Woodmen Gift New Picnic Shelter for Doak Park
Camp 206 Woodmen of the World presented the city with a $700 picnic shelter at Doak Park on W Main and Carmall. Mayor George Hundley praised the gift and Doak Park's popular use as a recreation center amid local civic leaders and Lions Civitan and Jaycees sponsors.
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Thomasville
Woodmen of the World
Doak Park
W. Main and
Carmall Streets
George Hundley
Doak Finch
Hundley
Austin Elliott
J. D Foust
Handley
Marvin E. Garner
J.D. Foust
Lions
Civitan
Jaycees
Foust
Don Maxwell
Greensboro Man Named Church Post in Georgia Synod
John J. Deifell of Greensboro North Carolina will become the first permanent executive secretary of the Presbyterian Synod of Georgia and will also serve as stated clerk. The appointment, announced by the synod council, places him at the Presbyterian Center in Atlanta where the synod offices are located. The Georgia Synod serves 66 881 members with the Atlanta Presbytery the largest in the General Assembly.
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Atlanta
John J. Delfell
Greensboro
N.C
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
U.S
Athens
Augusta-Macon
Cherokee
Savannah
Georgia
Georgia-Carolina
Graham urges Khrushchev visit American church in Little Rock
Evangelist Billy Graham in Little Rock for a crusade says Khrushchev visiting an American church could be beneficial though he remains unsure about the Soviet leader being a committed communist. He notes potential clashes with segregationists over church integration and stresses that only the Holy Spirit enables love among people.
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Little Rock
Ark
Iap
Billy Graham
Nikita Khrushchev
Graham
Khrushchev
America
Old Belt Tobacco Market Opens With Optimism In North Carolina
Farmers haul flue cured tobacco to market as the Virginia North Carolina Old Belt opens in Winston Salem and 19 other markets. Prices expected to average 58 to 59 dollars per hundred pounds on opening day with better quality noted, and last year Old Belt sold 227 million pounds at 57.67 dollars.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Virginia-North Carolina
Old Belt
Phil Hedrick
State Department of Agriculture
Hedrick
Border Belt
Illness Outbreak Strikes Williams Street Elementary Parents Fall Ill
Mass illness at Williams Street Elementary in Goldsboro, North Carolina spreads to parents as 90 percent of 1096 students were affected. Diarrhea and high fever described as violent infectious illness. Water culture tests sent to Raleigh to check if sewage tainted the supply. School lunchroom deemed clean. reopening date pending culture report.
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Ayman
Goldsboro
Pate
A. N. Chesson
Wayne County
Raleigh
Chesson
N. H. Shope
Connecticut teens tell Raleigh tale of crime and kindness
Two Windsor Locks youths, Robert L. Giggy 16 and Kenneth Beaumont 18, spent a day in Wake County jail after admitting car theft and a robbery in Connecticut and then turning themselves in. They said they stopped to help a pregnant stray dog, bought her food, and brought her to a police station for care.
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Raleigh
Robert L. Giggy
Kenneth Beaumont
Windsor Locks
Conn
Wake
Chalk
Giggy
Beaumont
Wake County
Connecticut
Bursa
Duke History Professor Eber Carroll Retires
A Duke University history professor, Eber Malcolm Carroll, retires after a career beginning at Trinity College in 1923. He helped the State Department study Nazi era papers, directing a 1946 to 1949 project and guiding scholars from the US, Britain, and France in selecting and editing German Foreign Ministry documents.
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Durham
N.C
U.S. State Department
Duke University
Eber Malcolm Carroll
Trinity College
Hitler
Foreign Ministry
Carroll
United States
England
France
Notable early events mix of ships and science
The fragment mentions Theodore Roosevelt before his presidency and Shen Nung listing medicinal plants, notes a deputy sheriff appointment in Billings County, cites the Duryea brothers building the first practical gasoline automobile in 1892, counts about 2000 volcanoes near the Galapagos Islands, and states most are inactive.
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Shen-Nung
Billings County
America
The
Duryea Brothers
Springfield
Mass
Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
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High Point, North Carolina
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