Caution Urged As Holiday Traffic Toll Eases
The Associated Press reports a slower death toll at holiday’s end but warns the homeward rush may still push fatalities toward the 620 mark forecast earlier. California New York Texas Pennsylvania and Illinois led in deaths while a Granite Falls North Carolina fire killed four children in a two story home.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
California
New York
Texas
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Babson Forecast for 1959 Set for Tuesday
Roger Babson will publish his Business and Financial Forecast for 1959 in The Enterprise on Tuesday. He founded the Babson Institute for Men and the Midwest Institute of Business Administration and has a long history of accurate forecasts used by hundreds of newspapers and thousands of corporations.
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Will Bee
Babson Institute For Men
Midwest Institute of Business Administration
Babson
Glouster
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Babson's
Death Toll In Carolina Reaches 29
The North Carolina death toll rose during the holiday weekend with at least 29 deaths reported as a freezing rain impacted highways and fires claimed lives. Four children perished in Granite Falls as a two story home burned, with one child escaping. A 67 year old Union County woman burned in Monroe, and a 21 year old from Purlear died when a car collided on ice near North Wilkesboro. A Fayetteville teen and two people found in a parked car near Fort Bragg also died, with fumes cited in the latter incident.
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Associated Press
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Granite Falls
Woodrow
Patricia Ann
Willard
Danny Ross Wilson
Daisy Gaddy
Union County
Monroe
North Wilkesboro
Kce
Brote Tg Highway Patrol
Carl Wayne Smith
Rt. 1
Purlear
U.S. 421
North Benne
Fayetteville
Carolyn Murphy
Autryv
Hope Entertains Berlin Troops During Christmas Tour
Bob Hope entertained 3,500 American troops in West Berlin on a Christmas tour stop. He quipped about a PX surrounded by Russians and said it felt like vaudeville before leaving Sunday for Iceland.
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Bob Hope
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Hope
U.S
Iceland
Four Die in Fire at Granite Falls Home
Four children died in a two story Granite Falls house fire early Saturday. Robbed of time, 11 year old Robert Lee Wilson escaped from a second floor window with others missing. Firefighters from Granite Falls and Hudson battled the blaze as authorities investigated the fire’s cause and the home’s pine construction.
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Robert Wilson
Granite Falls
N.C
Here
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Willard
Patricia Ann
Woodrow
Robert Lee (Peewee) Wilson
Caldwell County
Claude Goble
Danny
Wilsons
Beckley
W.va
Wilson
Earl
Hudson
Hayes Cotton Mill
West Europe in Major Monetary Adjustment
Western Europe plunged into large monetary readjustments with Britain’s pound convertibility and French franc devaluation leading the way. France, West Germany, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg joined in convertibility as of Monday and Euro currency reforms followed. The franc devaluation gains tourists extra spending money while a new heavy franc aims to simplify budgets. EMA provides a 600 million dollar short term credit fund as the European Monetary Agreement replaces the EPA. Britain faces trade war fears but denies intent to torpedo the common market plan.
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European Monetary Agreement
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Sterling as World Currency and its Global Impact
London reports explain why the British pound dominates world trade. It notes the pound's wide acceptance, historical rise from medieval trade, and its role as a freely exchangeable standard used in payments even where Britain takes no part in transactions.
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Britain
No Trouble He Muttered No Trouble
Mrs Mildred Ward a 43 year old woman hit by an old sedan in an alley was knocked down as she crossed and later punched in the face by the driver who offered hospital aid. The man in his early 20s fled after muttering I dont want any trouble and avoiding her license number.
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Chicago
Mildred Ward
Soviet Diplomats Comically Mum On Mikoyan Visit
Washington officials press Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan about a U S trip due in early January but both sides offer few details. Ambassador Menshikov dodges questions while stating only routine topics may be discussed and a two month visa remains in effect.
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Anastas I. Mikoyan
U. S
Robert Murphy
Mikhail Menshikov
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Menshikov
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Nikita Khrushchev
Dulles
Stolen Tools Put To Use
A burglar used acetylene equipment left at a finance company after a break in during a Christmas holiday. Police saw activity at the upstairs office and found that the thieves had cut open a safe before fleeing. the owner later recovered the tools.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Somal
Balloon search fails for Small World over Venezuela jungle
Reports conflict on the location of the British balloon Small World missing on a drift flight across the Atlantic. A day-long air search over eastern Venezuela found no trace in the Orinoco mouth mangrove swamps where a reporter said it landed. Civil aviation officials warned storms could have carried the craft miles inland while crews continued to hunt.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Arthur Cooke
London Daily Mail
Small World
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Barbados II
Rebels strengthen in Cuba as government prepares attack
Reports from Havana say climatic developments loom in Fidel Castro’s two year rebellion. Government forces push toward Las Villas with 2,000 fresh troops while rebels expand around Santa Clara. Church says Oriente is largely rebel controlled. U S arms embargo cited as hindering government stock. Rebels claim 8,000 fighters and aim to reach Havana, with several garrisons already surrendering in Las Villas.
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