North Carolina Tops Southeast in Industry Gains Says Official
Guthrie of the division of commerce and industry told executives at a regional meeting that North Carolina leads the Southeast in industrial employment value of products and total wages. He cited textiles tobacco and furniture as primary growth areas and urged more small industries to diversify the economy and utilize surplus rural labor. Coltrane spoke on agricultural outlook and others added remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C
Division of Commerce and Industry
State Department of Conservation and Development
Chamber of
North Carolina
Guthrie
North
East
Middle West
D. S. Coltrane
Lloyd Griffin
North Carolina Citizens Association
Harry J. Krusz
N. C. Asociation of
Penman of Commerce Execuives
Social Security Field Worker Transferred to High Point Office
Esther Leminack moves from Greensboro to High Point to serve as field representative. She will assist local manager Allen T. Boger with field work in Randolph and Davidson counties and High Point. A Rockingham County native, she began public school work before joining the Social Security Office in 1945. She is a Greensboro Woman's College graduate and completed training with the Social Security Board in Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther Leminack
Greensboro
Social Security Office
High Point
Allen T. Boger
Randolph
Davidson
Leminack
Rockingham County
Wor O
Woman’s College In
Social Security Board
Baltimore
Republicans Press Budget Cuts Across Military Spending
Reaction to a $6 plain reduction is strong amid debates over a $11.2 billion armed forces request. Bridges says the practical effect may exceed stated aims and Knowland seeks mandatory debt reduction from any savings. Rayburn warns GOP cuts could drive funds abroad to communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Bridges
Congress
New Hampshire
Senate
House
Knowland
Calif
Socrats
Rayburn
Tex
Elevator Cable Fire Extinguished at Wachovia Bank
A fire damaged an electric elevator cable in the Wachovia Bank building shaft at 9 30 this morning. Firemen stopped the use of the elevator for the day to allow electricians to repair the burned second floor cable while insulation burned. The cause was not determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wachovia Bank
Photographer A J Richards Closes Medina Studio
A J Richards, 83, longtime ground-floor photographer in Medina New York, closed his studio after 60 years of climbing three flights daily. He plans to reopen in the spring if ground-floor quarters are found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medina
N. Y
A. J. Richards
City Reports 30 Registered Scout Units In High Point
Ernest McCall announces that High Point now has 30 registered scout units. Troop No 7 meets at St Marys Episcopal church on Thursdays at 7 15. Rich ard E Hubbard is scoutmaster. Pack No 3 meets at First Baptist church led by C A Manchester. District officials include J W Cubmaster Clyde Martin and others overseeing both units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's
High Point
F. M. Metcalfe, Jr
O. B. Bonner
H. Fred Bragg
E. J. Gaither
George A. Lenaeus
James Howard Blair, Jr
Jay Morgan
Jim Armstrong
Thomas Feeney, Jr
Randall Bryant Terry, Jr
Harold Dean Blizzard
Craig Lewis
Eee Ues
Roy Jaggan
Gametuiaane
V. Morgan
Richard E. Hubbard
First Baptist Church
W. W. Hutchins
C. A. Manchester
Ieee
F. H. Newman
J. E
Donald Green
Jimmy Sink
Richard McDowell
Standford Newman
Bob Grant
Donald Reid
Clement W. Shore
Buddy Bennett
Thomas Bowen
Dave Gordon
Eddie Martin
State Senate Pushes Vehicle Inspections and 50 MPH Limit
W H Currie and others back a plan for semi annual vehicle inspections, quadrennial driving tests, and a 50 mph open road speed limit aimed at reducing highway casualties. The proposal includes higher drunken driving penalties and token license suspensions, with $300,000 borrowed to finance the program from the state highway fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Currie
Moore
Joint Appropriations Committee
House
Harry Vanderlinden
William T. Hatch
Wake
Senate
T. Boddie Ward
Gdnale Mediac
Motor Vehicles Bureau
State Highway Fund
Cheese varieties differ by milk source and mold origin
Roquefort is produced from sheep milk while blue cheese made domestically uses cow milk. Both cheeses rely on mold originally discovered in France during their production and aging processes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roquefort
France
Tax measures and flat-tax proposals stir North Carolina legislature
In Raleigh the joint finance committee tabled a $100 florists tax amendment after Rep. Clyde Shreve warned it would hurt small businesses. The same session rejected a substantial teacher pay boost, citing affordability. A 25 cent intangible tax on every $100 of money on hand was approved for small deposits, with sales tax exemption for physician prescribed eye glasses deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Joint Finance Committee
General Assembly
North Carolina Florists Association
Clyde A. Shreve
Guilford
James B. Vogler
Mecklenberg
Advisory Budget Commission
State Board of Education
William T. Hatch
Wake
Rivers Johnson
Duplin
Labor politics clash over Wagner Act and closed shop
Capitol debates the Wagner Act proposed by Senator Ball as House Labor Committee hears Cecil B De Mille oppose the closed shop and warns unions may ration jobs. Hartley seeks subpoena powers with a $25 000 start to probe racketeering while Morse calls for a measured approach toward labor legislation and bipartisan compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Ball
R-Minn
Capitol
House Labor Committee
Cecil B. de Mille
Senate Group
de Mille
OPA
Hartley
R-Nj
House Labor Group
House Rules Committee
Senate Committee
Walter Reuther
CIO Auto Workers Union
Lynch
Morse
R-Ore
War Labor Board
Clarence Mitchell
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Mitchel
Oregon
Senate
Organized Labor
George Q. Lynch
AFL Metal Trades Department
House Group
Martin
House Republican
Halleck
Ind
Adebeeges
House
Artley
Thomasville Vet Robert O Little Dies at 58
Robert O Little 58 a World War One veteran and local postal worker died suddenly at the post office in Thomasville. He served as a lieutenant with Company L 120th Infantry 30th Division and led both American Legion Culbreth Harris Post and Veterans of Foreign Wars William C Miller Post. He leaves wife Maud Turner Little four sons and several siblings with fourteen grandchildren. Funeral with military honors will be Sunday at Unity Chapel Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Robert O. Little
Robert O
Martha Jane Burrow Little
Culbreth-Harris
American Legion
William C. Miller
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United Chapel Methodist Church
Hilton
Woodmen of the World
Little
120Th Infantry
Maud Turner Little
J. Carson Little
Lynchburg
Robert C
Paul H
Max FE. Little
J. M. Presnell
Asheboro
F. C. Burney
High Point
J. W. Wright
The
Green Funeral Home
Blair Street
Unity Chapel Methodist Church
Church
Train halted near Tokyo as passengers flee emptying food
Police halted a train 15 miles outside Tokyo during a routine search for black market operators. Ninety percent of the passengers fled through doors and windows leaving bundles of food behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Dr Frank Graham Honored In Charlotte Interfaith Session
Dr Frank P Graham UNC president received the Carolina Israelite gold medal during national brotherhood week in Charlotte. Attorney General Tom Clark condemned fascist and socialist influences and urged prosecution of groups sowing hatred while stressing unity among Christians, Jews, and other faiths. Attendees included I B Blumenthal and Lamar Caudle with devotional exercises held across Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
Tom Clark
America
Clark
Graham
Ku Klux Klan
I. B. Blumenthal
Little Switzerland
P. Robinson
Raleigh
Ae Ee Ap
National Couse of Christians and Jews
Pee Ar
Lamar Caudle
Wadesboro
UN Security Council session postponed by heavy snow
Snow halted a United Nations security council session on the Albanian case. Britain urged a court of justice judgment while seeking apology and compensation for alleged deaths in the Corfu Channel. Colombia proposed court settlement as cadogan warned the Hague court is not an open forum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Security Council
United Nations
Council
Albania
Great Britain
International Court of Justice
Corfu
Alexander Cadogan
the Hague
Les
Eduardo Zuelta Angel
Colobian
International Court
Security Council
General Assemly
Cadogan
Markets Ease Into Gains As Stocks Rise In Slow Trading
Stocks resumed a tepid advance led by International Harvester Union Carbide U S Steel Chrysler GM Goodyear and Du Pont among others with railway bonds edging higher and commodities mixed. Cotton futures opened lower and the market noted exchanges will be closed Saturday for Washington's Birthday with livestock reports to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
International Harvester
Union Carbide
U. S.steel
Youngstown Sheet
Chrysler
General Motors Goodyear
American Can
du Pont Allied Chemical
Johns-Manville Eastman Kodak
Southern Pacific
Norfolk and Western
United States
Washington
Department of Agriculture
White paper warns Britain faces critical wartime fuel crisis
The white paper urges labor to abandon restraints on production and pricing and calls for Britain to export a quarter of its output while enforcing a strict priority for manpower and supplies. Prime Minister Attlee emphasizes coal as priority one and worker priority as number two for 1947. The document notes a severe winter industrial crisis and sets a 140 percent export target versus prewar levels, with 175 percent needed for a normal standard of living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attlee
Britain
Tragic plant collapse injures workers in South Gate
Dewayne Bearss, 22, recounts the moment the office roof gave way crushing his father Frank Bearss, 44, who died at the scene. Lillian O Connor, 43, among the injured, says about 15 workers were present. Authorities say more than a score of nearby structures were deemed unsafe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewayne Bearss
South Gate
Frank
Dad
White Primary Backers Press Petition In South Carolina
The state conference of the NAACP and Negro Citizens Committee of South Carolina back the petition arguing the white primary persists. A 1944 special session repealing primary laws did not change the situation as the Democratic party still runs the primary elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
General Assembly
Democratic Party
Heart Attack Fatal to Negro Woman at Home
Anna Anderson, 60, of 222 Beaman Street, was found dead by a neighbor in her home this morning. Doctor M B Davis attributed the death to heart failure after three months of treatment. the body was found near the bed as she arose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Anderson
Beaman Street
M. B. Davis
Davis
Radio Phonograph Taken by Impostor Seeks Return
Mrs. Madelene Miller reports an 18 year old boy, calling himself R. L. Smith, took a radio phonograph to repair yesterday from 120 East State street and did not return it. Police suspect he also took another radio from Mrs. F. J. Turner on Wednesday, posing as a City Radio shop representative to steal and promise a quick repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madelene Miller
East State Street
R. L. Smith
Fourth Street
City Radio Shop
Smith
F. J. Turner
Barker Street
British moves in India dominate tense postwar debate
Bevin heads to Moscow and Palestine shifts to the United Nations as Attlee faces a possible Lords censure on labor policy. Mountbatten replaces Wavell amid protests, while Indians fear a push toward war or settlement. The Hindu Congress seeks a united front against Moslem presence. Locals in Ceylon and India recall lemon juice myths to ward off crocodiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bevin
Moscow
Palestine Mandate
United Nations
Templewood
Labor
House of Lords
Attlee
Commons
India
Daily Herald
House of Commons
Yord Wavell
Mountbatten
Winston Churchill
Viscount Wavell
Privy Council
London
Wavell
all-India Congress Party
Reces
New Delhi
Congress
Congress Party
Sored
Jawaharal Nehru
City Streets Cleared As Snow Removal Continues
City Engineer Silas McBee and the public works crews spent most of last night clearing central streets for pedestrians and traffic. A power shovel two bulldozers and many workers moved snow into trucks while sidewalks were iced but being cleared as sun warmed the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas McBee
Public Works Department
Main Street
East Snowstorm Paralyzes Mid Atlantic Ahead of New England
A major winter storm dumped up to 19 inches in parts of Virginia and Maryland and caused widespread school closures and traffic delays across the mid Atlantic. Washington DC and Baltimore faced heavy winds and drifts while many rivers and highways remained blocked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle Atlantic
New England
Virginia
Richmond
Lee County
Maryland
Baltimore
14Th Street
Chattanooga
Nashville
Pittsburgh
New York City
New York
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Midwest
Oklahoma
Jewel Cotton Mill fixes 80 cent minimum wage
Thomasville February 21. Effective February 17 Jewel Cotton Mills Inc and the TWUA CIO announced a ten percent pay raise with a new plant minimum of 80 cents per hour. The old minimum was 73 cents. Other mills in the state are reportedly in talks about similar increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ohio
Alaska
Curt Wright Penhey J C
Penn-Dix
Curt Wright
Davison
Penn Rr
al Nem & Dye
del Lack & W
Pepsi Cole
Phillips Pet
Dupont Pitt
East Airi
Elec Auto Lt
At&t
Gen Foods
Repub
Gillette Reynolds
Goodrich Val Sou Pac
Goodyear OO
Graham Paige
Allan Pow
Gt Nor Ry Pt Ltd
Aviat Corp
Cal
Baldwin
Hupp
Ind
B&o
Til Cent Ltd OU NJ
Barnadal
Stewart Warner
Bendix Aviat
Studebaker
Swift Co
Boeing Airpl
Johns Man
Tex Co
Borden
Kennecott
Tex Gulf Prod
Borg Warn
K Grace
Tex Gulf Sul
Briggs
Libby
Trans & West Air
Ligg & Myers Bnion Carbide Burl Mills
Lockheed
Ion Pac
United Airi
Loris
United Aire
Louis & Nash United Corp
Pac
United Drug
Cannon Mills
United Fruit
Murray* Corp
Nash Kelv
Caterpil Trac Nat Biscuit
Ches & O
Champ P & F
Nat Cash
Chrysler Colum G
Comwith & Son
West el & Mig
Consol Edis
No Am Aviat
Come ‘Vaelee Sii
North Amer
Eee Ae Woolworth
Thomasville
Jewel Cotton Mills, Inc
Twuacio
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Claudette Colbert
Walter
Pidgeon
Secret Heart
June Allyson
Johnny Mack Brown
Edgar Kennedy
Alan Carney
Ann Jeffries
Rialto
Sunset Carson
Billy the Kid
Mmuust
Ted Donaldson
Conrad Nagelace, the Wonder Dog “the Adventures OF
Rusty
Dana Andrews
Gene Tierney
Laura
Carolina Ka
Salem Street
Charles Starrett
Tommie Little
Sunrise Rangers
Cathay
Curly
Lil” Ida Symphone
Little Girl
West End
Hig Point
Guilford County
Claude O’brien
General Fund
Arcade Building
Frank Graham
Charlotte Isatelite
Ceylon
Jewel
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