Morehead City Technical Institute Opens Second Year
Morehead City Technical Institute will begin its second year on September 20 with registration on September 20 and classes starting September 23. Two curricula offered a one year general technical course and a two year marine technical course plus training in navig ation and boat design. Veterans may use GI Bill benefits. Dorms and meals are available on campus at Bogue Sound, near Morehead City and Atlantic Beach. Director Edward W. Ruggles announced details and mailed information requests.
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Kaleigh
Morehead City Technical Institute
N. C. State College
Edward W. Ruggles
College’extension Division
w_rk
Bogue Sound
Morehead City
Atlantic Beach
Ruggles
Extension Division
Raleigh
Glamour Not Payoff In Store Selling
A U S Department of Labor survey shows salesgirls averaging $53.31 weekly with top earnings reaching $114.18 for major appliance sales and furniture staff earning up to $75.78. Non selling jobs average $36.06, with stockmen at $37.70 and maintenance carpenters at $74.76. Separately, the U.S. Forest Service reports developing a superior strain of Southern slash pine at Lake City Florida experimental station that could yield 2% times the average gum of the naval stores industry.
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Chicago
U. S. Department of Labor
Nation Counter
Naval Stores
U.S. Forest Service
Lake City
Fla
Small Business Loan Sources Pamphlet Issued
A new pamphlet from the U S Department of Commerce outlines financing needs for small businesses detailing equity and loan capital. It advises avoiding cramped credit, emphasizes ample funds for efficiency, and notes copies are available from the Charleston district office for fifteen cents.
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U. S. Department of Commerce
Pamp Mae
Charleston
Peoples Building
Charleston S. C
Owns About All Of One-Man Town Robbs
Al bert Robbs of Robbs Illinois governs a town of 150 people owning nearly every business. He runs a lumber yard mill restaurant general store and auto agency. He serves as mayor and postmaster and leads the nearby First National Bank in Golconda.
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Robbs
Ill
U P
Albert Robbs
Illinois Rea News
Ilinois
First National Bank
Golconta
Atom Smasher Drawbacks Move of Heavy Parts
Carnegie Tech physicists report building an atom smasher brings transport headaches. Parts weighing over 125 tons travel about 25 miles over rural roads. Some cyclotron components are built by Pittsburgh Steel. the device will rise in Saxonburg, Pa with bridge and tunnel checks ongoing. They aim to complete by 1950.
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Pittsburgh U.P
Carnegie Tech
Pittsburgh
Saxonburg
Soldier swims river to shore after bet on boat
Old Man River segment in St. Louis reports Cpl. Francis Kane of Tenafly New York stripped to his trousers, nearly drowned, delayed the excursion steamer Admiral for 30 minutes, then swam seven blocks downstream and 530 yards to reach shore. Police escorted him back to the Army medical depot.
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River St, Louis
Cpl
Francis Kane
Admiral
aSane
Mississippi
Tenafly
N. Y
Army Medical Depot
Broley Riders Fail Their Courtesy Test
In St Louis the Grand Boulevard street car line conductor Ted Q Browne recorded passenger courtesy. Of 1082 greetings only 31 replies were heard while 300 people rushing for the car yielded 26 thanks. The test suggests passengers are preoccupied. The article notes Gen John J Pershing's first post West Point assignment as military instructor at the University of Nebraska.
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Broley
ST. Louis
U.P
Grand Boulevard
Ted Q. Browne
John J. Pershing
West Point
University of Nebraska
Nudist Leader Moves to New Garden of Eden
H P Ferree, 73, Nebraska's last nudism leader, leaves his Valley camp to establish a "Garden of Eden" at Golden Colorado. Ferree, who claimed 30 couples from Omaha area visited his camp, says the group lives as fruitarians and naked, unshaven adherents with no smoking or drinking.
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Omaha
Neb
U.P
H. P. Feree
Nebraska
Valley
Golden
Cole Ferree
Colorado
Ferree
Retonga Promised To Relieve Tired, Run-Down Adults
Thousands seek relief from tiredness and digestive woes with Retonga a tonic claimed to ease sour stomach nervous indigestion and muscle soreness. It promotes natural root herb blends plus Vitamin B1 and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not felt. Available at Rosemary Drug Co. Adv.
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Rosemary Drug Co
Roanoke Avenue
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Former Partners Now Prosper, Truman Visits Jacobson Shop
Independence report recalls a 1922 Kansas City Star ad for the Truman Jacobson haberdashery at 104 West 12th Street. Eddie Jacobson runs a haberdashery on KC's south side. Harry S. Truman, former partner, later becomes U.S. president, stops by when in town.
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Independence
U.P
H. P. Fowler
Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
United States
Dewey Eyed Tom-Toms Form Hastings Club
A Hastings group named the Dewey Eyed Tom-Toms has formed as a Dewey for President club with six women organizers in Hastings. They plan to convert Democrats to the Republican candidate, prepare posters, and distribute handbills while targeting Democrats for outreach. The charter members include Carolyn Josties Barbara Jones Shirey Wiederspan Soweta Carolee Kissinger Beverly Howland and Joan Clements.
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Soweta
Carolee Kissinger
Beverly Howland
Hastings
Joan Clements
Lincoln
Handy With Hands Inspires Stitch And Skill
In Memphis Mrs. Howard Phillips struggles to fit a skirt to a dress waist until her husband disassembles the skirt, aligns it with the pattern, and creates a flawless new look. In Plymouth T. V. Volk, 82, resumes cigar making after retirement, turning out 100 stories in six hours to meet a shortage of skilled workers.
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Memphis
Tenn
U.P
Howard Phillips
Jadie and Tool Maker
Sii
Plymouth
Wis
T. V. Volk
Volk
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