Governor Kerr Scott delivers broadly sound biennial message
The governor's biennial message to the North Carolina General Assembly advocated more spending to meet rising state services costs while signaling possible tax changes and new revenue sources. He praised industry growth, urged highway and conservation measures, and endorsed modest prison-commission consolidation with the Highway Commission, urging reasonable reforms and closer adherence to the speech.
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Kerr Scott
North Carolina General Assembly
North Carolina
Scott
Charles M. Johnson
Johnson
REA
ABC
State Highway and Public Works Commission
MacCormick
State Highway Commission
Turpentine Drippings and Oddities From Moore County
A collage of humorous and local notes from various sources. Walter Mann’s lettuce joke, TV maid misreadings, Stalin jokes, collards cooking secrets, and a Winston-Salem tale about unreliable neighbors, plus a Charlotte taxi cemetery rendezvous leading to a continuation on page eight.
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Moore County
Edith Caddell
Carthage
East
Edith
Richmond County Journal
Charlotte
Oddball Global Briefs Mix War Talk and Old Time Religion
A collage of wartime musings from Tokyo on Korea near Seoul, fate of Manchuria, and potential China policy. Plus Old Time Religion debate on Town Hall of the Air with Billy Graham and Dr. Ralph W. Lockman urging renewed faith and service. Gypsies shift trade to car travel while a Louisville wedding links a Serbian-born trader. a doctor’s punch remedy closes the note.
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Tokyo
Korea
Seoul
United Nations
Senen
Liege
Belgium
France
Marne
Paris
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
America
U. N
Peninsular
Manchuria
China
Russia
Formosa
Far East
West Germany
Town Hall
Billy Graham
Ralph W. Lockman
Christchurch
New York City
God
the Redeemer
Jesus
Lockman
Joe Marks
Julia
Louisville
Kentucky
Serbia
Christian Science Monitor
Monkeys, Mortals, and Moral Tales Across Pages
A fragment from Miss Rebecca Howell of Ellerbe recounts a tale of a dead preacher and a troubled marriage with sharp, plain language about a man named Jerry and his wife Mary. The piece opens with a Greensboro Daily News cartoonish note and ends with an old Hindu fable about a monkey outwitting a whale and an elephant in a tug of war.
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Rebecca Howell
Ellerbe
Hanna
Jerry
Mary
Brother Jerry
Greensboro Daily News
America
China
Marion Hargrove
Argosy Mag
Tobias
Teeveenus
F. Chandler
Lydia Debe
Robert Moon
Liza Loughlin
A. Murray
Larry Stevens
Lorraine Nale
Iaing Man E. Wallach
Rose Tattoo
Anne Jackson
Kathryn Cravens
Col. E. Donovan
Marian Byram
Phyllis Perlman
Larry Newman
INS
Mary Frances Falvey
Richard Hudnut Co
W. R. Hearst
New York Stars in Tangled Divorce and High Society News
Scattered items from New York gossip column mention Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor contemplating divorce talk amid frenzied social set rumors. Other notes cover Adele Jergens and Glen Langan wedding chatter, Beau monde romances, political hints, and entertainment headlines from Broadway and beyond.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
Claire Luce
Morgan Farrell
Adele Jergens
Chums
Glen Langan
Gail Bennett
A. Mathews
Glenn Davis
Ann Blyth
Susan Morrow
Vic Damone
Ethel
Merman
Sarnoff
RCA
Salacee
Red Cross
Brenda Frazier
J. Sims Kelly
Cotton Exchange
Catskills
Truman
Fdr
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Bill Sharpe
Camden Chronicle
Copenhagen Institute of Cleaning
Holt McPherson
Shelby Star
Sanford Herald
Walter Mann
Walt
Francis Church
Francis
Stalin
A. W. Clay
Winston-Salem Journal
Leaksville
W. A. Bivins
O. K
Carl Goerch
The
State
New York
Walter Winchell
Mirror
V. Riesel
U.S
Riesel
Bayonne
N. J
FBI
Britain
Beverly Lawrence
Eric Fleming
Greenwich
Stork Club
Roger Treat
Washington
Chicago
Gerda Simmons
Bishop Shiel
Bing
Dept. of Justice
Intelligence Digest
Neta
Freeman
N. Y
Merwin K. Hart
Hart
Congress
Yusif el Bandak
Penn Station
Pearl Bailey
Page Cavanaugh
Blue Angel
T. Hollises
Medical Center
Tropical Parks
N. Herzberg
Aaa
Joe Brade
Hudson River Parkway
Lee Salters
Miami
Chicago Crime Commission
Kefauver
Senate
Miles McDonald
Citizens’ Union
Demmy
Iain Ed Flynn
Impelliteri
Flynn
Australia
Hogan
Dept. Sanitatio
Murphy
Long Island Univ
So. Pac
Marin
Jimmy Durante
Copa City
Miami Beach
Frankie Laine
Sarah Palfrey Cooke
Tropical Park
Havana
Collier's
Georgia Tech
MacMillan
Don
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