High Point discusses extending city limits for growth and services
The city will review a proposal to extend High Point limits in all directions to boost population and tax base. Civic leaders stress careful planning on infrastructure, water and sewer, power, paving, and service adequacy before any election.
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Hics
High Point
Terprise
Igh
Fidrey
Toralgento
Hich
Ciis
High Nt
T. Untit
The Guilty In The Winecoff Hotel Fire
The editor argues the fire’s true fault lies with lax laws and enforcement at state and city levels. They question the fire chief’s focus on a possible cigarette caused by a drunken guest, noting missing fire escapes and no sprinkler system in the 15 floor hotel. The piece emphasizes accountability of legislatures and officials over blamed individuals.
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Winecoff Hotel
Atlanta
A. C. Huston
New York
Georgia
Jock Whitney
Bill Corum
Queens
Tim Gayle
Mag
Larry Raine
H'wood
Miami
Gregory Taylor
St. Moritz
Gov't
Wassamatta
Old Timers Mourn Johnson and Runyon Passings
Walter Johnson the Big Train dies in a Washington hospital after months of illness. Damon Runyon, famed sportswriter and author, dies in New York. The two icons are remembered as towering figures in American sports and literature.
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Walter Johnson
Washington
Damon Runyon
New York
Johnson
Runyon
Old Truman Committee Hits New Low
NEA dispatch recounts the Senate War Investigating Committee's decline from nonpartisan wartime integrity to internal conflict over investigating U S military government in Germany. It centers on Francis Pickens Miller whose testimony triggered leaks and partisan fallout under Mead and Kilgore, souring public trust.
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Peter Fdson Washington
Dec
NEA
Senate
Harry Truman
Truman
Washington
U. S
Germany
Francis Pickens Miller
Virginia
General Staff Corps
Supreme Headquarters
Miller
Senator Mead
War Investigating Committee
George Meader
Meader
War Department
Sen
Owen
Brewster
Maine
Mead
Liberty Magazine
Byrnes
Harley M. Kilgore
Army
Fritz Kuhn
Talmadge
New York
Likker Czar Post
A. Reuben, Jr
Reuben
57Th Street
Dewey
Paul Lockwood
Capitol Square Grid Iron revival eyed by press photographers
A North Carolina meeting tentatively backs reviving the spring grid iron party after wartime suspensions. Satire and off the record remarks feature the event with top officials partaking in a light political showcase.
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State Press Photographers Association
Washington
Capitol Square
Henderson Daily Dispatch
Henderson
Henry Dennis
John Park
Raleigh
Raleigh Times
Dennis
Tne
Gregg Cherry
Official who receives queer mail to Wake County roads office
A state official notes daily queer mail addressed to Wake County engineers over a bridge issue and a dairy critic blasts milk payments and checks. A Health program correspondent warns that prioritizing rural hospitals versus a medical college may derail the balanced public health plan.
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Governor's Office
C. B. Taylor
Commissioners, Engineers
Wake County Roads & Highways
County Commissioners of
Wake County
Raleigh
North Carolina
Upper
Wake
C. W. Pegram
State Department of Agriculture
Piedmont
Good Health Association
New York Gossip Fetes Celebrities And Power Figures
A crowded New York scene buzzes with marriages rumors and social moves involving John Ringling North and Jean McCormick, Simone Simon with Blue Barron, Mrs. Parker and Lorraine Miller, and showman George Abbott's daughter Judy. Industrial and political figures face health scares, trials, and public discourse while theater, film, and high society trade rumors and fashion shifts amid inflation and postwar bustle.
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John Ringling North
Jean McCormick
Simone Simon
Blue Barron Knotty
Frank Parker
Parker
Lorraine Miller
George Abbott
Dhtr
Judy
Jackie Kelk
Networks
Surles
Uncle Sam
John L. Lewis
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Rom Terry
H.A. Cecil
D. A. Rawley
Robert L. Thompson
Wnterprise
Associated Press
N. C
John Bunco
Lexington Ave
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
The
Columbians, Inc
Hitler
Florida
Cherry
Tarheelia
Asheville
Pinehurst
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Old North
Smith's Island
Mount Mitchell
McMullan
Southwest
Harris McMullis
H. J. Rhodes
Avon, N. C
Kilroy
Justice Department
SBI
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Winchell
MAN About Town
Gustav Bucky
A. Einstein
Doug Corrigan
Royal Air Service
Specs
Annie
Tommy Lyman
Talberts
J. L. Lewis
Dept. of Justice
Lewis
Brooklyn
Thawt
Canada
Gregg Tolands
Hollywood
Stokesbury
Parke-Bernet
Hank Daniels, Jr
M-G-M
Red M. J. Dennison
Conover
Nicky Blair
Berle
Joseph Auslanders
Audrey Wardemann
Las Vegas
Frances Ramsden
United Artists
Angela Lansbury
Hurd Hatfield
Ingrid Bergman
Manhattan
Enterprise Pix
Lee Dixons
Marta Abba
Tovarich
Pirandello
Leighton's
Sinatras
Bermuda
Stork Club
St. Louis
Mike Jacobs
Mister Breger
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