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75 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, Aug. 30-Sept. 5:

George W. Kane construction company of Greensboro was awarded contracts for additions to three school buildings in the Leaksville-Spray district at a cost of about $35,000.

The additions of auditoriums and two classrooms at each school will begin soon and should be completed in three or four months. The auditoriums will be of brick and steel construction, with soft brick wainscoting and maple floors.

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The Rev. J.L. Neese has accepted the pastorate at First Christian Church in Reidsville and will report there in November.

He has been pastor of Palm Street and Hines Chapel Christian churches in the Bessemer area. During his six years at Palm Street, membership grew from 113 to 370, and in four years at Hines Chapel, membership grew to about 250.

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A young man with the last name of Stone of Martinsville was killed and a companion, Earl Knight, was taken to Leaksville Hospital in serious condition after their car ran off Highway 77 in Madison.

In another fatal accident, the 5-year-old son of Mrs. Meir Moore of Mayodan ran into the path of a car driven by a traveling salesman.

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The Junior Gardeners of the Boulevard in Spray had a hike of about two miles, north to Matrimony Creek where they enjoyed a picnic and then went on a wildflower hunt.

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The Reidsville Luckies defeated a Craddock-Terry team from Lynchburg by a 4-1 score. Reidsville got only five hits while Craddock-Terry got nine, but the Luckies’ Lefty Briggs kept the hits well scattered while leading his team’s hitting with a single and homer.

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Now playing: Bing Crosby, Mirian Hopkins in “She Loves Me Not.”

50 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1959:

Morehead High School, which rolled up 13 victories in a row last year en route to a state championship, unveiled another grid power to open the 1959 football season in whipping Northwest Guilford 27-0.

Playing in Morehead Stadium, the Black Panthers joined the Western 3-A Conference with both offense and defense shining as 3,000 fans cheered them on.

They took a 21-0 halftime lead while their defense stopped Northwest virtually in its tracks each time Northwest had possession of the ball. By game’s end, Morehead held a 237-83 margin in yards gained rushing.

Quarterback Glenn Ogburn led the way but with considerable help from halfback Ronnie Craddock and Fullback Dale Gwynn.

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Madison-Mayodan, a combination of the former Madison and Mayodan high schools, powered its way to a 20-0 victory over Walkertown.

Madison-Mayodan amassed 247 yards against only 75 by Walkertown.

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State Highway Department projects scheduled for the coming year include paving the U.S. 220 Madison-Mayodan bypass, to be let next month; and additional lanes to U.S. 29 from Greensboro to the Rockingham County line, to be let in April.

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Pfc. Harry Lee Hill, husband of the former Cynthia Ann Stanley of Leaksville, is now in Germany where he is stationed with the Army’s 4th Armored Division.

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Now playing: Joel McCrea in “Stars in My Crown.”

25 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro News & Record, Aug. 30-Sept. 9, 1984:

July unemployment in Rockingham County moved upward for the second straight month, from 8 percent to 8.2 percent.

According to the N.C. Employment Security Commission, about 3,480 people were out of work, an increase of 100 in June. However, lessening the impact of the unemployment rise was an increase in the county’s work force, to 42,430 in July, up about 70.

The commission attributed the July rise to seasonal factors in the work force as well as temporary layoffs in textiles and apparel industries.

The rise overshadowed a heavy volume of job placements by the ESC during the month, said County ESC Chairwoman Emma Sue Hopper. During the month, the ESC had 278 job placements.

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Miller Brewing Co. laid off 57 salaried workers at its Eden brewery and eight salaried workers at its Reidsville can plant as part of a company-wide streamlining of white-collar workers.

Secretaries, clerical workers, shift supervisors and managers were among those let go. Hourly workers were not affected.

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Mayodan has received a federal grant worth $1,594,500 for  construction of a new wastewater treatment plant. The federal Environmental Protection Agency grant represents 75 percent of the $2,126,000 cost of the plant, which will treat an average of 1.25 million gallons a day.

The town also has been approved for a $35,100 grant from the state Department of Natural Resources and Community Development for improvements at Farris Memorial Park.

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Annie Penn Memorial Hospital has received a $40,000 grant from the Duke Endowment and the Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Trust for its home health program during the first year of the program’s operation. The Duke Endowment also committed $20,000 to support the project in its second year.

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Madison-Mayodan High defeated Graham High 7-0 in a game played at Graham. Defensive back Alvin Hayes intercepted a pass on the Madison-Mayodan 15-yard line with 1:45 to play to preserve the victory.

The Falcons scored in the opening minutes of the second quarter on a run by tailback Jim Lowe but otherwise the game was a defensive struggle.

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Now playing: Dennis Quaid in “Dreamscape.”

10 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro News & Record, Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1999:

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Dynegy Power plant to be built on a 90-acre site off N.C. 65 in the rural southwest Rockingham County community of Bethel.

The 800-megawatt plant is expected to be one of the county’s largest taxpayers, with its $100 million cost to add to the county’s tax base. In a county with so much of its tobacco and textile industries faltering, that is a huge amount.

When completed, the highly automated plant will employ 11 people. It will burn natural gas, with as many as 600 megawatts to be sold to Duke Power.

To keep Dynegy from having to dig deep wells that could drain residential water supplies, the county is building a 17-mile water line from Reidsville. The line is expected to be completed by December.

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The U.S. Postal Service will hold a public hearing at Madison Town Hall next week on a plan to expand its Madison post office, with most of the discussion expected to concentrate on whether the existing station should be enlarged or a new site selected. The present post office has been in use since 1941.

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Pilot Scott Moore, 57, and his passenger, Manuel Garcia, 30, escaped through the airplane windshield when Moore crash landed the Cessna 150 into Lake Reidsville after its engine quit. They were rescued from the water by two recreational boaters .

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The county school board elected Madison resident Mary Martin to fill the vacant District 8 seat held by Lounette Vaden, who has moved to Greensboro. Martin was one of seven candidates for the seat but was chosen on the first vote by the board.

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Chaning D. Burgess, a 1989 graduate of Morehead High School, has been commissioned in the U.S. Coast Guard. He is a December 1998 graduate of N.C. A&T and a recent graduate of the Officer Candidate School at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.