Real Opportunity Promotes Helen Traubel Concert by Lions Club
The High Point Lions Club brings Helen Traubel to town with the Central Florida Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are priced 1.50 to 2.00, and demand is strong. Proceeds support the Lions' work for the blind, though ticket sales yield little profit. the main benefit is the audience's chance to hear a top singer.
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High Point Lions Club
Helen Traubel
Saturday Evening Post
Pearance
Central Florida Symphony Orchestra
New Alignments Prove Past Campaigns Do Not Predict 1952 NC Race
The author argues that North Carolina campaigns cannot be read as repeats of past races. Umstead and Olive attract votes for different reasons, with Olive tied to Hoey and Graham supporters and Umstead drawing Scott opponents. The 1952 contest hinges on future events more than any 1948 or 1950 patterns.
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North Carolina
Kerr Scott
Frank Graham
Graham
Scott
Johnson
United Press
Raleigh
Bill Umstead
Hubert Olive
Olive
Umstead
Smith
Hoey
Innstead
J. M. Broughton
Ralph McDonald
Red Shirts
University of North Carolina News
Watauga County
Avery
Avery County
Edgecombe
Truman
Pearson
Elijah
Mount Carmel
Jezebel
Ehovah
Prin
Postponing Taxes in Election Year Faces Congress
The piece argues President Truman pushes for five billion dollars in new taxes, but Congress will likely resist in an election year. It notes deficits and spending projections, warns against delaying debt rise, and highlights resistance to cutting agencies seen as sacred cows.
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Truman
Congress
Hoover Commission
Interior and Agriculture Departments
Veterans Administration
Army Engineers
Senator Kefauver Seeks Democratic Presidential Nomination
The note discusses Estes Kefauver of Tennessee entering the Democratic race for president. A stray aside mentions pleasant weather and a claim that the Brooklyn Dodgers will be stronger this year.
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Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Brooklyn Dodgers
Underpaid and Weathered Chatter From Small-Town Pages
A collage of brief snippets from Chatham News, Statesville Daily, and Pinehurst Outlook includes remarks on government workers wages, a cold weather woodcut misfire, a stray snake shooting, reflections on aging soldiers, and notes on North Carolina farm tenancy data and political tensions. The items reference Thomas Lambert, Willis Cloer, a blacksnake, Mrs. Fatcom, Thad Eure, and Truman era discourse, weaving local voices and statistics into a mosaic of 1940s regional life.
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Statesville
Thomas Lambert
Willis Cloer
P. S. West Farm
Willis
Sie Wey
Lasshiss
Fragmented notes mix humor and history from early Carolina columns
The text compiles short items and anecdotes about travel inn charges, shock remedies for static electricity, a cake question, and Davidson College alumni including Woodrow Wilson era figures. It references Lenoir, Yadkin, Rutledge, and Pinehurst Outlook writers noting a public figure praising Dean Rusk and a Pinehurst connection to W A Leland McKeithen.
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Davidson
Pinehurst
Davidson College
White House
Woodrow Wilson
Dean Rusk
Truman
Rusk
W. A. Leland McKeithen
Mammoth dog house in Jacksonville to be occupied by Bill Faison
Mrs Faison planned a trip to Greenville Tennessee as they waited at the Wilmington airport they walked the waiting room passing an insurance dispensing machine that sells a
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Jacksonville
Bill Faison
Political Commentary on Cold War Press and Public Mood
A collage of opinions on U S foreign policy and public sentiment. It cites Sen Connally and Senator O'Conor, critiques allies selling materials to the Red, and notes Finletter on air power. The piece touches atomic discoveries, American ideals, foreign press reactions, and domestic questions about taxes, race, and crime.
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O'Conor
Nations
United
Tes
Red
Anium Ats
Penely
Elizabeth
Florida
Engineers and veterans shape postwar training shifts
The piece covers wartime education expansion under Pentagon programs enabling GI training from elementary to university level. It notes 1952 engineering class sizes will drop to 18 000 to 19 000 and argues veterans will fill key roles as engineers, scientists, teachers, and professionals. It also mentions gremlins in WWII aviation and social commentaries from Drew Pearson.
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Power
McGraw-Hill Magazine
Pentagon
America
Korea
College University
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Land OF Freeholders
Watauga Democrat
Chapel Emu
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Charles MacLeod
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Rutledge
Yadkin
Yadkinta
Lenoir
Theo Davis
Zebulon
Ruby Buffalo
Billy Arthur
News & Views
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Texas
Walter Winchell
Cincinnati
See’y Finletter
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Finletter
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Dewey
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Barnum
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N. Y
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Acheson
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Hudson Valley
Illinois
Broadway
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Yale
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University of Tennessee
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Reidsville
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Andrew Johnson
Herbert Hoover
Freddie
Washington Monument
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