Dec. 21-24, 26 1970.
âDear Santa, I am in the first grade. Please bring me a cowgirl suit, Happy Hopper toy, snow sleigh, Snow Cone machine, small vanity set, See & Say toy. Janice.â (12/21)
Obit Thomas Lee Dysard, Jr., 61. âHe formerly served with the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in California and in the South Pacific.â (12/22)
âInterstate 40 from Statesville to Winston-Salem officially was opened to traffic at 2 p.m. today. Opening of the new link on I-40 has now completed the longest single stretch of Interstate highway in North Carolina. It involves I-40 from Conover eastward to Greensboro and connecting with I-85 just north of Durham, a distance of over 125 miles.â (12/23)