Senators Urge Open Coverage of China Travel Policy
Senators Mansfield and Kefauver urge extending permanent American news coverage in Communist China. They back a pool plan to send a limited group of reporters to Red China while travel bans remain, and call for broader access to allow unbiased reporting. Dwight of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram supports unrestricted reporter travel, arguing the Bamboo Curtain hangs by government order.
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New York
William Ab
ANPA
Red
China
Dwight
United States
Washington
Mansfield
D-Mont
Kefauver
D-tenn
Dulles
Red China
Business Upgrades Highlight U S Economic Pace This Spring
The Commerce Department reports stronger personal income and sales in early 1957 with personal income at 337 percent billion dollars in March, up from late 1956 and a year earlier. Wages rise and consumer spending hits a new record while inventories decline. cost of living reaches a new high in March.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Pride and prayer in times of trouble
The author urges humility to seek God's aid during mental distress. People ashamed to pray or ask friends hide their troubles, but even Jesus prayed under overwhelming burden. Humility allows admission of weakness and reliance on divine strength.
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R. L. Dieffenbacher
D.D
NEA
Jesus
North Carolina Senate Approves 75 Cents Wage Bill
The Senate passed a bill setting a 75 cent hourly minimum wage for North Carolina workers after 43 to 4 vote on second reading and voice vote on third reading. Amendments from the Manufacturing Labor and Commerce committee to exempt workers were defeated. A separate measure would permit the State Highway Patrol to use unmarked cars up to 21 percent of its fleet in the war on speeders.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
North Carolina
Senate Committee On Manufacturing, Labor and Commerce
Great Lakes Carbon fails to reopen strikebound plant
Moravton? Morganton North Carolina Great Lakes Carbon Corp tried to reopen its electrode plant near Morganton with massed pickets at the main gate. The union called the move a flop while management said pickets intimidated would be workers. About 600 workers are employed at the Mor- plant. The union says 400 to 450 are members and vows no contract no work. Both sides expressed willingness to resume negotiations.
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Morganton
N.C
Great Lakes Carbon Corp
Were
Paul M. Davis
International Chemical Workers Union
Two Charged With Burning Automobile
Sheriff and insurance detectives arrested two men after a two month probe. Ralph Lee Jr. faced charges for burning a car around February 1, reporting it stolen and filing an insurance claim. C. D. Heath did not comment. he remained jailed on a ten thousand dollar bond.
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Greensboro
First American Flagship Through Suez Canal
The 9227 ton American President Line vessel President Jackson cleared Suez today from the southern end with 12 cruise passengers on board and cargo from Karachi. The $10,295 canal toll was paid in US 8 dollars under protest as Egypt enforces new canal rules. A small crowd gathered while Mahmoud Metwally, veteran pilot of the Suez Canal Authority, guided the ship.
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Suez
Egypt
President Jackson
President Line
Karachi
U. S
State Department
Mahmoud Metwally
Suez Canal Authority
Bulganin Urges European Security Talks In Letter To Britain
British reaction to Soviet Premier Bulganin's long 1955 letter to Prime Minister Macmillan on disarmament and Middle East tension was cool though friendly in tone. He proposes multilateral talks, a 1000 mile aerial survey zone, and a Europe wide collective security system replacing NATO and Warsaw pacts.
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London
Bulganin
Macmillan
Middle East
Britain
U.S
Geneva
Jacob Malik
Eden
Europe
Iron Curtain
Truth About Smokey Bear Revealed From New Mexico Tale
An old Albuquerque report recounts Smokey the bear as a fiery cub from the Lincoln National Forest found burned and unruly. Foster father Ray Bell nursed him in Santa Fe before Smokey’s flight to Washington, where he became a famed firefighting symbol despite a savage early temper.
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Albuquerque
Smokey
Ian
New Mexico
Washington Zoo
Lincoln National Forest
Ray Bell
New Mexico Game Department
Bell
Santa Fe
Game Department
Mrs. Bell
Ray
Judy
Forest Service
Washington State
Homer Pickens
Washington
Canada
State PTA Advances Legislative Program at Winston-Salem
The North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers unveiled a 20 item program in a three day Winston-Salem convention. It endorses a 19 percent teacher pay raise and calls for higher standards for comic books film radio TV and recordings. Delegates numbered 400 to 500 with Dr Charles F Carroll as the opening speaker remarking on the many non problem areas in North Carolina schools.
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Winston - Salem
North Carolina
Congress of Parents and Teachers
PTA
Charles F. Carroll
Carroll
Congress
John W. Crawford
Raleigh
General Assembly
Francis E. Walker
Durham
Crawford
T. R. Easterling
Rocky Mount
H. §.Godwin
Greensboro
J. Z. Watkins
Charlotte
Rocky Wilson
Asheville
Jordan Premier Hussein alidi Resists Resignation Amid Riots
Rioters in Amman clashed with police while a general strike pressed Premier Hussein alidi to quit. Troops held key posts to prevent bloodshed as demonstrators dispersed after minor injuries. The crisis followed the earlier dismissal of a Communist-led government and a countrywide strike.
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Amman
Jordan
Hussein Alidi
Erinent
Syria
Egypt
Khalidi
Ategy
Ans We
Hussein
Suleiman Nabuilsi
False Affidavit Admitted in Senate Racketeering Case
An admitted prostitute testified she signed a false affidavit against witness James B. Elkins in a Senate racketeering inquiry. She claimed Elkins was not a narcotics user or profiteer from organized prostitution, and that her signed statements were false.
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Washington
Senate
Miss Weeks
Portlaw
James B
Big Jim) Elkins
Elkins
Ent Pachendtten
T D. Schrunk
Wees
Five Hurt In ACL Derailment Near Wilmington
Five people were injured when an eight coach Atlantic Coast Line passenger train derailed seven miles north of Wilmington between Castle Hayne and Wrightsboro. The train No. 41 was en route from Rocky Mount to Wilmington. causes and injury details were not immediately available.
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Wilmington
N.C
Atlantic Coast Line
ACL
Castle Hayne
Wrightsboro
Rocky Mounted& Wilmington
Rocky Mount
Burglars Take $3000 From Filing Cabinets
Mrs. Tillie Morrin left most of the firm’s cash in filing cabinets after distrust of the office safe. Burglars broke into the Detroit bar and janitor supply firm yesterday and, despite failing to crack the safe, removed the entire $3,000 hidden in the filing cabinets.
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Detroit
Tillie Morrin
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