Bank Robbers Take 8868 From Wachovia Bank in Winston
Two unmasked white men armed with pistols robbed the North office of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co in Winston Salem late Monday taking 8868. FBI officials pursued with roadblocks as officers searched the area. The robbery lasted about a minute with the teller filling a canvas bag as employees complied.
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Winston-Salem
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
Roy K. Moore
FBI
Carolinas
J. Bynum Yarbrough
Marshall
Market gains buoyed by auto production revival
Stocks edged higher with modest advances and mixed results as trading stayed active at the start of the afternoon. The Associated Press average rose to 226.60 while Industrials gained 1.20 and rails fell about half a point. Chrysler led auto makers with nearly two points up amid resumed Detroit production.
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New York
Motors
Wall Street
Steels
James °. Mitchell
Detroit
Chrysler
Associated Press
Soviet farm labor standards and escape links with crime
The article reports on a tour of Soviet farm areas noting output per laborer as the measure of efficiency, with contrasts to American farming. It describes manual labor, segregation practices, and the heavy state control affecting productivity, then shifts to a Raleigh Central Prison escape case involving James Christy and Stewart, plus related Ivy Bluff convicts tried in Yanceyville.
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Ivy Bluff
James Duces
Christy
Concord
Raleigh
Central
Stewart
Greensboro
Spence
New Hanover
Mecklenburg
Central Prison
Central Prison Hospital
Yanceyville
Cleveland McNeill
Fuquay Springs
Willie Shaw
Rougemont
Robert Council
Fayetteville
Television line up headlines 7:30 to 11:15
TV listings show 7 30 PM 26 Men 6 PM U S Marshal 9 PM Star Time 10 30 Black Saddle 11 PM News Weather 11 15 Jack Paar program.
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U. S
Black Saddle
Jack Paar
Os Ie
U's
Marshal
Wunc-Tv
Chapel Hill
Capitol Hill
Dow Jones Averages at Noon Amid Market Activity
The Dow Jones Averages furnished by Bache and Co show changes at midday. Industrials reach 668.61 with intraday totals around 605.67 while Rails edge to 152.75 and 459.... Utilities stand at 61.20 with broader indices near 87.13 and 87.19. Trading volume totals about 1.39 million shares.
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Jarietta
Billene
Peteelouns Sn
Bethlehem Steel
Gulf Life Ins
Burlington Mills
Jefferson Standard
Chrysler Corp
M.C. Nat. Gas
New York Central RR
Piedmont Nat.Gas
Cone Mills Corp
Public Serv. of N.C
Loew's Inc
Norfolk & Western Rwy
Phillips Petroleum
Pennsylvania Railway
Pepsi-Cola
Procter & Gamble
Reynolds Tobacco
Republic Steel
Sears Roebuck
Southern Rwy
J. P. Stevens Co
American Tel, & Tel
the Texas Co
Union Carbide & Carbon
United Aircraft Corp
Westinghouse Electric
Bache & Co
Prison break report cites stolen prison gear and car
The report describes an escape involving at least two inmates wearing light gray uniforms seized from guards while others wore blue denims. An Oldsmobile two door from 1950 in light blue was associated with the incident.
Trash Fire Extinguished and False Alarm Reported
A false alarm at 4 57 p m occurred when a ditch digging machine slid into a ditch and struck a utility pole with an alarm box at 600 block of W Green Street. Firefighters were sent but turned back by radio. A trash fire behind Custom Processing Manufacturing Corp at 1706 King Street started around 5 11 p m from an undetermined cause.
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W. Green Street
King St
Custom Processing Manufacturing Corp
Soviet new lands face weather limits on crop yields
The Soviet Union expanded arable land by about 90 million acres in 1954-56, adding vast tracts east of the Volga and the Urals. Weather remains the controlling factor, with subhumid and semiarid zones casting doubt on long term productivity despite larger acreage.
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Soviet Union
Winnipeg
Volga
Urals
Foreign Agricultural Service
Senate probes wonder drug price markups
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee explored drug price markups tied to an international cartel. Schering Corp of Bloomfield New Jersey faced questions over licensing agreements with foreign firms and disputed staff estimates of markups on products like progynon estinyl and prednisolone.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Schering Corp
Bloomfield
N.J
Estes Kefauver
Dtenn
Francis C. Brown
Kefauver
Schering
Brown
Subcommittee
John Blair
Five Men Join Local Police Force in High Point
Five appointments to the High Point Police Department were announced by Chief C. C. Stoke. Returnees John Clyde Brown Jr. and Lonnie O Nea Griffin rejoin, while new officers Larry Eugene Miller Brent H Hiatt and Robert George Hopkins begin duty. Brown reported November 1 as milk route supervisor, Griffin November 16 as traffic officer, Hiatt December 3 after Air Force discharge, and Hopkins December 7 from Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
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High Point
C. C. Stoke
John Clyde Brown Jr
Lonnie O'Neal Griffin
Larry Eugene Miller
Brent H. Hiatt
Robert George Hopkins
Brown
Griffin
Yeaier
Hiatt
Air Force
Hopkins
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Community Action For Needy Urged At Annual Meeting
Dr. Robert E. Gregg urged community support for aiding riders with mental and physical handicaps as the group discussed opening a rehabilitation center. Dr. Harold E. Conrad was elected president with an executive committee including Mrs. Ed win Leipman and others. new and unexpired directors were named.
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Robert E. Gregg
Gregg
Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital
Greensboro
Harold E. Conrad
High Point College
Conrad
Edwin Leipman
Lacey Lopp
Fred A. Thomas Jr
Harriss Covington
James Cage
C. W. Patterson
Kenneth Redman
George Armfield
William Buckey
Donald Dahle
Gordon Eaves
Charlotte Entemann
C. E. Yokeley
Katherine Moffitt
George Covington
Tom Pitts
Frank Dalton
Jane Austin
Dupuy Sears
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Family Finance
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Ryan Ives
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Outlaw
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