Soaring Club Plans Research And Flight Training In North Carolina
The Piedmont Soaring Society, formed in November and incorporated as a non profit, will study standing waves and laminar flow while teaching basic flying. Founders C. W. Garber and C. A. Street Jr. aim to use two sailplanes and a tow plane for demonstrations and research at Smith Reynolds Airport and nearby airstrips with FAA interest and Boy Scout support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
Piedmont Soaring Society
C. W
Pat) Garber
Winston- Salem
Piedman Soaring Society
Garber
Western Electric Co
Federal Aeronautics Administration
FAA
C. A
Gus) Street Jr
Advance
Davie County
Street
North Carolina
The
Soaring Society of America
Area Boy Scout Council
Winston-Salem Ywca
YWCA
Schweizer
Smith Reynolds
Lauratown Mountain
Smith Reynolds Airport
Furniture Survey Notes Growth in 1959 Shipments
A Southern furniture industry survey shows 1959 new orders 25.3 percent above 1958 and shipments up 24.3 percent. December orders rose 3.1 percent year over year while December shipments were 24.8 percent higher than December 1958. Production and payrolls also increased over 1958 by more than 25 percent.
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Furniture Survey
Southern
Association
SFMA
Home Furnishings Daily
Whitman Letters Acquired From Whitman Family Archive
The Missouri Historical Society has acquired 17 Walt Whitman letters to family members along with other Whitman family papers, photographs, and mementos. One letter notes St Louis with praise for its fine, comfortable, well-built brick or stone setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
The
Missouri Historical Society
Walt Whitman
Whitman
Kansas Cement Firm May Join Local Concern
An agreement signed Saturday would merge the assets and business of Dewey Portland Cement Company of Kansas City with American-Marietta Company. The exchange ratio is 8.25 American-Marietta common shares for every 10 Dewey shares, pending Dewey stockholder approval mid February. The combined cement capacity will exceed 22 million barrels annually, with Dewey’s third plant near Tulsa expected to be finished later this year.
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Dewey Portland Cement Company
Kansas City
American-Marietta Company
American-Marietta
Dewey
American Marietta
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Is We Little Chicago Again? Crime Surge Threatens High Point
Chief C. C. Stoker warns of a return to Little Chicago conditions as 1959 crimes reach 692, with a rise in break ins and thefts. Violent incidents, including multiple murders, shootings, and robberies, mark a year of turmoil as High Point grows by 14,000 people and anticipates a busier 1960.
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Dick Bickerton
C. C. Stoker
High Point
Little
Chicago
Stoker
Chief Stoker
Wilsons
Browns
Tuckers
Millers
Inmans
Miller
Roger Dell Wilson
Leroy
Lee
Williams
Perkinson’s Jewelers
Main Street
Forsyth County
Sam Vail
Young Immigrant Faces Expiring Visa in Failed American Dream
A migrant cook who learned English and sent earnings home faces departure as his visa nears expiry. The piece follows his 18 months in the U S, from dishwasher to cook, his language struggle, family debts, and hopes for belonging, cut short when police suspicion interrupts his path to citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
America
O.K
Film Series and Story Hour at Library
The library hosts a public film series in the audio visual room and runs a preschool story hour for four and five year olds. Groups of 15 children meet Mondays through Wednesdays from 1 30 to 2 00 in the Children's Room. The second Story Hour series runs Feb 8 to Apr 13.
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Maton
Areeas
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Soaring Club
Elmira
N.Y
PIPER
Robert Clapper
Pied Studies
Kansas Cement Firm
Mr. Hoover
Aaron
J. C. Tucker
J. C
Henry Miller
Greensboro
Jammie Mae
Joseph Haston Brinkley
High Hospital Point Memorial
Ben Inman
Nellie Marie Snow
Mary
Snow
Joseph London
Harry Kotsionis
Enterprise
Ercome
Mann
Art. the Its
North Main
College Street
Hell
Lida
Eeab
Exten
College Village Shopping Center
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