Key Club Officers Elected in Carolinas District
Ver ner Stanley of Myers Park High School Charlotte is named president of the Carolinas District Key Club International. Hunter Stokes of Florence S C past president. Jimmy Welch of Dillon High School Dillon S C becomes secretary. Gordon Scott of Cooper Springs High Forest City is treasurer as the convention closes.
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Greensboro
Carolinas
Key Club International
Verner Stanley
Charlotte
Myers Park High School
Hunter Stokes
Florence
S.C
Jimmy Welch
Dillon High School
Dillon, S.C
Gordon Scott
Cooper Springs High School
Forest City
Cornerstone Laying Planned for N C State Memorial
North Carolina State College schedules cornerstone laying for the alumni memorial building this afternoon. Richard A. Bradshaw of Salisbury, chairman of the alumni association board, will preside. The $140000 structure honors the 300 State College alumni who died in World War I.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State College
Richard A. Bradshaw
Salisbury
State College
Hunting Rule Hearings Slated For 1956-57 Season
Raleigh The Wildlife Resources Commission plans public hearings to set hunting regulations for the 1956 57 season. The board will also discuss retiring long time employes at age 65. A two year closed season on striped bass in Lake Hickory proposed by Catawba County Wildlife Club and an enforcement cooperation with the Cherokee Indian Council for game and fish laws on the Cherokee Reservation are on the agenda.
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Raleigh
The
Wildlife Resources Commission
Catawba County
North Carolina Honor Society Chapter Names Officers
Russell Holler of Durham was named president of the NC Chapter of the National Honor Society at its convention in Salisbury. Don Harris of Rocky Mount is vice president and Peggy McLarty of Salisbury secretary. More than 200 students from 43 high schools attended.
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Salisbury
N.C
Russell, Holler
Durham
North Carolina
National Honor Society
Don Harris
Rocky Mount
Peggy McLarty
Weather Cancels Powell Speech in Durham NC
Weather conditions forced cancellation of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's planned address at a North Carolina college. Powell, a civil rights advocate, was to discuss political referees and economic subjects in a series for Negroes at the school.
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Durham
North Carolina College
Adam Clayton Powell
School For Negroes
Draper Man Dies After Truck Collision Near Ridgeway
W Aubrey C Wyatt 34 of Draper NC was injured fatally when his truck struck a car near Ridgeway VA Saturday night. He died two hours later at a Martinsville hospital.
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Draper
Ridgeway
Aubrey C. Wyatt
N.C
Martinsville
Durham Voters Approve City Bonds for Facilities
Durham voters approved issuing bonds to fund police and fire headquarters, a wastewater disposal plant, incinerator improvements, and related city facilities. About half of eligible voters cast ballots on Saturday.
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Durham
Farm price supports debate stalls on Senate timing
In Washington Sen Mundt backs a national security reserve gadget to freeze surpluses and raise supports while Sen Humphrey pushes an amendment. Leaders expect farm bill action late today after days of delay with 19 routine measures ahead. Republicans blame delaying tactics for Lincoln Day speeches as Democrats cite GOP obstruction.
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Washington
Sen. Mundt
RSD
Mundt
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sen. Cotton
RNH
D-La
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Vicious Winds Lash Eastern North Carolina
A series of wind storms battered eastern North Carolina causing widespread home damage and minor injuries. Wake County and Franklin County areas reported the worst destruction with roofs lifted and outbuildings toppled. A 266 foot blimp at Weeksville Naval Air Facility detached its mooring mast. two crewmen were slightly injured.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Weeksville Naval Air Facility
Wake County
Franklin County
Louisburg
Garner-Auburn
Meee
Techaem
Weather Bureau
Hurricane Aid Requests Totaled in North Carolina
RALEIGH The State ASC office reports hurricane relief requests by affected farmers total about 240 000 dollars with 60 000 unobligated from the 300 000 allocation. Mangum of the ASC notes extra policy steps and ongoing soil testing and gypsum treatment in Hyde Tyrrell and Carteret counties to repair salt damaged land.
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Raleigh
ASC
Mangum
North Carolina
USC
Mae
Hyde County
Hyde
Tyrrell
Carteret
Local Obituaries and Funerals Honor Several Residents
Death notices for Mildred Malinda Vestal 56 of Trinity. Donald Eugene Payne Jr. 17 of High Point. Charles Elliott Turner 47 of Masville. Nancy Jo Mesimer six months of High Point. Services held at Glendal Baptist Zion Evangelical and Reformed Oak Hill Memorial Baptist among others with military and family plots noted.
Prayer for Today by John S Bonnell
A devotional prayer asks God to teach worship and discipline wandering thoughts while awaiting God in prayer. It seeks God’s light to widen life’s horizons and peace to dispel worries, in the name of Christ. Reverend John Sutherland Bonnell, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City.
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Christ
John Sutherland Bonnell
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Local residents named in court filing
Bobby Everhart and Bobbie Geraldine Brawley of High Point, Billy Lee Southern of Winston-Salem, Ethel Gwyn of Mt. Airy, and William Lee Smith with Peeky Davis Gibson, both of High Point are listed in the document.
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Bobby Everhart
Bobbie Geraldine Brawley
High Point
Billy Lee Southern
Winston-Salem
Ethel Gwyn
Mt. Airy
William Lee Smith
Peeky Davis Gibson
High
Oak View Pastor’s Mother Dies In Hendersonville
Mrs. Caroline Meier Penny, 88, died last night at the home of her son Earl F. Penny in Hendersonville after a long illness. She was a Wilmington native, widow of William F. Penny, and mother of Oak View Methodist Church pastor Rev. William B. Penny. Funeral services were held at Thomas Shepherds Memorial Chapel with Rev. Phillip L. Shore Jr. officiating. Interment followed at Oak Dale Cemetery.
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Hendersonville
Carloline Meier Penny
Earl F. Penny
Brevard Road
Phillip L. Shore Jr
Mr. Shore
Hendersonville First
Reverend McLeod Attends Mrs Pinkett Funeral in Princess Anne
The Rev and Mrs W S Mc Leod left High Point this morning to attend the funeral of Mrs Sarah E Pinkett, mother of Mrs McLeod, who died Sunday at 121 Washington St Princess Anne Maryland The service will be held at Metropolitan Methodist Church Wednesday at 2 p m Gloria Mock an eighth grader at Christ the King Mission won first place in the junior division of the state oratorio contest sponsored by the NC.
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W. S. McLeod
High Point
Sarah E. Pinkett
Gloria Mock
Christ the King Mission
N. C
High Point earns honorable mention at national honors event
High Point High School received honorable mention at the national honors convention in Salisbury. Rocky Mount Senior High won the strap book division judged by Salisbury Boyden High faculty.
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High Point High School
Salisbury
Rocky Mount Senior High
Boyden High
Wake Forest alumni form committee amid campus move
Thirty Baptist supporters from across North Carolina form the Committee for Better Administration of Wake Forest, as controversy grows over President Tribble and reported faculty distrust. The group calls for transparency while trustees say no personnel changes are warranted. Dr Rod M Buie chairs. regional organizers named as Mull and McNeil coordinate efforts. Attending alumni hail from High Point, North Wilkesboro, Fayetteville, Lexington, Rocky Mount, Wake Forest, Roanoke Rapids, Plymouth, Durham, Greensboro and Asheboro.
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Asheboro
N.C
Wake Forest College
Wake Forest
Winston-Salem
Winston- Salem
Tribble
Harold W. Tribble
Rod M. Buie
Greensboro
R. H. McNeil
North Wilkesboro
J. Melville Broughton
Raleigh
High Point
Fayetteville
Lexington
Rocky Mount
Roanoke Rapids
Plymouth
Durham
Southern Educational Board Meets to Discuss Nuclear Energy
The Southern Regional Education Board sponsors a two day conference in Raleigh on uniting efforts to develop Southern industrial opportunities. Rep Carl Durham spoke urging more high school science interest while Gov Hodges framed regional plans for peaceful nuclear power and a regional development recommendation to governors.
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Raleigh
South
Southern Regional Education Board
SREB
Carl T. Durham
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Ep. Durham
Soviet Union
Rep
Durham
Hodges
Southern Governors Conference
New Pain Shrinking Preparation H Offered
A new healing substance Bio-Dyne, from a world famous research institute, is claimed to shrink hemorrhoids and relieve pain without surgery. The Preparation H suppository or ointment form is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
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New York, N. Y
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Mildred Vestal
Mildred Malinda Vestal
Glendal Baptist Church
Jimmy Bolick
Charles McBride
Raymond Johnson
Donald White
Porter Proctor
Clarence Vestal
Zeno Proctor
Clyde Brown
Donald Payne JR
Thomasville
Donald Eugene Payne Jr
Hasty High School
Route 2
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
A. W. Hedrick
Hasty High
Larry Murphy
Max Loy
F. H. Lendford
Ronald Lamar
Max Flinchum
Jerry Stone
Lee Harvey
Charles E. Turner
Masville
Charles Elliott Turner
Oak Hill Memorial Baptist Church
Clarence Jenkins
C. M. Pegram
Park Place Baptist Church
Flora Garden Park
Thomasville National Guard
Turner
Veterans Hospital
Mesimer
Nancy Jo Mesimer
William Carlee
Mary Pauline Pullum Mesimer
Clifton St
Hughes Grove Baptist Church
Jimmy D. Hinson
Donald Reavis
Oak View
Mark
Ssmith Brothers
Smith Brothers Black
New
Southern Educational Board
Valetone
Quality Valetone
Toppie
Ito
Kroger
TN Oleh
Norton
KOTEX
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Huff & Puff
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Virgescu Air Lines
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