April Chill Sets Record Lows Across Southeast and Midwest
A spring cold spell gripped the southeast with record low readings in Nashville Augusta Savannah Evansville and other cities. Western and midwestern towns reported subfreezing temperatures and snowfall including 14 in Stevens Point 16 in Marquette Park Falls and Lone Rock. Memphis tied the late season record at 32 degrees as snow flurries appeared from the Ohio Valley to New England.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Park Falls
Lone Rock
Wis
Black Mountain Range
Asheville
N. C
Memphis
Ohio Valley
Atlantic Coast
Virginia
Maine
Elkins
W. Va
New England
Gardner-Webb installs Dr E Eugene Poston as eighth president
Dr E Eugene Poston, 44, becomes Gardner-Webb College eighth president after completing degrees at Gardner-Webb Wake Forest and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Inaugural remarks by Poston and Dr Olin T Binkley stress strong academics blended with spiritual mission and decisive leadership. Governor Terry Sanford attended lunch following the ceremony.
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Boiling Springs
N.C
Gardner-Webb College
E. Eugene Poston
Philip E. Elliott
Poston
Shelby
Gardner-Webb
Wake Forest
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Olin T. Binkley
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Terry Sanford
Gardner-Webb’ College
Binkley
Nonaligned nations propose compromise control system for nuclear test ban
Eight nonaligned nations at the disarmament commission propose a compromise system based on national observation networks and on the spot inspections by an international scientists’ commission. Inspections require host country invitation, else signatories may renounce the ban. Western states view enforcement provisions as vague.
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Geneva
Disarmament Commission
Soviet Union
Brazil
Burma
Ethiopia
India
Mexico
Nigeria
Sweden
United Arab Republic
U.S
Arthur H.dean
Joseph Godber
Valerian A. Zorin
Dean
Godber
United States
Britain
Church Tax Exemption Upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court refused to hear appeals on church property tax exemptions and state exemptions for veterans, cemeteries, and certain professors. The action, 6-1, dismissed General Finance Corp. of Cranston Rhode Island’s challenge for lack of a substantial federal question, with Justice Black favoring review.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Veterans’ Organizations
Gold Star
General Finance Corp
Cranston
R.I
Rhode Island Supreme Court
General Finance
Hugo Black
Felix Frankfurter
Byron R. White
White
Kennedy
Kennnedy
Robert F. Kennedy
John F. Davis
Greater
Pittsburgh
Church
Last Minute Tax Deadline Hits Tar Heels
Raleigh AP reports that tax filers in North Carolina must postmark returns by midnight tonight. The normal April 15 deadline was extended by one day because the date fell on a Sunday.
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Here _ RALEIGH
Tar Heels
White Sworn In As U S Justice
President Kennedy watches as Byron R. White is sworn in as associate justice in a packed Supreme Court chamber. White, 44, becomes the 93rd justice, succeeding Charles Evans Whittaker. Guests include Mrs White, Robert Kennedy, and other dignitaries.
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Byron R. White
States Supreme Court
Washington
Justice White
Charles E. Whittaker
Kennedy
Supreme Court
Theleight
White
Fred M. Vinson
Charles
Nancy
Clayton White
Creeping American Influence Alarms Some Britons
London reports rising concern over growing American ownership and cultural presence in Britain. The piece cites $2.8 billion American investment, 500 key firms, and $420 million yearly inflow, with critics warning of loss of national control while others note modernization carries an American imprint. Francis Williams discusses a book The American Invasion and its anxieties about modernization and American alliances. The Sunday Times views the subject as fueling prejudice, yet acknowledges mass production brings an American tendency. Williams notes alarm at the installment plan and budgeting salaries far in advance.
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London
Britain
Little Isle
Illinois
Williams
The
Sunday Times
United States
Additional Defendants New Highway Sign Charges Loom
District Solicitor Lester V. Chalmers plans to drop one charge but pursue others in the Wake County highway sign procurement case. He will present new indictments including additional defendants and charges, with a hearing set on motion to continue and for a bill of particulars.
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Raleigh
Lester V. Chalmers
Raymond Mallard
Chalmers
Mallard
Kidd Brewer
Robert A. Burch
Burch
Bobby
Wake County Grand Jury
Atty
Malcolm Seawell
Brewer
Seawell
Duke Hospital
Wake Superior Court
Gov. Sanford
Robert M. Burch
Duke University
U.S. denies Berlin troop reduction proposal
Washington rejected a Bonn dispatch claiming the United States proposed cutting West Berlin forces from 12,500 to about 9,000 and warned the report was inaccurate. West Germany urged that East German input be limited to technical competence while keeping final decisions with the Big Four.
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State Department
Lincoln White
White
Bonn
Flora Lewis
Washington Post
Berlin
United States
West Berlin
Washington
West Germany
Dean Rusk
U. S
Konrad Adenauer
Rusk
Adenauer
Germany
East Germany
Soviet Union
New Cabinet Takes Office In France
Paris AP Georges Pompidou forms a new French cabinet with 12 of 22 posts held by Gaullist Union for a New Republic. He keeps Debre era ministers including Couve de Murville Frey Messmer Giscard d Estaing and Louis Joxe. Debre resigns after three years as premier.
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Michel Debre
Georges Pompidou
Paris
Pompidou
Gaullist
Union For A New Republic
Charles de Gaulle
Rothschild Bank
Debre
de Gaulle
Maurice Couve de Murville
Roger Frey
Pierre Messmer
Valery Giscar D'Estaing
Louis Joxe
Frost lauds Kennedy and leadership outrageous ingredient praised
Robert Frost, 88, told an A P reporter that there is more poetry and love outside formal verse and marriage. He praised Kennedy as a leader with some poetry in him, admired his stance on steel prices, and joked about birthdays while accepting honors from a Manhattan Jewish group.
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New York
Robert Frost
Frost
Manhattan
Young Men’s and
Young Women’s
Kennedy
Mountains See Snow In Western North Carolina Amid Freeze Warning
On April 16 the highest peaks in western North Carolina show 2 percent inches of snow with a freeze warning for tonight. Snow fell mainly in the Black Mountain range near Asheville, with light snow at Mt. Mitchell and Clingmans Peak. Temperatures ranged near freezing in Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, and Wilmington, with 20s to 30s forecast for mountains and northern Piedmont and a warmer outlook for Tuesday.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Mountain
Piedmont
Black Mountain Range
Asheville
Mt. Mitchell
Clingman’s Peak
Charlotte
Greensboro
Raleigh
Wilmington
Mountains
Airliner Hijacking Attempt Fails Over Amsterdam
An airliner bound for Santiago Chile returned to Schiphol after an aborted hijack attempt by a man described as a 30 year old former Portuguese KLM employee. He threatened the crew and carried a pistol before being taken into custody by police.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
South America
Schippl
East Berlin
KLM Airlines
KLM
Santiago
Chile
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Anna
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Government Board of Trade
Francis Williams
Charles T. Hagan
Newspaper Dispatch
North Atlantic Treaty ‘Organization
Warsaw Pact
France
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