Oddities and anecdotes spice a mixed year in print
A collage of notes ranges from a battered Dempsey era typewriter on tour to studies on bereavement linked tension. It includes a Columbia State headline on an anxious expectant mother, a Chicago study on bosses' sons, a Peoria food joke, and vintage golf club nomenclature, all in brisk, era voice.
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U. S
Jack Dempsey
Philadelphia
New York
Polo Grounds
Firpo
Dempsey
Jack
Columbia
S.C
University of Chicago
Miller
Peoria
Gulf Stream
Oscar Wilde
Drys Win Vote In Lee County
In Sanford North Carolina dry forces won a three way referendum defeating whisky wine and beer sales. The vote totals showed whisky stores 2920 no 2695 yes. Wine sales 2970 no 2534 yes. Beer sales 2921 no 2607 yes.
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Drys
Lee County
Sanford
N.C
Dry Forces
ABC Liquor Stores
Pilot Fair Grove Merger With City Schools Revived
Davidson County Better Schools Committee resumes efforts to consolidate Thom asville Fair Grove and Pilot districts. A meeting will include representatives from Fair Grove Pilot and the Thomasville school board. The plan aims to merge high schools into a new district school in the area before completing senior high school plans.
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Thomasville
Fair Grove
Pilot
Davidson County Better Schools Committee
Thomasville Methodists Set Series for New church opening
The Thomasville First Methodist congregation plans a series of services as members move from the Taylor Street old church to the new building on E Sunrise Avenue. The first service in the new church will be Sunday Nov 3 with Rev H Glen Lanier as guest preacher.
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Cial
H. Glen Lanier
C. N. Hutchinson Jr
J. L. Trollinger
Reidsville
Taylor Street
E. Sunrise Avenue
Mrs. Allen 70 Dies At Asheboro Rest Home
Mrs. Trinner Gant Siler Allen 70 a resident of Asheboro died at the Asheboro Rest Home at 2 30 am after years of declining health and two months of serious illness. She was born October 19 1886 near Greensboro daughter of the late James Henry and Abigail Gordon Gant and lived in the area since 1930. She taught in Guilford County schools and served as a house mother at Christian Orphanage Eton College. She had two marriages first to Richard R Siler who died 1918 and later to E Allen. Surviving are two sons Mond Siler of Thomasville and Richard Siler of Asheboro stepdaughters and several grandchildren relatives. Funeral services will be held at First Methodist Church of Asheboro Wednesday at 2 30 pm with Rev W Harold Grace officiating. Interment in Floral Garden Park Cemetery High Point.
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Asheboro
Trinner Gant
Siler Allen
Allen
Gethsemane Church
Greensboro
James Henry
Abigail Gordon Gant
First Methodist Church of
Guilford County
Christian Orphanage
Eton College
Richard R. Siler
E. Allen
Aia
Yomond Siler
Thomasville
Richard Siler
Raymond Allred
Gene Kearns
Kirby Cox
Walter Gant
Route 2
Henry Gant
Baltimore
W. Harold Grace
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
High Point
Famine Death Toll Stems From Poor Communications
Britannica sources blame 1.5 million deaths in Bengal in 1943 on famine caused chiefly by failed communications and mismanagement within British India. The figure reflects widespread starvation amid the famine era.
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Bengal
India
Encyclopedia Britannica
Badin Plant Future to Be Decided at FPC Hearing
The Federal Power Commission will hear arguments on North Carolina's Alcoa Badin plant, weighing a 50 year license to expand smelting from 63 million to 105 million pounds and the possible move of operations. Supporters fear loss of jobs and a $5 million annual payroll if the license is not granted. Public power advocates urge public dams licensing and possible government takeover during the period.
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Washington
North Carolina
Federal Power Commission
FPC
Jerome K. Kuykendall
Wayne Morsey Dore
Alcoa
Carolina
Badin
Alco
Tuckertown
Kerr Scott
Yadkin
Scott
Carolina Aluminum
Pe- Carolina Aluminum
Casunaceata
Albemarle
Stanley County
Wreck Injuries Fatal To Youth Of Asheboro
Gene Ferrell Frye 17 of Seagrove died from injuries in an automobile accident near Houston Texas. Survived by father Ernest Frye and mother Vassa May Sasser Frye both of Newport News, sister Linda K Frye, half brother Randy Sasser, two step brothers Ronald Underwood Frye and Roger Shoemaker Jr., half sister Charlene Frye. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Asheboro
Gene Ferrell Frye
Seagrove
Houston
Tex
Ernest Frye
Vassa May Sasser Frye
Newport News
Linda K. Frye
Randy Sasser
Ronald Underwood Frye
Roger Shoemaker Jr
Charlene Frye
Texas Flood By Flooding Rivers Forcing Evacuations
West Texas towns including Ballinger and Cross Plains evacuated hundreds as floods from cloudbursts up to 11 inches flooded streams and roads. Elm Creek and Colorado River levels fell after midnight while Eastland and Turkey Creek threats forced dozens to flee.
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Dallas
Texas
West Texas
W. H. Rampy
Ballinger
Tex
Elm Creek
Colorado River
Eastland
Ter
Leon
Cross Plains
Non-Mechanical Brake Fails To Hold Car
A car rammed Mankin Joiner's Cafe on Finch Row after the emergency brake failed. Clarence Snuggs of High Point drove into the cafe with a 15 year old girl pressing the pedal, causing about 150 dollars in cafe damage and 200 in vehicle damage. The car was borrowed from Snuggs's mother Katie Tyson Snuggs of Hoover Street.
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Thomasville
Mankin Joiner's
Finch Row
Clarence Snuggs
High Point
Franne Thunderberg
Snuggs
Katie Tyson Snuggs
Hoover Street
Auto Demolished In Collision On National Highway
Thomasville report details a two car crash on the National Highway at 8 45 am today. One vehicle was a total loss and another damaged with a $350 estimate. no serious injuries. Cecil Charles Rutherford 17 Spring Street drove the ruined car, colliding with Mattie Richardson Moore who was turning onto Midland Avenue. Rutherford was cited to appear in court on October 28 for following too closely.
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Thomasville
Cecil Charles Rutherford
Spring Street
Mattie Richardson Moore
National Highway
Midland Avenue
Rutherford
Itinerant workers stranded on bus in Thomasville
Seventeen itinerant farm workers live in a second hand school bus parked in front of Thomasville city hall. The bus driver Roscoe Junior Lemon of Salem Virginia is jailed on hit and run and no operator's license charges after the bus clipped a car by the by pass. The group seeks new harvesting work in Florida after Pennsylvania. They received aid from locals.
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Thomasville
Roscoe Junior Lemon
Salem
Highway Patrol
Florida
Pennsylvania
Raymond Robinson
Jacksonville
Fla
Sheraton Motor Inn
Hugh Medford Jr
Greensboro
Medford
Lexington
Sats
Robinson
Speeding Charged in Guilford Superior Court
John Oren Gal Ima Jr. 25 of High Point is scheduled to be tried this week in Guilford Superior Court in Greensboro. He is charged with speeding 78 mph in a 55 mph zone.
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Greensboro
John Oren Gal Ima Jr
High Point
Schedu
Guilford
Robert Young's Career Shift From Banker to Reporter
Robert Young once left a building and loan job to become a newspaper reporter. The actor known for Father Knows Best pursued journalism before returning to acting, shaping his public persona across media.
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Robert Young
We Can Buy Wisely to Ease Family Budget Strain
The text urges prudent purchasing to stretch the budget and increase savings. It frames saving as both financial security and peace of mind for families, highlighting wise buying as a key to reducing financial stress.
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NEA Service, Inc
Thomasville Methodists
Josef Walker
Carolyn Royale
Nancy Elizabeth Hughes
Janice Brewer
Debra Clodfelter
Nancy Ward
Kathryn Ward
Debra Ward
Sandra Deane Cox
Civic Center
Recreation Department
Janet Teacue
Badin Plant
America
New York, N. Y
Tce
Pat Oc
Merit Shoes
S. Main ST
W. E. Sampson
Highland Ave. and
Stanton ST
MOTC
Institute of Life Insurance
Madison Avenue
N.Y
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