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...Gastonia, N.C., the county draft board received a letter: "Dear Sir: I am suffering from romantic fever and my wife is pregnant. . . Please excuse me from the draft...
Objection Sustained. In Gastonia, N.C., Judge George Patton declared a mistrial when a front-row juror broke into Defense Attorney P. C. Froneberger's loud-voiced arguments to complain: "I don't want you hollering in my face...
Hill (pop. 9,177), Wilson (23,010), Gastonia (23,069) and Durham (71,311), Negroes were elected to local public office for the first time since Reconstruction days. In Greensboro (pop. 74,389), Councilman William Hampton, who rang up a first when elected in 1951, was re-elected to a second term...
Died. Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle, 67, Congressman from North Carolina since 1921 (with one break, 1929-31); after long illness; in Gastonia, N.C. He was co-sponsor of the Reed-Bulwinkle bill, passed in June 1948 over President Truman's veto, to exempt common carriers from antitrust prosecution for entering into rate-fixing agreements...
Departing Guest. In Gastonia, N.C., a man released after spending the night in jail on a drunkenness charge assured police that they had done him a favor by arresting him, left a $10 bill as a "toker of appreciation...