State congressional races heat up as filings near
With less than four weeks to filing, North Carolina sees activity rise on the congressional front. Only two incumbents face opposition. Arch ie Gay challenges John H. Kerr in the second district and Earl Rives opposes Carl Durham in the sixth. Several districts show no concrete challenges yet.
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Raleigh
Archie Gay
Northampton
John H. Kerr
Warren
Earl Rives
Guilford
Carl Durham
Orange
Barber Admits He's a Cut Up in Ponca City
A Ponca City barber quips about a long scar as a customer, a veteran, asks if the barber has shaved it before. The barber replies he got the scar in Okinawa, ending the brief exchange. The piece ends with an odd aside about the date as a food for 5,000 years.
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Barber
Ponca City
Okla
Okinawa
Now Available To North Carolina Companies Group Contract
The Hospital Care Association offers a new group certificate for NC employers with 30 plus employees. It provides hospital, surgical and obstetrical care at a low cost, with benefits extendable to employees and their families. Officials note bulk purchase lowers expenses and enhances protection. a 1944 industry briefing urged affordable, adequate coverage.
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North Carolina
The
Hospital Care Association, Inc
Democratic Committee Delays Session Over Scheduling Conflicts
In Raleigh on February 20 the North Carolina Democratic executive committee delayed its March meeting from the 1st to the 5th due to a southern conference basketball tournament. Chairman William Umstead urged members to study the party plan of organization, noting proposals to revise rotation rules for state senators and the need to address district representations such as Halifax versus Cabarrus and Rowan and Guilford versus Mecklenburg.
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Raleigh
North Bolinians
State Democratic Executive Committee
William Umstead
Democratic Convention
General Assembly
Halifax
Cabarrus
Rowan
Guilford
Mecklenburg
Administration faces dairy policy clash over price controls
Organized dairy farmers condemned the administration's farm price control policies in Washington. The National Dairy Producers Federation, meeting with 175 delegates, urged ending price controls on government food subsidies and asked the House Banking Committee to extend price supports only for a year, arguing higher costs are forcing herd culling and shrinking the milk supply.
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Washington
National
Nano Even Wile Producers Federation
Unemployment Problem Studied by Labor Dept
The labor department launches an effort to curb rising job losses as USES seeks to list all vacancies. Census figures show about 3 million unemployed. director Robert C. Goodwin notes 8 million veterans discharged, 6 million seeking work, 3.3 million registered with USES, with more expected as 4 million veterans return home. Job openings are insufficient to meet demand.
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Washington
Labor Department
United States Employment Service
Census Bureau
Robert C. Goodwin
Armed Services
United States
Fairchild Plant Lease Arranged for RFC Reuse
The reconstruction finance corporation plans to lease the former Fairchild plant in Burlington North Carolina to Western Electric. The annual lease amounts to 155 988 dollars and covers buildings and 275000 square feet of land.
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Washington
The
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Today
Nee Lans
Fairchild
Burlington
N. C
Western Electric Company
RFC
Shortage of Fertilizer Seen Threatening Farm Output
Ralph Douglass of Smith Douglas Norfolk VA warns of a serious fertilizer shortage this season. He cites steel strike reducing sulphate of ammonia output, U S shipping policies sending fertilizer materials abroad, and political tensions in Chile as key factors. Diabetes rising as a grave health hazard with deaths in New York City moving from one in 2400 in 1866 to one in 40.
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Raleigh
Ralph Douglass
Smith-Douglas Company
Norfolk
Plant Food Institute
North Carolina
Virginia
Chile
New York City
News of Colored People Junior Usher Board Meeting
The Junior Usher Board of St Stephens AME Zion church is meeting this evening at 5 p m with Mrs Alice Le Grand 29 Woodbury Members urged to be present. The Emerson children will render a program at Shiloh Baptist church Thursday night at 8 p m The Calvary Gospel singers will sing there Sunday at 3 p m and the Daniel Brooks quartet will sing there at 8 p m.
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St. Stephens Ame Zion Church
Alice LeGrand
Woodbury
Pearson Memorial
O. C. Crone
St. Paul Church
Shiloh Baptist
Emerson
Shiloh Baptist Church
Calvary Gospel Singers
Daniel Brooks
Margie Hayes
West Willis Street
Beulah Anthony
O. E. Davis
Mesdames G. E. Stanton
Decia Davis
Lonnie Roundtree
L. B. Curtright
Mamie Bass
Beatrice Leach
Armetta Byrd
Frances Russell
Rhoberta Parks
Annie Smith
Sarah Davis
Dorothy Rice
Annie Turner
Letitia Palmer
L.E. McDonnell
Rhoberta ‘Robins
Rosetta Baldwin
H. M. Palmer
Seventh Day Adventist School
Cheerio Club
Cheerio Craft Club
Olga Street
Margaret Ellins
Mattie Cullins
Doris Carter
Dorothy Cotton
Reatha Boulware
Pearl Ann Parker
Margaret Greene
A. Cullins
Mary Baldwin
James Boulware
Martha Lee
S. V. Barnhill
High Point Memorial Hospital
PTA Council
Leonard Street School
Virginia Williamson
Alpha Art
Alpha Art Club
L. E. ‘McDowell
Leonard Street
Davidson Mills Increases Wages And Names New Superintendent
Davidson Cotton Mills announces an increase of 10 cents an hour and sets a 65 cent minimum wage. T. J. McNeely, formerly of Concord, is appointed superintendent of the mills.
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Davidson
Davidson Cotton Mills, Inc
T. J. McNeely
Concord
Radar Debut: U.S. Navy Tests In 1938 Aboard Ship
Radar equipment first used experimentally aboard a U.S. Navy vessel in 1938 marking an early milestone in maritime radar development and naval technology.
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U. S. Navy
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John Folger
Mount Airy
Emmett Bellamy
Wilmington
W. S. Britt
Lumberton
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W. E. Horner
Sanford
W. QO. Burgin
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Hendersonville
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J. M. Cole
Calif
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Greensboro
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Salisbury
Hospital Care Association
American Hospital Association
North Carolina Insurance Department
the Hospital Care Association, Inc
Market Street
Durham, N. C
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True Standard Holiness
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D. D. Mason
Emmanual Run
Harvey
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Nancy Or
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