Industrial Growth Visualized in Tarboro NC Meeting
Tarboro officials heard State Director Ben Douglas outline eastern North Carolina's industrial expansion. He cited water powered manufacturing of man made fibers, seafood processing plants, truck crop packaging, and ag mechanization as key growth drivers. Attendees numbered in the hundreds from business, professional and industrial sectors.
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Tarboro
N. C
North Carolina
Ben Douglas
State Department of Conservation and Development
Douglas
Tarboro Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Assn
C&d
Sanma
Glas
Father Finds Son Dead in Auto
Renfro traveled to Lexington to find his son William Delmer Renfro a 26 year old Madison County farmer who had been missing two weeks. He discovered the body shot in the trunk of the son’s own car with the back of the head torn away. An acquaintance reportedly tipped off the location as police admitted the case baffling with few clues.
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Lexington
Renfro
William Delmer Renfro
Madison County
Stanley Hadley
Volscan device lands planes faster at multiple airfields
A Boston report says Air Force scientists unveiled Volscan, a secret five year project that directs approaching jets to land at 30 second intervals within 60 miles of airports. Benjamin F. Greene Jr. estimates base cost near $100000, promising quicker landings and reduced stacking.
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Air Force
Volscan
Benjamin F. Greene Jr
Newport
R.I
Tornado-Battered Vicksburg Digs Into New Search Area
Vicksburg, Miss. crews moved into a Negro residential area near the National Military Park to join the search for tornado victims. The disaster area designation opens SBA loans and federal aid while 6 burials were scheduled and 12 held. Kay Warren, 11, was recovered from a sporting goods store ruins as workers, soldiers and 3,000 locals continued rubble removal. Schools stayed closed and Washington Street buildings pose collapse risks.
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Vicksburg
Miss
National Military Park
Small Business Administration
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
SBA
Kay Warren
Silat
New Scientific Attacks Target Housefly Intestines
Reports to the Entomological Society of America detail new findings on housefly digestion. Bernard Greenberg notes pepsin in flies' ventrics, challenging the view insects lack pepsin. W Chefurka maps carbohydrate breakdown, hinting at new chemical attack avenues. Dr. Decker warns insects' yearly biomass and crop damage rise despite chemicals.
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Oue Press
Los Angeles
Entomological Society of America
Bernard Greenberg
Igeaversity of
Kansas
Greenberg
W. Chefurka
London
Ontario
Chefurka
Socie
George C. Decker
He Tllinois Natural History Survey
Decker
Ilinois
Drouth
Poem Translation Sparks Scottish Controversy
An English translator William Kean Seymour 66 retired bank manager who never visited Scotland casts Burns in English. His version of Address to a Haggis sparks letters to editors across Aberdeen and Glasgow with mixed protests and supporters.
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Colin Frost
Scotland
Bobie Burns
William Kean Seymour
Seymour
Burns
Ins
Aberdeen
Frederick Moss
Bleslum
Glasgow
Douglas Cargen
Isobel Webster
Stranger in Closet Traced and Removed by Local Resident
In Baltimore, tg Cox found a stranger asleep in his closet and secured the door before calling police. John Craddock of New York, 28, claimed to be visiting his aunt and said he lost his companion and wandered into Cox’s home, waking under clothes. Magistrate E Everett Lane fined him $15 for disturbing the peace and suspended the penalty on the condition he leave town immediately.
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Baltimore
Tg Cox
John Craddock
Cox
E. Everett Lane
Payette Lake 'Sea Serpent' to finally receive a name
Boon McCallum launches a contest in the Payette Lakes Star to name Payette Lake's famed unidentified sea serpent after 15 years of sightings. The creature, reported at 15 to 65 feet, remains unphotographed and has never rocked a boat, with skeptics labeling it a large sturgeon.
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Mccall, Idaho
Payette Lake
Boon McCallum
Payette Lakes
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