Registration Set Thursday For Jamestown Students
Registration for new students will be held at Jamestown High School Thursday from 9 to 11 in the morning. All new district residents must register. eighth graders transferring from Union Hill and Sedgefield and spring-registered first graders are exempt. Birth certificates required for beginners. Enrollment expected over 1,500, up 160 from last year. faculty lists for 1956-57 include numerous High School and Elementary staff across multiple subjects and grades.
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Jamestown High School
Jamestown School
Union Hill
Sedgefield
Jamestown
Battery charges are dropped in West Los Angeles case
Two women declined to prosecute actor Bobby Driscoll and Lester Ferguson after accusing them of shooting at them with a pea shooter. Driscoll and Ferguson were jailed and later released on bail as the city attorney declined to file a complaint.
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West
Los Angeles
Bobby Driscoll
Lester A. Ferguson
Driscoll
Ferguson
W. ‘Might
E Sherrill
J.P. Glenn
Horseless Carriage Tour: Model T Reaches Miami From Thomasville
C A Bowers and Don Yates of Thomasville drove a 1921 Model T Ford to Miami, pausing for sightseeing and crowd attention. The trip lasted five and a half days over about 1000 miles, with a fan belt slip, no spare tire, and a Florida highway patrol offer of 1000 dollars for the car.
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Miami
C. A. Bowers
Don Yates
Thomasville
Enterprise
N. C
Florida
Bowers
West Palm Beach
Yates
Brinkley
540Th Field Artillery
Bowers and Yates
Upper
North Carolina
Poe
Betsy
Civil War waif dies at 102 in Florence Alabama
George F. Mercer, once a Civil War waif who moved Lincoln to pity, died at 102. His early years included being left with friends in Raleigh after his father joined the south, a burned Fairfax home, and a reunion with his mother in Pittsburgh. A Union general led him to Lincoln who called for an end to the war.
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Florence
Ala
Abraham Lincoln
George F. Mercer
Fairfax
George
Raleigh
N.C
Pittsburgh
Washington
Lincoln
Dog Seeks 15 Points Toward Championship Title
A canine contender aims to reach 15 points to secure championship status. The effort centers on accumulating wins and scores to achieve the milestone and prove readiness for top-tier recognition.
Dempsey Life Story Film Planned With Rising Box Office Star
Hollywood report says Jack Dempsey will have a movie made next year with Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, or Palance in consideration. Dempsey owns part of the film and seeks a big box office draw to maximize his earnings. The script by Rowland Barber will include Willard and Firpo bouts and Tunney losses, while Jack Kearns is excluded.
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Hollywood
Jack Dempsey
Marlon Brando
Joan
Rock Hudson
Jack
Jack Palance
Dempsey
Palance
Rowland Barber
Rocky Graziano
Jack Kearns
Barber
Kearns
Credits Rickard
Tex Rickard
Jess Willard
Willard
Luis Firpo
Gene Tunney
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Davidson County
Dorothy F. Miller
Mary Lane
Jane Smith
Sarah Moss
Jesse Vincannon
Doris Boone
Helen Blackburn
Anne Mitchell
Ruth Scarborough
Joyce Ingram
Joan Haynes
Elizabeth Firesheets
J. H. Mourane
Ruth W. Maynard
Larry Klosterman
Robert Davidson
Robert L. Ingram
Billie Murff
Isabel Coltrane
Joy Johnston
Lydia Burns
Jane Hooks
Glen B. Jackson
T. G. Madison Jr
Jean Woods
Cecyle O’ Bryant
Ethiel Chadwick
Mittie Wilson
Nannie Mae Jackson
Lucille Johnson
Thelma Truesdale
Mae Comer Osborne
Mildred Jowers
Ann H. Jackson
Patricia Blackburn
Mary Lee Boyan
Wilma Crews
Ruth Suttles
Esther Crouch
Frances Robinson
Frances Cox
Alice Armfield
Lucille Osborne
Mildred Hilton
Belle Carmichael
Carmen Sasser
Lee Hutton
Dixie Klemme
Callie Braswell
Evelyn Green
E. B. Wrike
Audrey Wrike
Penney
Dave Gillespie
James Bacon
Banka Tosetts
Super Drug Store NO
S. Main ST
Buick
Boca
Jackie Gleason
W. F. Mauldin, Inc
High Point
N. Main Street
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