Comedy of errors in North Carolina sports department split
The Greensboro Daily News discusses opposition to divorcing game and fish from the State Department of Conservation and Development. It argues the proposal would politicize hunting and fishing, create overlapping agencies, and complicate government while offering no real gains in wildlife protection or postwar development.
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Su Hunting and Fishing
Greensboro Daily News
Abercrombie and Fitch
Department For Sports
Cherry
State Department Ofation and Development
Game
Department of Conservation and Development
North Carolina
Black Eye Over Little Things Hurts Town Image
A columnist urges High Point to stop ignoring small shortcomings that damage the town’s reputation with outsiders. They warn outsiders misjudge the community by minor faults and fear losing business, workers, and prospects if complacency continues. The piece compares this awakening to wartime calls to defend national image.
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South America
Letters From Mrs. Kirkman Question City Paper Content
An 85 year old resident criticizes the newspaper for publishing a piece about the city manager Roy Braden. She recalls living on the same lot, objects to front-page satire, and questions the impact on strangers and local pride amid city growth and Greenbelt references.
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J. B. Kirkman
Roy Braden
Vassie
Greenbelt
Thoughts of Others and Local Red Cross News
Letters discuss civic caution before decisions, school zone dangers on Fast Lexington avenue, and an appeal for a replacement guitar for a Navy sailor in China. Red Cross members hear the February 6 meeting, while a judge comments on women retracting assault warrants, urging temper control.
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Lexington Avenue
Vivian Archer
Red Cross
Horace Haworth
High Point
Herman F. Bosworth
United States Navy
China
Capitol Square Confusion Over State Education Program
The state faces a divided and cloudy education program with three major bills proposing different teacher salary schedules and retirement participation. Disputes extend to Advisor Budget Commission recommendations and a suspected budget discrepancy of about a quarter million dollars for the biennium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Forces
Ucation
Charlie Meclver
Charles Aycock
James Y. Joyner
Uncertainty Over Teacher Qualification and School Board Reform
Lynn Nisbet notes uncertainty in how many teachers will qualify under current classifications. Budget anxieties surface as ink faces appear. The piece argues public schools are used as a political tool, with reforms delayed by legislative fights and internal educational group politics.
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Assembly
Responsible
Cherry
General Assembly
Army Casualty Branch Keeps Kin Informed During War
In the War Department’s Munitions Building the Army Casualty Branch handles casualty notices by telegrams and letters. In a recent week it sent 35,000 telegrams 65,000 letters and answered 7,000 telephone queries while coordinating reports from company to Washington.
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Washington
Constitution Avenue
War Department
Pentagon
ACB
Belgium Bulgeon
Ace
Civi
Geo F. Herbert
Army
Theater
United States
Reporting Casualties in War The ACB Challenge
The article discusses delays and difficulties in casualty reporting during battles like Bastogne and the Belgium Bulge. It notes heavy losses, organizational strain, and the emotional toll on reporters, including Col. Herbert whose daughter’s fiancé died in France.
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Washington
Bastogne
Belgium Bulge
106Th
ACB
Col
Herbert
France
Letters on OPA Sparks Debate Over Prices and Enforcement
The writer recalls receiving letters about OPA policies and recounts a case where an inspector pressured a vendor over unlabeled vegetables. Readers argue points on black market support, price control, retailer dishonesty, and voluntary OPA service, while noting retailers face closures from ceilings and rising costs.
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OPA
Cain
The Retailer Plight Amid Price Controls and Black Market Risk
By George Sokolsky argues price controls hurt small retailers especially butchers as OPA errors reduce profits. He opposes covert price increases and calls for proper government price administration. He warns against bureaucratic overreach and notes black markets arise from a flawed system. He urges tax openness and public accountability.
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OPA
Bernard M. Baruch
Herbert Hoover
Congress
On Broadway Notes of an Innocent Bystander
A roundup of new shows and star turns in a bustling Broadway season. Zorina shines in The Tempest while A Goose for the Gander attracts mixed reviews. The Thin Man Goes Home and A Song to Remember receive strong notices as radio and press commentary critique current cinema and culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zorina
Tribune
Otis Guernsey
Central Park
Linotypes
Powell and Loy
Myrna
Loy
Chopin
Paul Muni
Errol Flynn
Nunnally Johnson
Leland Stowe
Rome
Greece
Robert Merrill
NBC
Celler
CBS
Rew Hart
Phil Moore
Victor Records
Nelson Eddy
Berlin
Red Army
Lord Hawe- Hawk
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
D. A. Rawley
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
Robert L. Thompson
Enterprise
Associated Press
N. C
National Entative John
Lexington Ave
N. Y
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Poli-Sports
Siad
MacRae
Asault
Capitol Square
By Lynn Nisbet
America
Jack Stinnett
George Sokolsky
New York Times
Henry Wallace
Wallace
W. Lippmann
H. Trib
Mark Sullivan
Mark
Lippman
Naziland
John Mason Brown
Shakespeare
Will Rogers
Coronet
Hickory
Stuart Chase
Cong
Gimme-Gang
the Intelligentsia
J. Mason Brown
Coluum
Esquire
Mary Harboard
Varga
Rex Stout
Friends of Democracy
Louis Sobol
Cosmopolitan
Ben Merson
Collier's
Alex Yokel
Ashton Stevens
B. Cerf
Simon & Schuster
Irving Hoffman
New Yorker
M. Todd
Father J. Keller
Groucho Marx
Hollywood
Berton Braley
Seth Parker
Anon
James Hilton
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tommy Mitchell
S. Grafton
Elsie de Wolfe
Private
Breger Abroad
By Dave Breger
Ersonnel
Ecords
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