Polio Cases in 1955 Show Peak Reached in Late August
Public Health Service weekly polio report shows 2 033 cases in the week ended Sept 3 with Nebraska and Montana missing. The drop from Aug 27 suggests the national peak was reached Aug 27, 1955. Through the year there were 16 182 cases, 5 615 paralytic, with regional declines except in several western states. The report notes 446 paralytic polio cases and over 16 percent of the population vaccinated since April 12.
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Shooting Called a Mistake in North Carolina Case
In Shelby North Carolina Clyde Beam and an accomplice faced assault charges after a July 25 shooting described as a terrible mistake. Lloyd Smith testified he saw Beam and Tillman on a warehouse roof before the attack and the two claimed they had mistaken him for a burglar as he drove away stored in his car to the hospital with injuries to his face neck and shoulder.
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N.C
Lee
Clyde Beam
Cleveland
Cunty Recorder's Court
Lloyd Smith
Beam
Tillman
Smith
Farmers in Robeson seek switch from aerial to ground tobacco measures
A Robeson County meeting drew about 100 farmers who urged changing from aerial photo measurements to ground system for tobacco. They also pressed to revert to the old one tenth of an acre tolerance, challenging the current one fiftieth acre standard. Horace Godfrey, ADSC committee officer, backed retaining the photo method as more accurate, while noting the one hundredth acre tolerance cannot be reliably determined.
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Robeson County
Horace Godfrey
Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Committee
Godfrey
Judge Rules Negroes Have Right to Park
Federal Judge Lamar Cecil ruled that Negroes have a constitutional right to free use of city parks in Beaumont Texas. The decision, believed to be the first in the U S Fifth Circuit to strike down racial segregation in public recreation, was made on behalf of Negroes and their race and color.
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Tex
Lamar Cecil
Yester- Beaumont Enterprise
U.S
of & Meee Recreation
Kansas City Schools End Segregation Policy
Kansas City public schools ended segregation as white and Negro students returned to class at the start of the term. No incidents were reported as integration took effect after 88 years of enforced separation in the district.
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Bachelor Presidents: Buchanan and Cleveland in White House
James Buchanan served as a bachelor president while Grover Cleveland later married Frances Folsom during his first term in the White House. Cleveland’s marriage set a presidential first, while Buchanan remained unmarried.
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Grover Cleveland
United States
Cleveland
Frances Folsom
White House
Buchanan
Hamilton Freed From Supervision
RALEIGH North Carolina freed former Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard Thomas L Hamilton from parole supervision yesterday He had pleaded guilty to participating in a flogging and received four years for assault and conspiracy He had returned to Leesville South Carolina to sell cars and now runs a small grocery in Augusta Georgia
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Raleigh
Thomas L. Hamilton
Leesville
S.C
Paroles Board
Augusta
Robinson gains full ownership of the Charlotte News
Thomas L. Robinson, who moved to Charlotte in 1946 with $20,000 and a newspaper dream, acquires 99 percent of the Charlotte News stock and becomes owner. The Charlotte News Publishing Co. retires 3,750 shares, leaving 1,000 held by Robinson, 996 of which he retains. The deal leaves Charlotte with two independently operated dailies, the Charlotte News and the Knight- owned Charlotte Observer.
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Thomas L. Robinson
Boston
Charlotte News
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Carolinas
Charlotte News Publishing Co
W. Carey Dowd Jr
J. E. Dowd
Dowd Folger
Carolina
Southern Newspaper Publishers Assn
North Carolina Press Assn
Harvard Alumni Assn
Elizabeth Willcox
Englewood
N.J
Tom Jr
Sam
Blake
Raleigh Times
Raleigh News and Observer
South
Charlotte Observer
Knight Newspapers
One Killed in Hillsboro Collision Involving Hit‑and‑Run Driver
In Hillsboro North Carolina B F Hester about 80 was killed when struck by a car that failed to stop Orange County Sheriff Odell Clayton said Lloyd Stegall 24 of Durham was arrested and jailed as driver of the car.
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N.C
B. F. Hester
Orange County
Odell Clayton
Lloyd Stegall
Durham
Hester
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