A Yankee Reporter Recalls a Day of Small Acts
In a Thomasville column, Dick Bickerton describes a stalled car saved by a passing man who explains the choke was stuck. He then picks up a hitchhiker heading to Washington, D. C. The man longs for better prospects, sleeps in a boxcar, and worries about feeding his family. Bill Thompson touts Ford Rotunda. Confederate Memorial Day passes with local officials and Principal Horton urging awareness.
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Dick Bickerton
Enterprise Building
English and
Ward Sts
Washington, D. C
Salisbury
Washington
Danville
Salvation Army
Thomasville
Charles Rhodes
County Health Department
Charles
Australia
W. S. Horton
Thomasville High School
Princip Horton
International Farm Meet Set In US
The International Federation of Agricultural Producers will hold its ninth general conference at Purdue University in Lafayette Indiana from May 20 to 31 1951. The federation represents 35 million farm families in many countries and notes the United States is the world’s agricultural center influencing global farming policies and prices.
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Washington
United States
International Federation of Agricultural Producers
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
City Faces Water Shortage Crisis Before 1980
Nationwide survey by the U S Public Health Service shows 65 million people in 2,000 communities require immediate water system improvements for reasonably adequate service. High Point's system averages 5.09 million gallons daily for 44,000 residents. capacity reaches 7.54 million. Industry uses 81 trillion gallons daily, agriculture 80, and total U S consumption runs 175 trillion gallons daily.
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New York
High Point
Utili
Whitney to remake Grass with Iran trek film crew
C V Whitney company plans a remake of Grass. A camera crew travels in Iran to film a dangerous trek of 50,000 Bakhtiari tribesmen and 500000 sheep crossing rugged mountains in search of pasture.
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Hollywood
Calif
C. V. Whitney
Motion Picture
Iran
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Ford
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Dearborn
Mich
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New Zealand
U. S
Carolyn Jones
Hay
National Bank
Dee Mie
Oldsmobile
Olosmobile
Highland Motors, Inc
North Main Street
High Point, North Carolina
U. S. Public Health Service
State Departments of Health
Cecil’s Office Equipment CO
Main ST
Close
In. Sink
California
S. Main ST
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