Space Age Sparks from Peenemunde to Sputnik
The narrative traces postwar rocket progress from Peenemunde to the 1957 Sputnik launch. It highlights Allied capture of German V-2s and scientists, early radar contact with the Moon, Bell X-1 breaking the sound barrier, X-2 and Skyrocket feats, Viking forerunner voyages, and Vanguard lineage leading to Sputnik signaling human spaceflight era.
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Peenemunde
Germany
Glenn L. Martin Company
Navy
Viking
Vanguard
Multiple Lightning and Vehicle Fatalities Reported Across Counties
A Raleigh boy, Ruth age 9, was struck by lightning while on a yard swing. William Howell of Nashville, Tennessee, died after a lightning strike near Charlotte. An Iredell County auto crash killed two men, Robert Sharpe and William Horton Jr. A Henderson man, William Potter, was struck by a train and died. A series of other deaths followed including a knife wound, Buel l brawl murder charge, and several pedestrian and vehicle fatalities across Fayetteville, Stanfield, Bladenboro, Sylva, and surrounding areas. Wake County coroner ruled a Raleigh man Ira Lee Sanders death accidental from a train strike.
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Ruth
Raleigh
Cary
William Howell
Nashville
Tenn
Charlotte
Howell
Iredell County
Robert Franklin Sharpe
Rt. 1
Mocksville
William Harrison Horton Jr
Rt. 8
Salisbury
William Henry Potter
Henderson
Alton Hoover Murphy
Fayetteville
Bob Buchanan
Whittier
Sylva
Bladen
Mary Jane Singletary
Rt. 2
Bladenboro
Cathy Leona Morgan
Stanfield
N.C. 200
James Arthur Legrand
Rt. 5
Cleveland Wesley Riggs
Hubert
Onslow
Urban Motley
Jackson
Northamp
Eva W. Perry
Norfolk
William Bernard Rape
Mecklenburg
Southern Railway
Wake County
Ira Lee Sanders
Sanders
Word From Railroad Awaited On Flood Relief Plan
The North Carolina State Highway Commission awaits word from Piedmont and Northern Railroad officials on a proposal to widen a culvert on the railroad right of way to relieve Beechwood Acres Charlotte flood damage. The plan would have the railroad reimburse full project costs if P and N is responsible, allow immediate contracting, permit review of materials and price terms, and pursue rapid construction.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Piedmont and Northern Railroad
Beechwood Acres
Charlotte
P&n
South Predicted to Prosper by Education Board
The Southern Regional Education Board foresees a rich destiny for the South driven by expanded opportunities. At its seventh annual legislative conference, 150 delegates closed a three day meeting with calls to end out of state tuitions for graduate students and to study reciprocal tuition elimination among the 16 SREB states. Governor James P Coleman urged a positive approach to regional challenges.
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Columbia
South
Southern Regional Education Board
United States
SREB
Mississippi
James P. Coleman
Methodists Set Deadline for 5 Million Higher Education Goal
The Methodist group set a December 1 deadline to raise five million dollars to aid Christian higher education in North Carolina. About 700 attended the laymen retreat as plans were announced for funding Methodist College Fayetteville North Carolina Wesleyan Rocky Mount Louisburg Duke Divinity and several Wesley Foundations. Funds will also support High Point Greensboro colleges and campaign expenses.
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Paul Carruth
Raleigh
Methodist Commission On Higher Education
Methodist College
Fayetteville
North Carolina Wesleyan College
Rocky Mount
Louisburg College
Duke University Divinity School
Wesley Foundation
High Point
Greensboro
L. Stacy Weaver
W. Jasper Smith
North Carolina Wesleyan
Cecil Robbins
Duke
Hollis Edens
Edwin L. Jones
Charlotte
Methodist
Camera and Projector Market Reports First Quarter Rise
Manufacturers and retailers of cameras projectors and accessories estimate first quarter 1958 sales about 15 percent ahead of the same period last year. The outlook suggests continued demand across photographic equipment sectors.
Boy Runs Away Found by Workman at School
Raul Vela Jr. aged 10 ran away after his parents refused TV viewing. A workman located him Saturday at a school, a place police hadn’t expected to search. In other news, Montana is noted as a sapphire source comparable to Siam and Australia.
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Alice
Tex
Raul Vela Jr
County Offered Garbage Slates South American Trash Plan
Delaware County is offered a supply of burnable garbage by Gregorio Vassiliev, a Russian born engineer in Buenos Aires acting as incinerator representative for the county near Philadelphia. He claims to speak eight languages and proposes to organize tonnage from South America for disposal.
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Media
Delaware County
Gregorio Vassiliev
Buenos Aires
Philadelphia
Vassiliev
County plans three incinerators to cost six million
Clearance L. Conner, head of the county disposal department, replied to an ad for a superintendent for three planned incinerators costing six million dollars. Vassiliev said he could line up Argentina’s refuse supply plus millions of tons more from other South American countries.
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Earth
NEA Service, Inc
Methodists
Paul N. Garber
GooDy's Ppts Ed A
ERAL
Zett
N. Main ST
Montana
Siam
Australia
the Music
Fair Lady
Jamaica
Romanoff and
Juliet
Capital
Capital Airlines
Tour Dept
Airport Terminal
N. C
Pete
Duke Power
S. Main ST
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