Chamber of Commerce Expands in High Point Growth Push
The High Point Chamber of Commerce has more than doubled in size and activities, with three new industries payrolls over 1.1 million annually. It seeks more funding via $25 memberships to sustain and accelerate expansion, urging business and professional leaders to join now.
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High Point
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Germany
Bismarck
Russia
West Germany
Britain
France
America
Kremlin
How Large the Vote in the 1952 Democratic Primary
A historical column discusses predicted total votes, comparing past totals to current expectations. It notes guesses ranging from 425,000 to near 600,000, cites Olive and Umstead campaigns, and predicts a sizable turnout around 595,317 with more public interest in government and limited campaign spending impact.
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Olive
Scott
Hubert Olive
Bill Umstead
Frank Graham
Willis Smith
Smith
Graham
Six meals a day urged by USC professor
Dr. Ernest Geiger of the University of Southern California promotes six meals daily for health. He suggests meals at rising, tea time, and bedtime plus four other snacks. the catch is all six should be eaten on the right side, meaning more meals away from home and higher costs.
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Ernest Geiger
University of Southern California
Charlotte News
Southern Bell
Caldwel
Sbi
Turpentine Drippings and Odd Schoolyard Tales
News snippets from Zebulon and Salisbury areas recount small observations. The piece notes airport chatter about pleasant days, a reflection on aging and life, a humorous farm anecdote about hens, and a church meeting interruption with a child’s quip about baskets.
Personal observations on social manners and idle talk
Mrs. Helen Holder recalls two boys debating who should ask their mother for a parasecion while noting changes in social norms such as girls carrying their own books. The item references a Raleigh High School escort tradition and pairs it with columns on work stoppages and summer drama, then reflects on slow living amid a speed obsessed era.
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Helen Holder
Emey
Bors
Geeram Needhamton
St. Mary's Street
Hus
Raleigh High School
Governor's Mansion
Fayetteville Street
City boy finds simple farm life in North Carolina visit
Little Johnny from New York travels to a North Carolina cousin's farm and laments the city ways. He notes cows delivering milk, hens laying eggs, and biscuits baked in pans, praising the abundance and rejecting city inconveniences. The piece ends with a note about an award and funds in Charlotte Observer context.
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Mack MeKa-Salisbury Post
Rowan
John Leach
East Council Street
John
Anes
Ion
Johnny
New York City
North Carolina
Labor disputes under Taft-Hartley reviewed by Edson
A Peter Edson analysis traces Taft-Hartley applications from 1947 to 1950 across sectors. It notes cases with United Mine Workers and other unions, presidential boards, injunctions, and settlements including wage increases and welfare payments. It highlights limited use of employee elections and varied outcomes in steel, coal, longshore, and telephone disputes.
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NEA
White House
National Labor Relations Board
Energy Commission Eries
Union Carbide and Chemical Co
Ers
U Ted
L. Lewis
United Life Workers
Oon
Ael
Lewis
AFL
CIO
West Coast
Truman
Kennecot
Wage Stabilization Board
World News and Local Bits From A Distant Era
Analysis and notes on postwar Germany propaganda U S views on Soviet aims and Western policy alongside a Wilmington court verdict for Klansmen. Hutchinson Kansas price rollback echoes 1902 costs. Anecdotes on news literacy school stats potatoes and banana plant migration wrap the page.
Notable quotes show critics and supporters across US public life
A compilation of remarks quotes from figures like Newbold Morris Lyndon Johnson Taft Douglas and Bradley covers views on integrity foreign policy and public life. The collection includes actors and performers such as Claudette Colbert Joan Fontaine Robert Merrill and a controversial note on Sgt. Cornelius Charlton.
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Loflin
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Umstead
Kerr Scott
Patty
Bill Sharpe
Zebulon
Pine R Cub
Preien
Harnett County News
Oldsters
Ked
Marley
Asheboro
Cecil York Camoes
M. C. Coble
Sanford Herald
Nell Battle Lewis
News & Observer
Carteret Times-News
Concord-Tribune
N. C. Booster
Waynesville Mountaineer
Charlotte Observer
Washington
Harry
Peter Edson
Voice
United States
Korea
Hutchinson
Holme
U. S
Encyclopedia Americana
National Geographic Society
South America
Ireland
Southeast Asia
Hawaii
Africa
Canaries
Hemisphere
Newbold Morris
Charles Elson
Aedette Bevan
Sen
Robert Taft
Claudette Colbert
Joan Fontaine
Scotland
Scone
John McCormack
Scottish Covenant Association
Robert A. Taft
Lyndon Johnson
John Bohling
Metropolitan Opera
Robert Merrill
Roberts
Paul Douglas
Turner Joy
Dylan Thomas
West Point
Gen
Omar Bradley
Clyde Hoey
My Boy
Sgt
Cornelius Charlton
Paul Robeson
van Charlton
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