Edwin Pate Elected State Alumni Head
Edwin Pate Laurinburg industrialist and former state senator is named president of the North Carolina State College Alumni Association after defeating Frank B. Turner in a mail election. Roy L. Williamson Burling ton is first vice president and Ed A. Lewis Rock Mount is second vice president.
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Raleigh
N. C. State College Alumni Association
Edwin Pate
Laurinburg
Pate
Frank B. Turner
College General Alumni Office
Roy L. Williamson
Burlington
Ed A. Lewis
Rock Mount
W. Taylor
J. G. Vann
David Clark
Charlotte
W. H. Sultan
John W. Clark
Greensboro
C. E. Bailes
Roy L. Blaylock
Reidsville
L. N. Boney, Jr
Wilmington
J. Brantley Speight
Winterville
Cecil D. Thomas
Richmond
Dissolution of Partnership Carolina Electric Company
Notice to interested persons that the partnership of Herman J. Bryant and Leven Morton trading as Carolina Electric in High Point NC has been dissolved. Leven Morton sold his interest to Herman J. Bryant who assumes all assets and obligations. Morton not responsible for further obligations. Date April 26, 1947. Signatures Leven Morton Herman J. Bryant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman J. Bryant
Leven Morton
Carolina Electric Company
High Point
North Carolina
Earnings Must Be Stepped Up Says Southern Railway Head
Rich mond Va. March 1947. Southern Railway president Er nest E Norris told stockholders 1946 earnings averaged 23 4 percent on investment. He warned private investors need more incentive and taxes and wages cut into profits. He said 1947 should yield about 20 million in extra revenue from ICC rate increases but wage hikes and payroll taxes may offset gains.
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Ernest E. Norris
The
Southern Railway
Norris
Rail Line
Interstate Commerce Commission
Britons Say Taxes Needed For Life’s Necessities
Five congressmen urged the British ambassador to relay American tobacco growers’ distress over rising British tobacco taxes. Lord Irverchapel explained the taxes were necessary so Englishmen could buy life’s necessities. The delegation included Reps. Chanean Gregory Che eatin Clark and Cooley with J B Hut son of Tobacco Associates Inc.
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Washington
Lord Irverchapel
Chanean
Gregory
Cheeatin
Kentucke and
Clark
Cooley
North Carolina
J. B. Hutson
Tobacco Associates, Inc
Bragg Center To Be Closed In Army Consolidation
Fort Bragg replaces its training center with a move of several thousand soldiers to RTC installations at Fort Jackson in Columbia South Carolina and Fort Dix in New Jersey. The transfer will occur between May 28 and July 0 according to the Fort Bragg public information office, as part of Army policy to consolidate RTC activity.
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Fayetteville
Fort Bragg
RTC
Ft. Jackson
Columbia
S. C
Ft. Dix
N. J
Weed plants survive air journey to Lumberton market
R C Rankin Lumberton tobacco market sales supervisor inspected 309000 tobacco plants arriving by air from Georgia and said they were in better condition than some truck shipments. The plants from Alma are distributed among Robeson county growers to relieve a shortage.
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Lumberton
R. C. Rankin
Georgia
Alma
Robeson County
Redden Proposes Million Acre North Carolina Land Plan
Rep. Redden introduces a bill authorizing the reclamation bureau to study reclaiming at least a million acres in North Carolina. He cites large boggy areas in eastern NC and swamp lands in the mountains needing proper drainage to become farm land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Redden
D-Nc
North Carolina
Reclamation Bureau
College Merger Plan Rejected by South Carolina Methodists
In Columbia South Carolina the merger of Wofford Columbia and Lander colleges is rejected. A substitute plan for further study and preservation of the three campuses was adopted by a special meeting of the South Carolina and upper South Carolina Methodist conferences.
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Columbia, S. C
Wofford, Columbia and
Lander Colleges
South Carolina
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