Christmas Wish List and Local Notes from Thomasville
A serialized column blends holiday requests for two Sugar Bowl tickets and various gifts with light social notes. It includes Lana Turner and Bob Topping's stop at the Lame Rooster, a Christmas autograph, and a church decoration feature. Community items touch on Easter sunrise plans, a makeshift night fishing light, and hospital priority discussions.
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Lana Turner
Bob Topping
Lana
Lame Rooster
Joyce Love
Joyce
Turner
Topping
Florda
Norris Perry
Jimmie Davis
Star Dust
Dorothy MacFarland
Taft Pledges Fight to Preserve Taft Hartley Law
Taft announced in the new Congress he will oppose any repeal of the Taft Hartley labor law and will back housing health and education legislation. He declined to seek a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, preferring to remain on the labor and finance panels as social welfare plans roll out from President Truman. His term on the policy committee ends with the 80th Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Morse
R-Ore
Truman
Spy probes continue work at Aberdeen Proving Ground
Mundt states all will be in executive session as investigators press on at Aberdeen Proving Ground. He hopes to conclude before Christmas while gathering more witness information to assess espionage in government and aid legislation to curb recurrence based on documented past cases.
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UNC
Carl Snavely
Charlie Justices
Santa
Mrs. Claus
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Mundt
Hospital seeks 60 bed addition funded by community drive
Thomasville plans a 60 bed hospital wing costing about 400000 with Community Foundation donations and ongoing solicits. Federal and state aid would cover half if locals raise the rest, potentially via county division reclassification to boost priority. The hospital dispute’s resolution aims to boost public support and fund raising for 1949.
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Paul Westmoreland
Harrell
Chevrolet
Paul
Robert
City Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Lexington
Davidson
Thomas- Ville
Thomasville’s Hospital
Community Foundation
Thomasville
Lexington Area
Thomasville Hospital
Yangtse Is Last Line Of Defense
The piece describes a retreat along the Yangtze as Chiang Kai-shek’s forces contend with Communists. Reports indicate traffic limits from Pukow to Chuhsien and government agencies tout a breakout by the 12th Army group while the Communists claim heavy losses and encirclements.
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Yangtse
Topping
Pukow
Nanking
Yangtze
Chuhsien
Central
12Th Army
Pengpu
Sixth
Tu Li-ming
Navy Veterans Convicted Of Miscegenation
A court case involving Navy veterans convicted under miscegenation law centers on tracing Negro blood lines. Testimony cites 89 year old Tom Knight and Davis Knight’s lineage to Rachel as evidence. State records reportedly show no prior miscegenation convictions, and no charges were planned against Davis Knight’s wife.
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Tom Knight
Newt Knight
Mississippi
Navy
At Least 12 Die In Crash In Utah Highway Collision
Witness accounts describe a westbound bus crash on a sagebrush plain with snow as the wreckage burned for hours. Driver Morris escaped through a windshield as passengers, including soldiers and civilians, burned or leapt from windows.
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Morris
Tooele
Czechs Set Up Government Firms
The Czechoslovak nationalization program extends to railways post office and airlines now to operate as business concerns aiming for profit. Bills to set up post office and transport organs as corporations proceed with a two thirds government board and a one third union board, with state financing limited to productive investment and no deficit guarantees.
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Prague
Government Considers Price Wage Freezes and Controls
Report outlines NLRB staff blueprint for emergency powers including a quick freeze where prices and wages are held at current levels and scarce goods sale halted. It notes potential manpower controls, rationing, and indirect measures like material use limits to curb non essential production and redirect to war needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NLRB
French Students May Go To India
New Delhi reports India will award nine fellowships to French graduates for research and teaching in Indian universities in 1949. The government aims to strengthen cultural bonds and respond to French interest in Indian languages and studies.
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New Delhi
Government of India
India
France
Family dispute ends with injury in High Point
C Slack of High Point was treated for cuts on the head at High Point Memorial Hospital after a family argument. Deputy Herman Burrows said no charges were filed against Slack's assailant, his father in law J T Smith. Slack had been drinking and was struck with fists in Smith's Asheboro Road home. Earlier, police had told Slack to go home and confiscated his car keys before the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garland C. Slack
High Point Rt. 3
Boulevard
High Point Memorial Hospital
Herman Burrows
Slack
Burrows Slack
J. T. Smith
Asheboro
Iity
High Point
Burrows
Smith
Guilford
Man Charged With Drunken Driving After Ward Street Wreck
Johnny E. Scott, 38, of 903 Grace Street, charged with operating a vehicle under the influence after a 1939 Ford struck an underpass near Ward and Prospect streets. Scott sustained facial injuries. passenger Perry Ward, 121 Dalton Street, reported Scott was driving. Abandoned car left on Ward Street. Scott jailed with $500 bond.
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Johnny E. Scott
Grace Street
Ward Street
Scott
Ward
Prospect Streets
Perry Ward
Dalton Street
Nose Restored After Newhall Car Crash
A 25 year old woman in Newhall California suffered a nasal amputation in a traffic smash. Police found the severed nose on the car’s running board and a hospital physician reattached it.
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Newhall
Calif
Fixed Monthly Rate Sets Two-Year Plan for Travel
The agreement fixes a monthly charge of 150 dollars for two years and covers the cost of second class return passage to France.
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France
Earthquake Recorded in the Southwest
A southwestern earthquake was recorded today by a California Institute of Technology seismograph. The tremor occurred around 4 45 pm Pacific daylight time and was felt sharply but not strong enough to cause damage, according to Charlies Richter.
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Pasadena
Calif
California Institute of Techno
Charlies Richter
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