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Alice Howard, who will visit Holy Land, discusses point with Melvin Pruitt, her ^“•■einan at the Blanket Mill, who assisted her with arrangements for the trip. Blanket Mill Employee To Visit Holy Land Alice Howard, an inspector in the ^^anket Mill Cloth Room, has paid her looney, obtained her passport and is im patiently waiting for the big day: July jT- On that date she will board a jet at York’s Kennedy Airport to be- a tour during which she will visit Holy Land and 10 other countries ^ Europe, Africa and Asia. She will be gone for four weeks as Member of a tourist party led by Rev. M Mrs. H. Fletcher Lambert, of Leaks- ule. Mrs. Howard has been granted . special leave of absence to permit her make the trip. So far, she is the only t *®^dcrester who has signed up for the . although several more Tri-City are planning to go. th Howard is looking forward to and is planning it in great de- otK I stayed up until 2 a.m. the night,” she said. “I became so j^cited thinking about what I would see j I wanted to keep on reading and *^ing at maps.” Holy Land Is Highlight Although she will enjoy sightseeing J'he other countries, she said, the ight of the tour for her will be ing the Holy Land and participating M open air service beside the Sea Galliiee. ^ A Very religious person, Mrs. Howard been studying the Bible for many t; and has read it through several ^j*nes. Now, in preparation for her trip ® is re-reading the New Testament They will fly from Athens to Cairo and Beirut. They will then drive across the Syrian border to Damascus and into Jordan to visit Jerash, Amman, Jeri cho, Bethany and the Dead Sea. They will spend four days in the Jerusalem area visiting the various (Continued on Page Six) L? me j}ghli£ yisiti in New Vacation Travel Guide Now Available As employees begin thinking of svim- mer vacations, many will be interested in the 1965 edition of “North Carolina, Variety Vacationland” a new 64-page guide to the Tar Heel State’s travel attractions from the seashore to the mountains. The booklet illustrated with more than 150 color photographs, is available free on request to the State Travel In formation Division, Department of Con servation and Development, Raleigh. Parks, historical and recreational sites, sports, outdoor dramas and sum mer theatres, festivals, and gardens are among the many Variety Vacationland features presented in words and pic tures. These features, in localities from At lantic Ocean beaches to Southern Appa lachian ranges where there are the tall est peaks in Eastern America, are with in a day’s travel or less for more than half the people in the U.S.A. “Variety Vacationl£ind is far more than a slogan in North Carolina,” writes Governor Dan K. Moore in his introduc tion to the new travel guide. “It is an accurate description of a state that of fers the visitor matchless vacation ad venture. “There is exciting contrast and warm hospitality along each of the more than 500 miles that range from rugged Cape Hatteras on the coast to the Blue Ridge (Continued on Page Eight) CHARLIE RAKESTRAW GEORGE UNDERWOOD Rakestraw, Underwood Candidates For New Terms Marking each geographical refer- She will relate each place to its ^ificance in the life of Jesus, ihe Tri-City group will fly from H ^^^isboro to New York and from Ken- International Airport will make a tij^'Stop jet flight to London. After tjj days in London and Stratford, Will fly to Amsterdam, Holland, then will go to Rome and Athens. '^ONDAY, march 2 2, 1 9 65 C. B. Rakestraw, the present finance commissioner, has filed for his fifth term as a Leaksville commissioner and George D. Underwood, who presently is the police commissioner, has filed for a second term on the Draper board. Mr. Rakestraw retired under the Pension Plan in 1956 after more than 40 years of service with the company. He was head quality man in the Re search and Quality Control Department at the time of his retirement. He is a native of Wentworth but has lived in Leaksville for 52 years. Mr. Underwood, a loomfixer, was bom at Draper 2ind has worked in the Blanket Mill Weave Room since 1942. Filing earlier for new terms on the Spray board of commissioners were W. Jim Robertson, grounds supervisor at Fieldcrest, and Walter Hudnall, who is retired from the Sheeting Mill. 3
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