Colonial Stores Fire In Durham Not As Heavy As Estimated
The Durham warehouse fire damaged Colonial Stores inventory and fixtures with losses pegged between 1.25 and 1.5 million dollars. Insurance covered the loss. The building is owned by North Carolina Warehouse Corporation and leased to Colonial. Deliveries resumed from Virginia and South Carolina warehouses within twelve hours, and all perishables remain stocked.
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Colonial
Durham
North Carolina
Scott W. Allen
North Carolina Warehouse Corporation
Compan
Allen
Vitella
Richmond
Virginia
Ville
South Carolina
Norfolk Richmond
Greenville
Civitan luncheon features Tom Sprinkle Guatemala trip
Civitan members heard attorney Tom Sprinkle discuss highlights from his Guatemala trip. He noted student travel via cattle boats and hitchhiking, retirees delaying trips, and his own conducted tour offering worry free sights. President Roscoe Adams presided. Rev. M. G. Erwin attended. Charles Risch’s team won the attendance prize. A hand held device named recording vibrometer measures tiny vibrations.
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Civitan Club
Tom Sprinkle
Guatemala
Roscoe Adams
M. G. Erwin
Salisbury
Ward Street Methodist Church
Charles Risch
Bill Stern on Chest Radio Thursday Portrait of a Winner
Bill Stern will narrate the NBC wart community chest radio story Portrait of a Winner Thursday at 1 45 p m over WHPE. The piece recounts Ed Banks heroic boxing efforts and Stern's rise from Rochester to NBC sports director.
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Bill Stern
NBC
Red Feather
WHPE
Community Chest
Ed Banks
Rochester
New York
Penn Military College
Chester
Pennsylvania
WHAM
Austin
Birmingham
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Roxy Theatre
Prices Ease Off on Major Leaf Marts
Raleigh report notes unsteady to slightly lower average prices on flue cured tobacco markets. Old belt showed $1 to $3 declines per hundred, eastern belt easing slightly with most losses $1 to $2 and some $4 drops, middle belt continuing downward with $1 to $4 declines. U S crop reporting board set Oct. 1948 flue cured crop at 1 032 387 000 pounds, up 21 million from Sept. 1.
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Raleigh
Old Belt
North Carolina Belt
U. S
Singapore to Get Its First All Air Conditioned Office Block
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank will open a nine story branch in Singapore described as the city’s first fully air conditioned large office building. The structure will feature the fastest elevator in Malaya according to its builders.
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Singapore
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Malaya
Four Indicted For Conspiring To Beat Govt
A federal grand jury indicted four construction workers for conspiring to defraud the government in a veterans housing project. They allegedly padded payroll on a government contract between Aug 2 and Oct 16, 1946, at Sumter. Defendants are Arlis C. Chandler Monroe North Carolina, William Starkie Sumter, John William Smith Mount Airy North Carolina, and R. M. Brice Winnsboro. The case names Jones Construction Co. and the Federal Public Housing Authority.
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Charleston
D. C
Sumter
Arlis C. Chandler
Monroe
N. C
William Starkie
John William Smith
Mount Airy
N .C
R. M. Brice
Winnsboro
U. S
United States
J Jones Construction Comny
Federal Public Housing Authority
Carpenter Arrested for Selling Dog Meat Hot Dogs in Porto Alegre
Alexander Lau, a carpenter, was arrested in Porto Alegre on charges of selling hot dogs made from dog meat. He told police he killed dogs to meet meat shortages for his family, inspired by a street vendor advertisement.
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Porto Alegre
Brazil
Alexander Lau
Lau
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Hitchcock Beverage Company, Inc
Sedgefield Kennels
Greensboro
Pilot Life
Civitans
Tom
Trip
Elon
Christian Reserves
High Point College
Albion Millis
Lenoir-Rhyne
Mann Drug No
Jeff's
W. E. Joyner
Cannon-Fetzer Company
High Point, N. C
Puritanos
Cliff Weil Cigar Co. Inc
Richmond, Va
Rine
Ronnccos
Agenst
George A. Hamid, Inc
Radio City
al Fresco Entertainment
Long Island Sound
Florida Beach
St Augustine
Lee
Roe
Gale
Eckerd, Jeff
Ring-Harris
Mann, Galloway and
Anderson
High Point
Gill’s
Kriegsman’s
Myrtie’s
Peggy Anne Shoppe
Rosanne
Stainback
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