North Carolina Restaurateur of the Year and Waitress Awarded
L. J. Bliss of Greensboro named Restaurateur of 1953 by the North Carolina Association of Quality Restaurants at a convention. Mrs. June Day of Charlotte chosen North Carolina waitress of the year Miss Hospitality for satisfactory customer care. ELKIN police investigate the death of Roy Raymond Smith 18 who died after his wife shot herself on the porch of their home.
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Berger
Raligh
North Carolina Assn
L. J. Bliss
Grensboro
Bliss
North Carolina
June Day
Charlotte
Elkin
Roy Raymond Smith
Smith
Ed Sparks
Sparks
Salisbury Veterans Hospital welcomes first patients
The Salisbury neuropsychiatric hospital admitted its first patients as seventy five veterans arrived by bus from Augusta, Georgia. Hospital manager Dr Louis Verdel said two more groups are expected, and the facility aims to care for up to 300 patients with a staff expansion planned.
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Salisbury
Veterans Hospital
North Carolina
Augusta
Louis Verdel
Verdel
Danbury Sawmill Worker Sentenced in Madison Killing
A 25-year-old Danbury sawmill worker, Anna Dawson Dink Bullins, received an eight to ten year term after being found guilty in Stokes Superior Court for a Madison man’s death at a party. The state held a second murder conviction against him tied to James William Murray, dated July 10 of last year.
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Danbury
Madison
Anna Dawson Dink Bullins
Allen Swyn
Stokes Superior Court
James William Murray
Merchants oppose federal sales tax plan
The State Merchants Assn adopted a resolution opposing any form of federal sales tax at manufacturers or retail levels. President Ansel E. Fowler of Winston-Salem said directors were specific in their opposition to a manufacturers sales tax.
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Raleigh
State Merchants Assn
Ansel E. Fowler
Winston-Salem
Association
Nags Head Surf Fishing Tournament Draws Anglers
A signal flare started the second annual Nags Head contest with over 100 anglers and more than 20 five man teams taking part. Four hour periods today and two similar sessions tomorrow use a point system to score catches. Winners receive prizes at tomorrow's banquet with clubs from Pennsylvania New Jersey and North Carolina represented.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Carolina South
Bus schedule set for Hatteras Ocracoke route
The Hatteras-Ocracoke service operated by Charlie McWilliams gains a winter schedule with one daily round trip, leaving Hatteras at 12 15 p m and arriving at Ocracoke around 2 45 p m. The return departs Ocracoke at 7 30 a m reaching Hatteras at 9 45 a m. Summer will add a second daily trip except Sundays.
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Ocracoke
Hatteras
Charlie McWilliams
Hatteras-Ocracoke
The
Utilities Commission
Driver Training Plan Backed by NC Officials
In Raleigh, Motor Vehicles Commissioner Edward Scheidt endorses Pilot Freight Carriers new driver training program. The Winston-Salem firm, with 300 non driving employees, will expand training for its truck drivers and work with the department to establish a model program for North Carolina businesses.
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Raleigh
Winston-Salem
Edward Scheidt
Scheidt
Pilot
Motor Vehicles
North Carolina
State Board to Discuss Fertilizer Controls Monday
The State Board of Agriculture will discuss controls for hydrous ammonia and other liquid fertilizers at its meeting next Monday. Liquid fertilizers have grown in use in the state in recent years. The 1953 Legislature authorized regulation of measurement and safety factors in handling these fertilizers.
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Raleigh
State Board of Agriculture
Agriculture Board
NC State College Council Meets for Term's First Session
The development council of North Carolina State College held its first meeting of the current term. Reports were planned on foundations and groups supporting teaching, research, and extension programs at the college.
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Raleigh
Development Council of
North Carolina State College
Building program advances for North Carolina mental hospitals
The State Hospitals Board of Control met with Gov. Umstead and Budget Bureau officials to push a 22 million dollar mental hospital building program. Plans call for bond sales in two batches with possible bond anticipation notes. Renovation of ward buildings at Butner and a Morganton hospital project are prioritized with bids hoped in late November or December. Surplus school funds and Mental Care Inc. proceeds will finance ward television sets and are to be turned over to the hospitals.
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Raleigh
State Hospitals Board of Control
Umstead
Budget Bureau
Hospitals Board
John Umstead
Hospital Board
Butner Hospital
Morganton
Public Schools and
Mental Care, Inc
Hospitals
Senators oppose sites of U S bases in Morocco
Senators Case and Stennis condemned two proposed bases near Dolhaut and De El Jima in Morocco as unsuitable. They noted French limits on personnel and questioned if additional bases are needed, while supporting existing sites near Nouasseur Sidi Slimane and Ben Guerir.
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Washington
Case
Stennis
Morocco
U. S
Air Force
Dolhaut
de E] Jima
City Plans Delayed Land Sale For Plant Upgrade
City postpones sale of a county owned parcel amid an emergency measure to streamline plant operations. A state report blamed poor plant conditions for waterway contamination near disposal areas. The council rejected a local firm’s rent offer and aims to convert the lot into parking to ease city hall congestion. Removal plans are approved with Nov. 9 full control transfer.
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Ing
Oame County City Hall
Hinson
Coumci King
Ata
High Steam Jam
Carolina Wer Club
Ancient Egyptians painted eyes on ships and boats
The article notes ancient Egyptians used eye motifs on ships and that similar practices persist in small boats in the Orient today, reflecting enduring decorative or symbolic traditions aboard vessels.
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Orient
Federal State Share Cost Drought Program Proposed
Governors of drought states met President Eisenhower to outline a federal state share the cost drought program and secure federal help to feed cattle. Agriculture Secretary Benson outlined hay transport cost sharing with up to half funded by federal aid from a $10 million emergency fund. An audience of 11,000 applauded Eisenhower's call for local knowledge with federal resources.
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Kansas City
Eisenhower
Dan Thornton
Colorado
Thornton
Abilene
Kas
Agriculture
Benson
Department Ofriculture
Western Railroads
Department of Agriculture
Jimmy Dillon
Jones
Future Farmers of America
Dillon
Munich
National Agricultural Advisory Commission
Agriculture Benson
White House
Anglican Booklet Attacks Roman Catholicism as Totalitarian
A 32 page Anglican pamphlet called infallible to describe the Roman Catholic Church as totalitarian accuses Rome of touting for converts among the seriously ill and dying in hospitals. It criticizes papal infallibility and the Virgin Mary doctrine as unscriptural while denouncing centralised Rome control and spiritual bullying by priests.
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London
Church of England
England
Canterbury
Geoffrey Fisher
Convocation of
Rome
Europe
Warrant Issued for English Lord in U S
Winchester police issued a warrant for Lord Montagu of Beaulieu a 27 year old English baron now in the United States. They called the charge serious and criminal not civil and noted it is not extraditable. He recently was in Texas visiting family and had arrived from southern France where he was reported ill.
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Winchester
New Hampshire
Lord Montagu of
Tex
United States
France
Council Proceedings Filed On Dictograph
City Council records show a dictograph device installed in the Council Chamber to capture remarks during a trial basis meeting. Minutes are typically written by a secretary, but the gadget recorded the lawmakers words for review.
Jewelry Firm Files Incorporation Papers
B and B Jewelers Inc of High Point filed a certificate of incorporation with Secretary of State Thad Eure in Raleigh. Authorized capital stock is 100000 dollars, with 300 dollars subscribed by Christine Tucker Rebecca Wagger and Lathelis Clifton all of High Point.
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B & B Jewelers Inc. of
High Point
Thad Eure
Raleigh
Christine Tucker
Rebecca Wagger
Lathelis Clifton
New Orleans Crowded for Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial
New Orleans hosts a large crowd for the Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial ceremony. President Eisenhower is scheduled to participate in a re enactment of the transfer with French Ambassador Henri Bonnet signing for France as the United States signs for America. The event marks the transfer of 529,911,680 acres of western continental territory to the United States 150 years ago.
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New Orleans
Eisenhower
United States
Henri Bonnet
France
Textile Industry Leaders Urge Tax Reform and New Leadership
Hallett of the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute calls for tax structure revision to raise incentives and production. He stresses textiles as a model for holding price lines while warning against reliance on immediate tax relief. He urges developing young leadership with ingenuity and initiative to meet industrial challenges.
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America
Hallett
American Cotton Manufacturers Institute
Uso
Stocks Rise as Steel and Motors Lead Market Advance
New York stocks continued to advance with steel and motor shares among the most active. Railroads gained modestly while broader sectors joined the rise with many issues up one to two points. Notable higher names included U S Steel, General Motors, American Telephone, DuPont, and Westinghouse.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Neval Motors
American Telephone
Baltimore & Ohio
Sinclair Oil
Kennecott, du Pont
American Canstillers Corp
Douglas Aircraft
Etalon
American Car & F
American Tobacco
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio Ee
Bendix Aviation
Sess
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Aircraft
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chrysler Scr
Coca Cola
Colgate-P-P
Continental Can
Curtiss-Wright Se
Eesseess
DuPont
Eastern Air
Eastman Kodak
General Electric
General Motors
Goodrich
Mh Central
Interchemical Corp
Eeeno Sale International Harvester
International Nickel
International T & T
Johnson Eee
Ceesosscces
Liggett
Myers Eee
See
Lou & Nash Tpp
Monsanto
Ly Packard
Paramount Pictures
Penneenney Pee Eee
Pennsylvania RR
Eess
Sears Roebuck
Big Three Open Meet Could Start War Fears
The Big Three talks in progress aim to defuse brush fires around the world rather than produce dramatic moves against the Kremlin. British Prime Minister Churchill and French Foreign Minister Bidault pressed for top level talks while Yugoslavia threatened to move in troops in Trieste.
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Bidault
Paris
Kremlin
Trieste
Italy
Yugoslavia
Tito
Zone A
Britain
United States
France
Giuseppe Pella
Big Three
Yugoslav
McCarthy Probes Ft Monmouth Spy Ring Inquiries Proceed
McCarthy wrapped a session on a possible Communist subversion at Ft Monmouth with plans to call refugee scientist Greenglass. Maj Gen Kirke Lawton and Maj Gen George Back testified as witnesses in closed hearings alongside Sobell and Rosenberg connections. Greenglass testified at Los Alamos that the Rosenbergs coerced him to steal atomic secrets for a wartime Soviet spy ring.
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McCarthy
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Kirke Lawton
Ft. Monmouth
George S. Back
Army Signal Corps
Radar Defense Center
Sterday
Morton Sobell
Julius
Ethel Rosenrg
David Greenglass
Rosenbergs
eCarthy
Sobel
Rosenberg
Army Signals Corps
New York
Sobell
Communist Party
Greenglass
Lewisburg
Penitentia
Tal
Los Alamos
N. M
Postponed Magna Council Meeting Amid Deer Season
Magna Utah Community Council moved its regular meeting from Monday to October 29. A suggested reason is Utahs deer hunting season opens for 10 days tomorrow. The text notes Ford Motors Rouge plant power output could supply a city of 730000.
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Magna
Utah
Test Flights Set MIG Slower Than Sabre in Korea
Far East Air Forces reported that MIG15 test flights conducted on Okinawa by American pilots showed the Soviet jet to be slower than the F86 Sabre. Gen. O P Weyland said the tests yielded valuable information to help U S pilots exploit the Sabre better in future engagements.
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Tokyo
Far East
South Korea
O. P. Weyland
FEAF
Okinawa
Air Force
Expert radar demonstration tours for speed enforcement
An NYU radar expert demonstrated speed detection methods to police in Fayetteville Lumberton Rockingham and Wadesboro. He had shown similar demonstrations in Raleigh Rocky Mount Wilson and Goldsboro yesterday. Tomorrow he will visit Monroe Charlotte and Gastonia.
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Raleigh
New York
Tar Heel
Edward Scheidt
Fayetteville
Lumberton
Rockingham
Wadesboro
New York University
Rocky Mount
Wilson
Goldsboro
Monroe
Charlotte
Gastona
Weather Summary for Charlotte by Official Weather Bureau
Tonight low 50. Tomorrow high 78. Today's high 84 and昨夜 low 48. Sunset 5 43 p.m. Sunrise 6 28 a.m. Records cover 24 hours ending 7 30 a.m. Official Weather Bureau data for rainfall and temperature in Charlotte.
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Charlotte UM
Official Weather Bureau
High Low
Asheville
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Memphis
Miami
Mobile
New Orleans
New York
Raleigh
San Antonio
San Francisco
Washington
Wilmington
New Farm Plan Nears Final Form in Ike Speech
Eisenhower spoke to a packed Kansas City crowd about a near completed farm plan. He suggested a possible benefit for a Gettysburg farm and hinted at a price support program. The discussion included Agriculture Department measures and new commission actions as Congress nears approval.
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Eier
Jimmy Dillon
Jones
Future Farmers of America
Dillon
Eisenhower
Agriculture Department SS
Gettysburg
Ike
Ike Ocheered An Audience of 11,000 That Packed Kansas City’s ‘Munici
Two Little Sisters Die In Railroad Tragedy Near Home
In Chesapeake West Virginia two sisters Margaret Lafferty aged five and Earline Kay Lafferty aged 22 months were walking with their mother along a railroad track when a locomotive and caboose struck them. The incident happened last night and authorities are investigating the accident.
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Chesapeake
W. Va
Margaret Lafferty
Earliner Kay Lafferty
Guatemala Protests Britain Over British Guiana Crackdown
Guatemala's Congress approved a Communist-sponsored resolution calling for an energetic protest against criminal aggression by imperialist troops in British Guiana. It urged other American republics to express indignation over Britain's crackdown on the Popular Progres sive party and leftist movements.
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Guatemala
British Guiana
Britain
Popular Progressive Party
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