Short-Term Borrowing To Pay State Bills Looms
State officials warn of possible short term borrowing to cover operating expenses as revenues lag estimates. Tax collections may fall short by 3 to 5 million, risking an overdraft before March with a July start to the fiscal year and an $13.9 million fund balance shaping the outlook. The scenario follows several years of rising revenues and ongoing tax-anticipation borrowing at local levels.
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Robert L. Thompson
Hodges
Pennington Appointed To School Board
J Glenn Pennington a Chair company official joins the Plaidnea county board of education to fill the vacancy created by Ralph Wilsons death Wilson was chairman at the time A new chairman will be named at the next regular meeting Pennington a Duke University graduate has led local Democratic committees and teaching associations.
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Thomasville
J. Glenn Pennington
Plaidnea County Board of Education
Ralph Wilson
Iar
Lexington
Davidson County
Democratic Executive Committee
Wilson
Paul Evans
Duke University
Pennington
New Teachers Association
Editor Reflects on State Finance and Media Coverage
The editor argues that state finances in hard times show genius-level mismanagement while criticizing whitewash on AP reports from Raleigh. The piece notes tractors dominate modern farming and horse feed production has fallen sharply.
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A.P
Raleigh
Little White House attracts thousands at Roosevelt memorial
Warm Springs Georgia visitors tour the small two room cottage where Franklin D Roosevelt died. The chair and bed remain, objects from around the country are on display, and the site receives 2000 to 3000 guests weekly with over 100000 visitors since 1945.
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Atlanta
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Allen
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Trimble
Barkley Bride-to-Be in Washington Romance Grows
Vice President and his fiancée Mrs Hadley were seen in Washington after a July 8 meeting with Clifford, a presidential aide. Barkley, a widower, has traveled from St Louis for a wedding shopping trip and plans to speak in Pennsylvania. The note room tale of a milkman joke ends this rounded account.
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Pennsylvania
Barkley
Hadley
Clarke Clifford
Washington
Clifford
Potomac
Congress
Kentucky
Wendell Willkie
Third Quarter Profit Trends and Strike Impact Across Industries
The report details quarter to quarter and year to year profit changes across sectors including steel auto parts coal and textiles. It notes declines in oil coal machinery and utilities with coal and steel hit by strikes while textiles show a rebound and fourth quarter remains uncertain due to strikes and slowing trade.
Dayton Man Loses 126 From Box With Promise to Reimburse
A Dayton resident found 126 dollars missing from a small metal box kept for valuables. The box held 224 dollars in total. A note left by the thief said the money would be paid back as soon as possible.
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Dayton
Ohio
Words of the Wise and the bounds of freedom
A reflective line by Margaret Fairless Barber asserts that necessity may bend a person but cannot imprison the mind or body. The quote contrasts constraint with inner resolve and the power of perspective beyond walls.
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Margaret Fairless Barber
Tobacco smoke carries many chemicals. cigars differ from cigarettes
Experts say tobacco smoke contains hundreds of chemicals with only a few identified. Cigar tobaccos deviate in almost every respect from cigarette tobaccos.
Obituary Notices for Mrs. Ollie Giles and Phil Maner
Mrs. Ollie Giles of High Point Ntt died in Winston-Salem hospital after declining health. She was born September 3 1875 in Knox county Tennessee and survived by six children and sixteen grandchildren. Funeral services were held at First Reformed church with burial in Floral Garden Park cemetery. Phil Rodney Maner two year old son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Davis Maner of Thomasville died in a High Point hospital after brief illness. Funeral services were conducted at Rich Fork Baptist church with interment in the church cemetery.
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Thomasville
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Wilbur Davis Maner
Betty Tobin
Pansy Tobin
Rich Fork Church
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Grady Beck
Roney Sink
Donald Freeman
Norris Hawks
Bobby Bowers
Richard Conrad
Wilson Sayler, Jr
Obituary for Charles W. Davis of Fayetteville
Charles Walter Davis, 54, died Monday at Veterans Hospital Fayetteville after a long illness. He was born April 23, 1895 in Dobson and worked as a furniture maker for 30 years, last with Strickland Furniture Co. Survived by wife Della King, two sons Wade and John, daughter Ruth, two grandchildren, and his Woodmen of the World membership. Funeral Wednesday at Prospect Methodist Church, interment Floral Garden Park. Body to be in church at 2:30 p.m.
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Fayetteville
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Thomas
Lydia Coe Davis
Della King
Strickland Furniture Co
Thomasville Road
Prospect Methodist
Violent Deaths Claim 5 Persons In North Carolina
Five people died in North Carolina from violence or accidents over the weekend. Joseph Edgar Cannon, 63, a retired Belmont textile worker, drowned while fishing in the Catawba River. A 15-year-old Wilmington boy, Joseph McKinney, was fatally wounded during a target shooting incident believed accidental. Wake County saw two traffic fatalities: Billy Ray Penney, 16, killed in Fuquay Springs, and Linwood Massenburg, about 30, injured fatally when his car collided with a truck. Roy L. Hope, about 55, died after being struck by a car near his home in Henderson.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
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Belmont Textile
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Wilmington
Fred Coleman
Wake County
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Fuquay Springs
Holly Springs
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Wake Forest
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Henderson
Last rites for Sgt Kenry Ennis Jr at Cumby-Davis chapel
Sgt. Henry Ennis Jr of the U S Marine Corps received funeral services Sunday at 4 p.m. in Cumby-Davis mortuary chapel with Rev. Milton Hadhey officiating. A quartet sang during the ceremony and pallbearers included D R Reece, Jack Hepler, Bill Snider, Dyal Reece, Alien Cumby, and Alexander Shirley. Burial followed at Fieral Garden Park cemetery with full military honors by Marine escort Sgt John S Russell, the William Miller Post Veterans of Foreign Wars, Thomasville, and local Post 619 VFW. Ennis died Friday afternoon at Camp Lejeune after becoming ill while visiting family in September following his return from duty in the Pacific.
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Cumby-Davis Mortuary
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Springfield
Billy the Kid Buried Near Fort Sumner NM
The article notes Billy the Kid lies buried near Fort Sumner in New Mexico. It identifies his notoriety and location from historical records.
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Billy the Kid
Old West
Fort Sumner
New Mexico
Mrs Lula Harris Dies At Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Word has been received that Mrs Lula Harris 56 formerly of High Point died Sunday morning in a hospital at Roanoke Rapids Graveside rites and burial will be in Swan Quarter at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
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Lula Harris
High Point
Roanoke Rapids
Swan Quarter
Oldest Practicing Lawyer Duff Brandon Turns 102 Tomorrow
Butler Pennsylvania reports Duff Brandon the nation’s oldest practicing lawyer will be 102 tomorrow. The silver bearded senior credits longevity to ancestral lines and a healthy family history. He remains senior partner at Brandon and Brandon and says retirement is gradual but not complete.
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Duff Brandon
Brandon
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