Thomasville Small Talk Highlights Local Life and Laughter
A column recounts attending Charity and Children's party with notes on editor Marie Grant and Marse. It mentions Memorial Park Municipal Band, Rector Chester Litwin, George Lyndon as clerk of court, a comical beard incident at Fire Station No 1, and a feature on beauty queen Jean Link with hopes for Miss America.
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Marie Grant
George Lyndon
Thomasville
Jean Link
Jean
Income Tax Withholding Law Signed by President Truman
President Truman signed legislation authorizing federal withholdings of state income taxes from civilian employees’ pay in states and territories. The law excludes withholdings by municipalities or other state subdivisions.
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Washington
Truman
Executor's Notice for Harris Estate Guilford NC
Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Etta C Harris late of Guilford County North Carolina this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate to exhibit them to the undersigned 1113 East Washington Street High Point North Carolina on or before the 16th day of June 1953 or the Notice will be pleaded in thar of their recovery All persons indebted to said estate Will please make immediate payment W W Hoover Executor Etta C Harris Deceased Sees & Schood Attorneys 15-20-29 16-13-20
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Ebitta C. Harris
Guilford County
North Carolina
East Washington Street
High Point
W. W. Hoover
Etta C. Harris
Sees & Schooh
Stocks Rise and Fall Through Week With Varied Gains
New York stocks opened at 22 year highs on early optimism over steel strike progress, then declined as settlement hopes faded. Rail shares and oil issues led the swings with mixed results. totals showed light volume and cautious bulls despite a late week dip.
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New York
Bethlehem
Amerada
Seaboard
Shell
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Cities Service
Superior Oil
California
Morse Urges Clarification of GOP Platform
Washington Senator Morse faults the Republican platform as too reactionary and vague warning it may lose votes. He urges Eisenhower and Nixon to repudiate the civil rights plank calling it double talk and to seek specific labor legislation recommendations after consulting labor leaders.
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Washington
Wayne Morse
R-Ore
Morse
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Cal
Steel Strike Divides Union Leaders Over Union Shop Offer
Leslie Gould reports the steel strike remains unsettled as union leaders split over accepting the companies postwar union shop proposal. Key figures include Philip Murray and President Truman amid ore mine disruptions and a 15 percent drop in annual steel output with 144 million workers idled.
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Leslie Gould
New York
Philip Murray
Murray
White House
Harry Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
Mr. Murray
Strr
Great Lakes
Truman
Bradley to Fly to Newfoundland for Base Study
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will fly to St. John’s Newfoundland on Monday to study problems of U S forces at leased bases in the area. He is expected to return Thursday. The National Geographic Society estimates Americans once ate about 300 pounds of meat per person annually.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Ciefs
St. John's
Newfoundland
U. S
Defense Department
Bradley
United States
National Geographic Society
Public Applause For Ike Grows With Flood Of Mail
Denver July 19 Seven year old Ada Long of St Louis sends Dwight D Eisenhower a one dollar bill with a handwritten pledge that he will be the next president. Millions of letters and telegrams pour into Eisenhower headquarters as campaign plans gear up. Ike plans a Southern campaign swing and a Colorado vacation continues near Fraser.
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Denver
Ada Long
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ada
St. Louis
Eisenhower
Abbott Washburn
Chicago
South
Texas
Louisiana
Florida
Georgia
Truman Feels Fine After Examination
President Truman returned to the White House feeling fine after three days in Walter Reed Hospital for tests on a mild virus. He resumed work in the White House study and said he plans to attend and address the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and campaign for the ticket.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Chicago
Walter Reed Medical Center
Wallace Graham
Independence Co
Joseph Short
Short
Honolulu Sergeant Receives Highest Medal Posthumously
Army awards the Medal of Honor to Sgt. LeRoy Mendonca of Honolulu for heroic actions on July 4 1951 in Korea. He held a threatened platoon position at great personal risk using grenades and a bayoneted rifle after ammo ran out, sacrificing himself to protect comrades.
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Washington
Honolulu
Korea
Asia
LeRoy A. Mendonca
Joseph Mendonca
Hawaii
Mendonca
Navy details plans for Forrestal class carrier and submarine
The Navy announced a 60 000 ton Forrestal class aircraft carrier will be built at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn. The second nuclear powered submarine hull will be built at Electric Boat in Groton Connecticut. The keel for the carrier was laid at Newport News and the $209.7 million project cost is $8.3 million less than the Forrestal.
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Washington
Navy
New York Naval Shipyard
Brooklyn
Groton
Shipbuilding Company
Kimball
Brooklyn Yard
Forrestal
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Marse
Newsace
Memorial Park
Ace
Chester Litwin
Glenn Hall
Brothers of the Brush
Tom Leonard
Tom
Acme Aluminum
Alabama Mills
Amer & Efird
American Enka
Bassett Furniture
Bausch & Lomd
Beneficial Corp
Seeenee
Black Smalls
Eee
Blue Bell Inc
Blue Ridge Ins Co
Buffalo Eclipse
Butler's Inc Com
Eeee
Butler's Inc
Cannon Mills
Carolina Cas Ins
Carolina P & L
Carolina Tel & Tel
Chadbourn Hos
Chase Natl BK
Seeees
Cable Dairy
Continental Gin
Colonial Stores
Creamery
Cone Mills
Dan River Mills
Dan Riv Mills
Delta Air Lines
Dixie Home Stores
Douglas & Lomason
Drexel Furniture Co
Dan & Bradstreet Inc
Edison, Thomas A “B
Seer Een Eee
Ero Mfg Co
Erwin Mills Inc
Foote Mineral
Foremost Dairies Com
Foremost Dairies
Fram Corp Eee
Ee Twee Garfinckel, J
Garfinckel, J
Garfinckel
Garlock Packing Co
Genuine Parts Co
Portland Cement
Guilford Natl Bk
Hanes, P H King
Hickok Ol) Corp “A
Ivey, JB & Co
Jefferson Stand
Kaiser Steel Com
Kaiser Steel
Kellogg Co
Kingsport Press
Life & Casualty Ins Co
Lone Star Steel
Long Bell Lumber Co
Lucky
McLean ‘Trucking Co
MacMillan Co
McBee Company
McNeil Mach & Eng
Monumental Life Ins
Moore Handley Hdw
Mooresville Mills
Morganton Furniture Co
National City Bank NY
National Fire Ins
Newport Steel
Nicholson File Co
Sonoco Products
Norden Labs
Prospectus
Southern Airways
Occidental Life Ins
Southern Webbing
Ohio Water Service
Spindale Mills
Sane Oswego Falls Corp
State
Oswego Falls
Peninsular Telephone
Stonecutter Mills
BM Peoples Logs Bk Tr
Stromberg Carlson Com
Permutit Co
Ccseeeees
Stromberg Carlson
Pfd
Piedmont & Northern Rwy
Talon Ine Ween
Piedmont Aviation
See
Eeeene
Piedmont Nat Gas
Taylor Biscuit Ce
Taylor Instrument Piedmont Nat
Tenn Gas Trans
Texas Eastern Trans
Potash Co
Amer
Textiles Inc
Eowee
Public Service of NC
Thikol Corp
Seeee Pyramid Life Ins Co
Wee Time Inc
Cccsess
Wee
Towmotor Corp
Ceeee
Rhinelander Paper
Robertson H H
Rose's
U S Potash Co
Ween
Saco Lowell
Schering Corp
van Camp Sea Food
Wachovia
Bk & Tr Co
Warner & Swasey Co
Security Nail Bk
West Point Mfg Co
Wilmington Logs Tr
NG &Io Loan Assn
W. Washington ST
Ike
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Fraser
Colo
Robert A. Taft
Washington, D.C
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Calif
Abraham Lincoln
Elizabeth Arden
Eckerd
South Main ST
Continental Beauty College
Arcade
Hich PoInn Savings and Trusteo
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