Stock list snapshot from New York market
At 1 p m EST a stock list shows prices for major firms including American Car and F American Sugar American Tobacco Atlantic Coast Line Chrysler Coca Cola Colgate Continental Can Corn Products Curtiss-Wright Douglas Eastman Kodak General Electric General Motors IBM not listed Goodrich Goodyear Gulf Oil Illinois Central International Harvester International Nickel International T T Johns Manville Philip Morris Reynolds Tobacco Seaboard Airline Sears Roebuck Southern Co Southern Railway Standard Oil NJ Studebaker Texas Co Union Carbide US Rubber US Steel Warner Bros Western Union Westinghouse Air Westinghouse Electric among others.
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New York
American American Car & F
American Sugar
American T
American Tobacco
Atlantic Coast Line
Briggs Mfg
Cannon Mills
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Colgate
Continental Can
Corn Products
Curtiss-Wright Douglas Aircraft DuPont
Eastern Air Eastman Kodak
General Electric
General Motors
Goodrich
Goodyear
T & T Johns Manville
Philip Morris Reynolds Tobacco
Seaboard Airline
Sears Roebuck Southern Co Southern Railway
Standard Oil
Studebaker Texas Co
Union Carbide
US Pipe & F
US Rubber
US Steel
Warner Bros Western Union Westinghouse Air Brie
Westinghouse Electric
Stop Light Sought For Blair Park
Residents of Sherwood Village petitioned the mayor and City Council for a traffic signal at South Main Street and Nathan Hunt Drive Blair Park to improve safety for left turns and schoolchildren crossing to Cloverdale School. The petition cites 234 homes and 59 signatures and requests an actuated pedestrian friendly light with a hand switch.
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Sherwood Village
C. A. Lewis
Council
Law and Public Safety Committee
South Main Street
Nathan Hunt Drive
Blair Park
Nathan Hunt
Frank X. Schmidley
Valley Ridge Drive
Lewis
Five Cited One Injured In Weekend Accidents
Weekend accidents kept the city busy with seven crashes and five arrests or citations. A 29 year old High Point man Raymond Combs was charged with hit and run and drunken driving after a collision with James Harmon at Fast Green and Cable Streets, injuring a three year old passenger. Several other collisions caused minor damage with no serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Raymond W. Combs
Whiteoak Street
James D. Harmon
Wise Street
Fast Green
Cable Streets
David Harmon
Combs
James D. McDowell
Route 2
Hillcrest Drive
Worth J. Wrike
Centennial Avenue
Wrike
Lindsay Street
Alfred E. Hussey
Route 6
Dewey H. Southern
East Commerce
Perry Streets
Main Street
Arnold R. Osborne
Whitehall Street
Osborne
Bobby G. Sams
Greensboro
Joe D. Shehan
Asheboro
North Main Street
William O. Younger, Jr
Adams Street
George H. Conally
Mangum Avenue
Jerry Ray Hill
Council Street
Lindsay
English Streets
Hill
Billy R. Kirkman
New Street
Davidson College Baker Scholarship Finalist Named
Thomas Edwin Campbell of High Point tops more than 100 applicants as a finalist. He travels to Davidson Friday and Saturday to compete with 20 other high school seniors for scholarships worth up to 4500 dollars at the North Carolina college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Edwin Campbell
High Point
Davidson College
Baker
Campbell
Davidson
North Carolina College
Rankin Receives DFC Returns From Korea
First Lieutenant Alexander M. Rankin III is due home Wednesday after nine months as a fighter pilot in Korea. He will take a 30 day leave with his parents at 427 Edgedale Drive before reporting to Otis Air Force Base Massachusetts. Rankin earned the Air Medal for meritorious achievement in aerial flight over Korea. The Distinguished Flying Cross has been approved on the recommendation of the wing commander. His parents have a letter from T Sgt Rhon Winkler, who served with Rankin in Korea, noting his duties maintaining flight records.
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Alexander M. Rankin III
Korea
A. M. Rankin
Otis Air Force Base
Mass
Rankin
Robert V. McHale
Ighem
Air al
Rhon Winkler
Sgt. Winkler
Insurance Agent Here Sets High Record
National recognition for personal production last month goes to R. K. Davenport, High Point representative of Lincoln National Life Insurance, announced by C. F. Cross. Davenport ranked twelfth among the company’s over two hundred fifty sales reps in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. K. Davenport
High Point
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
C. F. Cross
Davenport
Rankin first pilot to damage Communist warplane in F-94 action
Lt Rankin distinguished himself in Korea with the F-94 Starfire radar controlled guns. On January 30 he became the first pilot to damage a Communist warplane in combat. He led his squadron with the highest total of combat missions and hours, flying 51 missions over North Korea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rankin
Korea
Air Force
Korean
Fuchu
Japan
North Korea
Spaniards Reach New Mexico Within Fifty Years of Columbus
Within five decades of Columbus's landing, Spanish explorers penetrated the region now known as New Mexico, marking rapid early crossover into the American Southwest. The narrative notes the swift spread of exploration and territorial claims by Spanish navigators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
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Raymond W.combs
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Ward Street
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van Buren Street
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Joe Brooks
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Margorie Thomas
Claude Lawrence Godfrey
Nero
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