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...college voted to move from Wake Forest (pop. 1,800), in the eastern part of the state, to Winston-Salem, the Camel capital. The lure: a free campus-probably "Reynolda," the 300-acre estate of Tobacco Heir (and Presbyterian) Zachary Smith Reynolds*-and $350,000 annual income. The college will keep its name and Baptist independence. The catch: North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus...
...Winston-Salem Junior Leaguers discussed closing their Thrift Shop after Pearl Harbor. Last month was their biggest May in twelve years; a clientele which was originally almost 99% Negro now includes many middle-class white families. And Salvation Army thrift shops scattered through the South had upped their sales from...
...South has a servant shortage for the first time in its history. Surprised Atlanta, Nashville and Winston-Salem wives find that even inexperienced Negro girls demand at least five days off a month, won't stay in, won't cope with children, won't do laundry and insist on dinner at 6 p.m. (which in wartime is practically mid-afternoon...
Last week they defeated Catawba College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 13 to 2. Observers felt that although the pre-flight students could probably have run up a larger score, they were not well-organized...
Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr., multi-millionaire tobacco heir (Camels), got leaves of absence as Mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C. and treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, to join the Navy...