House Approves Axle Weight Compromise For Trucks
The North Carolina House endorsed a compromise to raise the axle weight limit by 1000 pounds, sending the plan to the Senate. Rep. Joseph Branch led the proposal, with penalties scaled by excess weight. opponents warned of highway damage if overloads occur.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Joseph Branch
Halifax
House Roads Committee
Branch
John Umstead
Orange
Falls
Libby Mc Neill Libby Leads With Rise On Dull Market
New York report shows Libby Mc Neill Libby climbing to a new high on active turnover as the market stayed dull and easier. The gain came amid higher earnings and a special dividend, with the issue opening on 12 000 shares and leading volume in a day of light overall turnover.
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New York
Libby McNeill & Libby
Libby
Santa Fe
Atlantic Coast Line
Missouri Pacific Preferred
Cities Service
Texas Pacific Lands Trust
Kern County Land
Dow Chemical
Eastman Kodak
Monsanto Chemical
Goodrich
Phelps Dodge
Electric Auto-Lite
U S warns West not to abandon unity amid Kremlin gestures
U S Delegate Ernest A Gross urged the United Nations to maintain strength and unity to pressure the Soviet Union. He warned against premature peace moves in Korea and Poland and defended NATO as a peacekeeping duty while Panmunjom talks proceed.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Free World
Kremlin
Ernest A. Gross
U. N
Gross
Korea
Panmunjom
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
North Ata
NATO
Textile industry shifts from low mood to upward trend
H. K. Hallett of ACMI declared at the Alabama Cotton Manufacturers Association meeting that the textile sector has shaken off the 1951-52 downturn and moved upward despite deflation risks and raw cotton market confusion. He cited 9 percent higher fourth quarter 1952 production and urged continued effort and social responsibility.
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Biloxi
Miss
H. K. Hallett
Charlotte
N. C
American Cotton Manufacturers Institute
Hallett
Alabama Cotton Manufacturers Association
ACMI
India
Unification Of Schools Gets Study
RALEIGH The House Education Committee backed a measure allowing local governments to form community colleges while postponing a firm decision on school consolidation. The panel plans two long meetings to resolve 17 questions raised by Dr. Charles F. Carroll state superintendent, with Atty. Gen. McMullan to assist. The consolidation bill would let small high schools 45 to 60 in average attendance stay open if one sixth cost is paid, reopen closed schools, allow 60 to 90 pupil consolidations with board approval, and seek written parental assent before consolidating 90 plus pupil schools.
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House
Senate
James H. Pou Bailey
Wake
Tuesay
Raleigh
House Education Committee
Charles F. Carroll
William W. Taylor
Warren
Harry McMullan
Carroll
Four Killed In Collision Near Hamlet N C
Four Whiteville High School students en route to a Beta Club convention in Asheville died when a car sideswiped their vehicle and crashed into a second car near Old Hundred on the Laurinburg Highway. Three others were injured, including a teacher and two students, with one taken to Scotland County Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg in critical condition. The collision occurred at a Sea board Air Line Railway bridge as three cars carried the students to the convention.
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Hamlet
N. C
Whiteville
Heville
Here
Cpl. J. H. Jackson
State Highway Patrol
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Old Hundred
Laurinburg
Mason Jack Huggins
Monroe
Lee Greer
Billy Valentine
Nancy Lyon
Lyon
Scotland County Memorial Hospital
Hamlet Hospital
Valentine
Huggins
Beta Club
Asheville
Jackson
John Camp Maultsby Jr
Bill White
Sherrod Braxton
Jane Jordan
Carol Sells
Wages Remain Unchanged Under Textile Pact
In Boston 25000 workers across 23 New England cotton and rayon mills will keep current wages for at least one more year under a two year agreement between mill owners and the CIO Textile Workers Union. The pact allows either side to reopen wage talks after one year. The minimum wage is about 1.11 dollars per hour with an average around 1.36 dollars per hour.
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Boston
New England
CIO Textile Workers Union
Fall River
Newford
Hall Named GOP Chairman
Former Rep. Leonard W. Hall of New York was elected Republican National chairman with unanimous consent. He enjoys solid backing from President Eisenhower and GOP leaders, and his selection was a formality for the 52 year old ex congressman from Oyster Bay.
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Washington
Leonard W. Hall
New York
Hall
Republican National Committee
Eisenhower
Oyster Bay
N. Y
J. Russell Sprague
GOP meeting postponed to April 30 in North Carolina
The State Republican Executive Committee meeting scheduled for Greensboro on April 18 was postponed to April 30 due to President Eisenhower’s Salisbury visit on April 16. Chairman J. M. Baley Jr. cited many members could not attend the original date.
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Marshall
Republican Executive Committee
Greensboro
Eisenhower
Salisbury
J. M. Baley, Jr
Baley
Eisenhower Visit Draws Record Newsmen Crowd
George Allen of WSAT said early indications show a record turnout of newsmen and radio commentators for President Eisenhower's April 16 speech in Salisbury. Allen handles radio and television requests for Eisenhower's appearance at Rowan County bicentennialevents.
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Salisbury
George Allen
WSAT
Eisenhower
Allen
Rowan County
Tungsten mine rock slab fatality near Henderson
A rock slab fell into a 1100 foot shaft at a tungsten mine near Henderson yesterday killing Billy Wilson, 29, of Palisades Idaho. An unnamed second man was injured as the slab loosened and crushed Wilson who was at the bottom of the shaft.
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Henderson
Here
Billy Wilson
Palisades
Idaho
Wilson
Four men jailed for dynamiting mine power line near Henderson
In Granville County Superior Court, Roy Patterson 30 was sentenced to 10 to 15 years for dynamiting a power line feeding the tungsten mine strike near Henderson on January 22. Lonnie Brown Willie Hargrove and Harold Joseph Mitchell, all Negroes, received 7 to 10 year terms.
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Oxford
Henderson
Roy Patterson
Clawson Williams
Granville County
Lonnie Brown
Willie Hargrove
Harold Joseph Mitchell
Weet
YWCA Delegates Convene In North Carolina City
More than 100 delegates from North Carolina YWCA groups gathered in Winston Salem for a two day neighborhood conference. Dr Mark Depp welcomed attendees at Centenary Methodist Church. Clarice Bowman from High Point led a faith discussion joined by Mrs Joney of Greensboro and Mrs Van Every of Charlotte.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Young Women’s Christian Association
Mark Depp
Centenary Methodist Church
YWCA
Clarice Bowman
High Point
David Joney
Greensboro
Phillip van Every
Charlotte
Covington Announces Mayors Race For High Point
George Covington declared today his bid to become High Point mayor joining three other declared mayoral candidates and a field of five seeking City Council seats. Ward races include Katharine Kirkman and C. A. Lewis in the third ward and M. L. Patrick with John Clinard in the fourth ward. Incumbent H. G. Ilderton seeks re election in the second ward with Arthur York possibly entering a three way race against Ilderton and Augustus Greenwood. Primary set for April 21 with party support pending.
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Covington
Katharine Kirkman
C. A. Lewis
M. L. Patrick
John Clinard
H. G. Ilderton
Arthur York
High Point
Ilderton
Augustus Greenwood
John Haworth
Ralph Rochelle
Gary Davis
Dulles Named as Origin of Korea Formosa Policy Claims
CBS commentators allege Secretary of State Dulles originated recent Far Eastern policy stories. The White House denied a Korea Formosa trusteeship and a permanent Korea division, while Sen Knowland urged investigations into the source of the Times dispatch cited by Arthur Krock.
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Washington
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Secretary of
State Dulles
Korea
Formosa
New York Times
White House
Sen. Knowland
Sevareid
Secretary of State
Dulles
Eisenhower
Korean Peninsula
United Nations
James C. Hagerty
North Carolina budget panel backs 10 percent pay raise
The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee recommends deleting a 17 million cushion, giving state employees and teachers a 10 percent retroactive raise to last July, and adding about 7.3 million in expenditures to a 637 million biennial budget. Debate continues on nursing schools and bond issues as fiscal fate looms.
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Raleigh
Joint Appropriations
Budget Commission
Board of Education
John D. Larkins Jr
Senate Appropriations Committee
Joint Committee
Economy Force
Subcommittee
Advisory Budget Commission
Byrd criticizes ammunition handling during Korea era
Sen. Byrd blasts military leaders over ammunition shortages while Secretary Stevens testifies that supplies in Korea and the Far East are now ample. Gen. Van Fleet notes shortages hindered operations. Byrd faults former Lovett and Pace for not elevating serious issues. Stevens says supplies are well up along the line.
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Stevens
Byrd
Korea
Far East
Senate Armed Services
James A. van Fleet
8Th Army
Defense
Robert A. Lovett
the Army
Frank Pace Jr
Lovett
Pace
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Marshall
Far Eastern Command
MacArthur
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Reds Move Toward Signing Armistice Pact in Korea
In Munsan Korea Gen Clark approved final draft of a POW exchange pact that could clear the way for a Korean War truce. The Communists proposed restarting full scale armistice talks and delivering a key letter to U N negotiators at Panmunjom outlining prisoner repatriation terms.
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Munsan
Korea
Dan Tae
Mun
Mark Clark
U.N
U. N. New Gotiators
Panmunjom
U. N
Red China
China
William K. Harrison Jr
Red
Nam Il. Harrison
Tokyo
India
Chou
Weather figures and sun times
The forecast notes a low of 45 tonight and a high of 65 tomorrow. Today’s high reached 80 with a low of 61 last night. Sunset is at 6 49 PM and sunrise tomorrow at 5 58 AM.
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Charlotte
Weather Bureau
Asheville
Atlanta
Boston
Detroit
High Point
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
San Antonio
San Franciso
Washington
Wilmington
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Law Son
Zebulon Weaver
Buncombe
ABC Board
Weaver
Frank T. Erwin
Eeeseeeesss
Soviet Union
Alabama Textile Management
Sideswipes
Roger Kiser
Scotland
GOP
Laura E. Fisher
George Covington
Joe Hollingsworth
Glenn Perry
James D. Greene
Probe
Arthur Krock
the Times
Krock
Joint Appropriations Subcommittee
Winston - Salem
Umstead
Appropriations Subcommittee
House Finance Committee
Sen
D-Va
Peiping
Chou En-lai
Nam
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