Kerr Craige Ramsay Dies at Salisbury North Carolina
Former Speaker Kerr Craige Ramsay, a leading North Carolina political figure, died in Salisbury yesterday from a heart attack. He was under 40 when he led the House of Representatives and was viewed as a rising national aspirant. The state mourns his loss.
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Kerr Craige Ramsay
Salisbury
House of Representatives
United States
Senate
Ramsay
Millionth U S Auto Death Looms In Slight Pause For Action
An editorial warns that the United States may soon reach one million automotive deaths, noting 52 years since the first casualty on Dabfemner 1, 2000, with over 19,000 deaths per year on average. It questions legislative and public inaction and urges decisive steps to cut toll by half.
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United States
Two NC Highways Widening Strains North Chapel Hill Traffic
A reader questions state highway planning as two major routes from Chapel Hill to Durham and Raleigh are widened. Raleigh-bound and Durham-bound sections face closures and rough surfaces, forcing slow travel and mixed traffic. The note asks how decisions are made and why both projects proceed simultaneously.
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North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Durham
Raleigh
University of North Carolina
King condemns Caudle as unfit pawn in Trumanism
Stooge representative Cecil R King attacks former Assistant Attorney General T Lamar Caudle as unfit for the tax prosecutions role. He argues Caudle's failure reflects wider Truman administration failings and urges eradicating systemic corruption, not just individual aides.
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Cecil R. King
House
T. Lamar Caudle
King
Lamar Caudle
Truman
Caudle
Supreme Court
Tom Clark
McGrath
Conductor Charged Over Baton Attack in Chicago
A Chicago incident reports a first violinist accusing an opera conductor of striking him with a baton during Madame Butterfly. The conductor denies the act but apologized amid union threats to pull the orchestra. The piece recalls baton mishaps by Harry Richman and warns the baton can be a dangerous weapon.
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Chicago
Ross Petrillo
The
Sicians’ Union
Harry Richman
Richman
Public figures conjure Caudle link in tax probe taunts
A brash column ridicules Theron Lamar Caudle amid tax inquiry buzz. It lampoons Washington insiders including James Bennett and others, notes Mrs. Shyri Menkin testimony, and jokes about a rooftop proclamation. It ends by naming a Miami Beach number linked to Menkin.
Ike Eisenhower Editor Joe Barnes Ken McCormick Involved
The piece recalls editor Joe Barnes and Ken McCormick shaping Ike Eisenhower’s book Crusade in Europe and notes Barnes’ later associations. It cites testimony from the McCarran committee and Whittaker Chambers about Barnes as a possible Soviet-linked figure and clarifies no firm Republican ties are shown.
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Joseph Barnes
New York Herald Tribune
Ken McCormick
Doubleday and Company
Ike
John Gunther
Eisenhower
Joe Barnes
Wendell Willkie
One World
Willkie
Institute of Pacific Relations
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
E. C. Carter
Owen Lattimore
Barnes
Field
Alexander Barmine
Athens
McCarran
General Berzin
Eastland
Berzin
Barmine
Lattimore
Karl Wittfogel
Ferguson
Harvard
Itfogel
Morris
Dr. Wittfogel
Wittfogel
McCarran Committee
Stalin
Comintern
Peters
American Communist Party
Mr. Field
Central Park West
New York
Communist Party
Europe
Oswald P. Ford Praises Inclusive Volunteer Image
Mrs. Oswald P. Ford, head of the National Health Council, rejects the outdated stereotype of a single female volunteer. She argues volunteers are diverse in roles and appearances, not confined to leisure or gender norms.
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Oswald P. Ford
National Health Council
Broadway Roundup Highlights New York Theatre Acts
The article surveys Henry Fonda's new stage piece Point of No Return, the mixed reception for Call Me Madam, and The Moon as top television, with The Fourposter and Don Juan in Hell among notable dramas. It notes disappointing runs like To Dorothy a Son and Oh Amelia while praising The Aristocrats and Life Begins at 80, and remarks on TV figures Jimmy Durante and Ethel Barrymore amid industry chatter.
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Henry Fonda
Nerupicket
Hell
Jimmy Durante
Ethel Barrymore
M. Wallace
Buff Cobb
Vivian Blaine
Lulu
Jack Barry
Abc-Tv
Hope
Lester
Allen
Tin cans drive and other notes from Alfred Sun hints
A High Point reader cites the Alfred Sun on tin and steel can mobilization, noting no local requests yet and that scrap drives continue. Other items cover chinchilla hobby, a critique of blackmail in world politics, theft and holiday watchfulness, and a bus seat gesture by five gallant men.
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G. H. Hobart
West Farriss Avenue
Alfred
N. Y
Hi * Point Chamber of Commerce
Frank J. Sizemore, Jr
High Point
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