Gas Concern Seeks Ten Cent Gas Rate Increase
The Public Service Company of North Carolina asks the state utilities commission for a 10 cent across-the-board rise in basic gas rates. At a hearing, president C. B. Zeigler cited labor and other costs cutting profits, with a six month 1947 net loss of 20 697 and full year net revenue of 15 940. The basic rate excludes fuel charges that vary with fuel cost. Service areas include Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill Gastonia Statesville Asheville Concord Dallas and Kannapolis.
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Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Public Service Company of
North Carolina
C. B. Zeigler
Gastonia
Durham
Chapel Hill
Statesville
Asheville
Concord
Dallas
Kannapolis
Boston Terrier Born With Six Legs
In Alameda California a Boston terrier puppy born yesterday has six legs and both female and male reproductive organs. The two extra legs emerge at the hips and are webbed near the paws. Veterinarian Nathan Pugatch noted the condition and said surgery is being considered. The pup is from a cell mother owned by J R idges of San Leandro.
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Alameda
Calif
J. R. Dges
San Leandro
Nathan Pugatch
Creomulsion Promises Quick Relief From Cough
An old drug advertisement warns a three days cough signals danger and chronic bronchitis may follow if untreated. It touts Creomulsion as a potent, non narcotic blend that eases phlegm and heals bronchial membranes, promising money back if not satisfying after use.
Gasoline Taxes Shaping One Third Of Retail Price
Raleigh February 11 The Petroleum Industries committee reports federal and state taxes account for more than one third of gasoline’s retail cost ranging from 20 to 51 percent across states North Carolina levy stands at 43 percent The analysis cites Charlotte as a representative city showing 24.48 cents per gallon price with 7 cents taxes and 11.68 cents to oil companies The committee argues taxes should remain to fund public roads despite general price trends.
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Raleigh
The
Petroleum Industries Committee
Missouri
Louisiana
North Carolina
Arkansas
Florida
Tennessee
Charlotte
Texas Company
State Petroleum Industries Committee
Nine Animals Die When Barn Roof Collapses
In Rocky Mount on a Tuesday, heavy overnight snow caused the barn at P. R. Worsley stock yard to cave in. Nine animals eight mules and one horse perished in the wreck with an estimated 8000 dollar loss. Harry Huff of Phillips West Virginia owned the livestock. Workers freed survivors while veterinarians gave emergency care.
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Rocky Mount
P. R. Worsley
Harry Huff
Phillips
West Va
Flag Flies Inverted Over Mecklenburg Courthouse
A lawyer in Charlotte notes the Mecklenburg county courthouse flag is inverted in snow. He says the sight signals distress and reflects troubled times in the city.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Enrollment At Catawba Shows Decline
Salisbury reports 771 winter term students at Catawba College a drop of 31 from the first semester. Total full time enrollment for the year reaches 824 with 213 women and 558 men. North Carolina leads with 675 students. others include Pennsylvania 76 and New Jersey 16. Campus residents total 467 and 304 are commuters. Class ranks: 97 seniors 210 juniors 200 sophomores 243 freshmen 7 unclassified. Seventy four music students are not registered.
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Salisbury
J. W. Gaddy
Catawba College
Gaddy
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Catawba
New Jersey
California
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
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Missouri
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Tennessee
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Fayetteville Fire Destroys Ideal Food Store on Person Street
Fayetteville firemen fought a five hour blaze that destroyed the Ideal Food store on Person Street near the Cape Fear river. Officials say the fire started in refrigerator wiring and grew before discovery, with damage unofficially placed at 17000 dollars.
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Fayetteville
Person Street
Cape Fear River
Asheville Man Held In Killing
James H. Hensley an Asheville real estate dealer was jailed on suspicion of fatally shooting his nephew Monroe M. Hensley 27 an Asheville Citizen Times employee. The shooting occurred at the Tacoma Circle home after a confrontation and a phone call to come over to apologize. An autopsy found no alcohol in the stomach and no sign of a struggle.
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Asheville
James H. Hensley
Monroe M. Hensley
Monroe Hensley
Citizen- Times
James Hensley
Tacoma Circle
Young Hensley
R. P. Terry
Mecklenburg Birds Receive Food by Plane
Four hundred pounds of bird food were dropped to snowbound Mecklenburg county by plane. The Mecklenburg humane society and Audubon society gathered 400 pounds of grain peanuts and scrap bread, flown by Hassan A. Deaton, who laid a snow cleared track on the runway. He scattered food by flying low over fields to stir coveys.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Mecklenburg County Humane Society
Mecklenburg Audubon Society
Haskell A. Deaton
Deaton
Snowplow Fatality Claims Nashville Resident
Police report that Robert Owens Nelms, 28, a radio shop operator, was fatally injured Monday night in Nashville when a snowplow pushed him from a snow bank on a side street near the Nelms home. He died en route to Rocky Mount hospital. Nelms was a Navy veteran living with his mother, Mrs. R. O. Nelms.
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Nashville
F. L. Wood
Robert Owens Nels
Nelms
Wood
Rocky Mount
R. O. Nelms
Roseboro Mayor William Royall Dies at 67
William Thomas Royall, mayor of Roseboro, died of a heart attack at age 67 in Roseboro. A Clinton native, he was well known in North Carolina as a cotton buyer. Survivors include his wife, four daughters, two stepsons, two brothers and two sisters. Funeral plans pending.
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Roseboro
William Thomas Royall
Clinton
North Carolina
The
Window
Labor Election Involves 2 Persons
A New York hearing led to an order for a secret ballot election within 20 days among Bronx apartment house employees Glenn A. Ross and Dorothy Ross to decide whether Local 32E AFL Building Service Employees or another union will represent them in future bargaining. The board issued the order last night. The article also notes sewage from more than 12,000,000 persons flows into the Great.
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New York
New York State Labor Relations Board
Bronx
Glenn A. Ross
Dorothy
AFL Building Service
Rosses
Spain Could Aid Western Recovery Through Franco’s Reentry
AP analysis notes Spain’s resources could aid postwar recovery if Franco’s regime is purged and if Western Europe invites Madrid to join Marshall Plan efforts. It recalls UN condemnation of Madrid, limited diplomatic ties, and the opening of the Franco-Spanish border amid Western economic interest.
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Ain
Marshall Plan
Spain
Europe
America
Britain
France
Paris
Maurice Thorez
Jacques Duclos
Andre Marty
Western
Wake Forest Teen Babysits To Save For College
Virginia Knight Cocke, 14, daughter of Dr E C Cocke, works as Wake Forests most popular babysitter. She earns after school and holidays, plans college at Wake Forest, and even cut her rate from thirty to twenty five cents an hour to help families during hard times. She started babysitting at age ten and now handles one to two children daily with a four to six hour schedule.
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Virginia Knight Cocke
E. C. Cocke
Cocke
Virginia Knight
Wake Forest
Barbara Wyatt
W. J
Wake Forest College
Capital To Fall In Revolution
Denmark's minister of education Prof Hartvig Frisch plans to abolish initial capitals in Danish except in names and after full stops. He cannot enforce nationwide change, only issue a decree guiding school authorities to implement the orthographic rule without parliamentary approval.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Hartvig Frisch
Corn plants emit two and a half tons of water per bushel
It is estimated that corn plants diffuse about two and a half tons of water into the air in producing a single bushel of corn.
Victory Ointment War Time Skin Relief
An advertisement promotes VICTORY OINTMENT as a new wartime skin remedy developed for service members and now for the public. It claims to be white greaseless antiseptic cooling and pain relieving, safe for babies and children, with a money back guarantee and available in jars or tubes at local druggists.
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Eckerd’s
Ring Harris
Jeff's Drug
Anderson
Mann's
Galloway
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Greenville, S. C
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