Trial of Kantor and Myers Prolonged as Witness Missing
The Kantor Myers gambling and nuisance case in North Main Street Jockey Club is continued to next week. W. D. Loving of Greensboro, the key witness, is absent, with a telegram from Timmonsville stating illness. Prosecution says Loving is sick per doctor orders.
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Kantor
Myers
Sam Kantor
Robert Myers
North Main Street
Jockey Club
W. D. Loving
Greensboro
Ben Herman
Loving
High Point
Timmonsville
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W. G. Friddle
Toviny
Governor Hoey presses bonds for state buildings and fair exhibit
Governor Clyde Hoey asks the North Carolina General Assembly to authorize a $4.62 million bond issue to fund permanent improvements in state institutions, roads and municipal projects, and to back a 1939 New York World's Fair exhibit with a $76,000 appropriation plus federal grant opportunities.
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General Assembly
Ourospitals
Morganton
Raleigh
Goldsboro
Iom
Advisory Budget Commission
Acccordance
Attorney General
Local Government Commission
North Carolina
Commission
PWA
Fenner
Council of State
Commonwealth
Clyde R. Hoby
AMA Opposes Compulsory Sickness Insurance
Article discusses AMA stance against compulsory sickness insurance, noting AMA studies and history of medical practice reform, plus concerns about cost, administration, and reduced care quality under mandatory plans. Mentions public health, maternal and child health, and international systems.
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Rosco G. Leland
Bureau of Medical Economics
The
American Medical Association
NEA
Chicago
Roosevelt
Social Security Board
A. M
Social Security Administration
United States
Germany
England
Public utilities seek order from SEC on asset integration
The Securities Commission under Chairman William O Douglas calls for plans from 66 utility holding firms to simplify corporate and geographic structures under the Public Utility Holding Company Act. He calls the project evolutionary, noting two decades of chaotic growth with many holding companies controlling city utilities and creating tangled financial links.
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Thomas FE. Flanagan
Washington
The
Securities Commission
Public Utility
Wnoscram
William O. Douglas
Public Utility Holding Company
Commission
Douglas
North State employment service reports 2907 placements for year
J A Gawthrop announces 2907 total placements for the year ending June 30 with 1855 private and 1062 public jobs from the local office. July 1987 saw 368 total placements, Asheboro district offices logged 292, and the district including Greensboro Burlington Reidsville Chatham and Randolph counties provided 15867 total jobs with 8658 permanent and 6729 temporary.
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Asheboro
Greensboro
Burlington
Reidsville
Chatham
Randolph County
Public Utility Holding Company Act and the 1938 changes
The piece explains how holding companies created jumbled geographic units and cross-border subsidiaries. It notes the 1938 Public Utility Act aimed to end this, faced opposition from holding firms, and mentions the Securities Commission tasked with enforcing the simplification provision.
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Securities Commission
Pedestrians Largely Responsible for 1937 Fatal Traffic Toll
Raleigh reports that pedestrians accounted for about two thirds of fatal pedestrian accidents nationwide in 1937. In North Carolina 405 pedestrians died, with causes including jay walking, ignoring signals, and crossing outside intersections, per National Safety Council data.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
National Safety Council
Ronald Hoeutt
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Rites Held For Mason G Pegram At Goshen M E Church
Funeral services for Mason G Pegram age 20 who died after injuries from a July 29 automobile crash were held at Goshen Methodist Church Stokesdale. Rev Edw Suits and Rev J E B Houser led the service with a Rankin Memorial M P church choir. Over 1000 attended. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
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Mason G. Pegram
City Memorial Hospital
Thomasville
Goshen Methodist Church
Stokesdale
Edw. Suits
Rankin Memorial M. P. Church
J. EB. B. Houser
Rock
Paul Crim
J. G. Pegram, Jr
Cleo Crim
Herman Rumbly
Hartford Crim
Walter Moon
Cotton futures close lower on New York market
New York cotton futures closed 12 to 20 points lower with September and January contracts easing amid quiet trading. Prices edged down across the board as nearby months showed modest declines and middling spot quotes stayed nominal.
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New York
Gaelic Language Spoken by Cape Breton Residents
The article notes that over 15 000 people on Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia use Gaelic as an everyday tongue. It also states that Andrew Johnson the 17th U S president never attended school.
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Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
The
United States
Andrew Johnson
British Museum Remains London’s Top SIGHT Visitor Draw
The British Museum draws about 1,200,900 visitors each year, holding its position as London’s most popular sight.
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British Museum
London
Lobster Sheds Shells Seventeen Times in Year One
A lobster completes seventeen molts in its first year, indicating rapid growth. The event underscores crustacean development patterns and early life stages observed by researchers.
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N.C
Official Weather Bureau
Asheville
Eeeueeeteee
Fursta
Charlotte
Seer
Columbie
Galveston
Los Angeles
Antonio
Wilmington
Paramount
PLC Ttsy
Cyderworld
Lloyd Nolan
Shirley Ross J
Carrol Naish
Andy Hardy
Mickey Rooney
Lewis Stone
Fredric March
Robt. Ripley
Magic Square
W. H. J. Oxenham
Hove
Somme
Oxenham
Dr. Oxenham
Hoey
Assembly
N. C
Palace Theatre
Salem Street
Cémuronvabis
June Travis
Michael O ‘Hallorane
Warren Hall
Wynne Gibson
Apuare Ie
Morris Fishbein
M. D
Journal American Medical A Ad
Irvin Abell
Association
Journal of the A. M. A
Leland
A. M. A. Journal
SEC
Employment Service
J. A. Gawthrop
Goshen M. E. Church
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