Eight-Year-Old Elizabeth City Boy Recovers After Surgery
Eight-year-old Edward Boiken Ray Jr. returns to health after treatment for a circulatory condition that turned his skin blue. Local support from Fay Enhour and the Fayetteville Exchange funded care and transport to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for a life saving operation. He was welcomed home in Fayetteville and Elizabeth City with civic celebrations.
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Elizabethtown
Yelay
Fletcher Nelson Named President of Lees-McRae College
The Rev Fletcher Nelson of Charlotte has been elected president of Lees McRae College. Named by the Edgar Tufts Memorial Association trustees at a recent meeting. Nelson is a Georgia native who studied at Conway Arkansas and Duke University and has served churches in Greensboro Rutherfordton Forest City Morganton.
Cambridge firm debuts cueball billiard game
A Cambridge firm has produced a new billiard type game called cueball. The ball travels along a track guided by a cue and uses strength controls to govern scores, offering a novel play mechanism for players seeking a track based cue game.
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Cambridge
Weather data for cotton regions report
Weather bureau report covers temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p m in principal cotton growing areas and other regions.
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Washington
Britain to Free Forgotten Money From Ancient Charities
The British government plans to unfreeze vast sums tied up in obsolete charitable trusts and derelict bank accounts. Exact totals are unknown but the released funds are expected to run into millions, with some bequests growing since the Middle Ages.
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London
INS
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Arms control plan shifts distribution to Atlantic council
Senators Vandenberg and Dulles propose putting arms distribution under a regional defense council formed by the 12 Atlantic treaty signatories. Connally emphasizes the U S role as principal supplier, while George predicts congressional limits and a 450 million to 700 million dollar funding scope for Western Europe surplus equipment.
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George ‘D-Ga
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Government policy sparks egg price debate in Oklahoma and Washington
A commentator criticizes the mismatch in egg pricing linking Oklahoma farmers earning 30 to 36 cents a dozen to Washington shoppers paying 80 cents. He notes government actions buying drying and storing eggs in a cave, calling the setup nonsensical. The exchange underscores calls for price reform and better value management.
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Washington
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South Texas boasts best branch loan condition
South Texas claims the best branch loan condition in the United States saying Franklin Life Insurance Co of San Antonio reports no foreclosures in ten years as proof of steady credit.
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Tex
South Texas
United States
Franklin Life Insurance Company
Ralph Craver Wins UNC Merit Scholarship Award
Ralph Lee Craver, Lexington High School graduate, awarded the Marvin B. Smith Jr. Memorial Scholarship at UNC. The four year award worth 1400 dollars recognizes ability character and future promise and requires independent effort toward a business career. Craver led his class of 92 and held multiple honors and activities while starring in football baseball basketball tennis and plays. He plans to study accounting at UNC.
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Ralph Lee Craver
Lexington
Marvin B. Smith, Jr
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Lexington High School
D. D. Carroll
Marvin B. Smith
Burlington
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Mr. Craver
Ralph
Evan P. Potter 76 Dies After Illness in Thom
Evan P. Potter 76 of 319 West Main Street Thomasville died Saturday at City Memorial Hospital after a prolonged illness. Born near Russellville Tennessee September 12 1872 he moved to Thomasville in 1927 and worked at Columbia Panel Manufacturing Co. He was married in 1891 to Mary Eliza Stubbenfield who died in 1939. Survived by five children two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending at J C Green and Sons Funeral Home. He attended First Pilgrim Holiness Church.
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Evan P. Potter
West Main Street
City Memorial Hosital
Russellville
Tenn
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Mary Fletcher Potter
Columbia Panel Manufactory Co
Mary Eliza Stubbenfield
First Pilgrim Holiness Church
City
J. C Green and Sons Funeral Home
Potter
Lewis Shirley
Alcoa, Tenn
Walter Heeb
Virgil Guthrie
Johnson City
Toy Potter
Robert L. Potter
Thomasville Rt. 2
Truman aide testimony spurs new questions on deep freezers
Senate inquiry unfolds as Vaughan admits gifts of deep freeze units to friends including Mrs Truman. Hoffman Bennett and Verley records are under scrutiny while McCarthy Mundt and Mundt press for further questioning and corroboration of Vaughan's account amid claims of experimental models with no commercial value.
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Truman
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McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
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Bennett
Mandt
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Washington
White House
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John Snyder
James K. Vardaman
Matthew J. Connelly
Wes
Vinson
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