Agricultural Foundation Plans $2 Million Drive in NC
North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc of NC State College at Raleigh sets a $2 million goal. Half via small farmer and business contributions, half from large donors and corporations. The leadership includes Thomas J. Pearsall, Claude T. Hall, and W. Kerr Scott among others. The plan defines an active executive committee and board.
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Agricultural Foundation, Inc
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
W. W. McLaurine
The
Thomas J. Pearsall
Rocky Mount
North Carolina
House
North Carolina Feed Manufacturers Association
Farmers Mutual Exchange
Claude T. Hall
Roxboro
Harry B. Caldwell
North Carolina Arena
R. Flake
John Sprunt Hill
Durham
Clyde A. Dillon
W. G. Clark, Sr
Tarboro
McLaurine
State College
Old North State Echoes In Schoolboy Choral Dreams
A nostalgic reading recalls boys in North Carolina half a century ago who sang informally at outings and school events despite resisting formal music training. The piece notes local figures, future Agricultural Foundation aims, and Saint Dunstan influenced church choirs with a grand performance of Gounod’s The Redemption by Saint Dunstan Boy choristers.
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Yadkin
Old North State
Old Vulcan
Stephen Foster
Joe
Nelly Gray
Mr. Foster
Oxford Orphanage
St. Paul's
New York
ST. Dunstan
Saint Dunstan
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Iman
Glastonbury
England
Aethelstan
Alphege
Winchester
Dunstan
St. Mary
Edmund
St. Peter's
Edwig
Flanders
Edgar
Canterbury
Aethelred
Thomas A Becket
Saint Mary's Choir
G. M. Nichols
H. Severn Regar
W. D. Barrett
Walter Nichols
Matt Wall
Gilbert Clinard
Jerusalem
Enforcement Wine Control Law Will Cost Big Money
Raleigh March 31 The new statewide wine control act faces funding woes as the ABC board warns enforcement hinges on Council of State money. Budget of 5475 covers a chemist stenographer and six inspectors, with salary doubts and travel allowances. Officials fear inadequate pay may cripple enforcement efforts.
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Lynn Nisbet
Raleigh
Council of State
ABC
General Assembly
Blythely
Secretary of State
Assembly
Insurance Department
Department of Agriculture
Chn
Bang
Bureau
North Carolina
Soldiers Weave Wartime News From Home
Center plot highlights Pfc. James A. Guinn wounded in Germany on February 9, wife Pauline Barnheart Guinn at 807 Tryon with three children. Guinn to wear Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman badge. Other notes: B M 2/c John B. Hilliard on 30 day leave in 1945, Normandy assault landings with British Royal Marines. Aubrey N. Grimes enlists in Navy with twin brother in December. stationed Norfolk Va. 1/c Billy Samuel Lovett returns to ship in New York after leave with Jamestown mother and family. Nathan Burke Woodell Jr. receives Commendation Ribbon for 52 missions in Solomon Islands and Bismarck, engaged to Dolorosa Schillinger. Waldo Crawford on leave from 19 months service, five major battles in Pacific, Purple Heart and oak leaf cluster. Emmanuel Stowe discharged after wounds in South Pacific, formerly Shaw University student, now working at Kannapolis task line.
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James A. Guinn
Germany
Pauline Barnheart Guinn
Tryon Street
Guinn
First Army
Nathan Burke Woodell, Jr
Solomon Islands
Bismarck Archipelago
Set
N. B. Woodell
Lexington Avenue
Dolorosa Schillinger
Madison, Wis
P.O
Waldo Crawford
Theresa Crawford
Daniel Brooks
Crawford
Pacific
Philippines
Naval Hospital
San Francisco
Calif
Emmanuel Stowe
South Pacific
Shaw University
Raleigh
Tasl
Kannapolis
Wickliffe Telephone Exchange to Close April 4
Roscoe Patterson owner of the Wickliffe telephone company announced service would end April 4 after 7 30 p m as he leaves for army induction. The privately owned exchange serves about 190 telephones around Wickliffe and six nearby communities and connects with Southern Bell as a long distance switch. Patterson and his wife ran the operation and the wife cannot attend to the lines or repairs.
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Wickliffe
Roscoe Patterson
Wickliffe Telephone Company
Patterson
Barlow
Blandville
Cunningham
Barkley
Bardwell
Columbus
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hamilton Promoted in England for WWII Service
Marion Banks Hamilton, son of Flora B. Hamilton of 425 North Hamilton Street, has been promoted from corporal to staff sergeant. He serves as a radio operator aboard a B 17 Flying Fortress and is stationed somewhere in England.
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Marion Banks Hamilton
Flora B. Hamilton
North
Hamilton Street
Hamilton
England
Misread Letters Amid North Carolina Veto Debate
A Delaware letter reports a nervous dispute over whether North Carolina's governor can vote after qualifying for office. Bill Sharpe untangles a misprint where "veto" read as "vote" due to a typesetter’s transposition, clarifying the governor’s veto power.
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Raleigh
State News Bureau
Delaware
North Carolina
Bill Sharpe
Sharpe
North Carolina General Assembly
Portland Sailor Recovers Souvenirs After Saipan Battle
Lt K P Sullivan, a naval torpedo bomber pilot, described collecting Japanese sabres and swords as souvenirs during a visit to Portland. He said the captures were incidental beyond his duty while he relaxed on Saipan after the battle.
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Portland
Ore
INS
K. P. Sullivan
Saipan
Sullivan
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