Chinese Message Bottled Hope Reaches China Aid
Hickory North Carolina Lenoir Rhyne College students sent plastic bottle letters in 1952 to Chinese readers. William Wong of Tokyo reports his father, an American Army employee, received one of the messages from a Chinese refugee in Japan. Wong, studying physics at Lenoir Rhyne, plans to pursue a PhD at MIT and credits the bottles with strengthening China US goodwill amid Formosa tensions.
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Hickory
N. C
Lenoir Rhyne College
William Wong
Tokyo
Japan
U. S. Army
Pscal
Young Wong
China
Lenoir Rhyne
America
Voight R. Cramer
Wong
Narimasu
Tobacco Prices Steady Across Carolinas and Virginia Markets
Flue cured tobacco prices held steady on Carolinas and Virginia markets with gains in the Old Belt. Virginia and North Carolina sales totals and averages are listed, showing mixed quality shifts and lighter volume across regions.
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Carolinas
Virginia
North Carolina-Virgnia
North Carolina
Middle Belt
Border Belt
South Carolina
Lilly Dache Debuts Green Mauve Gold Face Powders
New York designers unveil golden makeup and mauve green gold face powders at Lilly Dache fall millinery show. Dache models wore hats and costumes matched to hair color and the new makeup. About half the fires in the United States start in homes.
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New York
Lilly Dache
Dache
United States
Supreme Court orders release in Cabarrus man case
North Carolina Supreme Court ruled a lower court erred in revoking Harry McBride’s suspended sentence. The ruling directs his release after evidence tied the Danville Va conviction to probation violations, noting NC law sets a five year maximum for suspended terms and violations abroad must be treated carefully.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Jerday
Harry McBride
McBride
Cabarrus
Dia
Danville
Nepo
Iredell County
Jeff D. Johns
North Carolina
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