High Point Team Places Fourth at Forensic League Meet
High Point did fourth at the Duke University hosted Forensic League event over the weekend drawing sixty competitors. Coltrane of Archdale and Nicki Fisher represented the school with Mull and Adams as senators. Lee West of Chapel Hill won top speaker honors. Greenville Durham and Johnson City earned overall team ratings as the banquet closed at Duke University.
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A Point
Duke University
United States Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Coltrane
Archdale
Nicki Fisher
House
Francis Mull
Fisher
Frances Mull
Adams
Lee West
Chapel Hill
Greenville
Durham
Johnson City
Tenn
Louisa Hatch
Clara Paige Harrison
Goodson Speaks On Red Cross Tonight At WMFR
Rev. Kenneth Goodson of First Methodist leads Red Cross drive talk on WMFR from 7 to 8 15 pm linking with national radio ceremony. Joe Hollingsworth says the event will feature figures like Truman Marshall and Hope and marks March 1 as the local drive kickoff.
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Kenneth Goodson
First Methodist Church
High Point
Cross
Joe Hollingsworth
General Cane
President Truman
General Marshall
Bob Hope
Police Headquaters to Get New Telephone Lines
Linemen begin installing several new telephone lines at police headquarters following a survey by Fayetteville attorney Terry Sanford. The work aims to improve handling of many incoming calls, with council backed improvements also including repainting cruisers with color and insignia.
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Terry Sanford
Fayetteville
Sanford
Robbery Charge Brought Against Clark Duncan
A Lexington Avenue man Clark Duncan 44 was charged with robbing William A. Boyd of 12 dollars last January 5 and is out on a $1000 bond. Police also booked William Clifton Hoskins 30 on forgery for a $42 50 grocery check and Walter Carolina 33 on a hit and run indictment hitting Aubrey Grimes. Williams 7100 Fairview faced charges for alcohol violation.
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Lexington Avenue
Clark Duncan
Lexington
William A. Boyd
Johnson Road
Duncan
William Clifton Hoskins
Woodbury
E. E Harvey
J. P. Causer
Walter Carolina
Hoover
Aubrey Grimes
Eergeon Williams
Fairview
Amie
Mustache Comeback Forecast by King Max Factor Jr
Hollywood reports beauty expert Max Factor Jr predicts a mustache revival as stars shave less. He notes popularity at a low since 1941 and cites soldiers and age perception as motives. Guidance covers trimming methods, shading sparse growth, and avoiding overdone styles.
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Hollywood
Ron
Max Factor, Jr
Tyrone Power
Robert Taylor
Errol
Factor
Kenneth Redman Named Club Head and Blair Speaks
Kenneth Redman was elected club head at the February church meeting, with Blair delivering the address on “The Need of the Times.” Blair urged clear thinking and plain talk about duties as American citizens, noting obedience to earthly vs heavenly authority and the call for sacrifice. He cited wartime unity and church spending versus expenditures on whiskey and tobacco.
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George White
J. C. Beeson
Church Hall
Gh CG
Blair
Jesus
God
Death of Ritz Ends Era for New York City Hotel
New York reports the Ritz Carlton hotel slated for demolition with its Ritz-Carlton Old Timers club holding its last annual dinner. Eighty former Ritz staffers attended, recalling lavish debuts and ballroom preparations as the building nears closing around April 1.
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New York
Ritz-Carlton
Crystal Room
Ritz
Dedicational services mark church reopening on East Washington
Last night Rev A D Dilworth led Pearson Memorial AME members in dedicational services at First Baptist Church East Washington street as furniture and windows are dedicated. Nightly services continue with different pastors and church groups sponsoring each evening through Friday with missionary circle No 2 to lead Sunday March 4. Samuel L Byers funeral set for Wednesday at Mount Vernon Baptist following his death by train injury. The compiled notices include births and local society items and a 1948 radio quiz earnings total around five million.
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A. D. Dilworth
Pearson Memorial Ame
First Baptist Church
East Washington Street
W. A. Jones
Mars Hill
D. D. Mason
Emmanuel Baptist
Pilgrim Congregational
J. B. Jones
Presbyterian
A. W. Waddell
Winslow Oes
White Rose
CBS
Odd Fellows Hall
Projectors Shipped From Police Headquarters to Atlanta
Two moving picture projectors unused for 17 months were moved from police headquarters to be packed and sent to the Atlanta firm that ordered them. The equipment, once used at the Kit theater, was seized after a 1949 raid and obscenity case.
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Atlanta
W. Edgerton
County
Clement
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Don Taylor
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