Baruch Opposes Tax Cut and Public Works Spending
Bernard M. Baruch told Congress that with a huge national debt and high expenditures it is foolish to pursue tax cuts. He argued inflation is the era’s key danger and that deficit financed public works would worsen inflation and weaken national defense and welfare programs. He urged paying for dams highways and schools rather than expanding red ink spending.
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Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
Congress
Baruch
Senate Finance Committee
Rights Fund Approved In House
The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill funding $750,000 for the Civil Rights Commission for the fiscal year starting July 1. The fund, approved amid Southern Democrat opposition, is part of a broader $15,558,970 appropriation for the White House and related offices. The six member Civil Rights Commission was created by the 1957 Civil Rights Law.
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Washington
House
Senate
Civil Rights Commission
Civil Rights Fund
White House
Arab minister to meet UN chief over Syria-Israel clashes
Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi planned to fly to Zurich to brief U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on what Cairo calls Israeli aggression on the Syrian border. Egypt and Syria urged an extraordinary U N Security Council session to probe two days of tank and artillery exchanges near the Lake Tiberias area and warned of broader actions if aggression continued.
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Cairo
Mahmoud Fawzi
Switzerland
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Ro Fawzi
United Arab Republic
Syria
Egypt
U. N. Security Council
Lake Bog
Foreign Office
Fawzi
Hammarskjold
Zurich
United States
Soviet Union
Red China
Ocation
U.N. Armistice Commission
Saad Afra
U.A.R
Security Council
Lady Mayor Receives Gift From Scott During Visit
Washington report says Mae Bamber, mayor of Southport England, met Sen. Scott and received a plug of North Carolina chewing tobacco to present to Southport North Carolina Mayor Eugene B. Tomlinson Jr. during a visit, noting Southport’s tourism appeal and Bamber’s tour of American South ports.
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Washington
Southport
England
Sen. Scott
D-Nc
N.C
Scott
Mae Bamber
North Carolina
Eugene B. Tomlinson Jr
Gene
Rescued Stanford Students Aid Fight For Alpine Leader
Rescued student William Pope, 22, San Francisco, remained in critical condition with pneumonia after four delirious nights on a snow ledge in Lyell Peak, Yosemite area. Stanford Alpine Club members Margaret Meyer, Lenore Lamb, Michael Roberts, Bert Hooley, Max Allen helped, with Feb high storm delaying helicopter rescue until Army pilots Cooney and Williams delivered supplies. Pope’s condition stabilized briefly before transfer to Lewis Hospital.
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Yosemite National Park
Calif
William Pope
Sierra
Margaret Meyer
Seattle
Stanford University
San Francisco
Mike
Michael Roberts
Neenah
Wis
Lenore Lamb
Orinda
Bert Hooley
Reno
Nev
Max Allen
Paradise
June Lake Reservoir
Yosemite
Stanford Alpine Club
Pope
Roberts
Lyell Peak
Hooley
Allen
Army
John J. Cooney
Marlboro
Mass
William J. Williams
Binghamton
N.Y
Bob Symons
Bishop
Civil Air Patrol
Lewis Hospital
Burmese steamer sinks. 100 missing after cyclone
More than 100 persons are missing and believed drowned after a Burmese river steamer sank in a cyclone near the port of Bassein, about 200 miles from Rangoon. The vessel carried 123 passengers plus crew and police guards. only 20 survivors reported.
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Rangoon
Burma
Bassein
Conservatives Score Smashing Triumph In Canadian Election
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker led the Conservatives to the largest majority in Canadian history, winning 209 of 265 seats. Liberals dropped to 47 seats, CCF fell to 8, and Social Credit was wiped out. The PM pledged early Parliament resume to address unemployment with a billion-dollar development plan and about 400 million in tax cuts. More details on page five.
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Toronto
Canada
John Diefenbaker
Gah
House of Commons
Liberal Party
Socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
M. J. Coldwell
CCF
Social Credit Party
Commons
Solon Low
Social Credit
Liberals
Diefenbaker
Four Million French Workers Out On Strike
Paris reports a 24 hour nationwide transport strike that halts trains buses and airlines as four million workers stay home. The action led by Communist Socialist and Catholic unions targets a three percent wage increase amid a fare rise dispute.
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Paris
France
Ee Mo Bovine Cres Tt
Wadesboro Fire Destroys Furniture Co Building
An investigation into a pre dawn fire in Wadesboro continues after a blaze destroyed the D B Goodman Furniture Co. and damaged an adjacent insurance office and a jewelry store causing extensive damage to the business district.
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Wadesboro
N.C
D. B. Goodman Furniture Co
Eisenhower considered, then rejected, a test ban propaganda move
Secretary of State Dulles disclosed that President Eisenhower weighed a U S suspension of atomic tests to outpace the Soviets but rejected it as a propaganda gesture. He said the Soviet announcement was propaganda, while U S free press and open politics prevent such a move.
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Washington
Dulles
Eisenhower
U. S
United States
Soviet Union
Soviet Union Sees Propaganda Victory Over Nuclear Ban
The Soviet Union announced it would suspend test explosions of nuclear weapons, a move welcomed by Communist media and East German radio. Western officials and Britain urged caution and warned the ban may not halt Western missile development. British papers urged restraint while warning against naive acceptance of the Soviet move.
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London
Soviet Union
Europe
Asia
U.S. State Department
Britain
Daily Mail
Russia
Times of London
Liberal
News Chronicle
Daily Mirror
West Germany
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
American
Jobless Pay Plan Opposed by North Carolina Official
Henry E. Kendall of the North Carolina Employment Security Commission told the House Ways and Means Committee that extending federal unemployment benefits would mostly help a small group of workers in North Carolina. He warned it would erode state control, hinder long range financing, and penalize states with solid unemployment funds, citing North Carolina’s 7.5 percent current rate and 26 week benefit structure.
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Washington
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means
Eisenhower
Henry E. Kendall
Employment Security Commission
Kendall
Mark Earliest Eyewitness to Jesus Arrest in Jerusalem
A teenage John Mark witnesses Jesus arrest in Gethsemane as Roman guards seize Jesus after Judas Identification. The account recalls the Passover scene in Jerusalem with Mary’s house and the Last Supper, then Mark flees after being caught by soldiers leaving him in a linen cloth.
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George Cornell
Associated Press
Gethsemane
Jerusalem
Jesus
John Mark
Nisan
Mark
Benjamin Gate
House of Prayer
Mary
Mount of Olives
Judas
Kidron
Peter
Apostle
Pilate
Greensboro Sells Two Swim Pools
Greensboro sold its two swimming pools with council approval, Lindley Park pool sold to Jerome Samet for 75000 and Nocho Park pool to Ralph Johns for 9550. Total proceeds 84550, bids exceeded cost. Johns plans to donate Negro pool to a charity for Negro children. A motion seeks an injunction to halt the Lindley Park sale, heard Tuesday morning in Middle District Court.
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Greensboro
Lindley Park
Jerome Lamet
Mt. Airy
Nocho Park
Ralph Johns
Greensboro Clothier
Richard M. Taliaferro
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Renton, Wash
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Kenneth
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