Pioneer in Movies Succumbs
Hollywood AP reports Albert E. Smith, 83, a founder of the film industry and inventor of the Vitagraph motion picture projector, died Friday night at his home. He and partner J Stuart Blackton created early cinema, built studios in Flatbush Santa Monica and later Hollywood, and produced newsreels and stars such as Clara Kimball Young and Mabel Normand. They sold Vitagraph to Warner Brothers in 1925. Blackton died in 1941.
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Heavy Rains Sweep Ohio Valley and Surrounding Areas
The Associated Press reports heavy rains drenched the Ohio Valley Midwest and southeast with Richmond Indiana receiving 3.13 inches. Flooding prompted river backwater swelling in Kansas Missouri and Illinois while Atlanta and Indianapolis logged notable totals and eastern Tennessee and Florida saw lighter showers.
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Missouri
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Atlanta
Crossville
Tennessee
Indianapolis
Tampa
Florida
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Buffalo
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Alexandria
Minn
Aberdeen
S.C
Great Plains
Grand Forks
N.D
Washington
Duke University Mourns Wannamaker Pioneer Educator Dies
Dr. William H. Wannamaker longtime Duke University educator and former vice chancellor died Saturday in a Pine Bluff sanitarium at 84. He helped shape Trinity College into Duke University and was part of its formative leadership alongside Few and Flowers. Survivors include three daughters, a son, and six grandchildren. Born 1873 in South Carolina, he studied at Wofford, Harvard, and German studies abroad before returning to Trinity in 1905 as German language professor.
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William H. Wannamaker
Duke Univerrsity
Pine Bluff
University
Wannama
Trinity College
Duke University
William P. Few
Trinity
Duke
Robert L. Flowers
A. Hollis Edens
Margaret W. Kennon
Isabel Heizer
Harriet Moorhead
William H. Wannamaker Jr
Simena
Ot Pa
Isabel Stringfellow
Chester
S.C
Dr. Wannamaker
Matthews
Wofford College
Spartanburg
Harvard Graduate School
Berlin
Tubingen
Leipzig
Bonn
Overtime Pay Sought In Suit Against Auto Salvage Administrator
Garfield Campbell sues Minnie Helms Gable in the Middle District Court Greensboro seeking unpaid overtime for hours worked beyond 40 at Gable's Auto Salvage. He requests $2,000 for unpaid overtime and an equal amount for damages in the suit.
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Garfield Campbell
Middle District Court
Greensboro
Minnie Helms Gable
Wilburn C. Gable
Gable
Here
Campbell
Policeman Killed In Cyprus Riot After UK Tracing Attackers
A Turkish Cypriot police sergeant died in Nicosia in what authorities say was reprisal for helping British agents locate Turkish attackers of Greek Cypriots. Earlier a British serviceman was killed in Nicosia. The EOKA group warned of more killings as a Turkish villager was shot in the Karmakli area.
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Cyprus
EOKA
Karmakli
Weather forecast for southeast and western U.S. with cooldowns
Forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms across the southeast and a quarter of the nation with scattered rain in the Rockies, high elevations of the plateau, and the Sierra and Cascades. Northern areas see cooler highs while northern Plains and Lakes region turn cooler.
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Sierras
Cascades
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New England
Northern Plains
Northern Lakes
Northwest Pacific States
Goldfine Claims SEC Report Blocked by House Panel
Bernard Goldfine says he could not file a financial report for East Boston Co because papers were withheld by the Harris subcommittee on Legislative Oversight. He calls SEC action a continuation of a campaign against him and accuses committee staff of delaying the filing by withholding documents.
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Goldfine
SEC
Sherman Kan
Harris
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Securities and Exchange Commission
East Boston Co
Probers Summon Hoffa for Testimony in Teamster Inquiry
Senate Rackets Committee chair McClellan says James R Hoffa is to testify Tuesday as hearings resume on Detroit racketeers and Teamster influence. The probe, likely three weeks, will cover Teamster activities across Detroit and other states with witnesses from California Nevada Minnesota Nebraska Michigan Illinois Ohio Indiana Florida Pennsylvania and Kansas.
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John L. McClellan
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James R. Hoffa
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Derworld
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Smittee
Robert F. Kennedy
California
Nevada
Minnesota
Nebraska
Michigan
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Florida
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Teamster
the Teamsters Union
Local Doctors Get Licenses
Three high scorers were among 220 physicians awarded licenses after written exams by the North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners in Raleigh. Local recipients include Richard Lawrence Harris John Henry Bell and Charles Walter Stout with several area residents also licensed.
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Raleigh
Richard Lawrence Harris
John Henry Bell
Charles Walter Stout
Tiffany Nolan Barnes
Asheboro
William Robert Beckman
Jamestown
Jack Craven Evans
Lexington
Carlton Dhu Everhart
Lois Taylor Sawyer
Kernersville
Seven New Furniture Plants Added in North Carolina 1958
Seven new furniture plants were added to North Carolina's industries in the first six months of 1958. Investments reached 901,000 with 499 jobs and a payroll of 1,449,000. This compared with 1957 when ten plants were added, investments were 960,000, 589 jobs and payroll 1,798,000.
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Department of Conservation and Development
Memorial Hospital Aces Rush Of Accident Victims
Emergency rooms at Memorial Hospital filled with crash and assault victims after 9 30 p m. A head on collision on Wrenn and Mallory left Jack Darrell Suilley and Noomi Lockhart injured with facial cuts and possible ankle fracture. Other patients suffered teeth loss neck cuts and bruises as patrols investigated. Anarchic night prompted calls to The Enterprise as officers reported multiple incidents and incomplete details.
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Jack Darrell Suilley
Smith Street
Noomi Lockhart
Route 5
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Mallory Streets
Wrenn
High Point Products
Mallory
Stilley
Margaret J. Bennett
Highland Ave
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Highway 311
Virgil McCandless
Greensboro
McCandless
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Tomlinson Street
Raymond Parker
Thomasville
Johnson
E. Green Street
Ronald Baldwin, Jr
Daniel Brooks Apartments
Mary Degenerio
Martin Street
Gladys Davis
Brockett Street
Roy Akins
S. Main Street
English and
Briggs Street
Gurley
Redding
E. Lexington
Pinehurst Drive
Jay Allred
Allen Jay
Archdale
Main Street
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Eisenhower Proclaims National Day of Prayer
President Eisenhower designates Wednesday October 1 as National Day of Prayer urging all faiths to pray for the nation and mankind. The White House notes the intention to set the first Wednesday in October as an annual observance for the remainder of his term.
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Eisenhower
White House
Reyes
Rally On Kivett Drive Draws About 250 Spectators
About a dozen robed Klansmen gathered with roughly 250 civilians at a Klan rally on Kivett Drive Exteo. Local and state police monitored the scene with no trouble reported as speakers condemned Negroes Jews and Gov Hodges.
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Kivett Drive
Britain’s Biggest Vacation Backs Car and Cash Boom
Britain begins a three day August Bank Holiday as 1,100 extra trains run, six million cars hit the roads, airports and ports crowded, and the Bank of England notes a record 64 million dollars withdrawn while Queen Elizabeth II stays at Windsor Castle with Prince Philip for the weekend.
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Automobile Association
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