Mayor Race Focuses On Charter Reform And City Growth
The front page outlines platforms for mayoral contenders Brackett and Maxwell. Brackett pledges a new town charter, ward electors, pro tem appointment power, restricted employee dismissals, school board elections, and broader municipal reforms. Maxwell boasts numerous accomplishments, cites tax and utility gains, post office and electric upgrades, and industrial growth plans for Dallas Township, plus recreation facilities and water infrastructure. The alderman slate includes 12 candidates led by Payseur, Simms, and Lay, with several former aldermen seeking seats and Mrs. Friday aiming as Dallas’ first woman alderman.
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Brackett
Lirhus
Focal Telephone Exchange
Focal Bank
Wilbert G Simms
Howard Wo Lay
J. Harris Field
Harry Shelton
Willard Fo Best
Cool Jenkins Sr
Charles Wo Fox Sr
Archie A. Calvert
Charles J. Bryant
C. I. Griffin
D. Hh. Friday
Hankie Rhyne
Fields
Shelton
Best
Jenkins
Friday
Dallas
Alderman
Gastonia Little Theater vows new 360-seat building season
The Gastonia Little Theater promotes its new building project on Second Avenue, promising North Carolina's most complete small theater. Pledge drive details include a three year payment plan and charter member benefits for early supporters.
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Gastonia
Gastonia Lit
Glenn Stroup
Sen
Colored Glass
Second Avenue
Hnx
Akers Center Station
Clay Street
Onia
North Carolina
Two
Carolinas
Bullets, Strikes, and New Hires At Morganton Plant
Twenty five new workers reported to Great Lakes Carbon Corp plant in Morganton as replacements for striking International Chemical Workers Union members who left seven weeks ago after demanding production speed ups. Robbie Hicks of near Marion said he fired a 22 caliber shot at a pickup truck driven by striker John C. Crook Jr. after the vehicle bumped him as he left work. Crook was unharmed and no charges were filed, with officers noting Hicks’s account and that no new negotiations with the union are planned.
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Robbie Hicks
Marion
John C. Crook Jr
Hicks
Crooks
SBI
McDowell County
Jimmy Saypoch
Blacksburg
S.C
Unions Lacking Growth In AFL-CIO Speech
Los Angeles—John W. Livingston, national organizing director, told the Retail Clerks International Union convention that unions lag population growth. He said 30 percent of U S workers belong to unions, down from 40 percent six years earlier, with 38 550 000 workers eligible and 17 200 000 members. The gap leaves over 26 million nonmembers.
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Los Angeles
Afl-Cio
John W. Livingston
Retail Clerks International Union
U. S. Jaher
Negro News All Night Prayer Service at St Mark's FRH
An all night prayer service will be held Saturday night at St Mark's FRH Holiness Church Ranla led by Will Frvin of York C. Rev Mrs Lizzie White is pastor. Maggie Sharpe crowned queen by Gov Almond in ceremony at Virginia Nursing Homes Assn convention.
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St. Mark's
Queen
AT & Toartsmouth
Virginia
J. Lindsay Almond
Maggie Sharpe
Maggie
Virginia Nursing Homes Assa. To
Thinking Birds' Filters In Use In Tucson Cardinals Build Nests
In Tucson Arizona a pair of cardinals used soft cellulose in cigarette filters to build nests. University of Arizona ornithologists said the birds did not touch butts of non filer cigarettes in the area.
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Tucson
Ariz.ir
University of Arizona
Little Rock Beginnings at Central High in 1957-33 term
Front page history recalls federal marshals recruiting to guard seven Negroes eligible to attend Central last fall. Indication of how many Negro pupils would enroll in white schools when opened remains unclear. Arkansas pupil placement laws govern assignments without race cited. Faubus warned federal power handles integration and feared violence if schools open to segregation end.
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Central High School
Central
Arkansas
L. €. Bates
National Assn
Faubus
National Guard
Bookmobile Schedule Correct Cathedral Name
National Cathedral in Washington D C is the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul. Webber Gratton at 1 o clock Carver Home at 2 o clock. Friday July 3 South Gastonia Stop at 10.
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Key
Ranla
Art Cloth
Lowell
National Cathedral
Washington, D. C
Cathedral Church of St.Peter and St. Paul
Webber Gratton
Carver
Gastonia
Honest Drunk Returns Walet to Sheriff in Court
A Stillwater county prisoner serving time for public drunkenness proved honest by turning in a wal let found during courthouse detail. He surrendered the wallet to the sheriff, aiding in a potential missing-item case.
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Stillwater
Oklah — Wa
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