Textile Leader Urges State Tax Study for NC Industry
At the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association annual meeting, Hearne Swink of Kannapolis proposed forming a state committee with funds to investigate tax structure and laws as luring large corporations to nearby states. He noted NC as a textile leader with 70 percent of industrial wage earners in the field, and warned productivity lags amid rising costs despite wage gains and postwar modernization.
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Pinehurst
N. C
North Carolina
Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Hearne Swink
Kannapolis
Swink
Price Decline Forecast for Wool Goods
New York report from Oct 15 notes rising concern over wool goods prices with indications of a downward trend similar to cotton goods. Crawford Clothes cuts 20 percent on men’s tall clothing, while industry insiders doubt widespread follow, yet warn of weak sales and abundant worsted yardage flooding the market at discounts. Manufacturers hold spring prices steady amid lagging retail demand, expecting further declines in 1949. British woolen makers touring Canada foresee price drops in finer wool cloth.
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New York
Crawford Clothes
Crawford
Canada
Phone Workers In Six Cities Reject Company's Offer
North Carolina union workers in Durham Goldsboro Statesville Raleigh Laurinburg and Hamlet voted last night to reject wage offers from Southern Bell Telephone Co. The Communications Workers of America says the six cities show workers backing the union bargaining committee in the rejection.
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Raleigh
Oct
Carolina
Southern Bell Telephone Company
C. Lee
Communications Workers of America
North Carolina
Southern Bell
Durham
Goldsboro
Statesville
Laurinburg
Hamlet
Ask Court To Compel Railroad To Bargain
A federal suit filed in Raleigh on October 15 seeks a court order forcing the Atlantic Coast Line railroad to recognize the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers express and Station Employees as the bargaining representative for about 850 ACL workers. The union says a majority voted for recognition but ACL has refused to bargain over pay rules and working conditions.
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Aleigh
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
ACL
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Doomed Men Reprieved By Gov Thompson
In Georgia five men faced the electric chair when Gov. M. E. Thompson granted 60 day stays of execution within an hour of the first planned death. The reprieve followed an overheard prison conversation among doomed inmates. Wayne Woodruff and Bedford Johns were to die for murder in a Jacksonville Florida hunting trip killing. Charlie Garrett and Jewell Eller were to die for killing a store owner. J. B. Beetles and William Davis were set for execution for murder of a store keeper.
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Reidsville
Georgia
M. E. Thompson
Wayne Woodruff
Jacksonville
Fla
Bedford
Ind
Lowely
Charlie Garrett
Jewell Eller
Paul Ginsberg
J. B. Beetles
William Davis
Seven Polio Cases Reported Across North Carolina
Seven polio cases were reported to the state board of health today bringing the year’s total to 2321. The death toll rose to 124 with a Yadkin county resident among the latest fatalities. Buncombe county reported three cases while Cleveland Harnett Wake and Watauga each had one case.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
Yadkin County
Buncombe County
Cleveland
Harnett
Wake
Watauga
Allies Told To Maintain Firm Stand
Gen Lucius D. Clay urged a firm Western stance in Berlin to halt Soviet expansion and aid democratic gains in Western Europe. He spoke privately to British delegates, linking Berlin posture to lasting peace and warning the 1948 blockade as a starvation tactic.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Clay
Europe
Western
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Italy
France
Finland
Atomic dispute stirs election campaigns across states
President Truman objects to Dewey's atomic energy remarks during campaign stops in Indiana and Milwaukee. Dewey defends gradual release of atomic control while preserving a government monopoly until world controls are in place. Wallace criticizes policies and accuses Truman of forcing Vinson Moscow talks.
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Associated Press
Truman
Indiana
Milwaukee
New York
Minnesota
Kansas City
Dewey
Phoenix
Ariz
Wallace Joinson
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Fred M. Vinson
Moscow
Wallace
Russia
Vinson
Repub
Truman May Come to N. C. Monday Night
President Truman is expected to arrive in Raleigh Monday night likely from Miami, with the Sir Walter Hotel preparing accommodations. The plan calls for a 8:30 p.m. arrival at Raleigh Durham Airport and a Tuesday schedule unchanged, including a dedication address on the capital grounds and an opening address at the state fair, before departing for Washington.
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Raleigh
Truman
Miami
Sir Walter
Raleigh- Durham
Capital Grounds
Washington
Exchange Clubs In Annual State Meet in Raleigh
About 150 delegates gathered in Raleigh for the annual state Exchange club convention. Officers will be elected tomorrow with W. D. Inman of Mt. Airy slated to succeed R. O. Heater of Cary as president, following the customary progression from state vice president to president.
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Raleigh
State Exchange Club
W. D. Inman
Mt. Airy
R. O. Heater
Cary
Death of CBS Reporter Polk Blamed on Communists
Athens reports say the Greek government will announce in Salonika that Greek communists killed CBS correspondent George Polk. Police have questioned an avowed leftist journalist and his mother. Polk's body with a bullet hole was found in Salonika Bay last May 16.
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Athens
Salonika
CBS
George Polk
Ministry of Justice
Polk
Embros
Justice
Melas
Constantine Rentis
Oi Karos
Constantin Tsaldaris
Acropolis
Eleftheria
Gregory Staktopoulos
Staktopoulos
Salonika Bay
Fort Worth
Tex
Markos Vafiades
Communist Party
North Carolina to abolish dual school administration
The North Carolina Education Commission urged ending the two headed system of state superintendent and board controller. It called for higher teacher salaries a $150 million building program statewide capital aid and consolidation of smaller high schools plus expanded adult and vocational education and reduced teacher loads.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Education Commission
Cherry
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Board of Education
Commission
Taft Arrives In State For Two Political Addresses
Senator Robert A. Taft arrives in North Carolina to speak at Wilson and Chapel Hill on farm prices and the Taft Hartley act. John A. Wilkinson accompanies him and will introduce Taft. Mrs Taft cannot attend due to illness. Wilkinson also predicts a growing two party system in North Carolina on radio tour.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Chapel Hill
Wilson
Capus Waynick
Florida
South
Taft
North Carolina
Republi
Charles L. Coon High School
Carolina Political Union
Young Republican Club
John A. Wilkinson
Washington, D. C
U. S. Senate
Atlantic Christian College
Wilkinson
New B-50 Bombers to Train for Alaska Defense
The United States plans five B-50 bombers and about 75 fighters to defend Alaska this winter with training flights from November 1 to March 15. Three to five plane B-50 rotations will operate at any time, marking the first organized bomber missions to points outside the continental United States. The Panama Canal Zone has no organized air unit. the 36th fighter wing with 75 F-80s left Panama for Germany, with related troop movements underway.
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Washington
United States
Alaska
Panama Canal Zone
Air Force
Polar Frontier
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Panama
Germany
Gemany
Smyrna (Tenn
Raleigh Bound Dynamite Laden Truck Explodes
A truck carrying 10 tons of dynamite exploded on a Tamaqua area highway early today. Driver F W Petty of Little Rock Ark, awoke to smoke and flames, leaped to safety, and flagged other vehicles as blasts shattered treetops and broke windows in nearby towns. no injuries were reported.
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Tamaqua
Edward Zmijiewski
F. W. Petty
Little Rock
Ark
Petty
Atlas Power Co
Raleigh
Soviet diplomat defies Berlin debate at UN meeting
In Paris on October 15 Andre Vishinsky refused to join a Berlin debate in the UN Security Council saying it would be naive to swallow the bait. He asserted the council lacks jurisdiction over Berlin and that a blockade does not exist, resisting further details.
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Paris
Andre
Y. Vishinsky
Berlin
Security Council
Juan A. Bramuglia
Argentina
Bramuglia
Council
United States
Britain
France
Vishinsky
Soviet Union
Big Four
Freign
Stalin
Germany
Russia
North Carolina Law Declares Vote Machines Not Authorized
Raleigh article outlines Attorney General Harry McMullan rulings on several topics including that NC law does not authorize voting machines in elections. Other points limit bonds by two thirds debt, allow seizure proceeds to county fines, and deny barber shop grading authority.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
North Carolina
State Board of Barber Examiners
Price Averages Vary On Tobacco Belts
Flue cured tobacco prices rose slightly on the middle belt but fell on the eastern North Carolina and old belts. Wednesday gross sales were 5,438,156 pounds on the eastern belt at $52.23, 5,467,212 pounds on the old belt at 47.48, and 3,170,143 pounds on the middle belt at 49.34.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
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