Spring Furniture Market Opens With Buoyant Buying Mood
Buyers from across the United States begin eight days of market activity at High Point and along the Furniture Highway. Early arrivals report a buying mood with rising prices seen as justified by higher costs. Industry forecasts call this a strong market, with factory orders up and shipments up nationally for 1966.
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United States
High Point
Lenoir
Drexel
Southern Furniture Exhibition
Leo Heer
Huye Robert Spilman
Bassett Furniture Industries
Spilman
South
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Joseph Cox
Heer
Furniture Factories Marketing Assn
Charlotte
Burlington
Market On And Running At Carolina Forge Space
The market activity opened in the Ex position Building within the Carolina Forge Inc space, with photos capturing the bustling scene.
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Carolina Forge, Inc
Exposition Building
Tax Hike Remains Prospect
Washington AP report notes March consumer price rise of four tenths of 1 percent after February’s half percent jump, signaling a possible anti inflation tax boost by President Johnson. Wholesale prices slipped gentle week, pork prices fell, and officials debate tax action as mixed indicators persist.
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Sterling Free Washington
Johnson
White House
House
Gerald R. Ford
Ethics panel probes Dodd dinners amid tax questions
The Senate ethics committee capo Bennet says hearings may come as investigators probe whether 190000 from testimonial dinners in 1961 and 1963 were tax free gifts or campaign funds. Colleagues allege funds supported personal expenses and were not taxed. The panel, chaired by Senator Stennis, is in a grand jury like phase gathering witnesses and facts.
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Dodd
Sen. Dodd
Bennett
Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Ethics Committee
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Great Train Robber Ready To Talk
Col in Frost reports a member of the Great Train Robbery gang, James Edward White, is ready to talk after his arrest. White, 46, was captured in Littleton-on-Sea after living under an assumed name. Police seek four other members as loot standing at about $758,000 recovered. details link to the Aug. 8, 1963 mail train heist and Leatherslade Farm.
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London
Scotland Yard
James Edward White
White
Littleton- on-Sea
Leatherslade Farm
Artificial heart operation shows hopeful results in Houston
In Houston Methodist Hospital and Rice University team led by Dr. Michael DeBakey report the partial artificial heart is functioning and stabilizing Marcel L. DeRudder of Westville Illinois. Doctors fear brain damage but say the pump maintains blood pressure and may allow the heart to take over if recovery proceeds.
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Houston, Tex
Methodist Hospital
Rice
Michael E. DeBakey
Marcel L. DeRudder
Westville
Ill
DeRudder
DeBakey
Pump
North Carolina ABC Board Backs Court Ruling On Brown Bags
The NC Alcoholic Beverage Control Board voted to urge local boards to follow a Mecklenburg County ruling that bars enforcement against brown bags and private liquor clubs. The board also urged police in wet counties to comply and instructed the attorney general to appeal.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
ABC
Mecklenburg County
Superior Court
H. L. Riddle Jr
Clawson Williams Jr
Mecklenburg
Riddle
Charlotte and Mecklenburg
ABC of
Ray Brady
Supreme Court
Ott
Brady Alo
Fleming Talman
Asheville
Lawrence Rose
Wrightsville Beach
Ross
Bullock
Newsmen
Runaway Boys Return Home From Milwaukee Boxcar
Two North Carolina boys ages 12 and 13 traveled by boxcar from Fayetteville to Milwaukee, found safe April 8 in the sealed car. They will fly home and vowed to stay out of trouble, each making promises to God and family as Army fathers at Fort Bragg.
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Milwaukee
Wis
North Carolina
Fayetteville
William Waddell
David Harvey
William
David
Jos
Elizabethtown
N. C
Fort Bragg
Johnson budgets trimmed as House panel blocks cuts
The House Appropriations Committee refused to approve about 128 million dollars in proposed cuts to popular domestic programs including free school lunches and milk. The agriculture bill totals 6.909 billion for the year starting July 1, with revisions mainly moving revenues to general funds and boosting milk and lunch programs.
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Washington
Johnson
House
Agriculture Department
Department
Treasury
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Lize
Elmer Horton
Ethics Group
Senate Ethics Committee
Newspa
By Colin Frost
Billy Waddell
David Harvey Jr
County Emergency Hospital
ABC Board
State Office
Asst
James Bullock
Kerries
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