Tuesday Talk Set Legislature To Hear More On Tax Changes
Raleigh February 16 lawmakers will hear details on Gov Hodges backed tax revisions including corporate income tax changes aimed at attracting industry and boosting per capita income. Committees named will process legislation as finance and appropriations discuss proposed tax and spending measures and a two year budget.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Hodges
J. K. Coughton
Advisory Budget Commission
Brandon Hodges
Appropriations Committee
Spartanburg Disc Jockey Aims For Marathon Broadcast
Spartanburg radio DJ Ray Starr hosts a marathon show named Spin Till We Break the Record starting 6 a.m. Wednesday. He has logged 79 sleepless hours with 71 more to go, attempting to beat Ray Bream’s record. Starr has raised about $1500 for Spartanburg schools lunch program and offers a KDKA transmitter girder prize to anyone who can beat or match the feat.
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Spartanburg
S.C
WJAM
Ray Starr
Starr
Ray Bream
Salt Lake City
Utah
KLUB
Pittsburgh
KDKA
Woman Killed Near Gatesville In Highway Accident
Gatesville North Carolina February 16 Elizabeth Towe Bure 48 of Eure was killed at 12 06 pm when struck by a vehicle on a highway nine miles west of here. State Highway Patrol said she stepped in front of the auto. The weekend’s first fatality.
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Gatesville
Elizabeth Towe Bure
Eure
Here
State Highway Patrol
Salisbury Man Dies Of Injuries
Salisbury, N C February 16 Marvin L Rusty 66 of Salisbury died here last night from injuries suffered Thursday when struck by a truck Driver Amon W Richards is free under 5000 bond No charges were placed against him
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Salisbury
N.C
Marvin L. Rusty
Amon W. Richards
Royal Reunion in Portugal Reaches Quiet Stage
Officials say the Queen may land tomorrow while the Duke of Edinburgh contemplates staying at Calhariz palace between Lisbon and Setubal. A small security hush surrounds the reunion as the royal party departs Montijo airport, the Queen and Duke entering the private cabin as aides and guard accompany them.
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Calhariz
Duke of Palmela
Britain
Lisbon
Setubal
Montijo
Britannia
Selwyn Lloyd
Janet Holloway
Countess of Leicester
Rose Baring
Former British War Minister Hore-Belisha Dies in France
Lord Leslie Hore-Belisha seventy three? confusion aside died in Reims France from a brain hemorrhage while delivering a speech. He collapsed before an audience including British and French lawmakers and died soon after at the city hospital. His last spoken word was solidarity urging unbreakable France Britain friendship.
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Reims
France
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Hitler
Germany
Pierre Schneiter
Belisha
England
Hore- Belisha
Sinatra Subpoena Ties Singer to State Probe on Monroe Rift
Frank Sinatra was ordered to appear before a state Senate committee probing private detectives linked to the 1954 raid on a Palm Springs area home during the Monroe DiMaggio divorce saga. Investigators later said the raid targeted the wrong house, with no Monroe connection found.
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Los Angeles
Frank Sinatra
State Senate
Joe DiMaggio
Marilyn Monroe
Palm Maggio
Miss Monroe
Harris
DiMaggio
New York Yankee
Warren Cowan
Sinatra
Cowan
Senate
Monroe
Florence Kotz
Two Arrested On Charge Of Safecracking In Gastonia
In Gastonia North Carolina Pete Ghorley 30 and William Fain 55 were jailed on safecracking charges tied to the Pepsi Cola Bottling Co plant theft valued at 1200 dollars. James Slick Carter 30 had been arrested earlier, with SLED probing similar breakins in Greenville and Clemson South Carolina.
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Gastonia
N. C
Pete Ghorley
William Fain
James Slick Carter
South Carolina
SLED
Greenville
Clemson
Truman visit may ease chill with Truman
In Thomasville Georgia on February 16, White House press secretary James C. Hay said President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles would look with favor on a possible visit by Harry S. Truman to Greece and Turkey. The trip would mark the 10th anniversary of the Truman doctrine aid program.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
White House
James C. Hay
Dulles
Truman
Greece
Turkey
North Carolina Sets January DUI Conviction Record
Raleigh reports January drunken driving convictions hit 1,237, including repeats, a new state high. Typical monthly DUI figures run around 900. The DMV also revoked or suspended 1,911 other licenses for offenses from speeding to incompetence.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Speech Group Heads Include High Pointer
Meredith N. Posey of East Carolina College was elected president of the North Carolina Speech Assn at the Wake Forest College meeting. Mrs. Charlotte White of the Cerebral Palsy School Greensboro was vice president with Gilbert S. Ballance of Charlotte Central High McRae College and Lucy Kibler of High Point public schools as officers. The group approved a resolution urging greater speech competence among public school teachers and recommended a committee to confer with state education officials.
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Winston-Salem
Meredith N. Posey
East Carolina College
North Carolina Speech Assn
Wake Forest College
Charlotte White
Greensboro
Gilbert S. Ballance
Charlotte
McRae College
Lucy Kibler
High Point
Grand Jury Warns Racists in Montgomery Indictments
A Montgomery grand jury returned indictments tied to the citys racial violence after segregation ended on buses. An unspecified number of defendants faced charges connected to bombings of Negro homes and churches. Seven white men were arrested last month after several churches a service station taxi stand and residences were dynamited and buses were attacked.
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Montgomery
Ala
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