Highway Commission Sets High Point Lanes Plans
North Carolina Highway Commissioner Jack Lindley said paving a portion of the new superhighway south of High Point is the top priority as funding sources and zoning need resolution. Grading on the Groometown to Greensboro link and the Greens boro to Efland segment are underway with no contracts yet for paving. Local officials sought schedule details for widening Main Street and the overhead rain water line changes, plus access points from within High Point.
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Jack Lindley
North Carolina
High Point
Commission
Lindley
Sask
North Carolina Highway Commission
George Covington
Main St
Amos Kearns
Earl Phillips
Walter Crissman
O. Arthur Kirkman
Plant Site Chosen at Zebulon for Garment Factory
Zebulon selected as site for a new plant to manufacture dungarees for boys girls and women and shirts for boys. Louis Rosenstock president of Devil Dog eo ey Co a General ar Co subsidiary announced. A brick building is under construction and operation is expected by next summer employing about workers.
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Zebulon
Louis Rosenstock
Devil Dog Eo Ey Co
General Ar Co
Ellenville
Brownell Faces Delegation Over Seawell Appointment
Brownell in Washington in their efforts to have Herbert Seawell of Carthage appointed the state's U. S. Middle district attorney. Fred Mullen, a Justice Department spokesman, told the Raleigh Observer's Washington Bureau yesterday that Brownell had refused to see the delegation, cause "he didn't have to. The delegation, headed by State Partyman T. E. Story of North Wilkesboro, expected to see Brownell today or tomorrow.
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Brownell
Washington
Herbert Seawell
Carthage
U. S
Fred Mullen
Justice Department
Arlette Observer
T. E. Story
North Wilkesboro
Federal Court Charlotte to hear civil rights and tax evasion cases
In Charlotte the next Federal Court term includes a civil rights case and an income tax evasion charge for 100000 dollars tied to 1945 to 1948. Defendants include J Ralph Smith of Charlotte. County officials Hoyle Eford and Walter Cannon Jr. are charged with beating a county resident.
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Federal Court
Charlotte
J . Ralph $ Smith
Lot- Sie Comton
Hoyle Eford
Walter Cannon Jr
Fox hunters field trials open in Tar Heel Sun Tan event
More than 125 dogs entered the three day field trials of the Eastern North Carolina Fox Hunters Association in Goldsboro. Tar Heel Sun Tan owned by E J Kennedy of Goldsboro led the entries at the start of the event.
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Goldsboro
North Carolina
Foxhunters Assn
E. J. Kennedy
Asphalt Plant Planned for Fayetteville by Esso
Esso Standard Oil Co plans a large asphalt plant at Fayetteville with a $000 investment and about 100 jobs. Work starts Friday on 15 storage tanks totaling 6 090 000 gallons capacity to produce baked and cutback asphalt for road building using materials shipped up the Cape Fear River from Charleston and Wilmington.
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Raleigh
Esso Standard Oil Co
Fayetteville
Ben Douglas
State Department of Iron and Development
Douglas
Esso
Charlotte
Ork
Cape Fear
Charleston
Wilmington
Speeds Reduced in North Carolina October
The State Highway Commission reports October radar checks on 29 rural highways clocked 6,232 vehicles. Average speed across all vehicles fell to 45.4 mph from 47.4 mph in October 1952, with cars at 46.7 mph and buses included bringing the total to 42.2 mph versus 44.7 previously.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Highway Commission
Eo Ae
Nurserymen Gather at NC State for Short Course Opener
About 50 members of the North Carolina Assn of Nurserymen attended the opening sessions of the 16th annual nurserymen's short course at North Carolina State College. The event aims to bring late information on topics of interest to the nursery business and ends tomorrow afternoon.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Assn
North Carolina State College
Admiral Blandy Dies at 63 in New York
Admiral William H. P. Blandy, 63, veteran of two world wars, died after a stroke at St. Albans Naval Hospital in New York. He retired in 1950 as commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet and led the first joint Army Navy air test force at Bikini in 1946. He graduated from Annapolis at the head of his class in 1913.
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New York
William H. P. Blandy
St. Albans Naval Hospital
Manhattan
Atlantic Fleet
Blandy
Bikini
Apolis
Birthday for Chicago electricians to get paid day off
Four Chicago area plants with contracts will grant a birthday holiday with pay for about 4000 electrical workers. Local 1031 president Michael Fillias said the agreement covers union workers and that a birthday should be a holiday with pay. Darling supported the idea.
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Chicago
Michael F Illas
AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Darling
Congress Draws Line On Strike Vote Controversy
The strike vote proposal drawn into Taft-Hartley revision faces strong Democratic and AFL CIO opposition as critics warn it would pressure union leadership and risk government coercion. Senator Murray decries ambiguity over state versus federal union shop laws and seven day signing. Senator Ives questions the ballot plan and its impact on rank and file. The debate leads to a pledge for limited hearings while managing attention to the federal state relationship.
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Meree Weeks
Smith
White House
AFL
CIO
Sen. Murray
D-Mont
Labor Committee
Sen
Ives
Murray
Douglas
D-Il
Drng
Eisenhower
Pedestrian Struck by Car at Green and Taylor Streets
A pedestrian, Harris A. ally, 35, Negro of 504 Redding St., escaped with minor injuries after a car struck him at W Green and Taylor Sts at 6 40 this morning. He received first aid at the local hospital for bruises and lacerations. The driver, 16 year old Larry Roscoe Embler, fled. address not listed.
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W. Green and
Taylor Sts
Accord. Ae
Ally Harris
Redding St
Mares
Larry Roscoe Embler
Residential sales total at $52,500 in two transactions
Mr and Mrs Carey Ilderton bought 216 Hillcrest Dr from Ecker, held at $30,090, while Mr and Mrs Neese Williard purchased the J T Tucker home at 216 Edgedale Dr, listed at $22,500. Idol-Green Co handled both sales.
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Carey Ilderton
Ecker
Hillcrest Dr
Tucker
Columbia Panel Manufacturing Co
Thom
Neese Williard
J. T. Tucker
Edgedale Dr
Idol-Green Co
Revision of Taxes Started
The House Ways and Means Committee moved to rewrite most of the nation's tax laws amid talk of income tax relief. A $100 rise in personal exemptions was floated, with Republicans and Democrats weighing major and minor reductions and clarifications to the tax system.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Reed
Rep
Boggs
D-La
Eisenhower
Newlyweds Hire 88 Passenger Plane For Palm Beach Flight
Porfirio Rubirosa and Barbara Hutton plan a charter flight to Palm Beach aboard an 88 passenger Constellation. Eastern Airlines states the rental cost is 4500 dollars and the party includes Rubirosa secretary and a domestic with a six member crew.
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New York
Porfirio Rubirosa
Barbara Hutton
Palm Beach
Eastern Airlines
Rubirosa
Flight Amacee
Pompeii Rebuilt After 63 A.D. Earthquake
Pompeii endured a 63 A.D. earthquake and was rebuilt before its final burial by the 79 A.D. volcanic eruption. The sequence shows how the city recovered briefly before catastrophic destruction.
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Pompeii
Railroads Lead Rally as Stocks Rise in New York
New York stocks rallied led by railroads with prices higher for the second straight session. Oils, steels, and chemicals followed, with motors, aircrafts, radios, copper, airlines, and utilities gaining. Missouri Pacific Preferred rose on news of faster reorganizing talks. Signer issues included Santa Fe, Northern Pacific, Southern Railway, Sinclair Oil, Pan American World Airways, Allied, American Tobacco, UV, General Motors, and United Aircraft.
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A-Railroads
Missouri Pacific
Santa Fe
Northern Pacific
Southern Railway
Simclair Oil
Pan American World Airways
Allied
American Tobacco
UV. 5
General Motors
United Aircraft
Admiral Corporation
Alleghany Ooation 'Svete
Allied Chemical & Dy
Allis Chalmers Mig Cessseses American
American Car & Fdy
American Smelt & Ref
American Tel
Atlantic Coast Line
Atlantic
Ty Avco Manufacturing
Seseees
Baltimore & Ohio
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borg Warner
Budd Company
Burlington Mills
Calumet
Canada
Canadian Pacific
Carolina Power
Colanese Corp
Csseeeess
Champion Paper & Fib
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chrysler Corporation
Coca Cola
Columbia Gas & Elec Commercial Credit
Consolidated Edison
Consolidated Vultee
Continental Can
Continental Motor
Continental Oil
Curtis Wright
Delaware Lack & Wes Douglas Aircraft
Dow Chemical
Dupont de Nemour
Eastern Airlines
Electric Auto Lite
Firestone Rubber
Freeport Sulphur
General Electric
General
Glidden
Goodrich Rubber
Goodyear
Great Northern Rylf Hudson Motor
Mlinois Central
Nickel Can
Cees
Tel
Louisville & Nashville
Magnavox Radio
Montgomery Ward
Motorola Radio
Nash Kelvinator
Eees
National Biscuit Eeeeeen
National Cash Register
National Dairy Product National Lead
E.e- New York Central
North American Avia
Northern Pacific Escs
Ohio Oil Company
Eesses Pacific Gas & Elee
Tee Packard Motor
Penney I.C
Reese Pennsylvania RR
Philco Corporation
Phillips Petroleum
Pittsburgh
Pullman Company
Sssennettenssadio Corpora
Remington Rand
Cesses
Eves
Republic Steel
Reynolds Tob B
Seaboard
al Brr
Sears Roebuck
Ereess Southern Railway
Standard Oll Calif
Standard Oil
Tnd
N.J
Texas Gulf
Textron Corporation
Trans & Western Air
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
United Airlines
Ceeeseses
United Corration
United Fruit
United Gas Imp
United States Rubber
U.S. Smelting & Ref
United States Steel
Vick Chemical
Virginia Care Chemical
West Auto
Escceees
West Maryland
Western Union
Western Electric
Woolworth & OU
Sccdaens
San Zenith Radio
Naguib Dissolves Brotherhood Amid Cairo Crackdown
President Mohammed Naguib orders dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo after clashes at Cairo University with Liberation Rally supporters. Police seal off the group as Hassan Habeiby Hodeiby is jailed among about 60 leaders, with four reported wounded and a fire set in a car.
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Egypt
Mohammed Naguib
Cairo University
The
Brotherhood
Liberation Rally
Hassan E] Hodeiby
el Iby
Rssidents
Byrnes Favors Lowering Age For Voting
Gov. Byrnes urges state constitutional amendments to drop the voting age from 21 to 18 and to allow women on juries. He warns the public about possible consequences if the Supreme Court rules against school segregation and says South Carolina would be reluctant to abandon its public system if segregation is banned. The court decision is pending.
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Columbia
Byrnes
General Assembly
U.S. Supreme Court
South Carolina
Facts Do Not Support Fears Of Low Mood
Los Angeles reports Lothair Teeter, assistant secretary of commerce, telling the sixth annual Business Outlook Conference that facts do not back fears of a low mood. He cites larger human and capital resources, higher income and savings, and the removal of controls as grounds for confidence entering the new year. He also says individuals can do more for themselves than government can.
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Los Angeles
Lothair Teeter
Anniual Business Outlook
Human Ladder Rescues Boy From Sewer Drain
Eight year old Albert Salvia fell twenty feet into a Philadelphia manhole and into three feet of icy water. Four city firemen formed a rope lashed human ladder to reach him and hauled the boy to safety as spectators watched.
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Philadelphia
Albert Salvia
Ike Talks Exports Citizenship and Alaska Statehood
President Eisenhower outlined a private exporter’s Russia and satellite sales proposal under Commerce Department licensing review. He declined to detail the 2200 federal workers separated for security reasons and spoke about revoking citizenship for convicted Communist conspirators. He noted no renewal of immigration law revision in his state of the union, stressed defense contract allocations to jobless areas, praised women’s capability to be president yet doubted their desire, and reiterated Alaska is not ready for statehood.
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Russia
Commerce Department
U.S
Eisenhower
Truman
Alaska
Mitchell Says President Distorted Big Issues
Washington Pennsylvania Democratic national chairman A Mitchell accuses President Eisenhower of distorting inflation farm prices and tax reductions. He cites rising cost of living through the year and claims farmers lose two billion annually since the Republicans took office. He contrasts debt levels with claims of fiscal feasibility.
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Washington
S A. Mitchell
Senhower
Mitchell
Eisenhower
Lcan
U.S. Treasury
Dulles Opposes Any Deal With Reds Ahead of Berlin Trip
In remarks on policy toward the Soviet Union Dulles rejects a magic formula to block communist victory and vows that any setbacks will be temporary. He plans to visit Berlin and confer with British and French leaders before the Big Four talks opening Jan. 25 on German unification and Austria’s peace treaty. State Dept notes Vienna pledging support for Austrian independence in response to calls for a Russian settlement.
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Dulles
Berlin
Fden
Bidault
Molotov
Austria
State Department
Trapped Widow Rescued After Husband Dies in Bed
A 73-year-old para lyzed woman, Maude Wallrab, was found trapped for three days with no food or water after her husband died of a heart attack and fell across her in bed at their Auburn home. Police said she was rescued Monday following an inquiry into her absence from work at the Weimar Sanitarium.
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Auburn
Calif
Maude Wallrab
Wallrab
Weimar Sanitarium
GOP Backing McCarthy Farm Plan Faces Parity Debate
Republicans show support for McCarthy farm plan aiming for parity prices across crops. Sen Mundt notes parity is a statutory formula to give farmers fair returns, while others discuss keeping or phasing 90 percent supports. Dirksen says GOP prospects improve as farmers may accept future surplus relief.
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Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Fiesenhower
Sen
Young
R-Nd
McCarethy
Eisenhower
Wiley
R-Wis
McCarthy
Sen. Dirksen
R-Ti
Senate
Midwest
Thye
Minn
Benson
Welker
Idaho
Watkins
Utah
Dirksen
Clocks in Europe Evolving Earlier Than 13th Century
The article notes clocks were adopted in Europe by the 13th century but evidence suggests earlier invention here. It discusses the timeline and regional variations in clock development and usage.
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Europe
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