Trustees to review Wake Forest race policy amid image clash
Wake Forest College trustees meet to decide admissions for Negro undergraduates while facing public relations friction over a staff member's novel The Education of Jonathan Beam. The controversy centers on the book and its portrayal of campus life, with calls for action from trustee leaders and Baptist officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wake Forest College
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Charlotte
Russell Brantley
Brantley
Jonathan Beam
Davis
Finlator
Wall Chapel
Record Spring Furniture Market Opens With Large Attendance
The Southern furniture market in High Point opens for a week with an expected 5 000 buyers. Registration desks see long lines as buyers from across the United States and Canada begin touring showrooms. Officials predict attendance may reach 6 000 and note growing store participation and new price groupings while SFMA reports strong first quarter orders and a positive second quarter outlook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
Southern Furniture Exposition
Canada
Piedmont
North Carolina
High Point
Thomasville
Lexington
Hickory
Lenoir
Drexel
Winston-Salem
Mar
Furniture Plaza
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
SFMA
U. S. Fires Second In Test Series
The United States conducted the second atmospheric nuclear test in the Pacific near Christmas Island as part of Operation Dominic. An AEC statement said the detonation occurred around 11 a.m. EST and was in the intermediate yield range, with the device dropped from an airplane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Christmas Island
Pacific
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Hopes Rise For Space Cooperation
Space officials at Cape Canaveral welcomed recent launches of a U S British satellite and an American Japanese probe as signs cooperation could grow. The Ariel satellite and a Nike Cajun sounding rocket demonstrated joint ventures and sparked talk of US Soviet space teamwork in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Russia
Wallops Island
Harold Macmillan
New York
Berlin Rusk And Dobrynin Meet Amid Test Tensions
Secretary of State Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin planned a Berlin meeting despite Moscow Washington clashes over atmospheric nuclear tests. The article notes speculation of a second U S test and reports Western hopes for progress on Berlin and disarmament amid renewed arms race rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dean Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Berlin
Moscow
U.S
Pacific
Geneva
Hotel Ousts Negro Family After Bomb Threat
A Negro couple and their eight children moved from the Hotel Walcott in Manhattan after a bomb threat blamed on segregationists in Louisiana. Police and the FBI investigated with no device found. Boyd family relocated to New Jersey. funding came from New Orleans organizers. The incident prompted calls for federal intervention to curb such "brotherly love" schemes and warned of housing and job discrimination in northern cities.
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New York
Manhattan
Morris Holm
Walcott
Louis Boyd
Holm
New Orleans
FBI
Boyd
New Jersey
George Singelmann
Greater
Commission
Stanley H. Lowell
Wake County Sheriff Candidate Falters In Court Battle
Wake County sheriff candidate Clarence Eugene Leggett accuses the U S Eastern District Court of using the system as legalized blackmail amid a dismissal motion. District Attorney Robert Cowen cites a crowded docket and delays as the reason for Leggett’s indictment handling and arraignment timing. Leggett also faces charges for a 1958 sugar sale and a false report to the federal government while appealing a prior impersonation of an FBI agent conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh (Ap
Wake County
U.S. Eastern District Court
Algernon Butler
Clarence Eugene Leggett
Dist. Atty
Robert Cowen
Leggett
Pearson
United States of America
Cowen
Raleigh
FBI
Japanese Students Staged Storm At U S Embassy In Tokyo
About 2,000 screaming Japanese youths tried to storm the U S Embassy in Tokyo in protest of American nuclear tests. Police used armored trucks to separate protesters, 100 reaching the gates before being repelled. Demonstrations continued with sitdowns and speeches after an hour of clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
U.S
Kennedy
Zengakuren Student Federation
U. S
Edwin 0. Reischauer
Federal Jury charges price fix against steel firms
A federal grand jury indicted United States Steel Corp and Bethlehem Steel Co along with Erie Forge & Steel Corp Midvale Heppenstall Co and Open Die Forging Institute and several executives and a trade group for conspiring to fix prices and rig bids The alleged sales involved about 100 million dollars a year and cover forged steel sold to the Army Navy and other buyers The case follows a prior price increase controversy and governors reaction notes include statements from U S Steel President Leslie B Worthington and Bethlehem officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel Co
United States Steel
Bethlehem
U.S. Steel
Kennedy
Army
Navy
Leslie B. Worthington
U. S. Steel
Erie Forge & Steel Corp
Erie
Midvale-Heppenstall Co
Philadelphia
Open Die Forging Institute Inc
New York City
Homer Lackey
Forged Products
Erie Forge
Eric Gurney
Robert S. Barnes
Emil Lang
The
Forge
R. B. Heppenstall Sr
Midvale-Heppenstall
Lackey
Erie, Forge & Steel
U. S. To Launch Venus Rocket In Summer
U S space scientists outline Mariner mission to Venus set for this summer. Atlas Agena B booster from Ranger 4 lineage to carry a 230 pound lighter craft with instruments measuring Venus temperatures atmosphere magnetic field radiation belts and dust. Two Mariners are being prepared at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for future flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Dighton
Pasadena
Calif
Moon
U.S. Space Scienists
Mariner
Venus
Ranger 4
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ranger
Mariner Space
U. S
Governors Up In Arms Over Plan
A plan from the Army to cut about 12 North Carolina National Guard units draws fierce pushback from governors including North Carolina’s Terry Sanford. NC adjutant general Maj. Gen. Claude Bowers says the state will not reduce its troops and notes seven units would be disbanded by the proposed changes. Iowa Governor Norman Erbe signals noncompliance, while Maj. Gen. Donald W. McGowan defends the Pentagon order to trim roughly 33 000 guardsmen. See page 2 for full details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Guard
North Carolina
Pentagon
Army
National Guard Bureau
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
Claude Bowers
Raleigh
Bowers
Terry Sanford
Iowa
Norman Erbe
Donald W. McGowan
McGowan
Railroads Demand Ban If Wage Boost Suggested
A railroad spokesman urged President Kennedy to block any pay raise for 500,000 non-operating workers if a wage increase is recommended by a federal fact finding board. J. E. Wolfe warned action is needed to preserve anti inflation policy amid unions seeking 25 cent raise and job security terms.
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Chicago
Kennedy
J. E. Wolfe
Western Carriers Conference Committee
Saul Wallen
Boston
Wolfe
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Joe Rawley
N. C
Wake
Winston-Salem, N.C
Marie Grant
Biblical Recorder
Baptist State Convention
Grant
Irving Carlyle
W. W. Finlator
Carlyle
L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine
Blowing Rock
Chamber of Commerce
Phil Clarke
Chamber
Rusk
Dobrynin
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Macmillan
Boyds
Federal Jury
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