Record crowd boosts winter market turnout at Southern Exposition
Attendance at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building surged with over 3 000 buyers in three days and a push from 5 000 ahead registered buyers from 3 500 Southeast stores. The one week show broke tradition, with strong traffic across all floors as retailers refill inventories seeking sharp, well designed merchandise with solid mark ups.
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Southern Furniture Exposition
Exposition
Wrenn Street
Mikoyan Plane Forced Down Over Atlantic
Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan’s Scandinavian Airlines flight was forced to land at Argentia Newfoundland after an engine failure while returning home from a U.S. visit. The aircraft carried 35 passengers and 14 crew, with five people aboard including Mikoyan and his son Serge. Sabotage suspicion arose as officials assessed the incident.
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Argentia
Mld
Anas
Atlantic
Mikoyan
U. S. Naval Airbers
Newfoundland
United States
Serge
New York
Atlas Satellite Expected to Plunge Near Hawaii
Atlas, the 4% ton American satellite that broadcast Eisenhower’s Christmas message, was due to plunge to fiery death today near the Hawaiian Islands. Scientists said it would disintegrate about 50 miles up, posing little danger to people on the ground after nearly 500 orbits since its Dec 18 launch from Cape Canaveral.
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Cambridge
Mass
Atlas
Eisenhower
Hawaiian Islands
America
Cape Canaveral
Fia
Highway Spending Criticized by North Carolina Contractors
North Carolina highway builders claim a scientific test shows state maintenance costs exceed needed levels by 19 percent. The assessment cited the U S Bureau of Public Roads and was presented at a conference at North Carolina State College by AGC officials R W Parks Sr of Monroe and C Austin of Raleigh. More on page eight A.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Contractors of America, Inc
North Carolina State College
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
R. W. Parks Sr
Monroe
AGC
C. Austin
AGC Highway Division North
Bomb Explosions Hit Buenos Aires Amid Strike Turmoil
Bombs jolted Buenos Aires during a two day general strike against President Frondizi's belt tightening. Railway property was damaged as strikers returned to work in places while security forces moved to seize public utilities under an internal commotion plan.
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Jose Maria Orlando
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Arturo Frondizi
Sarmiento
Roca
San Martin
Defense Ministry
Kapetians Om
Argentine Electric Co
Juan D. Peronto
Frondizi
Eisenhower Says U S Won’t Be Pushed Around By Russia
President Eisenhower told reporters that the United States will work for world peace and expects Moscow to respect American resolve. He also said he would favor repealing the constitutional ban on a third term and that the choice should rest with the people.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
United States
Anastas I. Mikoyan
U.S
Hollings Presents South Carolina Tax Plan to Raise Revenue
Governor Ernest F. Hollings outlined a $23 million deficit solution without raising the 3 percent sales tax. Proposals include withholding on personal income tax, scrapping exemptions on manufacturing coal gas and electricity, raising cigarette and beer taxes, higher license fees, and tax-rate adjustments for higher incomes to balance the budget.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Ernest F.hollings
Public Gervies Authority
Santee-Cooper Power
Winter Storm Rips Through Ohio Valley Dropping Temps
A powerful winter storm moved rapidly through the Ohio Valley as arctic air drove temperatures down across the Great Plains. Readings dropped to 15 to 25 below in eastern Nebraska and South Dakota with snow depths up to 11 inches in northern Missouri. Snowfall waned in the Midwest and was set to end east to Kansas City. strong winds caused drifting and road closures.
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Kansas City, Mo
Ohio Valley
Great Plains
Nebraska
South Dakota
Texas
Arkansas
Kansas City
Milan
Missouri
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
New Mexico
Montana
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Oklahoma
Kansas
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Colorado
Wyoming
Tllinois
Cecil B de Mille dies at 77 in Hollywood legacy creator of biblical epics
Hollywood AP reports Cecil B de Mille, 77, pioneer filmmaker, died at 5:30 a.m. at his home after a weeklong illness from a heart attack. He leaves wife Constance, daughters Cecilia and Katherine, and sons John and Richard. De Mille had just returned from promoting The Buccaneer and had toured Europe for The Immortals epic. The obituary notes his long rise from early cinema to top rank and his Washington boyhood.
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Hollywood
Cecil B. de Mille
de Mille
A Cecilia
Hus DeMille
Europe
Constance
Cecilia
John
Richard
Katherine
DeMille
Washington, D.C
Cecil
Ashfield
Mass
Washington
Housing Bills Move On After Senate Hearings
Hearings were arranged on housing bills pushed by Democratic sponsors as the first major action of the new session. The Senate Banking Committee begins abbreviated hearings Thursday while the House Banking Committee plans to start January 28. Proposals would ease down payment requirements for FHA financing, lower interest rates and boost public housing construction.
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B. L. Livingstone
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
House Banking Committee
FHA
North Carolina's Oldest Citizen Dies at 108
Frederick C. Penney of Tryon N C longtime real estate investor and raconteur dies aged 108 just shy of his 109th birthday. He recalled aiding fugitives in Canada and recalled voting for Ulysses Grant. He lived in Minneapolis Bronxville and finally Tryon with family members nearby.
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Tryon
N.C
Frederick C. Penney
Canada
Ulysses Grant
North Carolina
Canaan
University of Minnesota
South Dakota
Texas Gulf Coast
British Columbia
Minneapolis
Bronxville
N.Y
Penney
Eisenhower
First Manned Space Flights Planned For 1960s
Dr. James A. Van Allen, space scientist at the State University of Iowa, outlined plans for the first U S manned space flights. He said a pilot will ride the X15 rocket within weeks and return, with a space capsule mission within a year to 18 months. He noted the need to solve life support and predicted a pig may be the first animal sent aloft.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
van Allen
Earth
Ifer
Firing Squads Cut Down Dozen Men in Cuba Rally
In Havana a massive rally supported the revolutionary government’s summary executions. Rebel bullets killed a dozen Batista forces in Pinar del Rio after a three hour war crimes trial. Fidel Castro urged a crowd of up to half a million at the Presidential Palace as public trials begin Thursday at Sports Palace.
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Havana
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Pinar del Rio
Cardenas
Matanzas
Jiguani
Oriente
Fidel Castro
Sandburg Receives Degree After Ten-Year Wait
In EAST ORANGE New Jersey on Tuesday night Carl Sandburg finally receives his degree after a long wait. The event highlights his ties to modern poetry and the schools academic history.
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Carl Sandburg
Upsala College
East Orange
Ariel UN
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Space
Ewald B. Lawson
Walter Gustafson
Upsala
Sandburg
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