Tobacco imports probed amid Rhodesia market concern
Raleigh reports said to be investigations into possible import of flue cured tobacco from Southern Rhodesia. The probe follows a Friday meeting of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Advisory Committee addressing price complaints on regional markets and Rhodesia's growing competition in world markets.
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Raleigh
Columbus County Farm Bureau Federation
United States
Rhodesia
D. D. Cox
Clarendon
South Carolina
North Carolina
Carolinas
Greenville
J. Don Lanier
Independent Tobacco Companies of
England
Lanier
A. D. Williams
Wilson
North Carolina Farm Bureau
Committeeman To Be Accepted By Convention
The Republican National Committee will vote to accept South Carolina’s new national committeeman W. W. Wannamaker Jr. of Orangeburg and committeewoman Mrs A Dabney Barnes of Greenville. They join delegation led by David Dowsy seated by the convention Tuesday as plans for the November presidential race unfold. Dowsy said the group will campaign statewide to back the GOP ticket.
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San Francisco
Republican National Committee
South Carolina
W. W. Wannamaker Jr
Orangeburg
A. Dabney Barnes
Greenville
Wannamaker
Barnes
David Dowsy
Dows
Two Nation Tunnel Connects Detroit and Windsor
The Detroit Michigan Windsor Ontario tunnel stands as the only underground passage linking two nations, forming a unique cross border link between the United States and Canada.
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Detroit
Mich
Windsor
Ont
Canada
Soldier Killed by Wife at Ft Bragg Home
Mrs Doris Copeland, 32, confessed she shot her husband M Sgt Edward J Copeland 39 at their Lafayette Village home after a night of Bible reading and prayer. Neighbors noted her strong religious interest. the couple were estranged but reconciled about a week earlier.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Ft. Bragg
Cumberland County
A. Glenn Buchanan
Edward J. Copeland
Lafayette Village
Smiley, Tex
Doris Ellen Copeland
Smiley
Copeland
Co. 1, 2Nd Engineers
Edward
Important Metal Enhances Jet Engine Steel Heat Resistance
Columbium, also known as niobium, is a metal alloyed with steel to provide the high heat resistance needed in jet engine components.
Discoverer of Orinoco Source Credited to Dr Dickey
Dr Herbert S Dickey is credited with leading the expedition that located the source of the Orinoco River on July 14 1931.
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Herbert S. Dickey
Orinoco River
Tobacco Prices Hold Steady Across South Carolina Markets
The Associated Press reports tobacco prices remained mostly steady in South Carolina and border North Carolina markets during the third full week of sales. The market posted a season high average of 55.16 per 100 pounds on 9,649,404 pounds sold, with gains and losses roughly even and quality up modestly though the share of poor leaf rose.
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Associated Press
South Carolina
North Carolina
Federal State Market News Service
Cloud Reported On Surface Of Mars
A Japanese scientist reports a huge yellow cloud on Mars. Dr Sadao Murayama of the Tokyo National Science Museum says he first noticed it in the planet's southern hemisphere six days ago and suggests it could be a gigantic desert sandstorm.
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Tokyo
Mars
Sadao Murayama
Tokyo National Science
Convention Program for Republican National Convention
San Francisco program outlines today and tomorrow sessions with Pacific Daylight Times. Events include opening music parade call to order pledge of allegiance national anthem invocation election of national committee address by Thomas E. Dewey roll call to nominate for president and ballot for vice president and to ballot appointment of committees to certify nominees for president and vice president tomorrow features colors introductions resolutions of appreciation escort committee benediction and addresses by presidential and vice presidential nominees.
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San Francisco
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Pinecone Exercise Set To Air Drop 8000 Troops At Ft Bragg
Final preparations complete for Exercise Pinecone a mass airdrop at Ft Bragg with over 8000 soldiers and equipment. About 250 aircraft will fly in from Carolinas and Virginia to establish an airhead behind Aggressor lines and mark the largest joint airborne drill on the Ft Bragg reservation. The 82nd Airborne Division will provide roughly 6000 troops with additional forces from Ft Bragg units.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Carolinas
Virginia
Pinecone
Air National Guards
82Nd Airborne Division
Nixon Family Paths Traced From Ohio to California
The elder Nixon, a Quaker who moved from Ohio to California in 1906, married Hannah Milhouse in 1908 and started as a streetcar motorman in Los Angeles before becoming a rancher. He built a Whittier gas station and later a general store where young Dick worked as a boy, shaping his public career.
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San Francisco
Nixon
California
Ohio
Hannah Milhouse
Los Angeles
Citfils
Whittier
Young Dick
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