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Starting at 9:15 Wednesday night it snowed continually until the early hours of the morning while the temperature hovered in the low teens. --From the Tarheel, North Carolina University...
...varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...Tarheel Joseph Martin had fought in the Mexican War in 1848 and trained Confederate troops in the Civil War. (The book also states he died...
...Tarheel Charles McDowell was a hero of the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. (On page 306, the book says he was buried in 1775.) These were among more than 200 errors of fact turned up by a white-haired, peppery schoolteacher named Nell Battle Lewis, who writes a column in the Raleigh News and Observer. Miss Lewis described the whole thing as A POLITICAL STINK...
Attendant griefs, bungles, triumphs at Fort Bragg helped to explain why the Army had to up its cost estimates a third. Green surveyors in the pine woods at Bragg sometimes made ridiculous mistakes, staked out building sites where none was supposed to be. Many a Tarheel carpenter had to be taught his trade on the job (but General Devers was lucky: of all his laborers, only the plumbers had a union shop). Uncanny disasters twice hit the already insufficient water supply. On two different days, a million gallons unaccountably vanished from the reservoirs. General Devers twice had to forbid bathing...