North Carolina Farming Totals Top $714 Million in 1946
North and South Carolina farm income surpassed one billion dollars with $1,016,388,000 for the two states in 1946, the first time both states exceeded a billion. North Carolina reached $714,875,000, South Carolina $301,513,000. crop gains offset livestock declines.
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Washington
Carolina
North
South Carolina
North Carolina
Carolinas
United States Department of Agriculture
Palmetto
Four Essentials for a Sahara Journey
Arabs plan a Sahara trek noting four necessities flour dates water and leather soles as basic supplies. The list highlights practical provisions for endurance and travel through arid terrain.
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Sahara
Senator Penny Skips High Point Rally for Hollywood Visit
Guilford county state senator George T. Penny did not attend the Democratic rally at the county building after sending a telegram from Hollywood California. Mayor Earl N. Phillips received Penny’s regrets for missing the event and wished party success in today’s voting. The telegram arrived late and could not be read at the rally.
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George T. Penny
Guilford County
Hollywood
Calif
Earl N. Phillips
Sen. Penny
New Lighthouse to Honor Christopher Columbus
A five million dollar memorial lighthouse tomb and museum for Christopher Columbus advances in Ciudad Trujillo. Architect J L Gleaves will plan construction over five years for a 1200 by 120 foot flat lighthouse resembling a recumbent cross. The project includes a Pan American museum and forty canyons with mass sculpture by over twenty artists.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
INS
Christopher Columbus
Pan American Solidarity
Jesus M. Troncoso
Columbus Memorial
J. L. Gleaves
Gleaves
Troncoso
Columbus
Explosion in courthouse corridor alarms County Collector
A firecracker exploded in the courthouse corridor during a lodge convention celebration frightening County Collector Clifton Hurst. He recalled an irate taxpayer had threatened to blow up the south end of the courthouse days earlier, and for a moment he believed the threat had been carried out.
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ST. Joseph
Clifton Hurst
Hurst
Early English grocers gain the right to dispense drugs
The article notes that at the start of the sixteenth century in England the authority to dispense drugs extended to grocers, reflecting shifts in medical and retail practice of the period.
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Grocers’ Company
England
William Stoneman Dies Suddenly in Thomasville
William Eldridge Stoneman 52, farmer of Thomasville Route 1, died Monday afternoon at his home. Born Iron Ridge Virginia, he was survived by wife Sarah Gunnell Stoneman two sons Charlie and Wesley, a daughter Mrs J L Howlet, a brother in the U S Army in Germany and two sisters in Virginia. Funeral services will be held at Reed Street Baptist Church with interment in Rich Fork church cemetery. the will be at Green Funeral Home until late Tuesday afternoon.
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Thomasville
William Eldridge Stoneman
Rt. 1
Iron Ridge
Carroll
Lee Stoneman
Davidson
Sarah Gunnell Stoneman
J. L. Howlet
Draper
Charlie M. Stoneman
Wesley Stoneman
Harold Stoneman
U. S. Army
Germany
Ada Mooney
Pulaski
Cleo Hardy
Danville
Stoneman
Reed Street
Rich Forkist Church
Green Funeral Home
Mrs Williamson of Lexington Dies After Sickness
Mrs Elizabeth Sheroff Williamson age 85 died after pneumonia at her daughter’s home in Winston-Salem. She was born November 1 1861 in Midway Davidson County and survived by three daughters four sons a sister and 12 grandchildren. Burial at Yadkin College cemetery after service at J Grady Williamson’s Lexington home.
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Thomasville
Martha Elizabeth Sheroff Williamson
J. E. Williamson
G. W. Wheeler
Winston-Salem
Midway
Davidson County
John Phillip Sheloff
Susan Rebecca Beard Sheloff
Greensboro Female College
Oewber
W. T. Green
J. A. Sheloff
Lexington
J. C. Williamson
Tuscon, Ariz
J. Grady Williamson
R. D. Williamson
Pickens
S. C
Shell S. Williamson
Lafayette
Ind
Sue Sheroff Thomas
Indiannapolis
Williamson
Centenary Met
The
Missionary Society of the Church
Legion ‘Auxiliary
Greensboro College
Yadkin College
Green Funeral Home
Break Ground On May 25 For Methodist Home
Charlotte report says ground will be broken on Sunday May 25 for the first three units of the $750 000 Methodist Home for the Aged five miles east of the city. The executive committee decided yesterday with Mother's Day services in Western North Carolina Methodist Conference churches to solicit contributions and pledges next Sunday. C W Pickens will manage the home and more than $200 000 in cash and pledges is already on hand.
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Charlotte
Here
North Carolina
C. W. Pickens
Youthful Offenders' Prison Camp Opens in Stanly County
A youth offenders prison camp for about 60 inmates will become operative around May 18 in Stanly county. It is the second camp opened by the state prison department, following a similar unit for first offenders aged 15 to 21 opened February 20 near Gatesville in Gates county.
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Raleigh
Stanly County
Clyde O. Robin
AnnAnnes
Prison Department
Gatesville
Gates County
Greek Minister Warns on Greek Civil War at High Point
Andre Michalopoulos, former Greek war cabinet member, says most rebels are not communists and discusses tyranny under the current dictatorship. He notes press censorship and about 14,000 political prisoners since 1945, with republicans branded as communists and a fight framed as a holy war for freedom.
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Andre Michalopoulos
London
America
High Point Executives Club
Sheraton Hotel
Greece
Michalopoulos
John Metaxes
Outlaw Turned Minister Recalls Strange Life Story
Rev. Jenks D. Harris once outlawed as a youth and later a minister recounts his life from a bank robbery plan to Hollywood stunt work. While serving 15 years for robbery he began preaching to inmates and, after parole, has flown to remote communities to preach.
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Rawlins
Wyo
INS
Jenks D. Harris
International News Service
Harris
San Quentin
James Brothers
Hollywood
Carey Beasley Taylor Dies At 61 In Winston-Salem
Carey Beasley Taylor a local and state Republican leader died unexpectedly at 12 45 am He was born May 21 1885 at Fayetteville son of James A and Emma Beasley Taylor After early life in Dunn he studied at Buies Creek and Wake Forest College Class of 1907 He worked at Fayetteville Charlotte Savannah Newport News and Martinsville newspapers and spent nine years with the Winston Salem Journal Edgar L Craver president of Craver Shirt Co and longtime NC textile executive died at age 54 at his Salisbury home following a presumed heart attack.
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Carey Beasley Taylor
Winston-Salem
Fayetteville
James A
Emma Beasley Taylor
Dunn
Buie’s Creek
Wake Forest College
Charlotte
Savannah
Newport News
Martinsville
Winston-Salem Journal
Edgar L. Craver
Salisbury
Edgar L. Craven
Craver Shirt Manufacturing Company
North Carolina
Volcanic Lighthouse Guides Mariners on San Salvador Island
On San Salvador in the West Indies a volcano acts as a lighthouse with a flashing light guiding mariners for centuries, serving as a beacon through the night.
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San Salvador
West Indies
Earnings Of Em ployes Up During March
North Carolina's March earnings show gains across industries. Weekly earnings rise three percent to an average of 36.34 dollars, hourly earnings up 4.1 percent to 93.1 cents, and the work week shortens to 39 hours. Manufacturing leads with higher pay, non durable goods especially. Non manufacturing sectors also rise, with weekly and hourly earnings up 18 and 1.9 percent respectively.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Labor Department
Lenoir Man Elected Rotary International District Head
M. Williams of Lenoir was elected by acclamation as head of Rotary International district 194, which covers 30 clubs in western North Carolina including Shelby and Holt McPherson.
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Charlotte
M. Williams
Lenoir
Rotary International
North Carolina
Holt McPherson Shelby
Five named to board Raleigh conservation terms
May 6. Chairman J. L. Horne Jr and four other members of the state board of conservation and development have been reappointed by Governor Cherry to six year terms. Reappointed: W. J. Damtoft Asheville A. H. Guion Charlotte Charles S. Allen Durham and W. Roy Hampton Plymouth.
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BOARD
Raleigh
J. L. Horne, Jr
State Board of Conservation and Development
Cherry
W. J. Damtoft
Asheville
A. H. Guion
Charlotte
Charles S. Allen
Durham
W. Roy Hampton
Plymouth
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