Hibbler Delivers Unchained Melody with Duke Ellington Roots
Al Hibbler, longtime leader of the Comets, breaks into the scene with Unchained Melody after reuniting most of his band. He cites influences from Crosby to Sinatra, notes his blindness shaping his soulful delivery, and recalls a career path from South jazz bands to Ellington’s orbit.
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Dick Kleiner
Ellington
Bill
Duke
Haley
Decca
Hollywood
Comets
Bill Aford
Hibbler
Bing Crosby
Buddy Clark
Dick Haymes
Frank Sinatra
al Hibbler
Eddie Fisher
RCA
Rosalind Paige
MGM
the Rover! Boys
Abc-Paramount
Rockar Beatin
BI Raley
the Fontane Sisters
Dot
Jaye PL Morgan
Frankie Laine
Four Lads
Columbia
Connie Francis
Vanessa
Bernie Wayne
ABC - Paramount
Gale Storm
Vault
the Hap
Piness Boys
Billy Jones
Ernie Hare
Russ Columbo
Ethel Merman
Gertrude Niewen
Fred Astaire
Frank Crumit
Helen Morgan
Fannie
Brice
Gene Austin
Astaire
Yong
Little Rock Ark
Duke Ellington
South
Dub Jenkins
Boots
Arkansas
Tennessee
Texas
Everybody Gets Low-Numbered Plates In 1956 North Carolina
The article notes a switch to a single rear plate for 1956 in North Carolina with a numbering system starting at A-1 and prefixes for various classes. Plates go on sale January 3 to February 15 with costs of 10 12 or 15 dollars based on car weight. It explains how prefixes progress through the alphabet and highlights special plates for Governor National Guard Supreme Court judges amateur radio operators and others.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Willjat Duke
Dent
Univer
National Guard
Supreme Court
Idhams
Mail Those Christmas Packages Now Big Rush Coming Up Soon
Gastonia Post Office faces a record mail surge as December 15 to 20 trend as the busiest period. Postmaster GC W Boshamer notes last year’s peak on December 20 with 97 000 pieces through cancellation machines, excluding oversized items. He urges residents to mail early, avoid lines before 10 am or 1:30 to 3:30 pm, wrap packages securely, print addresses clearly, and consider three cent stamps for return addresses.
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Gastonia Post Office
GC. W. Boshamer
Boshamer
Charlotte
Gastonia
Pleasant Ridge P T A and Lincolnton events clash
A December calendar of community gatherings lists Pleasant Ridge P T A event at 8 p m with a guest speaker The Lincolnton Dis trict Layman s Council meeting features Thelma Byrd and J R Henry at Young s Chapel Elementary School Zion Church music and a Christmas program are planned In Dallas two P T A meetings include a film The Inside Story and a Christmas play plus a Ministers Wives and Daughters Club gathering Absent are explicit outcomes or scores.
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Maude M. Jeffers
True Spirit
Pleasant Ridge
Ridge
J. R
Lincolnton Dis- Henry
Stewart Strict Layman’s Council
Young's Chapel
Zion Church of Moores
de C. Ginzles
Dallas
P-T-A
J. N. Neely
Blanche Hamrick
Gaston County
T. B. Association
J. S. Miller
Join Marines Now Report Next Year
Marine recruiter S Sgt Stanley A Golewski says men enlisting this month will not report for duty until January. A squad from Gaston Lincoln and Cleveland counties will report to Raleigh in the last week of January and train together. Enlistees may be examined now through late January, avoiding early disclosure of failure. Recent enlistees include Dick Mauney Cherryville Frank H Meeks Larry McBee Kenneth Heavner Rankin Craig Ralph K Chitwood and Samuel L Waters.
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Stanley A. Golewski
Marine Corps
Gaston
Lincoln
Cleveland
Raleigh
Dick Mauney
Cherryville R-2
Frank H. Meeks
Larry McBee
Kenneth Heavner
Rankin Craig
Ralph K
Man Breaks Leg Jumping From Railroad Handcar
Eddie Givens of Gastonia broke his leg Thursday jumping from a railroad handcar near McAdenville. He was with five others on the handcar when a train appeared around a bend. They jumped into side ditches to avoid the inspection train of railroad officers and directors.
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Eddie Givens
Gastonia
McAdenville
Givens
P. & N. Railway
New Car Needed After Fender Ripped From Buggy
Verne Shive from the Jaycees reports $9 more toward the Franz Holscher new car fund. The 1951 Studebaker is depreciating, with $25 damages from the Thursday accident on North Edgemont Avenue and Poston Circle. Total contributions rise to $849.78, including Walter Carroll’s $5 and an anonymous donor’s $4. Shive urges checks to Gastonia Junior Chamber of Commerce Box 4.
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Jaycees
Verne
Franz Holscher
Holscher
Studebaker
Walter Carroll
Shive
Gastonia
Careful Christmas Tree Tips From Gastonia Chamber Official
Brice T. Dickson urges safety to prevent Yuletide fires in Gastonia. Buy a recently cut tree, trim trunk, keep water level above cut surface, and store outdoors if not set up soon. Do not block exits, use safe lights, keep extinguishers handy, and avoid candles on trees. Prohibit smoking in stores, wrap scraps promptly, and keep combustibles away from flames and wrappings.
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Brice T. Dickson
Chamber of Commerce
Gastonia
Highway crash spill prompts board review of blamed fault
A highway accident spilled patients from a truck on a private farm hospitalizes seventy two. The State Hospitals Board of Control found no negligence after an executive committee inquiry. Representative Arthur Goodman calls it a whitewash and may seek a new probe from the governor. Projects include Craven bypass 100000, Warren Roanoke River bridge 430000, Cumberland overpass 900700, Forsyth U S 2 Old Salem 400000, Mecklenburg Charlotte bypass 500000, Ashe N O 16 Crampler to Virginia 450900, Catawba U S 64 70 921 Hickory area 350000.
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State Hospitals Board of Control
Hodges
Arthur Goodman
Mecklenburg
Craven County
Bridgeton
U. S. 17
Warren
Roanoke River
Eaton Ferry
Cumberland
Rowan Street
Fayetteville
Ike confronts 1956 path as he plans state of the union
The article reports Ike considering running in preferential primaries if he steps aside, while signaling a strong return to leadership. He will host White House conferences with GOP leaders and a bipartisan session on his upcoming State of the Union. Benson locks in farm program under Eisenhower's backing, with plans for a January message to Congress to halt falling prices. The President will end the year at Camp David then return to Gettysburg for holidays.
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GOP
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Benson
Camp David
Catoctin Mountains
Gettysburg
Meany Urges Labor and Management to Understand Each Other
Meany told a NAM luncheon that labor and management share much in common and could improve relations with greater understanding of the trade union movement. Sligh and others echoed that there is no natural antipathy between labor and management, calling for cooperation and recognition of profit and capital investment in a free enterprise system.
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Meany
Sligh
The
NAM
UCP Chapter Hears Report From Meeting
UCP leaders report ongoing disagreement between business and labor groups over worker representation. B. G. Gray, at the Gaston county session, recounted insights from the sixth UCP convention in Boston last November. The discussion aimed to improve understanding and unit cohesion amid perspectives from Meany. Alaska has only one college.
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Gaston Coun Gels
Reby
United Cerebral Palia
Dent
M. E. Tager
B. G
Sigh Gray
UCP
Boston
Mass
McIntosh Funeral Obituary Notice
A brief funeral service was set for Saturday at 3 p.m. at Cavathare PB Panera Hamme for the deceased listed in the McIntosh funeral notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavathare
Panera Hamme
Meditations for Living Mrs McIntosh Died at Home
Mrs Mary K McIntosh aged 79 died Friday at 309 North Poplar Street. Funeral service will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Plagpond Baptist Church Flagpond Tenn with burial in Harris Cemetery. Surviving are three daughters two sons and six grandchildren. The service featured pastor Barr and a steward reflecting on Matthew 11 29 and Thomas a Kempis on humility.
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Mary K. McIntosh
Jesus
North Poplar Street
W. Ward
Barr
First Baptist
Baptist Church
Flagpond
Tenn
Harris Cemetery
Lithium Denies Labor Charges in Bes semer City Plant
The International Union of Operating Engineers accuses Lithium Corporation of America of unfair labor practices at the Bessemar City chemical plant. The NLRB hearing in Charlotte heard testimony this week. The union says the company intimidated workers, fired 16 members, and that 150 employees voted down all unions in a recent secret ballot. A board ruling will follow.
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International Union of Operating Engineers
AFL
1Oca) 500
Lithium Corporation of America
Bessemer City
Break-In Probe At Merchants Of Company Service Station
Gastonia detectives L G Has kett and R G Brittain investigate a Friday night break in at the Merchants Of Company service station on the Dallas road. The company denies allegations and says discharge of 16 workers was not its doing. Entry reportedly involved union activity and damage to glass in the wash pit. nothing is reported missing.
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Gastonia
L. G. Haskett
R. G. Brittain
Merchants of Company
Dallas Road
Bessemer City
Gastonia Theater Closes Curtain On The Curious Savage
Mrs. Fan Todd, president of the Gastonia Little Theater, laments low crowds for the three act comedy The Curious Savage at Wray Junior High. Tonight marks the final performance with Eleanor Greer as Mrs Savage and a cast of 12, directed by William F. Young of Bessemer City.
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Wray Junior High
Jeachant
Show resumes after five minute intermission
After a five minute intermission, the trouble was corrected and the show went on.
Farmers Vote On Cotton Price Supports In Gaston County
Farmers across seven Gaston County communities will vote next Tuesday on cotton marketing quotas and price supports for 1946. Polls open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ballots ask whether to set supports at 75 to 85 percent of parity or 60 percent. Penalties apply for higher supports. lower supports carry no penalties. Voting sites include Cherryville Farmers Union Store and several sheriff offices and hardware stores.
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Gaston County
May T. New
ASC
Cherryville
Farmers Union
Tryon
Tryon School
Crowders Mountain
Gamble Hardware
Bessemer City
Gastonia
Dallas
Summer Hardware Company
River Bend
Carroll Dellisizer’s
Lucia
South Point
Union Presbyterian Hut
Nurses Talk Tuberculosis on WGNC Panel
A panel discussion on tuberculosis will be broadcast Sunday at 6 45 p m over WGNC. Miss Louise Taylor education director Gaston Memorial Hospital heads the panel with student nurses who won TB Association prize money for essays. Jane Gold and Betty Lou Moore are among the panelists.
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WGNC
Louise Taylor
Gaston Memorial Hospital
TB Association
Jane Gold
Betty Lou Moore
Bloodmobile Brings 43 Pints From S Gastonia Visit
J Miller Rhyne and Carl Whitesides were gallon donors as the Red Cross Bloodmobile collected 43 pints at Olney Presbyterian Church. Attending doctors were Lonnie Waggoner, O D Boyce, and J Lee Robinson. Dozens of volunteers and donors listed from the Gastonia area.
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J. Miller Rhyne
Carl Whitesides
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Olney Presbyterian Church
Lonnie "Waggoner
O. D. Boyce
J. Lee Robinson
J. E. GuCeeer
Ruth Tayor
James W. Conner
Ernest Millwood, Jr
Clifford L. Bell
Jesse McClure Jr
J. D. Davis
William T. Pearson
Jack W. Sahamis
Annie Mae Pate
Jutanita S. Dale
Richard E. Whitesides
John H. Myers
Sigsby Haney
James T. Bowman
K. F. McSwain
Billie Faye Walls
Raymond A. Chariker
James C. Windham
Verlon L. Picklesimer
John T. Smith
Roy D. Cline
Ims
Bessie Clemmer
Bessie M. Metcalf
G. T. Alexander
Farlin
R. Parkey
Floyd Pennington
Richard L. Wilson
Wade Lowery
Earl Smith
Archie Y.davis
Edsel F. Quinn
May L. Williams
H. 8. Sanford
Church Expands with New Educational Building Front Page Feature
The article details the new church educational building in Atlanta built by Ernest Morgan with a 1,100 to 1,500 capacity, including nursery suites, Dutch doors, and modern folding dividers. It notes staff, parking expansion, and dedication plans with anticipated full attendance.
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Unly
James S. Wise
Atlanta
Cecil E. Hall
Virginia Beale
Rosa
Lee Crowe
Hugh Beveridge
Barr
Morgan Ernest Morgan
Robert Wren
W. B. Hair
S. A. Burts
M. O. Thornburg
F. G. Roberts
George G. Willis Sr
Robbery at South Carolina National Bank Details Emerge
Robbery victim Lee Black testified she was allowed to stay on the floor and begged the robber not to place her in a vault. The thief fled through the front door, triggering a statewide alert across the Carolinas and Georgia. Insurance coverage will likely settle the stolen sum next week. A local official called it the bank’s first major robbery in many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Black
South Carolina
State Highway Patrol Radio Center
Carolinas
Georgia
Parking Lot To Be Open Next Monday
The 275 car parking lot beside the Southern Railway tracks will open Monday at 7 30 in the morning. Two hour tickets cost 25 cents and can be redeemed at 35 participating stores. The lot, located on the south side of the tracks between Marietta and Oakland, has been graded and stoned but won’t be paid until after Christmas. Two attendants will manage traffic flow.
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Southern Railway
Marietta
Oakland
E. L. Harris
Civil Rescue Group To Meet At City Hall
The North Carolina Civil Rescue Association local unit will meet Sunday at 10 30 o'clock at city hall. All members are urged to attend as important business is on the agenda. Prospective members are invited to attend.
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The
North Carolina Civil Rescue Association
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