Alumni Office Helps Reunite Lost Papers With Navy Ensign
CHAPEL HILL NOV. 8 The UNC alumni office has been a wartime hub for 8000 in service. An Ensign Hollander found identification papers for Ensign Morris in Tokyo Bay and, after checking ships, sent them to the alumni office which relayed them to Morris.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Alumni Association
Tokyo Bay
Richard A. Hollander
Washington, D. C
Ensign E. Raymond Morris
Drexel Hill
Japan
Ensign Hollander
Ensign Morris
Ensign Moro
National 4 H Week Observed Across North Carolina
National 4 H achievement week is observed nationwide from November 3 to 10. In North Carolina county agents from the State College extension service, fresh from their Raleigh conference, join county 4 H councils to plan events in all 100 counties. The state counts over 90 000 4 H club members who aided wartime food production and farm and home practices, bond drives, and sale collection.
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College Station
Raleigh
United States
North Carolina
State College Extension Service
Smee
Shelved plan to raise Britain's school leaving age
London reports the government will delay raising the school leaving age from 14 to 15 until April 1947 due to a shortage of teachers and school buildings. About 390,000 pupils would gain an extra year of schooling, requiring 13,003 more teachers at a ratio of 30 pupils per teacher.
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London
SNS
Britain
Potatoes Rot in Sunlight After Digging Warned
State College agricultural station researchers warn that Irish potatoes left in direct sun after digging rapidly develop bacterial soft rot. The 67th station report notes potatoes picked up immediately stayed sound after a week, while those gathered later rotted increasingly, with maximum rot around 2 p.m.
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College Station
Raleigh
State College
State Nets Over 2.6 Million From Beer Taxes in 1945
Raleigh reports that North Carolina beer taxes brought in 2,658,863.83 dollars in the first ten months of 1945. October collections reached 403,715.25 dollars, an all time high, guaranteeing more than 3,000,000 dollars in beer taxes for 1945.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
North Carolina Committee
United States Brewers Foundation
Plans Advancing For Taking of Inactive Fleet
Navy officers report rapid progress in taking a fleet of 100 inactivated vessels to Charleston. The inactive group includes 92 destroyers two destroyer tenders four barracks ships and two harbor tugs. Capt K W Palmer of Union City Tennessee will command with Commander Joseph F Foley as staff officer. Temporary berthing is planned in the Wando River with plans for permanent piers of steel and concrete underway.
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Charleston
S. C
Navy
K. W. Palmer
Union City
Tenn
Joseph F. Foley
Beech Ridge Road
Raleigh
Wando River
Japanese Miners to Move to Honshu and Hokkaido
The welfare ministry plans to deploy 130000 Japanese coal miners to northern Honshu and Hokkaido to replace repatriated Chinese and Koreans who make up about 40 percent of the workforce. Sixty thousand Japanese are due to report by year end as food, wages, and housing are improved.
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Tokyo
Welfare Ministry
Honshu
Hokkaido
Greece seeks reparations from Germany Italy and Bulgaria
Finance Minister Gregory Kassimatis announced Greece will demand 3 billion dollars from Germany 300 million dollars from Italy and 400 million dollars from Bulgaria. The figures followed a session of the advisory financial council led by Premier Canellopoulos.
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Athens
Gregory Kassimatis
Greece
Germany
Italy
Bulgaria
Advisory Financial Council
Canellopoulos
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