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This report is extracted from the 1000 Section (Confirmed Newspaper Indexes) of the 1979-1980 Edition of LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES: An illustrated guide to published and unpublished newspaper indexes in the United States and Canada.   Either a compiler, publisher or repository had confirmed the existance of this index and supplied information for the report. See the INTRODUCTION for the methodology used in compiling the LATHROP REPORT.
REPORT NO:  1139A Previous Report (1138A)  |  Next Report (1140A)
INDEX NAME:  News-Herald and Valdese News card index
NEWSPAPERS INDEXED:
  • NEWS-HERALD Morganton NC 1883(Mar 31)-1966(Jun 23)
  • VALDESE NEWS Valdese NC 1938(Dec 8)-1966(Dec 29)
COMPILER:  Burke County Cultural Heritage Program (a Federally funded project).
LOCATION or PUBLISHER: MORGANTON-BURKE LIBRARY
204 S. King St
Morganton NC 28655
Telephone: (704) 437-5638
AVAILABILITY:  Only one copy of this card file index exists. It must be used in the North Carolina Room of the Morganton-Burke Library.
SCOPE OF INDEX:  Primarily items of local interest and of historic value.
FORMAT OF INDEX:  A 5x8 card file index arranged by broad topic or geographic areas. For example, the card shown below is for BURKE COUNTY. Within this broad topic, the entries form a CHRONOLOGY of articles dealing with various people, governments, businesses, etc. Each entry in the chronology consists of the headline and the date (mo-dy-yr) where the article appeared. the name of the paper is in the top right hand corner of the card.
SIZE OF INDEX:  About 3,000 cards in the total index.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Walter R. Griffin & Jay L. Rasmussen. "Comprehensive guide to the location of published and unpublished newspaper indexes in North Carolina repositories." North Carolina Libraries, v.32, p.11, Fall 1974.
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LATHROP REPORT ON NEWSPAPER INDEXES. 1979-1980 Edition. Copyright © 1979 by Norman Lathrop Enterprises. ISBN 0-910868-10-7. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior expressed permission of Norman Lathrop Enterprises, except as permitted by law.   Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of the report at the time of publication.   However, it is imperative that the user contact the organization cited in a report for the current status of the index, especially if planning to visit the institution and do research using the index.