State News Briefs From North Carolina
Raleigh hires Robert L Caviness as senior sanitary engineer after four years as Forsyth County health district engineer. A 190 pound sturgeon netted near Stumpy Point valued at about 200 dollars with meat sold at five cents per pound. German war prisoners in North Carolina supplied 725,601 man days in farming and related work in six months, earning eighty cents daily in canteen coupons. Meadows trial venue drawn for April 30 at Pitt County Courthouse. United Daughters of the Confederacy reports 4000 members aiding war effort in the state.
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Raleigh Winston-Salem
Robert L. Caviness
State Board of Health
Raleigh
Forsyth County Health Department
Manteo
Henry E. Best
New York
North Carolina
Fourth Service Command
Atlanta
Army
United States Treasury
Meadows
Greenville
Pitt County Board of Commissioners
Leon R. Meadows
East Carolina Teachers College
U.D.C
Chapel Hill
Paul Borden
Goldsboro
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Hawk in Chicken Heist Ends in Head Severing
April 12 report from Goldsboro states Thelma Herring of Indian Springs seized a hawk that flew off with a chicken in its talons. After freeing the bird, she chopped the hawk's head, ending the raid. In Raleigh, Grady Norton secured a license for a refurbished four passenger buggy and two bay horses to shuttle people to suburban golf courses.
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Goldsboro
Thelma Herring
Indian Springs
Miss Herring
Surrey
Raleigh
Racense
Grady H. Norton
UDC Delegates Celebrate Continued Programs Across Chapters
The UDC delegates praised maintaining a varied wartime program with natives from Burlington Greensboro Graham Pittsboro Reidsville Roxboro Yanceyville and Chapel Hill attending. Lena Mae Williams of Chapel Hill directed the district.
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UDC
Burlington
Greensboro
Graham
Pittsboro
Reidsville
Roxboro
Yanceyville
Chapel Hill
Lena Mae Williams
Bomb Damage Stupendous In Germany
Paris reports a Royal Air Force officer describing extensive German devastation from RAF raids. He cites 170 days of attacks totaling about 1,900 tons per raid and claims Dresden and other cities suffered severe destruction. He notes 61 cities with large built up areas largely destroyed and cites specific tonnages and acre losses.
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Paris
INS
Royal Air Force
Germany
Reich
Coventry
Plymouth
London
Dresden
Iaeateete
Elbe
Hamburg
Koenigsberg
Darmstadt
Bremerhaven
Brunswick
Heilbronn
Magdaburg
Coblenz
Greater Britain
Amurg
Colorado to Transplant Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
The Colorado game and fish department undertakes a share the sheep project to reestablish big game and upland birds in sparse areas. The plan shifts from transplanting flowers to relocating Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep across regions where populations are scarce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
INS
Colorado Game and Fish Department
Rado
Animal ambulances in Philadelphia treated thousands of pets
The SPCA reports Philadelphia animal ambulances responded to over 18 000 calls for sick stray or unwanted animals last year. They authorized care for 6 111 sick and injured pets and found homes for 2 464 stray cats and dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
INS
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Beattie Couple Struggles To Find House After Marriage
Ardmore reports housing shortage as county housing officer Laurence E Beattie and his wife wed in January and still search for a place to live three months later. The article notes the Beattie marriage was kept secret until a house could be found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardmore
Okla
Laurence E. Beattie
Beatties
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University of North Carolina Today
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