States' Rights Democrats to be Heard in North Carolina Friday
Hearings set in Wake County for a case by States' Rights Democrats to gain ballot placement with their presidential and vice presidential nominees. Petitioners claim the Elections Board erred in not recognizing the group amid 18 000 signatures and 10 000 qualified voters needed 90 days before the general election.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
W. C. Harris
State Board of Elections
Harris
Wake Superior Court
Philip S. Finn, Jr
Hendersonville
David Clark
Charlotte
Elections Board On
Ag. 3
Elections Board
Raymond Maxwell
Abbott Favors County Wide Reregistration
Greensboro August 17 Guilford county voters would need to re register to vote in the November election if a recommendation by J Leslie Abbott chair of the county board of elections is approved. Abbott plans a board meeting to formalize the recommendation. He cites removing deadwood from rolls and listing all eligible voters not previously registered.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
J. Leslie Abbott
Guilford
Baby dies after rescue attempt in burning Charlotte home
In Charlotte a blaze gutted a house starting in the kitchen. An 18 month old, Robert Turner, died later in hospital from extensive burns after Harold Jones, 18, a Harding high senior, broke a window and carried the infant from the burning room.
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Charlotte
Robert Turner
Harold Jones
Charlotte's Harding High
Jones
Prices Steady On Eastern Tobacco Belt
Prices showed only slight changes on the Carolinas border belt flue-cured tobacco markets. The U S and North Carolina Agriculture departments reported some lower leaf and log grades fell up to four dollars per hundred pounds, while many declines were one to two dollars. Better qualities held or rose about one dollar while fair orange primings and common orange leaf fell four dollars. overall quality continued to slip and sales remained heavy as the belt enters its third week of selling.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Border Belt
U. S
N. C
Esterday
Railroads Ordered to File Pulpwood Rates by Sept 10
The North Carolina Utilities Commission ordered Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line to file a pulpwood rate schedule by Sept 10 after hearings on protests that current rates are too low. The commission had allowed a 20 percent increase last April, which the roads challenged as inadequate, while lawsuits were filed in Wake Superior Court to push for higher rates.
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Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Atlantic Coast Line
Seaboard Air Line
Wake Superior Court
4-H Judging Contest Rescheduled to August 27
Raleigh Aug 17 The 4 H judging contest of the North Carolina cattle club has been rescheduled for Aug 27 at the Biltmore farms in Buncombe county Curtis Hobson field man for the club said the highest scoring county team will represent North Carolina at the American Jersey show in Columbus Ohio in October
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Raleigh
North ‘Carolina
Duke doctors weigh new polio drug amid trials
Duke authorities discussed the anti polio drug Darvisul now in trials at Duke hospital and medical school. About 15 acute poliomyelitis patients have received it since July 23 with no toxic effects noted but observers urge caution until safety is proven. The drug, produced by Lederle Laboratories, has shown encouraging animal and human results. Bowmen Gray medical school Wake Forest and Watts hospital also participate in the trial.
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Durham
Duke
Darvisul
Duke Hospital
School of Medicine
New York
Murray Sanders
Bowmen Gray Medical School
Wake Forest College
Winston-Salem
Watts Hospital
iThey
Alleged Junior KKK Band Broken Up By Police
Charleston West Virginia police rounded up about 20 masked children calling themselves junior Ku Klux Klansmen. The group, ages nine to 15, included 11 white boys six Black boys and three white girls. They wore white robes with crosses and skulls and terrorized neighborhoods. authorities warned and returned the youths to parents without charges after learning they were inspired by a movie.
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Charleston
W. Va
Riddle
Negro Private Held After Soldier's Death at Camp A. P. Hill
Second Army reports a Black private from Washington, D. C., held for investigation after the slaying of Pvt. Walter Jones 18, of Mount Holly, N. C., at a Friday night dance near Bowling Green, Va. Pvt. John D. Gordon of Washington is in the Fort Meade stockade. Gordon allegedly fought with another soldier. Jones tried to intervene and was stabbed, dying on arrival at a Fredericksburg hospital.
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Fort Meade
Second Army
Washington, D. C
A. P. Hill
Bowling Green
Walter Jones
Mount Holly
N. C
Pfe
John D. Gordon
Washington
35Th Mechanized Cavalry
Gordon
Jones
Fredericksburg
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