High Point as national Civil Defense drill focus
The piece notes High Point as a national civilian defense drill focus while President Eisenhower avoids local golf and national anxieties rise over preparedness. It laments local apathy toward civil defense and urges concrete planning to meet potential bombing risks.
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Highpoint
United States
Eisenhower
Emerywood
City
Sedgefield
High Point
George Covington
June Commencement and Labor’s Earned Benefits
A national tool maker argues in an advertisement that Detroit's first two weeks of June could bring great benefits to labor or a national tragedy. The key question is whether labor will earn its new benefits, possible only if management provides the technology and machinery for more efficient production to lower costs and sustain gains.
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Detroit
Max Eastman
Devin Adair Company
Karl) Marx
Russia
Walter Reuthersr
Set Sa
Walter Reuther
Awards Spotlight Local History Efforts in North Carolina
Nine vice presidents oversee county history coverage as the North Carolina Society honors merit winners for newspaper features on local history. The two day bloodmobile drive exceeds the city quota with 2000 pints and urges more donors.
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Pliny the Younger
North Carolina Society of County and Local Historians
William S. Powell
University of North Carolina Library
North Carolina
Alert Newspapers
William Horney
Ralph Gurley
Fat Man Diets in Libya Draw Local Ire
A U S Air Force unit at Wheelus Field Libya faces Lt Col Claud Mears led slimming plan named Operation Fatty. Weigh-ins and weekly targets push excess weight toward base hospital while critics say waistlines are personal matters.
Readers praise S D Day publicity and traffic safety drive
A reader hails the President's Committee for Traffic Safety for an audio visual showcase of S D Day publicity, notes its impact on accident prevention, and supports a fall Safe Driving campaign. The letter also discusses Slow Down and Live efforts and cites 2,000 traffic deaths saved last year.
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Enterprise
President's Committee For Traffic Safety
Washington
National Conference of State Safety Coordinators
C. F. McCahill
Committee For
Question of Red China status to be raised at Four Power talks
The piece argues Public Law 414th Congress empowers the President to defend Formosa and the Pescadores and to support Chiang Kai-shek, while noting opposition from red China and debate over India Krishna Menon and Nehru. It frames the issue as an American epic decision with potential embarrassment at the Big Four conference.
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Antlard
Enterprise
ABC
Tom Alston
Davy
Shous
China
Winston Churchill
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Eisenhower
United States
United
Formosa
United Nations
Truman
Seventh Fleet
Formosan
Tachen Islands
Chiang Kai-shek
Quemoy
Matsu
Chiang
India
Red China
Krishna Menon
Nehru
Tito
Dee
Whertas
United States of America
Republic of China
West Pacific
Pescadores
Hodges
North Carolina Development Corporation
Capus Waynick
Jined
Longevity Advice from 104 Year Old Charles Thiery
A 104 year old named Charles Thiery urges steady living and cites moral restraint with quotes such as avoid marriage liquor and tobacco while following the Bible. Church leader Dr Truman Douglas comments that churches and select clubs remain among few institutions where segregation remains legal in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Thiery
America
Truman Douglas
Samuel Johnson Anniversary and Webster Dictionary Facets
A historical piece traces the 200th anniversary of Samuel Johnson's unabridged English dictionary and notes Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. It contrasts Johnson's era with modern labor notes on workers, wages, and industry, including quotes about wisdom and social reform.
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Samuel Johnson
Wisdom
Noah Webster
Massachusetts
High Point
England
Johnson
Lichfield
London
Fleet St
Life
The
Times
James Boswell
Samuel
Fame
Ape
Oxford University
Lord Cecnertadd
Chesterfield
Calendar overhaul reshapes North Carolina court listings
Secretary of State Thad Eure's office completed the two year calendar for all 100 counties. The 30 judicial districts represent a change since 1937 affecting every county. Over 1300 weeks of court must be accurately listed with new calendars and extensive proofreading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thad Eure
Superior Court
Elbert Eskridge
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F Terry
Holt McPherson
D. A. Rawley
C. W. Patterson, JR
Charles B. Loflin
Associated Press
St. Petersburg Times
U. S
U.S. Air Force
Wheel
Us Field
Tripoli
Libya
Ficer
Claud Mears
Col. Mears
CsTue
George Sokolsky
Charles Pearson
Gen. Mao
Marshal Tito
Secotch
Lynn Nisbet
Capitol Square
Frank
Southern Bell
Green River Mills
Greyhound
Gilly Sida. Nances Ofioe
Crane
Charles A. Fink
AFL
D. R. Graham
Department of Agriculture
Cherry
Scott
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