Chinchillas Raised In Pinehurst
Pinehurst story about J W Harbison who keeps a chinchilla ranch with his wife. Details cover breeding, costs, and care from a lean-to garage setup, including expanding numbers from seven pairs to twenty one, fur quality, feeding, and tattooing ears for pelt identification. Mention of statewide rat control campaigns.
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Harbison
Pinehurst
Pescey
Andes
Chinchillas
Chinchilla
You
Atlyred
N.C
J. W. Harbison
N. C
New York
Easter Seals Appeal Urges Help For Crippled Children
A reader, long shut in, urges widespread Easter Seals support for crippled children. The piece stresses buying seals, paying for received ones, and aiding those with infantile paralysis and limb malformations. Additional items note low mood forecasts by Dewey and Ruml, Pegasus poetry, an alarm clock quip, and fourteen 1947 livestock shows and sales.
North Carolina Maps Polio Readiness Plan for Summer
The state outlines a campaign to combat possible polio outbreaks this summer, launching at a Goldsboro conference April 3 with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Leaders include Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Erwin, aiming to organize health and civic groups and ensure care for victims, with 15 polio cases reported so far this year.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Goldsboro
State Health Department
National Foundation For
South Carolina
Tennessee
Louisiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Indiana
Wisconsin
Montana
Maine
Massachusetts
Connecticut
National Foundation
Kenneth Landauer
West J. Altenburg
Carl V. Reynolds
Clyde A
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Foundation
Radar System Aids Gander Landings For Pan American
The international airline announced that all major transatlantic carriers use the radar system at Gander Newfoundland for bad weather landings. Since its use, over 30 military and commercial transports have made uneventful landings at this crossroads thanks to GCA ground control approach operators. Alkmaar in the Netherlands is the center of the Edam cheese trade.
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Gander, Newfoundland
Ins
Pan American World Airways
Gander
Newfoundland
Philippines Purge of Collaborationists Faces Deportation
Manila reports deportation hearings for Singh Hihla Antar and four Maack family members amid testimony by an Indian national. The case centers on alleged roles in the anti-British Indian Independence League and a Maack company advertisement after Bataan’s fall. US alcohol consumption in 1938 reached 130 million gallons, with Scotch at five percent.
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Manila
Singh Hihla Antar
United States
Wake Forest Debaters Enter National Intercollegiate Meet
Wake Forest's debating team accepted an invitation from the United States Military Academy to compete with 31 other leading institutions in the National Intercollegiate Debate tournament at West Point, N Y. The field was narrowed from 500 colleges as regions selected regional nominees for the May 2 3 and 4 event. North Carolina lies in region six with Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida and Alabama.
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Wake Forest
United State Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginai
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
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le Immediae
Delwery
O Prorty
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State Theatre
Salem Street
Thomasville
THE
Noreen Nash
Alan Ladd
Veronica Lake
Africa
Wild Bill Hickok
Constance Bennett and
Bruce Cabot
W. C
Greensboro, N. C
Johny Howard
Persom Cmdica
Handel Ham
Esen
Lucky Quiz
Aycock Auditorium
Arthur Godfrey
CBS Valent
New York City
W. A. Bivin
Edward R. Dewey
Beardsley Ruml
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Ruml
Dewey
Pegasus
Medusa
Helicon
Addison R. Barker, Jr
Kaleidograph
Magazine of
Addison R. Barker
Horace Horse
Alkmaar
Netherlands
Philippines
Wood-Armfield Furniture CO
Smythe
Veterans Wheel
Lowry Veach
Highland Park
High Point, North Carolina
Madison Square Garden
Cheyenne
Wyo
High Point
V. F. W. Home
W. Broad Street
High Point Barber Shop
North Main Street
TAR Heel Trading CO
North
Wrenn Street
Henrix Texago
Mann’s Drug Store
Virginia Robison
West Mineral
Kansas
Middle West
Elmer Robison
Elmer
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