Driver Jailed After Wreck In English Street crash
Police said James Waddell 25 of 204 Warren Street Thomasville drove drunk and crashed a car into a parked vehicle then a telephone pole. He escaped serious injury and was jailed on a driving while intoxicated charge in default of $500 bond. Waddell suffered severe facial cuts treated at Memorial hospital. Car damage estimated at $500. The other owner’s damages were to be determined.
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James Waddell
Warren Street
Thomasville
C. F. Wolfe
Waddell
English Street
Memorial Hospital
Drive workers wear T Cards in YMCA building fund drive
In today's YMCA building fund drive workers will wear T Cards in their lapels to identify the civic or fraternal club under which they are working. Campaign chairmen request that envelopes not be handed to anyone not wearing the identification emblem. The cards are cut from deep orange cardboard.
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YMCA
Civic of Fraternal Club
Rainfall Contrast Between Mount Waialeale and Nearby Sea Level
On Mount Waialeale Hawaii the average annual rainfall is 451 inches while at sea level 14 miles away the yearly total is 11 inches. the contrast mirrors rainfall in Arizona.
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Mount Waialeale
Hawaii
Arizona
Cattle disease figures brush regional European impact
Britannica notes Bangs disease infects 40 to 60 percent of cattle in parts of Europe while North Carolina reports 57 veneer plants cutting 110 million board feet of logs annually.
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Europe
North Carolina
New Invisible Hearing Aid without Ear Receiver Button
Deafened people praise a new Beltone device that provides clear hearing without any ear worn receiver. The invisible Phant mold helps users enjoy songs sermons and business without feeling self conscious about a visible button. Beltone offers a free brochure and at home trial with no risk.
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Chicago
Beltone
Dept
19Th St
Ill
Veteran Patrolman Barr Transferred From High Point Post
Cpl. Robert I. Barr leaves High Point after a decade of directing traffic control, to head the Elkin office serving Surry and Yadkin counties with an eight-man crew. Colleagues praise his record and leadership, and Barr notes High Point’s traffic program as a model. He plans to relocate with his wife Edna Strickland and three children once housing is found.
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Cpl
Robert I. Barr
Elkin
Barr
High Point
C. C. Stoker
J. R.teague
D. J. Mount
E. D. Young
Stokes County
King High School
Marine Corps Institute
Marines
Highway Patrol
Hendersonville
Surry
Yadkin
Guilford County
Beause
Sheriff's Office
General Assembly
Edna Strickland
Washington, D. C
Forest Fire Epidemic Burns Across Mississippi
Mississippi reports 784 fires scorching 13 952 acres by dusk with many unprotected counties showing damage. State forester Albert Legett calls for volunteers as 300 state crew battles blazes blamed on farmers burning out boll weevils and careless hunters and smokers. Fires largely in central and east Mississippi.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Albert Legett
State Department
Legett
Harrison Sworn In For Civil Service
Dr. N. M. Harrison was sworn in as a member of the High Point civil service commission by Municipal Court Judge D. C. MacRae on Friday night. He succeeds W. T. Powell who resigned this fall due to ill health.
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N. M. Harrison
High Point Civil Service Commission
D. C. MacRae
Commission
W. T. Powell
Government May Revise Its Money Raising Plan
Wall street observers say the U S Treasury may revamp its savings bond drive as sales lag redemptions for two straight months in autumn 1949. Potential moves include a richer exchange for maturing bonds or toning down the campaign while debates grow over high interest rates for E bonds and shifts to a registered bond or higher reinvestment rewards.
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New York
Wall
The
Treasury
U. S
Washington
Bureau of the Budget
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W. C. Brown
W. C. Brown Shoe Shop
Washington ST
Ando
Cacaren
Bloom Furniture
Enterprise
Ro MK Brown
R. I. Barr
Harrison
Dr. Salsbury
List—Hood
Clinard Miling CO
North Main
Frank Pace
WMFR
BIG Bears
Wrenn
Ra Jy
South Main Street
Rodden
Chase
Rodden Summers
South Main ST
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