Texans Vote Today For Senator
Texans vote today to select a U S senator to fill the Johnson seat. With a large field and runoff chances likely, six leading candidates and 64 others vie with an estimated 1.25 million voters expected to participate. Interim Sen. Blakley and John Tower campaign as conservatives in a race seen as split between conservatives moderates and liberals.
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Dallas
Tex
U.S
Lyndon B. Johnson
Wiliam A. Blakley
Price Daniel
John G. Tower
Tower
Johnson
Senate
Kennedy
Blakley
Texas
Sanford backs redistricting bill with caveats
Gov. Sanford voiced support for the Currie redistricting bill guiding two seats per Mecklenburg Guilford and Forsyth counties but stopped short of urging a vote. He said the legislature should draw lines reflecting the 1960 census and indicated no final stance on tobacco taxes for school funding. He planned to review State Board of Education appointments and tenure of Ben Roney.
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Raleigh
Sanford
Senate
Sen
Claude Currie
Durham
Currie
Mecklenburg
Guilford
Forsyth
State Board of Education
Ben Roney
Rocky Mount Oil
Banner Peach Crop Seen Ahead Of Schedule In Carolinas
Carolina peach growers anticipate a record potential 1961 crop from Piedmont to Sandhills with warm February, early blossoms, and risk of late frost weighing as the Weather Bureau sees limited freezes. Authorities expect Sandhills output above 1.5 million bushels and South Carolina over 5.5 million if no frost disaster late in March or April.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Piedmont South Carolina
Sandhills
North Carolina
U.S
Weather Bureau
South Carolina
North Carolina Sandhills
Georgia
Kennedy Macmillan To Confer On Laos Crisis
In Washington, Prime Minister Macmillan arrives for five days of talks with President Kennedy focusing on the Laos crisis. Rusk and Home discuss Western replies to Russia on Laos as Moscow signals a vague cease fire timing.
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Washington
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Kennedy
Florida
Macmillan
West Indies
Naval Observatory
Dean Rusk
Observatory
Rusk
Lord Home
Russia
Laos
Key West
Fla
Moscow
Frank Roberts
Kremlin
United States
U.S
Vientiane
Light Snow Reported on Mt. Mitchell Peak
Occasional light snow was reported atop Mt. Mitchell the highest peak east of the Mississippi. WMIT personnel at the transmitter on the summit said about three inches lay on the ground as cold foggy conditions persisted with a forecast of more snow. The low temperature reached 14 degrees.
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MT. Mitchell
N.C
Mississippi
WMIT
Rayburn Denounces Birch Society as Threat to Freedom
House Speaker Sam Rayburn warns that the John Birch Society offers strange nostrums that could destroy freedom. Senator Stephen Young calls founder Robert Welch a dangerous demagogue. Rep. John Rousselot defends the group as a lawful anti Communist effort.
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Washington (Ap
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
John Birch Society
Stephen M. Young
D-Ohio
Robert Welch
Hitler
Mussolini
John H. Rousselot
Calif
Married couple to test governor s bomb shelter
In Raleigh a married couple will spend three days in the governor’s mansion bomb shelter during Civil Defense Operation Alert. Governor Sanford urged newspapers and broadcasters to nominate pairs for the April 24 to 26 test while noting he would not stay in the shelter if the state were attacked. Reporters will interview the couple daily as they use rations and a Bible in a dim, electric-light free shelter.
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Raleigh
Civil Defense
Sanford
Africans Run Amok Near Congo Airport Amid U.N. Tension
A 4 000 strong crowd attacked Elisabethville airport as Tshombe supporters looted and tore the U N flag. Swedish troops under Col Anders Kjellgren held the terminal with Africans rioting on runways and city streets while Katanga police cordoned central Elisabethville.
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Errol Friedmann
U.N
Elisabethville
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Anders Kjellgren
South Katanga
Katanga
Tshombe
Bomb blast rocks Paris Stock Exchange injuring 12
A plastic planted bomb exploded on the second floor washrooms of the Paris Bourse injuring 12 as police and firemen rushed to the scene. Authorities link the attack to right wing extremists opposed to de Gaulle policies amid a spate of similar incidents including the mayor’s death in Evian and a blast at Senator Mitterrand’s residence.
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Paris
Paris Stock Exchange
Charles de Gaulle
Camille Blanc
Evian-les - Bains
Sen
Francois Mitterrand
Bill Would Reorganize Roads Body
Legislation to reorganize the State Highway Commission was introduced in Raleigh to expand membership from seven to 19 and place the chairman as a full time chief executive officer. Gov. Sanford urged the change to bring the commission closer to the people while keeping the Director of Highways as head of the Highway Department.
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Highway Commission
Highway Department
Gill Urges Borrower Protection in Small-Loan Bill
North Carolina State Treasurer Edwin Gill told the Joint Banks and Banking Committee that borrower protection must come first in a proposed small-loan regulation. He opposed heavier borrower burdens or vaguer laws, endorsing Rep. Irwin Belk’s bill backed by the Banking Commission and contrasting it with Rep. Roland Braswell’s looser proposal.
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Raleigh
Edwin Gill
Joint Banks and Banking Committee
Gill
Banking Commission
Irwin Belk
Mecklenburg
State Banking Commission
Roland Braswell
Wayne
U.S. urges Castro to sever links with international movement
The United States accuses Fidel Castro of betraying the Cuban revolution and aligning with global communism. A 36 page State Department pamphlet outlines U S warnings and estimates Castro has boosted Cuba s armed forces to 250 000 to 400 000 personnel, far larger than typical for a nation of its size.
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U.S
Castro
Red Movement
Washington
United States
Fidel Castro
Caribbean
Cuba
Americas
Aoe
State Department
Lincoln White
Latin America
Organization of American States
International Organization of the 21 American Republics
United Nations
Soviet Union
Castro Charges Expected After Western Union Intercept
Fidel Castro's regime is expected to claim the American cable repair ship Western Union invaded Cuban waters near Baracoa. The 92 ton vessel and 13 crew were intercepted in international waters, then released after U.S. planes and a destroyer arrived. U.S. notes demand full explanation while Havana silent.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
U.S. State Department
U.S. Navy
Western Union
Baracoa
U.S
Washington
U. S
Key West
Fla
U.s.navy
John W. Weeks
Cuban envoy calls Kennedy plot tale a second-rate movie
Mexican City AP reports Cuban Ambassador Jose Antonio Portuondo dismissed reports of a pro-Castro plot to kidnap Caroline Kennedy as absurd and resembling a second-rate Hollywood script. He described the claims as false.
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Mexico City
Jose Antonio Portuondo
Kennedy
Caroline
Committee Gets Nursery Proposal
RALEIGH AP The Senate Health Committee sent a bill to a subcommittee to clarify State Board of Welfare authority to license day care facilities. Dr Ellen Winston said 380 facilities serve 6000 to 7000 children. 75 to 100 more seek licenses. Rutledge named Hoyle to chair a forthcoming substitute draft.
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Raleigh
State Board of Welfare
Senate Health Committee
Ellen Winston
Rutledge
Welfare Board
Winston
Dallas Alford
Nash
Guilford County
J. W. Hoyle
Lee
Sens
Alford
Jennings King
Scotland
Wills Hancock
Granville
Snow Delays Traffic in Great Smoky Mountains
A two inch snowfall blanketed the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Monday slowing traffic across Newfound Gap on U S 441.
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Gatlinburg, Tenn
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Newfound Gap
U.S. 441
N C Senate Takes Up Drug Bill
Raleigh AP report notes the North Carolina Senate planned third reading on a drug DUI bill. The legislature anticipated final action on extending judges pension benefits and the Senate later passed a drug impairment driving bill on third reading. The measure moves to the House.
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N.C
Senate
Raleigh
Legislature OKs three measures amid debate
The House passed three bills on second reading despite opposition. A judges measure won 24 to 21 and a drug enhanced drunk driving bill passed 55 to 41. The driver training schools bill would place oversight under the State Motor Vehicles Department.
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House
State Motor Vehicles Department
Senate
Archie Davis
Forsyth
John Kesler
Roger Kiser
Scotland
Sneed High
Cumberland
Motor Vehicles Department
J. Y. Jordan
Buncombe
Beating Death Ties To Bandleader Spade Cooley Case
In Tehachapi California Ella Mae Cooley wife of bandleader Spade Cooley was found beaten to death at Water Wonderland Ranch. Cooley 48 was taken in for questioning as sheriff officials investigated possible murder. Ella Mae about 37 died near midnight at a Rosamond area hospital after departure from the ranch.
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Tehachapi
Calif
Spade Cooley
Leroy Galven
Cooley
John Howard
Ella Mae Cooley
Stanley Newman
Vin
Cent Troy
Water Wonderland Ranch
Rosamond Calif
Los Angeles
California
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