Waste and Salaries in North Carolina State Government
The article argues high talent drain from state service due to low pay. It discusses Waldo Cheek potentially leaving to join State Capitol Life Insurance Co for 25 000 to 30 000 annually and urges lawmakers to raise official salaries to 12 000 a year. It cites comparisons to the superintendent of public instruction post and warns against pinch penny policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Waldo Cheek
State Capitol
State Capitol Life Insurance Company
Raleigh
Council of State
Cheek
Neers
High Point
Charles Carroll
State Service
Sparkman NAACP clash over Southerner VP choice
The column argues Senator John Sparkman faces NAACP opposition for VP prospects, noting conservative Southern displeasure and Walter White of the NAACP questioning support from Black voters. It questions leadership and motives without endorsing or opposing Sparkman.
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John Sparkman
Congress
Sparkman
Walter White
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Blood Pressure Blood donors urged to help courts and prisons
An editorial proposes using blood donations to boost Red Cross supplies by linking blood drives to court fines or sentences. It suggests judges suspend fines or sentences for defendants who donate a pint, and extends the idea to prisoners, aiming to increase blood availability during shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Korea
Durham for McMahon stands in line for joint atomic chair
The death of Senator Brien McMahon removes a key nuclear policy leader. Carl Durham, North Carolina congressman and acting chair, is favored to assume control of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Durham is praised as practical and steady though not flashy, and urged to lead amid demagogic challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brien McMahon
New
Joint Committee
McMahon
United Press
Durham
Carl Durham
Senator Green
Chicago
Platform
Allan B. Kline
American Farm Bureau
GOP
Green
Kline
Blackstone
Old Guard
Eisenhower
London
Mink-Coats
Edgar Hartley
High Point
Edgar
OPS Bedeviled by Fruit and Vegetable Classification Debate
Washington OPS fights to define what is a fruit or vegetable after an amendment cuts its budget from 62 to 37 million and mandates removal of price controls on all fresh or processed produce. Rep Burr Powell Harrison proposed the change as the House majority dwindles the agency toward dissolution.
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Washington
Burr Powell Harrison
Winchester
OPS
Price
Ellis Arnall
Price Wizards
Blackstone
Truman
Chicago
Blackestone
Warren G. Harding
Jim Farley
New York
Supreme Court
James F. Barnes
South Carolina
Jim Barnes
White House
Happy Chandler
Jesse M. Donaldson
Louis Johnson
Luxembourg
Perle Mesta
George Allen
Ed Pauley
California
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
Senator Green
Ike
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Political management contrasts in Democratic and Republican conventions
The piece weighs leadership, unity, and strategy at the 1948 parties conventions. It praises Democratic senior leadership for discipline and compromise while criticizing Republican handling, citing Barkley, Dewey, and Dewey era missteps, and notes implications for the upcoming campaign and figures like Nixon and Kefauver.
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Alben Barkley
Jack Kroll
Ciopac
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Blair Moody
Hubert Lee
FEPC
Sam Rayburn
Leslie Biffle
Jim Farley
National Committee
Frank E. McKinney
Herbert Hoover
General MacArthur
Tom Dewey
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Eisenhower
Joe Martin
Rayburn
Dewey
New York
Governor Fine
Pennsylvania
Barkley
Phil Murray
William Green
John L. Lewis
Blair
Hubert Humphrey
Herbert Lehman
Hoover
Dirksen
Democratic Party
Quotes on nylon vest shell fragment defense
Lt. Col. Andrew Ames promotes a new nylon vest designed to stop shell fragments, arguing that quotes about danger emphasize the wearers' need for protection.
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Sweat
Andrew Ames
Young Democratic GOP Romance in Washington Suburb
In Washington near Spring Valley the Kefauver family and the Nixon family live close. David Kefauver and Patricia Nixon, both six, attend the same school, sparking a rumored romance. Senator Green jokes about a two-name draw to resolve convention chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julie
Estes Kefauver
Washington
Chicago
Senator Kefauver
Nixon
Coonskinner
Tennessee
Nixon Place
GOP
NEA
Kefauver
Spring Valley
Kefauvers
Nixons
David Kefauver
Patricia Nixon
Adlai Stevenson Forebears Noted In North Carolina History
A column traces Adlai Ewing Stevenson’s ancestry to William Stevenson of Iredell County and Mary McClelland of Pennsylvania, noting their 1762 settlement and involvement in the Revolution. It also mentions Stevenson’s birthplace, political career, and expected resignation before his campaign.
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Lincoln County
Christian County
Kentucky
James
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
United States
Grover Cleveland
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Los Angeles
Calif
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Doris Fleeson
Richard Nixon
Patricia
Potomac
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Alger Hiss
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Rhode Island
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Frank McKinney
W. A. Bivins
High Rock Park
Vance Proctor
Kernersville
Walkertown
Walnut Cove
Danbury
Piedmont North Carolina
High Rock
Blue Ridge
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Calvary Methodist Church
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