North Carolina Solons Swamped by Mail at Session
North Carolina lawmakers faced a flood of letters and telegrams as the 1947 general assembly tackled key issues. Averaging 100 pieces weekly per member, with leaders receiving about a hundred daily, correspondence surged on topics from the wildlife bill to teacher pay, library funding, and liquor prohibition.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Capitol
Senate
House
Chapel Hill
Buncombe
Henry Fisher
Guilfora
George Penny
Sheldon
Inner-Aid dubbed remedy for gas and bloating relief
A testimonial claims Inner-Aid reduces gas and bloating after meals and lowers waistline, promising relief from upset stomach. The ad touts a formula of medicinal juices from 12 herbs that aid digestion and liver and kidney function, with sales at drug stores.
Four Thomasville Negroes Arrested For Prostitution
Thomasville police and Deputy Lashley arrested four Negroes here for prostitution and assignation on Monday. The names listed include Fred Berry and Maxine Tuttle, Ealy Douglas and Ruth Mosby, and Calwood Haygood who faced a concealed weapon charge.
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Thomasville
W. H. Lashley
Fred Berry
Maxine Tuttle
Ealy Douglas
Ruth Mosby
Calwood Haygood
James H. Cooper
Epes Murphy
Luther Wilson
Loraine Wilson
Jessie Maxton
Superior Court
Lexington
Clifford Lewis
William Skeen
Colon Lewis
Clyde Watford
Austin Harris
James C. Stanton
Charlotte
Oddis
Dan Harris
Woodrow Yount
Arville Cook
High Point
Funeral for Hezekiah Haywood held at AME Zion Church
Funeral services for Hezekiah Haywood fatally shot in his Hooverd Street tavern will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday from AME Zion Church on Price Street. Survivors include his widow Essie Lee Haywood and four sisters and two brothers. The body lies in state at his sister's home 913 FE. High St.
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Haywood
Hezekiah Haywood
Hooverd Street
AME Zion Church
Price Street
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
Mt. Vernon
F. O. Bass
Essie Lee Haywood
Blanche Roach
Jessie Henderson
This City
Carolyn Little
Washington, D. C
Grace Haywood
Stanford
Church OF God
Gurley Street
Kinston
N. C
Alvin Holly
E. Lee Street
Cabinet shuffle questions and dated fortune
The quiz asks who replaced Henry Wallace as agriculture secretary and who succeeded Harold Ickes as interior secretary, plus who now heads the treasury in Truman's cabinet. The page also includes etiquette hints and a Pope quotation on life, plus a horoscope predicting business gains and cautious changes.
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Henry Wallace
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture
Harold Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of the Treasury
President Truman
Industrial figures named in wartime administration tests
Clinton P. Anderson Julius Krug and John W Snyder are listed as key figures in a wartime era administration test. The items reference cabinet-level roles and policy leadership during the period.
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Clinton P. Anderson
Julius Krug
John W. Snyder
Oasis Temple to Hold Spring Ceremonial May 15
Oasis Temple of Western North Carolina in Charlotte will hold its spring ceremonial and business meeting on May 15. Potentate W Hendrix Palmer announced the event. A special train will depart May 24 for the annual meeting of the council in Atlantic City.
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Charlotte
Oasis Temple
North Carolina
Mystic Shrine
W. Hendrix Palmer
Palmer
As Sich Council
Atlantic City
County seeks aid for rural volunteer fire departments
Mecklenburg county will seek legislative permission to fund rural volunteer fire departments breaking the need for a county department. County commissioners tasked attorney Francis Clarkson to confer in Raleigh with Attorney General Harry McMullen and the legislative delegation on an enabling act. A volunteer department was chartered in Wilkinson Boulevard area and another is being organized at Oakhurst with more planned.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Francis Clarkson
Raleigh
Harry McMullen
Wilkinson Boulevard
Oakhurst
Descendant of Franklin Dies in Florida Hospital
Franklin Bache Huntington, 72, great great great grandson of Benjamin Franklin, died in a St. Petersburg hospital after an air ambulance flight donated for his kinship. He was found in critical condition in New York earlier this year and had shown improvement before his death.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Franklin Bache Huntington
Benjamin Franklin
Florida
New York
Amazon Workers Organize Pickets At Union Meeting
Thomasville reports a closed Local No. 633 meeting of TWUA CIO in City Hall with speaker H D Lisk of Concord state director. Discussion covered general local business and the Amazon Cotton mills strike. Lisk left for Greensboro after the session.
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Thomasville
H. D. Lisk
Concord
Twuacio
City Hall
Joe Brooks
Amazon Cotton Mills
Lisk
Greensboro
Meningitis Is Treated at Sea
A crew member of the SS M E Comerford ill with spinal meningitis en route from France will be hospitalized in Charleston after emergency at sea. The ship, 250 miles off Cape Hatteras, was diagnosed by a coast guard doctor in Miami. A PBM plane dropped 2,000,000 units of penicillin but rough seas prevented landing. The patient’s name was not released.
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Charleston
S. C
France
M.E. Comerford
Cape Hatteras
Coast Guard
Miami
Fla
Coast Guard Pbm Mariner
Elizabeth City
N. C
Sugar allotment cut protests in Guilford County
The Greensboro Merchants Association and chamber of commerce protested a 15 percent cut in basic sugar allotments for industrial users in Guilford County. The reduction, announced by the office of temporary controls in Washington, cited population shifts. Protests were made to Rep. Durham.
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Greensboro
Greensboro Merchants Association and
Chamber of Commerce
Guilford County
Office of Temporary Controls
Washington
Rep
Durham
D-Nc
Price Increases in America Rise Slowly and Late
The passage notes that among widespread price hikes in the United States today, only a few have been modest and delayed, reflecting cautious or delayed adjustment by sellers.
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America
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