Support Of Schools Is Urged
Editor Harry Ashmore urged Carolinas business leaders to defend public schools amid segregation tensions. He warned disbanding public education would hinder progress and urged leaders to confront hostility while noting Southern industry hesitated to locate in Arkansas due to integration issues. He criticized political manipulation of segregation and urged practical, gradual reform.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
Harry Ashmore
Little Rock
Ark
Gazette
Carolinas
South
The
Arkansas Gazette
University of North Carolina
Ashmore
Charlotte
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
U.S
Arkansas
Orval Faubus
Faubus
Three More Grass Fires Recorded
High Point firemen extinguished three more grass fires yesterday afternoon and no further arrests were made. Earlier promotions detained burners on Park Street at 2 42 p m and a second blaze at 3 42 p m with grass and trash at East ana.
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High Point
Park Street
East Ana
Ed Suggs
Cable Street
N. H. Collins
Ogden Street
Suggs
Geo Gunter Jr Rites Monday In Ramseur
George Thomas Gunter Jr. 29 of Route 2 Ramseur died Saturday after weeks of illness. He leaves wife Nancy Redding Gunter, daughter Cynthia, son George Thomas III, parents George T. Gunter Sr. and wife, sister Delmas Core, sister Kent Brendle, brother Ames M. Gunter, and grandmother Mrs. M. S. Wrenn. Funeral 3 p.m. Monday at Gordon Memorial Methodist Church with three ministers officiating. The body to be placed in church at 2 30 p.m.
Bank Breweries Threatens Suit Over Tax Rise
Bank Breweries Ltd. considers a million dollar suit against the government in a heated tax dispute. Brewery boss Peter d Aguiar says a budget plan to raise the beer excise duty from 50 to 75 cents would breach a contract and suit will follow if approved.
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Georgetown
Bank Breweries Ltd
Peter d'Aguiar
Bridge Players Take Part in Open Pair Event in Winston-Salem
The Central Carolina Bridge Association hosts a long running open pair competition in Winston-Salem with 176 entrants, 104 remaining after Saturday’s qualifying rounds. Players from four states including Greensboro Raleigh and Charlotte compete as Sunday features two sessions of team play and top North-South scorers advance.
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Dayton
Ohio
Carolina Bridge Assn
Melvin Johnson
Greensboro
W. H. Miller
Leonard Waas
Winston-Salem
J. C. Barefoot
Walter Ridenhour
Capus Waynick
High Point
James Dunn
George Black
Charlotte
Vic Huggins
Chapel
E. G. Singletary
D. R. Wolff
David Stoner
Danville
E. J. Sachs
J. R. Chappell Jr
Roanoke, Va
A. B. Fairley
Raleigh
J. M. Brantley
Co. C. Fordham
Greens
C. C. Swaringen
J. A. Smith
Leaksville
George Finch
C. R. Hodgin
Thomasville
W. H. Holderness
Phillip Sowers
Charles Wallace
Salisbury
E. F. Morgan
T. C. Crutchfield
A. C. Current
Gastonia
Tom Hartley
Tooth Gone, Man Charged After Assault
Wayne Marley aged 19 of Redding Street was arrested after Earl Hilliard filed assault charges alleging Marley punched him and knocked out a tooth. Marley posted $100 bond and awaits Municipal Court trial on February 9.
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Wayne Marley
Redding Street
Earl Hilliard
Marley
Hilliard
Thomas J. Wilson
Hay Street
Wilson
Soviet film to shoot Iliad in Athens this summer
Epic Production reports a Soviet film company will start shooting in Athens this summer on an Iliad project with an estimated budget around 8.5 million dollars.
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Epic Production
Athens
Man Arrested In Non Tax Paid Liquor Sale To Minor
Thomasville police arrested Garnewell Tate 43 of Oak Street after a 14 year old boy bought a half gallon of whisky for $5. Tate charged with selling liquor to a minor under 500 bond. Aunt Willie Smith also arrested for contributing to delinquency and Joe Kenner charged with possession of non tax paid liquor.
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Thomasville
Garnewell Tate
Oak Street
Tate
Greene
Willie Smith
Turner Street
Joe Kenner
Amazon Road
Kenner
Head-on Collision Kills Two in Grover Area
Two killed and six hurt in a head-on crash at Grover near the South Carolina border. Victims include Stella Taylor of Chamblee Georgia and George Arthur Craig a 14 year old Black youth from Kings Mountain North Carolina. Ambrose Taylor and 10 year old Priscilla Taylor were critically injured. two Taylor children were less injured. Police could not identify the drivers. The collision occurred as a two lane road narrowed to one lane. a witness saw a woman ejected from a car.
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Grover
N.C
South Carolina
Stella Taylor
Chamblee
George Arthur Craig
Kings Mountain
Taylor
Jerry Mack
Joy Ann
Henry Gamible
Negro
Gaffney
S.C
Clarence Horton
J. B. Kuykendall
The
Highway Patrol
Khrushchev Warns About Children Growing Up Under Communism
An appeal urges Americans to support Radio Free Europe through Crusade for Freedom entries. Participants may win a Westinghouse transistor radio or a short wave receiver, with funds going entirely to Radio Free Europe. Competition closes March 31, 1959.
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Radio Free Europe
Europe
Hallicraf
Crusade For Freedom
Westinghouse
Bloc Proposal Seeks Southern Electors Unity
Speakers urged a South wide bloc of independent electors to gain bargaining power in presidential elections. Delegates from 11 states including Alabama and Georgia discussed unpledged electors and a preconvention caucus to maintain states rights within the Electoral College system.
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Montgomery
Ala
South
Citizens Council
Council of States Rights
Committee of the 48 States
Robert Patterson
Mississippi
U.S. House of Representatives
Harold M. Martin
7Th Fleet
Korea
H.coleman Long
Uniontown
Alabama Democratic Executive Committee
Martin
Memphis
Committee of the
Long
State Committee
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Arkansas
Texas
Bitter cold and snow blanket the Midwest and Plains
A sweeping winter outbreak brings subzero temperatures from Montana to upper Michigan. Snow blankets the Central and Northern Plains, with six inch accumulations forecast for western Kansas and Buffalo Oklahoma. Freezing drizzle crosses the Texas Panhandle into southern Kansas as colder air moves eastward.
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Beulah
N. D
Weather Bureau
Montana
Upper Michigan
Plains
Rockies
Kansas
Buffalo
Okla
Kansas Line
New Mexico
Texas Panhandle
Florida
Gulf
Atlantic Coast
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Central
Appalachians
New England
Maine
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Nevada
Plateau
Furniture Plant Faces Strike Threat Over Contract Deadlock
Representatives of B F Huntley Furniture Co and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America AFL CIO will meet Sunday with federal mediator George W Roseberry of Charlotte to avert a strike as the contract expires at midnight. If no agreement is reached a picket line is planned at 6 am Monday. The union seeks overtime and holiday pay, a 20 cent hourly wage increase, work breaks and seniority rules.
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Winston - Salem
B. F. Hunt‘ley Furniture Co
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Afl-Cio
W. Reid Stewart
George W. Roseberry
Charlotte
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
W.P. Sandridge
China stores record manure for spring planting
Peiping radio reports a winter campaign has amassed ten million tons of manure the largest total yet, to fertilize upcoming spring planting. The announcement underscores China's preparation efforts and agricultural priorities.
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Tokyo
China
Peiping Radio
Noted Editor and Writer Dies in Reidsville
Lifetime newspaperman Hender son longtime editor in Yanceyville and Reidsville. As a child he edited The Little Bear in Yanceyville and later led The Sentinel. A former postmaster and respected organic farmer, he dies days after a long career. Funeral Monday at Yanceyville Presbyterian Church. Survived by his second wife Annie Chandler, two daughters and a brother.
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Anceyville
Reidsville
Henderson
Little Eer
Yanceyville
United States
the Sentinel
Golfer Turns Hunter Red Cloud Elk Pack North to Missoula
Harry Obitz, a Shawnee-on-Delaware pro, traded clubs for hunting season success. He outperformed upland game and ducks in Montana and Nebraska, bagging a 1000 pound elk near Missoula and a deer near Hyannis. He plans to use elk and deer hides for jackets and gloves.
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Hunter Red Cloud
Neb
Harry Obitz
Montana
Nebraska
Stan Dudas
Philadelphia
North Hills Country Club
Don Taylor
Mare Island Golf Club
California
Obitz
Missoula
Mont
Hyanis
Shawnee-on - Delaware
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