Businessman's Five Year Plan for Revival in Kennedy Remarks
Roger W. Babson outlines a comprehensive program to revive US business economy addressing federal spending taxes railroads utilities building and labor. He urges rapid enactment of a staged plan including tax reform, railroad relief, utility controls, cheaper housing financing, and labor reforms to spur recovery and boost confidence.
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America
Federal Power Commission
Wallace
Roosevelt
Kennedy
measles lead weekly report of North Carolina ailments
Measles caused 1 241 cases in the week ending February 5, the state health division said, surpassing other reportable diseases. Cabarrus 211 cases. Union 7. Duplin 90. Wayne 81. Sampson 60. Chickenpox 307. whooping cough 281. syphilis 260. Other totals included scarlet fever 39, diphtheria 26, typhoid and meningitis four each.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Board of Health
Cabarrus County
Union
Duplin
Wayne
Sampson County
Thomasville Scouts To Be Given Special Sermons at Churches
Thomasville marks Boy Scout Week with sermons in most churches. Six Scout troops are sponsored by local churches as interest grows. Scoutmaster Vann Stringfield of First Baptist organizes a Scout band and orchestra with individual lessons planned for troop members.
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Asville
Thomasville
Vann Stringfield
First Baptist Church
Stringfield
Bscout
Pulse Of Nations Industry Shows Steady Upturn
The AP index of industrial activity rose to 70.4 in the past week from 70.2, with steel production up to 380.7 percent capacity, motor output improving and freight carloadings rising. Electric power fell slightly, while rail and building sectors remained weak and analysts awaited ICC rate decisions.
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Thomas BB
Flanagan
Washington
Associated Press
Department of Commerce
American Iron & Steel Institute
Tobacco acreage of U S paced by Pitt County
Pitt County leads U S tobacco acreage based on 1934 census data. Johnston, Nash, Wilson, and Robeson counties follow, with North Carolina producing two-fifths of U S tobacco. Pitt set a national high with 23,? acres yielding 29,507,976 pounds. Employment in January fell 2.6 percent at 882 plants. payrolls down 4.1 percent.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Pitt County
United States
W. H. Rhodes
North Carolina
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Nash
Wilson
Robeson
John
Ston
Maryland
Wilson County
Robertson County
Tennessee
Wake County
Lenoir County
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Greene
Granville
Rockingham
Edgecombe
Duplin
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Harnett
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Sampson
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Caswell
Person
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Vance
Beaufort
Guilford
Craven
Yadkin
Intangible Tax Evaders May Face Severe Penalties
Raleigh reports new intangible tax laws impose penalties up to 100 percent of tax due for failure to report or pay by March 16. Exemptions include religious and educational groups, life insurance companies with gross premiums tax, building and loan associations, and bank investment evidence. Full disclosure by March 16 yields immunity from back taxes.
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John Q
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Revenue Department
Rudderless Ship Anchored Safely Near Cape Henry
Norfolk Va February 12 Commander J H Cornell said schooner St Providence II of Gloucester Mass which lost her rudder off Cape Henry was anchored safely at Old Point Comfort Va The cutter Drone picked her up three fourths of a mile south of Cape Henry buoy two at 1150 last night and anchored at 648 am at Old Point In 1932 world gold production was worth more than 450000000.
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J. H. Cornell
Coast Guard
St. Providence II
Gloucester
Mass
Cape Henry
Old Point Comfort
Cornell
Old Point
Tobacco Prices and Income Jump in 1937-38 Market
North Carolina farmers earned 140,808,826 dollars from 675,472,031 pounds of tobacco sold by February 1, averaging 24.47 dollars per hundredweight, higher than last season. Market activity and prices favored flue-cured tobaccos with larger crops and strong demand, while burley stocks were low at season start.
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Raleigh, N. Co
North Carolina
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Asheville Burley Mart
Burley
Maryland
Shine Prof Big Apple Exhibition Draws Pittsburg Teachers
Receipts at the annual Teachers College YMCA box supper more than doubled the previous high. The boost came from a "Big Apple" exhibition by 16 faculty members as they danced the hornpipe and minuet and showed off jigging steps.
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Pittsburg
Kas
Teachers College Y. M. C. A
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