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Work began this weak on the bad park cum. Upon wmplaliop. the Mde of the cum
wilt be raistd 18 inches in hopes of praaenting hazardous driving this winter. In arintan
part, we have printed pictures drawing cars in tha (fitch all around this famous curve. In
just • few mora months wall know whathar or not this was an improvement.
Picnic Swing Fails
MOCKS VILLE - The annual
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Thursday exceeded all other 89
years as thousands of people
attended the event for reunions
with friends, to feast on good
food and to contribute to the
Oxford Orphanage.
But, the run was shghtly dam
pened by a near tragedy when
one of the rides in the amuse
ment area collapsed injuring
four people.
Officers identified the injured
as Bobby McLamb, S, and Us
daughter, eight-year-old
Melanie McLamb, and Mrs.
Nancy Jackson and her hus
band, Bobby Jackson, both Jl,
all mated, and all from Dunn.
McLamb and Mrs. Jackson
were admitted to Davie County
Hospital, and Jackson and the
child were treatedand released*
Officers of the Mocksville
Police Department said none
was seriously injured, that they
all sustained Cuts and bruises
in the accident
but, aa is always the case,
operations of freeing the injured
and carrying them to the
hospital were hampered by
Spectators converging on the
area after the aocnsnL
Sheriffs deputies, potice and
highway patrolmen, however,
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chaos, keeping back the cnad
and helping with the injured.
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Apparently many people on
the grounds were unaware of
the near tragedy The arbor
was filled at the time with
people watching the program
by the MocfcrtOe High School
band and two beauty queens.
Only thoee taken to the
hoapital mined out on the re
training festivities of the day.
It was about 11:45 a.m.
Thursday when the ride col
lapsed One police officer
observed that had the accident
occurred around • o'clock in
the evening, it could have been
worse because more people
would be waking around the
rides and shows.
63rd Ywr COOIEEMEE. N C PMB
fit 33 WMMatey, August 2ft, 1969 H Ctnts
Schools
4,300 Students
Schools will open Monday
for one-half day orientation
with the first full day of school
scheduled for Tuesday.
Faculty members will report
to their assigned school
tomorrow to begin preparing
for opening day.
James E. Everidge,
superintendent, expects an
enrollment of approximately
4,300. There are 186 teachers
in the system.
Davit Sdwdife
Students will pick up
tfiair schedules by classes
in the following locations:
Freshmen~.Lobby off
"C** building
Sop bom ore...Front
lobby of Gymnasium
Juniors . . . Main
section off Cafeteria
Seniors . . . Activity
section of Cafeteria
Steve Jordan
Gets Degree
Steven M. Jordan, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmy Jordan of
Marginal Street, graduated Sat
urday from Appalachian State
University with a B.S. degree in
music.
Steve is the first instrumental
music major to graduate from
Appalachian State since it be
came a university, and the only
instrument major to graduate
for the year 1961.
He has accepted the position
of band director at Buford and
Indian Land Schools in Lan
caster, S.C. where he and his
wife, the former Helen J. Grant,
now reside.
Last week several teachers
from Davie High attended the
annual Vocational Home
Economics conference held at
the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
Attending the
conference from the Davie
County High School Home
Economics Department were
Mrs. Lucinda McClure. Mrs.
Shelby Nichols, and Mrs. Ruth
Short. The theme for the
conference was "Action for the
Seventies, Total
Commitment.** *
Some objectives of the 1969
conference were: "To identify
means for providing full
educational opportunity for all
students through the public
school; to identify research
which may be used in
redirecting the curriculum in
home economics education;
and, to identify some new
instructional materials for use
in the home ma king program."
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