Blaze Ravages H. Weil and Brothers Store in Goldsboro
A major fire in Goldsboro swept through the H. Weil and brothers department store amid a driving snowstorm. Mayor Scott Berkley called the $1,000,000 loss estimate a wild guess as firefighters from multiple towns battled wind, cold, and heat. One fireman was treated for exposure, and a theater nearby was evacuated as a three story wall collapsed into the street.
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Goldsboro
H. Weil and Brothers
Scott Berkley
Golfsboro
Seymour Johnson Field
Mt. Olive
Kinston and
Wilson
Robert McCarter
Weil
Lake Geneva area and sun size facts
The Lake Geneva region covers about 223 square miles. The sun is enormous, with enough circumference to surround it with roughly 325 earths like ours.
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Lake Geneva
Unblock Digestive Tract Relief Claim
Ad promotes Carter's Pills and a 83¢ price claim for intestinal relief. Claims relief from headaches sour stomach gas and indigestion by clearing the digestive tract. Uses phrases about alkalizers and nonspecific digestion aid.
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Akin
Carter
Hoey Defends Graham Against Civil Rights Report
Sen Hoey defends UNC president Dr Frank P Graham from the civil rights committee report. He says Graham dissented from extreme statements and would not back the broadside attack on segregation. Morse praised Graham and Hoey notes Graham’s dissent within the committee. Opening speaker Bryn Hovde at a social science forum is announced.
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Washington
Hoey
D-Nc
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
Civil Rights Committee
Senate
Graham
South
Truman
Congress
Morse
Democracy of America
Bryn J. Hovde
New School For Social Research
Harriet Elliott
Woman's College
Cherry to study compact before signing pledge
Governor Cherry says he will wait to study a proposed south wide college compact before signing. He denies agreeing to sign and notes the legislature must pass any measure for it to take effect. The draft was created at a Wakulla Springs meeting of southern governors.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Wakulla Springs
Fla
Tar Heels Keeping Up With Times
Roy Park reports North Carolina farm readers receive large newspaper and radio coverage. Daily papers outside cities reach 463,700 readers per weekday. weekly and semi weekly papers serve 349,414 families outside towns. Farm publications total 15,674,042 copies monthly outside cities. Radio hours total about 23,389,960 monthly farm listening in early 1946. Park argues these figures prove Tar Heels are well informed on government, social and human relations matters.
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Raleigh
Agricultural Advertising and Research, Inc
State Arm Bureau
Roy Park
Outfit
Park
Times
Newspe
Carolna
North Carolina
Wildlife Federation Plans April Charlotte Meeting
The North Carolina Wildlife Federation voted to hold the first of two statewide meetings in Charlotte during April and reappoint Ross Stevens of Raleigh as executive secretary.
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Raleigh
The
North Carolina Wildlife Federation
Charlotte
Ross Stevens
Disturbing conditions in North Carolina schools exposed
A State Education Commission meeting in Raleigh heard reports on unsafe school conditions. Officials cited crumbling walls, lack of classroom enclosures, and sanitary violations. A shortage of about 3,000 elementary teachers was noted, attributed to economic factors.
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Raleigh
Carolina
State Education Commission
General Assembly
M. T. Lambeth
Statesville
Double Funeral For Victims of Fire
A double funeral was held in Richlands for Mr. and Mrs. J Edwin Steed Jr victims of a devastating fire that damaged their home. Steed a local merchant died at the scene while Mrs Steed died later in a Jacksonville hospital reflected in the service held yesterday.
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Richlands
J. Edwin Steed, Jr
Steed
Jacksonville
Overcrowded Classrooms Reported in Schools
Report notes severe overcrowding with some schools recording up to 77 pupils per teacher, highlighting strain on resources and quality of instruction.
Jones Fights VA Unit Move From Charlotte to Winston-Salem
Rep. Hamilton C. Jones says he will continue opposing the transfer of two veterans administration units from Charlotte to Winston-Salem. He plans to meet VA Administrator Gen. Car G. Gray to urge keeping the adjudication and registration units in Charlotte with the move slated for early next month. Izmit, Turkey, was formerly known as Nicomedia.
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Charlotte
Hamilton C. Jones
D-Nc
Charlotte News
Veterans Administration
Winston- Salem
Jones
Car G. Gray
Dr Poling to Speak Three Times in Charlotte
Dr Daniel A Poling of Philadelphia renowned clergyman and universal military training advocate arrives in Charlotte for three talks. He will address the North Carolina American Legion chaplains conference the Charlotte Rotary Club and a public meeting at First Baptist Church with broadcasts planned on WSOC and a later transcription for WAYS.
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Charlotte
Daniel A. Poling
Philadelphia
Conference of Chaplains of the
North Carolina Department of the American Legion
Pilot Of Plane Went Down Off Atlantic Coast Identified
Wilmington note says Maxwell Field authorities identify the P-47 pilot who radioed he was going down as Lt. Col. John F. Martin a University of Virginia student. Martin and a companion were en route from Tampa to Pope Field and Martin likely ran out of fuel his partner landed safely as search planes faced weather delays and a coast guard cutter kept searching.
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Wilmington
Maxwell Field
Ala
John F. Martin
University of Virginia
Martin
Pope Field
Fayetteville
Tampa
Fla
Coast Guard
Wallace third party bids expand to twelve states
The Wallace for president committee reports established committees in twelve states with more forming in others. Elmer A. Benson, chairman, said the effort will continue nationwide to place Wallace on ballots.
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New York
Elmer A. Benson
Henry A. Wallace
White House
Wallace
Notice to creditors in the estate of Alice Z Johnson
Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Alice Zada Johnson late of Guilford County North Carolina this is to notify all parties and all persons having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned High Point North Carolina properly itemized and duly verified within one year from this date or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery on any such claim All parties indebted to said Estate will please make immediate settlement This the Suh day of January 1948 CHARLES E JOHNSON Administrator Route 2 Box 12 High Point N C Co Lambeth Clerk of the Superior Court of Guilford County 1/6-19 27 2/3-10
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Alice Zada Johnson
Guilford County
North Carolina
High Point
Charles E. Johnson
N. C
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Boston
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Turkey
Winston-Salem
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Izmit
Nicomedia
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Richmond
Dr. Poling
Southland
Southern
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