Negro group seeks end to discrimination at SC bomb plant
The AEC selects a 250000 acre tract in South Carolina for H bomb work and Clarence Mitchell urges the commission to prevent race based segregation and job and housing discrimination. He cites 42.9 percent colored population and notes prior costly discrimination at bomb plants.
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South Carolina
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Clarence Mitchell
Association
Washington Bureau
Gordon Dean
Atomic Commission
South Via
Mitchell
Obituary and church notices for Colored community
Mrs. Aleese Spencer of 607 Tate Street died after months of illness. Survived by husband Al, daughter Myrtle Stewart, sons Fulson and Alvin, sisters Daisy Ewings Mozelle Foust Candor Geneva Baldwin Columbus Ohio, brothers Belvin Foust Winston Salem Ivory Columbus Ohio. Burial at Greenhill cemetery with Rev. J W Robinson officiating. White Rose Chapter O E S hosts a banquet at St Stephen A M E Zion Thursday at 8. Tickets from chapter members. Willing Workers Club Mt Vernon Baptist meets at Mamie Davis home 204 Hay Street Thursday at 7 45 p m with Mrs Elizabeth Coleman as hostess. W S C First Baptist church members meet at parsonage Wednesday 6 p m for business of importance.
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Aleese Spencer
Tate St
Myrtle Stewart
Fulson
Alvin
Daisy Ewings
Mozelle Foust
Candor
Geneva Baldwin
Columbus
Ohio
Belvin Foust
Winston
Ivory
Gethesemane Baptist
J. W. Robinson
Greenhill Cemetery
White Rose
O.E.S
St. Stephen A.M.E. Zion Church
Willing Workers Club
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
Mamie Davis
Hay Street
Elizabeth Coleman
Various Historical Quiz Items and Birth Announcements
A jumble of trivia questions asks state locations of the Finger Lakes and Kentucky state song authors, plus cabinet service counts for Henry L. Stimson and the current U S labor secretary. It also mentions birthdays for Walt Disney Vincent Sheean Werner Heisenberg Lorraine Fischer and a Meath-born actor with a 1930s film list. It then recalls a Wolcott born American educator and writer born in 1799 with a peasant and utopian bent.
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Town of
Bethlehem
Henry L. Stimson
United States Secretary of Labor
Kentucky
Walt Disney
Vincent Sheean
Werner Heisenberg
Lorraine Fischer
County Meath
Ireland
Kelly
Sue
Mr. Broadway
Bombay Mail
Wolcott
Conn
Name of the Unnamed Father of a Famous Daughter
The column notes a man who befriended Ralph Waldo Emerson and shaped educational theory though early life was fraught with harsh criticism. He died March 4, 1888, two days before his daughter, a famed children's author.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conform meaning and linguistic origin overview
The term conform is defined as to make or be like and to bring into harmony or agreement. It traces to Old French conformer and Latin conformare from con and forma meaning to form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wachovia Trust
Wachovia
Horoscope Outlook For The Coming Year
Your future looks bright for studying new subjects and pursuing hobbies. New friendships may bring happiness next year. A child born under these signs may have a charming personality.
Notable historical birth and regime events
The record notes Martin van Buren born in 1782 as the eighth U S president. It marks 1933 as the end of Prohibition in the United States. In 1934 Russia conducted a purge executing 60 prominent men accused of plotting against Joseph Stalin.
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Martin van Buren
United States
Russia
Josef Stalin
Where Ignorance Is Bliss Quote Appears in Verse
A quotation from Thomas Gray about the folly of wisdom when bliss rests in ignorance appears attributed in a literary note. The line prompts reflections on knowledge and happiness in period writings.
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Thomas Gray
Gold drains from U S treasury at record pace amid defense stockpiles
New York December 5 The article notes gold leaving U S treasuries at a historic rate yet argues the country still holds about three fifths of the world’s gold worth around 23 billion dollars. It attributes much of the drain to defense stockpiling and favorable trade, with prices rising in free markets abroad.
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New York
U. S. Treasury
Russia
Federal Reserve Banks
U. S
Mexico City
Korea
Orient
National Committee On Monetary Policy
Washington
Flooded Lake Eyre transforms Salt Flat into Lake Sydney
The article notes Lake Eyre in Australia filling with floodwater, creating a 4,000 square mile water body described as Lake Sydney. It mentions a launch carrying a party and one member becoming seasick, with a tide in the lake measured at 12 to 15 inches.
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Sydney
Eyre
Australia
Young man posing as adult man charged as 14 year old on bicycle
A man who phoned Dallas housewives for dates, claiming to be six feet tall with a car, was revealed at a police arranged rendezvous to be a 14 year old four foot youth on a bicycle. Imported goods to Japan from Sweden include sulphite pulp rayon pulp iron and steel products and rosin.
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Dallas
Tex
Japan
Sweden
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Sonotone Hearing Center
Sheraton
High Point
T. W. Cope
W.lc
Circle
First Baptist Church
Happy
Lilian Campbell
Central Press
Bishop Phillips Brooks
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry
Truman
Maurice J. Tobin
Massachusetts
Old
Stephen Foster
Norv Vosvoig
By Sam Dawson
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Laura Norris
South 6Th St
St. Louis
Tate
LeBlanc Corp
Lafayette
LeBlanc Corporation
Ady
Waitee
Napoleon
St. Helena
BAYER
Reyon
Gabardine
M.L
U. S. Pat
S.M.L
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