Thomasville Man Billy Joe Everhart Dies After Wreck
Billy Joe Everhart aged 23 of 922 Fairway Street Thomasville died at City Memorial Hospital from head and chest injuries after a three car crash near the city limits yesterday morning. The driver of a leading bread truck Frank D Johnson was not injured. Bruce Kesler attempted to pass and sideswiped the bread truck causing Everhart to strike the rear and crash into an embankment. Everhart born November 29 1929 in Thomasville moved to High Point in 1933 and served in the U S Army in Germany 1947 1948. He married Mildred Dunlap January 2 1953. He is survived by his wife mother and several siblings. Funeral services Saturday at 3 from the Pentecostal Holiness Church Thomasville with interment at Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
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Thomasville
Billy Joe Everhart
Fairway Street
City Memorial Hospital
U. S.A
Harold Petty
Everhart
Frank D. Johnson
Bruce Kesler
Petty
Kesler
Johnson Street
High Point
U. S. Army
Germany
Hayworth Roll and Panel Co
Mildred Dunlap
Earl Hill
Geraldine Hill
Carlene Hill
Shirley Hill
Pfc
Clyde C. Hill
U. S. Air Force
Clovis
N. M
Koonce
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Ralph Smith
Ral Osborne
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
Man accused of offering bribe to police officers
A Burlington man Aubrey Frank Garrison 41 was charged with bribery after allegedly offering two officers 50 to drop a drunk driving charge. He was jailed on bribery and drunk driving counts and released on bonds total 1000. Griffyn 29 was charged with indecent exposure after being accused of exposing himself in a theater and released on 200 bond pending a June 3 hearing. Will Dockery 50 was charged with malicious property damage for tearing his wife coat and throwing food away and released on 50 bond with a June 3 hearing tentative.
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Burlington
Aubrey Frank Garrison
Garrison
Rufus Victor Griffin
Northview Street
Griffyn
Will Dockery
Taylor Street
Dockery
Thomasville Mayor Presents 12 Point Administration Plan
Mayor Carl C. Wilson outlined a 12 point program at the Lions Club that covers natural gas, revised bookkeeping, street paving, water and sewer work, equipment maintenance, departmentization, new industries, zoning, rail crossing studies, board appointments, public responsibility, and promoting Thomasville as the Friendly City. He urged study of rail traffic and vehicle density and called for department heads to assume clearer responsibility while urging citizen cooperation.
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Thomasville
Carl C. Wilson
Lions Club
Wilson
Roblems
Stocks Rally in Irregular Market With Rail Shares Rising
New York stocks closed higher as railroad shares hit new monthly highs led by Atlantic Coast Line Sea board Air Line and Rock Island. New highs for the year were posted by Nesco American Car & Foundry Bucyrus-Erie General Electric Inter-Continental Rubber Minn & St. Louis Railway and Westinghouse Air Brake amid gains in other groups.
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NEW York
Atlantic Coast Line
Seaboard Air Line
Rock Island
New York Central
Northern Pacific
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Union Pacific
Inel Chrysler
Standard Oil
Pont
Goodyear
Union Carbide
Motors
Superior
California
Nesco
American Car & Foundry
Bucyrus-Erie
General Electric
Inter-Continental Rubber
Minnealis & St. Louis Railway
Estinghouse Air Brake
American Car & FM American
American T & T Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Curtiss-Wright
Douglas Aircraft
Dupone
Eastern Air
Central Eee
Eee International Harvester
International Nickel
International x & T
Johns-Manville Te Eee
Pm & Nash
Seaboard
Canned Heat Drinker Given Eight Month Term
In Municipal Court Burnie Swindell and two other women faced sentences for multiple offenses. Swindell, 36, received two suspended terms totaling eight months for disorderly conduct and drunk counts. Raynell White, 22, was ordered to serve 12 months at the workhouse if a suitable home could be found for her six month old baby after neglect charges. Marie Nelson, 45, drew a 12 month suspended sentence, must relocate, and pay a $25 fine after officers found three pints of white whiskey in her room. The judge ordered vacating the nefarious residence described as filthy and unsafe.
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Burnie Swindell
Fairview Street
Swindell
Raynell White
East High Street
Marie Nelson
Baptist Street
Myatt
Guard Rail Crash Saves Motorist On Broad Street
Calvin D. Davis 27 of Tryon Street faced reckless driving charges after his car jumped the curb on Broad Street at 8 PM, scraped along a guard rail for 225 feet, blew a tire, and stopped. Police credited the rail with preventing greater damage and injuries.
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Broad Street
Calvin D. Davis
Tryon Street
Davis
Joy Sees Slightly Better Prospects for Korean Armistice
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, former UN truce negotiator, told Winston Salem officials and audience members that prospects for a Korean armistice are at least slightly better than a year ago. He warned that Communists still seek terms favorable to their side and noted the prisoner repatriation dispute. He spoke amid Winston-Salem Armed Forces Day events with Sen. Willis Smith and Rep. Thurmond Chatham.
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Winston-Salem
United Nations
C. Turner Joy
Willis Smith
Thurmond Chatham
U. S. Naval Academy
Korean Peninsula
Adm
Joy
U. N
GOP Pressure Mounts for Tax Cuts and Budget Plan
GOP leaders push to eliminate red ink and reach a balanced budget objective. They weigh continuing high taxes depending on Treasury action and seek to extend the excess profits tax beyond July 1 and delay a 10 percent personal tax cut. Loss of both taxes would reduce revenue by about two billion dollars next year, widening the deficit.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Treasury
Firemen Respond to Two Small Blazes in Thomasville
Thomasville city firefighters were called out twice last night. At 6 30 p m they were summoned to the First Presbyterian Church on Randolph Street where an overheated organ motor burned out. At 8 15 p m they went to Main and Randolph Streets to retrieve a smudge pot that had overturned.
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Thomasville — City
First Presbyterian Church
Randolph Street
Main
Randolph Streets
Appointments Made By North Carolina Officials
N. K. Dickerson Jr. of Monroe reappointed for a term ending Dec 31 1957. North Carolina Veterans Commission Amos Maynard of Greensboro reappointed for a term ending May 16 1959. Merit System Council A B Justice of Enka named to replace Elbert E Foster of Charlotte and Rev J B Willis of Hamlet named to replace Jasper L Memory Jr of Wake Forest. Both terms expire Apr 8 1959.
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N. K. Dickerson Jr
Monroe
North Carolina Veterans Commission
Amos Maynard
Greensboro
Merit System Council
A. B. Justice
Enka
Elbert E. Foster
Charlotte
J. B. Willis
Hamlet
Jasper L. Memory Jr
Wake Forest
Rainy Belt Extends Over Wide Area
A weather pattern covered a wide band from New England to Eastern Texas with raincoat weather and scattered showers across the West. Thunderstorms dumped 1.48 inches in Shreveport and 1.04 inches in Evansville in 24 hours. Central and Northern plains and Rockies stayed sunny and warm. Southeast saw summery highs with Jacksonville Florida and Charleston South Carolina reaching 92. Unseasonably cool in the Lower Ohio Valley.
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New England
Texas
Mississippi Valley
Shreveport
Evansville
Ind
Plains
Rockies
Jacksonville
Fla
Charleston
8. C
Ohio Valley
Ike Speaks At College at Williamsburg
President Eisenhower and Mrs Eisenhower arrive after a ship to pier moment as Senators Byrd and Robertson join the cruise party. They tour the House of Burgesses marking 177th anniversary of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights and emphasize the link between government and religious faith. Virginia as mother’s birthplace noted.
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Eisenhower
Sens. Byrd and Robertson
Virginia
Williamsburg
House of Burgesses
Court Awards Littell 50 000 In Suit Against Pearson
A Federal Court jury awarded Norman M. Littell 50 000 in compensatory damages and 1 in punitive damages in one of two libel suits against Drew Pearson. The other suit ended without a verdict and was discharged. Littell, a former assistant U. S. attorney general, said Pearson will appeal.
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Washington
Norman M. Littell
Drew Pearson
U. S
Charles F. McLaughlin
Littell
Pearson
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