Polio cases rise as state total hits 468
The State Board of Health reported 31 new polio cases, lifting the yearly state total to 468. Epidemic counties Burke and Mecklenburg led the increases with seven and one cases respectively, while Buncombe Guilford Onslow Alamance Cleveland Montgomery Wilkes and Yadkin each recorded one. Communities and hospitals prepared enhanced precautions and patient care with projects like Greensboro’s 60,000 expansion to Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital and Duke Hospital initiating isolation wards and on‑call staff.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Board of Health
Burke County
Cass
Mecklenburg County
Buncombe County
Guilford
Onslow
Mere
Ge Alamance
Greensboro
Central Carolina
Prices Rise as Sandhills Peach Market Opens
Hamlet reports rising prices and early peach harvest in the Sandhills with Hileys and Georgia Belles debuting. Elberta arrivals expected next week as two inch or better Hileys sell for 4.50 to 4.75 per bushel, while North Carolina’s statewide crop outlook sits at 1,686,000 bushels as of June 1.
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Hamlet
Sandhills
Earn
Elbertas
North Carolina
Weather summary and city temperatures for July 19 1948
Partly cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers in the west and south portions. Temperature readings from several cities show highs around 90s and rainfall amounts small in many locations with a few late showers listed in partial data.
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Olina
Red Cross recruiting nurses for polio outbreak area
New York chapter calls for registered nurses to work in North Carolina amid a poliomyelitis epidemic. Two have already left, five more offered, and lists of volunteers are being compiled as Durham Greensboro and Gastonia hospitals face acute nurse shortages. Volunteers will receive transportation to assignments.
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New York
American Red Cross
North Carolina
Red Cross
Durham
Greensboro
Gastonia
The
Whites Quit Negro School At Edgefield
Bettis Academy for Negroes closed for the summer after a group of 27 northern white volunteers from the American Friends Service Committee left Edgefield South Carolina amid local protests over racial mixing. Sheriff A J White cited a Fourth of July incident as prompting the departure. The school president said the volunteers had planned to help build a dormitory wing but stayed briefly and ate separately before leaving.
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Edgefield
S. C
Bettis Academy For
American Friends Service Committee of
Philadephia
A. J. White
Edgefield County
Party of
Frank Nautsen
Media
A. C. Hightower
Friends Service Committee
Illinois judge halts distribution of crime and sex comics
Knox county Judge Gale A. Mathers ordered dealers to stop distributing about 46 comic books and nudist magazines to newsstands. He based the action on complaints from parents in juvenile cases, noting no law was invoked but securing compliance from publishers and Galesburg distributors.
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Galesburg
Ill
Gale A. Mathers
Knox County
Judge Mathers
Employment in Nation Soars To New High Record
Washington reports June civilian employment at 61,296,000, up 2,636,000 from May, with unemployment rising to 2,184,000. Non agricultural industries gain 1,099,000 to 51,899,000. farm employment climbs 1,535,000 to 9,396,000. Youth influx and summer activity drive the surge. total jobs including armed forces reach 62,557,000 with vacations and other factors affecting exact counts.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Three Yanks Die in Berlin Airlift Crash
Three U S air force officers the pilot and co pilot and a civilian were killed when a two engine C 47 carrying food to Berlin crashed in the Taunus mountains twenty miles northwest of Frankfurt. The incident marks the first American lives lost in the Allied airlift to the isolated city. Names were withheld pending notification of relatives.
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Berlin
United States
Frankfurt
London
Britain
France
Russia
Foreign Office
France-Soir
Paris
Bern
Taunus Mountains
U. S. Air Force
Rail Unions Win Wage Boost After Settlement
Washington report says the year-old wage dispute is settled with carriers and three strike threatening unions at the White House. A new wage push by 1,250,000 railroad workers looms for September, while private operation resumes and government moves to dissolve anti strike injunctions. The peace plan includes retroactive pay from November 1 and 16 operating rule changes.
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Washington
White House
John R. Steelman
Elderly Minister Agrees to Satan Existence Debate on Air
In Annapolis Maryland on July 9 an elderly hotel keeper Alexander Andrews 64 offered to debate Satan's existence in a ten minute segment. He invited three Anne Arundel Protestant clergymen to refute him for the remaining hour of radio time. First challenger Rev James L Smiley of St Anne s Episcopal Church accepted claiming he would present Bible arguments. The radio debate is set for next week over a local station.
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Annapolis
Alexander Andrews
Shadyside
Anne Arundel County
James L. Smiley
St. Anne’s Episcopal Church
Warfare Resumed In Holy Land Amid Rising Arab Jewish Clashes
Forces on both sides clashed from north to south in Palestine as Tel Aviv and Haifa faced incidents after a four week truce ended. Israeli forces reported counterattacks near Majdal and skirmishes with Egyptian forces while Iraqi and Syrian forces gathered near Jenin and Nazareth with air raid alerts in Haifa. Count Bernadotte met King Abdullah and jetted to Rhodes, voicing hope to avert further fighting and demilitarize Jerusalem.
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Cairo
Tel Aviv
Haifa
Israel
Majdal
Jenin
Palestine
Fawzi Bey al Kaukji
Nazareth
Mishmar Hay Yarden
Lake Hula
Folke Bernadotte
U. N
Rhodes
Amman
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Jerusalem
Mediterranean
Local Market Sets New Opening Dates For Showings
Chicago and High Point furniture markets announce altered schedules with winter opening moved from January as previously held. Market officials report surprise at the date shift affecting the Chicago winter and summer shows and the High Point follow on the third Monday.
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Boston
Charleston
Charlotte
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Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
High Point
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Meridian
Miami Ar
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Sparta
Washington
Wilmington
Brute Force Fails to Quell Eastern Europe Desire for Liberty
Dewitt Mackenzie argues that free men will not bow to totalitarian rule as seen in Moscow and satellite states. He cites the Sokol parade in Prague with 80 000 marchers praising liberty and Benes, while denouncing the communist successor. He notes the regime’s past terror and questions how Moscow will confront religious and ideological resistance as rumors of troop movements persist.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Moscow
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Hogue
Benes
Bolshevism
Klement Gottwald
Sokol
Prague
Czechoslvakia
Finland
Yugoslava
Eastern Roads Boost Fare 17 Percent
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a fare increase for eastern railroads averaging 17 percent. The rise averages 20 percent for coach and 14.3 percent for sleeping and parlor cars, with 61 railroads affected and extra adjustments for New York New Haven Hartford. Commuter fares are exempt from this increase.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio and Potomac Rivers
Chicago
ICC
Commission
New York, New Haven
Indicted Baseball Official Passes In Greensboro
Greensboro July 9 4P Ed Weingarten a Carolina league and Tri-State baseball official under indictment for bribery died at St. Leo's hospital at 10 am He had entered hospital days earlier for a kidney ailment The trial of Weingarten and three others was postponed in Forsyth Superior Court Winston-Salem due to illness of another official and related to alleged throwing of a Carolina league game in Inston Salem this spring
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Greensboro
N. C
Ed Weingarten
St. Leo's Hospital
Weingarten
Forsyth Superior Court
Winston-Salem
Leakville Club
Florence
Tri-State
Barney DeForge
Reidsville
Inston-Salem
Eisenhower declines Democratic nomination and price policy push
In Philadelphia on July 9 General Dwight D. Eisenhower formally refused any bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after a telegram to Senator Claude Pepper. Leon Henderson urged the platform committee to restore price and credit controls to curb inflation and warned against GOP blame. The session also heard push for civil rights measures and a world federal union, with attention to increasing Negro votes and foreign policy themes.
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Philadelphia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Leon Henderson
OPA
Democratic Platform Committee
Henderson
GOP
Americans For Democratic Action
Greece
Israel
Democratic Peoples of
Truman
Tull
Clarence K. Streit
Streit
Freedom and the Union
Coal Strike Hearing Set For July 14
In Pittsburgh a wage boost of 85 cents per ton raises coal prices while a federal court in Washington set July 14 for a hearing on a stop strike injunction involving John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. The steel industry dispute persists after rejecting a union shop amid a wage agreement.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh Coal Co
Washington
John L. Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Robert N.denham
National Labor Relations Board
Lewis
Denham
United Mine Workers Union
Steel Industry
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