Spring Mart Opens With Heavy Attendance At Furniture Market
The spring furniture market opens with heavy buyer attendance from across the United States and Canada. High Point and Thomasville host showrooms as manufacturers report strong first quarter 1959 results and plan new lines. Prices rise five percent due to wages and material costs, with CAB approval boosting direct service between Greensboro High Point and Chicago.
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Enterprise Sunday
Southern Furniture Manufacturers
High Point
Thomasville
Lexington
Hickory
Lenoir
Drexel
United States
Canada
Schoonbeck, Tomlinson and Heritage
American Square
American of
Martinsville
Thomasville Highway
Thomasville Chair Co. and Manufacturers Services Inc
Civil Aeronautics Board
Eastern Airlines
Greensboro - High Point
Chicago
Henry A. Foscue
Globe Furniture Co
Southern Furniture Exposition
South
Reds Seek To Control Religion In Red China
Washington report to a U S government agency details a year long Chinese campaign to suppress religion. It cites imprisonment forced labor and sometimes death for clergy expulsion of foreign missionaries confiscation of church and monastery property and suppression of religious education and recruitment. The study portrays a broad effort to eradicate religion in favor of a Marxist classless society.
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Washington
Red China
U. S
Peiping
Dalai Lama
Tibet
Mao
China
Shot Fired at Virginia Governor While Walking
Virginia Governor J Lindsay Almond Jr faced a gunshot while walking from the executive mansion to the State Capitol. Police tightened security as investigators pursued the motive amid ongoing threats tied to school segregation tensions.
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Richmond
Virginia
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Executive Mansion
State Capitol
Capitol
Almond
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Airmen Boo Bardot at British Air Base
About 100 British airmen booed Brigitte Bardot during a visit to an English airfield as she rode in a mobile dressing room behind yellow curtains. She then appeared briefly from a paratrooper outfit and screamed onto a mattress, to the director's cue, for the film Babette Goes to War.
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Abingdon
England
Brigitte Bardot
Miss Bardot
Babette Goes
Brigitte
Chiang Chia-piao blocked from divorce until Nationalists return to China
Chiang Chia-piao, 43, is refused a divorce from his wife in Formosa. The Taipei procurator says the split cannot be finalized until the Nationalists recover the Chinese mainland, a condition tied to his wife’s return from the mainland where she remarried after she left him in 1949.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Chia- Piao
Chiang
China
Springfield father kills three children then takes his own life
J B Matthews Jr a 40 year old FAA aeronautical engineer and church deacon killed his three children aged 13 and wounded his wife with a baseball bat then fatally cut his throat after a nearby FBI agent witnessed the scene. He had been ill with headaches and eye trouble and faced past controversy over a McCarthy era magazine article.
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Springfield
J. B. Matthews Jr
Federal Aviation Agency
Stephen
Sharon
Ann Susan Matthews
Matthews
Susan
New York City
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
United States
Rubber Strike Session Set to Open Bargaining Talks
Negotiators will meet next Tuesday to resume talks on fringe benefits after a 25,000 U S Rubber Co workers strike. The action followed a contract expiration and the setup of picket lines at 18 plants. Wages are off the table. pensions, insurance, severance pay and working conditions are on the agenda. The wage issue may be revisited this summer.
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New York
U. S. Rubber Co
Priest to face trial over church wedding in Poland
Rev. Adam Wojtyla, parish priest at Modliszewo village, will be tried in Poznan on a charge of conducting a church wedding for a couple not legally married. If convicted, he could be jailed up to four months or fined 208 dollars.
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Warsaw
Poland
Adam Wojtyla
Modliszewo
Poznan
Chicago Chosen For Convention By GOP
Washington AP reports the Republican National Committee chose Chicago as the 1960 presidential nominating convention site with July 25 start. Morton succeeds Meade Alcorn as chairman, pledging neutrality between Nixon and Rockefeller and backing Eisenhower's budget balancing theme. Morton, a former Assistant Secretary of State, predicts a Republican comeback after the 1958 setback.
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Smut Giry
Veil Veueues
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Chicago
GOP
National Committee
Los Angeles
Morton
Meade Alcorn
Connecticut
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Senate Republican Campaign Committee
Richard M. Simpson
Pennsylvania
House
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
Senate
Charleston
W. Va
Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
New Yot
Alcorn
Congress
New Berlin policy urged as Geneva talks near
The United States plans to push Western allies to include East and West Berlin in any new international plan for the city. U S officials say an all Berlin policy must bind the Big Four to hold Berlin in trust until Berlin becomes part of a reunited Germany. London talks will resume policy development ahead of the Geneva foreign ministers meeting starting May 11.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
East
West Berlin
U. S
Britain
France
West Germany
Geneva
Berlin
Germany
London
J Harold Macmillan
Transplant Of Heads Achieved
Dr. A David Gurewitsch reports Soviet researchers have transplanted hearts and heads in dogs as part of tissue transplantation research. He notes the work hinges on bio chemical processes and a complex gadget enabling rapid blood vessel linking, and cites licensing potential for American surgeons.
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New York
A. David Gurewitsch
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Moscow
Gurewitsch
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Radio Moscow airs My Fair Lady overview in Moscow broadcast
AP reports Radio Moscow aired a version of My Fair Lady on Saturday describing the plot from Cockney seller to refined lady. The commentator noted persistent London class divisions since Shaw’s Pygmalion and the program ran about one hour and twenty minutes.
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London
Radio Moscow
Doolittle
Moscow
George Bernard Shaw
Toltec City Ruins Found Near Nayarit Coast
Ancient Toltec city ruins dating about 15 centuries old were unearthed this week in Nayarit Mexico. El Universal attributes the site as the likely ancestral home of the people who later founded Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Nayarit
el Universal
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Schoonbeck
Jim McGeehan
Cleveland
Ohio
Schoonbeck-Henredon
John McConnaughy
Pittsburgh
W. E. Smith
Morganton
Henredon
A. L. Stateler
Schoonbeck Showroom
Airmen
Boo Brigitte Bardot
Thruston Morton
FBI
Richard C. Whitehead
Matthews Family
Whitehead
Steve
Joe
Heritage
Claude Best
Jim Marshall
Winter Park
Fla
Phil Henderson
Calif
Norbert Christel
Beverly Hills
Thom
Asville Chair Co
Janet Teague
U.S.S.R
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