State Hospital Superintendent Watkins Honored Posthumously
Dr. F B Watkins, superintendent of State Aogeo Morganton, died in Rutherfordton hospital. The writer credits Watkins and his predecessor Dr. John McCampbell with care for patients amid a parsimonious budget and argues abuses stemmed from economy ideas rather than negligence. Watkins is praised as a fatherly caretaker and his place in North Carolina’s Hall of Fame is affirmed. The piece notes his work within budget limits and reflects on modern treatments.
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Watkins
F. B. Watkins
Aogeo Morganton
Rutherfordton Hospital
John McCampbell
Dr. Watkins
McCampbell
North Carolina
Hall of Fame
Terrible Eye plots collide with a wedding night farce
Jonah Logan plans to hide the Terrible Eye and dodge Mahoney as Hildy hurries to marry. A moonlit chase ends with Saxon’s fury and a dawn of uncertain futures. Miss Meath boards a New York bound train with a diamond tiara, while Logan faces his father and a Navy future.
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Jonah
Hildy Channing
Father
Mahoney
New York
Miss Meath
Gertrude Swan
Joe the
Cracker
Hildy
Navy
Foreign Legion
Shilly
Shally
Logan
Iceman
Jonah Logan
Objectors On Hunger Strike At Danbury Prison
Two conscientious objectors confined at the federal reformatory in Danbury Connecticut have been on a hunger strike for a week. They are being force fed through tubes and are reported all right. James V Bennett director of the bureau of prisons said the men struck over alleged mistreatment and that he did not understand the phrase constructive treatment but noted it as the reason.
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Salem Bay
Bell
Hildy
Jonah
Foreign Legion
Jonah Logan
Chet
Darling
Taj Mahal
Jersey
Alexander
Simonby
Mahoney
Washington
Federal Reformatory
Danbury
Conn
James V. Bennett
Bureau of Prisons
Prison Bureau
Red Cross Slogan Touts Victory Goat Donation
In Spokane Washington the Red Cross adopts a slogan for a new fund drive as Mrs A C Knight of Post Falls Idaho donates a herd of milk goats. The goats will be sold to raise war relief money with buyers urged to expect free lawn mowing and milk output of three to seven quarts daily from the goats.
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Spokane
Wash
The
Red Cross
A. C. Knight
Post Falls
Idaho
Red Cross War Relief Fund
Robert D. Wallis
French Workers Shipments Trigger Paris Street Uprising
French patriots clash in Paris and other cities as collaborationist authorities ship 50 contingents of workers to Germany. Guerrillas strike German targets in Lille and Paris, while Vichy reports total numbers, with German orders aimed at stripping France of able bodied men.
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London
Paris
Marseilles
Germany
Vichy
France
Gestapo
Pierre Laval
Adolf Hitler
Rue de la Borde
Dakar
Lyons
Red Cross Helps Serviceman’s Family Across Seas
The Red Cross coordinates for Private Bill to send money home and assure his wife and twins are cared for while he fights in the South Pacific. Home service workers assist with finances and medical care until increased allotment reaches the family. The article notes Red Cross aid to 1,500,000 servicemen and families last year and calls for continued support of the 1943 War Fund of 125 million dollars.
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Bill
American Red Cross
M Us
South Pacific
Red Cross
Home Service
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W. A. Bivins
Kansas
Salem
Mass
A. Hoyt
Levy
Congress of the United States of America
A. FitzRoy Anderson
America
Edwin Butt
Chapter
Miss Hildy
Night Watchman
Griffiths
Chester Saxon
NEA Service, Inc
Piedmont Carolinas
Duke Power CO
Chanute Field
Hitler
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command School
Washigton
D. C
Sarge
Utah
Rose Hungerford
U.S
W. C. Ervin
York
Army
Diamonds — Watches
Wagger
Berets
Millinery Dept
Gow
Wachovia
Asheville
Charlotte
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Raleigh
Salisbury
ANX
Ston-Salem
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Member
Federal Reserve System
Trust Department
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