Butner Hospital To Be Used As Mental Facility
Durham June 14 The state plans to open Butner Hospital Monday as a mental institution while seeking federal approval to buy the plant and at least 7,500 acres of land. First group of 50 patients will transfer from Camp Sutton Monroe. About 100 senile patients move weekly for five weeks. Dr J W Murdoch named hospital superintendent. full staffing may take months.
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Durham
Tal
Butner
Moday
T. B. Honeycutt
Pons
Pital
Camp Sutton
Monroe
Butney
Sutton
J. W. Murdoch
ABC Liquor Stores Planned for 100 North Carolina Counties
Mecklenburg and 25 other counties move to establish ABC liquor stores. Opposition centers on morality led by Allied Church League, while local papers split with The Charlotte News backing the plan and The Charlotte Observer neutral. Police chief supports stores to ease enforcement, prompting ministerial protests. The note also mentions ancient agriculture before 5000 B.C.
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North Caro
ABC
Beaufort
Bertie
Carteret
Chowan
Craven
Cumberland
Dare
Durham
Edgecombe
Greene
Halifax
Lenoir
Martin
Moore
Nash
New Hanover
Onslow
Pasquotank
Pitt
Tyrell
Vance
Wake
Warren
Washington
Wilson
Allied Church League
Charlotte
Charlotte News
Charlotte Observer
Frank Littlejohn
Wallace and Moscow Links Targeted by U S Committee
The American Anti Communist Association seeks to cancel a Watergate amphitheatre event backed by Wallace a noted Truman critic and allies amid a detailed 1947 inquiry that brands the Washington conference as a Communist front. The report lists sponsors officials and supporters with ties to pro Soviet and front groups and urges Interior Secretary Krug to revoke the permit.
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Wallace
Truman
Zero Mastel
American Youth For Democracy
Young Communist League
RED
Washington Committee
Robert Ware Straus
Office of Emergency Management
Ruth McKenney
The
Daily Worker
New Masses
Washington
Morris
Samuel Rodman
Metropolitan Broadcasting Co
Gifford Pinchot
Women's International Democratic Federation
Paris
American Anti-Communist Association
Federal District Court
Secretary of the Interior Krug
Watergate Amphitheatre
Communist Party
U.S.A
Soviet Union
America
Douglas
Mrs
Field
Ickes, Davies
Miss Parker
Robeson
Sup
Com
Munists
American Committee For Protection of
American Committee For Democracy and Intellectual Freedom
American Russian Institute
Davies
Ickes
New York
Clark Foreman
Atlanta
Washington Committee For Democratic Action
United States Civil Service Commission
National Citizens Political On Committee
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
Graham
Earl Browder
Red Army
Framed Biographical Details Of Miss McLean
The obituary outlines Miss McLean's North Carolina roots including Greensboro and Chapel Hill, noting her UNC education and family ties. It lists surviving relatives: husband, son Norman, adopted daughter Marjorie Streicher, and siblings Chester and Miss Faye Eaton.
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Pittsburgh
Norman
Marjorie Streicher
East Circle Drive
High Point
Chester
Faye Eaton
Greensboro
McLean
University of North Carolina
Cora McLean
Washington
Ruth McLean
Jean McLean
Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce
Curran Blames West Coast Shippers for Lockout in NMU Talks
Curran said theaters locked out the NMU and refused five meetings to negotiate. He urged good faith bargaining and warned contracts expire June 15, after which no contracts would be in effect. A Labor Dept telegram to Secretary Schwellenbach noted engineers would not join the walkout.
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NMU
Curran
Department of Labor
Washington
Schwellenbach
S. F .Hogan
The
Engineers Union
Capital Airlines DC-4 Crash Kills 47 Passengers and Crew
Reports describe a brutal crash near Charles Town West Virginia on the Chicago to Washington leg of Capital Airlines flight DC-4 Capitaliner Baltimore. Officials say 47 passengers and 3 crew members perished, with ground teams cutting a path to recover bodies and an emergency morgue set up. Survivors included a graduation gift child and an Indianapolis mother with infant.
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L. T. Easley
Associated Press
West Virginia
James MM. Franklin
Airline
Pnatatenants
James W. Austin
Washington
Hayes Dever
Gordon Stone
Red Cross
Sculter Allen
Charles Town
W. Va
Stone
Chicago
Janklin
J. H. Carmichael
Ince
Margaret Keuppers
St. Paul
Judith Christine Bryan
Mary Bryan
Indianapolis
Joseph Marko
Cleveland
Horace Stark
Martinsburg
Baltimore
la Guardia Field
N. Y
Port Deposit
Brewster
R-Me
Senate Commerce Subcommittee On Aviation
New York
Maryland
Army
Navy
Capital Airlines
State department officers review Nazi records. German summary planned
Russell stated eight state department officers are studying the voluminous Nazi foreign documents while Britain has twice as many. He said a complete summary would appear in German within ten to twelve years, followed by a later English version, a protest noted this would be six or seven years later.
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Russell
State Department
Rural counties eyed beds targets for hospital adequacy
The medical care commission proposes minimum bed ratios 2.5 per 1000 for rural counties 4 per 1000 for intermediate areas and 4.5 per 1000 for base areas. Eight counties qualify as intermediate Buncombe Rowan Cumberland New Hanover Cabarrus Iredell Guilford Halifax. Base areas Wake Durham Forsyth Mecklenburg.
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Medical Care Commission
Buncombe
Rowan
Cumberland
New Hanover
Cabarrus
Iredell Guilford
Halifax
Wake
Durham
Forsyth
Mecklenburg
Legionnaires Move by Sea to Camp Lejeune for Beach Assembly
Legio nnaires reach Camp Lejeune aboard five navy ships and 12 landing barges for a beach assembly. Officers to be elected in morning including Galloway of Wilmington and Hood of Laurinburg as candidates for state commander. Younts resigns as executive vice commander. Pickens recommended to succeed. Executive committee to rule on recommendation Sunday. Ten thousand fish dinners to be served Tuesday afternoon on the beach.
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Navy Transport Division
Second Marine Division
Camp Lejeune
A Galloway
Wilmington
Carlyle Shed
Chapel Hill
John Hood Laurinburg
William York
Greensboro
Paul R. Younts
Wiley M. Pickens
Thomas W. Bird
Charette
End of War Sees Historians Only After Public Opinion
Fragmentary text suggests a statement that the war’s end would matter mainly to historians once public opinion in the United States had settled. Ferguson criticized state department officials and others for obscuring policy while shaping foreign policy.
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United States
Ferguson
State Department
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Proive Citizens of America
Frank Graham
International Labor Defense
Central Committee
Pvp
Paul Crouch
Communist Party of Alabama
Joseph Gelders
Gelders
National Committee For Defense of
Biddle
Ohn P. Davies
Browder
Herman C. Nixon
Tulane University
Don West
Langston Hughes
Paul Robeson
Julian Brooks
Alexandria
Legionnaires
Isle of Man
Kaiser
Frazer
Asheboro Park Motor Company
Elkin
M. Griffith
Kaiser and Frazer
Willow Run
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Henry J. Kaiser
Joseph W. Frazer
Kaiser-Frazer
Gate City Motor CO
Wrenn St
Distributor
Kernersville
Hasting & Joyce Motor Co
Lexington Robertson Bros. Motors P
Liberty
Triangle Motors
Madison Madison Motor Co
Mocksville L
Shelton Impl. Co
MT. Airy
Frank
North Wilkesboro
Johnson & Frazier Motor Co
Pilot Mountain
Wall & Pell Motor Co
Reidsville King Motor Co
Leaksville-Spray
Tri City Motor Co
O. Bow
Siler City
Edwards Motor 60
Winston -S. McLean Motor Co
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