Duke Doctors Claim Sperm Traits Shift Sex Ratios
The Duke team reports rat studies showing late insemination increases male offspring ratios and cites human dizygotic twins data where 59 percent of pairs share the same sex, suggesting early conceptions favor females and later ones males. They plan further animal tests and consider human applications in selected cases.
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Alf Koerner
Journal of the American Medical Association
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Hoey Subcommittee Probes Influence on Government Contracts
Senate subcommittee chaired by Hoey investigates abuses in government contracting and influence peddling. It aims to curb improper practices while supporting legitimate representation for businessmen, noting small firms often face red tape and seek fair access to contracts. The inquiry grew from a 1950s press report about Grindle paying Hunt for contract help.
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State Advertising Shakeup Sets Parker to New Post
Rumors of friction surround the appointment flows as John Marshall declines the governor’s post. Charles Parker named director of state advertising and John Marshall becomes governor’s private secretary. Salary talks flag public disclosure of state pay and policy shifts may follow.
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Charles Parker
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Ayer
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Department of Conservation and Development
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George Oss
Labor leaders urge higher minimum wage and repeal Taft Hartley
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ralph Wright urged a minimum wage of at least 75 cents an hour and criticized Taft Hartley while outlining the administration labor program. He backed Truman and Maurice Tobin in pushing labor reforms and highlighted gains for North Carolina factory workers over the last decade.
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Fink
Wright
Labor Department
Truman
Maurice Tobin
Ralph Wright
Productivity and growth through output per hour in America
The text notes output per hour has risen since 1850 and credits productivity with enabling higher wages, lower prices, and reinvestment. It cites shifts from animal and human power to machines after the Civil War, outlines population trends from 1940 to 1960, and highlights immigration’s role in early 20th century growth, concluding that the book is worth reading.
Opening day doubleheader lifts Athletics and Dodgers
Yesterday's Stars report shows Valo hitting a three run homer in the Athletics 5-4 win over the Indians and Guerra collecting four hits to drive a 4-2 second win. Hatten and the Dodgers blank Cincinnati 7-0 in game one, with Barney in trouble late as Reds faltered.
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Mike Guerra
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Indians
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Hatten
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Reds
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Eleven People Die Violently in North Carolina Weekend
Associated Press reports at least eleven people were killed in North Carolina over the weekend in various incidents. The list includes a dairy farmer found dead near Southport, a plane crash fatally injuring Sgt. Ralph Long, a street fight slaying in Tarboro, a fatal auto crash near Morganton, and multiple homicides and shootings across counties including Johnston and Henderson counties.
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North Carolina
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Arch Wethington
Ernest Singletary
Perry
Singletary
Wethington
Gladys Singletary Wethington
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Langley Field
Rich Square
Sheraf Nance
Whiteville
Fulton
Bond bids to open on six month note for state ports
Raleigh Aug 8 Bids will be opened tomorrow on six month 7,500,000 bond anticipation note for the state ports authority. State Treasurer Brandon P Hodges in whose office the bids will be opened said the cost of selling the issue should not exceed one percent.
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State Ports Authority
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Short Course On Cancer Taught At Durham And Chapel Hill
Graduate public health students at North Carolina Negro College and the University of North Carolina began a five day short course on cancer. The American Cancer Society sponsors the course with instruction on both campuses.
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North Carolina
University of North Carolina
American Cancer Society
Estate of William Franklin Motsinger Administrator Notice
Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of William Franklin Mot singer deceased late of Guilford County North Carolina this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the Sunday of August 1950 or this notice will be pleaded in bar to their recovery All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment I D Motsinger Administrator Route 1 High Point NC Roberson Haworth Reese Attorneys August 1949 to August 1950 notice dates included
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Guilford County
North Carolina
I. D. Motsinger
High Point
N. C
Roberson, Haworth & Reese
University of North Carolina Puts Applicants to Test for Communist Ties
At UNC Chapel Hill prospective faculty members are asked on job applications if they are or have been members of the communist party. Comptroller W. D. Carmichael Jr. said administrative practice requires such disclosure in recent weeks. Physics instructor Hans Freistadt was not rehired after admitting communist affiliation.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Communist Party
W. D. Carmichael, Jr
Hans Freistadt
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