Twenty-Eight Jury Trials Set This Week
A week of municipal court jury trials begins Tuesday with 28 defendants. Judge Archie Myatt presides as the docket features 34 charges including driving drunk, assault, abandonment and non-support, larceny, and prohibition law violations. The calendar lists defendants such as James Yarborough, Clifton Bodenheimer, and Rexford Proctor among others.
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Archie Myatt
James Yarborough
Clifton A. Bodenheimer
Glenn O. Patton
Lloyd Royal
Robert Clayton Montgomery
Ralph Hill
Benny Hensley
Richard Lamar Peacock
Joe Perry
Clyde A. Elliott
Robert J. Tyson
William E. Wagoner
Arvill Servit
W. R. Shields
Theodore Everett
J. Larry Hollingsworth
Daniel W. Dunlap
James Muse
James Anthony
Rexford N. Proctor
Margaret V. Proctor
Richard L. Peacock
Hal B. Pierce
May Gordon Goodman
Roy Davis
John E. Wade
Frank Brown
George Dumas
Oleomargarine Identification Passes Under New Iowa Law
In Des Moines Iowa a new law allows colored oleomargarine to be sold legally for the first time in Iowa. Each quarter pound must carry the imprint the word oleo. The act followed a heated debate and emerged as a compromise to secure passage.
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Des Moines
Towa
Public hearing on road requests set for Salisbury July 22
James A. Gray Jr ninth division highway commissioner announced the next public hearing for road requests at 10 a.m. at the County Courthouse in Salisbury on Wednesday July 22. The ninth division includes Davidson County.
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James A. Gray, Jr
Salisbury
Davidson County
Highpoint Products Begins Full Operation in New Wood Conversion Plant
Highpoint Products Company starts full operation at the Wood Conversion Company plant located at 1100 Ward Street with a 14 400 square foot facility and plans for expansion to about 40 000 square feet. The firm produces padding materials from sulfite pulp for furniture and transport uses, with Tufflex foam and laminated padding, Nu-Wood interior finish and Balsam insulation tools. The local operation employs 10 to 19 workers with room to grow, and features a two car lot and three loading doors. Dahle, manager, says the company is well established in High Point and plans to expand capacity and presence locally.
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Highpoint Products
D. E. Dahle
Point
Pliant Tablishments
Ward S* P-1
Mise Street
Tufflex
Dahle
Wood
Comny
St. Ao
High Point
States Face Budget Gaps Amid Tax Proposals
In January about 28 proposed budgets urged spending beyond projected revenues. The Federation of Tax Administrators cites general fund balances to close gaps with WWII surplus and 1950 51 revenue nearly exhausted soon. Governors largely seek tolls or highway user increases. welfare spending unlikely to rise.
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Chicago
Federation of Tax Administrators
General Fund
Federation
Youth Finds Use For Old Wagon Wheels
A Cleveland tenth grader, Dale Smythe, turned a Kansas City trip into a potential business after discovering old wagon wheels in blacksmith shops. He renovated and finished dozens of wheels as decorative pieces, shipping 15 wheels weighing 900 pounds home and investing about $325 for materials and shipping. His savings and his mother Mrs. Madge Smythe helped fund the venture.
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Cleveland, O
Kansas City
Dale Smythe
West
Madge Smythe
Almost Painless Traffic Fines Introduced in Enid
The Enid city council approves a drive in teller window at the new police station to allow traffic fines to be paid without entering the building. The method, slated for January completion, aims to reduce humiliation for offenders and speed up settlements.
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Enid
Okla
Directors Financial Figures Summary
A sequence of monetary amounts is listed followed by the word Directors. The figures include values such as 36,012.32 190,000.00 567,334.09 and 857,877.59 with multiple commas and decimal patterns. The context appears to be a financial ledger or board report excerpt.
BBC Aims Vast TV Network Across Britain in Four Years
London report states the BBC plans to blanket Britain with a television network reaching 97 percent of 50 million people within four years. The expansion doubles and triples station counts, contingent on government funding, with color TV possible later and more local second-string services planned if channels are granted.
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London
British Broadcasting Corp
Britain
BBC
Ian Jacobs
United States
Winston Churchill
Jacobs
Advanced Glider Study Moves Forward At Mississippi
In Starkville Mississippi two pilots Rudolph Opitza and Ray Parker mastered a motorless wing glider with a 65-foot wing and a reclining cockpit. The project aims for low cost high speed with minimal takeoff and landing space while testing air suction holes in the wing fabric under Dr August Raspers direction.
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Starkville
Miss
Rudolph Opitza
Ray Parker
Mississippi State College Aerophysics Department
August Rasper
Garden Mystery: Bulbs Found On Mountain Slope
Provo Utah Sterling Freanbrack planted a half bushel of bulbs last spring but the chosen bulbs were stolen. The mystery cleared when the bulbs blossomed high on a mountainside above Freanbrack's canyon home, where squirrels had cached them for future use.
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Provo
Utah
Breanbrack
Smithsonian Has Bones To Spare
Smithsonian Institution houses over 18 000 skulls and many complete skeletons in its division of physical anthropology. The collection, led by Dr. T Dale Stewart, aids identification of unidentified remains from excavations and graveyards, revealing lost chapters of human history since 1903.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
Institution
Physical Anthropology
FBI
T. Dale Stewart
Ales Hrdlicka
Track Meet Called Off Forgetfulness
Fulton High School coach B E Sharp waited an hour for a track meet with Chattanooga High School. He learned the outgoing coach failed to inform the successor of the schedule. The meet will be rescheduled for next year.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Fulton High School
B. E. Sharp
Chattanooga High School
Chattanooga
Executor announced for R N Taylor estate Guilford NC
Having qualified as executor of the estate of R. N. Taylor deceased late of Guilford County North Carolina all persons having claims against said estate are notified to present them to the undersigned duly verified within one year from this date or this notice will be pleaded in that of their recovery All persons owing said estate will come forward and make immediate settlement This the 18th day of June 1953 Janey M Taylor Route 4 Box 38 High Point NC 6/21-38 7/5-12-19-26
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R. N. Taylor
Guilford County
North Carolina
Janey M. Taylor
High Point
N. C
Railroads Run On 40 Million Wooden Cross Ties Yearly
Report shows U S rail network relies on about 40 million wooden cross ties annually to maintain tracks and service. IndustryOfficials note supply chains and wood prices affect maintenance schedules and safety readiness.
Forest fires burn 1857 in Michigan cover 13632 acres in 1952
In 1952 Michigan faced 1 857 forest fires consuming an estimated 13 632 acres across the state. The figure reflects widespread wildfire activity impacting woodlands and rural areas during the year.
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Michigan
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