Second Selective Service Registration Details Given
North Carolina men turning 21 after October 16 1940 must register on July 1 with local boards. Born between October 17 1919 and July 1 1920 required. aliens and citizens who reach 21 before July 1 1941 must register. Exceptions apply for officers and several cadet/reserve groups. Penalties include imprisonment or fines for noncompliance.
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North Carolina
Selective Service Board
J. van B. Metts
Metts
United States
Mets
Regular Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Public Health Service
Active National
Ed Miller of Asheboro A Rising Randolph Leader
Garnet Edward Miller, a Duke-educated attorney, moved to Asheboro five years ago and formed a partnership with the late I. C. Moser after serving as Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 24. He chairs Red Cross efforts, leads Kiwanis activities, and fronts Democratic campaigns while active in local finance and civic projects.
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Garnet Edward Miller
Erwin
Tennessee
N. B. Miller
Asheboro
Randolph County
Duke
North Carolina
I. C. Moser
Moser
Tenn
Carson- Newman College
Jefferson City
Duke University
Randolph
Baptist Church
Red Cross
Kiwanis International
Atlanta
Randolph's
Young Democratic Club
Fourth District
NYA Opens Camp For Men Rejected For Army Training
In Durham on June 16 the National Youth Administration opened the first U S camp to rehabilitate men rejected for Selective Service due to physical reasons. The $94 640 facility will house 200 youths 16 to 24 and train them for defense jobs with $35 monthly stipends. Courses cover woodwork sheet metal machine shop auto mechanics and radio repair with medical dental recreation and meals provided. The six month program aims to graduate about 400 annually and placement will match preferred work. Cooperating agencies include Durham County U S Army North Carolina Health Duke UNC Wake Forest medical schools and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Durham
National Youth Administration
United States
NVA
NYA
Durham County
U. S. Army
North Carolina Board of Health
Duke University
University of North Carolina and
Wake Forest College Schools of Medicine
Rockefeller Foundation
Greensboro Bride-Elect Honored by Mrs Pressley Tonight
A Greensboro bridal party gathers for a dessert bridge at 709 Montague Avenue honoring Miss Bess Heffner, fiancée of Benjamin Bruce Phillips. Guests include Miss Elizabeth Crews and Mrs Ed DeMik, with many Greensboro residents and relatives attending five bridge tables starting at eight.
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Greensboro
Bess Heffner
Benjamin Bruce Phillips
Harvey H. Pressley
Montheu Avenue
Pressley
High Point
Elizabeth Crews
T. S. Blackwood
Ed DeMik
Frances Johnson
Miss Heffner
Bryte Heffner
Alesdames Ben Brown
Clyde W. Ridge
Stanley Lowe
Cleo Pinnix
Mary Pinnix
Martha Lan Greth
Nell Webster
Ethel Flourney
Isoland DeBoe
James Slacher
Harold Dorsett
This City
Cleo Pendleton
Harmony
D. C. Johnson
Burlington
Lola Holt
Spencer
Vann L. Heffner
New York City
Heffner
Brown University Confers Degree on Dr Kathryn McHale
Brown University Rhode Island has conferred the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters on Dr Kathryn McHale, general director of the American Association of University Women. The Board of Fellows praised her leadership in education and dedication to scholarly work.
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Brown
University of Providence
Rhode Island
Kathryn McHale
American Association of University Women
Board of Fellows
McHale
Brown University
Charles Evans
de Gifford
WCTU Flower Day Observed at Wesley Memorial Church
The local Women's Christian Temperance Union chapter will hold its regular meeting tomorrow at 3:30 PM in the basement of Wesley Memorial Church. Flower Mission Day will be observed and members are asked to attend and bring flowers to be taken to sick in local hospitals after the meeting.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Wesley Memorial Church
Musical Art Program Tonight Showcases Young Artist Group
Mesdames Hayden and Rhodes host the Emerywood Country Club for the final Musical Art Club meeting of the summer. The Young Artists Program will feature local youths including Bob Gayle J B Hensley Homer Hayworth Louise Ellison Eleanor Welch Ella Cou Taylor Juanita Copp edge Charles Medlin and Mary Sue Briggs with Virginia Frank presiding and H D Sears in charge. Election of new officers and closing-year business will follow as guests attend the program's culmination.
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J. F. Hayden
C. H. Rhodes
Emerywood Country Club
Musical Art Club
Youn
Virginia Frank
H. D. Sears
Bob Gayle
J. B. Hensley
Homer Hayworth
Louise Ellison
Eleanor Welch
Ella Cou Taylor
Juanita Coppedge
Charles Medlin
Mary Sue Briggs
Local Christian Endeavorers Hold Weekly Meetings
The Christian Endeavor Society of Lebanon Methodist Church hosted a Father’s Day program with Doris King and Mrs. Robert Lee performing, Nell Montgomery giving a toast, and C A King responding. W P Hammer led a talk on Fatherhood from The House By the Side of the Road, Sam Walter Foss. Youngest father C W Swaim and oldest father Victor P Hammer received gifts amid refreshments.
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Christian Endeavor Society
The
Lebanon Methodist Church
Doris King
Robert Lee
Nell Montgomery
C.A. King
W. P. Hammer
Sam Walter
Foss
C. W. Swaim
Victor P. Hammer
Bene Christian Endeavor Beneme
Durham Residents Attend From Local Obscure Notes
Four people including Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Anderson returned to their Durham home after attending a death in Mr. Andersons family. Mrs. T. Hamilton is ill at her daughter Mrs. E. V. McGehee s home in Trinity. Mary Hilliard will join friends then Myrtle Beach for a party. T. M. Guy had an appendicitis operation at Memorial Hospital with satisfactory progress. Ed Tarold Jensen Homer Gallimore and Paul Bulla left for a vacation trip to New York City northern cities and Detroit returning in about ten days.
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E. R. Anderson
Durham
Mr. Anderson
H. Sykes
Liss Mary Hilliard
Timberlake
Myrtle Beach
Tarold Jensen
Homer Gallimore
Paul Bulla
New York City
Detroit
Mich
Church Social Measuring Party at Main Street Methodist
A measuring party will be held in the basement of the Main Street Methodist Church Tuesday evening at 7 30 to benefit the church building fund. Admission is one penny per inch measured. The Wesley Fellowship Group sponsors an informal social evening for attendees.
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Main Street Methodist
Wesley Fellowship
Three Bridge Events and Family Dinner At Emery Wood Club
The Emery wood Country Club hosts a busy week with three bridge events and a family dinner. Duplicate and contract bridge starts at ten, with the next evening event at eight in the ladies lounge. Thursday Family Night Dinner runs from six thirty to eight, with reservations required by Thursday noon.
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Emerywood Country Club
Miss Kirkman Weds C H James Jr at Vickery Chapel
Miss Nannie Blanche Kirkman of Greensboro weds C H James Jr also of Greensboro in a Vickery Chapel ceremony officiated by Rev J B Trogdon. The bride wore a white satin gown with lace veil and orange blossom halo. Bridesmaids wore organdy dresses in rainbow colors. The couple, graduates of Summer High School, will reside near Greensboro after a wedding trip.
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Vickery Chapel
Nannie Blanche Kirkman
Greensboro
C. H. James, Jr
J. B. Trogdon
Aliss Mary Bell Clark
Sehumann
Stults
Gladys Littlessing
d'Hardelot
Bond
MacDowell
Alildred Kirckman
Rebecca Yow
Doris Richardson
Laura Venable
Martha Lee Short
Maid of Honor
Hubal Clark, Jr
Wilmington
Norman Osborne
Oscar Barbee
Harold Richardson
Charles Wrenn
Guilford County
R. W.ixirkman
C. H. James, Sr
Norville Awning Company
Sumner
Jean Grafis notes on wartime Berlin diary entry
Berlin correspondent Jean Grafis describes wartime life in Berlin, noting sport and leisure scenes plus daily routines of German soldiers and French prisoners. He recalls bike racing, public dressing rooms, guards, and a passport mishap during a press visit.
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Hlarse
Berlin
Deutschland Halle
Reichssportfeld
Sportfeld
Miss Beulah Moton Presents Piano Pupils Recital
Miss Beulah Moton will present her piano pupils in a recital Thursday evening at eight o'clock at the First Methodist Church. Friends and patrons are invited to attend. Pupils include Lester Zimmerman, Vernon Zimmerman, Barbara Linthicum, Joyce Linthicum, Donald Chamblee, Mary Sizer, Jean Montgomery, Jewell Myers, Clyde Connor, Patsy Allman, Betty Allman, Lina Jane Davis, Nellie Jones, Pauline Mellanos, Zula Mae Spencer, Betty Harrison, Patsy Gadd, Margaret McIntyre, Hazel Zimmerman, Charlotte Zimmerman, Barbara Lowe, Ramona Pons, and Janice Edwards.
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Hagel
Charlotte Zimmerman
Barbara Lowe
Ramona Pons
Janice Edwards
Burbank Garden Club Picnic Set at City Lake
The annual Burbank Garden Club picnic will be held Wednesday evening at the city lake. The hour is six thirty, and members may bring their husbands to the gathering which concludes the club’s activities for the summer months.
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Burbank
Veterans of Formega Wars Auxiliary Meeting Notice
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Formega Wars will meet Tuesday evening at their hall on West Washington Street. The meeting time is set for the evening, with details indicating a scheduled hour.
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Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Veterans of Formega Wars
Jame 17
West Washington Street
Rhododendron Festival Opens in Asheville
Celebrants kick off the 14th annual Rhododendron Festival in Asheville with a week of gaiety. Coronation of festival king Brainard Robson and queen Pauline Bourne slated for Wednesday. Main event featured the Royal Rhododendron Guards dinner at Grove Park Inn. The festival began with a buffet for sponsors and court members, with events planned atop Pisgah.
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Asheville
Brainard Robson
Pauline Bourne
Royal
Grove Park Inn
Ting
AL. Pisgah
Fairy tale crossword puzzle with Beast and rose clues
Puzzle lists many across and down clues including references to Beauty and the Beast and other terms. Entries cover people, places, measures, colors, pronouns, and common words, with scattered numbers and partial phrases forming a large mixed clue grid.
Danish Ships Seized By U S Takeover Under New Law
The United States placed on the active service list six Danish freighters as the first of 84 foreign ships to be taken over under a new law. The vessels Nora Maria Jenna Rita Maersk Herta Maersk Jutta were idle in New York Boston and Portland. More idle foreign tonnage may follow.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Maritime Commission
Commission
Miotorship
Nora
Maria
Jenna
New York
Rita Maersk
Herta Maersk
Boston
Jutta
Portland
Great Britain Commission
Death by own action at Guilford College
Mrs Cornelia Micheaux Worth 63 was found shot to death in her automobile at Guilford College near Greensboro on June 16. Coroner Wallace G Freeman ruled it a plain case of death by own action, noting ill health.
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Guilford Guilford College
Cornelia Micheaux Worth
Wallace G. Freeman
Western Amateur entries open in Chicago heat
Entries for the Western Amateur are being accepted at the Western Golf Association headquarters in Chicago. The $5 entry fee is listed. The tournament is set for the Broadmoor course in Colorado Springs on July 16. A pursuit plane has 15 00 parts in the fuselage and wings joined by 78,000 rivets and welding.
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Chicago
Wester Golf Association
Washington St
Broadmoor
Colorado Springs
Son Born to Mr and Mrs Leonard
Mr and Mrs Fred C Leonard of Thomasville Road announce the birth of their son Flan nald Ray on Saturday June 11 at Burrus Memorial Hospital.
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Leonard
Fred C. Leonard
Thomasville Road
Flannald Ray
Burrus Memorial Hospital
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Broughton
H. H. Pressley
Gen. Aauw
Den
Rumford Baking Powder
Box T
Rumford, R
WCTU
Hamilton
E. V. McGehee Rinity
T. M. Guy
N Atlow
S Memorial Hospital
Robertson’s Bakery, Inc
Miss Kirkman
C.H. James, Jr
Jean
Jean Grafis
NEA
England
Paris
Beulah Moton
V. FW
Betty Jo Beeson
Billie Setzer
Chaunus Dancing Studio
Loczé
Women of the Moose
Britain
Rita Thoweroytty
Pesele
Beast
the Beast
U. S
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