Northwest North Carolina Showcases Growth and Collaboration
The Northwest North Carolina Development Association promotes regional progress fueled by Winston-Salem leaders and 150 industrialists. Aimed at site availability, materials, and facilities, the two day tour highlights the region’s cooperative push and strong local spirit. Governor Hodges attends the Friday session.
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Bill East
Twin City Sentinel
Associated Press
Winston-Salem
N.C
Edward Rondthaler
Moravian Church
North Carolina
Carolina
Northwest North Carolina
Northwest
Wachovia Bank
Archie K. Davis
Fred Linton
Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce
Frank Willingham
Chester 8. Davis
Neil Bolton
Ymca N Elkin
Legislature Urged to Return to February Session Era
A Haywood County legislator urges the General Assembly to resume February sessions. Rep. Oral L. Yates cites potential tax changes and withholding plans to avoid delaying budget decisions. Other items include delaying highway reshuffle and study on school funding incentives.
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Raleigh
Haywood County
Genaad Assembly
Oral L. Yates
Yates
Senate
J. Emmett Winslow
Perquimans
Stime
House
State Highway Commission
Marcellus Buchanan
Jackson
SBS
Frank Edward Weitzel
House Education Committee
House Roads Committee
Revenooer’s Life Can Be Trying in WV Hills
Huntington report says Agent Merlin Mitton was bitten on the nose and back while arresting a moonshine possessor in West Virginia. Nose wound required 17 stitches. Federal grand jury indicted Harry Johnson of Logan County for assaulting a federal officer and hindering duties.
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Huntington
W.va
West Virginia
Merlin Mitton
Harry Johnson
Logan County
Truman Declines UCLA Visiting Professorship
Former President Truman says he is too busy to accept a visiting professorship at UCLA but would like to deliver a three-part lecture series when time allows. He declined a month-long post but remains scheduled for a three day lecture series at Columbia University.
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Los Angeles
Truman
UCLA
Columbia University
Monroe Physician Loses Appeal
A Monroe Negro physician, Dr. A. E. Perry, lost his appeal of a two to three year prison term for performing an abortion on a white woman. The North Carolina Supreme Court found no error in the prior conviction, rejecting arguments that grand jury selection in Union County was discriminatory. The case was heard in Stanly County Superior Court after a prior retrial. The decision closes the appeal in the abortion case involving Mrs. Lillie Mae Rape.
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Raleigh
Monroe
State Supreme Court
A. E. Perry
Union County
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Perry
Stanly County
Supreme Court
Rotterdam Lijnbaan Reserved For Shoppers
Lijnbaan, Rotterdam’s main shopping avenue, becomes a pedestrian zone with no wheeled traffic allowed to improve shopping conditions and safety for pedestrians.
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Rotterdam
Holland
Woman Singles Out Attacker Near Quitman Pond
A 25 year old married white woman identified a 16 year old Negro as her assailant after a lineup near a fishing pond in Brooks County. Sheriff R W Jones said the youth was being held on rape charges as investigators prepare the case.
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R. W. Jones
Brooks County
Jones
Jesse G. Graham Jr
Graham
Thomasville
Quitman
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Esther Williams
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China
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General Electric
Weathertron
N. Main St
Revenooer
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Lamb's Heating CO
S. Main St
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Great Britain
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Rexall Baby Care
Parents’ Magazine
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Magnesia
Isc
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Brite Set
Ry Value
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Anderson
West End Drug Store
West End
ST. Mary's Episcopal Church
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