City to Hire 13 New Employees Across Departments
The city plans to add thirteen staff across branches after budget approval. Last day to file for director of public works, skilled lineman, lineman helper and engineer aide is Friday at 5 p.m with exams Saturday at 2 p.m. Examinations for police roles set for August 25 with August 24 as final filing. four motorcycle traffic officers planned downtown. patrol salaries listed. An eligible list has been given to Fire Chief for two new firemen at Station No. 4. clerk post in traffic bureau expected to go to Peggy Wolfe who previously held the job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Works
Civil Service Commission
Joseph Snider
Public Works Department
Dempsey Neal
Silas McBee
C. C. Stoker
Snider
E. K. Ingram
Peggy Wolfe
HADACOL promoted for vitamin deficiencies in family ad
A 1950 LeBlanc Corporation advertisement features Leslie S. Ladd Jr of Nashville and his family praising HADACOL for relief from Vitamin B1 B2 niacin and iron deficiencies. The copy claims benefits for appetite energy neuritis stomach troubles growth and general run down condition with trial sizes and hospital sizes offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie S. Ladd, Jr
Cleveland Avenue
Nashville
Tenn
Leslie
Hadacol
The
LeBlanc Corporation
Bond Allowed In Rape Case For Dolph Snider
Dolph Snider 28 of Trinity Rt 1 was ordered released on a $15,000 bond for attempted rape after a Greensboro hearing. He had been held without bond on probable cause of raping a 15 year old near Marsh Furniture July 25 and reportedly confessed. A separate $100 bond was set on an assault on a female charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolph Snider
Trinity Rt. 1
H. Hoyle Sink
Greensboro
Snider
Marsh Furniture Company
Sni
Present Road Fund Allocation Plan Hit
Chapel Hill August 16 Durham mayor Dan K Edwards urged ending the state's city highway funding formula. He told Kiwanis that replacing it with mileage and population factors would boost city shares without raising the gasoline tax or dipping into the general fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
Durham
Dan K. Edwards
Kiwanis Club
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Edwards
Denial of Church of God Solicitation License
The State Board of Public Welfare refused a license request by the High Point Church of God to solicit funds. County welfare superintendent Mrs. Blanche Carr Sterne said any solicitation by the church, headquartered in New York City, would violate the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Public Welfare
High Point Church of God
Blanche Carr Sterne
Marriage Licenses Granted in High Point and Greenville
Fred Swartzberg and Barbara Tobias of High Point. Dean W Ussery of Greenville Ss C and Esma Shelton of High Point. Clifford Hill and Mary Elizabeth Huff of High Point Route 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Swartzberg
Barbara Tobias
High Point
Dean W. Ussery
Greenville
Ss. C
Esma Shelton
Clifford Hill
Mary Elizabeth Huff
Four Month Sentence In Court Here For Defendant
Municipal Judge D C MacRae handed down sentences for offenses from drunkenness to drunken driving and speeding. Four month terms went to Douglas Rogan and Robert Morgan for property damage and assaults, with additional terms for reckless driving and drunken driving. Civil actions included nineteen divorces granted on separation and adultery grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. C. MacRae
Douglas Rogan
Park
Clara Mae Honeycutt
Clara Cox
Robert Morgan
Mangum
Betty Hunsucker
Morgan
Pitts
Shirley T. McCollum
Guilford College
Route 1
Dorothy Safriet
Jesse F. Saunders
Cross
Raleigh N. Williams, Jr
Donald R. Romaniak
Truman C. Kiger
William R. White
P. Sorrell
Richard L. Sedberry
Bennie Hensley
420 Park
M. L. Carr
Lee M. Carr
Herman Hicks
Lucille Hicks
Floy P. Poole
Margie Gordon Poole
Josephine Johnson Cochran
James E. Cochran
Gladys FE. Lamonds
Winfred Lee Lamonds
Thelma Hill
Milas F. Hill
Mary V. Clinard
James K. Clinard
Wesley L. Peacock
Brady Irma Peacock
Mildred Routh
George Routh
J. C. Havener
Lucy Warren Havener
Walter T. Thomas
Edna Earl Thomas
Joe P. Woody
Maxine Buckner Woody
Dorothy FE. Dixon
James EF. Dixon
Guy S. White
Marjorie Lucille White
Alma Harrison Hamby
Ernest N. Hamby
Dorothy L. Morgan
Ishmael F. Morgan
E. F. Upchurch, Jr
Elizabeth Moore Upchurch
Kimball F. Smith
Alene Dunlap Smith
Mabel Christopher
Clyde M. Christopher
Chamber Plans Big Expansion For High Point Commerce
The High Point Chamber of Commerce directors tentatively approve plans to enlarge work and quarters. They consider doubling the annual budget from 16000 and preparing a 1951 budget and list of objectives. The proposal includes an assistant secretary and more clerical help plus rental of adequate quarters. President Brant Snavely presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Curtis Smithdeal
Chamber of Commerces
Brant Snavely
Prices Tapering Off On Carolinas Border Markets
Prices show a downward trend across the Carolina flue-cured border belt as sales remain heavy. Volume rose Monday with notable price leveling and a $1 to $2 drop per hundred pounds on most grades, while cutters held firm. Total sales for Monday reached 7,301,285 pounds averaging $56.88. South Carolina moved 3,301,616 pounds at $57.64 and North Carolina 3,999,669 at $56.26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Carolinas
South Carolina
North Carolina
Americans To Quit Yugoslavia In Event Of Invasion
In Belgrade today a plan was outlined to evacuate the majority of about 200 Americans in Yugoslavia should Moscow press for Tito. The move would remove most personnel by air and rail, likely sending evacuees to Rome. no invasion threat is seen as imminent.
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Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Moscow
Korea
Marshal Tito
Rome
Tractor-Trailer Crash Causes 275 Damages on Rainy Highway
Damages totaling 275 dollars resulted from a 11:25 a.m. collision when a tractor-trailer skidded on a wet highway and jackknifed into a smaller vehicle. The 16-ton truck followed, struck the other, with Mack Ford of Wadesboro as driver of the smaller truck and Harman D. Hawks of Fancy Gap, Va., as the second driver. Damages were 175 and 100 respectively. no charges were filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country Club Drive
Mack Ford
Wadesboro
Harman D. Hawks
Fancy Gap
Marines in Malta to Practice Surprise Landings
United States Marines debarking from American warships will rehearse three days of defense maneuvers starting tomorrow on Malta. The drills test harbor and air field guards as part of simulated surprise assaults on the British Mediterranean stronghold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
Mediterranean
Superintendents Meet Marshill Address School Tasks
About 450 school superintendents met for their annual gathering in Marshill to discuss administration issues. Speakers included J. B. Deyton Mitchell H. M. Roland New Hanover H. B. Marrow Johnston J. W. Beyers Asheville S. R. Lowder Lincolnton J. J. Tarleton Rutherford and Lindsey M. Gudger Asheville. The article notes the Atlantic cable has transmitted messages since 1866 when Cyrus Field laid the first line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshill
J. B. Deyton
Mitchell
H. M. Roland
New Hanover
H. B. Marrow
Johnston
J. W. Beyers
Asheville
S. R. Lowder
Lincolnton
J. J. Tarleton
Rutherford
Lindsey M. Gudger
Cyrus Field
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