Public Utilities Growth Marked North Carolina 1938
North Carolina Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne reviews 1938 as a year of rising utility activity with widespread electric rate cuts, expansion into new areas, and effort to boost appliance purchases. He notes major reductions by Duke Power and Carolina Power and Light, increases in telephone service and automatic exchanges, rural line expansion, and a surge in bus transportation including 24 new stations and franchise connections from mountains to the sea.
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Stanley Winborne
North Carolina
Associated Press
Raleigh
Jan
Utility Commission
Durham Public Service Company
Duke Power Company
Carolina Power and Light Company
Commission
Parachute jumper Marie McMillan talks nerves on air
Woman parachute jumper Marie McMillan explains nerve strain from 4 miles up and says she steadies herself by resting nerves with a light Camel cigarette. She emphasizes taking breaks to protect nerves during the jump.
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Carl
Marie McMillin
Carl Dossey
W. A. Knox
Dossey
Cranium Crackers quiz true and false statements
A brain teaser item lists five claims about Nazir Kate Smith Douglas Fairbanks Japan China and Hitler. It asks which statements are true or false, noting Nazirs term, Kate Smith as The Last of the Red Hot Mamas, Fairbanks Hamburg hat fame, Japan and China at war status, and Hitler being a vegetarian.
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Nazir
Kate Smith
Douglas Fairbanks
Hamburg
Japan
China
Hitler
How Can I Cleaning White Kid Gloves
Anne Ashley Q offers home answers on glove cleaning eye care and a waffle supper menu. The glove method uses ammonia and turpentine, worn with a brush, then air dry. Tired eyes are treated with hot salt water compresses refreshed by a cool cloth. A waffle supper includes country sausage apples waffles coffee maple syrup and butter.
Etiquette Answers on Travel and Hosting Duties
A question and answer exchange outlines proper hotel departure etiquette for solo female travelers advising to pack early and request bellboy help after settling the bill. It also covers clearing tables without a maid and notes that a chaperone need not be married, just a mature woman.
One Word Lessons from a Daily Vocab Card
A compact guide explains common word misuses and pronunciations with tips on vocabulary building. It highlights igneous as a daily word, defined as formed by heat inside the earth, noting rocks with igneous origins discharge from volcanoes.
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Wilkes- Barre
North Carolina Motor Vehicle Inspectors Strengthen Road Compliance
The commission credits three field inspectors for boosting service and tax collections as they monitor bus and truck equipment. Railroads present a major challenge. the commission resisted interstate rate hikes and, facing hearings on January 30, 1939, argues against further intrastate rate increases. It urges nonrate methods to revive rail lines and vows continued public service in 1959.
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North Carolina
Commission
South
Interstate Commerce Commission
Grady Marries Grace Outlaw on Retirement
Durham January report notes Superior Court Judge Henry Grady and Grace S. Outlaw wed quietly at Presbyterian manse. The Rev George M Matthis officiated. Couple heads to Florida and Cuba for a wedding trip and will live at Pine Crest on the Neuse after February 1. Grady retires after 16 years on the bench and will serve as emergency judge. Former grand dragon of the modernized Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina is mentioned in the article.
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Durham
Superior Court
Henry Grady
Grace
S. Outlaw
New Bern
George M. Matthis
Clinton
Florida
Cuba
Pine Crest
Neuse
Grady
North Carolina
Owen Calvin to Speak at DAV State Gathering
Owen Calvin of Minneapolis National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans will deliver an address in Charlotte on January 20 to a state wide gathering of DAV and other World War veterans.
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Owen Calvin
Charlotte
N. C
Minneapolis
Learn to Answer Five Quick History Questions
A young whale call is a call. The famous quote is Don't give up the ship. Checkers uses twenty four pieces. The country using more silk than any is the United States. Webster did not compile Webster's Dictionary. Noah Webster did.
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Capt
Lawrence
Whit
U. S
Chesapeake
Daniel Webster
United States
Noah Webster
Fink Rejects CIO Bid for Joint Labor Lobby
Charlotte January 3 A CIO leader proposed a joint legislative lobby with the State Federation of Labor for the 1939 General Assembly. C A Fink Spencer president of the State Federation called the plan impracticable and inconsistent, saying the federation would not cooperate with a dual organization aiming to undermine it.
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Charlotte
C. A. Fink
Spencer
State Federation of Labor
Fink
L. Sandefur
Winston-Salem
Carolinas
CIO
State Federation
Rev. W. H. Perry Dies at 75 in Mingate
The Rev. W. H. Perry, 75, retired Methodist minister who served pastorates in both Carolinas, died here yesterday. He requested no flowers for his funeral today and suggested using the money to aid the poor.
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MR. Perry
Mingate
N. C
W. H. Perry
Carolinas
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