Rusk backs pact to curb spread of nuclear arms
Secretary of State Dean Rusk voiced hope nuclear powers including possibly France and Red China will move toward a nonproliferation treaty. He urged keeping Viet Nam issues separate, noted consideration of recognizing Outer Mongolia, and ordered review of watch requests on Americans abroad. He warned against expanding Red China’s war potential and signaled limited prospects for improved Washington relations with Peking.
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Paris
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Peking
West Germany
Charles de Gaulle
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Five conquer Mt Eiger via vertical north face ascent
Five alpinists from Germany and Scotland reached the 13,036 foot summit of Mt Eiger after a 30 day climb up the perilous north wall in a blizzard. Joerg Lehne and Guenther Strobel led the ascent with Siegfried Hupfauer Roland Vutteler and Douglas Haston completing the team. An American climber John Harlin, killed earlier, was honored by the survivors.
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Kleine Scheidegg
Switzerland
Mt. Eiger
Guenther Strobel
Siegfried Hupfauer
Roland Vutteler
Douglas Haston
Leysin
John Harlin
Los Altos
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Harlin
Layton Ror
Boulder
Colo
Eiger
Germany
Haston
Lehne
Strobel
Leathernecks Turn To Guarding Rice Harvest After Offense
U S Marines and South Vietnamese forces report heavy gains against the Viet Cong in Operations Texas with 1 236 enemy killed or wounded. The 1st Regiment listed among crushed units as 5 000 Marines and Vietnamese troops used 6 000 pounds of dynamite to destroy fortifications in Quang Ngai Province. Marine units then shifted to defending a rice harvest while repelling a predawn attack near Da Nang where 42 Viet Cong were killed. Navy and Air Force pilots hit North Vietnamese supply lines, destroying four motorized junks and starting large fires near Dien Bien Phu.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Texas
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Quang Nam
da Nang
Leathernecks
Vinh Binh
U.S. Navy
Air Force
North Viet Nam
Hanoi-Haiphong
Hanoi
New China News Agency
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Vinh
Dien Bien Phu
Minor frost damage seen to North Carolina peach crop
In Rockingham NC and surrounding Sandhills, peach growers rise at dawn to inspect possible frost harm after a light Thursday freeze. Chesley Greene of the Sandhills Peach Growers Association says damage was limited and blossom loss minimal. wind kept frost from settling, with some beneficial thinning observed. A note on home heating during the freeze drew light humor.
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N.C
North Carolina
Sandhills
Chesley Greene
N. C
Greene
South Carolina
Spartanburg
Victim bargains with holdup man in Boston store
Boston AP Sam Golstein, keeper of a small Boston variety store, bargained with a holdup Friday. The robber demanded all the money. Golstein replied he could not, noting he could not make change and could spare only $11 in ones. The robber took the $1 and fled.
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Supreme Court polls poll tax ruling with muted race note
An AP analysis notes the Supreme Court’s poll tax decision largely avoids race issues and origins of voting rights. It cites 1923 laws, five states still tying poll taxes to local voting, and recent court actions in Texas and Alabama while highlighting the 14th Amendment equal protection focus.
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Virginia
Mississippi
Texas
Alabama
Vermont
Supreme Court
John M. Harlan
Carolina Chief Found Guilty in Recorder's Court
Marshville Police Chief H V Chandler was found guilty in a Recorder's Court trial in Monroe North Carolina on seven original charges reduced to two. Judge John Milliken fined Chandler twenty five dollars and costs on each charge. Charges allege failure to carry out duties including arrest warrants for drunkenness and indecent exposure and late warrants after SBI investigation. Chandler also faced accusations of misappropriating money paid as fines.
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N. C
Marshville
H. V.chandler
Recorder’s Court
John Milliken
Chandler
SBI
Chander
Virginia Hill Death Reported In Austria
Virginia Hill once linked with U S gangsters reportedly killed herself with sleeping pills in Salzburg as police confirmed a farewell letter. The Alabama born former mob hostess lived in exile after evading taxes, previously tied to Bugsy Siegel and other gang figures. Her body found near a brookside path, with investigations noting past notoriety and a possible memoir risk.
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U.S
Senate
Salzburg
Austria
Estes Kefauver
U.S. Iangdom
Miss Hill
Hans Hauser
Petar
America
U.S. Justice
Benjamin
Bugsy) Siegel
Beversly Hills
Calif
Siegel
West Coast
Paris
Sen
Crime Investigating Committee
Frank Costello
Ben Epstein
Joe Adonis
Bonn Offers Plan To Halt Nuclear Spread
Bonn outlines a German plan to halt nuclear proliferation while seeking a share in defense. Erhard proposes nonproliferation pledges among nonnuclear states and a stepwise reduction in European nuclear arsenals with balanced power and political progress. He calls for talks with East Europe and military observer exchanges, amid U.S. and Soviet diplomacy in Moscow.
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Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Europe
Soviet Union
Erhard
Bundestag
West Germany
Godwin rules out early session on Virginia poll tax issue
Gov Mills E Godwin Jr ruled out an early special session of the General Assembly to patch Virginia election laws following the Supreme Court ruling banning the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state elections. He said local elections on June or earlier are impractical to address now and a careful study after the court mandate is issued is needed.
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Mills E. Godwin Jr
General Assembly
Virginia
Supreme Court
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Chesapeake
U.S
House
House Committee Slashes Teacher Corps and Rent Subsidies
The Appropriations Committee sent a $2.56 billion nondefense bill to the House floor with cuts in rent subsidy and teacher corps funds, while boosting payments to school districts with civilian or military populations. The measure trims $248 million from Johnson’s request, cites revised needs, and targets four programs for further debate.
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Washington
Appropriations Committee
Johnson
Republican Committee
Prober Says Some Of Michigan's Flying Saucers Probably Were Swamp Gasses
Detroit AP report on Air Force investigator Dr. J Allen Hynek who says some Michigan flying saucers were swamped gasses not UFOs based on sightings near Dexter and Hillsdale March 20 and 21 Hynek notes he limited study to days with large witness groups and did not cover all reports photos of sky lights were moon and Venus trails Page 2-4 SAUCERS
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Michigan
Detroit
Special Air Force
J. Allen Hynek
Ann Arbor
Hillsdale
Hynek
Northwestern University
Air Force
Dexter
Weather Report for Virginia and North Carolina
Virginia shows increasing cloudiness on Saturday with highs from 50 in the far north to the 60s in the south. Nighttime lows range from the 40s in the southeast to the 30s elsewhere. Sunday turns partly cloudy and cool. North Carolina will be partly cloudy and warmer Saturday with highs 57 to 66, then partly cloudy and slightly cooler Sunday.
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North Carolina
Downtown Weather Log Entry Shows Weekend Temperatures
Weather log records downtown Friday and Saturday with hourly readings. Temperatures range from 43 to 54 degrees, barometric pressure around 30.18 to 30.08, wind calm to SW-2, precipitation noted as 24 hour total and a 24 hour low/high span.
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