North Carolina Plans Tourists Boost and Road Controls
The State Highway Commission and Department of Conservation and Development will map a plan to attract tourists, including a 10 point program. The panel set load limits for new secondary roads at eight tons for two axle vehicles and 12 tons for three axle vehicles and approved bids on 45 of 55 projects. They also raised department revenues by 525000 annually to improve the state prison system and formed a three man committee with conservation leaders to draft the tourism plan as travel business reaches 250 million dollars annually.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Department of Conservation and Development Plan
North Carolina
Highway Commission
The
Conservation Board
Commission
Polio outbreaks rise with 14 new North Carolina cases
State Board of Health reports 14 new polio cases in North Carolina as of yesterday, increasing the year’s outbreak total to 411 across the state.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
North Carolina
Mrs Grady Stirring Tehran With Women’s Rights Talk
In Tehran the ambassador’s wife Mrs Henry F Grady inspires weekly Thursday meetings where 20 to 30 Iranian women discuss illiteracy suffrage and clean water. She boasts a California political pedigree and aims to promote American life and a UN radio program while nudging Iran toward women’s voting.
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Tehran
Iran
U S
Henry F. Grady
Lucretia
Grady
California Senate
Reginaldo del Valle
Democratic National Committee
State Department
Greece
India
United Nations
Radio
Legion Topics NUTS on Labor Youth League and open Legion home
Veterans column ridicules the Labor Youth League and its leaders while praising the American Legion in High Point. It notes an open Legion home on West High Street and urges members to join the annual drive led by Commander Russell Holt. Tehran gossip links Mrs Grady to the Soviet embassy through fashion chatter about nail polish shade.
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Labor Youth League
American Legion
Russia
United States
High Point
Bailey
Legion
W. High Street
Russell Holt
Smith Seeks Fast License for Roanoke Rapids Dam
Willis Smith of Raleigh urges the Federal Power Commission to grant Virginia Electric and Power Company a license to build a Roanoke Rapids dam in North Carolina. He says the project would boost regional industry with new power, though the commission has not acted yet on Vepco’s multi million dollar proposal.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Virginia Electric and Power Company
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Willis Smith
Raleigh
Smith
North Carolina
Vepco
Slain administrator tied to Olmutz bishop arrest report
Vatican radio said the administrator for the Catholic archdiocese of Olmutz was found slain in the city street about a week after he ordered the arrest of Msgr Swanislaw Zela auxiliary bishop of Olmutz Moldova southeast of Prague The report notes the archdiocese is in Olmutz Moldova.
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Vatican City
Vatican Radio
Olmutz
Msgr
Swanislaw Zela
Moldavia
Prague
Textile industry head urges voluntary price ceiling
Charlotte report notes Charles A. Cannon of Cannon Mills urged cotton textile manufacturers to set voluntary ceilings on cotton goods to avoid compulsory government controls. He told the Charlotte Quartermaster Association that civilian demands should be sidestepped if needed to meet military needs, predicting sufficient supply if panic buying ends.
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Charlotte
Cotton Textile Industry’s Mobilization Committee
Charles A. Cannon
Cannon Mills
Charlotte Quartermaster Association
Cannon
Aged Man Killed by Bus Near Greensboro
Murray Franklin Grantham aged 80 a Greensboro resident was killed when struck by a bus on US 70 one mile east of Greensboro last night highway patrol reported today.
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Raleigh
Murray Franklin Grantham
Greensboro
Highway Patrol
Argentine anti spy bill approves wartime death penalty
The Argentine chamber of deputies approved a wartime anti spy bill imposing the death penalty for spies and saboteurs. The measure proceeds to the senate. Also described are methods to clear debris from narrow culverts using a power machine with twin augers.
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Buenos Aires
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
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Guilford Optical CO
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American Sound Products, Inc
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