Paradox in North Carolina Campaign Apathy and Registration
A Raleigh report surveys statewide apathy in the 1952 NC campaign, noting voter registration trends, anticipated turnout, and the influence of nonpartisan groups. Delegates and conventions shift focus from governors to national conventions, with stories of courtesy at a service station cited as small civic rewards.
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V-day
Atake
North Carolina
Raleigh
Wake County
Board of Elections
Capitol Square
North Carol
Cnt
Sea of Women
Junior
Chamber of Commerce
Ar Chamber of Commerce
Phas
Gro
Enay Soeami
Fed
Democratic Ee
Thad Eure
Youth's Body Taken From Icy Mountain Crevasse
Spirit Lake Washington area rescuers recovered the body of Arthur Jessett 20 after his fall into an icy crevasse on Mt St Helens during a climbing trip with three companions. A funeral service followed as his father received the body and prayed.
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Spirit Lake
Wash
Mt. St. Helens
Arthur Jessett
Dhe Penne
Nea Lharee
Washington
GOP Circulates Pro Soviet Cabal Claim Against Acheson
The Republican National Committee circulated copies of a magazine article alleging Dean Acheson led a pro Soviet cabal in the State Department. The State Department issued a 27 page rebuttal calling the piece half truths and distortions while denying it as campaign material. Felix Wittmer, the article’s author, is tied to the National Citizens Committee for Taft.
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Washington
Reve
Acor
Dean Acheson
State Department
Department
GOP National Committee
Felix Wittmer
National Citizens Committee
Taft
Robert A. Taft
R-O
GOP
Stalin
Lawa
U. S
Russia
Asia
Terous
Acheson
John S. Service
Lauchlin Currie
Korean Vet Underage But Yearns For Battle
MARSHALL Mich UP A Korean veteran who enlisted at age 15 was discharged for being underage. Corporal Mack Hall now 17 served as a machine crewman with wounded, then readjusted to civilian life. He hopes to find a job as the armed forces decline to reaccept him. A gold wedding ring found on a farm in Stewiacke Nova Scotia by 8-year-old Beverly Mac Kay, the ring belonged to a grand-aunt who lost it in 1920 moving to Alberta.
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Marshall, Mich
Mack Hall
Cevere Oe Corps
Civics
Hall
Stewiacke
N.S
Beverly MacKay
Alberta
Youth Must Serve at Least Part of Prison Sentence
Samuel F. Smith, 18, of Stokes County, must serve at least part of an eight month sentence for the death of his girlfriend in a highway accident. Paroles Commissioner T. C. Johnson said both Judge J. A. Rousseau and Solicitor Walter E. Johnston Jr. opposed pleas to suspend the sentence. The judge delayed the start until June 2 so Smith could graduate from Rural Hall School.
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Raleigh
Samuel F. Smith
Stokes
T. C. Johnson
J. A. Rousseau
Walter E. Johnston Jr
Rousseau
Smith
Forsyth County Superior Court
Rural Hall School
Ann Ogburn
Baldheaded Sheep Hair Care Tip Disputed
A strange fragment discusses baldheaded sheep and a hand massage to the scalp. It mentions hair splitting and breakage and warns against sticking or dirt pickup, though the context and source are unclear.
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Tilak
Korea
Sever
Ables
Capital Square
Windahel
Saeiaie
Oggs
Dean
Doan
Shipa
YMCA
Franks
Vandal
Carl Durham
Congress
Armed Services
Atomic Energy
Gilbert Clinard
Johnson
Publasher
Yha Hae
Tereenaboro, N. C
Delta Vaccum
Summit Avenue
Greensboro
N.C
Electrolux
Mann’‘S Drug Store
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