Education program wraps up Bethune YWCA series
The Mary McLeod Bethune YWCA education committee hosts the season’s final program at the YWCA at 8 30 pm with a musical program led by Mrs Hart Mrs James and Mrs Callie Holmes chairing. Mrs Oren Simmons speaks on Music In the Community. Members urged to attend.
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Mary McLeod Bethune Y.W.C.A
W.C.A
Esdames M. Hart
E. James
Callie Holmes
Oren Simmons
American Legion
Greensboro Man Would Permit Indians To Vote
D E Scarborough Greensboro chair of the fair election committee says Indians on reservations may register and vote in the upcoming primary. He cites a law allowing late registration with satisfactory evidence. The Steve Youngdeer American Legion post protested registrar refusals in Swan and Jackson counties.
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Raleigh
D. E. Scarborough
Greensboro
Fair Election Committee
Swan
Jackson
Steve Youngdeer
American Legion Post
Hourly earnings rise for North Carolina workers
The state labor department reports April averages for 266,429 workers in 2,052 establishments show hourly earnings at 78.8 cents and a $30.93 weekly average. Employment dropped 0.6 percent while the workweek averaged 39.2 hours. payroll totaled $8,240,936.
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Raleigh
State Labor Department
North Carolina
Capital expenditures by Class 1 railroads in 1945 set record
Capital spending for equipment and other improvements by Class 1 railroads reached $563,980,000 in 1945, the highest annual total since 1930, reflecting substantial investment during postwar recovery.
Sails 67 Years Never To Sea
Annapolis veteran Capt. Albert H. Cantler with 67 years of sailing never faced the sea. He skipped 20 vessels without loss, later pursued ocean-going dreams, but after two ships were lost he retired at 83 in Brownswood with wife and a large family totaling 6 children, 28 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren, and 8 great great grandchildren.
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Annapolis
Albert H. Cantler
Chesapeake Bay
Brownswood
Hospital seeks bids for Span ish Point project
Charlotte May 23. Bids for a $6,000,000 one hospital at Spanish Point S. will be received June 18. Ceemed N. Pease, Inc., engineering and architectural firm. Spanish Point is near Beaufort and Paris Island.
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Charlotte
Spanish Point
Ceemed N. Pease, Inc
Beaufort
Paris Island
Fall Causes Gilmore Death Says Coroner
Washington May 23 Coroner Dr Aoe MacDonald ruled Troy Lee Gilmore Archdale North Carolina died in Gallinger hospital from injuries due to an accidental fall no inquest will be held and the body was sent to High Point for funeral rites. He suffered head injuries and facial cuts after an incident near a Washington street corner police initially suspected assault but later attributed injuries to a fall.
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American Legion Post
Y.M.C.A
I. H. Harriss
Richardson Street
Burrus Memorial Hostal
J. Harriss
White Way
Etta Crawford Harriss
Minnie Harriss
Albemarle
Nellie H. Onley
Richmond
Fletcher Little
Lincoln
Luke Harriss
Claude Harriss
Cleveland
Ohio
Raymond Harriss
New York City
First Baptist Church
Rev
W. . Elliott
Hoovers Funeral Home
Helping Hands Club of
St. Mathews C.M.E
Virginia Reid
Edmondson Street
Rosetta Baldwin
Olga Street
Annie Johnson
Wacs
Miss Baldwin
Business Men's Civic Club
Businessmen’s Civic Club
Jeffrey Townes
Day Street
Fran Hall
United Club
Parthenia Hill
East Lee Street
Altrusa Club
Temple Memorial Baptist Church
Daisy Nixon
Elizabeth Street
J. B. Mason
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Memorial Hospital
Salisbury
Washington
Troy Lee Gilmore
Archdale
N. C
Gallinger Hospital
A.oe MacDonald
District of Lumbia
MacDonald
Gilmore
High Point
Yowg
Washington Street
Cigarette Industry Profits Rise in 1944
The cigarette industry reported 1944 profits of 130,568,000 dollars before taxes, a 30.6 percent increase over the 1936 39 average.
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Cigeratte
Oil output in United States tops billion barrels in 1929
The United States finally reached the billion-barrel oil production milestone in 1929 after decades of incremental gains, marking a historic peak in domestic energy output.
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United States
Presbyterians Set 86th General Assembly Agenda In Montreat
The 86th annual general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States opens in Montreat with a sermon by Rev. Dr. Omas Kay Young. About 380 commissioners and ministers attend six days of sessions addressing liquor questions marriage and the home and new committees on Christian fellowship Negro work and radio.
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James Benjamin Green
Decatur
Columbia Theological Seminary
Henry W. McLaughlin
Richmond
Country Church
Religious Education
McFarland Courtney
Lewis
W. Va
Assembly
Committee On Evangelism and
Home Mission Advisory Council
Presbyterian Church In
United States of American
Northern Presbyterian Church
Presbytery of
Louisville
United States
Vatican
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Council On Christian Social Relations
Food Debt Paid to Swiss Authorities
Food valued at 898000 dollars turned over by the American army to Swiss authorities as compensation for meals consumed by American fur loungers during their stay in Switzerland.
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Bern
Switzerland
Liquor Charges Against Henry Were Unfounded
Raleigh May 23. The state bureau of investigation found not one iota of evidence to support charges that Chapel Hill police and state highway patrol conspired to violate liquor laws. The probe followed claims by Tom Henry former prosecutor of Chapel Hill recorder s court that police and patrolmen ran a liquor ring using the University of North Carolina as a front.
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Raleigh
Chapel Hill
State Highway
Jacobs Speaks To Winston Meet
The two day Piedmont area industrial relations conference opened in Winston Salem with Dr. William P. Jacobs of Charlotte as the first speaker. About 250 industrialists and personnel managers were expected. a panel on team work for production followed. Tomorrow includes a luncheon with Dr. Harold D. Meyer and William B. Warton providing a conference summation.
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Winston-Salem
Piedmont Area Industrial Relations Conference
William P. Jacobs
Charlotte
Jacobs
Harold D. Meyer
North Carolina Recreation Commission
William B. Warton
Toad Guards Sparta Water Meter In Box
Merrill Klein, Sparta’s water meter reader, reports a toad living in a buried meter box since October 1941. The animal fattens in warm months by insects entering through the roof, surviving winter lean.
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Sparta
Tenn
Merrill Klein
Klein
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James Ashe
Illinois Central Hospital
Chicago
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Winston
Peru
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Ly, Ie
Lrjoy
George Penny
Senate
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Guilford County
Chinery
Guilford
George T. Penny
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