Prisoners Hold Out At Michigan Prison After Riot
A 173 inmate mutiny at Southern Michigan Prison in Jackson held guards hostage in Cellblock 15 for a third day. Warden Frisbie negotiated by phone as state police foiled a tunnel escape and inmates demanded Gov. Williams join peace talks and sign any agreement.
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State Fire
In Michigan
Earl Ward
Jackson
Mich Poen
Southern
Michigan
G. Mennen Williams
Block 15
Julian N
Gov. Williams
Arl Ward
George Bacon
Ward
Vernon Fox
Michigan State
Southern Michigan
Rioters Win Concession as Prison Talks Yield Demands
Rioters claim 11 demands granted by Frisbie in a bid to free hostages and ease a siege at a pentagon shaped prison. Guards report two spokesmen broadcast the plan and a hostage was released for safe conduct, with further talks possible today. Three cellblocks saw police and guards press efforts to quell the uprising as unrest spread through Cellblock 15 with beatings of two prisoners planning to reveal defenses.
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Frisbie
Thomas Elliott
Ward
Big Muddy Crest Passes St Joseph Amid Ongoing Rain Fury
Missouri River flood worsened as a crest passed St Joseph while light rain continued. Levees near Sherman Air Base struggled against the rising water as soldiers and Fort Riley troops reinforced dikes. The crest near Kansas City threatened more, with 13,000 displaced and 448,000 acres inundated across the Missouri Valley.
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St. Joseph
Kansas City
Sameda
Sherman Air Force Base
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Vicry
St. Louis
Missouri
Shelby city seeks own natural gas system certification
Raleigh Shel by proposes to run its own gas distribution. It asked the State Utilities Commission for a certificate of convenience and necessity to acquire land and lay pipes in Shelby Grover and surrounding areas. The city plans to obtain gas from Transcontinental Pipeline Corp and has applied to the Federal Power Commission for an allocation.
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Raleigh
Shelby
State Utilities Commission
Grover
Transcontinental Pipe Line Corp
Federal Power Commission
Transcontinental
A-Bomb Fury Valley Test Shows New Weapon Type
Las Vegas dispatch notes the Fury Valley detonation as a precise clean blast from 33 000 feet hitting within 200 feet of target. Observers compare its restraint and speed to Bikini tests, while noting radiation animal tests and potential military lessons. Some reporters warn against underestimating nuclear power.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Fury Valley
Nevada Hills
Bikini
Nevada
Idaho
Japan
Alvin C. Graves
Mid - Pacific
Ttleship
Bikini Lagoon
Foggy Fragments Spur Possible Use in Foghorns
Fragmentary notes suggest some recent recordings might be repurposed as foghorn sounds. The text hints at sound utility but lacks clear setup or attribution.
North Carolina telecoms post higher 1951 earnings
State Utilities Commission filings show Bell Telephone and Telegram and Carolina Telephone and Telegraph reporting higher net incomes in 1951 than 1950. Southern States Telephone Co also posted increased earnings, with revenues and operating costs rising year over year.
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Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Cca Bell Telephone and
Telegram
North Carolina
Carolina
Nnn Andelegraph Company
Mncre
Vie
Fire damages Crosby Hall at A and T College campus
A rear section of Crosby Hall on the A and T College campus in Greensboro was burned yesterday causing $35,000 to $50,000 in damage. A car being repaired in the automotive shop on the ground floor caught fire, sending flames to the ceiling and other sections of the building where three classes were affected.
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Greensboro
Crosby Hall
A and T College
State Utilities Commission OKs Pitt Greene power system sale
The State Utilities Commission approved the sale of an electric system in Pitt and Greene counties. The system is sold to Pitt Greene Electric Membership for 127,500 dollars. The deal was handled by L A Moye for himself and with Jesse T. Hardy and Moye as executors of C L Hardy's will.
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Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Warren Seeks Nonexistent State House Seat No 120
Rep Joseph H Warren of Caswell informs Secretary of State Thad Eure he seeks the mythical House seat No 120, a seat left vacant by the speaker’s election and available for re election. The request arrives biennially and notes Warren’s aim to hold the non existent post.
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Raleigh P
Thad Eure
House of Representatives
Joseph H. Warren
Caswell
Eure
Warren
Southern textile leader predicts booming South economy
Raleigh teletypes report John M. Caughman, former Southern Textile Association president and Spartan Mills superintendent, told North Carolina State College textile students that the South will become the nation’s best industrial area with a high standard of living and rapid economic growth as industry expands.
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Raleigh
South
Wille
John M. Caughman
Spartan Mills
Partanburg
S. C
Southern Textile Association
North Carolina State Colege
Woman Falls From Roaring Gap Fire Tower
In North Carolina, Mrs. Louis R. Sexton of Roaring Gap died after fainting and falling down the steps of a 59 foot steel forest fire tower at Roaring Gap. District Forester F H Ledbetter of Lenoir reported she passed away about an hour after the fall. She had been employed on a temporary basis.
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Raleigh
Roaring Gap
F. H. Ledbetter
Lenoir
Louis R. Sexton
Heat to Abate By Weekend
Mid summer temperatures baked the Carolinas for a third day with highs near 90 in Raleigh 90 and Charlotte 86 a record from 1920. The weather man expects the heat to taper tomorrow afternoon with cooler weekend breezes. Rainfall hit wide eastern areas as a new disturbance moved through the country.
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Asheville
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Wilmington
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Missouri
Great Lakes
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Oklahoma
Texas
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Ohio River
Miami
Los Angeles
New York
Chicago
Artillery Fire Disrupts Korean Truce Talks
PANMUNJOM Korea AP reports stubborn debate by truce negotiators interrupted by an artillery barrage outside the 1000 yard security zone. The attack shook tents and halted a Communist translator briefly as staff officers deadlock over arms supervision and airfield ban. Prisoner exchange talks yielded no news.
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Panmunjom
Korea
U.N
Russia
Eisenhower Victory Confirms GOP Delegates In New York and Pennsylvania
Eisenhower swept Pennsylvania and won seven of 12 New York GOP contests, securing the support of Dewey backed delegates while Taft won only one New York delegate. Pennsylvania delegates remained unpledged though Kefauver led in the Democratic write-ins. Harriman held NY Democratic leadership backing.
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GOP
New York
Taft
Thomas Dewey
William L Pfeiffer
Eienhower
Pennsylvania
James H. Duff
Edwin F. Russell
Harrisburg
Eisenhower Rman
le E. Stassen
Douglas A. MacArthur
Earl Warren
New York City
Dewey
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Schenectady
W Averell Harriman
Three Tuberculosis Groups Open Meetings in Raleigh
Three North Carolina groups the Tuberculosis Association the Trudeau Society and the Conference of Tuberculosis Secretaries began their annual meetings in Raleigh. Sessions run today and will close at noon tomorrow.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
North Carolina Tuberculosis Association
North Carolina Trudeau Society
North Carolina Conference of Tuberculosis Secretaries
Oil Issues On Decline In Mixed Market
New York stocks opened mixed with oil issues mostly down while Republic Aviation rose on a favorable earnings report. Amerada Petroleum led declines, with Texas Pacific Land Trust and Kern County Land also lower as overall trading remained restrained.
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New York
Amerada Petroleum
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Kern County Land
Republic Aviation
Chrysler
General Motors
Raleigh bids open for Caswell project and A and T College bids
Low bids totaling 308 281 were opened for a Caswell Training School administration building and a 50 bed tuberculosis hospital near Kinston. T A Loving and Co of Goldsboro was the low bidder with 300 000 available for the project. Bids were to open in Greensboro for a home economics building at A T College with 197 260 appropriation.
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Raleigh
Caswell Training School
Kinston
T. A. Loving and Co
Goldsboro
Greensboro
A & T College
Murray Accuses Steel Industry of Deliberate Wage Crisis
CIO President Philip Murray told a Senate Labor Committee the steel industry is using a wage crisis to force government action on price increases and to threaten a steel strike as leverage. He warned of industry aims to seize control over defense steel and pressured Congress to curb wage pressures while price boosts appear likely.
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Washington
CIO
Philip Murray
Senate Labor Committee
Capitol Hill
United Steelworkers
Goes
Congress
Ellis Arnall
Charles Sawyer
Sawyer
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman Faces House Impeachment Move Over Steel Seizure
President Truman endures Senate pressure as Republicans push to impeach over the steel plant seizure. The Senate fell short of a two thirds vote to suspend rules, while Knowland leads calls for action and a new Senate inquiry into government handling of the dispute.
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WSB
House
Rep
Robert Hale
R-Me
Hale
GOP
Senate
William F.knowland
Calif
Revenen
Washington
Congress
Knowland
Senate Banking Committee
Commerce Sawyer
Ain Fy
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Eee Bone Ee
Philip Murray
CIO
Rules Committee
New Hosiery Mill Planned for Bethel Town
Operations are expected to start August 1 at a new women s full fashioned nylon hosiery mill in Bethel, Pitt County. The mill will be operated by Her Majesty Hosiery Corporation of New York City with modern knitting machines and air conditioning and fluorescent lighting throughout.
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Bethel
Pitt County
Her Majesty Hosiery Corporation
New York City
Weather Update Temperatures Forecast and Recap
The forecast shows a low tonight of 60 with a high tomorrow of 82. Today’s high was 85 and the overnight low 59.
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