Flue-Cured Tobacco Markets Apply First Day Of Sales Suspension
North Carolina and Virginia flue-cured markets closed on the first day of a sales suspension tied to Britain's tobacco import ban. Fred Lyster headed a meeting in Washington to set a resume date, with a tentative reopening next Monday. Quotas for 1948 will be cut, a decision announced by Charles E Gage, as a Raleigh hearing on November 5 will hear industry views.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Virginia
Great Britain
Fred Lyster
Hendern
Tobacco Market Committee
Washington
Agriculture Department
Old Belt
Charles E. Gage
Tobacco
Department of Agriculture
Gage
Georgia
South Carolina
Catawba College Reports Enrollment Record
Salisbury report shows Catawba College enrolled 781 students for 1947 48 surpassing last year's 676. Enrollment includes 210 women and 271 men with 149 women on campus and 61 day students. 308 men boarding and 263 off campus. Veterans boosted totals 410 former servicemen. freshmen 268, sophomores 252, juniors 173, seniors 83, five unclassified. Housing limits reflected as applications denied and dormitory construction pending.
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Salisbury
Spcl
William Gaddy, Jr
Catawba College
Salisbury-Rowan
Barden to Speak at Rose Hill Progress Day
Rep. Graham A. Barden of New Bern will speak at a Progress Day program in Rose Hill on Friday to mark the completion of a $100,000 civic improvements program.
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Rose Hill
Graham A. Barden
New Bern
Victor Ointment advertised for skin relief during wartime
Wartime advertisement promotes Victor Ointment as a caseless antiseptic soothing skin irritations. It claims safety for babies and children, money back guarantee, and availability at Eckerd's and local druggists.
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Eckerd’s
Ring Harris
Jeff's
Anderson
Mann's
Gallo- Way
Liquor Case Before Court Faces Franklin Dry Forces
The North Carolina Supreme Court heard appeals from Franklin County dry forces seeking to stop liquor sales at ABC stores in Louisburg and Franklinton. They urge the 1947 ABC election acts were unconstitutional and seek stores declared public nuisances.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Franklin County Dry Forces
ABC
Louisburg
Franklinton
Franklin Drys
Drys
Commission Sells Several Bond Issues
The state government commission sold multiple bonds including Chapel Hill street bonds of 12000 at 1.719 percent to Brandinking and Trust Co.. Cornelius sewer bonds 140000 at 3.463 percent to a group led by R. S. Dickson. Maxton water sewer bonds 30000 at 2.452 percent to R. S. Dickson. Selma general refunding bonds 183000 at 3.309 percent to a consortium. Shelby electric light and park bonds 100000 at 1.551 percent to First Securities. Stokes school buildings bonds 28000 at 1.989 percent to McCarley. Avery school courthouse and jail bonds 12000 at 1.96 percent to McCarley.
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Raleigh
Government Commission
Town of
Chapel Hill
Tae
Brandinking and Trust Co
Wilson
Town of Cornelius
R. S. Dickson and Company
Raleigh and Charlotte
Vance Securities Corporation
Greensboro
J. Lee Peeler and Company
Durham
Fox, Reusch and Company
Cincinnati
Maxton
Selma
J. Lee Peel
County of
CIO Rally To Be Held In Thomasville
A general CIO rally will be held at Thomasville city hall to mobilize support for CIO strikers. Unions from Greensboro Winston-Salem Thomasville High Point and nearby areas join in urging anti inflationary action and a cost of living protest petition to Congress before the November 17 special session. A top CIO leader will appear and the rally starts at 7 o clock.
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CIO
Thomasville
Hi-Point
Congress of the United States
Congress
Hotel Man Indicted In Liquor Case
H L Thomas manager of the Grove Park inn and Raymond Culberson an inn employee were indicted by the Buncombe county grand jury on four counts of violating the state liquor law. They were released in 200 bond each after deputies seized about 30 quarts of liquor at the inn. Indictments charged possession receiving transporting and sale of liquor.
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Asheville
H. L. Thomas
Grove Park Inn
Buncombe County
Grand Jury
Raymond Culberson
North Carolina
Two Divorces Filed In Clerk’s Office This Morning
Grace C. Hicks seeks divorce from Thomas J. Hicks and support for seven minor children while John T. Bennett sues Doris McMahon Bennett for divorce after two years of separation.
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Clerk of Municipal Court
Grace C. Hicks
Thomas J. Hicks
John T. Bennett
Doris McMahon Bennett
Millions For Tobacco Men
WALSTONBURG October 20 The federal government will buy flue cured tobacco leaf for the rest of the season in a plan described by Carl Hicks as generating an additional income of 5 to 10 million dollars for flue cured growers this season The U S agriculture department will finance buyers to ease the Britain import ban and each grower is expected to receive 150 to 200 dollars per 1000 pounds more than if the stabilization corporation handled the crop under loan
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Walstonburg
Carl Hicks
Hicks
State Farm Bureau
Britain
Stabilization Corporation
Lions Ladies Night in Thomasville Features Ventriloquist
Thomasville Lions and their ladies held their annual Ladies Night at the Woman’s Club. Ventro lquist Joe Wallace King of Winston-Salem headlined with dummy Sena tor Brandywine and soprano Mrs Eileen King as special guest. Harold Harrison led prize drawings while Rev Calvin Leonard offered invocation and Carlos Kennedy welcomed guests.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Lions
Joe Wallace King
Winston-Salem
Senator Brandywine
Lions Club
Harold Harrison
Calvin Leonard
Richard van Sciver
Charlie Prevost
Eileen King
Mrs. King
Lions
Thomasville Plans $200000 Fund Drive For Foundation
Thomasville announces a fundraising drive from November 10 to 22 to support the Thomasville community foundation. Frank File will head the campaign with Doak Finch as finance chairman. The effort seeks $125000 for City Memorial hospital improvements and $95000 for City Memorial Pork processing aid, with $75000 already raised.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Community Foundation
First National Bank
Frank File
Doak Finch
N. C. English
R. i Pope
Pope
Coordinating Community Council
City Memorial Hospital Improvement Fund
City Memorial Pork
Charlotte Defeats Auditorium Bond Proposal
A bond issue of 2.5 million dollars for a city auditorium failed by 83 votes in a special election. Only 4,831 registered voters, with 2,333 for and 2,498 against the proposal. nonvoting ballots counted as votes against registration.
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Charlotte
Club Night Features Music by Mrs Finch and Guests
The club presented singing of Daisy and In the Evening by the Moonlight with Mrs Finch as pianist. Introduction of other special guests followed the quartet performance. About 100 members and guests attended. Club president Dr. R L McDonald presided.
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Daisy
Finch
Ceat
R. L. McDonald
First War Dead William C Miller Returns to Thomasville
The body of IC1c William C Miller killed at Pearl Harbor arrives in Thomasville on Train 36 at 10 39 AM. His funeral with full military rites will be held Sunday at Liberty Baptist church at 2 30 PM. Miller, a rear seat man for Lt Clarence E Dickinson USN, was among the first service members killed in action at Pearl Harbor.
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Thomasville
William C. Miller
Pearl Harbor
Charlotte
Miller
G. M. Casper
U.S.N. Airforce
Flying Uns
Liberty Baptist Church
Tor
V. E. C. Roach
Hampton
Hughes Grove
Westfield
T. R. York
Mt. Zion Pilgrim Church
Mr. Miller
Melvin B. Miller
Ora Kinney Miller
Fair Grove
C. K. Parrish
Robert Miller
Neice
Sylvia Creasey
J. C. Green & Sons Funeral
Route Two
Neebs Awarded Navy School Ribbons at Admiral Farragut
Russell C. Neese of High Point received the Blue and Silver Ribbon for academic excellence at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg Florida. He also earned the Merit Ribbon for his achievements this past month.
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Neebse
Russell C. Neese
Fred Neese
High Point
Admiral Farragut Academy
St. Petersburg
Fla
Father Murdered His Wife and Tried to Discard Remains
Colorado Springs officers arrested rancher Junia Wesley Vandervoort, 61, after his son Wesley, 21, led police to a shed on the Vandervoort ranch where most of a woman’s skeleton and clothing were found. The son said the father shot his wife as she tried to flee, then buried her bones in a wash boiler, a dry arroyo, and a shed floor, forcing the son to assist and threatening death if he spoke. The elder Vandervoort denied the accusation, claiming his wife disappeared in 1941. The investigation follows the son’s detailed confession and disclosure of mistreatment.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
el Paso
Ray Slocum
Junia Wesley Vandervoort
Slocum
Wesley
Here
Evon
Vandervoort
Woman Killed In Attempt To End Fight
In Ot County near FALEON a woman named Annie Mae Wright was killed while trying to stop a gunfight between her husband, David Wright, and David Oliver. Oliver and Wright were charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. both are jailed in Duplin on $5,000 bonds.
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Faleon
David Oliver
Annie Mae Wright
C. L. Nicholson
R. M. Byrd
David Wright
Oliver
Duplin
Nicholson
Woman on 35th Birthday Inherits Fortunes From Philadelphia Millionaire
The will of Patrick Dougherty, Philadelphia saloonkeeper, shows a trust of 561 305 dollars for four grand nieces each upon turning 35. Judge Bolger approved the trustee account, granting Mrs. Louis D. Griffin of Columbia a 35th birthday share worth over 140 thousand dollars from a total estate over 1.2 million.
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Philadelphia
Columbia
S. C
Patrick Dougherty
Robert V. Bolger
Louis D. Griffin
Chapel Hill residents seek new radio station
The communications commission received an application for a new standard radio station from Collier Cobb Jr, William Grady Pritchard and J B Johns of Hill NC. Proposed facility at 1340 kilocycles with unlimited time and unspecified wattage.
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Washington
the Communications Commission Today
Collier Cobb, Jr
William Grady Pritchard
J. B. Johns
A Hill, N
Watts
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Jewelry & Loan
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Piren Tabee
Justin McCarty
Lorraine
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Quet
U.S
William B. Umstead
Rotary Club
Sheraton Hotel
WHPE
Umstead
U. S
House of Representative
Wght Croley
Ys, Caan
Ord
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