1.18 million bid was good news for the council, coming in more than $200,000 less than projected by architects. Twelve firms bid on the work.

But the good news was offset a couple days later when City Attorney Charles Nooe discovered that city staff had erred by cutting short the period for accepting bids on the project and subsequently City Council had to rescind its vote  until after July.

By then new building codes will push the cost of the project up between $50,000 and $125,000.

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The Eden Historic Preservation Commission’s book “A Tale of Three Cities” has sold enough copies that the money advanced for its production by the city of Eden can be paid off.

Production costs ran about $21,000 and 500 books sold so far will cover those costs. 

Proceeds from the remaining 1,500 books will be used for the Preservation Commission’s projects.

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A group of investors has bought the former Unifi building on Highway Street in Madison and plans to turn it into an office complex that local officials hope will attract new business to town. The 80,000-square-foot building has been vacant for several years.

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Police officials spent about $85,000 more than authorized on overtime pay this year without getting approval from City Council. While City Manager Kelly Almond believes this was an oversight rather than deliberate misuse of funds, Mayor Jay Donecker and other Council members were displeased.

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Lovella Hailey, a graduate of Morehead High School, has won an Aubrey Lee Brooks Scholarship for the 1999-2000 school year.

The scholarship is valued at  $4,700 per year. Hailey plans to major in biology, with an eventual goal of becoming a pediatrician.