Asheboro Works To Expand Water Treatment Plant
Asheboro plans to expand its water treatment facilities after a 16 inch main line and a new filter plant site are built to supply treated water for domestic and commercial use. The effort follows an engineering survey and bond funding approved by voters last September with bids opened in November. The project should take about 18 months to finish.
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Asheboro
City Lakes
Dudley
Piedmont
North Carolina
Durham
Tecome Dace
Henth
Public Library Adds Six New Lending Films
The Public Library announces six new films now available for circulation through March 3. Topics include forests and geography, child development, farming and transport, nationalism, obesity, and a landscape visualization set to a symphony by Arthur Honegger. Contact Mrs. Georgia Cox for reservations.
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Public Library
Baly Peninsula
Skilitet
Mary
Arthur Honegger
Georgia Cox
Former Duke Engineering Dean Honored for 40 Years
DURHAM February 26 Former Duke University engineering dean William H Hall honored by the Professional Engineers of North Carolina for more than four decades of service. He received a plaque at the PENC annual banquet in Charlotte last week presented by Robert B Rice secretary of the State Board of Registration for Engineers. The citation praised him as a pioneer and outstanding professional engineer who contributed to education and training of young engineers in the state. Hall retired from the Duke College of Engineering deanship in 1 and from the University faculty of Herbe Duke earlier.
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William H. Hall
North Carolina
PENC
Charlotte
Robert B. Rice
State Board of Registration For Engineers
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African 26 Passes At Sanford U
Udo, an African student, struggles through initial years in the United States while battling study costs and cultural adjustment aimed at earning an MD from Stanford School of Medicine. He notes progress at 3 percent and recalls a gift elephant tusk given to Stanford by a grateful donor amid his early challenges at the vast university.
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Sta University
Hercules
Ubora
Udo
United States
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford
Standeed
Kinney Named Temporary Chairman Of Industrial Management Club
Kinney was appointed temporary chairman as plans form for a permanent IM Club in the area. The next meeting at the YMCA on March 15 will elect permanent officers. Otis Marshall of Sylvania Electric spoke on Pulaski Virginia club experiences. Multiple committees were formed including nominating, constitution and by laws, program, membership, dinner, and management development courses with a wide slate of local industry personnel named to each.
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Guy Kinney
Industrial Management Club
YMCA
Kinney
Otis Marshall
Sylvania Electric Products
Pulaski
L. R. Proper
Dave Reddick
C. Harbinson
Keith Clark
H. McDowell
Bill Bumgarner
G. Wienberry
L. R. Propst
Bill Neahr
Lonnie Hilliard
Eugene Yow
Paul Sullivan
Claude Blackwell
Charlie Weisner
Ralph Harbinson
L. C. Talbert
L. Solomon
Forrest Edwards
Charles H. Ward
C. Harlan Burton
Bill Kinely
John Jones
F. C. Morehead
J. Fraley
W. L. Newton
D. Reddick
N. Elder
Paul Justice
Fred C. Surrett
Julian Franklin
H. McMahan
A. S. Steele
Curtis Staley
Nelson Callahan
Stanford Chance for Remote Mission Student Delayed
A youth from a distant mission school pursued admission to Stanford after passing Cam exams. After initial skepticism, Stanford offered enrollment if he could fund the first year. A long gap followed before August 1953 when a $806.60 check arrived, then another. Udo later moved to Liberia and sent the second payment and a certificate for visa waiting.
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Udo
Stanford
Winbigier
Liberia
America
Pilot Club Takes Over Easter Seal Drive Here
The Pilot Club of High Point assumes the Easter Seal campaign in High Point, sponsored annually by the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children. Mrs. Lacy Peace serves as general chairman and Mrs. Mary Blackburn as treasurer. The drive will continue as a mail campaign with club members handling mailings and stamping envelopes.
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Easter Seal Drive
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North Carolina
Ciety
Lacy Peace
Pilot
Mary Blackburn
Peace
Igenll Club
C. E. Peace
R. R. Blackburn
Thieves Steal 2193 From Auto Supply Safe
In Valdese North Carolina thieves cracked a safe at an auto supply company and took 2193 while leaving about 400 in checks. Police suspect a link to a recent 1000-dollar theft at Hudson High School in Caldwell County.
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Valdese
N. C
Hudson High School
Caldwell County
Hutson to Speak at UNC Dialectic Society Inaugural
Dr. Harold H. Hutson president of Greensboro College will headline the Dialectic Senate inaugural ceremonies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill Tuesday night at 8 in New West Building. Officers include Richard Beverly Raney Greene as president pro tempore Larry McElroy James Turner David Mundy Stephen A. Moss Freeman A. Grant and Clyde Smith. The Dialectic Senate marks mid point of its 160th year. the two societies helped form early student government.
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Chapel Hill
Harold H. Hutson
Greensboro College
Senate of the Dialectic Literary Society
University of North Carolina
New West Building
Y Richard Beverly Raney Webs
Greensboro
Larry McElroy
Marshall
James R. Tur
Ner
Winstor Salem
David Mundy
Black Mountain
Stephen A. Moss
Bethlehem
Freeman A. Grant
Bethseda
Clyde Smith
Mundy
Dialectic Senate
Philanthropic Assembly
Solve A Crime: Johnson Named Killer in Shaky Clue Tale
In a garbled report Johnson is identified as the killer after a chaotic sequence of accusations. Freeman is dead and Richards is cleared. Thompson is ruled out as a suspect due to proximity and timing. The fragment hints Johnson acted while a second witness was distracted in town two hours earlier.
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Johnson
Freeman
Richards
Thompson
Aera
Thom
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