North Carolina Roads Compared With Virginia’s Twenty Five Years On
Visiting engineers noted North Carolina built durable concrete roads in the twenties that still serve, yet traffic patterns and safety standards have changed. Virginia’s roads show gaps like the Roanoke Mart insville and Roanoke Lynchburg corridors, while NC relies on pay as you go funds. Both states pursue vast road programs, but NC’s system resisted modernization despite success.
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North Carolina
New North Carolina
Virginia
Roanoke
Martinsville
Roanoke-Lynchburt
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Local News Capsule for Winchester Virginia
Brief reader notice page fragment describes Associated Press rights and postal entry in Winchester Virginia. It mentions office contact lines for business and news rooms and displays advertising deadlines. The text ends with historical and moral religious reflections.
Road finance history echoes in North Carolina travel notes
Current Opinion notes travelers' mixed views on North Carolina roads. Some praise 25 year old concrete pavements for durability, while others fault modern traffic capacity and location. The piece recalls Virginia’s pay-as-you-go versus bond debate in the 1920s and NC’s expansive bond funded concrete program linking towns.
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Roanoke World News
North Carolina
Virginia
Suited Him
A husband explains his wife’s constant club talk. He says her loud evenings quiet down after day’s work, because her fervent meetings make her hush when he returns home. He calls it a pleasant arrangement and dismisses it as a minor annoyance.
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Brown
Cycle Through Life of One Man Likes Milk Since Infancy
A playful verse traces a man’s life from infancy with milk to school days with ice cream sodas. It follows high school treats cakes and ginger, college joys cocktails beer and Tom and Jerry, middle age highballs, and returns to milk in old age.
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Wall Street Journal
Apple Blossom Festival picks and local sports notes
One year ago James R. Alexander Jr was chosen to direct the 1949 Apple Blossom Festival Grand Feature parade William M Tuck completed his third year as Governor of Virginia Lt Charles R Bauserman received the Air Medal The Army Surgeon General called for nurse drafts and local events include Handley basketball victory over Fishburn Military Academy and a cinema showing Classmates at Empire Theatre.
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James R. Alexander, Jr
William M. Tuck
Virginia
Charles R. Bauserman
John B. Bauserman
Stephens City
Army
Anna Marie Poston
Summit Point
West Virginia
Richard Lee Boxwell, Jr
Snag” Sargent
Handley
Fishburn Military Academy
Sale
Hockman
Wingfield
Hillyard
Richard Barthlemess
Empire Theatre
Doubts Rise on Brannan Two-Price Farm Measure in 1952 Race
Washington report notes Brannan's two-price farm bill faces doubt for political reasons amid a Democratic vice presidential jockeying. It tracks Brannan, Chapman, Carroll, Anderson, and Truman as contenders, with power, irrigation and subsidy issues shaping their bets.
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Washington
Brannan
Truman
Colorado
Myuihikin
William L. Knous
John A. Carroll
Mr. Carroll
Secretary of Agriculture
Rainfall Statistics For January And Year To Date
Present and past rainfall data show none in the 24 hours ending 7 am. January rainfall to date is .69 inches. 1950 rainfall to date is .69 inches. Average annual rainfall over 37 years is 36.56 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1949 list January 2.50, February 1.92, March 2.86, April 3.09, May 3.77, June 3.78, July 3.81, August 3.93, September 2.58, October 3.34, November 2.47, December 2.42 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research.
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Courtesy of
Winchester Research
Truman Breaks Expected Deal With Private Utilities
The article notes surprise in contract talks as Douglas Wright of the Southwestern Power Administration signs two private distribution contracts and plans seven more, signaling a willingness by President Truman to strike a deal with private utilities despite earlier Union address language. It contrasts leaders John L. Lewis and John N. Garner, mentions Kentucky’s Charles Dawson, and includes a quip about Truman’s “leak” versus his bite.
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Truman
Congress
Texas
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Chapman
Douglas Wright
Southwestern Power Administration
Tulsa
Okla
Washington
President Truman
John L. Lewis
John N. Garner
Charles Dawson
Kentucky
John L
Lewis
How's Your I Q Memory Quiz Challenge
A reader quiz outlines a 10 day test with 100 questions and daily scoring bands from 9 10 correct to 4 correct. It asks sample items on statues in New York harbor wage law minimum, time meaning in 1944, mythic centaurs, dessert popularity, No 10 Downing Street resident, Senator Flanders state, and sanctum sanctorum plus a Wyoming city name.
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New York Harbor
No. 10
Downing Street
London
England
Flanders
U. S. Senate
Wyoming
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Vance
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China
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the Star
Caribbean
Natson's Cash Grocery
Frank E
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Celo
Ibs
Standard Oysters PT
Turner Ashby Camp
Lee
Uz. S
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H. K. Douglas
Hagerstown
Albert Aker
Tennessee
J. Hyde
NTE Mandala Teal SE
Turday
Swift’s Western Beef
Grape Juice
Orange
Ford Hook Limas
Cameron & Pic Eben
Meenpeenaess
Watson’s
BY Ray Tucker
Mr. Brannan
Oscar Chapman
White House
West
Middle West
Northeast
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Senate
Interior
Pine Motor Co., Inc
Dodge
Plymouth
California
Redwood
Zephyr
Lyle. P. Strosnyder
S. Loudoun St
Buffalo Bill
I. Q
Heatwolk Motor CO
N. Braddock St
Front Royal
Winchester Furniture Co
America
Hotpoint
Thrift
Molden Electric Co
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