Snow Drifts Halt High Point Activities In Mild Winter
A low pressure gulf storm dumped five and a half inches of snow on High Point and Guilford County, fouling roads and causing several fender benders. Schools and games were affected with closures possible Monday, while churches canceled services and businesses saw higher antifreeze and tire-chain demand. Officials urged cautious travel as the storm moved northeast toward New Jersey.
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Ledford
Danville
Guilford
Highway Patrol
Guilford County
D. P. Whitley
High Point Senior High School
France tests atom bomb as world reaction fuels protests
The Sahara nuclear test by France drew sharp criticism from Communist and neutral capitals. The Soviet Union warned it could resume testing. East Germany called it an atomic crime, while West German and British leftist parties urged rapid disarmament. US Britain and the USSR seek a test ban in Geneva amid mixed signals on French participation.
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Sahara
Red China
East Germany
West Germany
Britain
Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
Europe
North Carolina Battered by Severe Winter Storm
A powerful winter storm swept North Carolina this weekend bringing snow sleet and freezing rain across mountains Piedmont and the coast. Ice toppled poles and lines utility outages crippled towns including Candor and Montgomery County while Norfolk Southern freight traffic was halted. Power losses affected about 25 000 Wake and Johnston counties and a fatal crash occurred on a snowy road near Boonville. Weather forecasts warned of more ice and snow as roads became hazardous and air and bus travel ground to a near standstill.
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Star and
Biscoe
Carolina Power & Light Co
Raleigh
Wake
Johnston
Boonville
State Highway Patrol
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Soco Gap
Waynesville
Piedmont
Boone
Danville
Hickory
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Morganton
Elizabeth City
Norfolk
Georgia
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Clingman’s Peak
WMIT
Alabama
Huntsville
Ala
Redstone Arsenal
Virginia
Greyhound
Suffolk
Huntington-Ironton
Ohio
Ashland
Florida
Atlantic
Atlantic City
Record Snowstorm Hallmarks Powerhouse Freeze Across South to New England
A huge snowstorm paralyzed the Southeast then surged north into New England dumping heavy snow. Virginia saw up to 13 inches, Tennessee and Carolinas about 10 inches, and up to 18 inches in parts of Virginia. Dozens died, flights and buses halted, roads blocked, and thousands stranded amid widespread travel disruption.
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Mississippi
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Georgia
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Tenn
Gatlinburg
Smoky Mountains
Roanoke
Southwest Mountains
Rome’s Triple St Valentine Tales Highlight Sunday Romance
In Rome two saints named Valentine share Feb 14 with martyred bishops and priests honored on the via Appia. The skull of one remains in Santa Maria in Cosmedin. remains of both lie along the Flaminian Way. Italians sidestep Valentine’s Day, noting its import from England and France during the Middle Ages.
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Cosmedin
Valentine
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Africa
England
France
Miners In Din Underground Stage Skiffle Band
About 200 sit-down strikers half a mile below in a coal mine at Betteshanger England spent a third day protesting the dismissal of 140 men. They organized a skiffle band using washboard saws tin cans and tools while aboveground mates sent down instruments.
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Betteshanger
England
Kent County
Five Lady Be Good crew bodies found in Libyan Desert
In the Libyan Desert near Tripoli, five members of the World War II Lady Be Good bomber crew were found by an oil exploration party after 17 years missing. The discovery near the plane's ruin followed a long search, with personal items and equipment scattered nearby.
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Washington
Air Force
Italy
D. P. Hays
Lee
Independence
George Barrett
Barrett
D. P.” Hays
David Peter
Oil Company
Wheelus Air Force Base
Tripoli
U.S. Air Force
Wheelus
Car Hit By Train In Snow At Crossing In Virginia
Whaleyville Virginia resident Raymond Goodman twenty two was driving his car through snow at a crossing when a Southern Railway train approached. The train struck the car at forty five miles per hour, dragged it for about fifteen hundred yards before stopping. Goodman emerged unhurt from the wreck.
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Whaleyville
Aymond Goodman
Southern Railway
Goodman
A.M. Charles
Portsmouth
Chessman Appeal Denied as He Plans Further Legal Push
Daryl Chessman, 38, lost another appeal in a push to delay his Friday execution. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black denied a stay, saying no substantial federal question was raised. Chessman said he would pursue further appeals, while his attorney eyed the San Francisco Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Daryl Chessman
Supreme Court
Hugo Black
Washington
Chessman
San Quentin
U.S. Court of Appeals
Clifton Mathews
Gilbert H. Jertberg
Charles M. Merrill
George T. Davis
Newsmen
U.S. Supreme Court
Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Justice Black
NBC apologizes to Jack Paar over show censorship
NBC released a letter from president Robert Kintner apologizing for not informing Jack Paar in advance that part of a taped joke was deleted from his show. Paar said the apology did not end the stalemate over his walkout, and Kintner urged him to consider viewers and colleagues as he contemplates returning.
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Jack Paar
National Broadcasting Co
NBC
Robert Kintner
Paar
Kintner
Jack
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