Big NC colleges claim top ranks in education and facilities
North Carolina schools, led by the Woman’s College of UNC and A and T, claim national leadership in enrollment and facilities. The A and T campus shows a new 1010 capacity men’s dorm and proposed 5.25 million in permanent improvements, while the Woman’s College reports strong enrollment and ongoing campus upgrades worth about 4.5 million in needs beyond prior allocations.
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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
McIver
Woman’s College
Raleigh
General Assembly
Budget Commission
Advisory Budget Commission
Border Belt Tobacco Prices Unsteady Across Carolinas Markets
U S and North Carolina Agriculture reports show mixed gains and declines on flue cured tobacco in the Border Belt with most leaf grades advancing while lugs and rimings fall. Last week’s sales reached 35,877,013 pounds at 53.14 per hundred, season totals 70,114,589 pounds at 53.81.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Border Belt
U. S
N. C
Departments of Agriculture
National Park Battle Clouds Hatteras Plan Says Donor Funds In Question
Raleigh debates over a revived Cape Hatteras Seashore Park plan intensify as a $618,000 donation search and donor secrecy trigger resignations and calls for hearings. Officials seek clarity on motives, funding, and public impact while pledging to protect fishing rights and private development roles.
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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
Tion
W. A. Worth
Worth
Dare
Harry McMullan
Istate
McMullan
George Ross
Seashore Commission
Boy Suffers Cuts When Goldfish Bowl Breaks
In Chicopee Wayne Manchester aged 12 required hospital care after an empty goldfish bowl collapsed while he sat inside it. The incident occurred in the city, with no further injuries reported.
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Chicopee
Mass
Wayne Manchester
Limbless Veteran Marines Teen Ager Wed at Ft Lincoln
Robert L. Smith 22 of Middleburg Pa, a Korean War double amputee, married Barbara Borm 17 of Takoma Park Md in a simple ceremony at Ft Lincoln Cemetery chapel. Rev. Edgar W. Beckett officiated as four canaries sang. maid of honor Hillis Anderson and best man Staley Borm attended. The couple met at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where Barbara had visited magazine patients.
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Washington
America
Robert L. Smith
Middleburg
Little Chapel
Ft. Lincoln Cemetery
Barbara Borm
Takoma Park
Bob
Edgar W. Beckett
First
Church of
Secret ballots change in South Carolina presidential vote
Washington observers note shifts in party loyalties as James L. Hicks reports on Roosevelt, Willkie, and Dewey alignments. For the first time since the Civil War, South Carolina voters will cast secret ballots hiding individual choices, ending public ballot indication of party preference.
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James L. Hicks
New York
Charles Murphy
Baltimore
Hicks
Roosevelt
Murphy
Willkie
Dewey
South Carolina
Hero Hailed In Indo China
A young Vietnamese sergeant, Le Sung of Vo Thanh, died after manning a small central Vietnam post during a July 22 attack by a major Viet Minh force. Outnumbered, he ordered a retreat to save his men and was killed covering the withdrawal.
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Hanoi
Indo-China
le Sung
Vo Thanh
Vietnam
Navy probes fatal Grapple incident off Korea
The Navy opened an official investigation into the accidental firing by the minesweeper Chief at the Grapple near Hungnam. Two crewmen on the Grapple were killed and nine injured, with Lt. Cmdr. Willard C. Hatch of the Chief identified as bearing responsibility. The Grapple’s commander was Lt. Roy Coniam.
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TOYO
Navy
Korea
Cmdr
Willard C. Hatch
Grapple
Roy Coniam
Cypress
Calif
Hungnam
Helena
Richard Armstrong
Quartermaster
Columbus
Robert Emmet Smith
San Diego
Clyde Vincent Taylor
Alma Taylor
Thomasville
Paul Thomas Madden
Seaman
Veteran Newsman Writes Final 30
HAL BOYLE profiles Sam Ochiltree who retires after 65 years in journalism. He recalls early work during the 1906 San Francisco quake, editing AP dispatches on Korea, and mentoring his 21-year-old successor. Ochiltree plans a London trip and reflects on retirement, faith, marriage, and aging.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Vray
Sam Ochiltree
Hollywood
Sam
San Francisco
Associated Press
Korea
London
St. Peter
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Washington
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