NAACP Closes Meet At Winston-Salem
At the 13th annual North Carolina NAACP convention in Winston-Salem leaders urged unity and nonviolence while calling for continued progress toward integration. Mrs. Ruby Hurley warned against extremist labels and highlighted the NAACP's resolve to advance freedom amid intimidation.
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NAACP
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
National Assn
Sen. Eastland
Talmadge
Ruby Hurley
Atlanta
Southeastern
Ku Klux Klan
Kefauver Campaign Route Lengthened Across Midwest
Senator Estes Kefauver extended his campaign trip adding Ohio Illinois and Michigan stops. The run will visit Lima Findlay Mansfield and Canton Ohio Champaign Decatur Bloomington and Peoria Illinois and the Detroit area that week after a coast-to-coast swing.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Estes Kefauver
Kefauver
Ohio
Ilinois
Michigan
Washington
Lima
Findlay
Mansfield
Canton
Champaign
Decatur
Bloomington
Peoria
Ill
Detroit Area
Per Capita Income Focus Marks NC Municipal Meeting
The 47th annual North Carolina League of Municipalities convention opened with debate on raising the state per capita income to at least the national average. Hodges cited NC at about 1250 per person, 650 below the national figure, urging development and urging officials to shed complacency.
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Asheville
North Carolina League of Municipalities
Brandon P. Hodges
State Tax Study Commission
Hodges
Champion Paper & Fibre Co
Canton
Powell Blasts Dixiecrats In Detroit Speech
In Detroit a crowd of about 4000 heard Adam Clayton Powell pledge support for Eisenhower over Stevenson. Powell said his quarrel is with the Dixiecrats and praised Gov. G. Mennen Williams. He criticized Willis A. Ward's intro and stressed Eisenhower’s civil rights backing.
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Detroit
Adam Clayton Powell
New York
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Powell
G. Mennen Williams
Willis A. Ward
Congress
Ward
Charles C. Diggs Jr
New Nonprescription Tablet Promises Quick Ice-Free Breathing
Public notice promotes a three layer tablet named Ingredite from Whitehall Pharmacal Company to relieve stuffed nasal passages and running nose in colds. It claims rapid, complete relief through the bloodstream without prescription and is sold as Dristan Decongestant Tabs at drug stores for 98 cents.
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New York
N. Y
Dristan
Tabany
Whitehall Pharmacal Company
Question Of Race Delays Prison Term
In Concord North Carolina Leroy Wright 38 has a 20 month sentence for fornication and adultery tied to marriages with a Negro and a white woman. The race of Wright delays his prison assignment with sheriff officials uncertain whether he will be placed in a white or Negro camp as his papers list race as unknown.
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Herbert L. Wright
New York
National Youth Division
NAACP
North Carolina
Shirley James
Durham
Sadie Troy
Shaw University
Raleigh
Mary Lillie Hamonds
Asheville
Lessie Maddrey
Shaw
Romulus Gibbs
Winston-Salem
Sylvester Vaughan
Charlotte
Concord
N.C. W
Leroy
Red) Wright
J. B. Roberts
Cabarrus County
Wright
Sheriff's Department
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