Aviation Pioneers Gather in Manteo for Wright Anniversary
In Manteo the aviation site at Kill Devil Hill hosts rotor wing designers and manufacturers as Igor Sikorsky arrives to join leaders like Lawrence Bell P N Jansen and I M Peskin. The gathering marks the 44th anniversary of the Wright brothers first heavier than air flight.
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Mantec
Igor Sikorsky
Kill Devil Hill
Wright Brothers
Wilbur
Orville
Lawrence E. Bell
Bell Helicopter
P. N. Jansen
Bendix Aircraft Corp
I. M. Peskin
Kellet Helicopters
Dave Driskill
Outer Banks
Herbert C. Bonner
Manteo
Elizabeth City
Navy
Gerald F. Bogan
Airforce
Atlantic
Sikorsky and
Bell
Coast Guardsmen
Burlington Foundation Gifts to UNC and NC State Foundations
Burlington Foundation adds 50 000 to the Home Economics Foundation at the University of North Carolina and 15 000 to the Engineering Foundation at North Carolina State College. Total Burlington Mills contributions to the Consolidated University exceed 250 000, acknowledging leaders Spencer Love J C Cowan Jr and associates in support of education and industry.
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Raleigh
Burlington Foundation
Cenreal Mills of
Greensboro
Home Economics Foundation
Woman’s College
University of North Carolina
Engineering Foundation
North Carolina State College
R. Gregg Cherry
Burlington Mills Corporation
Consolidated
Burlington Mills
Business Foundation
University At Chapel Hill
Textile Foundation
State College
Spencer Love
J. C. Cowan, Jr
Cherry
North Carolina
Buirlington Mills
Bus Companies Of State Are Charging More
North Carolina bus companies raised fares with state utilities commission approval. Intra state travel now priced at two cents per mile. Participants include Atlantic Greyhound Carolina Coach Seashore Transportation Smoky Mountain Stages and Queen City.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Utilities Commission
Atlantic Greyhound
Carolina Coach
Seashore Transportation
Smoky Mountain Stages
Queen City
Charlotte Faces Urgent Fuel Oil Shortage Emergency
Mayor H H Baxter will send a telegram to President Truman seeking immediate aid to ease a critical fuel oil shortage in Charlotte and nearby areas. He proposes limiting regular customers to 80 percent of their normal share and urges emergency measures while North Carolina congressmen arrange talks with government officials about a statewide fuel oil shortage.
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Charlotte
H. H. Baxter
Truman
Baxter
Washington
Rep. Coughton
Greenslo
Durham
Salisbury
Shelby
Progress in Mountain Territory at Haywood achievement day
In Waynesville on December 15, reports from Haywood County achievement day emphasize home demonstration gains with 21 new farm homes built, 30 remodeled, and 17 sewer projects. The event notes include barley tobacco festival remarks, road-paving appeals, and Governor Cherry touring the mountain test farm after a luncheon honoring winners.
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Waynesville
Haywood County
Cherry
Northline
Tar Heel
South Carolina
Tarheelia
Andrew Jackson
Home Demonstration Club
Country Home
Mountain Test Farm
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture and State College
Negro Life-Termner Captured After Escape
Shelby reports Albert Meredith, a life-term escapee from a South Carolina prison farm at Bovkin, identified by Constable Bob Kendrick. Meredith, living previously in Spartanburg, faced two assault counts upon two years on the roads. Sheriff Hugh Logan noted Meredith had used the alias Johnnie Hawks and that he was tied to the biting of William Hopper and the disappearance of Hopper's finger.
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Hopper
Meredith
Practical Nurses Receive First Licenses Under 1947 Law
In Raleigh on December 16, Miriam Daughtry announced that 264 practical nurses now hold licenses as licensed practical nurses. This marks the first cohort certified under the 1947 training and licensing law.
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Raleigh
Miriam Daughtry
Court Battle For Airlines Involving Piedmont and State Airlines
Piedmont Aviation of Winston-Salem plans regular Cincinnati Charlotte Wilmington service soon but faces a potential challenge from State Airlines of Charlotte. State will appeal the civil aeronautics board award in the 4th U S circuit or the D C federal court, arguing Piedmont won routes State applied for and that the authorization violates the law.
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Charlotte
U.P
Piedmont Aviation, Inc
Winston-Salem
State Airlines, Inc
Cincinnati-Charlotte-Wilmington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Piedmont
State Airlines
U. S
District of Columbia
State
Fire Burns Out Motor Vehicle Repair Shop in Fayetteville
In Fayetteville on December 16 a district state highway and public works repair shop was destroyed by a quick fire. Two of 37 workers suffered slight burns, while one mechanic endured leg burns. The 200 foot brick veneer building housed tires, vehicles, tools and parts worth over 150000 dollars. The blaze originated from an electrical short as a mechanic worked on a truck. The building had served the department since 1930 and was formerly Cape Fear Fair association headquarters.
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Fayetteville
State Highway and Public Works Department
A .R. Nichols
Nichols
A. M. Arthur
J. W. Upton
Freville
Ayettev Re Department
Cape Fear Fair Association
Highway Department
Goldsboro Chapels to Be Sold by Army
The army says chapels at Seymour Johnson Airfield in Goldsboro North Carolina are to be sold after the civil aeronautics survey of community needs at the airport. No sale or grant is yet approved. Chapels will be sold to religious agencies with approval of the army chaplains. The War Assets Administration will advertise deactivated field chapels. Average sale price cited is about 1400 dollars for chapels originally costing around 30000 dollars. bids go to the chief of army chaplains for approval before finalizing with WAA.
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Washington
Army
Semour Johnson Air Field
Goldsboro
N. C
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Army Chaplains
War Assets Administration
War Assets Office
WAA
Chief of Army Chaplains
Weed Prices Unsteady On Tobacco Belts
Prices were unsteady yesterday on the middle and old flue-cured tobacco belts in Raleigh. Old belt leaf grades rose from $1 to $2 per 100 pounds, red grades fell as much as $3.50, lugs up to $3, and most other varieties unchanged. Middle belt leaf and smoking leaf fluctuated up to $4. Nondescript rose 25 cents to $1.50 while cutties and lugs remained steady.
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Raleigh
Byrnes to Speak at Delta Theta Phi Installation
James F. Byrnes former secretary of state and South Carolina diplomat is expected to be guest of honor and main speaker at the Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity installation at Duke University School of Law on Dec 19. Invitations have been extended to North Carolina officials and state bar leaders.
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North Carolina
Mason
Walcott to Referee Montgomery Angelo Bout at Garden
Heavyweight Joe Walcott will serve as guest referee for the Bob Montgomery versus Joey Angelo lightweight bout at Boston Garden next Monday night. He will receive a $1,000 fee for his officiating.
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Walcott
Boston
Joe Walcott
Bob Montgomery
Joey Angelo
Boston Garden
Treatment of Toxic Goitre and Thiouracil Therapy
An overview of toxic goitre or hyperthyroidism its symptoms such as rapid heartbeat nervousness sweating and eye bulging. Treatment history includes rest iodine radiation and thyroid removal with emphasis on thiouracil which can relieve symptoms and allow surgical success though it carries risks and requires weekly monitoring and physician supervision.
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Dra. Rulon W. Rawson
Janet W. McArthur
Boston
Russia devalues ruble amid inflation while critics doubt lasting impact
The Moscow decree trims the ruble, promising worse terms for savings but easing some hardship by exchanging up to 3000 rubles at a one to one rate and ending food rationing. U S officials caution against overreacting, noting inflation alone does not prove a failed system and acknowledging the uncertain future of the Soviet economy.
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Russia
Moscow
America
China
Moscow Radio
U. S
Robert A. Lovett
Senate Appropriations Committee
Soviet Union
United States
Mussolini
Hitler
Safety Note on Post Crash Vehicle Inspection
A caution urges drivers not to drive a car after a collision before a thorough check for hidden damage. Skipping inspection may cause further harm or breakdowns.
Butler's Money To Columbia Eventually
New York December 16 The will of Dr Nicholas Murray Butler long time Columbia University president directs his residuary estate to pass to the university upon the death of his widow Mrs Kate La Montagne Butler. The will filed in surrogate court after his death December 7 provides 5000 in three staff bequests and establishes a 100000 memorial fund for Columbia University trustees to be a permanent endowment after Mrs Butler's death. The estate value is not yet determined.
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New York
Columbia University
Nicholas Murray Butler
Butler
Kate la Montagne Butler
University
Woman Who Visited Five Months Ordered to Pay Host
In Knoxville Tennessee a circuit court jury awarded R L Odom a $230 judgment against Della Hawkins an elderly arthritis sufferer who stayed five months at his home after arriving for dinner in July 1946. Odom testified Hawkins claimed to be his fourth cousin and had not been seen in 18 years.
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Knoxville
Tenn
R. L. Odom
Della Hawkins
Odom
Miss Hawkins
Prisoner Seeks Clemency From Governor Cherry
Virgil Shipes, 38, formerly George Morgan and general manager of Mount Comfort Cemetery at Fairfax Virginia, requests clemency from Governor Cherry. Convicted in Mitchell County in 1936 of breaking and entering and larceny, he was sentenced to 13 to 20 years. He escaped in 1944, later worked at the cemetery company, and surrendered to central prison authorities yesterday. The paroles office has received many letters advocating clemency.
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Raleigh
Virgil Shipes
George Morgan
Mount Comfort
Faire x
Central Prison
Cherry
Shipes
Ware Shoals
S. C
Mitchell County Superior Court
Mitchell County
Virginia
Cemetery Company
Paroles
Man seeks divorce after claim of being railroaded into marriage
Gerald F. Liebold a railroad employee files for divorce in Los Angeles alleging he was forced into marriage by Alice M. Liebold in Chicago on November 26 1946. He says the bride and her brothers threatened him with violence and kept him prisoner for two weeks before he escaped to California.
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Los Angeles
Gerald F. Liebold
Liebold
Hillcrest And Weaving Give $16,000 Here
Christmas bonuses totaling $16,000 are being paid to employees of High Point Weaving and Hillcrest Throwing, units of Burlington Mills. The announcements by superintendents L. C. Easter and W. H. Ballard note about $600,000 company wide paid to one employee and plans for December 21 children’s Christmas parties at both plants.
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High Point
Hillcrest
Burlington Mills
L. C. Easter
W. H. Ballard
Cullen Johnson
WRAL
Raleigh
AFL Seeks Return of United Mine Workers to Federation
AFL President William Green pledged to use all powers to bring John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers back into the federation after Lewis disaffiliated last Friday. Green called the move a boon to labor’s enemies and urged reconsideration after debate and Taft-Hartley affidavits.
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Washington
AFL
William Green
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Green
UMW
Labor
San Francisco
United Mine Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
Japan’s Postwar Housing Crisis Deepens Amid Shortages
A News agency survey shows one million people seeking homes in a prostrate nation three winters after surrender. Tokyo records 19 000 shacked families and over 2 000 in air raid shelters while 769 000 homes were destroyed and 207 000 torn down for fire breaks.
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Tokyo
Trial Of Winston Man Continues In Brownstown
In Brownstown Indiana on December 16 the trial of David E Edman former electrical contractor of Winston Salem NC continued in circuit court Edman is charged with first degree murder in the death of his divorced wife Ruth Clark Edman The dead woman's father Nathan Clark testified he witnessed the shooting at the Clark farm home last February
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Brownstown
Ind
David E. Edman
Winston-Salem
N. C
Edman
Ruth Clark Edman
Nathan Clark
Clark Farm
Minister of State Must Leave Home
Tokyo report says Takao Saito the Minister of State is asked by his landlord to vacate a two room shack by year end. The landlord cites his daughter’s forthcoming marriage and need for the house. Saito appeals to stay, offering to share if needed. The landlord refuses.
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Tokyo
Takao Saito
Saito
Moon Calendar Names in Indigenous Traditions
The Indians named each month by the Moon phases and seasonal events. January is Snow Moon, February Hunger Moon, March Wakening Moon, April Grass Moon, May Planting Moon, June Crack Moon, July Thunder Moon, August Melting Moon, September Hunting Moon, October Leaf Falling Moon, November Mad Moon, and December Long Night Moon.
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