Man Who Can’t Lose Any Nomination Cashes In on Plates
S. M. Weissman, head of a firm in West Virginia, plans to produce 6,000,000 political plates as gifts for fund raising once each party nominates its candidate. The dies cover 37 potential nominees from both parties including Truman and Stevenson, with presses capable of 1,400 plates per hour.
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Harman W. Nichols
United Press
Chicago
United States
S. M. Weissman
Weissman
West Virginia
Boy
Prohibition Party
Vincent Hallinan
Progressive Party
Herbert C. Holdridge
Vegetarian Party
Pennsylvania Avenue
Jimmy Durante
Durante
Jimmy
Truman
Stevenson
Illinois
Triple slaying shocks North Carolina town
A Caldwell County furniture worker W Spencer Hamby 50 shot his wife Vannie Fairchild Hamby 47 bludgeoned son Zeke 12 then killed himself at their Happy Valley home near Lenoir. A common grave was dug for the three and funeral services will be held near Ferguson in Wilkes County. Coroner Marshall Kincaid and Sheriff George D Greer call the deaths a triple murder and self-inflicted death following a family argument.
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Happy Valley
Marines Name Hills After Marilyn Monroe In Korea
U S Marines in Korea keep Chinese Communist forces guessing by naming hills after movie stars. When a patrol leader ordered mine clearance, he directed the forward slope of Marilyn Monroe be explored thoroughly.
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Korea
U. S
Marilyn Monroe
Anderson Denies Firing Amid Prison Reorganization
Raleigh State Prisons Director Walter Anderson says the discharge of Assistant Director H. H. Honeycutt was not a firing. The move aligns with a July 1 reorganization creating two assistant directors. About a dozen other workers aged 70 or more will retire soon. Honeycutt, 71, retires Sept. 22 after 50 years with the system, remaining as consultant until then. His current salary is 5444 dollars a year. post retirement he will receive about 350 dollars monthly.
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Raleigh
Walter Anderson
H. H. Honeycutt
Anderson
Honeycutt
Casual Comments on War Roles and Isolationism Opinion
A reflective column surveys U S foreign policy through history. It cites Truman ordering police action in Korea later sanctioned by the U N and notes past campaigns against Native Americans. It contrasts isolationism eras with party stances and ends with a family dialogue about a father’s past drinking.
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Truman
South Korea
U. N
General MacArthur
Taft
Public Health Progress In North Carolina Cited In 1949-51
Dr. J W R Norton reports major gains in North Carolina public health from 1949 to 1951 aided by increased funding. State aid to counties rose from 350000 to 1150000 dollars, plus 600000 for a new Raleigh Health Department building. The 1951 legislature funded crippled children work and completed county organization of public health in four remaining areas Madison Brunswick Jones Pamlico.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
J. W. R. Norton
V. Scott
Norton
State Board of Health
Scott
Madison
Brunswick
Jones and
Pamlico
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Laramie
Wyoming
Bateman Eilsbeck
Art
Isenhower
Warren
GOP
Estes Kefauver
Dick Russell
Demos
Stuart Hamblen
Singing Cow
Cas
Eee Ae Western Union
PVG
Coats
Gabardines
Csr
Redtop
Redtop Brewing Company
Cincinnati, Oho
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