Florida Suffer Cold Snap From Virginia Storm
Icy winds from a massive storm off Virginia hit southeast Florida with no relief in sight. Tourists sheltered in luxury hotels as residents heated homes. vegetable crops suffer millions in damage while citrus escapes. Prices for beans peppers and tomatoes rose. power outages and high fuel demand strained utilities and markets.
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Miami
Fla
Virginia
Florida
Cuba
Ami
Weather Bureau
Pompano State
Newark
Jonathan A. Bliss
Florida State
Dade County
Lake Okeechobee
Broward County
Dade
Palm Beach
Nationalists Blamed in Air India Crash Case
The Colonial Office said evidence shows Chinese Nationalists bribed a Hong Kong cleaner to time bomb the Air India jet that crashed last year killing fifteen, including Chinese Red officials. Cleaner Chow Tse Ming fled to Formosa five weeks after the disaster.
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London
Colonial Office
Hong Kong
Bandung
Chow Tse Ming
Formosa
Air India
Red Party
South China Sea
Indonesia
Red
Peiping
United States
Is Mathe
Ny G Kong
J Ing
Endring
Investinor
Walter Hav Ee
Kong
Joint Action Planned Against Riff Rebels
In LARACHE Spanish Morocco France and Spain agreed on joint action against Riff rebels harassing the French in Morocco. Lt. Gen. Rafael Garcia Valino and French Resident General Andre Dubois met for four hours to plan cooperative operations along the frontier. The talks marked the first high level meeting in three years and aimed to ease tensions over the Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef ouster and later nationalist demands.
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Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef
Spain
Ben Youssef
Mixed Compliance After ICC End to Segregation Orders
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered end to segregation in waiting rooms. responses varied across states. Some Southern officials began compliance while others resisted. Louisiana Governor Kennon ordered continued segregation on public carriers within the state. Mississippi moved to enforce segregation in rail and bus stations. signs remained in Jackson Gulfport and Greenwood. Police ready to enforce in Jackson IL Central station. Laurel Mississippi plans to add signs if needed. Montgomery Alabama saw signs come down but authorities pledged to maintain segregation. L N trainmasters indicated plans to comply. Birmingham waiting rooms formerly marked Colored Intrastate now simply Waiting Room as signs are removed. Greyhound drivers told intrastate passengers may be courteously asked to comply if possible. MORE ON PAGE TWO-A
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Associated Press
Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisiana
Robert F. Kennon
Mississippi
Jackson
Gulfport
Greenwood
Illinois Central Rail
Scott
Laurel
Miss
Montemery
Ala
Clyde Sellers
W. P. Glover
Louisville and Nashville
Montgomery
L&n
ICC
Birmingham
Alabama
Southeastern Greyhound Bus Line
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Five US missionaries missing after jungle contact in Ecuador
Five Protestant missionaries identified as Nat Saint Edward McCully James Elliot Roger Youderian and others flew into the Ecuadorian Amazon to work among tribes. A Piper Cub was sighted by a reconnaissance pilot and a body was reported near the aircraft as air and Army units join a multinational search from Shell Mera toward the Auca territory.
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Nathaniel Saint
Huntingdon Valley
Moreland Township
Penna
Kathy
Stevie
Amazon
Ecuador
Saint
Shell Mera
Quito
Amazon Jungle
Canal Zone
Nat Saint
Philadelphia
Edward McCully
Milwaukee
James Elliot
Portland
Ore
Roger Youderian
Billings
Mont
Air Force
John Keenan
Keenan
U. S
McCully
Youderian
Elliot
Aucas
Governor Stanley urges prompt action on school plan
Virginia Governor Thomas B. Stanley asked the General Assembly to move quickly on the first step of a segregated schooling program and urged a balanced budget with no tax increases while boosting school funding by 22.9 million dollars. He called the referendum a mandate for action. President Eisenhower examined by three doctors reports his condition excellent and recovery progressing well after his heart attack.
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Richmond
Thomas B. Stanley
Virginia
General Assembly
Stanley
Commission On Public Education
Assembly
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Howard M. Snyder
Thomas W. Mattingly
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Byron E. Pollack
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
Denver
Congress
Pollack
Fitzsimons
Mattingly
Snyder
James
Traffic Up 8 Percent Across State Highways in 1955
State Highway Commission reports 1955 highway traffic rose 8 percent from 1954, with gas and diesel tax revenues up 9 percent and vehicle registrations 10 percent higher as of December 1. Officials note highways are becoming obsolete faster due to continued traffic growth, which accelerated since October 1954.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Revenue Department
J. S. Burch
The
Highway Commission
U.S. 17
Winfall
U.S. 70
New Bern
Halifax
Cumberland Counties
Rockingham
Mocksville
Shelby
Asheville
High tides batter Kitty Hawk area cottages on Outer Banks
Big waves and high tides battered the Kitty Hawk area on the Outer Banks as a broad storm system hit the eastern coast. At least four cottages were destroyed and others left teetering as water up to a foot deep flooded parts of the highway and threatened more homes. Local residents and crews rushed to divert ocean water and shore up threatened properties.
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Kitty Hawk
Orvill Baum
Wallace Mustian
Kill Devil Hills
Outer Banks
Mustian
Prince Purdy
Williamston
Hallett Williams
Norfolk
Charlie Umphlett
Hertford
Carroll
Elizabeth City
Wake Forest Probe Material Demanded by Trustee Committee
The Wake Forest College board of trustees executive committee demands the probe material on the administration be turned over. Telegrams to J Hutchins relay orders for prompt compliance. The board plans to decide what parts, if any, become public after delivery.
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Wake Forest
Yes One
Dec
Mull
Winston-Salem
Wake County
Hutchins
Harold
W.W. Tribble
Bath
Lake Forest
Collge's Medical School
Sull
Charlies H. Jenkins
Ahoskie
William J. Conrad
Timmerman Advocates Cautious Stand Against Federal Overreach
South Carolina Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. urged the General Assembly to consider joining other Southern states in a lawful protest against federal efforts he says threaten public schools and religious heritage. He rejected interposition and federal aid as coercive, defending state control and segregated schooling while criticizing President Eisenhower's stance.
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Columbia
George Bell Timmerman Jr
South Carolina General Assembly
Timmerman
Washington
America
South Carolina
Englishman's Gallant Antarctic Camp Still Intact After 47 Years
Cape Royds familiar camp of Ernest Shackleton remains at McMurdo Sound at the foot of Mt. Erebus. The 40 by 20 foot hut, surrounded by gear and provisions from 1908 and 1917 expeditions, sits in a bleak, moonlike hollow with a penguin rookery nearby and the Erebus volcano towering above.
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Cape Royds
Ross Island
Antarctica
South Pole
Mt. Erebus
McMurdo Sound
England
Ernest Shackleton
Antarctic
Shackleton
North Carolina Insurers Seek Higher Farm Property Rates
Insurance rate requests were explained to Insurance Commissioner Charles Gold for a 25 percent increase on farm property and larger hikes for extended dwelling coverage. The North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau argues higher rates are needed after Hurricane Hazel, with total rate increases totaling about 1.49 million dollars in annual fire premiums.
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Raleigh
Iesurance
Charles F. Gold
Gold
North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau
Rating Bureau
W.S. Bizzell
Bizzell
Bureau
Economic Social Contest With Russians Pointed Up
President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles urged the nation to wake up to the economic and social contest with the Soviets. The statement, prepared by the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly, was released after they reviewed it just before Christmas.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Dulles
U.S
U.N. General Assembly
Congress
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Riff
Key West
Eddie
Daniel Lee
Priscilla Mae
Daniel
Ella Mae McMillan
Fayetteville
N.C
North Carolina
Wedel Sea
Pole
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