Greer Begins as Exec VP of North Carolina Business Foundation
Dr. I G Greer formerly led the Baptist Orphanage of Thomasville has taken the role of executive vice president of the North Carolina Business Foundation at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He will base in the South building but travel statewide to support education, service and research initiatives through the School of Commerce. The Foundation, formed July 13 1946 by state business leaders, aims to aid education and industry and has raised over a million dollars with a target of another million in the current campaign. Robert M Hanes of Winston Salem is the Foundation president.
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Chapel Hill
I. G. Greer
Baptist Orphanage
Thomasville
North Carolina Business Foundation
Greer
South
University
The
Business Foundation
School of Commerce
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Robert M. Hanes
Winston-Salem
Aged Couple To Be Married In Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City notes an unusual marriage as Homer McCarty age 80 and Esther A. Goudie age 76 prepare to wed after a seven month romance. McCarty found Goudie listed in an Institute of Religious Science alumni bulletin and pursued her. Goudie widowed for 12 years, McCarty says eighty is only his calendar age and shares his view on age.
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Salt Lake City
Grandather
Homer McCarty
Esther A. Goudie
McCarty
Thomasville Foundation Group Plans Meet Today
The Thomasville Community Foundation holds its annual board meeting Monday at 4 30 in the First National bank directors room. President N C English says officers and five new trustees will be elected to two year terms and decisions will cover City Memorial hospital and Memorial park projects. Trustees with expiring terms include J W Boyles M L Bales R L Jones Sherman B Laws and J Walter Lambeth Jr.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Community Foundation
First National Bank
N. C. English
City Memorial Hospital
Memorial Park
Communists Gain Strength In France In Malakoff by election
In Malakoff a municipal by election shows the Communist strength rising with 6,282 votes, 101 more than October, securing 13 council seats. The Charles de Gaulle led RPF won nine seats, dropping by one and losing over 600 votes.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Rally of the French People
RPF
Malakoff
General Howell Celebrated at 102 in Bristol.
General Julius Franklin Howell aged 102 was feted in Bristol Tennessee January 19 with a grand celebration. He formerly led the Confederate army veterans and received a portrait for Virginia Intermont College where he once served as president. Mary Pickford and many local girls kissed him, and a tree was planted in his honor.
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Bristol
Tenn
Julius Franklin Howell
Howell
Confederate Army Veterans
Mary Pickford
Virginia Intermont College
How to Hold False Teeth More Firmly in Place
Do your false teeth slip or wobble while you eat, laugh, or talk. Sprinkle FASTEETH on the plates for firmer comfortable hold. Alkaline powder leaves no gummy taste and helps prevent denture odor. Available at any drug store.
Competition Boosts Radio Prices Down to Pre War Levels
In the postwar era fierce competition drives radio prices down from rising costs. Manufacturers expand plants and use mass production to offer 4 tube models at 9.95 and TV sets as low as 169.50. Industry leaders warn of possible casualties in price cutting while promising continued innovation and volume to sustain demand.
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New York
Max Balcom
The
Radio Manufacturers Association
Balsam
RMA
Balcom
Emerson
Teletone
General Electric
Hallicrafters
Admiral
Tele-tone
Motorola
Chicago
Rca-Victor
Benjamin Abrams
Ariel Sextette Returns to Stage After 45 Years
In Columbus Ohio six Smith sisters aged 74 to 84 reunite and sing the Gay Ninety repertoire recalling past concerts from 1892 to 1902. They once earned 100 dollars per concert and hosted President McKinley on campaign trails.
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Columbus
Ariel
Ohio Smith
William McKinley
Jeannette Walker
Emma Mason
Marguerite Alkire
Gertrude Saint
Grace McKinney
Olive Smith
Southern Bell Plans $13 Million NC Expansion
Charlotte January 19 Southern Bell Telephone company intends to invest 13 million dollars in North Carolina this year. H G Booth Carolina manager said funds will go to new exchanges lines and telephone installations.
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Charlotte
Southern Bell Telephone Company
North Carolina
H. G. Booth
Carolinas
Booth
Photographer Dorsey documents Tony Seamon’s Sanitary Fish Market
Paul Dorse of the Ford Times photographed Tony Seamon’s restaurant the Sanitary Fish Market for publication. He also is making aerial color photographs of North Carolina islands for his magazine and taking waterway pictures.
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Morehead City
Paul Dorse
Ford Time
Tony Seamon
Sanitary Fish Market
Dorsey
North Carolina Islands
Meat shortage forecast denied by American Meat Institute
The American Meat Institute called earlier predictions of spring shortages and price controls unjustified. It said overall meat availability for the coming year will be about one-half ounce less per person per day than 1947, with only minor perceptible size reductions across meals.
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Chicago
American Meat Institute
Institute
Auto Accident Fatal to 54-Year-Old Man in West Virginia
Beckley West Virginia reports list Frank Brown aged 54 as the death victim of a highway crash on U S Route 19 21. Brown left the hospital after claiming to be uninjured, returned with a headache, and died hours later from a fractured skull believed to be from the same accident. He had initially assisted a injured passenger and did not recount his own injuries at first.
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Beckley
W. Va
State Police Accident Prevention Bureau
Frank Brown
Brown
Wallace Endorsed by CIO for 1948 Presidency
The South Atlantic Regional council of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union CIO endorses Henry Wallace for president in 1948. The resolution denounces leaders urging war and continued suffering and urges Americans to rise against them.
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Suffolk
South Atlantic
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