Roaming The Piedmont Tales Laced With Rural Wit
A collage of anecdotes from North Carolina communities recounts domestic mishaps with dish duty yet strong spirits. Farmer and carpenter swap four hours apiece over repairs and plowing, while a river town seeks progress through industry and flood control. An adventurous woodsman survives a wounded buck encounter in Ashe County as a lifelike frontier tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randleman
Deep River
Naomi Wise
High Point
Asheboro
Greensboro
French Policeman Killed in North African Shanty Town
A French policeman was killed and two were wounded last night after shots were fired from a corrugated tin shanty town near a metal working suburb. He had driven to the huts to investigate reports of fire at the site near an abandoned chateau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Englishman Best Becomes Southern Furniture Exec
Former army man and police constable James Best, a native of Hull, England, now serves as executive vice president of the Southern Retail Furniture Association. He moved to America in 1947 with his wife after wartime service in Britain and a career in the Lincolnshire Constabulary. He previously worked at Sanford Furniture Co. as sales manager and later joined SRFA as director of training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Eeme
High Point
Southern Retail Furniture Association
Best
Hull
London
England
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Hutch
Bobby
Police Academy
Lincolnshire Constabulary
Europe
Royal Artillery
Cheviitaveccia
Rome
Leven
Chevintaveccia
America
Candor
United States Navy
Sandhills
Episcopal Church
Stolen Asian Flu Vaccine Recovered In Kansas City
Police disclosed a theft of 400 vials worth 1600 from a Municipal Airport freight dock. James Glayzer and Charles Moore Jr. were charged. 30 vials unaccounted for as authorities recovered most of the shipment after a drug company tipped them off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
James Glayzer
Charles C. Moore Jr
Moore
Marion Cooley
Glayzer
Cooley
Glazer
Coty Turns To Center Parties For Premier Search
Paris President Rene Coty faced a fragmented vote as Antoine Pinay failed to win assembly support for a new cabinet. Socialists and Communists opposed Pinay over powers for a year, prompting Coty to consider naming another premier or a conciliator to explore options with center parties and former premiers Schuman Queuille and Mollet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Rene Coty
Antoine Pinay
National Assembly
Ents and Peasants
Pinay
Coty
Robert Schuman
Henry Queuille
Guy Mollet
BULL-BAITER BULLDOG CHAIN OF BULLFIGHTS DESCRIBED
The bulldog was named for its use in bull baiting not appearance. It fought bulls by biting the bull's nose and clinging on until the bull grew tired from tossing its tormentor.
Bunker Hill Grows from Farming Center to Residential Neighborhood
Oct. 19 report details Bunker Hill Forsyth County including its century old store, rural roads, and churches. It notes a shift from tobacco farming toward residential development with ten homes built and four more planned, raising land values as the area nears Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunker Hill
Forsyth County
Abbotts Creek
Forsyth
Guilford
High Point
Kernersville
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Resi
Union Cross
Glenn
Colfax
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ED Lane
Community Aid Society
Buddy
Sadie
Odell Marion
Jack Memory
Yadkin
Jim Snow
Rockford
John
Jim
Wilburn Waters
White Top Mountain
Ashe County
Wilburn
Mag Tree
Waters
Englishman Best
Braxton Younts Enterprise
Otteray
James W. Best
Bunker Hill Area
Dents
Bureau of Advertising of
The
American Newspaper Publishers Association, Inc
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McCann-Erickson, Inc
High Point Enterprise
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