Oil Drilling Advances at Merrimon Site in Eastern NC
East Carolina oil efforts press forward as Merrimon wildcat drill reaches 400 feet after spudding last Sunday. Carolina Petroleum Company of Durham heads Merrimon operations with Lee C. Morse derrick equipment and plans 700 feet depth to strike possible granite or oil, while Trevor Stamey reports varied formations along the coast and profitable landowner royalties of about 30 dollars daily per well.
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Aycock Brown
Morehead City
Easternorth
Carolina
Merrimon
Standard Oil Company
Buxton
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Earth
T. S. Petty
Houston
Texas
Jacksonville
Onslow County
Merrimon Wildcat Carolina Petroleum Company of
Durham
Roderick Stamey
Carteret County
Bessie M
Guy Carraway
Adams Creek
Neuse River
Merriman
Stamey
Lee C. Morse
Wome
Messer
Carraway
Crab Point
Fayetteville
As Company
Swedish Red Cross Extends Relief to Several Nations
Stockholm reports the Swedish Red Cross will extend humanitarian relief by shipping medicine and surgical instruments to Romania Poland the Soviet Union Greece France and possibly other countries. The project costs about 2 million kronor equal to roughly $500000. New potatoes suit salads creaming and similar dishes as they hold shape. boiling preserves more vitamins than baking.
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Stockholm
INS
Swedish Red Cross
Rumania
Poland
Et Union
Greece
France
Guilford County Transfers Mortgage and Property in High Point
Guilford County Realty transfers include High Point mortgage to A G Marsh and wife for two Hines street lots and city transfers a Ragan Harmon lot to J C Allen and wife. Multiple pairs of owners exchange parcels on Filbert Clyde Fisher Forest and other streets with subdivision notes. Deepest harbor remark follows about New Orleans traffic signals.
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High Point Mortgage and Investment Corporation
A. G. Marsh
Hines Street
City of
High Point
J. C. Allen
Ragan and Harmon
Robert McKiney
Dorothy McKiney Brown
Filbert Street
Paul Sullivan
Thomas Co. Key
Rankin Teague and
Welch
Lester P. Adams
J. R. Carrick
Tryon Street
Paul W. Godfrey
A. A. Koonts
East Green Street
Joseph Gordon
Edwin C. Rankin
Clyde Street
Paulette R. Halton
T. G. Callahan
Hillsdale
J. Fred Lambe
James June Ingram
Lincolnshire
O. R
Roy Perdue
Fisher Street
Beverly J. Yates
H. D. Idol
Forest Avenue
U S Students Tour Canada Under RC Plan
Detroit area Ameri can Junior Red Cross launches international exchange plan. Twenty Detroit high school students lived with Canadian host families in Montreal and toured industries schools and public offices. They met Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Ottawa as part of The World As A Community program. The plan aims to expand to Mexico Europe and Asia with 60 million members in 60 countries.
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Detroit
INS
American Junior Red Cross
Canada
Mexico
ARC
Montreal
Junior Red Cross
McKenzie King
MacKenzie King
Ottawa
Que
New War Brides Learn to Budget and Cook in Erie
In Erie Pennsylvania war brides attend a Red Cross organized class at Lawrence Park high school to learn how to spend the American dollar on American food. They study budgeting shopping economical meals and how to run modern kitchens reflecting memories of wartime shortages. Mrs Lewis Nagy recalls scarce items and limited eggs during the war era.
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Erie
INS
American Red Cross
Lawrence Park High School
Food Smugglers Save Face Of Japanese Police
Tokio report says urban residents travel to rural areas to buy black market food and bind railway policemen to stop them taking food home. At dusk rural sellers untie the cops to spare their image, while city dwellers scold officers for hindering meals.
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Tokyo
INS
Squirrels Steal Doughnuts From Evanston Shop Door
Police traced a doughnut theft at an Evanston food shop as four squirrels opened a box and one escapes with the loot after William Rogers reported early morning break ins. Patrolman William Ianson stood guard but the creatures fled into nearby trees with the treat.
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Evanston
Ill
William Rogers
William Ianson
Punctuality Spoiled By Stalled Train For 42 Years
Louis Richter, a 76 year old tool maker at Winchester Repeating Arms, held a record of arriving five minutes early to work for 42 years. One day a freight train stalled him for four minutes, delaying him to one minute before seven. He retired still noted for his decades of punctuality despite the setback. The article also notes a historical aside about North Africa being called the granary of Rome between 800 and 600 B.C.
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New Haven
Conn
INS
Louis Richter
Richter
Winchester Repeating Arms Co
Ichter
Yesterns
Blind inventor uses mental blueprints in Portland
In Portland Oregon blind inventor Clifford Quint works in a basement shop crafting devices and adapting tools for use without sight. He sights no loom but relies on mental blueprints and sounds from modified lathes to guide his projects including lamps an extension light holder for auto work and a power axle.
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Portland
Ore
INS
Clifford Quint
Quint
Colorado Coeds Guide World Students at University of Colorado
At the University of Colorado International House in Boulder nineteen female residents from diverse nations prepare to ease visiting exchange students into American campus life. Elizabeth Harris, president, notes the house helps newcomers adapt gradually, with sociology initially common among residents, later expanding into other fields. A male counterpart may reopen for the term.
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Boulder
Colo
INS
United States
University of Colorado
International House At
Elizabeth Harris
International House
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Guilford County Realty
High Point Township
New Orleans
U.S
RC Plan
America
North Africa
Rome
Scott
Wales
Rj.sco
Dicke
India
Ther Holboll
Palk Frozen Foods
Eckerd
Cosmetic
Shulton
Chantilly
Revlon
Primrose House
Richard Hudnut
Colorado
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