Checks for unemployed fall in North Carolina
North Carolina unemployment benefits have dropped from daily totals of 6,000 to 8,000 and 50 000 to 60,000 a day during peak periods to about 3,500 to 4,000 daily payments of 25,000 to 30,000. State Unemployment Compensation Commission chair Charles G. Powell cites exhausted benefits and improving industry as reasons. Through August 31, seven months of payments totaled 6,591,314.93 in 881,550 checks to about 200,000 claimants, with the reserve fund down to 9,203,391.70 from 10,024,044.40 before the year.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Unemployment Compensation Commission
Charles G. Powell
U. S. Treasury
Local visits bring returning relatives home
Mrs. J. E. Williams and her daughter Dorothy have returned from a visit in Emporia. Mrs. P. A. Cook attended a revival at New Hope last week. Miss Margaret Poster returned to Richmond after visiting her cousin Margaret Williams. Miss Jeanette Williams returned home from extended visits in Richmond Emporia and Baltimore.
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J. E. Williams
Dorothy
Emporia
P. A. Cook
New Hope
Margaret Poster
Richmond
Margaret Williams
Jeanette Williams
Baltimore
Macaroni Ring Fills the Bill Saves the Budget
A Kraft Dinner centerpiece designed in a ring mold offers an economical party main dish. Creamed chicken or fish can fill the center while long green beans wrapped in pimiento decorate the edge for a festive look.
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Pimiento
Bub Hidden in a Jailhouse Tale Spreads Fear
A nostalgic fragment recounts a rural misdeed with jailhouse echoes. A group lures Johnny Hood into a trap at a Hiller home and strips him, then dresses him with a tablecloth as mock care. The scene mixes drinking, coercion and sly humor among neighbors.
Out of the House They Placed Johnny in Jail
The tale recalls Johnny and Jim drinking and leading a party to a home where a crowd played post office. They push Johnny into the party causing a chaotic escape, later jailed by police, with Johnny naming many accomplices while exclaiming yes to each accusation.
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Johnny
Jim
Hiller
London woman visits sister in Ohio notes
Mrs Dean Richmond of London Ohio visits her sister Mrs C G Tilghman. Hugh Crocker Murrell left Tuesday to enter State College at Raleigh North Carolina. Wade Myrick of Fort Hoyle Maryland spent the weekend here with his mother Mrs Robert Myrick.
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Dean Richmond
London
Ohio
C G. Tilghman
Hugh Crocker Murrell
State College
Raleigh, N. C
Wade Myrick
Fort Hoyle
Robert Myrick
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Imperial Theatre
C. Wells
Tenth St
Johnny Hood
W. T. Dogsdale
Newsome
Mrs
Linwood Newton
Wiley King
Asheville
C. L. Bradshaw Jr
Suffolk
Masin
Jim Billups
Taylor’s
Vai
Taylors
Roanoke Rapids, N.C
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