Bassett predicts strong fall business from Southern market
J E Bassett Sr of Bassett Furniture Industries in Bassett Virginia says the spring Southern Furniture Market signals excellent fall business as buyer traffic and orders surge. He notes healthy April market activity, upgrades in product lines, and strong backlogs with timely delivery to summer and early fall programs. The Furniture Factories Marketing Assn sponsors the High Point event across multiple North Carolina showrooms.
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E. H. Lane Sr
E. H. Lane
John
Robert Marks
J. E. Bassett Sr
Bassett Furniture Industries
Bassett, Va
High Point
Bassett
Exposition Building
Case
Furniture
Space Legend Glenn Proposes National Information Center
Space pioneer John H. Glenn Jr. urged editors at the AP meeting to create a national information center to absorb space age data and speed practical use. He said such a center would widen access to technical knowledge, boost business and industry, and close the information gap between researchers and users.
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New York
John H. Glenn Jr
National Information Center
Associated Press
Glenn
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Russia
Tar Heels to Welcome Two Repatriated From Cuba
Two North Carolinians James Beane and Alfred Gibson were released from Cuban prisons and expected to land in Miami as repatriation proceeds. Greene faces ongoing warrants while his family remains in California. Beane and Gibson await reunion with relatives in North Carolina.
Americans Freed From Cuban Prisons Reach U S
Twenty one Americans released from Cuban prisons with Fidel Castro's agreement arrived at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida aboard a Red Cross plane. James B. Donovan, the New York attorney, led the mercy mission, delivering aid cargo and reporting the release may be his last trip.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
United States
Red Cross
Homestead Air Force Base
Here
James B. Donovan
New York
Richard Allen Pecoraro
Staten Island
N.Y
Havana
Donovan
Castro
Bay of Pigs
Homestead
Austin F. Young
Palm Beach
Austin Jr
Isle of Pines
Pinar del Rio
Young
Cuba
American Red Cross
New York City
Holy Name Society
Fourteen Prisoners Escape Avery County Prison Camp
Fourteen white inmates escaped from a cell block at the Avery County prison camp near Newland North Carolina early today. Capt. Virgil Vance said guards found the break at 7 a.m. after inmates did not appear for breakfast. The escapees fled through a window climbed a fence and vanished into the Three Mile Creek area eight miles southwest of Newland near the Tennessee line. State authorities reported at least two cars stolen in the vicinity though Vance said none of the camp’s vehicles were missing. The list of escapees included Glenn Price 22 of Gastonia serving 10 years for safe robbery Junior Thomas 20 of Carthage with 25 to 30 years for carnally knowing a female Monroe Bill Willard 21 of Westfield life for murder. An investigation was ordered by Prisons Director George Randall who called it custodial negligence and noted it was the largest escape since 1959’s Ivy Bluff breakout
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Newland
N. C
Avery County
Virgil Vance
Vance
Three Mile Creek
Tennessee Line
State Highway Patrol
Raleigh
George Randall
Ivy Bluff
Randall
Glenn Price
Gastonia
Junior Thomas
Carthage
Monroe Bill Willard
Westfield
Albert J
Supreme Court bans racial hiring barriers by interstate carriers
In a unanimous decision Justice Black writes that Colorado may enforce its anti discrimination rules against Continental Air Lines an interstate carrier The ruling overturns a Colorado Supreme Court decision and allows the Colorado Anti discrimination Commission to enforce an order requiring Continental to hire Green a former Air Force captain and war veteran who was passed over for a pilot spot in Lansing Michigan despite higher qualifications than white applicants
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Supreme Court
Marlon D. Green
Air Force
Green
Continental Air Lines
Lansing
Mich
Six! Inc
Denver
Cole
Continental
Colorado
State Commission
Continenta
High Tribunal
Black
High Court
Khrushchev Presses German Peace in Berlin Talks
Soviet Premier Khrushchev warned that settlement of divided Germany and Berlin must precede disarmament. He blamed the United States for stalled talks and urged acceptance of Soviet terms without inspections to end nuclear tests. He also opposed Mediterranean nuclear submarines and said a German peace treaty is key to easing European tensions.
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Associated Press
Milan
Italy
Khrushchev
Germany
Berlin
Il Giorno
United States
Geneva
Kennedy
Mediterranean
Vatican
John XXII
U.S
Canada
State Oil Company
Pietro Nenni
Washington
Roy Thomson
Europe
West Berlin
Words Become Communist Cannon by Stanley Meisler
Washington AP analyzes Cold War propaganda used by Communist nations across Radio Hanoi Radio Moscow and Radio Havana. It shows how truth and fabrication mix in campaigns about voter suppression in Greenwood and weed killers in Viet Nam, with USIA countermeasures and expert cautions.
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Stanley Meisler
Washington
Radio
United States
Groes
Greenwood
Miss
Stephens
South Viet Nam
Kennedy presses NSC on Laos strategy session
President Kennedy convenes the National Security Council to bolster Laos neutrality with three options as U.S. officials warn of heightened Pathet Lao threats. Undersecretary Harriman departs for Europe on a save Laos mission amid cautious optimism from neutralist leaders.
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Washington
Kennedy
National Security Council
Laos
Southeast Asia
Europe
W. Averell Harriman
Pathet Lao
Harriman
Souvanna Phouma
U.S
Geneva
Moscow
North Carolina reports 145 new industrial projects in first quarter
The State Board of Conservation and Development announced 145 new plant and expansion projects in the first quarter, up 24 from last year’s period. Investment totaled over 47 million dollars, but payroll and jobs slightly declined from 1962. The Commerce and Industry Division logged 46 new plants and 99 expansions, with total investment of 14 million and 22.8 million respectively. Dr Leo W Jenkins of East Carolina College was to address the board at luncheon, with Gov. Sanford to speak that evening ahead of a NC vacation film preview.
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N.C
State Board of Conservation and Development
North Carolina
Commerce and Industry Division
State Department of Conservation and Development
Leo W. Jenkins
East Carolina College
Sanford
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