Farm price plan splits GOP and Democrats in Congress
North Carolina farm leaders oppose the flexible price support plan pushed by President Eisenhower but back the 90 percent parity level for tobacco. In Washington, Democrats threaten to rewrite the program, with Sen. Humphrey accusing the president of breaking faith and Republicans split on the flexible proposal while parties eye the upcoming elections.
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Raleigh
Tar Heel
Eeer
Phil Hedrick
State Department of Agriculture
Clarence Poe
Progressive Farmer
Poe
Congress
L. Y. Ballentine
Ballentine
North Carolina
M. G. Mann
North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Assn
Secretary of Agriculture
Mann
Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sen. Mundt
South Dakota
Senate Agriculture Committee
Rep. Rayburn
D - Tex
House
Sen. Sparkman
D-Ala
Can Strike Settled at American Can Co Plants
A 42 day strike against 36 American Can Co plants ends as negotiators sign a contract for CIO workers. The package includes a 15 cent per hour wage increase for about 20 000 workers with full production aimed to resume this week. The CIO United Steelworkers signed for the company.
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New York 4
American Can Co
CIO
CIO United Steelworkers
Steelworkers
Continental Can Co
Fanfani to Try to Form Italian Government
Amintore Fanfani, 46, a left wing leader of the Christian Democrats, agreed to attempt forming a new Italian government after President Einaudi invited him. He previously served as agriculture minister and interior minister in earlier cabinets and supported land reform plans to aid about 50 000 peasant families and distribute over half a million acres.
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Rome
Amintore Fanfani
Christian Democratic Party
Ae Eindaudi
Giuseppe Pella
Einaudi
Fanfani
Alcide de Gasperi
Pella
Italy
Judge questions Squires in misconduct case against Charlotte chief
In Charlotte, Superior Court Judge J C Rudisill challenged Alonzo Squires, a blind former Moose Lodge official, saying he does not believe Squires's claims that Police Chief Frank N Littlejohn received expensive gifts to shield gambling. Other witnesses testified about Littlejohn in a weeklong hearing as prosecutors seek to present evidence to a grand jury.
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John Frazier
North Carolina Motor Club
Squires
Lamar Caudle
Wadesboro
U.S
Charlotte
Littlejohn
James P. Kaperonis
Rudisill
Kaperonis
Charlotte Man Spied On Reds
Ralph Clayton Clontz Jr of Charlotte testified before the Subversive Activities Control Board about joining the Communist party in 1948 as an undercover agent for the FBI. He named Junius L. Scales of Carrboro and Greensboro as NC SC district chairman and described party headquarters in Scales’ Carrboro home.
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Washington
Ralph Clayton Clontz Jr
Charlotte
N. C
Communist Party
North Carolina
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Clontz
Subversive Activities Control Board
Jefferson School of Social Science
New York
Junius L. Scales
Carrboro
Greensboro
South Carolina
Communist Party of the
Duke University Law School
Durham
Carolina Motor Club, Inc
FBI
Junius I. Scales
Communist Party of the United States
Ales
Bernard Friedland
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Northeast Cleans Up After Worst Snowstorm In Years
A deadly Northeast snowstorm left at least 60 dead and up to a foot of snow in places. Weather Bureau warned of a freezing air wave as the storm moved off shore with lingering sleet and icy surfaces hindering travel.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Newgland
Owever
Northwest
Canada
North Carolina
Georgia
Washington, D. C
Washington
D.C
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Maine
Midwest
International Falls
Main
Textile industry in Washington seeks federal help
A New England textile relief effort toured Washington with the Textile Workers Union of America to press for unemployment relief and tax reforms. Rep Lane of Massachusetts introduced a tax bill targeting subsidized Southern plants, while TWUA outlined layoffs and the planned closures of two mills in Lawrence Massachusetts and Winooski Vermont.
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Washington
New England
Textile Workers Union of America
CTO
Lane
D-Mass
House of Representatives
United Sttes
TWUA
J. William Belanger
Mitchell
Defense
Arthur Flemming
Congress
John Edelman
Eisenhower
New
Lawrence
Mass
Winooski
Arthur Brown
Lowell
Louis Vergados
Providence, R. L
Elizabeth Nord
Snow Drifts Hit Carolinas As Record Cold Approaches
Cold snap grips the Carolinas with freezing temps foreseen tonight. North Carolina reports icy roads and school closures as subzero readings appear in the mountains and single digits inland. South Carolina sees mountain snow and coastal readings around the mid 20s.
UN to Meet Red Officers Thursday on Korea Peace Talks
The U N Command agrees to meet Communist liaison officers at Panmunjom Thursday to discuss resuming talks and setting a date for a Korean peace conference The move follows India’s proposal on repatriation talks and a lapse in earlier negotiations with the Red negotiators.
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Seoul
U.N
It& State Department
Kenneth Young
High Command
Panmunjom
Young
Red
Washington
State Department
U. S
Arthur Dean
United States
India
Korean Repatriation Commission
United Nations
Archdale Post Office Safe For Present
Randolph County Republicans were informed by state headquarters that Archdale post office faces no current abolition. National and state offices have decided to take no action at this time after community protests weeks earlier.
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Archdale
Randolph County
GOP
National
Post Office Department
Health Insurance Committee Reports Findings On Policy Cancellations
Raleigh Insurance Commissioner Charles F. Gold released a report from an industry committee noting 3,862 policies canceled in 1952 and 1,334 ended due to insured health impairment. The panel urged no drastic action that would raise costs for most policyholders.
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Raleigh
Charles F. Gold
Waldo C. Cheek
Gold
Clifton Blue
Moore
Blue
Special Industry Committee
Sandhill Citizen
Commissioner Gold
Wake Forest Reaches Goal on Major Campus Appeal
Wake Forest College President Harold W. Tribble said the school raised a three million dollar challenge and secured 3 003 180 by January 10 to qualify for a two million anonymous gift. The college remains about two million short of its 17 14 million goal for the new campus with 15 planned buildings and a fall 1055 move.
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Winston-Salem
Avalanche Death Toll Tops 100 Across Alpine Regions
A massive avalanche disaster in Vorarlberg Austria leaves more than 100 dead or missing, with snow slides across Tyrol Bavaria and northern Italy causing isolation, communication cuts, destroyed bridges, and halted rail lines as rescuers work by lantern light.
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Austria
Vorarlberg
Bregenz
Europe
Blons
Lutzbach
Provence
Austrian Tyrol
Bavarian Alps
Italy
Switzerland
Germany
Bavaria
Arlberg
Innsbruck
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