Drive Set For New Stadium In Asheboro
A $93,000 fund drive to build an Asheboro High School stadium began with volunteers contacting residents. Acme M pledges $3,000 to start the effort, with bids due by Feb 1 to finish in time for the 1956 football season. The stadium will seat about 2,460, with stands against the field and ground-level amenities on the same block as the new school.
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Barron Mills JR
Asheboro
Asheboro High School
Citizens Committee
Acme M
Asheboro High Blue Comets
North Carolina
Armfield
Moore, Gardner & Associates
Randolph Plumbing and Heating Co
Asheboro Electric Co
Kiwanis Club
London Overseas Delight For Kids
A colorful tour of London for children noting attractions around Hampstead Heath Regent's and Whipsnade zoos, donkey rides, and the Spaniards Inn. It highlights a Toy Museum with over three thousand playthings, waxworks featuring Robin Hood and others, and a ride on the hurdy gurdy man.
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Regent's Or
Whipsnade
Hampstead Heath
London
Spaniards Inn
Dick Turpin
Benny Black Bess
Youngshore
Sma
Albert
Windsor Castle
Robin Hand
Alin
Tennessee Figures To Regain Spot On National Party Ticket
Tennessee Democrats foresees a return to prominence at the national party convention in Chicago with Sen. Estes Kefauver Sen. Albert Gore and Gov. Frank Clement as the leading figures. Clement and Kefauver lead rival camps while Gore remains unaligned as talks center on a potential vice presidential bid.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Chicago
Jackson
Johnson
Polk
Estes Kefauver
Senate
Albert Gore
Dixon-Yates
Frank Clement
TVA
Eisenower
Clement
Kefauver
Gordon
Browning
Gore
Clement Backers
Cold Weather Lingers in South Florida Tourism Flows
Miami reports an eighth day of crop-killing cold as tourists flood the Miami winter resort area. Inbound air traffic is up over last year, hotels near capacity, and Hialeah race course opens next week. Temperatures dip to 39 in midtown and below freezing in surrounding regions. Citrus crops survive, vegetables take losses, and a westward shift of posts forecasts warmer weather by early next week. Pan Am notes 30 percent rise in flights to Havana.
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Miami
South Florida
Florida Coast Railroad
Miami Beach
Hialeah Race Course
Carolinas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Florida
Tampa
Pan American World Airways
Havana
Barry Jorgensen Disputes Intruder After Missing Razor
Barry Jorgensen claimed he heard his roommate’s electric razor buzzing for a long period yet police found the razor head clean and gleaming with no hairs. The instrument rested on the glass shelf above the washbowl, suggesting no intruder interrupted his shaving.
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Barry Jorgensen
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Alabama
Arkansas
Belk
H. A. Wood
High Point Township
W. F. Hester
Man
G. William Mitchell SR
High Point
G. William
Mitchell
H. Gray Hutchison
C.S.A
THE
Penn Mutual Life Inuranse Company
Philadelphia
RaLeigh, North Carolina
S. Main ST
High Point Office
S. Florida
Pocahontas
Rebecca
Sir Walter
Vincent Bosworth
Finchley OF
New York
Haberdashery
Fifth Ave
Guilford
N. Main St
City Shoe Shop
W. Commerce
U. S
Federal Home Loan Bank
F.H.A. Improvement Loans
I Association
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
ED Mendenhall
A. Scott Parker, JR
W. E. Mitchell
John W. Clinard, JR
C. C. Edwards, JR
J. Roger Edwards
Ces Eee Se
Igo
J. Arthur Welch
Bessie A, Foster
Noble T. Praigg
Thomas W. Sprinkle
Fred A. Thomas, JR
Murray M. White
North Carolina Building & Loan League
United States Savings & Loan League Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation
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