School Officials Seek Bus Tires
A North Carolina delegation from the State School Commission travels to Washington to press for tires for 4,900 state buses. They urge prioritization below military needs and seek a reserve pool of 7,000 tires. Officials describe aging buses, safety concerns, and evolving state agency coordination amid wartime shortages.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Motel
Raleigh
State School Commission
Washington
North Carolina
Nathan Yelton
C. C. Brown
Clyde Erwin
Charles M. Johnson
Johnson
War Production Board
Union
Yelton
OPA
Norman Shepard
State Office
Japs Consolidate Aleutian Positions
Tokyo says Japanese forces occupied Kiska on June 7 and Attu on June 8 in the Aleutians and are consolidating positions. Kiska renamed Narukami and Attu Atsuta, with Narukami from thunder month and Atsuta after the Nagoya shrine. Weather was bitterly cold, crews kept watch every two hours, and seeds and potatoes were moved for planting to show long-term intent.
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Tokyo
Aleutian Islands
Kiska
Attu
Imperial
Narukami
Atsuta
Domei
Atsuta Island
Atsuta Shrine
Nagoya
Pacific
United States
James H. Doolittle
Makoto Saito
Marine Corps
Aleutians
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State OPA May Shrink as Budget Cuts Hit NC Office
North Carolina OPA faces possible scaling back from House budget cuts. State Director Ted Johnson envisaged a 2,000-strong force and offices in Winston-Salem Charlotte Asheville Wilmington and Greenville but may end with a fraction. The Budget Bureau and committee reductions threaten staffing and delay full OPA establishment, with Johnson counting on presidential intervention.
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Raleigh
Ted Johnson
North Carolina
Office of Price Administration
House Appropriations Committee
OPA
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Asheville
Wilmington
Greenville
Johnson
Budget Bureau
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Congressmienz
I Feel Duty Bound to Tell Others How L K Helped Me
North Carolina readers praise DR. FOSTER'S Leix as a trusted remedy. Mrs. W. J. Church of High Point recounts severe digestion and energy woes, relief from gas pressure and headaches, and renewed strength after using L K. She urges others to seek the genuine product at drug stores.
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L-K
W. J. Church
Tryon St. High Point
N. C
L K
DR. Foster's
Radio Program Listing for Friday June 26
Friday evening schedule incoherent fragments list multiple acts and times. Descriptions include Hollywood Orchestra, Basie, Irene, Johnson Fial, cowboy drama, crime hour, Meet Your News, Abe Listen, People Are Funny, quiz shows, Night of June, Morgan Beatty, and news blocks. Contains numerous program names, times, and repeats with unclear order.
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Webworks
Hollywood Orchestra
Ube
Loue
Musicate—distrommient
Nbe
Basie le
Daek Armetrong
Bill Stern
Noa
Blu-Basie Dlu
Abs
Wai Irene Ma
Ehs
the Johnson Fial
Lona Ranger
Abe
Tony We Mantallon
Inah Shore
Ramona
Hira Maxwell
Barty Line
Bob Hawk
Clia
Bltr
Abe Morgan Beatty
Wac
Ebs
Fred Warkig
Ohre
Miss Dosh Applies for WAAC Now in Detroit
Miss Alice Dosh of this city is visiting her mother in Detroit Michigan and recently applied for a position in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Indications are the WAAC will be full before action on her application. She was formerly employed at Murray M. White Inc local Insurance agency.
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Alice Dosh
Detroit
Mich
Miss Dosh
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
WAAC
Murray M. White, Inc
May Draft French For German Labor
VICHY June 26 The first public proposal that French workers be conscripted for labor in Germany was made today by Francis des Phelippon leader of the French labor front He said the proposal favors requisitioning certain classes of special assigns should it become necessary Paris press reported Special assigns are workmen sent to industrial work rather than the army during the war Paris newspapers headlined a demand over the Paris radio by a German representative who said Germany sacrifices the youth daily and France should do its part
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Vichy
Germany
Francis Des Phelippon
Labor Front
Des Phelippon
Paris
Germain
Houwer
France
Governors Close National Meet in Asheville
Governors from 35 states concluded the National Governors Conference in Asheville pledging cooperation with the president for the war effort and opposing any move to curb state taxing power. They condemned federalizing unemployment compensation and then toured the Ecusta Paper plant in Brevard at a luncheon. Gov Herbert R. Conor of Maryland became chairman of the executive committee, succeeding Gov Harold Stassen of Minnesota.
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Asheville
Congress
Brevard
Ecusta Paper Corporation
Illinois Women Seek Army Cavalry at Denver Station
Col. Thomas N. Gimperling is puzzled by letters from six Illinois women who want to enlist in a hard-riding, hard-fighting women’s cavalry corps reported at the Denver recruiting station of the U S army. He has not heard of such a unit.
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Denver
Thomas N. Gimperling
Illinois
U. S. v Army
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