Deep River dam report urged by Sen. Jordan in Senate
In Randleman locals react to Sen. B Everette Jordan's Senate remarks about the Deep River dam project and the delayed Cape Fear Basin report. He urged the Corps of Engineers and Soil Conservation Service to finish the joint basin report for Congressional action. In the same piece Charley Weisner reflects on a Colonial golf round that included a hole in one on No. 8. Other notes include superstitions about feet sweeping to marriage, funny regional rabbit lore, and local community tidbits from Darr Field to Guil-Rand Fire volunteers.
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Randleman
Sen. B. Everette Jordan
Senate
Deep River
Cape Fear
Corps of Engineers
Soil Conservation Service
Charley Weisner
Colonial
Charley
Coke Trimnal
Colonial Lakes
Coke
Moving week in Thomasville includes cards and polio shots
A local columnist recalls a hectic week moving into a new Thomasville home, a misused complaint credit card, and a dog incident with her son. Dr Dermont Lohr is noted for a county polio case as residents are urged to take booster shots.
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Davidson County
Thomasville
Debate Over DC Suffrage Amendment Opens House Fight
Raleigh report on Tuesday’s planned vote to ratify the 23rd Amendment granting DC residents presidential voting rights. Key players include Rep. Ed Kemp who introduced the resolution and Rep. John Kerr who leads the opposition, with Eastern legislators urging caution about local control for the District.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
U. S
District of Columbia
Guilford
Ed Kemp
Rep
John Kerr
Warren County
Kemp
Warren
Kerr
D. C
Legislature Behind Schedule in 1961 General Assembly Progress
Raleigh The 1961 General Assembly remains behind 1959 pace after five weeks with 199 bills and resolutions filed 67 Senate 132 House, far short of 263 total two years earlier. No revenue or tax bill has been introduced and few hearings have occurred with only 14 bills and 14 resolutions enacted into law.
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Lynn Nisbet Raleigh
General Assembly
Senate
House
Gov. Sanford
Advisory Budget Commission
Tar Heel Husband Builds His Own Career In Business World
UNC alumnus Jack Powell, husband of Janet Travell the President’s physician, is a prominent business executive. Since 1919 he climbed from UNC baseball star to banking, import export, real estate and stock investments, now vice president at Trainer Wortham in New York. Powell and Travell reside in Washington with two children and a grandchild, while Travell serves the White House and Powell opens a new branch for his firm.
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White House
University of North Carolina
UNC
Jack Powell
Janet Travell
Kennedy
John William Gordon Powell
Roxobel
Powell
Ernest L. Mackie
Dudley D. Carroll
Kenan
School of Business Administration
National City Bank of New York
Carroll
National City Bank
Montevideo
Uruguay
Bank
North Carolina
Durham Realty and Investment Co
Chase National Bank of
New York City
Cohn Brothers
N. Y. Stock Exchange
van Strum Financial Service
Luther Hodges
Athletic Assn
Yackety-Yack
Sigma Upsilon
Omega Delta
Gorgon's Head
Minotaurs
Golden Fleece
Zeta Psi
Janet D. Travell
Janet
James R. MccAfee
Virginia
E. A. Street
Joseph E. Moore
Charlotte
Powells
Washington, D. C
Trainer, Wortham and Co
Dr. Travell
United States
Meaning of words in Southern schools integration vs desegregation
Nashville report by Tom Flake analyzes evolving usage of integration and desegregation in education after the 1954 Supreme Court decision. It contrasts legal and social meanings, citing psychologists and editors, and notes tensions between official policy and public speech in the Deep South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Flake
Southern Education Reporting Service
Southern School News
Nashville
Tenn
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
South
Deep South
Kenneth B. Clark
City College of New York
Society For Psychological Study of
Clark
H. James Crecraft
American Orthopsychiatric Assny
Sylvan Meyer
Gainesville, Gay Daily Times
Georgia
U. S. Commission On Civil Rights
Southern Regional Council
Meyer
William D. Workman Jr
South Carolina
Mary Reifer
Philosophical Library
Bergen Evans
Cornelia Evans
Random House
Rev Tucker Tours New Progressive Care Center
Rev Clyde H Tucker of High Point pastor and Baptist moderator visited Baptist Hospital Winston-Salem for a preview of the Progressive Care Center before its opening. He joined Baptist associations to discuss the Mother's Day offering supporting needy patients. The center with 80 tent rooms frees 80 beds for acutely ill patients, equating to an 80 bed wing amid a bed shortage.
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Clyde H. Tucker
High Point
Reavis Memorial
Judge rules against spanking with high heels in divorce case
Circuit Judge Chester D. Adams grants Katherine D. Schwartz a divorce from Irvin Schwartz after finding he struck his wife with a shoe. Adams notes common law allowed chastisement with a switch but would bar the modern spiked nailed-heel shoes worn by women today.
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Lexington
Chester D. Adams
Katherine D. Schwartz
Irvin Schwartz
Schwartz
Adams
Egg marker found in Tulsa library book
A Tulsa librarian reported an unusual find among returned books a fried egg used as a page marker. The egg, preserved in a book, drew attention as an odd item among standard library surprises.
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Tulsa
Okla
Eclipses and Fire Arrows in Ojibway Legend
Ancient Ojibway people feared solar eclipses and aimed fire arrows at the sun to rekindle the light. They believed their shots could restore the sun until the eclipse ended, joking that they were good at striking the fire back to life.
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Braxton
Marie Coble
Richard Neave
Workman
Darr Field
Dwight Lohr
J. L. Darr Sr
Dwight
Bob Horney
John Tobin
Tobin
Horney
Guil - Rand Fire Volunteer Department
Turner
Bonnie Moore
Enterprise
The
Tele
Davidson County Health
Thomasville Po
Lice Department
Sheriff's Department
Ture
Dent
Dermont Lohr
Congress
By Clyde Stallings
Chapel Hill
Trainer
Wortham and Co
New
Warrenton
Randolph Macon Academy
John Powell
Edith Travell
James McAlee
Richard
Europe
Devin-Adair
Tucker
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