North Carolina’s two major colleges push for major expansions
The article notes Woman’s College of UNC and A and T lead in enrollment and stature, with A and T planning a 1 010 bed dorm and several buildings. It details a 5.25 million improvement request, aging facilities, and the need to avoid duplication while preserving leadership training standards.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Woman's College
University of North Carolina
Ed Graham
Agricultural and Technical College
Howard University
Washington
W.C.U.N.C
Woman's College of the
Insurance Department
Melver
Raleigh
General Assembly
Budget Commission
Advisory Budget Commission
Border Belt Tobacco Prices Unsteady in Carolinas Markets
The Carolinas Border Belt markets showed up and down prices with sales strong. Grading shifts toward better leaf and widespread demand boosted quotes though some lugs and rimings fell, and overall weekly sales reached 35.88 million pounds at $53.14 per hundred.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
U.S
N. C
Departments of Agriculture
Fight over Hatteras National Park plan stirs controversy
Raleigh reports confusion and veiled accusations as North Carolina wrestles with the revived Outer Banks park project. Questions focus on a $618,000 anonymous donation, land acquisition, and a resignation from Murphy while Dare County residents seek hearings and clarity on motives and process.
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Raleigh
National Park
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras Seashore Park
Council of State
Park Service
Commission
J. L. Murphy
Kill Devil Hill
Dare County
Murphy
Kerr Scott
Council
Boy injured when empty goldfish bowl collapses
Chicopee Massachusetts Wayne Manchester aged 12 required hospital care after sitting in an empty goldfish bowl that suddenly collapsed. He sustained cuts and was treated at a local hospital.
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Chicopee
Mass
Wayne Manchester
Limbless Veteran Marines Teen Ager Marries at Ft Lincoln
Robert L. Smith a 22 year old Army corporal who lost both hands and both legs in Korea married Barbara Rorm a 17 year old from Takoma Park at a small chapel in Ft. Lincoln Cemetery. The ceremony included four canaries in the chapel and was attended by two witnesses maid of honor Killis Anderson and best man Staley Borm. The couple met while Smith was a patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where Barbara once visited patients with a friend.
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Washington
America
Robert L. Smith
Middleburg
Ft. Lincoln Cemetery
Barbara Rorm
Tooma Park
Bob
Edgar W. Beckett
First
Church of Hyattsville
Vincipals
Maid of
Killis Anderson
Wheaton
Staley Borm
Takoma Park
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Barbara
Secret Ballot to Replace Open Voting in South Carolina
Washington observers note shifts in party alignments as James L. Hicks discusses Roosevelt Willkie and Dewey preferences. South Carolina adopts a secret ballot system, ending public party ballots since 1948 and masking individual votes for the first time since the Civil War era.
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James L. Hicks
New York
Charles Murphy
Baltimore
Hicks
Roosevelt
Murphy
Willkie
Dewey
South Carolina
Hero Hailed In Indo China At Valor Post
A Vietnamese sergeant Le Sung of the Vo Thanh region commanded a small post in Central Vietnam when it was attacked by a Communist led Viet Minh force on July 22. Outnumbered he and his men fought on until ammo ran out then he ordered a retreat to save his squad he alone covered the withdrawal and died heroically.
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Hanoi
Indo-China
le Sung
Vo Thanh
Vietnam
Rim
Navy Opens Official Probe Of Grapple Accident
The Navy launched an official investigation into the accidental shelling of the salvage ship Grapple by the minesweeper Chief off Hungnam, Korea. Two crewmen were killed and nine injured, with Lt Cmdr Willard C. Hatch facing responsibility questions as investigators seek extenuating circumstances.
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TOYO
Navy
Korea
Cmdr
Willard C. Hatch
Roy Coniam
Cypress
Calif
Hungnam
Helena
Richard Armstrong
Fof Columbus
Robert Emmet Smith
San Diego
Clyde Vincent Taylor
Alma Taylor
Thomasville
Paul Thomas Madden
Seaman
Veteran Newsman Sam Ochiltree Retires After 65 Years on Desk
HAL BOYLE profiles Sam Ochiltree a veteran reporter and editor who retires after 46 years in journalism and 65 on the job. He recalls handling San Francisco quake dispatches in 1906 and editing AP reports from Korea, while reflecting on retirement, faith, and lifelong companionship with his wife of many years. The piece ends noting Bethesda research on freeze fried bone preservation.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Sam Ochiltree
Hollywood
Sam
San Francisco
Associated Press
Korea
Las
London
St. Peter
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Dare
Harry McMullan
McMullan
George Ross
Seashore Commission
Studebaker
Tudebaker
Lewis Motor CO
S. Wrenn St
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Naval Medical School
Bethesda
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