North Carolina to Establish Trout Hatcheries in Mountains
The North Carolina Fisheries Commission voted to set up one bass hatchery and one or more mountain trout hatcheries in the western counties. Officials will tour Ashe, Alleghany, Watauga, Wilkes and other western areas this August with federal hatchery experts to locate sites and begin construction. The plan aims to stock mountain streams and attract tourists seeking good fishing, projected to bring long term state revenue.
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Westrolina
Uni
Leach
Carolina
Com- Commission
Este
America
New England
State Commission
The
Fisheries Commission
Dixon
Commission
Olson
United States Bureau of Fisheries
North Carolina
Ashe
Alleghany
Watauga
Wilkes
Asheville
Nelson
Order and System in Sunday School
Watauga County Christian workers are urged to embrace a better organized Sunday School system with graded teachers lessons and pupils. The letter links church education and improved roads as modern systematization, urging prayerful focus on Bible knowledge and youth preparation for spiritual battles.
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Watauga County
North Carolina
Jesus Christ
Florida proposes twenty five year tax free amendment
Progressive Florida argues the state constitution should bar income and inheritance taxes for twenty five years to attract capital and spur growth. The piece notes potential boosts to real estate and industry, contrasting with taxing wealth. Also included, Davie County wool farmers earned $130 more per carload through cooperative pooling per George Evans.
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Florida
Davie County
George Evans
Fire Safety Precautions and Household Hazards
The guidance warns to store oily rags in metal containers or burn them, keep kerosene lamps clean and full, avoid burning kerosene to spark a flame, remove electric cords from nails to prevent insulation damage, and never use kerosene or a light bulb to warm beds or dry clothes due to fire risk.
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Usde
State Builds Its First Trout Hatchery Location
Journal notes the search for a suitable site in the state, with experts familiar with the region aiding in locating the first trout hatchery.
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Winston-Salem Journal
Youth escapes prison seeks dying father and returns to serve term
Paul Vestal, son of Rev. B H Vestal, writes an open letter from Washington DC admitting escape from the state penitentiary. He says bad company ruined him, asks for prayers, and plans to return at the start of August to complete his sentence after his father’s hip injury. Convicted of larceny, his parole was violated and he was recaptured.
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Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Washington, D. C
B. H. Vestal
Southside
Winston. Salem
Morrison
Paul Vestal
Convi
Warning From North Carolina State Board of Health
The State Board of Health at Raleigh urges July to September precautions against typhoid fever. They cite fly transmission, urge three vaccine doses, fly control, sanitation, and proper waste disposal to lower the statewide death toll, noting 298 deaths last year and 404 cases reported so far this year.
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Beth Ins
Union County
North Carolina
State Board of Health
Parable of the Father Editorial Stirs Faithful Readers
The Charlotte Observer reprints Blake W. Godfrey's parable of the prodigal father as forwarded by Erwin A. Holt of Burlington. It contrasts a father's divided duties with a son's needs for companionship and counsel, ending in a lament over missed opportunities and failure to mend the rift.
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Charlotte Observer
Observer
Erwin A. Holt
Burlington
Blake W. Godfrey
House
Congress
Divorces Seen as Common Menace by Vanderbilt Scholar
Dr. Gus Dyer of Vanderbilt warned at a Lake Junalaska conference that rising divorce rates threaten the American family. He called state of legal polygamy and trial marriages sanctioned by law, urged a return to the home with its own industry, and criticized modern education for neglecting parental influence and practical skills.
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Vanderbilt University
M. E. Church
South
Lake Junalaska
America
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