U K Textiles Surge In North American Markets
London reports Britain’s textile industry staging a strong postwar comeback led by wool. Cotton output climbs slowly while rayon and nylon yarns triple as home demand drives revival, reducing export emphasis. Lancashire and Yorkshire mills hire workers as efficiency and equipment upgrades lag, with export gains limited by competition and capacity.
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London
Britain
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Soere
Durin
Plans Set For North Carolina Scholastic Art Exhibit
A 25 member regional advisory committee will meet in Winston Salem on November 14 to plan the first North Carolina Scholastic Art Exhibit. Gregory D. Ivy will chair the committee advancing entries from 29 divisions and selecting regional and national juries. Winners compete for 145 national scholarships and $16 000 in prizes. The event is sponsored by the Winston Salem Journal and Sentinel with the Winston Salem Arts Council.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
North Carolina
Gregory D. Ivy
Woman's College Art Department
Greensboro
E Ted
Pittsburgh
Ivy
Tar Heel
Scholastic Magazines
Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel
Winston-Salem Arts Council
Southern Press Expands Role in Advertising and News Pictures
At the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association meeting in Boca Raton Harold S. Barnes urged publishers to pursue a dynamic expanding economy for advertisers. The SNPA backed plans to speed wireless news photo transmission and outlined an Angeles Times trained audi-visual program funded by publishers. The group scheduled its 1954 meeting in Boca Raton and chose a Western site for 1955.
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Malcolm B. Johnson
Boca Raton, Fla
Souths
Harold S. Barnes
American Newspaper Publishers Assn. Bureau of Advertising
Accn
SNPR
Radio Pictures _ It
David B. Lindsay Jr
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Associated Press
Rocky Mount
N.C
SNPA
Coordin
Angeles Times
Boca Raton
Pat Omo Vee
Mississippi
House Committee Starts Probe of Armed Forces Pay
The House Armed Services Committee opened a study of military pay schedules to examine base pay, allowances, and benefits amid cuts. Chairman Short urged no further pay or fringe benefits reductions and cited housing and morale concerns for service members. He called for data from state and defense officials and said he seeks facts, not a fight with other branches.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Short
R-Mo
America
Naval Reserve
Secretaries of State and Defense
Bishop to Wear Gandhi Costume at Trespass Trial
Cherokee County opening court term hears Bishop Homer Tomlinson of New York City will don a Mahatma costume for his forcible trespass and destruction of church property trial. He plans a seven day water and rice fast and to act as his own attorney amid staged religious protest at Fields of The-near. A parallel case brings Noah Dockery, 45, to a new murder-trial after a Raleigh ordered retrial for the sheriff’s killing March 3. Judge Reis Whitmire presides.
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Bishop
Ray
India
Frank Crawford
Cherokee County
Thad B. Bryson Jr
Bryson City
Noah Dockery
Or Crawford
State Supreme Court
Raleigh
Dockery
Reis Whitmire
Hendersonville
Washington to Talk to Tobacco Growers
The Department of Agriculture will hold a meeting here next Friday at 2 p.m. EST to discuss inter-commodity crop acreage requirements with tobacco growers. Rep Watts of Kentucky pressed for a hearing on the inter-commodity compliance order, which aims to align tobacco allotments with price support benefits amid farm program rules.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Watts
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Department
Agriculture Department
Kentucky
Burley
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North America
N. C
Southern Press
Sell Advertisers
Kennedy Oil CO
High Point, N. C
Thomasville
C. R. Dula
Raymond Logans
House Committee
Handy Family Carton
Wind & Weather
Emichee
S. Main ST
John H.vis
Wisco
Kearns
Asheboro Road
Owen Nursery
Dept
Bloomington
Tlt
Faberge
France
Aphrodisia
Woodhue
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