Arts and Crafts to Be Exhibited Here
Arts and crafts exhibit in Beeson's Hardware show window Monday through Saturday. City playground events include Horseshoe tournaments at Johnson Street Playground and Colored Park on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Ping Pong and We and Ping Pong Championship at the Optimist Club on Thursday. Daily schedules cover games, crafts, and tournaments across multiple playgrounds and teams.
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Beeson
City
Joh Inson Street
Fairview
Daniel Brook
Daniel Brooks
Fridaw
Colored Park
Leonard
Bay Street
National Guard Unit in Thomasville Preparing for Active Duty
Captain Douglas Bray announced that the Thomasville National Guard unit will be called to active duty on September. The unit will recruit to 120 and intensify drills from one to three times weekly under orders dated August 4 from General J. Van B. Metts. The 540th field artillery unit is also alerted with local elements stationed at Johnsontown Road armory set for early September deployment.
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National Guard
Thomasville
Douglas Bray
Bray
J. van B. Metts
Raleigh
North Carolina
Talion
High Point
Monroe
Adjutant General's Office
Johnsontown Road
Owen Spivey Reunion at Dover Baptist Church
The Owen Spivey reunion will be held August 13 at Dover Baptist Church near Steeds in Moore County at 11 o'clock. All friends and relatives are invited to attend and bring baskets.
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Owen-Spivey
Dover Baptist Church
Steeds
Moore County
Cactus Plant Blooming Profusely In Thomasville Home
Mrs. Webb Hall in Thomasville reports her cactus, started from a leaf nine years ago, now blooms heavily each summer. Last summer it produced 36 blossoms and may exceed 100 this season. The plant blooms at night and drops after. Mrs. Hall saved neighbor Mrs. Curt Lackey from a fatal fire, and the cactus remains a summer favorite around 100 Peace Street.
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Wint Capelog
Thomasville
Greensboro
Hall
Peace Street
Thomasville Chair Company
Mrs. Hall
Curt Lackey
Lexington Avenue Extension
Lackey
Funeral for Mrs. Maggie Harriss at Oakview Church
Mrs. Maggie Harriss 74 wife of N R Harriss of Oakview road died Friday after a serious illness. Funeral at Oakview Methodist Church this afternoon at 2 30 burial in Floral Garden Park cemetery. Body returned to residence Saturday afternoon and will be taken to the church 30 minutes before service.
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Maggie Harriss
N. R. Harriss
Oakview Road
Oakview Methodist Church
Floral Garden Park
Funeral services for Claude R. McKinney at Fairfield Methodist
Funeral services are set for 2 pm at Fairfield Methodist Church for Claude Robert McKinney 34 of 1406 Johnson Road with Rev. Mike Tuttle officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. McKinney was employed by Thomasville Chair Company and died from a self inflicted gunshot wound with a .22 rifle early Friday.
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Claude Robert McKinney
Johnson Road
Fairfield Methodist Church
Mike Tuttle
McKinney
Thomasville Chair Company
Winston-Salem Peace Appeal draws 10641 signers
The Winston-Salem Peace Appeal gathered 10 641 signers by tonight as the campaign paused to organize a national push under the American Association for the United Nations. Signers will receive the text and appeal to Stalin Truman and Lie, with a September kickoff for a nationwide drive. Most signers hail from northwest North Carolina, with participation reaching Oregon.
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Winston-Salem
American Association For the United Nations
United States
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Truman
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Winston- Salem
North Carolina
Oregon
Stockholm
Clark Eichelberger
United Nations Association
Negro Takes Nap on Roadbed of Seaboard Tracks
Shelby August 5. Engineer Frank Billingsley reported a Negro man asleep on the roadbed as a Seaboard train neared Latimore. The locomotive and eight cars passed over him before the crew halted and found him alive. He refused hospital care and said he would go home to finish his sleep.
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Shelby
Seaboard Railway
Frank Billingsley
Lattimore
No Baths Grips Eaton Town Water Supply
Children of Eaton in northern Delaware county envy other kids as the town orders all water faucets shut off after contamination. Mains will be sterilized and taps to be turned on again tomorrow.
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Muncie
Ind
Eaton
Delaware County
Diver Completes Hike Across Hampton Roads Bottom
Noroska Va Aug 5 Roy Butler a 38 year old deep sea diver finished a 10 hour hike across the bottom of Hampton Roads weighted with 425 pounds of lead He walked about 14 miles avoiding derelicts from Old Point Comfort to a barge 1/4 mile off Ocean View He blacked out at 90 feet and swam to safety Then he said Never again and planned to resume the trek before the surface trip was completed It was described as the toughest job he ever did.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norosk
Roy Butler
Hampton Roads
Ocean View
Old Point Comfort
Butler
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the High Point
N. C
Enterprise
Optimist Club
Clara Cox
Oakhhell
Johnson Street
N. L. Smith
Clinard Milling CO
Colman
Austin Furniture CO
Washington
Rcavictor
Teletronix
Tory
DuMont Company
Men With Real Electronic Engineering
Perience
Teletronix, Inc
Main ST
Mrs
Maggie “Harriss
Joseph Conrad's
Joseph Theodore Conrad Korzeniowski
Guilford Optical
le Ae
EYE Glass Service
Negro
Seaboard
Perry ST
A. E. Sherron
Chiropractic
S. Main ST
Goodyear
GOOD
N. Main
S&t
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