Retail Furniture Sales Course Opens at Exposition Building
A new eight week program begins Monday at the Southern Furniture Exposition building led by W. Wason with 25 salesmen from southern stores arriving for lectures and plant tours. The training, aimed at practical selling in home furnishings, runs about 40 hours and features industry professionals as instructors from High Point and surrounding firms.
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Southern Furniture
Southern Furniture Exposition
W. Wason
Association
John Tobin
South
High Point
Tobin
Tra
Southern Association
Charles E. Blair
Report on Prison System Corruption and Misuse of Funds
An SBI investigation allege s that a metal plant supplied prison officials and friends with free goods from cabinets to a motor boat and trailer. It cites sales of taxpayer funded printing and equipment, payoffs to insiders, and various crimes inside the prison, with limited verification and a call to release the full report to the legislature.
Truck Fire Damages City Fuel Truck
A City Fuel company truck caught fire in a street block during the afternoon as flames engulfed the cab when firefighters arrived. No damage estimate was immediately available. Earlier, around seven o'clock, firefighters were called to 1006 Albert Street to a furnace related incident with no fire damage reported.
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Joel M. Lentz
Albert Street
Allied forces push toward Seoul amid major Korean counteractions
Allied aircraft scouted Seoul as mortar shells hit Third division lines after dusk. At Inchon and Kimpo, swift operations by U S and British forces restored harbor and airfield. Seoul’s defense was uncertain with Chinese positions shifting, while refugees move northward toward safety.
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Seoul
Barnard
United Nations
A.P
Tom Bradshaw
Kimpo
Tom Colvin
Columbus
Inchon
Missouri
Yongdongpo
Jim Becker
Becker
Bible loving veteran parishioner ties life to Green Street Church
Laura Teague Smith, a longtime Green Street Baptist member born near Kernersville, recalls 1899 founding of the church and her weekly Sabbath walks to service. She has kept a nine decade Sunday attendance except for seven absences, including her mother’s funeral in 1919 and a career move in Durham.
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Bers
Green Street Baptist Techurch
Kernersville
High Point
E.S. McLeod
J. M. Hilliard
Southeast Baptist Mission
Green Street Baptist Church
Hilliard
UN spearhead reaches near Hongchon in Korea drive
A British Centurion tank fired at a Communist tank near the Han while Third division troops advanced north of Seoul. Small Red forces engaged as UN forces push toward Hongchon, a key road hub and North Korean Fifth corps concentration point, about 50 miles east of Seoul.
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Korea
Inchon
Kimpo
Yondungpo
U. S. First Marine Division
U. S. Army
Seventh Infantry Division
A el Red
Therewell
Pusan
Matthew B. Ridgwa
Seoul
Genatel Pitgner
Stan Swinton
As Cote
Oh the
William C. Waugh
United Nations
Hongchon
38Th Parallel
Fifth Corps
Woman Chases Jeep After Collision on Leonard Street
Mrs Grace W Hayworth pursued a jeepload of Negroes after her car was struck on Leonard Street about 830 pm. The chase went to Thissell and East Green streets with no injuries or arrests. Police later charged William H Peace and James Winningham with drunken driving in separate Lexington Avenue incidents.
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Grace W. Hayworth
Fairfield Road
Leonard Street
East Green Street
Lanier
William H. Peace
High Point Rt. 2
Lexington Avenue
Frank Wright
Knoxville
James Winningham
Prospect
Char
Investige
Winningham
East
This Guy Likes His Tobacco
A break in at the 10-A grocery on English street extension revealed the thief smoked. Loot included 27 cartons of cigarettes two boxes of cigars and $18 in cash along with shaving cream headache powders razor blades dried beef cheese totaling $71.89. Guilford deputies were notified by proprietor M. L. Workman.
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English Street
M. L. Workman
Workman
Guilford Deputies
Inquest Consideration in Mabel Whitt Death Case
Guilford County Coroner Dr. W. W. Harvey questioned by reporters said he may order an inquest if needed. no family demand for one. Detective Captain Johnson found no basis for indictment after reviewing statements. relatives urge further investigation while the Whitt file lacks clippings.
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Guilford County
W. W. Harvee Eee
Thase
Harvey
Mabel Whitt
W. C. Johnson
Whitt
Crackles an Old-Timer More Fond of Victuals Than Vitamines
An idle old-timer profile notes his appetite for food over vitamins, with a wry take on aging and health as reflected in a short, humorous sketch.
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C. S. McGahey
the Lil Company
Sanders Dallas
Dalas, Inc
Theo Redman
Heritage Furniture Company
Mel Binney
Grady Goldston, Jr
the Dean Company
Richard Hubbard
Bige
SBI
Ea Ane
Valentine
Norris
Whitman
Nunnally
Pangburn
U.S.A
Eckerd
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DERAN
Helena Rubinstein
South Main ST
Enterprise
Laura Teague Smith
Mr. Beeson
Laura Smith
Verceiteifide
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Oak Street
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Thomasville
Randleman
Sam
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