State Grange backs diverting surplus highway funds
Greensboro The State Grange executive committee calls for diverting surplus highway funds to the construction and improvement of secondary or farm to market roads. The committee also supports a two year agricultural and engineering program at N C State College citing need for trained staff and road maintenance across many areas.
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Greensboro
State Grange
N.C. State College
Business and Indus Committee
Lavish Confederate Tipster Delights Chapel Hill Scene
A South region visitor left multiple $100 tips in Confederate currency for hotel staff and a reporter in Chapel Hill. The Carolina Inn waiter and a bellboy each found Confederate notes after serving the delegate and room service.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
Southeastern Institute For Chamber of Commerce
Carolina Inn
Sawyer Named WAYS Manager in Charlotte
Thomas B. Sawyer, former WIST commercial manager and 1951-52 state senator, was named general manager of Radio Station WAYS Charlotte. He succeeds James P. Poston, who resigned. Sawyer came to Charlotte in January 19 from Durham where he led WSSB.
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Charlotte
Thomas B. Sawyer
Sawyer
WIST
James P. Poston
Durham
WSSB
State Senate
Banks to raise savings interest rates on July 1
Charlotte banks will push savings rates to as high as 2 percent on July 1 to attract funds in a tighter money market. Most will increase from 1 to 2 percent. FDIC member banks set the maximum.
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Charlotte
Farm Boys And Girls Hear 4H Club Week Talks
Greensboro P H Stone of the U S Department of Agriculture will address farm boys and girls at A T & T College during 4H Club Week. The program includes state finals in baking food preparation and dressmaking for girls and cotton forage and peanut crop production for boys.
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Greensboro
P. H. Stone
Extension Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A&t College
North Carolina Veterinary Association Opens Annual Meeting
The North Carolina State Veterinary Medical Assn. meets in Greensboro to install Dr. R. L. Williams as president, name a president elect and two board members, and vote on a resolution endorsing fluoridation of public water supplies to prevent tooth decay.
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Greensboro
North Carolina State Veterinary Medical Assn
R. L. Williams
Brisk
Drowns In Private Lake Near Greensboro
A 15-year-old junior high student identified as John Jessie Boger of Rt. 5 Greensboro drowned yesterday while swimming in a private lake eight miles north of the city. Sheriff's deputies reported the incident.
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Greensboro
Ming
Here
Sheriff's
John Jessie Boger
Rt. 5
Insurance Rate Fight Heads to North Carolina Supreme Court
The North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau plans to appeal a Wake County ruling that denied its request for a 25 percent higher rate on farm property. Judge Hamilton Hobgood upheld Insurance Commissioner Charles F Gold's denial, citing five years of loss data. The bureau argues higher losses due to aging farm properties and overinsurance, while noting insurers could address the issue.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau
Superior Court
Hamilton Hobgood
High Court
Hobgood
Wake Superior Court
Charles F. Gold
Rating Bureau
Gold
Hogood
Plans Made For Leaf Association Meeting In Myrtle Beach
The resolutions committee of the Bright Belt Warehouse Assn meets to set the stage for the annual convention. Five new agriculture commissioner seats join the board as recommendations from a 20 member committee are considered. South Carolina opens leaf markets August 2, per state association.
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Myrtle Beach
S.C.P
the Resolutions Committee of “ the
Bright Belt Warehouse Assn
Association
Agriculture Commissioners
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Four Year-Old Passes Out Bills in Florida Yard
In Jacksonville four year-old Michael Lowas handed out $36 in bills to neighborhood playmates after taking his mother’s purse outside. Father Larry Lowas notes many children are nearby and jokes the ice cream man likely took most of it.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Michael Lowas
Larry Lowas
Portable screen house on a budget for summer living
Do it yourself plans and material list for a portable screen house priced about 100 dollars. Instructions and materials are in the July issue of Better Homes Gardens, available wherever magazines are sold.
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Better Homes & Gardens
Autonomy Group Calls for Audit of Baptist Convention Funds
Greensboro report says Committee for Church Autonomy demands an audit of state convention books to verify that funds were not used to finance litigation. It cites a North Rocky Mount church dispute and a Supreme Court ruling on church autonomy and property control.
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Greensboro
Baptist Church Autonomy
State Convention
Committee For Church Autonomy
State Supreme Court
North Rocky Mount
Tennessee Name Origin Traced to Cherokee Village Tanasi
The name Tennessee derives from the Cherokee village Tanasi. Historians note the transition from Tanasi to Tennessee reflecting early Native American place names in the region.
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Tennessee
Tanasi
Budget Group In Unofficial Stop By Lynn Nisbets Belhaven
The advisory budget commission began its 1956 tour with an unofficial stop at Belhaven near Rodman Jr. The party, hosted by William B. Rodman Jr., fished the Pamlico and Pungo rivers between Washington and Belhaven and planned to stay at River Forest Inn. Axson Smith arranged meals and lodging for the group.
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Lynn Nisbet
Belhaven
Advisory Budget Commission
Elizabeth City State Teachers College
Pamlico
Pungo Rivers
Washington
William B. Rodman Jr
Vance
Axson Smith
River Forest
Pungo
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Leaf Association
Fred S. Royster
Henderson, N.C
Warehouseman
Bright Belt
J. B. Hutson
Tobacco Associates, Inc
Clarence L. Miller
Tobacco Division
U.S. Department of Agriculture Commodity Stabilization Service
S. E. Wrather
Usda Agricultural Marketing Service
L. T. Weeks
Florida Belt
Middle Belt
Bills
Autonomy Group
Huffman Paint & Wallpaper
Haralson
George A. Mary C. Haralson
High Point
N. C
Maan
Colgate
Pitor Nee
Fluoride
The
Colgate-Palmolive Co
Hunter Coal
Wauptreea
Ward
of Men’‘s
Penney Styling
Tance, Machine
Penney
Rise ‘N Shine” Penney Dusters
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