Bennett In Critical Condition At Alamance General
Dr. Hugh H. Bennett the 79 year old soil conservation pioneer remained in critical condition at Alamance County General Hospital in Burlington NC. He traveled from Falls Church VA with his son and is said to have cancer. Bennett led the Soil Erosion Service beginning in 1933 and built a nationwide soil conservation program earning the nickname Big Hugh.
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Burlington, N.C
Hugh H. Bennett
Alamance County General Hospital
Bennett
Bureau of Soils
Soil Erosion Service
Commerce Dept
Falls Church
Burlington Hospital
H. H. Bennett Jr
Burlington
Dr. Bennett
Wadesboro
N.C
Pee Dee
University of North Carolina
America
Big Hugh
Reformed Alcoholic Sought For Job
Carson City Nevada AP state seeks a reformer to lead a new alcoholism agency budgeted at 25000 dollars with salary from 589 to 969 dollars monthly. The director must be an arrested alcoholic who has two years sober and an active Alcoholics Anonymous member.
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Carson City
Nev
State Personnel Department
Alcoholics Anonymous
Castro threatens U.S. sugar interests in Cuba rally
Castro warned at Artemisa rally that if the United States cuts Cuban sugar purchases his regime would seize American assets and mills penny by penny. He denounced the U S sugar bill as stupid and criminal and pledged to repurpose sugar land if exports to the United States fall.
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Cuba
United States
Castro
Sugar Workers’ Federation
Artemisa
Havana
U.S
U. S
House Agriculture Committee
Airline pilots vote on picket cooperation with Southern strikes
Air Line Pilots Assn weighing a special vote by its 300 member board to honor pickets at 11 Southern Airways terminals. If approved ALPA pilots would not cross lines in cities targeted by Southern unit, halting most air traffic. Southern pilots struck June 5 for higher wages and changes. 12 of 60 flights expected to resume soon.
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Charlotte
Air Line Pilots Assn
Southern Airways
Southern Air
Chicago
ALPA
Alpa Southern
Southern
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Jackson
Miss
Memphis
Nashville
Birmingham
Mobile
Huntsville
Ala
New Orleans
Monroe
Esday
Graydon Hall
Peeple
Kelly Leaves Character Over Wealth in Will
The Philadelphia business magnate John B. Kelly, father of Princess Grace, dictated his will on April 14 and died last week at 70. He leaves most estate to wife and three daughters and son, while noting character as more valuable than money.
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Philadelphia
John B. Kelly
Grace of
Monaco
Kelly
Atlantic City
Truman Invited to Philippines Independence Anniversary
The Manila Times reports former President Harry S. Truman is invited to attend the 14th anniversary celebration of Philippine independence on July 4. Truman signed the 1946 declaration of independence for the Philippines.
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MANLA
Harry S. Truman
Manila Times
Truman
Philippines
United States
Railroads Seek B&O Stock In Merger Prospects
New York Central and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads bid for Baltimore and Ohio stock. Central offers 1% Central stock plus $9 cash per B&O share, valuing near $43. C&O previously proposed 1% B&O for one C&O share. Central aims for a three way merger with B&O and C&O. C&O favors a two way merger and warns against expanding to include another eastern line. Central cites Pennsylvania Railroad's growing eastern system as motive.
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NEW York
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
New York Central
Chesapeake & Ohio
Central
C&o
B&o
B&o Commons
iNew York Stock Exchange
The
the Central
Alfred Perlman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Perlman
Pennsylvania Railroad
Boy 6 Uses Rocks to Smash School Windows
In New Haven a 6 year old boy methodically pitched rocks at a school. A passerby asked why and the boy said I feel like it then resumed throwing. Police stopped him after he had smashed 14 panes of glass and cracked two doors.
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New Haven
This Time He'll Paddle Canoe This Time He'll Paddle Canoe
Donald Hormuth 25 drowned after falling from a boat while fishing east of Marathon. His wife Bobbie Lou Hormuth started the boat causing him to topple into choppy Atlantic waters. Coast Guard and other boats searched. Hormuth was found later adrift, alive but exhausted.
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Dade City
Atlantic Ocean
Donald Hormuth
Bobbie Lou
Marathon
Car Hop Reports King-Size Order at White Castle
An Indianapolis car hop, 18 year old Jerry B. Mills, said he took a king-size order for 50 hamburgers to three men in a car at a White Castle this Tuesday. The driver pushed him away and sped off, police were told.
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Inlianapolis
Indianapolis
Jerry B. Mills
White Castle
Methodists Review Church Efforts In Education Field
North Carolina Methodist Conference in Rocky Mount reviews higher education efforts with Dr John O Gross of Nashville to speak to about 900 ministers and lay delegates. Report on progress at North Carolina Wesleyan and Methodist College as they prepare to open this fall. Bishop Garber and Terry Sanford receive strong backing as Sanford is nominated for governor. State Correction Commissioner Madison urges active church role to heal juvenile delinquency.
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Rocky Mount, N.C
North Carolina Methodist Conference
John O. Gross
Division of Higher Education
Methodist Board of Education
Nashville
Tenn
First Methodist Church
Paul Carruth
Leigh
Commission On Christian Higher Education
North Carolina Wesleyan
Rocky Mount
Methodist College
Fayetteville
Terry Sanford
Sanford
Paul N. Garber
Garber
Methodist
North Carolina
Blaine M. Madison
Conference Board of Social and Economic Relations
Poor weapon to fight fire ends in blaze
A Bayard garage operator helped a stalled motorist during a fire in a station wagon engine. He fired a pistol into the gas tank to prevent an explosion. Gasoline spurting from the tank ignited and the vehicle was destroyed.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Bayard
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