Cupidity Turns on Inviter United Fruit in Latin Expropriation Fears
The Boston based United Fruit Company faces opposition as it plans to divest in Latin America to avoid expropriation risk. Labor unions resist handing over properties to small operators with lower wages and benefits. Governments wary of bearing health and education costs for 188 schools 500 teachers 17 000 students and 15 hospitals with 1500 beds 60 doctors and 200 nurses. The company also runs bananas and other products amid Cuba expropriation memories and a push to reduce exposure.
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el Pulpo
Octopus
United Fruit
Keeping Open Lines of Communication Through Global Family Diplomacy
Washington NEA columnist argues U S presidents use kin and entourage as cost effective diplomacy, noting Kennedys and Eisenhowers abroad. It credits ongoing efforts to keep channels open with nations, including a Geneva summit proposal, TV exchanges with Khrushchev, and varied public diplomacy.
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Kennedy
Secretary of State
Dean Rusk
Adlai Stevenson
Averell Harriman
NATO
SEATO
CENTO
U.N
Latin America
Bobby
Moscow
Pierre Salin
Khruschev
Geneva
Land sale debate center of state prison lands near Raleigh
State officials weigh selling prison farm acreage including Camp Polk near Raleigh to fund industrial development while preserving possible future state use. A long running rumor recalls a missed swap with the Negro First Baptist Church for land around capitol square, a tale tied to past governors and the state’s growing office complex.
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Polk
Raleigh
Camp Polk
Capitol Square
Capitol
Council of State
Kitchin
Craig
Negro First Baptist Church
Morgan and
Wilmington Streets
South Blount Street
Negro School For the Blind
Revenue Department
Highway Commission
Education and C&d
Justice
Employment Security
Health
State House
Mansion Park
YMCA
Negro Baptist Church
North Carolina
Residence row in Mecklenburg over Miss Marsh vote
Notes discuss Edith Marsh chosen for the Mecklenburg eighth district on the Democratic platform committee and her voting citizenship in Union county while working for Westinghouse in Raleigh. Clarifies that government workers may retain home voting citizenship, unlike private employees, with her right to vote in Union county unchallenged.
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Eighth
Edith Marsh
Marsh
Union County
Washington
Raleigh
Bailiwick
Sanford
Brewer - Burch
High Point politics and county representation in Guilford
Afternoon County Commissioner Carson Bain announces re election bid shaping a High Point driven campaign for a new board member. Local leaders debate whether High Point can reclaim its place on the Guilford County Commission as candidates emerge and party dynamics unfold across Greensboro and the county.
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Carson Bain
Guilford
High Point
Sidney Allen
Charles Hunt
Greensboro
F. Logan Porter
Dave Neill
George A. Covington
Horace G. Ilderton
Mr. Covington
Jess Washburn
O. Arthur Kirkman
Sanford Urges Public Help for Quality Education in North Carolina
Gov. Sanford argues money supports schools but public interest and follow through are essential. He backs a state conference plan by the North Carolina Citizens Committee for Better Schools to review what exists, what’s needed, and how to get it. The proposal aims to improve curricula, teaching, and school operations without fault finding.
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Brevard Crihfield
J. Glenn Cricfield
Sedgefield
Gettysburg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kenendy
Constitution Hall
Philadelphia
Crihfield
John S. McKnight
Guilford
Shelby
Cleveland County
C. A
Pete
Charlotte Observer
John P
U. S. Information Agency
Latin America
Brookings Institution
Washington
Dr. W. A
University of North Carolina
Sanford
North Carolina
North Carolina Citizens Committee For Better Schools
Raleigh
Senate hears plan for private space satellite system
Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee considers a Kennedy draft for a government chartered monopoly operating a privately owned international space satellite system. Class A stock would be public with limits. Class B stock sold to designated carriers. Critics warn AT&T could gain control. Britain notes space as big business.
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Senate Aeronautical and Space Committee
Sen
Robert S. Kerr
D. Okla
Congress
Kennedy
Federal Communications Commission
Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee
Kerr
FCC
William Fitts Ryan
N.Y
U.S
General Telephone & Telegraph
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Space Communications
Britain
United States
Daily Express
The High Point Enterprise Editorial Masthead and Rates
The High Point Enterprise, established 1884, details publication focus as an independent newspaper with regular afternoon and Sunday morning editions. It lists office address, leadership, and subscription rates including monthly and annual terms with tax notes.
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The
High Point Enterprise
MAIL
Carri
N. OS
High Point Enterprise, Inc
North Main Street
High Point
N. C
R. B. Terry
Pat Endo
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United Fruit Company
Cuba
Costa Rica
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
NEA
Roosevelts
Eisenhower
Milton Hither
Edgar
Kennedys
Pakistan
India
White House
Kashmir
Khrushchev
Vienna
Japan
Indonesia
Teddy
Israel
Middle East
Eunice
Jean
Poland
Yugoslavia
Gomulka
Tito
Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps
Stephen Smith
Lyndon Johnson
Lady Bird
Berlin
Izvestia
Russia
United Nations
Robin
Mockingbird
Holt McPherson
Mel
Lynn Nisbet
J. Roy Teague
Harold Cheek
Teague
Allen Swink
Lake Moultrie
Baptist Orphanage
Coliseum
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