Correspondence Courses Grow in Popularity at UNC
UNC correspondence courses attract 1331 enrollments in the academic year with 19 967 corrected assignments. Students range from homemakers to service members and include teachers, doctors, and priests pursuing degree, credit, or personal study across 34 states and several countries.
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Chapel Hill
Univeristy
North Carolina
Mary Cobb
Bureau of Correspondence
Extension Division
R. & House
Gordon Gray
College Instructor Builds A Boat In Derby Suburb
Buffalo State Teachers College instructor William C. Palmeter Jr plans a 38 foot ketch built at home with his family. He aims to sail to the University of Miami in 1956 during sabbatical, then to South America. Project costs about 3500 dollars, lumber from a friend's white oak grove, with wife Pearl and two sons assisting. The family will live aboard while Palmeter studies for a doctorate and writes a research thesis on the boat.
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Buffalo
N. Y
William C. Palmeter, Jr
Buffalo State Teachers College
Derby
Palmeter
University of Miami
Erie Barge Canal
Hudson River
Atlantic Ocean
Bahamas
South America
Pearl
Gary
Alan
Aged Fathers In Australia Report Highlights Long Running Trends
A Sydney report shows nearly 20 Australians over 70 became fathers yearly, based on 1950 birth, marriage and death data. Among 1959 cases, one man was 80, another married to a 20-year-old. one youth fathered at 15 and 158 girls were mothers at that age.
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Sydney
Mmawealth
Canberra
Child adjusts to small print, says Better Vi Institute
A small child squints to read tiny text as a sign of effort, per the Better Vi Institute. The statement frames close work with eye strain as an indicator of learning activity and focus.
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Vi Institute
Debt limit debate and budget chaos linger in spillover notes
Leslie Gould outlines three core problems behind proposed increases to the federal debt ceiling. Revenue shortfalls and overspending widen deficits, while large unexpended appropriations from prior years strain fiscal control. The piece blames personnel shifts, bureaus, and overreach for the budget mess and signals further breakdowns in accounting and policy as the nation debates funds.
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Leslie Gould
New York
State Department
Truman
Eisenhower
Treasury
Financial Housekeeping
Budget Bureau
Trading in Stocks Falls To Second Smallest Total in 47 Months
Trading in stocks this week fell to the second smallest total in 47 months with 4,470,550 shares traded and a daily average of 894,110. The week saw caution over a Korean truce and expectations of longer term bullish effects but near term adjustments. Major firms reported earnings and dividends. Nash production cuts and auto sector adjustments weighed on the market amid mixed results from U.S. Steel and Bethlehem, while railroad issues fluctuated and forecast earnings rose for several.
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Elmer
Walzer United Press
New York
Wall Street
Lweeks’ Corporation News
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
St. Regis Paper
Liggett & Myers
P. Lorillard
Pullman, Inc
Thompson Products
General Foods
Continental Can
Boeing Airplane
Scott Paper
Alexander Smith
Nash
Nash-Kelvinator
Milwaukee
Plane wreck swamped as hangar collapses in Knoxville
A small plane crashed killing one, injuring two, then a 100 mile per hour windstorm struck Municipal Airport. The hangar housing the wrecked plane collapsed but the aircraft remained unharmed.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Municipal
Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base
Fifteen men attend the U S experimental flight test pilot school at Edwards AFB California. They study tailless aircraft slide rules and pre dawn classes as they train to become crack test pilots. Maj Charles Yeager a noted speed record holder is among the graduates.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
U. S
Navy
Charles Yeager
Policeman Frees Man Locked Overnight in Hartford Restaurant
Hartford officer Otto H. Miller rescued a man who had slept in a restaurant booth and was locked inside after hours, reversing his usual role of keeping people out of closed businesses.
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Hartford
Conn
Otto H. Miller
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Canada
Guam
Hawaii
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Canal Zone
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YMCA
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Asoft
Asof
Alabama Mills
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Amer & Efird
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Amer Trust Co
Anvil
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Atlanta Gas Light
Auto Finance Com
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Bassett Furniture
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Blue Ridge Ins Co
Butler's Inc
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Sia Chadbourn Hos
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Cable Dairy
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Cone Mille
Copeland
Dan River Mills
Delta Air Lines
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Drexel Furniture Co Ever
Dan & Bradstreet Inc
Erwin Mills Inc
Foote Minerals
Foremost Dairies Com
Foremost Dairies
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Franklin Life Ins Co
Garfinckel J Com
Garffinckel
Garfin
Lone Star Steel
McLean Trucking Co
MacMillan
Maryland Casualty
McBee Company
Sssee
McNeil Mach & Eng
iMoore Handley Hdw
Morganton Furn Co
National City Bank NY
Natl Food Prod Co
Nat Life & Accid Ins
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Nicholson File Co
North Carolina R R
Occidental Life Ins
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Ty ‘Oswego Falls
Peninsular Telephone
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Piedmont & Northern Rwy
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Piedmont Nat Gas
Piedmont Nat
Amer
Pyramid Life Ins Co
Rhinelander Paper
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Rose
Royal Dutch Petroleum
Saco Lowell
Security Natl Bk
Solar Aircraft
Sonoco
Stromberg Carlson
Taylor Biscuit
Taylor Instrument Co
Tennessee Gas Trans
Texas Eastern Trans
Textiles Inc
Thalhimer Bros, Inc
Time, Inc
Terete Eens
Towmotor Corp Eee
Tecumseh
Potash Co Seseseee
van Camp Sea Food
Vrachovla Bk & Trust Co
Warner & Swasey Co
Western Car Tel
West Point Mfg Co
Wilmington Savings Trust
Prospectus
Buick
Ass Heater
Detroiter
W. F. Mauldin, Inc
N. Main
Brokerage
New York Stock Exchange
Liberty Life Bldg
Charlotte
N.C
John A. Fitzgerald
High Point
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Hitch Point
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