Flight Dreams and a Proxied Engagement Plan
In Adelaide era fiction Jackie Dunn and Roger Breckner plot a stratosphere test mission as a cover for an engagement. Roger hopes the mission will win Evelyn La Farge and win acceptance, while Beryl Melrose offers a Mrs Santa Claus twist that could reshape their plans.
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Jackie Dunn
Roger Breckner
Beryl Melrose
Roger
Evelyn LA Farge
Jackie
Santa Claus
Washington
Mother
Evelyn
Mrs. Beryl Melrose
Eagle five suit contracts alter play in trick taking
The article discusses the eagle or royal five suit game and how even a low card in the opponent's suit can shift play. It explains how a seemingly worthless card may become decisive at suit contracts by changing dummy distribution and enabling the declarer to secure all remaining 13 tricks after South's early club cashing and a North ruff.
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Eagle Bridge
South
North
Merchants In Asheboro Plan June Picnic and Changes
Asheboro merchants announce an employers employees picnic on June 1 at 5 p m at City Pond with Senator Bob Reynolds likely speaker. On the same day stores will close at 1 p m Wednesdays for summer. A May 17 general meeting is set for 7 45 p m at Randolph Hall with President Ogburn Yates appointing Leon Crawford and Franz Strick to attend the State Merchants Association meeting June 26 21 at Blowing Rock.
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Asheboro
City Pond
Asheboro Merchant's Association
Bob Reynolds
Asheboro Merchants
Merchants Association
Randolph Hall
Ogburn Yates
Leon Crawford
Franz Strick
State Merchants Association
Blowing Rock
Henry Jones
May Day Meeting Attendees Named At Al Salem Event
Al Salem director of the State Merchants Association plans to attend with directors Ogburn Yates Corbett Scott Leon Crawford King Moore Henry Jones Franz Strickland James Riddle Robert Wilson Russell Parks and Wilbur Amos among those at the Thursday session. Scientists note ancient Earth diameter around 6500 miles at origin, grew to 8100 miles as planetesimals accreted, then shrank to 7926 miles due to buckling and cooling.
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State Merchants Association
Ogburn Yates
Corbett Scott
Leon Crawford
King Moore
Henry Jones
Franz Strickland
James
North Carolina Senate Chairs and Seniority Debate
Raleigh dispatch weighs how NC legislators gain committee chairs. It notes that unlike federal practice, leaders are named by the Speaker and the Lieutenant Governor, and ousters can occur regardless of seniority. It discusses Senator Lee Gravely and Emmett Newman as potential 1939 finance and appropriations chairmen, with Horton administration politics in play.
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Raleigh
E. C. Gregory
Rowan
General Assembly
Congress
North Carolina
House
Senate
P. C
Lee L. Gravely
Nash
Appropriations
Conservation
Finance
Gravely
Wilkes P. Horton
Gregory
EB. V. Webb, Jr
Horton
Harries Newman
New Hanover
Mary Down
Wilmington
Emmett Bellamy
Harriss
Littled
Newman
Senator Rodman Draws Two South District Post Rumor
The note suggests Senator W B Rodman Jr of the second district may seek one of two spots in finance and appropriations. Beaufort's senator is one of three contenders for the two posts, but the outcome remains unclear.
Tobacco trucks sized to hogsheads width
Frances Johnson secretary of the North Carolina Truck Owners Association explains that 96 inches became the standard width for trucks because hogsheads of tobacco fit perfectly in that body. The note reflects industry practice and vintage shipping standards.
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Frances Johnson
The
North Carolina Truck Owners Association
Alamance Democrat Opponent Race Heats in 1987 ABC Bill Era
Ed Hanford, credited with fathering the 1987 ABC bill now enacted, faces three Democratic contenders including a Black man running for an assembly seat, the first of his race since Reconstruction days.
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Alamance
Ed Hanford
ABC
Assembly
Taylor of Alleghany Returns to Run in Primary Fight
In 1937 Alleghany politics the colorful old gentleman Taylor rarely spoke but when he did he spoke bluntly and with horse sense. He is running again with three primary opponents and a Republican waiting for the successful primary nomination.
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Alleghany
Taylor
Catawba Ralph G Flowers seeks reelection with John Robinson
The veteran candidate Catawba Ralph G Flowers runs again and faces challenger John Robinson in a local election contest.
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Ralph G. Flowers
John Robinson
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McKenney
William BE. McKenney
American Contract Bridge League
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Ain
al- Salem
Riddle, Robert Wilson
Russell Parks, and
Wilbur Amos
Salem College
Winston-Salem
Old Southern School
Edith Rose
Rocky Mount
Frances Kluttz
Salisbury
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Henry Averill
Enterprise
Circulation Department
High Point Enterprise
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