Arthur Neve to Direct YMCA Building Campaign
Arthur Neve, former High Point Community Chest secretary and ex navy, will serve as executive director of the YMCA building fund drive announced by co chairs Nathan Ayers and Welch Harriss. The $4 327 000 campaign is set for May. Neve previously led successful chest drives in 1942 and war chest campaigns, aided by wife Ruth L. Neve.
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Arthur Neve
High Point Community Chest
Navy
Will Steve
Ymca Building Fund
Nathan Ayers
Welch Harriss
Neve
Hot Springs
Ark
High Point
Red Cross
Ruth L. Neve
YMCA
Nathan Ayres Welch Harriss
Athens meeting recalls Kansas City cafe memories
Y Hal Boyle recalls a chance reunion in Athens with Charley Rounes, once a Greek restaurateur in Kansas City. The story shifts to High Point where community leaders promote a YMCA building campaign, praising civic spirit, leadership, and past successful drives.
Educators Seek Lawmakers’ Stance on Federal School Aid
North Carolina education leaders C. W. Phillips and Ethel Perkins sent a letter to all state House members and Democratic candidates asking for positions on federal financial aid for schools. Rep. Harold D. Cooley endorsed a funding plan with no federal control, while Rep. Adam Powell warned of amendments to oppose segregated schools in aid programs.
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Enterprise Washington Bureau
Washington
North Carolina Education Association
C. W. Phillips
Ethel Perkins
North Carolina House
House
House Committee On Education
Graham A. Barder
Barden
State Education Association
Harold D. Cooley
Cooley
Adam C. Powell
Harlem
New York City
Powell
District of Columbia
FASTEETH Denture Powder Promotes Better Fit
A pleasant alkaline powder called FASTEETH helps dentures fit more firmly so wearers can eat and talk comfortably. It leaves no gummy taste and reduces plate odor, with distribution via any drug store.
Inner Aid claims cure for digestive distress
A testimony reports a woman who stopped vomiting and constipation after taking INNER AID. She says she now eats well, digests food normally, and has renewed energy. The ad promises twelve herbs cleanse bowels and relieve stomach sluggishness, urging readers to buy at local drug stores.
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AID
High Point
Cat rescue ends as inmate frees feline from tree
In Joliet Illinois George Langford chased a cat up a tree for four days. Sheriff Ralph H Newkirk could not lure it down, so Steve Pasco a 21 year old inmate in jail for poultry theft rescued the cat then returned to jail.
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Joliet
Ill
George Langford
George
Langford
Will County
Ralph H. Newkirk
Steve Pasco
Pasco
Virginias Carolina Typographers Plan May Charleston Convention
The Virginia Carolina typographical conference announces its 1946 annual meeting in Charleston South Carolina on May 25 and 26. W O Jones president says the District of Columbia is included in the conference, which met last year in Richmond Virginia.
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Charleston
Durham
Virginia-Carolina Typographical Conference
S. C
W. O. Jones
District of Columbia
Richmond
Maple Sap Shortage Hits Geauga County Sugar Bushes
Warm days slash maple sap flow in Geauga County Ohio slowing the annual 100000 to 125000 gallon yield to about 22000. Big Comema Farms ledgers show 65 gallons of sap per one gallon syrup as a result. Maple Sugar Festival planned for next month canceled due to shortage of syrup.
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Chardon
Geauga
Comema Farms
Chardon Road
Isaac Evans
Housing Ceilings Sought By North Carolina AMVETS
The AMVETS state executive committee and post representatives urged Governor Cherry to apply OPA housing price ceilings for veterans in North Carolina. Burlington eyed for the next state AMVET convention around late August. Mrs. John Catsos of Bingham named state chairman for the women's unit.
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New Bern
American Veterans of World
Typographical Union to Convene in Miami Beach
The 1936 International Typographical Union convention will be held in Miami Beach April 17 to 23. Union president Woodruff Randolph said Charlotte N C had asked to withdraw as site. Miami Typographical Union 430 will host about 350 delegates.
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Miami
Miami Beach
Fila
International Typographical Union
Woodruff Randolph
Charlotte, N. C
Miami Typographical Union 430
Berthing Facilities For Ships On Eastern Coast
Washington April 8 Work has begun or will begin soon on berthing facilities at six points along the eastern coast for inactivated navy ships. The navy program totals around 70 million dollars with contracts awarded to Arundel corporation J Rich Steers Tidewater Construction and others. Projects include New London Conn South Boston Mass Norfolk Va Charleston S C Jacksonville Fla and Green Cove Springs Fla with dredging bulkheads and service installations and U S Army engineers handling related dredging costs. The work will expand berthing capacity and ease maintenance of the inactive fleet.
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Washington
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Navy
Bureau
New London
Conn
Arundel Corporation
Baltimore
J. Rich Steers
New York
South Boston
Mass
Naval Shipyard
Tidewater Construction Compan
Norfolk
Norfol Dredging Company
Naval Station
Charleston
D. C
Frederick Sharpe Catton
Addit
U. S. Army
War Department
Jacksonville
Fla
Green Cove Springs
St. Johns River
Standard Dredging Company
Nee— Services
Ater
Divine Compulsion Sermon At Wesley Memorial Church
Rev Paul Hardin Jr preached to a large Wesley Memorial Methodist congregation on Divine Compulsion based on Luke 9 51. He contrasted Jesus commitment to Jerusalem with free will, urging believers to choose rightly in crises. The service featured Rev Julian Lindsey scripture reading and Bascom Whitaker organ music.
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Paul Hardin, Jr
Wesley Memorial
Jerusalem
Hardin
Jesus
Satan
Simon
Christ
God
Sea yields six bodies to bring toll to 115
Honolulu April 8 A tidal wave disaster raised Hawaii death toll to 115 as six more bodies were recovered. More than 50 are missing. Five bodies were found in Hilo on Hawaii Island and one on Maui. Some remained badly decomposed, hindering identification.
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Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Hilo
of Hawaii
Maui
Truman's Draft Extension Plan Sparks Cross-Party Debate
President Truman presses a one year draft extension to keep selective service, seeks a merged army navy air force under one cabinet, and urges a peacetime training program. Senator Bridges questions mobilization limits and warns of possible opposition to rapid military unification legislation. The military committees plan hearings and a showdown on draft registrations.
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Washington
Truman
Army Navy
Chicago
Senate
Bridges
R-Nh
Military Committee
House
Army
Navy
Air Umder
Status Of Quo Vanishes From UN Delegates Boat Ride
In New York on April 8 delegates aboard a boat near Manhattan faced a mystery when Dr Quo Tai Chi a Chinese member and president of the secretary council disappeared from a hotel outing. A police launch later found him up the Hudson near 200th street and transferred him back to the flotilla after detours involving two wrong way taxi rides in lower Manhattan.
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Athens
Missouri
Charley Rounes
America
Charley
Kansas City
31St Street
Woodland
Oases
31St
Mike Ventros
Mike
Pericles
Socrates
Arcady
Greece
Algiers
Roosevelt
Willers
New York
Quo
U.N. Security Council
Manhattan
Quo Tai-Chi
Secretary Council
Hudson
Dr. Quo
Lower Manhattan
Regional conference of state directors to meet in Raleigh
A regional conference of state directors and other personnel from the United States employment service will be held in Raleigh on Wednesday and Thursday. Delegates will attend from North Carolina Virginia West Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia.
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Raleigh
The
United States Employment Service
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Window with one way vision misleads Cincinnati family
A Cincinnati woman warned relatives in Portland that a bathroom window ordered as one way vision turned out to be clear glass. Six months later passers by could see in from the street, exposing the Renquist home.
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Portland
Ore
E. A. Renquist
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Louis XVI
Martin Luther
Worms
Dr. Scholl
Lae
Firestone Stores
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