North Carolina Veterans Day Observances Across State
The article notes Veterans Day parades and ceremonies in Salisbury Charlotte Warsaw Wilmington and Winston Salem with speakers including W D Robbins James Wallace Robert Barker Edwin Gill and Brig Gen Charles H Chase. Lexington held a Saturday parade with 10000 spectators.
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North Carolina
Tar Heels
Luther Hodges
Salisbury
Charlotte
Warsaw
W. D. Robbins
Willard
American Legion
James Wallace
Gastonia
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rowan County
Ican Legion Post No. 9
Gold Star
Wilmington
Edwin Gill
Hamilton Howe
Usnret
Forsyth County
Winston-Salem
Clyde Rolling Post
Lexington
Charles H. Chase
Ft. Bragg
Antarctica Vast Continent Reaches High Elevation
Antarctica spans about 50 million square miles with elevations near 9 200 feet above sea level at the South Pole, reflecting extreme polar geography and height.
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Antarctica
South Pole
Site named for South's first private nuclear plant plan
Charlotte reports the Parr South Carolina site near Columbia as the latest candidate for the South's first privately owned nuclear electric plant. The Carolinas Virginia Nuclear Power Associates, with Duke Power and others, aims to build by 1962 under an Atomic Energy Commission program with Westinghouse Electric as the builder.
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Charlotte
South
Carolinas-Virginia
South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
Columbia
Sce&g
Nuclear Associates
Associates
Duke Power Co
Carolina Power & Lights Co
Raleigh
Virginia Electric Power Co
Richmond
Atomic
Last Eastern N C Leaf Marts Close After Week’s Markets
Only Wilson and Rocky Mount markets remained open in the Eastern Belt as other NC markets shut last week. Weekly sales reached 2,849,220 pounds at 45.20 per cwt, with season total 353,473,237 pounds at 5.30. Virginia and North Carolina belts also show declines in prices and strong season totals.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Wilson
Rocky Mount
Federal State Market News Service
North Carolina-Virginia
Virginia
Middle Belt
Red Schools Stress Fields Of Science
A U S Education study notes Russian schools prioritize science and technology to advance state goals. Enrollment in higher education climbs from 169,000 in 1927 to 1,867,000 last year, while U S enrollments rise from 1,114,000 to 2,996,000 in the same period.
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Washington
U. S. Office of Education
U. S S
Lawrence G. Derthick
United States
Russia
More Prizes Than Contestants Story From Maine Event
A chaotic pageant in Arrostock County Maine left prizes exceeding contestants. Mrs Jean Davis of Pauline Bunyan Log Cutting drew the crowd but the tally showed more prizes than participants. Sponsors awarded first prize despite the sparse turnout.
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San Francisco
Jean Davis
Pauline Bunyan
Arrostock County
Maine
Sweden Frozen Food Exports to U S Troops in Western Germany
A Swedish frozen food export program supplies U S Army troops in Western Germany with strawberries cod and Baltic herring. Over five years the French cotton industry reports a productivity rise of just over fifty percent in spinning and weaving.
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Sweden
U. S
Ger
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