Favorable vote advances annual motor vehicle inspection bill
Senate committee approves a plan for annual inspections at garages or service stations with a 75 cent fee plus 25 cents for a state sticker. The measure, supported by Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ed Scheidt, faces a Senate floor vote as lawmakers consider municipal inspection limits and program oversight.
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Toe
Foley Easttl
Jimmy Johnson
Iredell
Cutlar Moore
Robeson
Boyce A. Whitmire
Henderson
Johnson
Ed Scheidt
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Scheidt
Robert Morgan
Cleveland
Morgan
Senate
New Series of Crises Feared
President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan fear a new round of Cold War crises this year as Geneva nuclear test talks stall. They warned of possible disarmament setbacks and planned a White House briefing after talks.
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Washington
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Soviet Union
Laos
U.S
Macmillan
Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
White House
Britain
United States
Khrushchev
Geneva
State Museum of Art overhaul proposed in Raleigh bill
A bill introduced by Rep. Dwight Quinn would restructure the administration of the State Museum of Art. It states ownership and control of the museum and its multi million dollar collection remain with the state.
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Raleigh
State Museum of Art
Dwight Quinn
Cabarrus
Soviet air drops resume aiding Laos rebels near Vang Vieng
Four Soviet planes dropped more rebel troops and material near the royal army headquarters as Gen. Kouprasith reports royal advances north of Vang Vieng. The action follows earlier drops and signals both sides seek ground before a cease fire on the critical Vientiane to Luang Prabang highway.
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Vientiane
Laos
Royal Army
Vang Vieng
Pathet Lao
Tiao Sopsaisana
Kouprasith Abhay
Kouprasith
Luang Prabang
Judith Coplon in Brooklyn with husband and four
Judith Coplon, once charged with spying for the Soviet Union, now lives in a three floor Brooklyn home with her husband Albert Socolov and their four children. The Herald Tribune notes her justice department past and ongoing legal questions including a pending indictment and potential retrial.
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NEW York
Judith Coplon
Soviet Union
Brooklyn
New York Herald Tribune
Judith
Albert H. Socolov
Justice Department
Department
Washington
U.N
Socolovs
Princess Margaret lowers hem signaling fashion shift in Britain
Princess Margaret shortened her skirt to about knee length in a warm afternoon appearance at Hemel Hempstead fueling talk that British women may adopt the move. Fashion experts note the look echoes a past American trend as women watch royal influence.
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London
Margaret
Britain
Sue
Hemel Hempstead
America
Intensified Training for Project Mercury Astronauts
Three astronauts John Glenn Virgil Grissom and Alan Shepard undergo three day refresher tests in a giant centrifuge at the Naval Air Development Center Johnstown Pa to simulate launch acceleration. The tests prepare one for a Redstone rocket flight about a 16 minute suborbital mission.
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Johnsville
Naval Air Development Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Marine
John G. Glenn Jr
New Concord
Ohio
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Mitchell, Ind
Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
East Derry
N. H
MIT hosts 150 scientists mark centennial with wartime radar and Polaris ties
Cambridge mass MIT celebrates 100 years as a hub of science with 150 scientists from 30 nations. The conference, closed to reporters, highlights MIT radar, guidance systems and submarine navigation achievements shaping Cold War defense. The gathering includes Nobel laureates and leaders in science and policy.
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Don Guy Cambridge
Mass
Soviet Union
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Redistricting Plan Shuffles North Carolina Seats
A state Congressional Districts Committee report outlines a plan to cut North Carolina’s 12 seats to 11. Reps. Cool ey and Fountain would share a district with several eastern counties while wake and western counties shift into larger districts.
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Raleigh
Harold D. Cooley
L. H. Fountain
Congressional Districts
Slim Chance Seen New Redistricting Bill in N C Senate
In Raleigh the North Carolina Senate weighs a new redistricting proposal by Sen Archie Davis Forsyth constraining each county to two senators and districts to five counties Davis argues it balances area and popular representation but acknowledges slim chances amid prior defeat of Currie measure and required three fifths approval plus voter referendum.
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Raleigh
Senate
Archie Davis
Forsyth
State Coalition
Claude Currie
Durham
Davis
Currie
Mecklenburg
Guilford
Terrorist Killings Increase Across France and Algeria
French police conducted a nationwide sweep against suspected Algerian and French terrorists as violence surged after failed talks. In Montfermeil a hospital attack killed a police guard and a patient, wounded others, including a girl, while a Paris airstrike and a consulate bombing in Algiers heightened tensions ahead of Evian negotiations between FLN and MNA factions.
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Paris
Algiers
U.S
Evian-Les-Bains
National Liberation Front
FLN
National Liberation Movement
MNA
Charles de Gaulle
Montfermeil
Martine Petit
Mansfield Urges Stronger Viet Nam Army Aid
Senator Mike Mansfield calls on the Kennedy administration to bolster South Viet Nam to prevent Communist gains. He warns Southeast Asia faces broader risk if Viet Cong terrorism grows and supports increasing Diem’s 150,000 strong army with added aid, while U S aid debates and Diem resists diverting funds from development programs.
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Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Kennedy
South Viet Nam
Mansfield
Senate
Democratic
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam
United States
Laos
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Army Fliers' Bodies To Be Removed From Crash Wreckage
In Johnson City Tennessee the bodies of Maj Harrison Perry and 1st Lt James R Jensen will be removed from a charred LT 19D Army liaison plane wreckage on Holston Mountain. They were en route from Fort Knox Kentucky to Fort Bragg North Carolina when the crash occurred after weather contact at 7 07 p m Wednesday. This is the fourth crash into Holston Mountain since February 1958.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Holston Mountain
Harrison Perry
Columbia
S.C
James R. Jensen
Gary
Ind
Ft. Knox
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Tri-Cities
Southeast Airlines
Holston
Standoff Widens in Geneva Nuclear Talks
Western powers and the Soviet Union remain divided over a test ban as negotiations resume in Geneva. Britain’s David Ormsby Gore says allies show patience while Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarapkin refuses to concede.
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Dorian Falk
Geneva
Soviet Union
Iside
David Ormsby- Gore
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Ormsby-Gore
Tsarapk
Britain
United States
West
Tsarapkin
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Tsa‘rapkin
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Gore
United Kingdom
Senate
Five Arrested In Brooklyn Daily News Robbery
Five men were detained after a $63,000 holdup at a Brooklyn Daily News plant. Police recovered $59,000 and found a carbine, seven pairs of handcuffs, four revolvers, two blackjacks, leather lacings, and bathing caps possibly used as masks. Benjamin Briganti, 25, of Long Island City admitted involvement.
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New York
Brooklyn
New York Daily News
Benjamin Briganti
Long Island City
Queens
Briganti
Canada funds U.N. budget payment to clear debt
Canada contributes about 3.78 million dollars to the United Nations, clearing Canada’s arrears in the U.N. regular 1961 budget. The payment was made Thursday at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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United Nations, N.Y
Canada
United Nations
U.N
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