Eye-opener at Eisenhower farm rally in Gettysburg
Reporter visits the Eisenhowers 189 acre Pennsylvania farm for the 1956 campaign kickoff. The day features a large GOP turnout, doorbell blitzes, a buffet in a tent, quips about campaigning, and jokes about trees planted by state chairmen. The piece mocks Maine political undercurrents and notes Democratic shifts without graphic detail.
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Gettysburg
Ike
Mamie
Republican Party
Eisenhower
Nixon
Atomic Energy Chairman
Admiral Strauss
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Commerce
Hill and Dale
Maine
Jouett Shouse
GOP
Missouri
Truman
Two Buildings For One Offers Good Proposition At University
The University of North Carolina seeks 1 575 000 for a new Pharmacy building to alleviate pharmacist shortages and free Howell Hall for journalism renovations costing 222 000. The plan would expand space for a cramped Journalism School and strengthen both faculties while addressing housing needs and accreditation concerns.
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University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Howell Hall
Pharmacy School
Carolina
Deadly Warning On Codeine Poisoning In Greensboro
An 18 month old Greensboro child died after swallowing pills containing codeine and phenobarbital. The capsules were given to the mother for pain after a tooth extraction. The death marks the fifth Greensboro child in 15 months from medicine or harmful substances.
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Greensboro
United States
Fayetteville Methodist College to set high faculty salaries
Terry Sanford urges Raleigh club that the proposed Fayetteville Methodist College will adopt a salary scale well above the state university level. He argues higher pay is needed to recruit first rate faculty and attract capable students, despite questions about funding sources.
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Terry Sanford
Raleigh
New Methodist College
Fayetteville
North Carolina
Champion of Truth and the Israel murder case impact
Homer S. Cummings, 86, famed for his Rooseveltwon U.S. attorney general tenure, is remembered for a 1924 Bridgeport case as Connecticut state’s attorney. He publicly exposed forced confession flaws, staged testimony, and faulty ballistics, saving a man from execution and shaping legal ethics nationwide.
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Homer S. Cummings
U.S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Connecticut
Justice Department
Land Point
Cummings
Harold Israel
Bridgeport
Israel
America
High Point Enterprise Motto and Station History
Historic 1884 founded High Point newspaper struggles to maintain cadence in modern era as the paper’s motto and identity endure amid ongoing publication challenges and local press shifts.
North Carolina higher education budget faces unified view
Lynn Nisbet reports the Board of Higher Education presents a composite budget for the 12 state tax supported colleges and universities. Ram sey cites enrollment growth from 21 200 to an expected 28 500 by 1958 59 and calls for competitive instructors salaries, more faculty, and greater budget autonomy. A 10 percent reserve plan may ease line item rigidity and improve flexibility for future years.
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North Carolina
Hiden Ramsey
Board of Higher Education
Ramsey
University At Chapel Hill
Boards of Trustees
Budget Bureau
Charles H. Reynolds
Reynolds
Hodges
General Assembly
Quotes on polls hats and politics from mid-century figures
A collage of quotes from Tom Dewey Averell Harriman Fred Frederics Jerry Lewis and others on polls hats presidential office Man in the presidential office comments from Harry S Truman and James Hagerty plus business about rabbits Soviet policy and Adlai Stevenson amid Florida primaries. The remarks capture wartime era media chatter and public figures weighing politics culture and public life.
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United States
Tom Dewey
Averell Harriman
N. Y
Fred Frederics
New York Milliner
Lewis and Dean Martin
Comedian Jerry Lewis
Harry S. Truman
North Carolina history volumes honor Lefler successor
Dr Hugh T Lesler succeeds late Dr R D W Connor as historian of North Carolina in four volume history from Lewis Historical Publishing. Volumes cover pre 1860 mid century and biographical profiles of High Point and Thomasville leaders including Waynick Bailey Hayden Stroupe Jenkins Wood and many other industrial and civic figures.
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Hugh T. Lesler
R. D. W. Connor
North Carolina
Lewis Historial Publishing Company of
New York
Connor
High Point
Thomasville
City Lake
Jamestown
YMCA
Southern Furniture Exposition
Capus Waynick
Ambassador Waynick
William F. Bailey
J. F. Hayden
North State Telephone Company
R. T. Amos
Grady Y. Stroupe
R. C. Jenkins
Sylvania
Harry Raymond
G. Curtis Smithdeal
Charles T. Ingram
Carolina Container Company
Lee A. Briles
J. S. Lynch
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D. A. Rawley
R. B. Terry
Lynn Nisbet
Capitol Square
Britain
Sir Anthony Eden
Soviet Bloc
John Foster Dulles
Millard Caldwell
Adlai
Berenne
Estes Kefauver
Stevenson
Florida
Bella Dodd
Communist Party
Tony Galento
James Hagerty
Omables Pearson
Holt McPherson
Carl C. Wilson
Nat Walker
Delk F. Mendenhall
William Grimes Hinkle
Kermit Clonig
Chamber of Commerce
N. C. English
Hi-Toms
Juliis .\. Green
R. L. Pope
Charles H. Phillips
J. W. Boyles
Finch
Lambeth
Doak A. Finch
Tom A. Finch
George D. Finch
T. Austin Finch
Erwin Lambeth Furniture Company
J. Walter Lambeth
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