Thomasville Small Talk Mix of city lore and humor
Caricatured tale recounts acting city manager Carlos Kennedy barely taking office as he jokes about salary cuts. Firefighters react with staged protest while a weasel is blamed for five dead pigs in town. Fourth of July pool attendance soars at City Pool. Gene Brown returns from Key West with radio club quirks and signs about Southernmost amateur operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlos Kennedy
Kennedy
Thomasville
Bladenboro
Black Lagoon
Ray Clodfelter
Clodfelter Farm
Gene Brown
Key West
Fla
Key
Amateur Radio
Davy Crockett Parade Invades UNC Campus Quadrangle
A humorous scene at the University of North Carolina as students dressed as Davy Crockett reenactors surround a Confederate monument. The narrator, late for work, fields questions about Crockett, the Civil War, and Yankee hunters from the pint sized reenactors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davy Crockett
Moppet
Chapel Hill
Robert H. Bartholomew
Jay
University of North Carolina
Jake
Davy Crocketts
Quadrangle
Caro
Traffic Control Midland Sign Promotes Slow Driving
A Midland Texas street sign reads Please drive Slow We love our little Dependents inviting caution to motorists. The phrasing appears unusual but aims to encourage slower speeds in residential areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traffic Control Midland
Tex
Duelist Clingman and Yancey Duel Aimed at Texas Annexation
In a historical note, Congressman Thomas L. Clingman of North Carolina and William L. Yancey of Alabama dueled over Texas annexation. The duel failed to produce a winner as both fired and missed, police intervened, and the dispute ended with apologies. Clingman later served as a Confederate general and died in Morganton, 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeag Biggs
Asheville
Clingman
William L. Yancey
Alabama
Huntsville
Iredell County
University of North Carolina
Yancey
Texas
Charles Lee Jones
Baltimore
John M. Huger
Princi
Congress
North Carolina
Morganton
Riverside
Thomas Wolfe
William Sydney Porter
O. Henry
Zebulon Vance
Robert B. Vance
Toledo study tests doll stuffing on rats for safety
University of Toledo researchers tested a rubber and plastic stuffing compound used in dolls by feeding it to white rats for two years. No ill effects have been observed so far, as the study proceeds to assess potential harm to children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
University of Toledo
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Tom Alston
Enterprise
Recreation Ent
America
Davy
Yankees
Jane
University of North
Guilford
N. Main St
Flowers Grace Flower Shop Ao Coon Tr Oris
Miami Beach
Room & Bath
Dockiet
H.P
90Th St
PINE
Pine Hall
Lact AG
Duelist
Clingmans
Mawaiia
New York
Immortal
Gordon
Ives
Iaf
Lambeth, Inc
S. Main St
DuPont
Monark
Main
Muskegon
Mich
High Point Merchants
Lee W. Boswell
Cadillac
Highland Motors, Inc
North Main ST
High Point, N. C
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