Living Cost Hits a New Record High
The government reports the cost of living rose to a new peak in the 30 days ending mid June. The consumer price index increased by 0.3 percent driven by higher costs for food rent fuel electricity and services. The index stood at 189.6 percent of 1935-39 prices, up 11.4 percent since Korea era and 2.4 percent from a year ago, signaling modest wage gains for over 35 000 workers.
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Washington
Government Today
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Korea
Wife of Former High Point Man Dies in Florida
Notification from High Point reports the death of Mrs. Claude Davis in Jacksonville Florida on Tuesday She is survived by her husband and two children Billy and Clarice Funeral services are planned for Jacksonville relatives in High Point include Mrs J D Frazier Mrs K L Reynolds H W Davis and G C Davis with another sister in Newport News Virginia
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Jacksonville
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Claude Davis
Claude
Bill) Davis
High Point
Billy
Clarice
Davis
J. D. Frazier
K. L. Reynolds
H. W. Davis
G. C. Davis
G. Coggeka
Newport News
Democrats Clamp Down At Convention For Fair Deal Nominees
Delegates backed a liberal platform with civil rights language and FEPC provisions while signaling southern opposition. Senator Kefauver led in committed delegates as Truman praised the platform and Sam Rayburn steered the convention through.
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Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Truman
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Mississippi
Georgia
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Virginia
Louisiana
Sub-Teenagers Confess Thefts In City Case
Police say three 11 year old boys from Clara Cox Apartments admitted stealing sporting goods and $20 from Salvation Army headquarters and hid part of the goods under Lake Street bridge. Detectives investigate further thefts including a material from Lewis Parham’s car and a bicycle reported by Daniel Wadden.
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Nathan Hunt
Amos Hosiery Mill
Daniel Wadden
Gurley Street
Broadhurst Theater
Flowers Infant Dies In Local Hospital
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs William Flowers of Thomasville Route 1 died shortly before noon today in a local hospital. Surviving are a brother Toni Lee Flowers and sister Elizabeth Flowers, paternal grandfather Walter Flowers of Florence 8 C, and maternal grandmother Mrs Mamie Tucker of Carthage. Funeral arrangements are in complete.
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Thomasville
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Elizabeth Flowers
Walter Flowers
Florence
8. C
Mamie Tucker
Carthage
Murray Corporation Stock List Summary
Murray Corporation stock list shows numerous companies with varied percentages and shares traded. Notable names include Nash Kelvinator National Biscuit National Dairy National Distillers New York Central North American Pacific Gas and Electric Packard Paramount Pictures Pennsylvania Railroad Pepsi Cola Philco Pittsburgh Plate Glass Remington Rand Reynolds Tobacco Seaboard Air Line Sears Roebuck Socony Walpole New York stocks list includes Adams Express Admiral Air Reduction Alaska Juneau Alleghany Allied Chemical Allis Chalmers American Can American Car & Foundry American Foreign Power American Tel & Tel American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Armour Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Atlantic Coast Line Atlantic Refinery Avco Baldwin Lima Baltimore & Ohio Bendix Bethlehem Steel Borg Warner Dow Chemical Dupont Eastern Airlines Eastman Kodak Electric Auto Lite Emerson Firestone Freeport Sulphur General Electric General Foods General Motors Goodyear Great Northern Railway Hudson Motor Illinois Central International Harvester Kennecott Kroger Libby Owens Ford Liggett Myers Lockheed Loews Lorillard Louisville & Nashville Mack Motors Magnavox Missouri Kansas Texas Montgomery Ward Motorola National Oil companies and various utilities populate the list with approximate sales noted as of 1 p.m. totaling 790,000.
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Pittsburgh
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New York
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Mink theft ruse ends with honest return in Joplin
Two boys aged six and eight sold a tiny furry mink to Edward M. Thompson for 25 cents. Thompson later heard a radio appeal seeking the return of a $250 mink and he promptly recovered and returned the animal.
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Joplin
Edward M. Thompson
Thompson
Radio Schedule Adjusts Time For Local Stations
Local radio stations may shift relay times to align with local schedules. Eastern Local Time reference notes subtract one hour for Central and two hours for Mountain. Last minute program changes are not included.
Lamont duPont Dies at 71 Former DuPont leader passes away in Connecticut
Lamont duPont, 71, former president and chairman of the DuPont Company, died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a July 11 transfer from his Fishers Island summer home. He led the firm from 1926 through 1940, guiding expansion into dyes, nylon, synthetic ammonia, and other chemicals, and championed major research investment. He retired in 1940 but stayed chairman until 1948, known for his modest, hands on style and bicycle commutes in Wilmington.
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duPont Company
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
DuPont
Fishers’ Island
Wilmington
Del
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Local Reservists To Leave Sunday For Fort Jackson
Twenty seven members of Com comy L 518th Infantry Regiment 08th Division depart Sunday for Fort Jackson South Carolina for summer camp training and field maneuvers. 1st Lt Mark Combs says four officers and 23 men will train a week and maneuver another week as a unit by train to the army post.
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518Th Infantry
Fort Jackson
S. C
Mark Combs
Army Reserve
South Carolina Army Post
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