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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
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On this day in 2012, NASCAR luminary Junior Johnson announces he will sell his 10,000-square-foot estate sitting on 150 acres in Yadkin County, opting at 81 for a simpler life in Charlotte free of 450 head of cattle.
The racer who won 50 races in his career and earned a pardon from President Ronald Reagan for a 1956 moonshine conviction offered his mansion equipped with crown-molding ceilings, black walnut bookshelves and the kitchen where he regularly served breakfast for 20.
Later that year, it sold at auction for $2.3 million — still not included.
The Wake County library system announced best-selling books could only be checked out for seven days, noting that “The Bridges of Madison County” was drawing 20 requests per day. Exception: heavyweight novels with more than 500 pages.
A robber dressed in an olive green suit and straw hat managed to steal $5,251.50 from the First Union Bank in Goldston after pointing a pistol at the manager and announcing, “I’d like to make a withdrawal, please.” Manager Peggy Elkins handed over all available cash from the small Chatham County bank, noting the suit-wearing bandit represented her second robbery in as many years.
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In 1926, Gov. Angus McLean ran seriously afoul of 52,000 potential voters when he went back on his promise to conduct a survey of women in North Carolina industry.
On the front page of The N&O, Dr. Delia Dixon declared herself insulted when McLean looked her “straight in the face” during their confrontation in the governor’s office “and asked me if I were employed by Northern interests.”
“Knowing that he would not dare insult any man in North Carolina with that question, my indignation almost made me forget my sex,” she wrote. “It was a moment or two before I could control myself sufficiently.”
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