UN Soldiers Kill 64 Reds in Korean Front Skirmishes
In four brief clashes across the rain swept Korean front today UN troops killed 64 Chinese forces. Heavy clouds limited Allied air power while South Korean infantry and Allied artillery pressed the fight at Sniper Ridge and Rocky Point as B 29s and light bombers struck facilities and supply lines.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Marine Air Group 12
5Th Air Force
Rocky Point
Pinpoint Hill
Sniper Ridge
Poinpoint
Old Baldy
Wonsan
Eight Die Violently Over Weekend In North Carolina
Weekend violence across North Carolina claimed at least eight lives including seven-vehicle wrecks and shootings. Victims included Catherine Mae Yarbrough five of Lexington and David Morrison two of Apex with multiple injuries and arrests following a hunting trip shooting.
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North Carolina
Catherine Mae Yarbrough
Lexington
Emma Ruth Weasley
Mt. Airy
Vester Bell
North Wilkesboro
Bell
Dean Dancy
David Morrison
Apex
Wake County
Garner
Richard Alvis Gross
Sanford
William E. Carawan
Mesic
Leon Stanford
New Bern
Stanford
Pamlico County
Clara Hazel Dean
Harnett County
Divorce Papers From Mexico Create Local Translation Woes
The Bristol Pennsylvania sheriff's office faced mild confusion when divorce papers intended for a town resident arrived from Mexico. The documents were partly in English and partly in Spanish, but no one could translate the Spanish portion.
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Bristol
Mexico
Campaign Cost Probe Opens Hearings On Spending
Five congressmen lead a week of hearings to curb rising campaign costs. Key figures include Rep Clarence Brown Hermon Dunlap Smith and John Paulding Brown with others like Arthur Summerfield James McGranery Stephen Mitchell and Walter Williams slated as witnesses. Chairman Hale Boggs stresses nonpartisan scope and aims for recommendations to the 83rd Congress.
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Washington
Special
House Committee
Clarence J. Brown
R-O
Hermon Dunlap Smith
Volunteers For
Stevenson
John Paulding Brown
Stevenson Volunteers
Arthur E. Summerfield
Republican National Committee
James P. McGranery
Stephen A. Mitchell
Democratic National Committee
Walter Williams
Citizens For Eisenhower
Hale Boggs
Dba
Special Investigating Committee
John J. Rooney
D-N. Y
Frank M. Karsten
D-Mo
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N. Y
William M. McCulloch
Boggs
Saar voters veto return to Germany in large turnout
In Saarbrucken on Sunday large turnout mirrors Hitler era as voters reject returning to Germany. Pro French Christian Peoples party led by Hoffmann wins amid church appeals and widespread abstentions and invalid ballots.
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Saarbruecken
Saar
Hitler
Germany
Christian Peoples Party
Social Democrats
Communists
The
Democratic Party
Minnst
Hoffmann Tlan Peoples Party
Hoffmann
Wake Forest to Start Third Building on New Campus Site
Construction begins this week on Wake Forest College's third building at the new campus. Sixty tons of foreign made reinforcing steel will be used in the $800,000 chemistry and research facility, cut and bent in Charlotte to fit the architect's specs.
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Winston-Salem
Wake Forest College
Charlotte
Five fugitives escape raggy Prison Camp by hacksaws
Five inmates escaped from the raggy Prison Camp near Asheville last night and remained at large today. Officials blamed guard negligence for the breakout and said the prisoners used hacksaws to cut through barriers.
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Asheville
Governor Scott to Speak Across North Carolina Venues
Gov Scott schedules a week of engagements starting tonight in Wilson at 11 PM before First Presbyterian men. He plans a 7 PM stop tomorrow at the Raritan club in Rocky Mount and a Wednesday meeting of the State Art Society in Raleigh. He will be in Henderson Friday at 7 PM to attend the annual Christmas pageant.
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Pinehurst
Preston B. Wilkes, Jr
Charlotte
Society of Mayflower Descendants
North Carolina
Wilkes
Sam J. Ervin, Jr
Richard Walser
Raleigh
North Carolina State College
Gov. Scott
First Presbyterian
Wilson
Raritan ‘Club
Rocky Mount
State Art Society
Henderson
Raleigh Hosts Fall Session of North Carolina Optometric Society
The North Carolina State Optometric Society held a fall convention in Raleigh with an opening address by Mayor James E. Briggs. Dr. Ben Ross of Hickory delivered the main address as president of the society.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State Optometric Society
James E. Briggs
Ben Ross
Hickory
Pr Dent
Society
Raleigh pastor named president of Baptist Bible Institute
Rev. Arthur House Stainback of Stony Creek Baptist Church Dortches N C who is a Weldon native will become president of the Baptist Bible Institute at Lakeland Florida after reconsidering an offer presented last September by the institute's board of trustees.
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Rocky Mount
Arthur House Stainback
Weldon
The
Baptist Bible Institute
Lakeland
Fla
Stainback
Stony Creek Baptist Church
Dortches
N. C
Board of Trustees
Pharmacist of the Year Award to Charles McDonald Andrews
North Carolina Pharmacists Association will honor Charles McDonald Andrews of Burlington as Pharmacist of the Year with the Mortar and Pestle Award at a Burlington dinner on December 5. Andrews has practiced pharmacy for more than fifty years.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Charles McDonald Andrews
Burlington
Andrews
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association
Presbyterians Ask Chapel Hill Officers to Resign
A six month investigation by an Orange Presbytery Judicial Commission has urged all 23 elders and deacons of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church to resign their posts before a full congregational meeting next Sunday. The report accuses officers of not upholding the church’s confession and order and cites Pastor Charles Jones’s philosophy as altering doctrinal meaning.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Southern Curation
Church Presbyterian
Charles Jones
Commission
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
United Nations
David Sessoms
Catawba College
FE. H. Buchanan
University of North Carolina Economics
Wallace E. Caldwell
History
Floyd H. Edmister
Raymond F. Gould
John B. Graham
School of Medicine
Alumni Association
J. Maryon Saunders
Law School
M. P. van Hecke
Paul Wager
Labor unity urged as CIO convention opens in Atlantic City
The 4th annual CTO convention opened with Labor Secretary Tobin calling for unity between rival CIO factions. Meany urged two autonomous unions to unite. battle rages over a new leader as Reuther and Haywood camps vie for influence among 5.6 million votes.
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Atlantic City
N. J
CTO
Maurice J. Tobin
Tobin
AFL
United Labor Movement
CIO
Philip Murray
Walter Reuther
Auto Workers Union
Allan S. Haywood
Labor
George Meany
Meany
Labor Unity
Wiliam Green
Green
House of Labor
Unity
Murray
Reuther
Jury Selected for Tax Evasion Trial in Charlotte
A jury of 45 was selected at a special venue in Charlotte for the trial of three men charged with income tax evasion exceeding 300 dollars. Judge Wilson Warlick presided over the U S District Court proceeding.
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Arlotte
Charlotte
Wilson Warlick
U. S
Eight Armed Prisoners Escape from Western Penitentiary
Pittsburgh dispatch reports eight convicts overpowered guards at Western Penitentiary, wrenched keys, used an improvised rope to descend a 70 foot wall, and remain at large with two other escapees. Leader Dagil Toney, 42, tied to a violent crime spree and past narcotics record, heads the group.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Western
Dagil Toney
Los Angeles
Calif
Leavenworth
Kans
Honard J. Brannon
Mak
Holy Land War Seen Best Hope for Settlement in World Conflicts
United Press reports that among stalemated wars the Holy Land conflict offers the clearest early chance for peace as both sides seek to avoid a renewal of general fighting. The UN may reclaim prestige by addressing Arab refugee issues and aiding transfer and compensation, with Israel favoring direct talks and easing Arab economic boycotts.
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Holy Land
Phil Newsom
United Press Foreign News
Iran
Seyed Kashani
Israel
U.N
Pravda Attacks Retired Missionary Amid Ararat Expedition
Pravda blasts Dr. Aaron J. Smith of Greensbor o North Carolina for planning a new Ararat expedition to Turkey near the USSR border. The Communist Party paper recalls his 1949 Ararat trip and accuses him of spying while publishing a poem by Sergei Ikhalkov.
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Moscow
Pravda
Aaron J. Smith
Greensboro
N. C
Mt. Ararat
Russia
Ararat
Communist Party
Dr. Smith
Turkey
Ussr
Sergei Ikhalkov
Mikhalkov
Little Liz: The best things in life are free
A short humorous note about freeness contrasts with a butcher who won t buy into the idea. The line plays on value and practicality with a playful punch at a tradesman.
Weather reading suggests extreme temperature swing
The report notes a forecast of 98 tonight and 44 tomorrow with a high of 15 today and a low of 41 last night. Sunset is at 5:06 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 7:13 a m.
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Charlotte
Weather Bureau
Asheville
Atlanta
Oston
Chicago
Columbia
Detroit
High Point
Little Rock
Memphis
Miami
Oreree
Mobile
Mt. Mitchell
New Orleans
New York
Raleigh
San Antonio
San Francisco
Washington
Wilmington
Eisenhower Nominates Aldrich for Great Britain Post
President elect Eisenhower moves to name Winthrop W. Aldrich ambassador to Great Britain and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to the United Nations. Aldrich, 67, chairs Chase National Bank and succeeds Walter Gifford who plans to resign. Lodge will replace Warren Austin at the U N post. A three man committee to study executive branch organization will be chaired by Nelson Rockefeller.
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New York
Eisenhower
Great Britain
United States
United Nations
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusettts
U.N
Aldrich
Lodge
John Foster Dulles
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
Continental Can Company
Harold E. Stassen
Mutual Security Agency
Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr
Vandenberg
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Chase National Bank of New York
Walters
Gifford
Court of St. James
Truman
Fisenhower
Walter Gifford
Morningside Heights
Commodore Hotel
Korea
Warren R. Austin
Vermont
Austin
Dulles
Rockefeller
Arthur 58
Flemming
Ohio Wesleyan University
Milton 5S. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State College
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Santa
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Big Saar
Troy Whitehead
Carolina Motor Club
Scott
James Francis A. MeIntyre
Pius XII
Sacred College
Rome
MelIntyre
Rubber Workers Union
L.S. Buckmaster
Henry Cabot Lodge
Beverly
Mass
Dwight D. Fisenhower
Hugh
Mad Dog
Matticks
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Hanson
Union
Old Woods Run
Roseen
Reer Sons
Sueznal
Jordan
Egypt
Iraq
Little Liz
Battlefront
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