Optimist Clubs Net $1,200 From Tree Sale
Gastonia two Optimist clubs grossed around $3,000 selling Christmas trees. After higher expenses, profit was about $1.20 per club. Profits to be prorated between clubs based on membership. A. M. Club president Dr. Bill Woody cited successful turkey shoot and tree sale, aiding a needy family with fuel clothing food and toys.
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Gastonia
Hugh McArver
A. M
McArver
Gastonia Club
Honey's
A. M. Club
Bill Woody
Woody
A.M. Club
Reading program aims to raise literacy among adults in Gastonia
The Gazette reports a six month course designed to lift participants to a fourth grade reading level. Classes run Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with homework. Publicity seeks out nonreaders via home demonstration clubs and local civic groups.
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Gazette Helping
Dimison
Gazelle
WBTY
Gastonia Jaycees
Burlington Industries Leader Reports Improved 1938 Finances
Spencer Love, chairman of Burlington Industries, states the sanitation's financial position was substantially improved during 1938. He cites stronger earnings, better liquidity, and improved prospects for the company and its employees following year.
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Greensboro
Burlington
Industries
Spencer Love
Ways Earnings, Costs and Tax Hikes Shape 1959 Outlook
A front page look at rising costs for commuters, utilities, and car ownership, with earnings lagging 1957 during a recession. Burlingon Industries reports strong working capital but warns on financing homes and cars as taxes and prices trend higher. The piece notes tight money, rising taxes, and cautious optimism for a slow first half of 1959 amid potential strikes.
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Detroit
CAA Absorbed by Air Agency
Washington reports the Civil Aeronautics Administration vanished from the scene and merged into the new Federal Aviation Agency. FAA absorbed the CAB rulemaking function and will take over 27 000 CAA employees and 365 million dollars in appropriations. BE R Queada leads FAA with James T Pyle as deputy administrator.
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Vern Haugland
Associated Press Aviation
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Gat
FAA
Airways Modernization Board
Bureau of Research and Development
White House
CAA
CBA
BE. R. Quesada
James T. Pyle
GOP Leaders Face Challenge in Senate Leadership Vote
Senators Dirksen and Kuchel seek the whip and floor leadership as a minority uprising poses a possible contest from conservatives. Curtis hints opposition may arise while Bridges oversees party policy. An organizing conference January 7 looms as Cooper and Kuchel aim for a GOP majority. Also, Detroit reports one in five U S trucks exported.
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Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Dirksen
Senate
Eisenhower
Kuchel
William F. Knowland
California
Curtis
Cooper
GOP
Court hears chitterlings raid ends with warning
In City Court, Mrs Pettis testified two men took two pounds of chitterlings from her ice box while asking what was cooking. Burris was found guilty and given a nine day suspended sentence conditioned on supplying chitterlings for the Pettis family by 6 p.m. tonight. Several other cases included suspended sentences for drunken driving and minor theft, with fines and costs.
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Garland Atkins
Rev
Burris
Jack Dennis Howard
Harold Dee Fowler
Lowell
John Lloyd
Grady Camby
Census plans taking shape for 1960 count
An advance self help style form will be mailed to every U S household before the 1960 census to speed and improve accuracy. Memphis test flaws ended this plan but residents may preanswer details for census takers. Hickory North Carolina will host a 125 person local office to handle data before sending it to Jeffersonville Indiana for processing.
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Washington
Memphis
Tenn
North Carolina
Hickory
Jeffersonville
Ind
Two Tar Heels Get Five Years On Booze Counts
Two North Carolinians Gwyn T. Chambers of North Wilkesboro and William B. Godfrey of Greensboro were sentenced to five years each by U S District Judge W C Chesnut after convictions on liquor charges tied to a moonshine operation described as Maryland’s largest. Clyde H. Huss of Henry, Virginia got one year. Four others received varied terms for operating a 500 gallon still.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Gwyn T. Chambers
North Wilkesboro
William B. Godfrey
Greensboro
WWS
W. Calvin Chesnnut
Clyde H. Huss
Henry
Godfrey
Chambers
Herman O. Hayes
Tive
John §. Rice
Alexandria
William Dawson
Calloway
Daniel Mattox
Rocky Mount
Marine Sergeant On Trial At Parris Island Shakedown Case
Marine S Sgt Ralph Grant faces court martial as jurors weigh a shakedown scheme and assault charges. Prosecutors call rebuttal witnesses while Grant testifies about debts, pay, and a 690 dollar fund said to cover recruit expenses. Recruits offered conflicting testimony on causation and honesty.
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Ralph Grant
Macine
Wis
Grant
Ohio
Walter D. Cummings
Chicago
Slugging Wife Is A Seasonal Sport
PHOENIX Ariz Sheriff s deputies compiled a list of injuries from the dove hunting season. One case involves an unidentified woman who was slugged by her husband for refusing to clean doves he had killed.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Carrie A. Small
USSR Invites Governors to Visit Russia This Summer
The Soviet Union invited nine members of the Governors Conference Executive Committee, including Leroy Collins of Florida and William Stratton of Illinois, to visit the Soviet Union in June. NYU and the Institute of International Education hope to sponsor with funds underwritten by foundations. The decision will be considered at the Biloxi, Mississippi, Executive Committee meeting on February 23.
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New York
Soviet Union
Hawaii
Russia
Governors Conference
Chicago
John E. Ivey Jr
New York University
NYU
Institute of International Education
Brevard Cranfield
Leroy Collins
Florida
William G. Stratton
Illinois
Cecil H. Underwood
West Virginia
George D. Clyde
Utah
James P. Coleman
Mississippi
Robert B. Meyner
New Jersey
Victor E. Anderson
Nebraska
Stephen L.R. McNichols
Colorado
William F. Quinn
Biloxi
iMiss
Four Charged With Aiding Breakout Try
Four men faced charges for aiding a federal prisoner in a Christmas Day jail escape attempt at Stanly county jail in Albemarle. Deputy Kennedy said Charles Quinton Schrum and an accomplice tried to saw and drill through their cell wall. Schrum also faces interstate car theft charges. others, Marshall Farr, Judith Honeycutt, and Jesse Broadway, were charged with supplying tools or assisting by receiving blades.
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Charlotte
Stanly
Albemarle
William Kennedy
Charles Quinton Schrum
Schrum
Roy K. Moore
FBI
Marshall Monroe Farr
Judith Marcia Honeycutt
Leroy Shadrick
Jesse Broadway
Fragmentary wartime dialogue unearthed in archive text
A garbled excerpt from a historical newspaper page shows fragmented dialogue with distorted phrases and unclear speakers. readable portions reference a house, pits, and shifting voices, suggesting a debate or dramatic scene from a past issue.
Woman leaps to death crashes into pedestrian
A despondent 41 year old Louise Stark leaped from a seventh floor window onto a crowded downtown sidewalk, killing 44 year old flower seller Victor Angel. Stark died at hospital, victim Angel died shortly after. Police said Stark was despondent over her husband’s jail sentence.
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Los Angeles
Louise Stark
Victor Angel
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