Wood Conversion Plant Chooses High Point for Southeast Branch
Wood Conversion Company of St. Paul Minn selects High Point N C for its Southeastern Branch Highpoint Products Division to fabricate and distribute insulation fibers and related products The 14400 square foot facility on Ward Street Central Avenue will employ about 10 people with a 70000 dollar annual payroll and may expand to 40000 square feet later plans call for May 15 production start and local officials praise the site amid regional industrial growth
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Wood Conversion Company of
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High Point
Southeastern
D. E. Dahle
Highpoint Products Division
Wood Conversion Company
Highpoint Products
Ward Street
Central Avenue
R. K. Stewart and Son
Cahle
Dahle
New Point Products
Chamber of Commerce
George E. Hutchens
Phil Clarke
High Point Chamber of Commerce
High Pont
E. W. Davis
D. M. Pattie
R.D. Musser
Wood Conversion Co
Cloquet
Boston
New York
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Kansas City
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Gas blast shatters store in Aiken South Carolina
Map shows Aiken location where a leaking gas explosion ripped a store apart and started fires across four more buildings. Mayor C M Jones says about ten people died and several were injured in the incident. AP Wirephoto map accompanies the report.
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Aiken
S. C
Seconatarie
Sin Coe
C. M. Jones
Jones Electrical Co
DuPont
Dulles Seeks Peace Pressure to Win Communist Surrenders
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his first foreign policy address told Congress Eisenhower will seek ways to force Communists to seek peace in Korea and Indo China. He warned Western Europe to unite or risk reduced U. S. aid and a rethink of policy after World War II.
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John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
Korea
Indo-China
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Capitol Hill
Bourke Hickenlooper
Rla
Foreign Relations Committee
Homer Ferguson
R-Mich
America
Europe
Harold E. Stassen
Western Europe
U. S
France
Germany
England
John W. Hanes, Jr
Winston-Salem
N. C
Secretary of State
Hanes
Yale University
Planes and ships push war to enemy targets in Korea
American B 29s and the battleship Missouri struck North Korean targets as ground fighting slipped to a four month low. Sabre jets fought MiG 15s, with claims of damage to opposing aircraft, while B 26 night missions hit trucks. Missouri shelled Songjin and Chongjin area, with direct bridge and tunnel damage reported.
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Korea
U. S
Missouri
Marine Exchange
James McGill
Lenoir
N. C
Eighth Army
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Polic
Eisenhower
Kumsan
Pyongyang
North Korea
38Th Parallel
Songjin
Chongjin
Mann
Red Cave
Senators Move to Speed Key Diplomatic Appointments
Two Senate committees pressed to approve Eisenhower nominees for top diplomatic and defense posts. Roger M. Kyes won unanimous Armed Services backing as deputy defense secretary after promising to divest 2,842 GM shares. Stevens and Talbott faced stock-ownership conflicts, with talks of sales to clear the way. Dulles urged rapid action for undersecretary and overseas posts, proposing temporary service pending FBI checks.
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General Motors
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Stevens
J. P. Stevens & Co
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Chrysler Corp
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Europe
Walter Bedell Smith
Britain
France
Germany
Republicans Handle Morse With Gloves
Senate Republicans have been advised to treat Sen. Wayne L. Morse with courtesy as he remains a one man independent force. Taft and others favor non intervention after Morse’s two committee removals for bolting to Stevenson. Morse delays cabinet confirmations and pledges to continue his independent course.
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Wayne L. Morse
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Morse
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Oregon
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Robert A. Taft
Richard M. Nixon
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Eisenhower
Duke Power sells High Point bus lines to suburban operator
Duke Power announces sale of its High Point transit facilities including buses repair parts and shop equipment to a Greensboro based suburban operator Moore. The deal transfers operations April 1 with city and utilities commission approvals pending. Moore plans central HQ in High Point and may extend service later.
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High Point
W. S. O. B. Robinson
Duke
Power Company
H. F. Co
Price
Amos Kearns
Moore
Bob Martin
N. C. Utilities Commission
Martin
Duke Power
State Utilities Commission
Kearns
Greensboro
Charlotte
Robinson
Queen City Coach Co
Charlotte City
Medical Commission Seeks 6 Million More for 1953 55 Budget
Raleigh. The Medical Care Commission requests nearly six million dollars more for the 1953 55 biennium to fund the hospital building program indigent care and administration. Chairman James H Clark told the Joint Appropriations Committee that 5% million more is needed for county hospitals plus 600 000 for indigent care and 53 524 for admin costs. The panel also considers requests from North Carolina Symphony Advent General's Dept and Recreation Commission among others.
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James H. Clark
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Justices of the Peace
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Graham
Stock Market Edges Upward In Quiet Early Trading
New York stocks edged higher in light dealings with small gains in the first hour. Tobacco shares led advances as major tobacco firms showed solid earnings. U S Steel slipped after a favorable report while Bethlehem Steel fell back and rail shares fluctuated narrowly.
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New York
Undertone
Liggett & Myers
American Tobacco
Reynolds Tobacco
W. E. Butler Dies in Lexington at 48
William Earl Butler, 48, who ran the North Carolina Office of Defense Transportation during World War II, died of a heart attack in Lexington Kentucky yesterday. A Marine veteran, he later served as mayor and postmaster of Valdese and practiced law in Morganton.
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Morganton
William Earl Butler
North Carolina
Office of Defense Transportation
Lexington
Butler
Raleigh
Valdese
Bomb talk in capital over Truman Russia atom remarks
Congress and administration officials insist there is no warrant for Truman's doubt that the Soviets tested an atomic bomb. They cite public records of Soviet explosions in 1949 and 1951 and say evidence shows Moscow developed and stockpiled the weapon.
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Independence
Russia
Truman
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
House- Senate Atomic Energy Committee
United States
White House
Congressional Atomic Committee
W. Sterling Cole
R-N.y
House
Atomic Project Enters Era of Super Weapons and Power
The Atomic Energy Commission's 13th semiannual report to Congress marks ten years of U S atomic development and outlines a new era of super weapons and powers. It notes vast expansion funding and progress on submarine engines for the Nautilus and Sea Wolf, aircraft carrier power, airplane power systems, and industrial use, with plans for more test explosions in Nevada this spring.
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Nevada
Two Other Brief Items Bodies Are Sought
A roundup of brief notices from North and South places reports Russell to keynote Raleigh Jefferson Jackson dinner on February 28. Other items cover a pastoral care institute in Winston-Salem and Dulles aide Hanes Jr. appointment, plus Elkin death of former legislator Barker and a major gas explosion in Aiken with multiple casualties and rescue operations.
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Winston - Salem
Baptist Hospital
State official warns against veterans bonus funding
Raleigh report quotes State Revenue Commissioner Eugene Shaw calling a proposed veterans bonus financed from the general fund likely to seriously impair all state services. Shaw responded to Sen. Ralph Scott of Alamance County who had urged the Revenue Department to find a funding method for the bonus from the general fund.
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Raleigh
VLP
Eugene Shaw
Church media panel to discuss press radio TV ties
Salisbury will host a Feb. 11 meeting with newspaper, radio and television representatives and Lutheran pastors to discuss the relationship of the church to radio television and the press. Rev. Charles S. Wesinger of Grace Lutheran Thomasville announced the event.
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Salisbury
Charles S. Wessinger
Grace Lutheran Church
Thomasville
Insurance panel mulls fire rate cuts and cover extension
North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau seeks net savings of 947 400 dollars and broader coverage as Insurance Commissioner Waldo Cheek continues a hearing on proposed fire insurance rate changes. The plan forecasts annual reductions of 950 121 dollars offset by 2 721 dollars in yearly increases.
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Raleigh
Waldo Cheek
North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau
Four Johnston County men set for trial on defamatory handbills
Ronald Hocutt former legislator ex director of the State Highway Safety Division John S Barnes former State burial commissioner Percy Flowers and James Flowers face Recorder's Court today on charges of circulating defamatory political handbills during the governor’s race last spring aimed at harming Hubert Olive of Lexington who lost to Gov William B Umstead. The handbills injected the race issue into the campaign. Also the North Carolina Educational Radio and Television Commission will meet in Raleigh February 12 to study an eight station educational TV network with a public hearing in the Senate chamber.
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Smithfield
Johnston County
Recorder’s Court Today
Ronald Hocutt
State Highway Safety Division
John S. Barnes
Percy
James Flowers
Hubert Olive
Lexington
William B. Umstead
Winston - Salem
North Carolina Educational Radio and Television Commission
Raleigh
Irving E. Carlyle
Winston-Salem
Senate
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