Mehan Rose From Textile to City Hall Leader
A Greensboro businessman and former garment executive rose to local prominence after a long career in time and motion study. He rose from dirty plant work at Hudson Falls to superintendent and finally vice president at Anvil Brand before starting Mr. Apparel. He entered politics in 1961 as a Republican councilman, later defeating Mayor Carson Stout. His wife Myrtle Mahony and daughter Lettie Heer supported his shift into public service.
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Union Bag and Paper Corp
Mehan
Hudson Falls
N. Z
Savannah
Greensboro
Anvil Brand, Inc
High Point
Mr. Apparel
Mangum Street
Myrtle Mahony
Elms Ford
N. Y
Plattsburg
Lettie Heer
Richard Nixon
Nixon
GOP
Carson Stout
Southern Garment Manufacturers Ass
Society For the Advancement of Management
Army Quartermaster
N. C. Federation Music Clubs
Guilford County
Republican Party
Mother's love praised in reverent verse and stage notes
A sentimental tribute extols a mother's unselfish devotion and enduring care. The piece cites Beulah Poore and notes Mike Nichols will play the French Dauphin in Shaw's Saint Joan at the 1963 Vancouver International Festival, with Susan Kohner in the title role and Nichols also in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Enclosure for sidewalk superintendents at Golden Gateway
A garden like fenced enclosure with a roof and moving placement is built in San Francisco's old produce district for sidewalk superintendents at the Golden Gateway redevelopment project. It features a daily calendar and a clock as work progresses.
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San Francisco
Golden Gateway
Plate Catcher Returns Denture From Drain Trap
Miami News political writer Charles Hesser, while returning from Washington by train, dropped his denture in the washbowl drain. Porters opened the drain trap and recovered the teeth, with a porter quipping about cleaning and announcing breakfast.
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MIAMI
Charles Hesser
Miami News
Washington
Hesser
What’s Fair Pay for Legislating in North Carolina
Legislators debate pay levels amid a poor economy and debate over whether compensation draws talent or merely funds expenses. Daily pay stands at 15 dollars with 20 for presiding officers plus 12 dollars per day subsistence and seven cents per mile travel, totaling 27 dollars per day during a 120 day session. Some call for an annual salary plus an allowance while noting current rules set subsistence and travel by the legislature.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
Nick Galifianakis
Durhham
Duke University
Galifianakis
Hugh Johnson
Duplin
Johnson
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Maxum M. Bingham
Thomasville
N. C
Gazette
Venice
Encyclopeedia Britannica
By Bryan Haislip
A. P. Godwin
Gates
Brand
All First Quality
S & Boys
Richardson’s
Central Exchange
Randleman
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