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The Wilmington Morning Star
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina
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North Carolina Governor Hoey announced on Sept. 10 he would stick to the traditional last Thursday in November for Thanksgiving, rejecting merchants' push for an earlier date to boost Christmas sales, as he did against President Roosevelt's change last year.
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Refuses Request By Merchants To Adopt F. R. Holiday - Date
RALEIGH, Sept. 10.- The traditional last Thursday in November again will be North Carolina's official Thanksgiving day.
Governor Hoey said today he would later issue a proclamation directing that the last Thursday in November be observed as Thanksgiving. Last year he also declined to follow President Roosevelt in moving the observance up one week.
The governor wrote Willard Dowell, secretary of the North Carolina merchants association, thanking him for a copy of a resolution adopted by the association urging that the third Thursday be proclaimed as Thanksgiving to "give a longer period for Christmas shopping."
"I am thoroughly sympathetic with any move to increase the business of our merchants," Hoey wrote, "but I see no reason why they should wait until Thanksgiving Day to display their Christmas goods or to open the Christmas sales. Last year merchants in Raleigh and many other places in the state decided upon an earlier date for opening the Christmas sales and it worked splendidly.
"I feel very strongly about Thanksgiving as a non-commercial event or observance. For 75 years there has been an unbroken observance of this day in North Carolina on the last Thursday in November, and I see no sufficient reason for a change now.
Accordingly, at the proper time I shall designate this traditional day again this year."
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Sept. 10
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governor hoey will issue a proclamation designating the last thursday in november as thanksgiving day, declining the merchants' request to adopt the third thursday for extended christmas shopping.
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Governor Hoey refused a request from the North Carolina merchants association to proclaim the third Thursday in November as Thanksgiving to allow more time for Christmas shopping. He expressed sympathy for merchants but emphasized the 75-year tradition of observing the last Thursday in November and noted that early Christmas sales had worked well the previous year. He plans to issue a proclamation for the traditional date, as he did last year when declining to follow President Roosevelt's change.