Engineers To Meet At Charlotte
The Piedmont North Carolina section of the Society of Mechanical Engineers will meet at Hotel Mecklenburg in Charlotte on Thursday evening February 26 at 6. The tentative program includes a buffet supper followed by an address by National President E. G. Bailey. He is a prominent engineer with 100 U. S. patents and leads the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for 1947 48. He has ties to Babcock Wilcox and Bailey Meter, among others, and has earned multiple honorary degrees and fellowships. Max D. Thompson of Kannapolis will preside. Charles A. Dewey of Charlotte will handle business details.
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Society of Mechanical Engineers
Hotel Mecklenburg
Charlotte
E. G. Bailey
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Bailey
Carolinas
American Society
Babcock & Wilcox Company
New York
Barberton
Alliance
Beaver Falls
Penn
Augusta
Bailey Meter Company
Cleveland
U. S
Ohio State University
Lehigh University
Lafayette College
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
London
ASME
Newcomen Society
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Society
Sigma Xi
Tau Beta Pi
Damascus
Easton
Max D. Thompson
Kannapolis
Charles A. Dewey
Composer Franchetti Dies in Hollywood at 65
Aldo Franchetti a renowned international composer and conductor of grand opera died at his Hollywood home after three weeks of heart illness. A Mantua native, he conducted major companies including the Metropolitan in New York and recently led Pagliacci in Hollywood. He is survived by his widow Ethel.
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Hollywood
Aldo Franchetti
Mantua
Italy
Metropolitan
New York
Ethel
Norfolk Juvenile Judge Orders Church Marriages
Judge Herbert G. Cochran vacated a order keeping two teenage sisters apart from their husbands and arranged a church ceremony using a North Carolina license. He noted Virginia law bars licenses for minors but said the church ceremony would be a supplementary service and not affect validity. He criticized comments from other judges about issues not before the courts.
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Herbert G. Cochran
Virginia
Commonwealth
Cochran
H. R. Poole
Glenwood Park Presbyterian Church
North Carolina
Moyock
N. C
Civil Service
Supreme Court of Appeals
Milton Tyndall
Pauline Anderson
Floyd Swanner
Frances Anderson
Circuit Court
Clyde H. Jacob
Corporation Court
H. Hume Taylor
Vestal to Take Over Forsyth Sanatorium
Dr. Thomas F. Vestal resigns as director of tuberculosis control for the state board of health to become superintendent of Forsyth County Hospital. He has led the tuberculosis program and will start his new post Monday after a farewell ceremony with praise from Dr. Carl V. Reynolds.
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Raleigh
Thomas F. Vestal
State Board of Health
Forsyth County
Vestal
Randolph County
Board of Health
Carl V. Reynolds
Marian Anderson Missed Sacramento Concert
In San Francisco on February 14 a spokesman for the National Concert and Artist corporation said Marian Anderson failed to appear for a Sacramento concert the previous night due to a date slip up. The event was moved from February 12 to February 13 and Anderson was not notified. Efforts to set a new date are under way.
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San Francisco
Marian Anderson
Sacramento
National Concert & Artist Corporation
Miss Anderson
North Carolina in the Short Story edited by Walser
The University of North Carolina Press released North Carolina in the Short Story edited by Richard Walser a North Carolina professor. The 15 stories span from mountains to sea with authors like Wolfe Green Harris Mitchell and Rawlings. The editor, a Davidson and UNC alumnus, aims to chronicle Tar Heel literature.
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North Carolina
Tar Heel
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
Old North State
State College
Richard Walser
University Press
Thomas Wolfe
Paul Green
James Boyd
Bernice Kelly Harris
Joseph Mitchell
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Wilbur Daniel Steele
David Cornel de Jong
Middle Country
Carolina
Washington
Holland
Kentucky
O. Henry
Charles Chestnutt
R. P. Harris
Olive Tilford Dargan
Laurette MacDuffie
William Polk
Frances Gray
Lexington
N. C
Davidson College
University of North Carolina
Walser
Negro History Week observances and community notices
Community events listed include YWCA Vesper service at 4 p.m. Miss Elizabeth Gill guest speaker, Red Cross workers meeting, Girl Scout officers elected and birthday plans, Willing Workers at Mt Vernon Baptist, special service at St Luke Lutheran, Youth Council program at St Mark, YPC gathering at St Stephen AMEZ, federation meeting postponed due to weather, obituaries and births, and multiple church choir and gospel programs around High Point and Greensboro with dates and venues.
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YWCA
Elizabeth Gill
William Penn High School
M. J. Simmons
Girl Scouts
Mary McLeod Bethune Ywca
8. B. Davis
N. C. Moss
F.S. Russell
T. Y. Brencefield
Fred Lander
R. P. McLeod
Dobson
Juliette Low
Burnett
Brincefield
Burnette
Negro Girl Scouts of
High Point
Nettie Steele
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
Alder Street
H. King
Emmanuel Lutheran College
St. Luke Lutheran Church
Grace Lutheran
Greensboro
N. C
Youth Council
St. Mark Methodist Church
C. E. Yokely
St. Mark
Americans Flocked to Australian Gold Rush After 1851
About 18,000 Americans hunted for gold in Australia during the Australian gold rush sparked after 1851, seeking fortune in the new fields and joining other prospectors drawn by rumors of rich deposits.
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Australia
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