Industrial Forum Urges Practical Site Selection in N C
An audience at a North Carolina industrial forum heard Floyd E. LeVan of DuPont urge communities to study their advantages and avoid over selling to attract industry. The ninth of ten state forums emphasized locating where industry can survive and benefit the area.
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Elizabethtown
N. C
Floyd E. LeVan
E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co
Wilmington
Del
Kinston
LeVan
Department of Conservation and Elopment
Southern Pines
Tizens
Bladen
Sampson
Columbus
Cumberland
Robeson
Luther Hodges
North Carolina
C&d
Benlas
A. S
F. Ertel Carlyloyd Griffin
North Carolina Citizens Aksn
George W. Gillette
State Ports Authority
Julian H. Hines
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Unidentified Man Found Shot In Head In South Carolina
State authorities investigate the death of an unidentified white man found shot in the head near McCormick five miles west in a wooded area. He was 45 to 50, medium height, with no teeth, wearing a grey suit. A .22 bullet wound marked the only violence. pockets held two handkerchiefs, cigarets, and a Gastonia North Carolina ad matchbook.
Public Hog Sales Banned In S C
South Carolina imposed a statewide ban on public hog sales to curb vesicular exanthema. State Veterinarian R A Mays ordered the restriction after the first outbreak on two Charleston County farms with 700 hogs, with quarantines in place and suspected cases in Orangeburg Anderson Greenwood and Calhoun counties.
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Columbia
South Carolina
R. A. Mays
Charleston
Orangeburg
Anderson
Reenwood
Calhoun County
Mays
Farmers Harvest Big 1953 Crops
Washington report says harvests reach near 1952 volume, second largest in history. Prospects for fall sown winter wheat are better than last year, with winter wheat yield down about 16 percent. Acreage planting allotments for next year’s corn are still to be set by Secretary Benson. The new corn crop estimate stands at 3.18 billion bushels, down 16 million from a month earlier.
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Washington 4
U. S
Agriculture Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Light Jet Plane Sets New Record
Washington reports the Air Force records the first light airplane to use jet power through a turbine driving a propeller. Bill Thompson, test pilot for Cessna, flew the XL19B modified Birddog to 37 063 feet on July 16, surpassing the 1951 Piper Super Cub mark of 30 203 feet.
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Washington
Air Force
Bill Thompson
Cessna Airplane Co
Wichita
Kan
Army
Boeing
Byrnes Silent On White Hearing In Congress
Gov James F Byrnes declined comment on appearing before the House Un American Activities Committee about Harry Dexter White. The committee summoned Byrnes for questioning, while Brownell accused Truman and cabinet officials of prior knowledge of White espionage activity in 1946.
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Columbia
James F. Byrnes
Truman
House Un-American Activities Committee
Harry Dexter White
Byrnes
Brownell
White
the Treasury
The
International
Tobacco Markets Begin Three Day Holiday Today
Raleigh reports tobacco markets start a three day holiday due to congestion in redrying plants and will reopen Monday. Eastern Belt sales were steady with light volume. North Carolina and Virginia Old Belt showed declines and losses. Overall production for 1953 estimated at 1,251,087,000 pounds with Old and Middle belts at 350,500,000 pounds.
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Raleigh
Federal State Market News Service
Kinston
Oe Ae
Aberdeen
North Carolina-Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
Jury Selected In Dockery Murder Trial
In Murphy North Carolina Cherokeo County Superior Court continued jury selection for Noah Dockery charged with the March 3 slaying of Sheriff Frank Crawford. Seven more jurors are to be chosen after five were picked yesterday with evidence not expected to start until tomorrow. Dockery, a woodcutter, was sentenced to death at his first trial and the Supreme Court ordered a second trial over alleged improper remarks by a special prosecutor.
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Dockery
Supreme Court
Britain to establish Atomic Energy Corporation
Britain plans a government controlled body to speed atomic weapons and nuclear power development. A white paper outlines transfer of authority from the Ministry of Supply, with a preliminary move on January 1.
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London
Britain
Atomic Energy Corporation
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Ministry of Supply
Whic
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Glenn Long
Newton, N. C
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Daughters of the Confederacy
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Misery
Resinol Orsson
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