Local Area To Provide Workers For High Point Hydro Project
Kenneth Markwell, PWA engineer, says area residents will be employed as much as possible for the High Point Yadkin hydro electric project. Freeman to oversee land surveys in the Styers Ferry basin, about 26 000 acres, with surveying to precede land purchases. Winston Salem office to begin with a skeleton staff and expand to about thirty, including engineers and clerical workers. Joyce W. Moorer named office manager from Charleston, pending Santee project completion.
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High Point
Yadkin Rivers
Kenneth Markwell
PWA
Markwell
Iegal
William F. Freeman
Nisse
Winston-Salem
High Point Board of Power Commissioners
Freeman
Entre Basin
Styers Ferry
Yadkin
Joyce W. Moorer
Charleston
Radio Programs Spread Across Tuesday May 26 Schedule
A dense listing of radio programs for Eastern War Time Tuesday May 26, detailing time slots from 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM. Features include The Three Suns, Captain Midnight, Denver Strings, Chicago Rhumba Dance Band, Dorothy Kilgallen on Broadway, Amos and Andy, Lowell Thomason News, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Burns and Allen, Milton Berle, Kay Kyser Orchestra, Bob Burns and War News, and Fred Waring repeats. Multiple serials, dramas, sports spots, and musical variety segments populate the evening, with announcements for war updates, guest commentators, and public affairs talks.
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Captain Midnight
Denver
Chicago
Chicago Troubadours
Mis
Denver Strings
Chicago Rhumba
Dorothy Kilgallen
Vbs
Ted Steele
Dum
Abner
Pineidge
Vera Barton
Songz Periog
Ebs
Jack Armstrong
Mibs-West
Biu Stern Sport Spor
Lowell Thomason
Cortsow
Westar
World News of Today
Mbs
Vest
Tid Waring
Nbe
East
Ra Bramavic
Amos
Ands
Ebs-Basic
Fulton Lewer
Mr. Keen
Glenn Miller
Che the Johnson Family
G. Burns
Gracie Allen
Arthur Hale
Jack Nena
Cugat
Literace
Milton Berle
Wariew
Ned Jordan
Cbs
Yes
Blire
Blire Id Gardner and Duffy's Tavern—cbs Gabriel Heatter
London
Idher McGee
Molly — Nbentasy
Ramona
Blue
Adde-Red-Weat
Paul Vo McNutt
Moorer to split duties between two offices on project
Moorer will divide duties between two offices with Ward D. Carpenter and L. B. Harmer as assistant project engineer and chief elective and hydraulic engineer for the Santee Cooper undertaking. Markwell and City Manager Knox said many people asked about employment, but all staff must meet Civil Service rules. After the dam construction contract is awarded, the private firm will arrange labor. Markell then headed to Greensboro and then Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moorer
Ward D. Carpenter
L. 8. Harmer
Santee-Cooper
Markwell
E. M. Knox
Civil Service
Everhart Pioneer Auto Dealer Dies At 60 In Thomasville
Charles Thomas Everhart aged 60, a Davidson County pioneer auto dealer, dies at his home on Salem Street after a short illness. Survived by wife Sallie Wright Everhart and eight children, plus four brothers and four sisters. Funeral today at Community Church with Rev. E. E. Snow officiating. interment in City Cemetery.
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Thomasville
Charles Thomas Everhart
Davidson County
Salem Street
Frank Everhart
Susan Younts Everhart
Sallie Wright
Pride Everhart
Oweenee Everhart
Willemae Everhart
Juanita Everhart
Elliott Everhart
Charles W. Everhart
Will H. Everhart
Reid F. Everhart
Ed T. Everhart
L. C. Everhart
WS. Myers
S. A. Renegar
Nona Hall
Raymond Boaz
Lexington Man Heads GOP in North Carolina
Jake F. Newell of Charlotte resigned as GOP state head and backed James A. Delapp of Lexington for chairman. Watt H. Gragg urged Delapp’s name, leading to a smooth convention. The platform urges war win and permanent peace, calls for referendum on alcohol sales, action against strikes in essential war industries, and reform of absentee voting and election laws. The Young Republicans elected Mrs. C Thurman Wall state treasurer and Paul Coffey and E L Peterson vice presidents.
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Greensboro
Jake F. Newell
Charlotte
Republican Party
North Carolina
Jm A. Delapp
Lexington
Watt HH. Gragg
Boone
Delapp
Young Republicans
C. Thurman Wall
Paul Coffey
E. L. Peterson
Clinton
British raid hits Libyan airport amid widespread strikes
Cairo May 26 British Middle East command reported a sudden air incident at Akartuba Libyan airport causing fires and extensive damage. The raid occurred Sunday night alongside incidents in Bengali Derna and Tmimi. One German plane was shot down and two British planes were missing according to the British.
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Cairo
Egypt
Akartuba
Libya
RAF Middle Command
Rome says nine RAF planes destroyed in air duels
The Italian high command claimed today that nine British planes were destroyed in a series of air duels with no Italian losses. A separate report said a British submarine plane attack on a convoy failed. In Reykjavik Iceland, May 26, three U S soldiers were arrested in the fatal shooting of 12 year old Jon Hinrik Benediktsson at an American Army camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Junan
High Command
Reykjavik
Iceland
United States
Jon Hinrik Benediktsson
Femiry
Bombing of St Omer In Occupied France Reported
British bombers attacked St Omer on the French coast behind the De Strait line. Reports say six people were killed and eight wounded, with unclear timing whether the raid occurred last night or the previous night. A corporal and a guard geant were among those resting.
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L. Omer
Vichy
Atay
Pal
St. Omer
France
de Strait
Rev J Clyde Auman speaks at Tyville Lions meeting
Rev J Clyde Auman of Marion former Thomasville pastor was guest speaker at the weekly Lions Club meeting at the Woman's Club building. He discussed Japan and wartime developments from his missionary years. A nominating committee proposed officers for 12 months with election later. nominees included Tom Johnson president and Leonard Rackley first vice president.
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Thomasville
J. Clyde Auman
Marion
Lions Club
Woman's Club
Auman
Japan
Tom Johnson
Leonard Rackley
Claiborne Pennington
Clyde Smith
Do. T. Brumfield
Homer Beck
Tailtwister
Joe Swicegood
Lion Tamer
H. A. Cecil, Jr
C. M. Fields
John R. Perry
Firemen Called Brief Diner Fire in Thomasville
Local firemen were called to the Thomasville Diner on West Main Street to extinguish a fire that started in a kitchen cabinet. Due to the efficient work of the firemen, damage was confined mainly to smoke.
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Thomasville
West Main Street
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Joe S. Phipps
John C. Story
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H. L. Koontz
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J. Lee Wilson
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