North Carolina cities vie to host ATC headquarters
Chamber officials press for Piedmont site as six NC locales compete with three SC cities for the Atlantic Transportation Command headquarters now in Brooklyn. High Point Greensboro Winston Salem Raleigh Charlotte Asheville named in a Defense Department survey. Rep. Jonas denies Charlotte preference.
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Chamber of Commerce
Atlantic Transportation Command
Piedmont
Washington
Department of Defense
North Carolina
Brooklyn
Chamber
Frank Sizemore
Winston- Salem
Greensboro
Defense Department
High Point
Winston-Salem
Raleigh
Charlotte
Asheville
South Carolina
ATC
Atlantic
Canadian
Florida
Charles R. Jonas
Jonas
Congress
Homecoming Schedule Promises Festivities at Point
The 1956 Homecoming begins tomorrow with luncheon at the college cafeteria at 1 00, a dramatics and music program at Memorial Auditorium at 2 30, and a barbecue at the Student Center with a 4 00 to 5 30 reception in the Cooke home. At 8 00 the High Point College basketball team faces Catawba in the Student Center. The public is invited free.
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Wesley Gaynor
Alumni Association
Memorial Auditorium
Dennis H. Cooke
Star
High Point College of Catawba College
Sign Pilfered From Sheraton Hotel Barber Shop
Detectives report the outdoor sign at the Sheraton Hotel Barber Shop was stolen last night. A light globe and fixtures valued at 20 dollars were found missing this morning.
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Sheraton Hotel
Bloodmobile to Visit High Point Next Week
The Junior Chamber of Commerce will lead a High Point bloodmobile visit at the Armory on Wednesday and Thursday. The Red Cross program co-chairman Dick Meisky says the two day drive aims for 450 pints and could push High Point above 100 percent of its quota for the year. Transportation is available by calling 6711.
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Chamber of Commerce
High Point
Jaycees
Dick Meisky
Red Cross
Meisky
Bloodmobile
Officers Arrest High Pointers In Randolph
Two young High Pointers, a man and a woman, were arrested by state highway patrolmen near Asheboro after officers found gallons of white whisky in their car. Charlie Beauchamp, 27, of High Point, and Pauline Johnson, 29, of High Point, face charges of transporting and possession of whisky for sale. Patrolmen Bolick and Moore stopped the car on Micarong 220 about four miles from Asheboro.
Paper Drives Boosted By Favorable Forecast Sunday
Jaycees and Archdale veterans rally scrap paper drives for Sunday afternoon with clear skies. Jaycees will canvass city streets while Archdale Veterans of Foreign Wars cover Archdale Trinity Allen Jay Bakertown Springfield and Fairmont Park starting at 1 p.m.
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Jaycees and
Archdale Veterans Today
Jaycees
Archdale Veterans of Foreign Wars
Archdale
Trinity
Allen Jay
Bakertown
Springfield
Fairmont Park
Randolph Man Indicted in Bootlegging Case
A Cedar Square resident described as a white liquor wholesaler faced federal indictment for liquor evasion. Ronda V Weston said 34 gallons of untaxed spirits were found at Nichols home. Nichols was arraigned in Greensboro and posted 500 bond for the June term.
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Cedar Square
Acs
Sone Ee
Ty Ronda
Weston Ena Teres Nichols
ABC
Weston
Nichols
U. S
Lonnie Herbin Jr
Greensboro
High Point
W. W. Wilson
Randolph
Union Sets Meet Here Sunday for Textile Wage Policy
More than 100 delegates from North Carolina local unions of the Textile Workers Union of America will gather Sunday at 509 S. Main St. for a Wage Policy Conference. TWUA Southern Director Boyd E. Payton says the High Point meeting will spur similar talks in southern states and urges a realistic overall wage increase in the textile industry.
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North Carolina
Textile Workers Union of America
Afl-Cio
Boyd E. Payton
TWUA
Charlotte
Payton
Victor Canzano
North Central Joint Board of
S. Main St
Ethel Jenkins
High Point
Joint Board
Sylvania Club Hears Talk By TWA Official
Phillip Geary, assistant director of Air World Education for Trans World Airlines, spoke at the Sylvania Management Club dinner at the Raton Hotel. He discussed Socrates and the air age, highlighting global accessibility and humorous scenarios if Socrates visited today. Napier Dills introduced guests. Gil bert Ross moderated. Twenty-six members and 17 guests attended.
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Phillip Geary
Air World Education
Trans- World Airlines
Sylvania Management Club
Raton Hotel
Geary
Socrates
Geary Is Being 5 By the National Associat of Foremen
Sylvania
Napier Dills
Cub
Gilbert Ross
Penarem
City Ends Half Year With Small Surplus
The city reported a six month fiscal summary showing a $6 341.86 unencumbered surplus before accounts receivable and stores inventory deductions totaling over $38 000. The budget deficit after those deductions sits at $32 014.63 with $2 774 197.60 in receipts and $2 284 370.58 in expenditures.
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Greensboro
ABC
Memorial Gift Honors Jesse F Hayden and Heart Center Drive
Directors of North State Telephone Company announced a $5,000 memorial gift for Jesse F Hayden, founder and longtime head of the firm. The drive to fund the Heart Center at High Point Memorial Hospital gained momentum with gifts from Sheraton Hotel and others, nearing $85,000 short of the $1,500,000 goal. Contributions included $2,500 from Sheraton Hotel, $1,000 from H P T D Railroad, $1,000 from Mr and Mrs O Arthur Kirkman, $1,000 from Southern Furniture Exposition Building, $500 from A and P Tea Company, and $150 from Diana Stores. more gifts followed in the community campaign led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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Jesse F. Hayden
North State Telephone Company
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sheraton
Heart Center
High Point Memorial Hospital
O. Arthur Kirkman
Southern Furniture Exposition
R. T. Amos
Hay‘den
R. B. Gantt
New Heart Center
Hayden
A & P Tea Company
W. R. Peters
Belk-Beck ‘Company
Diana
Denton Lions Plan Talent Presentation
The Denton Lions Club will stage a local talent musical comedy in the school auditorium on February 20 and 21. A cast of about 100 adults and children performs in a ten scene musicale titled Holiday Ahoy with a Captain Chris Carver theme. Proceeds benefit the Light Conservation Program.
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Denton
Denton Lions Club
Chris Carver
Six Pees
Marilyn Monroe
Mae West
Tallulah Bankhead
Gypsy Rose Lee
Sophie Sally Rand
County Board Nominations Meet Set
Davidson County Democratic Executive Committee will meet February 8 at 7 PM in the county building in Lexington to nominate two members for two year terms on the county board of elections. Board appointments come from the State Board of Elections on county committee recommendations. Current board includes Democrats Thurman Briggs and Paul Harris and Republican Fletcher S. Wall Sr. with terms expiring April 1.
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Thomasville
Davidson’ County
Democratic Executive Committee
County Board of Elections
Mee
Lexington
Howard D. Townsend
Democratic Committee
Elections Board
State Board of Elections
County Elections Board
Thurman Briggs
Paul Harris
Fletcher S. Wall Sr
Republican County Committee
Red Cross Leaders Attend Winston-Salem Meeting
Mrs. W. P. Harris executive secretary of the local Red Cross and T. C. Kirkman Home Service chairman attended a joint Red Cross and public welfare meeting at the YMCA in Winston-Salem. About 65 people represented 15 Red Cross chapters and welfare agencies. The group discussed mutual problems with emphasis on Home Service duties.
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W. P. Harris
Red Cross
T. C. Kirkman
Home Service
YMCA
Winston-Salem
Groundhog Day Forecast Sees Early Spring Hopes
Five day outlook from Greensboro High Point Airport backs groundhog myth with a forecast of more precipitation then warming. Tonight and tomorrow cloudy with rain drizzle and temperatures in the 40s then upper 50s. A low pressure system from the West Gulf of Mexico may bring cooler weather by tomorrow night. Sunday expected to be mostly fair and cool. Last night 41 at Friendship, today high near 53.
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High Point
West Gulf of Mexico
Friendship
Domed School Decision Set For Monday
Guilford County commissioners will decide funding for Griffin School on Monday. The local board seeks to raise the addition budget from 150000 to 161000 and will choose between circular or rectangular construction after the county board's position is heard. The finance committee will report its recommendation at Greensboro meeting, which also covers a ~1 million dollar request for a new junior high.
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Griffin School
Guilford County Board of Commissioners
Commissioners’ Finance Committee
Greensboro
Ben L. Smith
Electrical Week Observance Set For Feb 5 11
Next week February 5 to 11 has been designated National Electrical Week. Merrill Lynch, chairman of the National Electrical Week Committee, says the event highlights the electrical industrys economic contributions safety through proper wiring and honors electrical pioneers by timing the observance with Thomas Edison birth date. Local segments of the electrical industry are formulating participation plans.
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Merrill Lynch
Thomas ‘Alva Edison
Sidewalk Injury at Laundry Sparks Civil Suit
A Superior Court jury opened evidence in a $10,000 sidewalk injury case involving Ruby G. Hedrick who claims she tripped over a pipe in front of an E Green Street laundry. The judge had just signed a compromise judgment in a separate wreck case settled by Clifford and Nancy Farlow against Bobby Lee Cecil and relatives.
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Ruby G. Hedrick
E. Green St
L. Richardson Preyer
Clifford B. Farlow
Nancy Y. Farlow
Bobby Lee Cecil
Ervin Lee Cecil
Farlows
Highway 62
E. R. Lewallen
E. Green
L. Belle Akers
Accident Causes $150 Damage at Main and Sts
A traffic collision at the corner of Main and Streets yesterday caused about 150 in damages. Drivers named were Frank James Townsend 16 Fifth Ave and Ralph W Gillispie Route 1 Thomasville.
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Thomasville
Main
Frank James Townsend
Fifth Ave
Ralph W. Gillispie
Route 1
Income Tax Primer Nine Deductions on Contributions and Taxes
Richard A. Mullen explains choices for 1955 deductions. Taxpayers may itemize charitable contributions, interest, and taxes or take the standard deduction. The piece details deductible donations, limits, handling of installment charges, home loan interest, and estimated taxes including gasoline and sales taxes.
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Societies For the Prevention
Inds
Iise
Internal Revenue Service
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HPC
Howard Jarrell
Jim Barnes
John Haworth
Pat Dunham
E. D. Miller
Eugene O'Neill
High Point College Tower Players
Kyle Stirling
Betty Mullinix
Robert Elliot
Fred Barber
James Rawls
Stanley Broadway
Sylvania Club
TWA
J. F. Hayden
Denton Lions
High Point High School
N. C. Employment Security Commission
Phyllis Andrews
Jewell Osborne
Groundhog
Richard A. Mullen
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