University Hour Showcase Profiles North Carolina Personalities
University Hour, produced at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, features students and townspeople dramatizing university life with live sound and tape. The series returns to air this week with five stations carrying Not by the Book about General Pettigrew and Pettigrew era figures, starring James Yeldman, Walt Whitaker, and Horace Mann with Skip Mann supplying musical notes from Norfolk.
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University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
University Hour
Ohio
John Clayte
Old Chapel
Communication Center
James Johnston Pettigrew
Cemetery Ridge
Tom Tucker
N. C
Monroe
Pettigrew
James Yeldman
Durham
Walt Whitaker
Gray
Wade Hampton
Horace
Skip’’ Mann
Norfolk
Pull Up a Chair A Patchwork of Curiosities and Echoes
A collage of snippets reports changing American habits from tobacco use to entertainment and consumer trends. It notes rising cigarette and cutter market activity, a drop in chewing tobacco demand, and a poll favoring voluntary health insurance. Concerns over nicotine and advertising ethics appear alongside light social quips and unrelated anecdotes.
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Toba Viet Rettae
American Druggist
Dri
Aged Man Not Billy The Kid, Says Governor
Gov. Thomas Mabry dismissed a claim by Ollie Henry Roberts to be Billy the Kid after a 45 minute interview. Historians say the outlaw died in a 1881 gunfight with Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner. Roberts could not recall key incidents or details of the Kid’s life.
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Santa FE
N. M
Thomas Mabry
Billy the Kid
Ollie Henry Roberts
New Mexico
Kid
Pat Garrett
Fort Sumner
Roberts
Wilmington Knoxville Rail Link Proposed as a Possible Connection
The idea of a rail link from Knoxville Tennessee to Wilmington North Carolina moves from pipe dream to discussion with state officials. Dr Henry W Jordan state highway commission chairman says two unidentified Charlotte businessmen have proposed a line from Bostic through the Pigeon River valley to connect with a Seaboard Air Line route into Knoxville. The plan aims to haul coal to Wilmington port facilities for ship fuel with highway rail sharing costs and rights of way.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Wilmington
Henry W. Jordan
State Highway Commission
Charlotte
Bostic
Rutherford County
Pigeon River Valley
Pigeon River
Marshall
Hot Jordan
Highway Commission
Railroad
Former French countess lives quietly on Canadian dairy farm
ABBOTTSFORD B C a former Comtesse de Dampierre once twice sentenced to death by the Germans and tortured escapes now Mrs Lloyd Moore enjoys life on a dairy farm near Abbotsford. Her first husband Count de Dampierre fought with the French army and died in a Gestapo torture boxcar. She endured prison transfers and firing squad attempts before escaping to safety until liberation. Two years after meeting at the Nuremberg trials she married Moore, then with the American Army, and they settled in 1948.
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Poland
Moore
Salt Lake City Parks Commission Donates Bass Fiddle
The city parks commission gave a bass fiddle unused since the 1920s to a group of amateur singers. The instrument sat idle after a WPA orchestra disbanded. A note mentions Paraguay’s yerba mate cultivation by Jesuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
City Parks Commission
Paraguay
Four-Point Buck In Love With Heifer
CARTHAGE Missouri December 2 Mrs Claire Jackson reports a four point buck deer has fallen in love with a two year old shorthorn heifer on a farm five miles away. The deer stays by her side and chases her in the pasture but does not bother other cattle. She backs up the tale with pictures. A separate line notes rats have killed more people than all wars in history.
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Carthage
Claire Jackson
Missouri
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State College
Una
Universi
Arthur V. Briskin
Macere Johous
Briskin
The
National Geographic Society
Tibet
Madame Marie
West Broad
Frank
Betty Dutt
Quincy, Ill
Chicago
Stamford
C. R. Demarest
Mexico
NBC
Medico
Brand Names Foundation
High Point
North State Telephone CO
Thomasville
Randleman
Wilmington, Knoxville
Arthur
Boogie’ Smith and
WMPFA
Grocer and Clinard Milling Company
Advt
Heifer
Titan
Eversharp
United States Pencil CO
Fifth Ave
New York
America
Walvel
Penney
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