Tar Heels Travel Busy Holiday Weekend Across State
North Carolinians celebrated the Fourth with heavy highway travel and outdoor events. The weather stayed favorable coast to mountains as crowds flocked to driveways, lakes, and parks, while traffic control troopers monitored the surge.
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High Pointer Charged As Embezzler
Vicinity report names a High Pointer charged in an embezzlement case. The article notes widespread concern over misuse of funds and financial impropriety amid chatter about long odds on recovery for affected stakeholders.
Man Wounded Cocking Gun In Holster
A man identified as Lester Kennedy, 28, of Hedgecock Road, was shot in the left calf last night while attempting to cock a .22 caliber pistol still in its holster. He was admitted to High Point Memorial Hospital at 7:48 PM and remained overnight. Police said Kennedy, who was drinking, claimed he shot himself while fooling with the pistol as his 15 year old brother in law watched.
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Les Alexander
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Frank Haley
Forecast for the Carolinas and Georgia
Forecast shows scattered thundershowers mainly west central and southeast North Carolina today and tonight with warm highs 75 to 94 and lows 55 to 70. South Carolina stays warm with more thundershowers into Tuesday and Georgia remains hot with widely scattered storms tonight and Tuesday. Five day outlook calls for temperatures 3 to 4 degrees below normal and around an inch of rain through Saturday across the trio, with cooler turning midweek and daily scattered storms.
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History Experience Records Individual Joys and Sorrows
A concise statement frames history as a book of facts that preserves the joys and sorrows of each person, marking how personal experience forms collective memory.
Cigarette Butt Sparks Car Fire on Boundary Street
A Boundary Street man told police a passerby tossed a cigarette butt into his 1956 car, igniting a fire that damaged a seat on East Washington Street. Officers found a cigarette butt remains in the burned seat and assessed about 30 dollars in damage.
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Virgil Jenkins
E. Washington Street
Sinking Highway Threatens I 75 Near Sidney
A peat bog beneath Interstate 75 near Sidney Ohio sank about a foot over the past year. The bog, up to 30 feet deep, was undetected during construction and now requires excavation and a deeper foundation to prevent future subsidence.
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Ohio
Libel suits against Cobb proceed with voter testimony
In Marshall North Carolina AP report, about 30 registered voters testified in the first hour of the libel suits totaling 900000 against State Republican Chairman William E Cobb of Morganton. Precinct officials Zeno Ponder Oren Rice and Frank Runnion filed $300000 each.
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Zeno Ponder
Oren Rice
Frank Runnion
Superior Court
J. Frank Huskins
Funeral set for Mrs Elizabeth Robams at Emanuel Baptist Church
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Robams will be held Tuesday at 2 PM at Emanuel Baptist Church with Rev R D Camp officiating. Burial follows in Greenhill Cemetery. The body remains at Moose Funeral Home until the service hour.
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Rev. R. D. Camp
Greenhill Cemetery
Moose Funeral Home
Checker Champ To Show Skill In Randolph
World champion Tom Wiswell will appear at the Randolph County Courthouse in Asheboro at 7:30 p.m. for a series of exhibition games. He will take on challengers in a simultaneous display, playing several checkers and chess games at once while moving between tables and playing blindfolded.
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Asheboro
Tom Wiswell
Randolph County
Wiswell
Radio cars connect Woodward High via shortwave
The principal's office at Woodward High School stays in constant contact with driver education cars through experimental radio units built and installed by students in electrical and electronics classes and by members of the radio club. The project cost $100 per unit.
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Woodward High School
Radio Club
Murrow to Reclaim Farmyard Bell He Loved
U S Information Service chief Edward R. Murrow will receive a large iron bell from his childhood farm near Randleman. Preston I Laughlin of High Point held the bell after asking Murrow if he wanted it. Murrow replies he would be delighted to have it.
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Edward R. Murrow
Randleman
Preston I. Laughlin
High Point
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