Library Project Rendering Great Service To Libraries
The State-wide library project operated from State sponsors the North Carolina State Library Commission and Department of Public Instruction with local County Board of Education support. During Community Week May 1940 the project highlights mending, organizing, and cataloging school libraries with WPA-trained workers and includes a list of libraries and personnel.
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North Carolina State Library Commission
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
County Board of Education
State Board of Public Instruction
Sedge
Greensboro Public Library
Curry Training School of
Woman's College of the University of North Carolina
Woman's College Library
J. C. Price
Greensboro
Jonesboro
Central Junior High School
Public Library
High Point
Elm Street
Emma Blair
Summerfield
Colfax School
Colfax
Chiropractic Physicians Open Annual Convention
North Carolina chiropractors met in Raleigh for their two day annual convention. Officers were to be elected this afternoon with Dr Hal Pittard of Oxford presiding. Dr James R Crain of Texas Chiropractic College gave a technical talk as the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners held a concurrent licensing quiz.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Cooper in Saddle Leads Wilmington Rally Through Lincolnton
Tom Cooper of Wilmington rode into Lincolnton with a sound truck blasting I am Back in the Saddle Again and urged all good Democrats to save the party from organized politicians and elaborate campaign headquarters.
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Cooper
Lincolnton
Tom Cooper
Wilmington
Plans Completed For Air Classic At Greensboro High Point
Green sboro leaders announce the second annual Air Classic at the Greensboro High Point Airport hosted by the Greens boro Junior Chamber of Commerce. The May 12 show features ten stunt and speed pilots led by Lieut Bob St Jock and Captain Jesse Bristow with a 2 15 p m start and 1000 hp Boeing inceptor fighters performing ground scraping maneuvers.
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Robert Riser
Greensboro
Bob St. Jock
America
Lieut
St. Jock
Jesse Bristow
Fort Worth
Texas
Bristow
U.S. Navy
Clem Honkamp
Tampa
Fla
Honkamp
Curtiss
Man Sentenced in NC for Burning Car to Collect Insurance
Olin Clodfelter, a local white man, received 18 months in state prison plus a two year suspended sentence in Lexington superior court for burning a automobile to collect insurance. The crime, alleged months ago, linked Clodfelter to the act amid reports that he is the third person convicted in North Carolina on this charge with several insurance representatives attending the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Olin Clodfelter
Lexington
Clodfelter
North Carolina
Allies Order More Planes From U S
Washington May 10 The British and French governments have ordered 2 000 or more additional American made warplanes in the last days. Total Allied purchases in the last month exceed 4 000 military aircraft. The War Department may ask Congress for funds to build 200 long range four motor bombers to bolster Western Hemisphere defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Army Air Corps
War Department
Roosevelt
Congress
Air Corps
Memorial services set at Zion Evangelical Church
Dr I G Greer superintendent of the Mills Home will speak at 11 o clock Sunday memorial services at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church Sunday School begins at 945 with Fouzo Link presiding A picnic dinner follows and a Mothers Day service is planned at 145 with Rev W C Lyerly delivering the sermon
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Thomasville
I. G. Greer
Mills Home
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
Fouzo Link
Hospital Day Observed In Thomasville May 12
Thomasville May 10. Rh ert B Eleazer administrator announces City Memorial Hospital will join nationwide observance by setting aside Sunday May 12 as National Hospital Day. Public tours are invited from 2 to 5 PM with refreshments and a complete hospital showing for visitors.
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Thomasville
Rhert B. Eleazer
City Memorial Hospital
City
United States
Blea
Comple Hospital
Hou
Reid Everhart Improving After Bicycle Accident
Reports from Thomasville City Memorial Hospital say Reid Everhart son of Mr Mrs Joe Everhart shows slight improvement after being struck by a car on East Main Street near Main Street Methodist Church. The driver Clifford Lewis Negro fled the scene but was arrested. X rays showed a head concussion not a skull fracture. he was unconscious but is now able to talk.
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Thomasville
City Memorial Hospital
Reid Everhart
Joe Everhart
Everhart
Clifford Lewis
East Main Street
Main Street Methodist Church
Hitler's blitzkrieg threatens to decide war fate
By Dewitt MacKenzie, the piece frames Hitler's blitzkrieg as a supreme gamble to break the Allied blockade and reach England and France. It cites the Belgian ambassador Baron Cartier and argues Hitler must win quickly to avoid catastrophic German defeat. The analysis stresses Germany cannot sustain a long war due to sea-borne supply cuts.
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Utler
Fuehrer
Dewitt MacKenzie
Hitler
Reich
Germany
Murder Indictment Brought Against Thomasville Man
Paul Green, a Negro employee in Thomasville’s sanitation department, was ordered re-arrested and jailed in Lexington after a grand jury returned a true bill on a murder charge. He allegedly killed Pauline Myers during a fight with his wife at a Negro settlement beer garden, as the neck wound led to pneumonia and death. The case may go to trial next week.
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Thomasville
Paul Green
Sanitation Department
Davidson County
Lexington
J. A. Rousseau
Rousseau
Green
Pauline Myers
Church Street
Myers
City Memorial Hospital
Market Report on North Carolina Fruit and Vegetable Prices
North Carolina shipping point information and Thursday sales on major wholesale markets. Lettuce, cabbage, beans, sweet potatoes, green peas, potatoes, strawberries and asparagus with price ranges by location and quality across New York Philadelphia Washington Chicago Boston Detroit Cleveland Pittsburgh and other markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
U.S. Agricultural Marketing Service
Washington
New York
S. C
Nancy Halls
Chicago
Market Dull
Calif
Philadelphia
Hastings
Fla
Bliss
Maine
Green Mountains
U. S
Salea
Idaho
Ala
Texas
Hammond
Blakemores
Fairfax
Detroit
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Boston
Frontier closed at Budapest amid German border controls
May 10 reports say the German authorities closed the frontier to Hungary this morning, restricting movement between the two countries as tighter border controls take effect.
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Budapest
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Chiropractic Physicians
Southern
Ata
Air Classic
Greensboro High Point Airport
Art Davis
Charles Zmuda
Greensboro High Point
Bull's Eye
Grandstand
DR. Greer Speaker
Ministry of Information
Australia
Natonal Biscuit Company
Nive
United Market
North Main ST
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