Highway bids to be opened for 24 projects in 27 counties
Raleigh AP reports highway engineers will open bids August 25 on 24 highway projects totaling over 102 miles across 27 counties. The highway commission will review low bids at its September 23 meeting in Washington. Projects include four on the interstate system with I-40 in Iredell County adding a lane on the Statesville bypass, 2.87 miles of resurfacing and lighting on the eastern Winston-Salem Expressway, and five new structures on I-85 from Gastonia to the Catawba River.
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Raleigh
The
Highway Commission
Washington, N. C
Ilredell County
Statesville
Gastonia
Catawba River
Gaston Man Faces Prison Term for Manslaughter
Harry Lee Burnett, 29, of Gaston was convicted Tuesday of manslaughter in the pistol slaying of 20 year old Airman Richard A. Cloutier. Burnett said he fired three shots thinking the airman was a peeping tom on the porch of a Halifax County home near Roanoke Rapids where Cloutier was stationed.
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Cloutier
Roanoke Rapids
Gaston
Halifax County
L. H. Taylor Jr
Burnett
Opportunity For Every Child Speech Urges Open Door
North Carolina state Superintendent Dr Charles F Carroll urged keeping education accessible for all students. He said educating many beyond the point of no return is better than closing doors to slow developing youths whose talents may expand. He called for reassessing educational practices amid modern society changes.
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Carroll
Venire Called for Pugh Murder Trial in Sanford
A special venire of 200 jurors was ordered to report in Superior Court in Sanford for the murder trial of Clarence Pugh, 48, of Valdese. A 100-member venire exhausted Tuesday with only five jurors seated, and Judge Clawson L. Williams ordered the new panel to report today.
Murder charge in 1958 robbery case faces retrial
A man named Pugh is charged with murder in the 1958 robbery death of Clarence Otis Nadine, aged 70. He was convicted last September and sentenced to death but won a new trial from the State Supreme Court after a ruling that Judge Raymond Mallard erred in his jury instruction.
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Pugh
Clarence Otis Nadine
State Supreme Court
Raymond Mallard
Negro Assigned To White School In Charlotte
Charlotte AP report says Nathaniel Abraham was reassigned from Eastway Junior High to Lincoln Heights with his parents moving from Eastway. He remains the only Negro child at a white school for the upcoming term. The board will hear next Tuesday eight appeals from Negro students denied reassignment. Dolores Watermann is assigned to Garinger High School as another segregation case option.
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Dolores Watermann
Garinger High School
Raleigh Voters Approve Bonds and Recreation Tax
Raleigh voters approved a $5.7 million bond issue and a special recreation tax in a special referendum. City officials said seven bond proposals will fund the city’s expansion needs for five years.
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Raleigh
Bond funds to improve water sewer fire and recreation services
A local measure directs bond money to expand water and sewer systems fire protection street work and recreation services. A property tax levy of three to 10 cents per hundred dollars valuation was approved to fund the recreation system.
Leaf prices hold steady on Carolinas tobacco markets
Prices remain strong across the Carolinas Border Belt flue-cured markets with a season total of 51,446,018 pounds and an average of 59.94 dollars per hundred. The high for the season reached 62.14 per hundred on 8,609,063 pounds, while Tuesday prices stayed steady to slightly lower for leaf and cutters. Growers sold 4,742,356 pounds on South Carolina markets at 63.53 per hundred and 3,866,707 pounds on North Carolina markets.
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Carolinas
Border Belt
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tar Heel newspapers cited for coverage of Henderson strike
The Associated Press Managing Editors Assn. cited two North Carolina newspapers and WHNC radio for outstanding news and photo coverage of the extended Harriett Henderson Cotton Mills strike in Henderson. Henderson Daily Dispatch publisher Henry Dennis with son Bill and Richard Minor were honored. Raleigh News & Observer and Raleigh Times Radio WHNC staffers Bob Harrison, Clare Frank, and Nathan Frank were recognized for timely reporting and striking images during the dispute that began November 17.
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Associated Press Managing Editors Assn
Today
North Carolina
Harriet - Henderson Cotton Mills
Henderson
N.C
Textile Workers Union of America
Henderson Daily Dispatch
Henry Dennis
Bill Dennis
Richard Minor
Raleigh News & Observer
Associated Press
Sam Ragan
The
News & Observer
Raleigh Times
WHNC
Bob Harrison
Clare Frank
Nathan Frank
Intruder in Los Angeles Attacks Woman Guarding Birth Savings
Mary Gonzales, 40, saved 200 for her ninth child and was slashed in the chest and abdomen when a man disguised as a woman beggar forced entry to demand a suitcase key. She screamed, he fled, and she remains in General Hospital.
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Los Angeles
Mary Gonzales
Noe
Civil War Vet In Critical Condition
Walter Williams, 116 year old sole survivor of the Civil War, remains in critical condition from pneumonia in Houston. The forage master with Hood's Texas Brigade refused to eat or speak, and is fed via eye-dropper as daughter Willie Mae Bowles tends him. Williams moved from Franklin, Texas, three years ago.
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Houston
Tex
Walter Williams
Hood
Texas
Willie Mae Bowles
Williams
Water Projects Approved In Senate House Conference
A conference committee reached a compromise for 1.2 billion dollars in water projects. North Carolina items include Wilkesboro dam initial construction at 1 million dollars and harbor work at Morehead City funded at 600 thousand. Georgia projects cover Hartwell Reservoir at 26.4 million and Savannah River work below Augusta at 950 thousand.
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Senate
House
Carl Hayden
D-Ariz
Allen Ellender
D-La
North Carolina
Wilkesboro
Pantego‘Cuckler’s Creek
Surf City
Former Bank Treasurer Accused of Missing Funds
Wilbur Eugene Lawrence 47 former treasurer of the Bank of Charlotte is charged with stealing 22411.25 in bank funds. He allegedly made false entries to conceal fictitious notes written over one to four years. Lawrence was arraigned and released on 5000 bond.
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Lawrence
Godfrey
Bank
Charlotte College
Editors Urge People to People News Reporting
The AP reported editors called for more people to people news to foster mutual understanding globally. APME president Michael J. Ogden said readers want human stories and enterprise reporting alongside policy coverage. Committee chair Robert C. Notson outlined aims to illuminate foreign thinking and forces shaping an atomic era. Spokane publisher W. H. Cowles endorsed AP as key to international goodwill.
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Associated Press
Assnhere
Robert C. Notson
Portland Oregonian
Nelson
Michael J. Ogden
APME
Cooperative Association
W. H. Cowles
Spokane
Wash
Cowles
Baptists blocked from filming Moscow church services
The Southern Baptist Radio Television Commission and NBC failed to secure visas to film services at Moscow's First Baptist Church. They planned to travel in July but were denied, though commission head Paul Stevens hopes visas may be issued in August or September.
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Southern Baptist Radio Television Commission
National Broadcasting Co
First Baptist Church
Moscow
Russia
Commission
Paul Stevens
Free Parking Notice Behind Building
A brief notice states free parking is available in the rear of the building.
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