Highway Deaths in 1947 Decline Despite December Toll
North Carolina Motor Vehicles department reports 1947 highway deaths at 836 with 84 killed and 692 injured in December. The year dropped 18 percent from 1946, while December rose 25 percent from a year earlier. Wilmington led city deaths with three. Rockingham County topped counties in December with eight deaths.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Motor Vehicles Department
Wilmington
Goldsboro
Rockingham County
Buncombe
Rowan
Forsyth
Wayne
Pittsburgher Will Speak In Winston
Edwin L. Peterson University of Pittsburgh English professor and creative writing instructor will hold a two day writing forum at Salem College February 26 and 27. Public session on February 26 at 10 20 am features Peterson speaking to Salem college and Academy students on An Art Worth Your Learning. Petersons class has produced prize winning stories in Harpers Atlantic Monthly and Story Magazine and many students have sold works to major magazines.
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Winston-Salem
Edwin L. Peterson
University of Pittsburgh
Salem College
Peterson
Academy
Harpers
Atlantic Monthly
Story Magazine
Canaries on Way to Tokyo Shipment Reported
Asahi notes a 10,000 canary shipment from Japan to the United States is imminent. The article also mentions Japan’s first steel plow made by attaching steel saw blade pieces to a wooden plow frame.
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Tokyo
Asahi
United States
Japan
Wolfe Book Look Homeward Angel Filmed by Paramount
Paramount Pictures announced purchase of film rights to Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward Angel. Arthur Ripley and Rudy Monter had planned to produce independently and shot about 20000 feet of footage in North Carolina. William Wyler will produce and direct. shooting likely six months away with no cast yet.
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Hollywood
Thomas Wolfe
Angel
Paramount Pictures
Paramount
Arthur Ripley
Rudy Monter
Ripley
Monter
North Carolina
Wolfe
Asheville
N. C
William Wyler
Negro Held On Robbery And Kidnap Charge
Hendersonville reported a 27 year old Black man, Henry Robert Green of Andersonville, held on $25,000 bond for kidnapping and robbing a young white couple Monday night. He allegedly assaulted Miss Jonnie Mac Orr, 17, and Jack Herbert Sherman, 19, forcing them from their car. Sherman was knocked unconscious, later revived and described as seriously injured in a local hospital.
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Hendersonville
Henry Robert Green
Andersonville
Jonnie Mac Orr
Jack Herbert Sherman
Green
Sherman
Parolees Freed by Governor Cherry in North Carolina
Governor Cherry today paroled three prisoners in North Carolina. Gordon Graham Glenn of Durham county, sentenced December 1946 to two years for non support. Dorothy Mae Taylor II of Pitt county, September 1947, to 12 months for assault with a deadly weapon. Darrell Hester of Bladen county, September 1947, to six months for possession of non tax paid liquor and 90 days for trespass and assault with a deadly weapon.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Gordon Graham Glenn
Durham County
Dorothy Mae Taylor
Pitt County
Darrell Hester
Bladen County
Woman Talks Herself Into Extra Time
In Lenoir Caldwell County the woman Edna Rhymer began a jail term that was doubled after she heckled the judge. She faced charges of stripping and robbing H.L. Jatson, but the robbery count was dropped and she received 30 days for contempt, with additional sentences for two co defendants.
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Lenoir
Caldwell County
H. L
Bud) Jatson
Edna Rhymer
Zeb V. Nettles
Asheville
Nettles
Rhymer
Watson
Wilma Hicks
Jean Icks
Stody the Rhymer
Highway Body Considers Bids Tomorrow
Raleigh reports the state highway commission will meet to review bids from yesterday letting for 12 projects totaling 2,317,552.75 dollars affecting 65.1 miles across 11 counties. Asheville Contracting firm, tied to controversy, submitted the lowest Buncombe Haywood bid of 314,766.80 dollars amid a prior court ruling.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Asheville
Buncombe
Haywood
H. Anderson
W. Vance Baise
Commission
Hoyle Sink
Anderson
Self Defense Plea Futile in Patterson Case
Lancaster North Carolina February 25 A former Waxhaw police chief J B Buck Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of fatally shooting Magistrate's Constable Coleman McAteer last August. Patterson testified he did not know McAteer was an officer and said the constable pointed a gun before the fatal shot. Mercy was recommended.
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Lancaster
J. B
Buck) Patterson
Waxhaw
N. C
Patterson
Coleman Mc-Ateer
Mc-Ateer
Here
State Health Post offers Dr Parran secretary post
North Carolina board of health awaits word from Dr Thomas Parran whether he will accept the offer to become state health officer and board secretary. Dr Carl V Reynolds resigns effective June 30 after serving since 1934. Reynolds, 75, cites his family’s desire for retirement and plans to move to Pasadena California.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Truman
A. Scheele
Parran
Reynolds
Asheville
State Board of Health
North Carolina Medical Society
Tri- State Medical Society
America
International Society of Health Officers
Pasadena
Calif
Gases Used in Early World War I Decline During War
The article notes that fifty four gases were used early in World War I, but this number fell to twelve as the war progressed, with four of those twelve discarded before its end.
Tempting the Fussy Eater with Nutritious Desserts
Practical guidance for feeding picky children and convalescents through desserts. Recipes include a banana bread pudding with bananas and evaporated milk, a pumpkin custard with spices and pumpkin, and a banana pudding with vanilla and meringue topping. Servings listed as 6 to 8.
Meredith College Plans Construction of Chapel and Music Building
Meredith College prepares to seek bids for a combined chapel and music building with costs between 300000 and 500000 dollars. The project was approved by the board of trustees, which also paid tribute to late William Altha Thompson of Statesville for years of service as a trustee.
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Raleigh
Meredith College
William Altha Thompson
Statesville
Victory Ointment Promises Quick Relief for Eczema and Rashes
Wartime promotion touts Victory Ointment as a safe, greaseless antiseptic with cooling pain relief. Billed as new and different, it targets babies and children and offers a money back guarantee through Eckerd's and local druggists.
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Eckerd
Ring Harris
Jeff
Anderson Mann
Galloway
Plymouth Bonds Sold By Commission
The local government commission sold a 250000 long term Plymouth refunding bond at 3.78 percent. Buyers included Dickson and Company Raleigh Branch Banking Trust of Wilson Vanance Securities of Greensboro J Lee Peeler of Durham and E L Harden of Salisbury. They also purchased a 34000 Richmond County school building bond at 1 percent with an average maturity of two and a half years.
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Raleigh
Local Government Commission
Town of
Plymouth
Hats, Dickson and Company Ralleigh
Branch Banking Trust Company of
Wilson
Vanance Securities Corporation
Greensboro
J. Lee Peeler and Company
Durham
E. L. Harden Company
Salisbury
Richmond County
Editor John H. Sorrellis Dies of Heart Attack
New York report states John H. Sorrellis, 52, editor of the Scripps newspapers, died of a heart attack near his home. He was a Pine Bluff Ark native. An entomologist notes there are about 600000 insect kinds, with only a few thousand pests.
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New York
John H. Sorrellis
Scripps
Nearohere
Pine Bluff
Ark
Charlotte Man Named Governor of Rotary Cleveland
Everett C. Bierman of Charlotte will head the 194th district of Rotary International for the coming year starting July 1. He was chosen after Gale McMillan, his sole opponent, was withdrawn by the West Jefferson club. The district includes about 30 clubs in western North Carolina.
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Charlotte
Everett C. Bierman
Rotary International
Ierman
West Jefferson
Gale McMillan
North Carolina
Three Days Cough Warns of Danger Signal
An old advertisement warns that a three days cough may signal chronic bronchitis if untreated. It touts Creomulsion as a potent treatment blending beechwood creosote with other medicines, non narcotic, promising quick relief or money back. It urges trusting the product to loosen phlegm and soothe inflamed bronchial membranes.
Mountains Searched For Missing Airmen
Murphy, Feb. 25. Airmen searched the western North Carolina mountains today for two Murphy men, Hubert Wells and Frank Dreher, who are believed lost after a flight from Hot Springs, Arkansas, left Murphy Sunday and has not been heard from since.
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Murphy
North Carolina
Hoot Springs
Ark
Hubert Wells
Frank Dreher
Hot Springs
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