Priority Roads Plan Defended by NC Officials
In Raleigh on Monday Har old Makepeace and Melville Broughton Jr. defended North Carolina s secondary roads priority plan against Davidson County critics. Makepeace said the program is the first in state history to be set before each fiscal year and adopted as a work schedule. He spoke to the Raleigh Sertoma Club and dismissed opponents as headline hunters.
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Raleigh
Highway Commission
Harold Makepeace
Melville Broughton Jr
Davidson County
Makepeace
Tar Heel
North Carolina
Four Plead Innocent To Plotting Power Plant Attack
Four Burke County men Robert Sisk Manley Harrison Ben Watkins Jr and William A Loven pleaded not guilty to conspiring to dynamite the Great Lakes Carbon Corp power transformer in Morganton North Carolina The case stems from a June 26 attempt and a guard fired toward a man near the station fence David Rich a former plant worker pleaded guilty to attempting to dynamite the power station and was sentenced to five years in prison The trial follows Judge James C Farthing denying several defense motions
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Morganton
N.C
Great Lakes Carbon Corp
James C. Farthing
Robert Sisk
Manley Harrison
Ben. C. Watkins Jr
William A. Loven
Burke County
International Chemical Workers
David Rich
Rich
Millers Return to Southport Amid Financial Strain
Nathan Miller, who faced possible adoption of his newborn triplets due to finances, quits a $50 weekly job and returns to his $25 weekly hired hand role. Paul Jones, an egg farmer near Charlotte, offered him work and housing on condition the triplet girls stay with the Millers. Miller cites family dissatisfaction and difficult farm work as reasons for the move.
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Charlotte
N.C
Nathan Miller
Paul Jones
Miller
Jacoby on Bridge South Chooses No Trump for Game
In a Jacoby transfer sequence North bids two spades and two no trump. South with 16 points and two tens chooses three no trump over four spades, winning nine easy tricks if defense stays ordinary. He notes four spades could fail against perfect defense. The piece ends with an aside about the vice president voting in the Senate.
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NEA
North
South
New Healing Substance Shrinks Hemorrhoids Without Surgery
Special report from New York describes Bio-Dyne, a new healing substance from a world famous research institute. In trials it relieved pain and itching and, in many cases, reduced hemorrhoids without surgery. Consumers are promised 80 thorough sufferers backing the claims and a money back guarantee at the drugstore.
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New York, N. Y
Sales Tax Leaps Mark North Carolina Trade Gains
North Carolina shows strong midyear tax gains with total sales and use taxes up 17.45 percent from a year earlier. Use tax up 26.01 percent, retail up 17 percent, wholesale up 11.25 percent, led by apparel and automotive supplies and a 29.32 percent rise in lumber and building materials.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
James Revenue
S. Currie
Hodges
Currie
Integration clashes flare as Arkansas schools open
On the second day of integration, Jefferson Thomas a 16 year old senior at Central High reports jeering by white students while three Negro girls at Hall High encounter no trouble. Dollarway School Board seeks a stay from the Eighth Circuit after Judge Beck denied a desegregation stay, as petitions circulate urging Gov Faubus to halt entry of three Negro pupils. The board moves to implement pupil placement under a law Beck says misapplied to mask segregationist aims. The Rev Wesley Pruden accuses unrest at Central and notes fights involving Thomas.
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Central
Hall
Pine Bluff
Jefferson Thomas
Hall High
Ted L. Lamb
Terrell E. Powell
Dollarway School Board
Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of
St. Louis
Axel J. Beck
Dollarway
Orval E. Faubus
Dollarway High
Beck
Lee Parham
Little Rock
Wesley Prudent
Werner Knoop
City Board of Directors
Thomas
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