Tar Heel Mountains Brace for Snow Across NC High Country
Up to four inches of snow blanket North Carolina mountains with more flurries expected in the west and north central. Cold Canadian air turns rain to snow, roads turn hazardous, chains advised, and temperatures fall to 24 at Asheville. Wintry system spreads from the Rockies to the Ohio Valley with snow in Akron and Youngstown and fog along the Atlantic coast.
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Georgia
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Florida
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Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Virginia Highlands
Atlanta
Akron
Ohio
Youngstown
Missouri
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Hannibal
Bowling Green
Indiana
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Pacific Coast
Soviet Ship Withdraws Bombers From Cuba
A Soviet vessel outward bound from Cuba carried about 15 IL28 bombers, raising the total withdrawn to more than 40 of the 750 mile range aircraft. U.S. officials monitor the move as Washington reviews policy with Adlai Stevenson and John J. McCloy readying Cuba talks and UN Security Council steps.
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Cuba
United States
White House
Executive Committee
National Security Council
U.N
Adlai Stevenson
John J. McCloy
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy
Salinger
New York
Wall Collapse Kills Student at Moultrie High School
A 14 year-old student named Vernon Moore Jr. died when a wall collapsed in the shower room at Moultrie High School in Mt. Pleasant South Carolina. Police reported no other injuries and that the collapse occurred as students showered after gym class. The room was described as cinder or concrete block adjacent to the building.
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MT. Pleasant
S.C
Moultrie High School
Vernon’ Moore Jr
Two Robbers Identified After Bank Shootout in Spencer
Police say witnesses identify two men as Charles Robert Hannah and Jimmy Hicks, suspected of twice robbing Duggins Grocery on Russell Street. In Spencer a bank pursuit ended with Lt. Isley shooting at one suspect. both men were captured, one with a .38 and the other with a .32, after a car with a Greensboro tag was found behind the bank.
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Duggins
Russell Street
Shaw Cooke
Charles Robert Hannah
High
C. W. Isley
Security Bank & ‘Trust Co
Greensboro
Isley
Southern Railway
Peggy Swicegood
Fifth Street
Fifth
Salisbury Street
U.S. 29
Robert Dischler
Elizabeth
N. J
Dischler
Kennedy backs up Adlai as UN ambassador stays
President Kennedy publicized a letter to Adlai Stevenson stating Kennedy has the fullest confidence in Stevenson and that Stevenson will continue as U N ambassador. The letter asserts the Cuban missile crisis has ended the nuclear threat to U S security and cites Stevenson’s role in the policy. Stevenson had previously faced speculation over his future after a controversial Atlantic article.
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Adlai Stevenson
U.N
Adlai
Stevenson
White House
Saturday Evening Post
Washington
Stewart Alsop
Charles Bartlett
Cuba
Pierre Salinger
United Nations
Soviet Union
U.S
Thick Smog Kills 67 In London
London endures dense lethal smog with a death toll of 67 and 738 hospitalized victims. The government weather bureau notes the pattern mirrors prior nights and relief is not expected until tomorrow. Traffic chaos, power outages, and widespread travel disruptions accompany the crisis.
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London
Government Weather Bureau
Thames River
Sanford sees no demand for highway bonds
Gov. Terry Sanford said there is probably not enough demand for a highway bond issue and he has no plans to recommend one. He noted the Legislature would decide if a bond issue should be submitted and said he is focused on maximizing the highway tax dollar. He denied reports of a $120 million surplus and indicated more on tax-free revenue bonds later. He will ask lawmakers to redraw the State Senate district lines and reaffirmed thePorts Authority offices should be in Wilmington and Morehead City.
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Morehead City
Fixers Escape Sentences In NC Court
Superior Court Judge Heman Clark arranged sentences for two confessed basketball game fixers, Aaron Wagman and Joseph Greene of New York, to avoid North Carolina prison terms if they receive substantial sentences elsewhere. They cooperated with prosecutors and testified against higher ups David Goldberg and Steve Lekometros of St. Louis, who were sentenced to five years and fined $30,000, with appeals filed. Greene and Wagman face potential prison terms in Florida New York and possibly Pennsylvania and New York respectively.
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Superior
Heman Clark
North Carolina
Aaron Wagman
Joseph Greene
New York
Clark
David Goldberg
Steve Lekometros
St. Louis
Goldberg
Lekometros
Greene
Wagman
Florida
Pennsylvania
Former Rep George Shuford Reported Sinking at Home
Asheville North Carolina AP reports former Representative George A Shuford who served three terms in the 12th district is sinking rapidly at his home after suffering a stroke on Sunday local officials said today
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Asheville
George A. Shuford
Shuford
North Carolina
Pellet attack injects turmoil into Hoffa conspiracy trial
Warren Swanson 28 of Washington DC fired air pistol pellets at James R. Hoffa in a Nashville courtroom. Hoffa dodged and Swanson was subdued. Swanson was taken for treatment and later committed for observation at Springfield Missouri. Swanson said a vision urged him to kill Hoffa and cited a Bible reading in Cincinnati.
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Nashville, Tenn
James R.hoffa
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
Warren Swanson
Washington, D.C
Swanson
U.S
U.S. Dist
William E. Miller
Springfield
Miller
Ments
Cincinnati
Ohio
Jimmy Hoffa
Camarillo State Hospital
California
Armed Men Hit Twice In Cuba
Cuban authorities report two attacks by armed counter revolutionaries in central Cuba. A militiaman was killed and a junior official wounded near Jaguey Grande in Matanzas Province. A seaborne raid near Caibarien injured fishermen. Havana radio labeled attackers as pirates with a US refuge. Cuba denounced the Las Villas raid to the UN and urged Fidel Castro’s five points for Caribbean crisis settlement.
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Ha‘vana
United States
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Matanzas
Caibarien
Las Villas
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Fidel Castro
Caribbean
Castro
Two Year Old Dies of Starvation in Greensboro
In Greensboro an investigation follows after Tina Louise Little, 2, was found dead from starvation at 133 A W McCulloch St. Her mother is missing since Wednesday night, and stepfather Oliver B. Whitaker reported the death. Coroner Coggeshall says starvation is the apparent cause.
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W. McCulloch St
Tina Louise Little
Gladys Whitaker
Oliver B. Whitaker
Allan B. Coggeshall
Whitaker
Municipal County Court
Statesville
Mary Little
Mary
Tina Louise
Eallliee
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