C D Board Closes Three Day Meeting With Actions
Morehead City North Carolina The C D Board winds up a three day midsummer meeting with actions including planning for a western North Carolina museum at Gillespie Gap near Spruce Pine and Blue Ridge Parkway. It backs a survey contract for small ports and waterways to Brinck erhoff Hall and McDonald of New York.
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Morehead City
N. C. Ee
Minera Lans
North Carolina
Gillespie Gap
Spruce Pine
Blue Ridge Parkway
Water Resources Committee
New York
Brinckerhoff, Hall and McDonald
Leaf Markets Surpass Last Year in Early Tobacco Sales
Valdosta Georgia Florida markets report opening day sales exceed last year by over eight million pounds and four million dollars. Nine day totals show 9 day pounds sold at 2 006 dollars per hundred with a 45 773 029 cash return. Volume hits 10 469 753 pounds as price average remains near last season peak.
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Valdosta
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Square Dance at City Lake Pavilion Cited by Club
A square dance is scheduled tonight at City Lake Pavilion under High Point Square Dance Club sponsorship. The event starts at 8 o clock and is open to the public.
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Pavillion
City Lake
High Point Square Dance Club
Crowds Flood West Berlin For Free Food Aid Amid East German Shortages
Massive lines form at 40 distribution points in West Berlin as East Germans rush to receive Western food parcels. Soviet radio accuses identified recipients of espionage, listing names and addresses while officials call the move a bid to provoke unrest.
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West Berlin
Iron Curtain
Red
Rame Radio
Ernst Tillich
Americans Talk to Reds in tense border moment
A reporter and a group including South Koreans confronted Chinese soldiers near a map as armed Red guards appeared. The Chinese officer directed them back while the reporter photographed the officer and the tense standoff intensified with burp guns trained on the camera crew.
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Lawrence
TV Transmitter Arrival Near for WNCT
A transmitter is expected to arrive within days for Tele vision Station WNCT planned to go on air with test patterns late September or early October. Operating on Channel 9, the station will be among the nation’s most powerful at 100000 watts and serve about one million people in eastern North Carolina. Its 874 foot tower will be the Carolinas’ tallest man made structure.
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Greenville
N. C
WNCT
North Carolina
Carolinas
Bids Opened for 34 Projects Totals 3.68 Million
Highway Commission opened bids yesterday for 34 projects totaling 3,684,124 dollars. A total of 280 bids were submitted for 301 miles of improvements and four structures across 34 counties. The commission will review the low bids at its monthly meeting tomorrow.
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Raleigh
Highway Commission
Route 1 Man Arrested For Killing Hogs
A Route 1 man faced a cruelty to animals charge after deputies say he shot four hogs owned by a neighbor over three days. C C Venable, 50, posted a 500 bond and a hearing is set for August 10. The value of the hogs was about 650 dollars.
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Route 1
C. C. Venable
Joseph
Grace L. Williams
North Main Street
Euelah Craven
Fisher Street
Tommie Ball
Davis Street
Beulah Craven
Archie Myatt
Greensboro
Phillip Bruce Nance
Willie Hinton
Lizzie Mae Giddron
Beamon Alley
Williams Signs 1953 54 Contract With Red Sox
Ted Williams arrived at Fenway Park from New York and quickly signed to play the rest of 1953 and the 1954 season with the Boston Red Sox. He just been released from Marine Corps Air Service duty as a captain. Manager Cronin and owner Tom Yawkey witnessed the brief signing as Boston aimed to improve a club then in third place. Williams said he did not plan to be in uniform again this season.
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Boston
Ted Williams
Boston Red Sox
New York
Fenway Park
Washington
Marine Corps Air Service
Joe Cronin
Sox
Williams
Cronin
Tom Yawkey
Immigration bill clears House amid cold war debate
The House approved a measure 221 to 185 to admit 217000 Iron Curtain refugees and other quota immigrants over three years, with Senate limits at 209000. Debate highlighted Cold War stakes, while amendments added 2000 Chinese Formosa endorsements and trimmed North America quotas.
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Wiley
R-Wis
Foreign Relations Committee
Kremlin
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Congress
Gromneets
United States
Formosa
McCarran
Kong
England
Mixed Stock Movements Amid Quiet New York Trading
Stocks in New York showed modest losses and small gains in quiet trading as concerns about major fractions weighed on sentiment. Volume fell to just under one million shares. steel stocks led early strength aided by expectations of sustained high production, with U S Steel General Motors United Aircraft Radio Corp American Can Northern Pacific Texas Co advancing at noon.
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New York
U. S. Steel
General Motors
United Aircraft, Radio Corp
American Can
Northern Pacific
Texas Co
American Car & F
Csceeee
American Tobacco
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Chesapeake & Ohio
Capyriol
Ceeeecsieerssesenseee
Coca Cola
Colgate PP
Continental Can
Curtiss-Wright
Douglas Aircraft
POG
Eastern Air
Eastman Kodak
Reynolds Tobacco
B .S
Seaboard Airline
Sears Roebuck
Southern Co
Southern Railway
Studebaker
Westinghouse Electric
Woolworth
Halt Ordered on Federal Public Housing Work
Washington announced a halt to preliminary planning and land buying for public housing projects across the United States. The order affects 1,677 NC units in 10 counties, 900 SC units in 9 locales, and 469 NC units under contract. Congress approved a reduced appropriation bill of 447 million dollars and allowed 20,000 additional starts from backlog, with starts after this fiscal year.
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Washington
Charles E. Slussler
The
Public Housing Administration
PHA
United States
North Carolina
South Carolina
Slussler
Congress
Auto Overturns On Highway 62 Near Deep River Bridge
One car partially out of control spurred a second vehicle to overturn on Highway 62 near Deep River Bridge around 8:30 last night. Fred W. Fulp of Greensboro, 30, said the preceding car veered onto the shoulder then back left, forcing his dive into a ditch and a rollover. Fulp escaped injury and the damaged car was valued near 500 dollars. No charges were filed and the other driver’s identity was not determined.
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Deep River Bridge
Highway 62
Fred W. Fulp
Greensboro
Fulp
Textile procurement announced by Army for 4 million yards
In New York the Armed Forces unveiled a major textile purchase for four million square yards of cotton sateen cloth. Bids are due August 17 at the New York office of the Armed Services Textile and Apparel Procurement Agency.
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New York
Armed Services Texttile and Apparel Procurement Agency
Wildlife licenses expire Friday in Raleigh
The Wildlife Resources Commission reminded that all combination hunting and fishing licenses expire this Friday. Commission Director Clyde Patton said the next year licenses go on sale at state license dealers Saturday. Regular fishing and hunting licenses remain valid until December 31.
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Raleigh
Wildlife Resources Commission
Commission
Clyde Patton
Public hearing on dog racing at Morehead City
The Morehead City Racing Commission will hold a public hearing tonight at 7 30 to discuss dog racing tracks. The two day inquiry by a state study group begins tomorrow and Friday at the roll hall led by C Matthews. Dr Ben F Royal heads the commission with David B Webb as the third member. The study group was authorized by the 1953 General Assembly.
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Morehead City
David B. Webb
Drilling Reaches 4000 Feet in Camden County
In Camden County near Belcross Elizabeth City area the Alice Drilling Co reports sinking drills over 4000 feet with no oil found. Three shifts of four men operate around the clock on W. B. Foreman and J. W. Foreman ranch as J. W. Phillips forecasts difficulty below 5000 feet due to hard rock. Prior oil tests by Davidson Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co. yielded no oil.
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Elizabeth City
N. C
Alice Drilling Co
Camden County
Texas
W. B. Foreman
J. W. Foreman
Belcross
J. W. Phillips
Davidson Oil Co
Washington
Tyrrell Counties
Standard Oil Co
Pamlico Sound
Cape Hatteras
Hewitt Dies Of Gunshot Wound In Murrells Inlet
GEORGETOWN S C Carl Hewitt 40 of Murrells Inlet died at a hospital from a stomach gunshot wound deemed self inflicted by Sheriff Garris Cribb he shot himself after the fatal shooting of Conrad W Davis 43 at Daviss Murrells Inlet home A coroner s jury ordered Hewitt held with Mrs Davis for grand jury action in connection with Daviss death Cribb said Daviss death was blamed on Hewitt and Mrs Davis Hewitt a native of Brunswick County NC is survived by his stepfather five half brothers and three half sisters
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Georgetown
Carl Hewitt
Murrell’s Inlet
Garris Cribb
Cribb
Conrad W. Davis
Emoge
Murrells Inet
Hewitt
Davis
Brunswick County
N. C
Lattimore Hewitt
Near Supply
South Carolina tobacco markets set for opening day
South Carolina's 11 flue cured markets begin sales tomorrow with growers expecting strong opening prices. Secretary Marion S Fowler of Lake City says crop quality tops last year, though heat and drought touched some regions. Production is about 8 percent below 1952. opening bids seen near 52 dollars per hundred. Markets on deck include Conway Mullins Loris Dillon Darlington Lamar Timmonsville Pamplico Kingstree Lake City and Hemingway.
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Lake City
S. C
South Carolina
Marions
Fowler
South Carolina Warehouse Association
Florida
Conway
Mullins
Loris
Dillon
Darlington
Lamar
Timmonsville
Pamplico
Kingstree
Hemingway
Border Belt
French Forces Close In On Trapped Communists
An 11 000 man French Union force swarmed foxholes trenches and barbed wire in a final assault against Communist led rebels boxed inside a rectangle of death along the Joyless Route between Hue and Quang Tri. French Viet Nam troops reported about 100 rebels killed and 100 wounded with about 100 French Viet Nam casualties in the first phase.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Annam
Hue
Quang Tri
Hanoi J
Thomasville Firm Wins Big GSA Furniture Contract
Erwin-Lam beth Inc of Thomasville was among four North Carolina firms sharing $900000 in General Services Administration contracts announced yesterday. The firm received $744,236 for arm chairs and Davenport beds. Other awardees include L B Gallimore of Greensboro Ford Electric Co of Winston-Salem and Century Furniture Co of Hickory for beds.
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Thomasville
Erwin-Lambeth, Inc
North Carolina
General Services Administration
L. B. Gallimere
Esboro
Ford Electric Co
Winston
Century Furniture Co
Hickory
Asheboro Man Named In Federal Suit
Willard R. Sledge of Asheboro is named in a federal lawsuit filed in Greensboro’s Middle District Court. The government alleges he falsely claimed United States Armed Forces service when entering a Veterans Administration hospital and seeks 411 dollars for 34 days of hospitalization and an ambulance ride.
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Willard R. Sledge
Asheboro
Sledge
Veterans Administration Hospital
United States Armed Forces
Middle District Court
Greensboro
Assembly Drops Plan to Sell State College Buildings
Hartford report says the General Assembly reversed course after discovering the buildings at New Britain State Teachers College were not owned by the state, nullifying the planned sale.
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Hartford, Conn
General Assembly
New Britain State Teachers College
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Ttra
Leen
Main St
R. Lom Stokes
Parke, Davis & Company
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ST. Main ST
Postoffice
U.S
Army
Camden
S.C
Thomasville Firm
Dmaxkenes
Washington & Main Sts
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Doan
SHACK
Kivett DR
S. Wrenn ST
Dobbin's Electric Co., Inc
Thanos
Inc
Armed Services
Quinelas
Carolina Racing Association
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