Furniture Refinishing Demonstration In Buncombe County
A Weaverville Home Demonstration Club session showcased refinishing an antique Buncombe County sideboard. Under Mrs Mamie Evans supervision the Teague home hosted the lesson where varnish removed and five weekly oil applications revived the piece to a professional finish. The cabinet blends black walnut and curly maple for framework and drawer fronts with walnut inlays, creating contrasting grain and sheen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Raleigh
Weaverville Home Demonstration Club
Mamie Sue Evans
State College Extension Service
S. L. Teague
Weaverville
Diplomatic Shift as Taylor Leaves Poland for New Delhi
Clifford C. Taylor economic counsellor at the United States embassy departs Warsaw for New Delhi to take a similar post in India. Taylor is praised as one of the State Department’s outstanding economic experts and is noted as a former resident of radio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Clifford C. Taylor
United States
Poland
New Delhi
India
Taylor
State Department
Radio
afternoon radio schedule highlights and program lineup
A dense listing of radio programs across CBS NBC and ABC including concerts talks dramas and comedies. Notable names include Robert Merrill H K Smith Jack Paar Gene Autry and Fred Allen with various time slots from noon to midnight and references to syndication and regional daylight saving adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catholic Radio
Conrad Nagel
Cbs Those Websters
Mbs
Jos
Gallicchio Orch
Kate Smith
Nick Carter
Jack Paar
Gene Autry
Cbs
Ibs
Rogue's Gallery
Biondie
Dagwood
Cbe Melodies
California
Mbs Ree
Jack Smith
Gabriel Heatter
Firet Plano
Edmund Hockridge
ABC
Stan
Russian Zone Booming Fags
In the Soviet occupation zone of Germany the American cigarette is the hot black market item led by Berlin as the source. Cigarettes exchange for 12 marks per unit, about $1.20 at military rates, fueling barter with cameras and gold. A carload could fund a Soviet land reform farm of 7 to 10 hectares at roughly 250 marks per hectare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neubrandenburg
Mecklenburg
Germany
Berlin
Ruegen Island
Baltic Sea
U. S
British miners lay foundation stone for new Lidice in Czechoslovakia
In Lidice, five years after the village’s destruction by Gestapo, British miners and locals gathered to lay the foundation stone of a rebuilt Lidice. A large cross marked the old site while survivors and workers, including volunteers from Makotrasy and Kladno, watched as Bernard Stross led a 30,375 pound fundraising effort and the stone was placed amid ceremonial thunder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lidice
Czechoslovakia
Grante
Vilage
Europe
Kradno
Gestapo
Prague
Reinhardt Heydrich
der Henker
Makotrasy
Kladno
Bernard Stross
Ban on Sunday bear and bull-baiting in King James I era
In 1617 England King James I issued a Book of Sports banning bear and bull-baiting on Sundays, reflecting royal attempts to regulate public entertainment and religious observing practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
James I
Also Mentioned on This Page
Buncombe County
Golfcrest Development
Blair Park Golf Course
Player Construction Co
Ellwood Hotel
North Carolina
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Policy
High Point
America
Cba
Kelly
Mbs Sebeawner
Sonaee Fabree
Kaye
Lee Sweetland
Avid Harding
Drew Pearson
Willie Piper
Stroit Symphony
Winchell
Olly Wood
Immy Fidler
Theatre Guild of the Air
Neve & Dane
Hr —West
N. C
Enterprise
SA New Lidice
Centennial Avenue
High Point, N. C
Cadillac
South
College Street
Highland Motors, Inc
North Main Street
High Point, N. 0
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