Week-end violent deaths in N C from traffic crashes
An unusually light week-end toll of four traffic deaths occurred in North Carolina. Cecil L. King of Greensboro died in a collision between his car and an ambulance. Burdette Buchanan of Gastonia, Marvin Zellers of Wilmington, and Cary Claudell Jones of Clemmons also perished in separate auto incidents.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Cecil L. King
Greensboro
Burdette Buchanan
Gastonia
Woodlawn
Marvin Zellers
Wilmington
Cary Claudell Jones
Clemmons
Greyhound
Winston-Salem
Chapel Hill Maintains Tax Rate in 1948 49 Budget
Chapel Hill will not raise its tax rate, now 1.63, in the 1948-49 budget adopted by the board of aldermen. Salaries for town officials and most police, fire, and labor staff rise about 7 to 10 percent. The budget totals 118 084 dollars, up from 100 547 last year, with underspending of 3 973 and about 68 200 dollars to be raised by ad valorem taxes.
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Chapel Hill
Board of Aldermen
G. W. Ray
Chinese Power Plant Firing On Money Averts Coal Shortage
Tsinan power plant nearly exhausted coal reserves and saved days of supply by burning over 100 cases of cheap currency in small denominations. At 8000000 yuan per U.S. dollar, the plant will no longer accept small notes under 10000 yuan. The report lists North American birds recently disappeared and notes North America hosts over 600 bird species in 140 families.
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Tsinan
China
UNC Graduate Gets City Job In Tennessee
UNC graduate Robert C. Stuart Jr. of Meridian Mississippi, member of UNC's first regional planning class, is named city planning engineer for Knoxville Tennessee. He starts August 1, will receive a Master of Regional Planning next month, and is finishing a Greensboro school location thesis. He gained internship experience in Abingdon Virginia last summer.
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Robert C. Stuart, Jr
Department of City and Regional Planning
The
University of North Carolina
Knoxville, Tenn
Chapel Hill
Meridian
Miss
Department of City and Regional Planns
Knoxville
Greensboro
Stuart
Abingdon
Raleigh Publisher Joins Transatlantic Flight Party
John A. Parks publisher of the Raleigh Times travels in a C-54 as part of a nine newspaper crew sighting a pioneering trans Atlantic hop to the German interior. He previously joined a government invited tour to war damaged cities and promoted sending textbooks to German children to aid reestablishing schools.
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Raleigh
John A. Parks
Park
Raleigh Times
Scotland
U. S. Air Force
Germany
Shelby Girl Is Miss North Carolina in Beauty Battle
Eighteen year old Patty Osbourne from Shelby was crowned Miss North Carolina at a Shelby beauty contest. She will represent North Carolina in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City in September. Judges picked her by a curve over 25 rivals. Second place went to Jane Roper of Wilmington and third to Peggy Fox of Charlotte. Patty’s measurements were height 5 feet 6 inches, bust 34 inches, waist 24 inches, hips 35 inches.
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Wrightsville Beach
Patty Osbourne
Shelby
Patty
North Carolina
Atlantic City
N. J
Jane Roper
Wilmington
Peggy Fox
Charlotte
Relief From Heat Expected Across Carolinas Today and Tomorrow
Scattered thundershowers and partly cloudy skies are forecast to bring relief from yesterday's heat. Temperatures topped mid 90s in many cities including Charlotte 95 and Columbia 96. A weed festival is planned in Whiteville on August 19.
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Charlotte
Charleston
Lumberton
Winston-Salem
Florence
Greensboro
Warrenton
Hickory
Elizabeth City
Anderson
Wilmington
Greenville
S. C
Myrtle Beach
Columbia
Cane Hatteras
Mt. Mitchell
Asheville
Rocky Mount
Whiteville
Outer Banks Plans Picnic on Coast Guard Birthday
Buxton NC seven Villages of the Outer Banks celebrate the Coast Guard's 167th birthday with a August 4 program in which rescue boat rowing races, Lyle gun demonstrations, rafts and gear drops from seaplanes are shown. Women of Hatteras island will prepare picnic dinners for 6000 guests as the coast guard stations display helicopters surf boats crash boats and other equipment.
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Buxton
North Carolina
Progressives Lose Under Olive's Ruling
In Lexington on July 19 Chairman Hubert E. Olive of the state elections board says no meeting will be held to review voting registration books for the North Carolina Progressive party. The party must file 10,000 validated signatures by August 4 to appear on the November 2 ballot.
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Lexington
Hubert E. Olive
State Elections Board
North Carolina
Progressive Party
the Wallace
Progressives
Olive
Elections Board
Raleigh
Mary Price
Greensboro
Georgia Expects Higher Prices For Tobacco
Valdosta Ga July 19 The 21 Georgia Florida flue cured belt markets open with expectation of higher returns for this year's crop despite a smaller total production. Estimated at 106 221 000 pounds about 50 000 000 less than last year, growers anticipate greater cash receipts as government support price is set at 39 9 cents per pound up from 38 06 in 1947 and export demand could lift prices further.
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Valdosta
Six Duke Professors Redraft Medical Bacteriology Text
At Duke University a team of six professors redrafts Zinsser’s medical bacteriology text. The ninth edition adds viruses and mycology sections, 180 new illustrations, and will be released August 16 by Appleton Century Crofts.
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Durham
Duke University School of Medicine
Zinsser
Appleton, Century and Croft
Norman Conant
D. T. Smith
S. Martin
Lenox Baker
J. L. Callaway
Manuer
D. S. Martin
Spike Jones Weds In Quiet Manner
Bandleader Spike Jones of the Jangli Harmonies and singer Helen Grayco married quietly at a Beverly Hills hotel. Jones, 37, and Grayco, 26, plan a Hawaii honeymoon after the ceremony.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Spike Jones
Helen Grayco
Beverly Hills Hotel
Spike
Lindley Armstrong Jones
Hawaii
Actress Virginia Bruce Reunites With Husband After Year Apart
Hollywood reports actress Virginia Bruce and her Turkish husband Ali M. Ipar are together again after a year apart. Ipar had been barred from reentry as a non citizen but Bruce secured a resolution in Washington. He returns on a non quota permit for as long as he wishes.
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Hollywood
Virginia Bruce
Ali M. Ipar
Ipar
Turkey
United States
Miss Bruce
Washington
Spar
Special Session Fast Tracks 80th Congress Actions
Washington July 19 There's a key difference between a new Congress and Truman's special session. As part of the 80th Congress, the session can quickly act on unfinished business left when it adjourned in June. The 81st Congress would start anew and must begin again with bills and hearings.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Labor Committee
House
Senate
Appointment Made to Duke Divinity School
Durham July 19 The Reverend George Brinkmann Ehrhardt is named registrar and librarian at Duke University Divinity School in the newly created post. He will assume duties September 1 after earning a B D from Duke in 1945 and teaching history at Stetson University in DeLand Florida.
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Durham
George Brinkmann Ehrhardt
Duke University Divinity School
Harold A. Bosley
Divinity School
Bosley
Ehrhardt
Duke Divinity School
Duke
John B. Stetson University
DeLand, Fla
Truman Optimistic On Special Session Duration
The text notes Truman’s claim the special session could finish in 15 days if it wants to, while cautioning Congress will likely take longer once it starts, as several bills were left untouched by the 80th congress when it adjourned.
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Truman
Congress
Second Episode In Mine Case Opens In Grundy
In Grundy Virginia today the second episode of the mob assault trial resumes with 178 miners charged in ten counts each. Judge Frank W. Smith orders defendants to appear tomorrow for venue ruling while 158 attend the session, two are hospitalized and 18 remain at large. The case stems from R L Gilliam and anti union tensions at a strip mine.
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Grundy
Virginia
Buchanan County
Frank W. Smith
R. L. Gilliam
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