Massive 82 inch telescope to study distant stars atop Mt. Locke
Alpine Texas April 27 a towering five story telescope atop Mt Locke begins operations May 5. The 82 inch reflector built by Warner and Swasey will focus light from stars up to 400 million light years away to reveal white dwarfs and nebulae. Dr Otto Struve leads a two day symposium with 15 world famed astronomers and hundreds of AAAS attendees. The project, casting at Corning 1933 and assembled in Cleveland, marks a major advance in American astronomy.
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Alpine
Texas
Mt. Locke
Outer Space
Davis Mountains
West Texas
Otto Struve
McDonald Observatory
Yerkes Observatory
Wisconsin
Struve
American Association of the Advancement of Science
Corning Glass Works
Corning
N. Y
McDonald
Mt. Wilson
Palomar
Largest Dare County sturgeon nets 270 pounds in North Carolina
North Carolina fish reports include a 270-pound cow sturgeon netted by W H Riddick in Dare County eight feet long. Other catches include a drum from Oregon Inlet with Herbert Perry and a 20-pounder by the Perry brothers. State officials and local figures are noted, with political commentary on appointments and laws.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Dare County
W. H. Riddick
George Ross Pou
Oregon Inlet
Herbert Perry
Milton Perry
Clyde Hassell
Py Dough
Eph Etheridge
State REA batch prompts clipping service inquiry
A correspondent reports reviewing clippings on the State REA from a clipping service and questions when the batch coverage began. The fragment hints at an investigation or clarification of theREAs status but lacks full details.
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Rea
Progress Report In Anti Cancer Drive Prompts Appeals
High Point unit of the Women's Field Army of the American Society for the Control of Cancer reports satisfactory progress in raising funds to fight cancer though exact figures were unavailable. Officers issue a final appeal to citizens to contribute during the drive's closing days under the slogan Fight Cancer With Knowledge. The campaign aims to mirror TB progress through layman and physician cooperation.
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High Point
Women’s Field Army
The
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Eleanor Powell Wins After-Dinner Speaking Title
Miss Eleanor Powell of High Point won first place in the American after-dinner speaking contest at Rock Hill South Carolina as part of a debate tournament with 47 entrants from the southern and eastern United States. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W T Powell of 526 Parkway attended High Point High School before Duke University where she was editor in chief of the school paper and a honor student and member of Kappa Delta Sorority she tied for second in Duke fall practice debate tournament.
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Durham
Eleanor Powell
High Point
Rock Hill
S. C
United States
Powell
W. T. Powell
526
Parkway
High Point High School
Duke University
Duke
Kappa Delta Sorority
Community Notices and Local Social Roundup
Deep River residents share weekend visits with relatives from Reidsville and Sedgefield while families from Shady Oak Dairy welcome. Local Philatheas discuss items and install officers. A birthday dinner honors Wilbur White. Barbara Ann and Linda Gail Yates battle measles. births and church attendance noted. A large transport project with a $1,000,000 cost and four year span shifts from rail to auto pedestrian routes, drawing national interest.
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Bill Dillon
Eugene Ward
Reidsville
Ed Coley
Sedgefield
Charles Marsh
Floyd Dillon
Shady Oak Dairy
Deep River Philatheas
Ruth Williams
Hubert Simpson
High Point
T. J. Jones
R. L. Borum
Hickory Grove Methodist Church
Jesse. Davis
Abbott’s Creek
Macy Borum
Wilbur White
H. B. Self
D. W. Sink
Winston-Salem
J. L. Hines
Barbara Ann
Linda Gail Yates
Henry Davis
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Old tunnel plan urged to link Scotland and Europe
Scotland backs a revived Firth of Forth tunnel proposal to connect Linmill Burn in Scotland with Rosyth Castle in England. Engineers in Glasgow advocate reviving a plan over a century old to span the estuary with a full mile crossing.
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Scotland
Firth of Forth
Europe
Glasgow
Linmill Burn
Rosyth Castle
England
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Texas Telescope
Optical
Warner and Swasey Co
Cleveland
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Henry Averill
Gastonia
National Rifle Association
Dudley Bagley
Bagley
Clyde R. Hoey
Thad Eure
Thad
Eure
Laurie McEachern
Max Abernathy
Wilkins Orton
Sible
Department of Revenue
Flanagar
C. C. Crittenden
New Bern
New Bern Academy
America
Academy
State College
CIO
Guilford Furniture CO
N. Main St
Deep River News
Troxler
Moffitt
East Commerce St
Home Furniture CO
Ingram Furniture Company
North Main Street
Wrenn St
Rose Furniture CO
South Main
Paramount Furniture CO
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