High Point College Aids Veterans Education Program
High Point College explains its veteran pre college program with 25 weekly clock hours in English history chemistry algebra geometry and physics. Veterans earn a diploma by credits from previous schools and state exams. if not promoted to regular college work they continue pre college study with another chance.
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G. J. Humphreys
High Point College
High Point
North Carolina
Greensboro Senior School
Charlotte Central High School
University of North Jerotine
Agricultural and Tech College For
Campbell College
Presbyterian Junior College
Asheville-Biltmore A
State Department
Humphreys
Billy Biggs
Fayetteville
Billy
Bud Rudisill
Charlotte
Eighth Air Force
Greensboro
North
Carolina
Cc. P. Routh
Armed Forces Institute
Routh
Guilford College
Burlington
West Virginia
Alabama
Ray Jones
Keystone
Norris O'Connor
Rankin High School
Purdue
Ala
James Fenn
Enterprise
B. L. Smith
Smith
Widow recalls hero husband amid Hong Kong tragedy
Mrs Chester Bennett, wife of American Chester Bennett, endured brutal Japanese interrogation after he was executed with 32 others in Stanley prison on October 29, 1943. She faced hunger, beatings, and threats while losing contact with family and caring for their daughter Carol Ann. Bennett receives no official compensation, and Elsa Bennett works at the American consulate while striving to move on.
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Hong Kong
Stanley
Chester Bennett
Sutton
Bennett
Chester
Elsa Bennett
Marcus da Silva
Macao
Stanley Camp
Tokyo
Carol Ann
America
Kong
Amah
British unions push for nationwide 40 hour week in 1946
Britain’s trade unions form a ten man 40 hour committee to press for a universal 40 hour week in industry without pay cuts. They seek to end Saturday half days in iron and steel and push for a transition period ending in 1946, while some employers resist and await national decision.
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London
INL
Britain
United Ks
Iron and Steel
Goa
Not Helpless, Says Blind Man
Pittsburgh, Pa. The blind are not helpless, says De Zeigler of West View a former city fireman who runs a thriving mail order business handling 15 000 orders a year for mops brooms brushes and other household items He sells by telephone using a self designed elastic holder and braille typewriter He keeps 19 000 phone numbers with braille notes and calls customers every six months He aims to show war veterans who are blind can live normal lives without special help.
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Pittsburgh
Re . de Zeigler
West View
Zeigler
Mont Zeigler
Fire starts from dog tied rope. two apartments burn
In Miami Arizona a dog named Lady was tied under a building. Fire began when the rope caught and burned. Children unable to untie the knot released the dog and forgot to extinguish the rope. The blaze destroyed two small apartment buildings and caused significant loss.
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Miami
Ariz
Recruit Delays Navy by Signing Drafted Bluejacket
Land lubber tale from Tusa Oklahoma where Army recruiting officer Capt. D J Britton says he outsmarted navy recruiters by enlisting a teen named Jonathan R Blue jacket 17 from Bluejacket Oklahoma.
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Lubber Tusa
Okla
Army
D. J. Britton
Navy
Bluejacket
Jonathan R. Bluejacket
Oil drilling urged eastward to barrier beaches in NC
Dr. William F. Prouty of UNC geology urges oil drillers to push toward the eastern barrier beach between Pamlico and Albemarle sounds. He notes evidence from a Cape Hatteras well and magnetometer surveys supporting thicker, more marine coastal sediments toward the northeast, increasing chances of North Carolina becoming a petroleum producer.
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Chapel Hill
William F. Prouty
University of North Carolina
Barrier Beach
Pamlico
Albemarle Sounds
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Prouty
Atlanta
Coastal Plain
Our University
Department of Geology and Geography
Conway
S. C
Wilmington
Southport
Virginia
Beaufort
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Dick Johnson
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