Two High Point Girls Reported Missing
Two High Point girls, Evelyn Herring age 13 of 309 Walker Avenue and Patsy Suggs age 15 of Clara Cox apartments, were reported missing from their homes since last Friday. They attended a football game Friday night and were last seen Saturday morning in a local drug store. Police ask anyone with information to contact the High Point police station immediately.
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High Point
Reo
Evelyn Herring
Walker Avenue
Patsy Suggs
Clara Cox
Herring
Suggs
North Carolina Weather Forecasted Showers and Cooling
The forecast indicates showers and cooler air along the coast with partly cloudy skies and little temperature change inland. Cooler nights expected, with sunrise at 6:25 and sunset around 5:47.
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North Carolina
Ralomia
Tor Keaneeday
Dewey Proposes Policy Overhaul and Civil Rights Push
Dewey assails the Truman era as incompetent and blundering and pledges a GOP program if elected. He calls for a higher minimum wage without figures, expanded social security, a cabinet level labor department, housing reform, price safeguards for families, and a proactive civil rights program. He vows to back UN peace efforts and criticizes Taft Hartley.
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Quick History Quiz and Biographical Snippets
A collection of trivia and short bios notes dates and figures. Questions cover rail gauge authors presidents biblical kinship and card kings while snippets highlight Columbus Cape Esperance Trumbull Eaton and Victor Jory with dates and career notes.
Actor Jory career spans stage film and Broadway hits
Alian Campbell notes the actor born in Alaska who trained in Pasadena, boxed briefly, joined a Salt Lake City stock company, rose to Broadway leading man, wrote several plays, and appeared in 110 pictures in 11 years from 1932. He spent 28 of 44 years on stage screen and radio and starred on Broadway in The Two Mrs Carrolls, married to actress Jean Inness.
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Jory
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Mrs. Carrolls
Jean Inness
Fortune Favors the Sharpened Viewing Eye
A Bacon quote asserts Fortune favors the attentive observer. It suggests that although Fortune is blind she is not hidden from careful, focused scrutiny. The saying emphasizes diligence in perceiving opportunity.
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Bacon
Actors Ralph Vaughn Williams and Godfrey Tearle Rate Cakes
Ralph Vaughn Williams and Godfrey Tearle sample birth day cakes with candies on October 1 in a light social event. The film and music figures enjoyed a playful moment amid a gathering honoring a birthday.
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Godfrey Tearle
Austin accuses Soviet stance of steering toward war
Former Vermont Senator Austin denounces Soviet and communist leaders for insisting that peace with the capitalist world is impossible. He questions Vishinsky's disarmament proposal at the U N and warns that aggressive warfare remains a tool for advancing a communist world system, urging proof of Soviet policy to quell fears.
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U.N. General Assembly
Vermont
Modern Manners Teach Punctuality for All Engagements
A column urges readers to make punctuality a habit in every appointment and event. It emphasizes honoring time commitments as respect for others and a cornerstone of reliable etiquette.
Birth date brings personal prestige and financial progress
Your birth date is a favorable time for personal prestige and monetary advancement. Over the next 12 months finances rise as employers cooperate and the work environment stays harmonious. Health should improve.
Four feet eight and a half inches tally
William Taylor Adams and Terah appear in items, while Rutherford B. Hayes James Garfield and Chester A Arthur are listed. The king of heart phrase concludes the set.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
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Hopes for New Bus Station At Thomasville Fade Sudden
Thomasville officials scrap plans for a new bus station after Caroline Coach Co declines to lease the Ford Tractor building on East Main Street. The firm opts to renovate the existing West Main Street station instead due to high building costs. The Tractor building is leased to Becks used cars, with a nearby lot graded for a new car operation.
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Ford Tractor
East Main Street
Carolina Coach Company
John Carter
Carter
West Main Street
Fred Young
Obie Beck
Beck
Carter's City Dry Cleaners
Permanent Sanitation Ratings To Be Issued Next Week
Health department head Dr. Loren Wallin said final inspections of restaurants and cafes should finish midweek to determine A certificates. B certificates go to those scoring at least 90 percent. no C certificates will be issued. School cafeterias will be inspected next week, with final scores published in about two weeks as permanent rating cards are assigned.
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Health Department
Loren Wallin
Wallin
Delinquency Charge Against Mrs Sowers Dropped
In Thomasville recorder's court Mrs Woodrow Sowers 18 of 9 Forsyth Street faced a delinquency of a minor charge. The state asked for not pros pending the return of 14 year old Thelma Mae Hardison who has been missing for weeks. Deputies report the Hardison girl left with Sowers and was seen with men in Winston Salem. Hardison remains missing.
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Recorder’s Court
Woodrow Sowers
Forsyth Street
Thelma Mae Hardison
Hardison
Sowers
Winston-Salem
Larceny Charges Put Against 2 Men
William Gillis and William Walker Jr remained in jail on $500 bonds each after police arrested them on charges of larceny and receiving. The pair allegedly took a motor scooter valued at $300 from 1303 Emory Street, owned by James Whitt, with Sue Whitt signing the complaint.
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Davidson Street
William Walker, Jr
Siz S. Hamilton Street
Ges
Emory Street
James Whitt
Sue Whitt
Gillis
da Vidson
Moscow Eyes France as Barometer of Cold War Storm
The piece argues Moscow watches France and Berlin, fearing a Communist rise in Italy could shift power. It suggests neutral UN powers mediate while Moscow tests Western offers to restore Berlin talks, contingent on France’s strike progress and German blockade relief.
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Berlin
United Nations Security Council
Moscow
Russia
Foreign Ministers’ Council
France
Lutheran Branches Consider Union At Biennial Convention
Delegates from eight Lutheran branches including the American, Evangelical, United Evangelical, Augustana, Finnish synod and Lutheran Free church meet for a nine day sixteenth biennial convention. They are asked to authorize the commission to draft a constitution and devise procedures for unification.
Deaths And Funerals Mrs Maude Gallman Johnson
Mrs Maude Gallman Johnson 52 died Tuesday at Pennyburn Convalescent Home Greensboro Road after four years of declining health. Born March 11 1897 in Union S C she spent years in Jacksonville and moved two months ago from Florida to High Point to live with daughter Mrs Hoyle Sanders. Survived by former husbands Ernest McAbee and L B Johnson one son Sgt James McAbee Japan four grandchildren sister Haskell Gault Union S C brother John Gallman Bainbridge Ga. Funeral set Wednesday 3 PM from Koonce Funeral Home with Rev R L Smith in charge. Burial Floral Garden Cemetery.
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Pennyburn
Greensboro Road
Union
S. C
James Watson
Hester Ann Bentley Gallman
Jacksonville
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Hoyle Sanders
Route 4
High Point
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L. B. Johnson
Sgt
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U. S. Army Air Corp
Japan
Haskell Gault
John Gallman
Bainbridge
Koonce Funeral Home
R. L. Smith
Floral Garden
Thomasville Fire Dept Opens New Station No 2
The Thomasville fire department christens a new cottage type station at Randall and Gray streets named Station No 2. The 750 gallon engine arrived August 31 and is now based at the new site. Fire Chief Lindsay Loftin has assigned 11 men to duty there. The building cost about 20000 dollars. A banquet for department members and city officials followed the opening event.
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Gray Streets
City Hall
Aunh
Lindsay Loftin
Weather Forecast Sees Little Change Today
Today will be generally fair with partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures near yesterday. Nighttime low around 48 after a daytime high near 68 with no rain expected. tomorrow should stay fair and mild.
New Sinus Treatment Outlined by Columbia Doctor
Dr Harry Neivert of Columbia University announced a new sinus treatment that relieved 12 severe cases. He plans further trials on seven times as many patients at a Memphis orthodontists convention. He used a vaso dilator to open swollen vessels then penicillin reach, with most cases spared surgery.
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Harry Neivert
Columbia University
Memphis
Tenn
Southern Society of Orthodontists
Neivert
Presbyterian Medical Center
Private Hired By Local Fire Department
Fire Chief E. K. Ingram revealed Ray Bradshaw was hired as a private in the city fire department. Bradshaw began October 1 to fill a vacancy created when R. H. Harmon moved to assistant alarm electrician, a newly created post. One vacancy remains for a private to be filled, with another new post to be created for an assistant maintenance mechanic.
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Ray Bradshaw
Radshaw
City Fire Department
Ingram
Bradshaw
R. H. Harmon
Fire alarm log records two incidents at local houses
Between noon yesterday and noon today the fire department logged incidents at 300 Woodrow Avenue a smoke scare and at 712 South Main Street a roof fire. The occupant of the Woodrow address is Bill Gilbert and the owner at the Main Street address is W L Edwards. Damage reported as slight. Firemen answered at 10 58 and returned at 11 05.
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Woodrow Avenue
South Main Street
Bill Gilbert
W. L. Edwards
Lady Fights Rheumatic Pain With TRU-AID Relief
A High Point reader reports six weeks of immobility from rheumatic joint pain, then rapid recovery after using TRU-AID, a liquid formula touted as three medicines in one. She claims she can walk normally again and even threw away her cane.
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High High Point
Time Zone Adjustments for Broadcast Schedule
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Tuesday Oct 12 Radio Schedule Highlights and Dramas
An hourly listing of radio programs from CBS NBC and other networks outlines a full day of entertainment and news. The schedule features newscasts, talk shows, music programs, dramas and a late night dance block with multiple hosts and stations across abec cbe mbe and mbs networks.
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