Looking Backwards Ten Years Ago and Five Years Ago
A compilation from August 6 1940 and August 6 1945 recalls wartime events. Germany ready to deploy secret weapons against Britain amid North Africa fighting. Britain boosts food enforcement as merchant ships fall to blockades. Italian advances into Egypt reported with tanks captured. U.S. conscription debate fears insufficient equipment for 400 000 draftees and guards. Hollywood names named in a Los Angeles grand jury probe. Truman announces atomic bomb on Hiroshima and warns of more powerful devices. Japanese counterattacks fail on Luzon as Yamashita’s forces buckle. Senator Hiram Johnson dies at 79. High Point police anticipate more arrests in a multi-year paint theft ring.
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Albert Kesselring
Germany
Kesselring
Atlantic
Britain
Egypt
Libya
High Command
Cirenaica
North Africa
Wheeler
D.-Mont
Senate
Los Angeles County
Pacific Coast
Hollywood
Japan
Truman
White House
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Hiram W. Johnson
California
League of Nations
San Francisco
United Nations Organization
High Point
John Lowdermilk
Marietta Paint and Color Co
Powell Charged With Assault With Rock In Thomasville
William Carl Powell age 27 of 612 Jacob Street was arrested on a warrant after Walter Bivens accused him of striking with a rock. Powell is free on bond until his August 18 trial and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
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Thomasville
William Carl Powell
Jacob Street
Walter Bivens
Powell
Ontario motorists pay nearly 80 million in fuel taxes
The report states Ontario drivers contribute close to 80 million dollars annually through gasoline taxes and vehicle license fees, outlining the fiscal impact on road funding and public revenue.
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Ontario
Petrography Defined as Study of Rocks and Classification
Petrography is the science that analyzes rock composition texture and structure to classify rock types and understand their origins. It encompasses mineral content grain size and optical properties to distinguish igneous sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
Whitesells Build Own House on Bay and Council Streets
W K Whitesell a high school woodworking teacher leads a family project to build an eight room home using cinder blocks and stucco. He designs for curves. his wife helps as chief mason and the children Donald Bill and Betty aid on site. They work twelve hours daily since summer break with no firm completion date and report cost about half of a professional build.
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W. K. Whitesell
Whitesell
Donald
Bill
Betty
Bay
Council Streets
Billy
Whitesells
Pop
Mrs. Whitesell
Shooting Arrest in City Limits Displayed by Police
Thomasville reports El wood Hunt a 22 year old of Culbreth avenue arrested for shooting a .22 rifle around his home within city limits. He was released on bond and set for trial Monday. The article also notes U S cigarette consumption reached 352000000000 in 1948 49 fiscal year.
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Thomasville
Elwood Hunt
Culbreth Avenue
Hunt
Pauley Aided Bombers With North Korea Target Data
Senate sources credit Edwin W. Pauley former ambassador with providing photographs and data from 1946 that guided recent U S B 29 bombing strikes on North Korean targets. Pauley testified that military leaders used the material and described harsh entry into North Korea via Russian guards.
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Washington
Senate
Edwin W. Pauley
Tru
Pauley
U. S
Korea
Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
United States
Russia
North Korea
Tar Heel Villages Get Official Names in Government List
The U S Board on Geographic Names approved official spellings for North Carolina towns including Alligoods Makleyville Walla Watta Whitepost Yeatesville and local features Haystack Point Lower Dowry Creek Scranton Creek and Wilkerson Creek Beaufort and Hodge counties Also mentions the Great Rift Valley and notes sugar maple sap flavor as related detail.
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Washington
U. S. Board On Geographic Names Today
Post Office Department
North Carolina
Alligoods
Allgoods
Alligood
Makleyville
Makelyville
Meckleyville
Walla Watta
Walla Walla
Walla Watt
White Post
Surry
Yeatesville
Yatesville
Yeatsville
Beaufort County
Haystack Point
Lower Dowry Creek
Lower Dowry Point
Hodge County
Scranton Creek
Wilkerson Creek
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. I. Coffield
J. R. Reitzel
Willis Johnson
Hiroshima
War Department
ACE Experts
UG Nozzle
Grace ST
Richmond, VA
City
Americas
W. K. Whitesells
Pop Whitesell
Roger Bacon
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Isaac Newton
Tar Heel Villages
Great Rift Valley
Syria
Africa
Red Sea
Fast Africa
America
Pontiac
S. Wrenn St
High Point, N. C
Perkins Pontiac, Inc
Salem St
Thomasville, N. C
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