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75 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 10-16, 1935
The Leaksville Junior Woman’s Club held a busy first meeting of the new season, with the club welcoming as guests members of the History Club and three out-of-town Woman’s Club members.

After the business session, Miss Rives Ivie presented a paper on the German composer Beethoven, and Hays Parker played Beethoven’s Sonata Opus 10 on the piano.

The club also heard Mrs. S.S. Blackburn speak on a topic to be studied by the club this year: “The American Home.”

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The Know North Carolina Club of Reidsville heard Mrs. Eugene Hester deliver a paper on Randolph County.

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A surprise birthday dinner was given in the Mayodan High School gymnasium for Mrs. Marjorie Smith on Sunday, in recognition of her 70th birthday. A huge cake in the center of a table was marked by 70 lighted candles.

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The Reidsville High School Lions defeated Burlington High 30-6 in a Class B Western Conference football game at Reidsville. The game marked Reidsville’s first win of the season after three straight losses.

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At Carolina Theatre: NBC presents Major Bowes’ Amateur Show on stage.

50 YEARS AGO
From the Greensboro Daily News, Oct. 10-16, 1960
The National Labor Relations Board out of Winston-Salem held an all-day hearing in the basement of the Reidsville post office on charges that Brookside Industries of Reidsville had fired eight women for union organization activities.

The charges were brought by Amalgamated Clothing Workers, AFL-CIO.

Brookside Executive Vice President Sidney Magid said the women were fired for good and lawful reasons, chiefly production failure. At least one woman was accused of threatening other employees, but the accused employee, Cliffie Bolden, testified she was only “kidding.”

The company also denied it sent two supervisors and a clerk-typist to union organizational meetings and said it had warned them against attending such meetings as soon as it learned of their presence at one such gathering.

Harrison Davis of Winston-Salem, general counsel for the NLRB, contended the company had not given any valid reasons for firing the women and argued that illegal surveillance and intimidation had been shown.

Louis Libbin, conducting the hearing for the NLRB, gave all parties until Nov. 15 to file briefs, and it probably will be some time after that before he issues a ruling.

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William D. Snider, associate editor of the Greensboro Daily News, stressed the importance of “Friends of the Library” in a speaking engagement in Reidsville where a movement is under way to form a chapter.

Snider is chairman of the board of trustees of the Greensboro Public Library and a former president of the Greensboro Friends of the Library.

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A summary of activity on Rockingham County’s Old Belt tobacco markets for Wednesday of this week: Madison, 208,630 pounds sold for an average of $56.40 per hundredweight; Reidsville, 157,947 pounds averaging $53.47.

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Richard Goldston, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Goldston of Leaksville, died in a Greensboro hospital of injuries after he was struck by a car in Leaksville three days earlier. He suffered a concussion. No charges were filed against the driver.

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Morehead High School put on a 79-yard drive in the fourth quarter to beat Bessemer High, 6-0, in Greensboro’s Memorial Stadium. Meanwhile, Reidsville High was falling to the Greensboro High Whirlies, 31-0, in a game played at the Whirlies’ home stadium.

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At Carolina Theatre: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds in “The Rat Race” movie.

25 YEARS AGO
From the News & Record, Oct. 10-16, 1985
The Reidsville City Council has decided it is not worth the effort to halt an infestation by Brazilian elodea into Lake Reidsville.

Officials told the council that the infestation can be fought by a number of methods, but all have drawbacks and could interfere with the city’s water supply. They said the weed is a nuisance to fishermen and boaters but is not endangering the water supply.

Hence, said Mayor Earl M. “Pat” Grogan, the decision was made to do nothing. “The primary purpose of that lake is water,” he said.

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Residents along 17 Reidsville streets will get improved water and sewer system service thanks to state money and action by the Reidsville Council.

The council approved a recommendation by city officials to take $244,270 in state funds to make improvements to water and sewer systems along the streets now underserved.

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The county arts council is looking for an artist to develop a logo for the council. All entries should be submitted in black-and-white mechanical art.

Deadline for entering the competition is this week.

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Rain and wind pounded Rockingham County this week, with power to 250 homes being lost. Authorities in the county reported relatively minor damage, mostly in the form of uprooted trees and downed power lines.

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In Friday night football action, Reidsville High defeated South Stokes, 18-15, and Rockingham County beat Madison-Mayodan, 6-0. But Morehead High was dominated by Dudley at Dudley, 31-0, bringing Dudley’s record to 2-4 and dropping Morehead’s to 4-2.

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At the Janus: Jack Nicholson in “Prizzi’s Honor.”

10 YEARS AGO
From the New & Record, Oct. 10-16, 2000
The town of Stoneville is bracing for the closing of its main source of income, Unifi’s nylon plant.

The town now gets nearly a fifth of its income from Unifi — $69,255, or 18 percent of Stoneville’s total tax collections.

Unifi has been a large part of the town’s economy since it opened a nylon texturing plant on N.C. 770 in 1993.

But recently, the company announced it plans to shut down the plant in the next three months and place most of its 180 employees in other Rockingham County plants.

The closing is a response to lower demand for women’s panty hose made from nylon processed at the plant.

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Tina Hicks was named Teacher of the Year in Rockingham County. She teaches fourth grade in New Vision Intermediary School in Madison.

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The county commissioners instructed their staff to put together an incentives agreement with The Compass Group of Winston-Salem, which is proposing development of about 650 acres on the site of the former town of Avalon and former Mayo Park about two miles north of Mayodan.

The company says it plans a combination of 400 residences and industrial development but needs the county and the town to spend $2.1 million to build roads and water and sewer lines for the project.

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The Reidsville City Council awarded a $328,000 contract to Thompson-Arthur Paving Co. to repave 62 streets in the city. The streets targeted for repaving were selected based on a study by the Institute of Traffic Research and Engineering of Raleigh.

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Workers began moving furniture into the new Lincoln Elementary School in the county this week, and teaching materials should be in place by next week. Once the new school opens about Oct. 30, Happy Home and Sadler Elementary schools will close, with their students going to Lincoln.