UNC Verdict Tops 51 News in High Point Year
The High Point Emergence reviews 1951 headlines from North Carolina newspapers. Legislators debated street funding with Sen. Junius K. Powell steering a pivotal bill. The year’s top stories include tax hearings, the Wake Forest ground breaking, weather droughts, a Colsetsville tragedy, a power merger bid, and notable sports items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C
UNC
Junius K. Powell
Columbus County
Scott
Washington
North Carolina
Royal Cotton Mills
Wake Forest
Winston-Salem
Wake
Forsyth County
Truman
Colsettsville
Blue Ridge
Lenoir
Ralph Gragg
Carolina Power and Light Company
Tidewater Power Company of
Wilmington
Penny Post Card Dies Tomorrow
The United Press reports dramatic postal rate hikes set to take effect starting tomorrow. The penny postal card rises to two cents on January 1, with larger increases for special delivery, registered, and third class mail, and second class rates rising on April 1. Some changes aim to reduce the Post Office’s deficit, while parcel post weights are trimmed and bulk-rate rules updated.
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Fred Mullen
United Press
Washington
Post Office Department
Congress
Post Office
Interstate Commerce Commission
Liar Club pins pastor as world champion liar
Burling ton Liars Club officers awarded the 1951 title to Rev. Arthur R. Kirk of Briggs California for a tale about a man trying to grow watermelons and vines that dragged a thief to the hospital. The unanimous decision surprised the judges when they read the sign at the bottom.
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Burlington
Wis
Liars
Arthur R. Kirk
Briggs
Calif
O. C. Muttlett
Mr. Kirk
Biges Community
Gossip and gags from a busy newspaper page
A collage of wit and notes from Detroit sales lore to Esperanto origins. It features quips about sales tactics with foreign buyers, a Glendale headline pun, Attu versus Wellington, a joke about Abe Lincoln, shaving thoughts, Hobson’s choice, Goldwyn gags, and labor union talk. It also mentions Mayonnaise origin in Bayonne and a used car lot argument.
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Detroit
Dr. L. Zamenhoef
Kremlin
Glendale
Calif
Attu
Aleutians
North America
Wellington
New Zealand
New York
Friars Club
Waldorf-Astoria
Abraham Lincoln
The
United States
Bayonne
Stassen Platform Wins Warm Reception in Capital
Harold E. Stassen's campaign platform draws praise in Washington. He backs a modern gold standard, hard money and limits on income taxes, signals possible federal sales tax, and hints at seeking advice from Democrats and generals after taking office. He remains optimistic about a Eisenhower nomination.
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Lyle GC
Wilson Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Republican Party
Stassen
Wayne Morse
R-Ore
White House
James A. Farley
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Douglas MacArthur
Production In 1951 Sets New Record World Output
Washington reports total national production reached 327 billion dollars in 1951, up 15 percent from 1950. Sawyer notes 7 percent of the rise due to price inflation, 8 percent to real output gains driven by manpower use, facilities expansion, and defense demand amid easing inflation. Personal income rose to 251 billion with a 260 billion annual rate. industrial output grew 1 percent as auto, appliance, and textile sectors trimmed while capital equipment and defense expanded. A SEC and FTC release shows manufacturing profits falling in Q3 from the prior quarter and year, with sales at 51.1 billion and net profits about 5.9 billion, down 11 percent from Q3 last year.
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Washington
Charles Sawyer
Sawyer Sail
Securities & Exchange Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Doomed Slaver Flees On Bike From Amiens Prison
Leon Meurant a self termed Russian spy condemned to the guillotine escaped on a bicycle today from Amiens Prison. He fled with Michel Courtin who helped knock out guards and steal uniforms. Meurant, 39, Belgian, was convicted in October of the 1945 murder of Countess Moussin Sainty de Chalon during a Brussels to Paris auto ride. The countess mother of two, was found Nov 26 1945 between Cambrat and Masnieres, strangled in nylon panties.
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Amiens
France
Leon Meurant
Meurant
Michel Courtin
Moussin Sainty de Chalon
Brussels
Paris
Cambrat_and
Masnieres
Institute Reports Only One Lynching In 1951
Tuskegee Institute released its annual lynching report noting one confirmed 1951 lynching, the Orlando death of Melvin Womack, and three prevented lynchings across Alabama Virginia and Washington DC. The Florida case involved a masked attack. others involved a white woman kidnapping claim and a mob in DC.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Institute
South Carolina
Florida
Negro School
Department of Records and Research
Institute
Melvin Womack
Orlando
Fla
Nightriders
Brundidge
Forrest Jones
Colonial Beach
Charles White
Washington, D.C
LaFayette Miller
Greenville
Miller
Best Dressed Duchess Leads New York List 1951
The Duchess of Windsor tops New York Dress Institute’s best dressed women for 1951 marking a tenth straight win. A new entrant is Princess Margaret Rose with other notable names, including Mrs. Douglas MacArthur and Mrs. Henry Ford I, among others. In Brandon Manitoba Malcolm McGregor paid a record 395 dollars for a purebred boar at the Manitoba Winter Fair, winning reserve in swine.
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New York
Duchess of Windsor
New York Dress Institute
Margaret Rose
Britain
King George
Duchess of Kent
Douglas MacArthur
George McGhee
U. S
Irene Dunne
Marlene Dietrich
Uberto Corti
William Paley
Mme
Louis Arpels
Paris
Byron Foy
Washington
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Henry Ford I
Detroit
Brandon
Man
Malcolm McGregor
Manitoba
Two Are Accused of Axe Slaying
In LaFollette Tennessee authorities charged Allen Burton a 17 year old and Ray Partin of Eagan Tennessee with murder after Burton confessed to stabbing and robbing a 66 year old man named Ben Thomas at his Eagan home last Thursday and taking $9.79. Partin denied involvement in the murder or robbery.
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Lafollette
Tenn
Allen Burton
Muncie
Ind
Campbell County
Harmon
Burton
Ray Partin
Eagan
Ben Thomas
Partin
New Gimmicks Show Geometry Tricks at City School
New gimmicks to hold the interest of mathematics students were demonstrated here recently by Dr Samuel Greitzer of the High School of Science. They consisted of a series of cardboard models which could be collapsed and carried in a coat pocket.
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New York
New
Samuel Greitzer
High School of Science
Super-Microscope Boon To Doctors
Bernley Calif. A microscope that can reveal inside a small living cell was described to the American Physical Society. The device may give medical researchers their first view of the internal workings of cancer, blood, or nerve cells.
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Bernley
Calif
American Physical Society
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Beattie Feathers
In. C. State
Liars Club
Pastor
Abe
Hobson
Cambridge
Hotson
Samuel Goldwyn
Mr. Malaprop
Pennsylvania
Joseph R. Grundy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wild Search
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Sen
Robert A. Taft
R-O
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Sawyeraid
Samuel Shepherd
Walter Lee Irvin
Harry T. Moore
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Moore
Shepherd
Irvin
Raiford
Tavares
J. D. Rike & Son
S. Main Street
Howard Hughes
Technicolor
Rai Martin Leigh Dehaven
Eddie
Aden Kage
Peter In
Unity Skating Rink
Coote
Cincinnati
Louisville
Charleston
Ristol
Johnson City
Kingsport
Monark
DuPont
Monark. Shade Co
N. Main
Franz
Polgar
Basil
Rathbone
American Business C Security National Bank
LUB
Perkinson Jewelry
Hospital Care Associa the Blue Cross Plan
Wright
Robert Taylor Denise
Darcel
Broadhurst
Tonite Errol Flynn
Captain Blood
Rennie
Eee
Eee Dablaba
Paramount
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