Spring Furniture Market Sees Record Buyer Turnout
The Southern Furniture Exposition in High Point reports near record attendance and strong orders as buyers from across the United States plus Canada and Puerto Rico visit showrooms. Manufacturers announce substantial orders including 10 carloads for Los Angeles and 15 000 chairs, with total attendance likely over 5000 by Friday.
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High Point
Piedmont
Lenoir
Thomasville
Lexington
Hickory
Drexel
Winston- Salem
Fident
Los Angeles
United States
Canada
Puerto Rico
Hollings Denied Anti Catholic Statue Incident
In Washington and Dayton, a Catholic priest and Gov. Hollings clashed over a statue fire near a Dayton parish school linked to Pope Pius death. Hollings called the event not anti Catholic, while police later said a mentally deranged individual caused the damage and investigation ended.
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Dayton
Ohio
South Carolina
Ernest F. Hollings
Hollings
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Washington
Pius
James E. Sherman
United States State Department
Ogizing
Associated Press
Freeman
North Carolina House Debates 75 Cent Minimum Wage
The North Carolina House resumes debate on a bill setting a 75 cent hourly minimum wage. An amendment excludes hospital workers. exemptions for small businesses were discussed, with lawmakers arguing about hospital finances and regional impact.
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Phil Whitley
Wake
John Kerr
Warren
Rachel Davis
Lenoir
Roland Braswell
Wayne
R. Frank Everett
Martin
North Carolina
Light Winds Shield North Carolina Crops From Frost
Light winds and milder air kept frost at bay across parts of North Carolina Tuesday night. Sandhills Research Station chief Clarence Black said peaches and other tender vegetation weathered the cold well, noting wind kept temperatures from dropping as sharply as at Raleigh Durham. Frost was reported near Raleigh Durham and Asheville with scattered frost likely elsewhere.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Clarence Black
Sandhills
Peach Territory
Candor
Black
Raleigh-Durham
Asheville
Weather Bureau
Carney
Ayetteville
Charlotte
Greensboro
Wilen Otent
New
Winston-Salem
Elizabeth
Fullness Of Time At Hand In Waco Davidians Gather
Hundreds of Davidians, convinced the fullness of time has come, prepare in Waco for a potential Middle East war starting April 22 and the return of Christ. The group, a splinter of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, urges members to sever earthly ties and sell nonessential property to relocate to Mt. Carmel Center. They will camp on a 41 acre tract housing offices and 16 houses and hold three services daily as they await God’s kingdom.
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Waco, Tex
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Waco
Mt. Carmel Center
Davidians
Castro To Arrive Tonight for 11 Day U S Visit
Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro arrives in Washington with a 35 man Cuban government party for an unofficial 11 day visit. Security is tight and demonstrations are expected with a five day stay in Washington and a similar stop in New York. Castro will meet Acting Secretary of State Herter at a luncheon and with Vice President Nixon at his home, but no formal talks are planned.
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Washington
Cuba
Fidel Castro
United States
State Department Security
Castro
Capital
New York
National Press Club
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Ee Ee Ad- Steins
Canada
Christian Herter
Richard M.nixon
Nixon
U.S
North Carolina proposes tax deduction bill on federal taxes
Rep Thomas W Turner of Guilford introduces a bill to let taxpayers deduct federal income tax payments up to 500 from North Carolina income taxes. Revenue impact unclear. The measure also seeks to license commercially operated boarding homes with fire inspections, to be overseen by welfare commissioner Dr Ellen Winston.
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Raleigh
Thomas W. Turner
Guilford
Turner
Ellen Winston
Capsule Ejection Possible Advances in Space Retrieval
U S satellite Discoverer II may have ejected its capsule automatically during orbit 17. Scientists in Washington study radio data to confirm a possible safe descent as the capsule likely landed in the North Pacific far from recovery teams. Attempts to capture the capsule near Hawaii failed due to a timing device malfunction and the capsule burned up before reaching ground.
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Washington
Earth
North Pacific
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Hawaiian Islands
Islands
More Tax Returns Will Be Questioned
Washington AP Federal tax officials expect a record level of income tax returns to be questioned this year as audits expand. The deadline for individual returns is midnight tonight, with postmarks accepted. Commissioner Dana Latham aims to broaden checks so no taxpayer feels safe from audit. Last year about 2.6 million returns were audited, involving 12,600 agents, adding roughly 1% billion dollars in revenue.
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Internal Revenue Service
Tes
Congress
Dana Latham
House Space Chairman Skims on New Flying Platform
Rep. Overton Brooks of Louisiana rode a rectangular metal platform just off the ground after a House Space Committee hearing. Spacetronics Inc described the Hydro-Air Vehicle as an experimental craft that can travel over water and land at inches high, with potential to make highways obsolete.
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Washington
House Space Committee
Overton Brooks
D-La
Spacetronics Inc
Herter and Dillon Considered as Dulles Successors
Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter and Undersecretary C Douglas Dillon are named as potential successors to Dulles, with Eisenhower to announce his resignation. Herter, 64, Paris born, known for work with Eisenhower during illness, faces arthritis in hips but remains at work. Dillon, 49, a Swiss-born American, heads economic policy, recently in the Philippines after SEA Treaty Organization meetings, set to return to Washington.
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Massachusetts
Herter
Dulles
Eisenhower
C. Douglas Dillon
Dulles Peas
Philippines
Dillon
Switzerland
State Department
Southeast Asia Treaty Group
Washington
Eisenhower Faces Dulles Resignation and Cabinet Hopes
President Eisenhower announced the resignation of cancer stricken Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at a news conference in Augusta. He said Dulles is absolutely incapacitated to carry on the administrative burden but offered no final choice for a successor, hinting at Undersecretary Christian Herter as a possible candidate while leaving options open. Dulles will remain as a foreign policy consultant.
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Eisenhower
Aig
Augusta
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Washington
Christian Archibald Herter
Herter
Chife
Christian A. Herter
James C. Hagerty
White
White House
Secret Service
Union Will Decide Course
Henderson North Carolina AP union leader predicts strikers will ignore an invitation from Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills to apply for jobs on a second shift. TWUA director Boyd Payton says a mass meeting is set to review the situation as a libel action against state Attorney General Malcolm Seawell looms. Governor Hodges asks 70 new officers be hired in Vance County and Henderson to curb unrest while arbitration on seniority for recently hired workers remains a central issue.
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Payton
Seawell
TWUA
W.M. Pry
Charlotte
Hodges
Vance County
Henderson
Carroll V. Singleton
Vance
E. A. Cottrell
Raleigh
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