Subscription Rates by Mail in Roanoke Rapids Area
Public notice lists subscription costs for Carolinas Virginia and Roanoke Rapids with rates for mail and carrier delivery. Also includes postal matters and national ad reps. The piece discusses July 27 1948 panic and polio in Halifax County urging vigilance, rest, hygiene, and calm.
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Carolinas
Virginia
Roanoke Rapids
North Carolina
Fred Kimball, Inc
44Th St
New York City
Nan Ave
Chicago, Ill
Lafayette St
Detroit
Mich
Chestnut St
Philadelphia
Weldon Jaycees Host Second Annual Beauty Contest
Congratulations to the Weldon Junior Chamber of Commerce for a second annual beauty contest. The all afternoon event featured a baseball game, a brunswick stew supper, and a climactic dance and beauty contest. Merchants sponsored entries and the Jaycees demonstrated leadership development and community betterment in Weldon.
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Weldon Junior Chamber of Commerce
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Weldon Junior Chamber
Brunswick
Weldon
Weldon Jaycees
Money and Recreation in Roanoke Rapids Plan
A newly appointed Roanoke Rapids Recreation Commission aims to hold its first meeting this week focusing on funding. The group should map a master plan, estimating costs for facilities such as a swimming pool and youth center, then decide which project to build first.
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Roanoke Rapids
And Going Higher to Fund the Recreation Program
The speaker urges raising funds now to start a portion of the recreation program without waiting for full financing. They insist the project should not be delayed by the total money needed, proposing a definite early phase while planning for later facilities over several years with support for the commission to assist fundraising and project completion.
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Commission
State Moves to Guard North Carolina Poultry Industry
Raleigh July 26 The State Board of Agriculture approved two regulatory measures to protect poultry industry from infectious diseases. Dr L M Greene highlighted weaknesses in current rules and warned against tax controls that could hurt a $70 million income. New rules curb unregulated use of liver virus inoculants for Newcastle disease and tighten import requirements for breeding poultry, including testing and a 30 day isolation after shows.
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Raleigh
Africa
State Department of Agriculture
North Carolina
State Board of Agriculture
L. M. Greene
Newcastle
Greene
L. J. Faulhaber
Area placed under Charleston Commerce Office
Businessmen in Halifax county and others seeking help from the United States Department of Commerce should contact the Charleston South Carolina district office at 310 Peoples. The eastern half of North Carolina is under Charleston due to a closed Charlotte office amid tight funding. the western half remains under the Atlanta regional office.
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Charleston Commerce Office
Halifax County
United States Department of Commerce
Charleston, S. C
Department of Commerce
Peoples
C. W. Martin
Commerce
Depatston
North Carolina
Commerce Department
Charlotte
Martin
Charleston
Caswell
Orange
Chatham, Lee, Moore
Richmond
Department of Atlanta
Building Trades Offer Golden Opportunity
Lincoln based report notes the state resources division says young men training in building trades will earn more in coming years than peers in law or journalism. Dowling cites Nebraska towns facing a shortage of skilled mechanics with carpenters and allied trades in demand amid housing needs. Anti clotting drugs lower embolism deaths per experts.
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Lincoln
Neb
U.P
State Resources Division
Nebraska
Dowling
Spiv and Umptee Added To American Language
Mamie J Meredith, Nebraska English instructor and member of a sleuthing committee, helped uncover 106 new words last year. The terms include cold war flying cancer baby sit as a verb spiv meaning a small-time racketeer and umpte meaning a trainee under the universal military training program.
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Lincoln.neb
Mamie J. Meredith
University of Nebraska
Um Pte
Universal Military Training
House Quits Moving As Gusher Is Capped
Plymouth Indiana UP report details Carence Hoover’s farmhouse sliding from its foundation after a gusher burst through the ground while a driller sank a new well. The spout produced about a barrel of water per minute and resisting efforts caused the house to crack a wall and settle several inches from a newly added chimney.
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Plymouth
Ind
Carence Hoover
Islamic Culture Group At Minnesota Campus Inspires Unity
The University of Minnesota hosts an Islamic Cultural Society promoting Islamic culture and religion in America. The group includes students from India Palestine Egypt Pakistan Syria Turkey Algeria and Iraq with open admission.
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Minneapolis
U.P
University of
Roanoke Rapids Pushes For A Hotel In 1948
A reader urges Roanoke Rapids to build a hotel to spur progress. Steve Thompson urges civic leaders to accept financier Ockenbury’s offer to raise funds and have a hotel by early 1949, calling for public action similar to the recreation program.
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Fuller
Roanoke Rapids
Ockenbury
Landlords Can Be Choosey Landlords Can Be Choosey
Milwaukee readers report a Mit Walkeran seeking a two room apartment. An ironic reply from a potential landlord asked several intrusive questions about daily routines, manners, and privacy. The tenant chose to keep the offer open amid the unusual screening.
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Milwaukee
U P
Mit Walkeran
Refugee Influx Presses Lower Saxony Officials
In NOVER Germany officials plead for relief from crowded states as thousands from the east flee into Lower Saxony. They report 44 percent of the state's population has recently arrived from the Soviet zone and seek military aid and requisitioned barracks and apartment blocks still held by the Army to house the newcomers.
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Nover
Germany
Lower Saxony
Oshelals
Te Army
Siamese hair to cheat the devil sparks town rumor
In Singhaburi province Siam travelers report a rumor that the devil vowed to take the lives of women there after a conversation with a mystic. Women rush to salons to cut hair into boyish styles as a life saving disguise amid a spate of sudden deaths. In Pretoria Smuts loses political role.
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Bangkok
Siam
U.P
Singhaburi
Bombed Britain Faces Critical Housing Shortage
London reports Britain has built about 440289 houses in three years of postwar effort yet the shortage remains grave with an estimated 750000 needed in 10 to 20 years. Temporary prefab homes totaling 5475, many damaged, plus repair of 10000+ houses, aim to relieve the crisis as councils manage requisition powers and looming slum clearance.
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London
U.P
Britain
Buuta
Ministry of Health
Indiately
Old Missouri Farm To Get New Look
CAPE GIRARDEAU Missouri during 12 hours on August 5 a 380 acre farm 17 miles north of here will undergo soil and land improvements. Contours will be built on rolling hills a large farm pond dug cover crops planted and trees marked for cutting wildlife and forestry experts will supervise. Thousands of spectators are expected to observe the face lifting from a ridge along the project.
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Cape Girardeau
U. P
Missouri
Hope Brothers
Ossifer the office mouse and wartime draft tales
A humorous column recounts Ossifer the office mouse sampling writerly hamburgers and perched atop the author’s head. It then shifts to draft registration during wartime, a colored man seeking to sign up with a comic misread exchange about relatives, and a grocer’s note about a dinner line and Darwin jokes with a preacher remarking on ancestry.
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Nomum
His Blocked Driveway Arson Grader Incident
JANESVILLE Wisconsin U P reports a quick tempered home owner vowed to count to 10 when an unattended road grader blocked his driveway. He climbed aboard the machine to clear it. the runaway grader damaged asphalt, tore a road, and snapped two signs, leaving the driveway still blocked.
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Janesville
Wis
U.P
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