Confer On liquor traffic Tate States
Raleigh March 11. States join in a conference in Atlanta on March 29 to cut bootleg supply lines. North Carolina Illinois Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Georgia Kentucky Alabama Tennessee attend with state ABC chairmen. The drive aims to stop liquor flow to bootleggers despite existing consignments in South Carolina and Tennessee.
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Raleigh
Atlanta
ABC
Robertston
North South Carolina
Illinois
Miss
Louisiana
Arkansas
Flora
Georgia
Kentucky
Alabama
Tennessee
Inston
North Carolina
South Rolina
Internal Revenue Prepares Massive Tax Return Push
Greensboro district expects a surge as 1949 income tax returns pour in next week. The office will add 80 to 100 staff to open and sort a near 500 000 returns, with total North Carolina filings near 1 000 000 after last year’s 890 000.
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Greensboro
Charles Robertson
Sam
Internal Revenue
North Carolina
Robertson
Eans
North Carolinas
Shotgun health checks could screen for 10 diseases
New idea in health protection offers quick chest X rays blood tests and blood pressure checks to screen for tuberculosis diabetes anemia syphilis heart and kidney disease glaucoma and vision or hearing defects. Programs in San Jose and other cities test groups in workplaces and mobile clinics to uncover unknown chronic conditions early.
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New York
San Jose
Calif
Santa Clara County Medical Society
Richmond
Indianapolis
Boston
Salisbury
Alabama
North Carolna
Public Health Service
Federal Security Agency
A. L. Chapman
Pulic Health Service
Chapman
Breod
Archibald Murphey’s North Carolina Public School Proposal
In the second volume of a Documentary History of Education in the South Before 1860, Dr. Edgar W. Knight notes Archibald Murphey’s 1817 plan for North Carolina public schools. He proposed county township divisions with primary schools, four acres and a house, a board of public instruction, a $100 salary for teachers, and public funding guiding broader education reforms. The proposal also included a stronger university, school discipline, education for poor children, and a Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
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Chapel Hill
South
Edgar W. Knight
Kenan
Archibald Murphey
North Carolina
Murphey
Tar Heels
Northtate
Board of Public Instruction
Loss of 62 VA workers projected in North Carolina
A VA official estimated about 62 employees in North Carolina will lose their jobs due to a national personnel reduction of about 7 800. North Carolina posts affected include Winston-Salem, Oteen, and Fayetteville hospitals, with most cuts at those sites.
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Raleigh
Veterans Administration
North Carolina
Phil Fordyce
Winston-Salem
Oteen
Fayetteville
Fordyce
Coast Line to Keep Pikeville Agency for Year
Pikeville will retain its Atlantic Coast Line railroad agency for at least one year after the utilities commission kept open ACLs request to convert it to a pre-pay station. The commission noted rising revenues and ordered a year-end revenue report. The article also mentions the Orinoco River system in Venezuela.
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Raleigh
Pikeville
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
The
Utilities Commission
ACL
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Internal Revenue Department
Greensboro College
N. C
James Addison Jones
James G. Hanes
Winston Salem
Luther L. Gobbel
Paul S. Jones
Charlotte
J. A. Jones Construction Company
William Y. Preyer
By Alton L. Blakeslee
General Electric
Rodden — Summers
Furniture Store South Main St
Ext
Coast Line
Orinoco River
Central
Venezuela
Nash
Jewelry & Loan CO
N. Main ST
Penney’s
Rayon
Batiste
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