Retailers Confident Market Signals Strong 1964 Furniture Year
Retailers at the Southern Furniture Exposition in High Point expect a 10 to 12 percent sales rise in 1964 as orders and inventory plans grow. Backlogs, plant expansions, and stable prices frame optimism despite caution over tobacco and cigarette labeling. Market events drew about 500 buyers and salesmen as proceedings wrap up Friday.
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Robert Marks
Southern Furniture Exposition
Furniture Plaza
High Point
South
South Carolina
North
Southern Retail Furniture Assn
Exposition
Nantahala Power & Light and Duke Withdraw Sale Application
Nantahala Power & Light Co and Duke Power Co pulled their bid to sell Nantahala's electric distribution facilities to Duke. The withdrawal follows a NC Supreme Court reversal of a Utilities Commission approval and remand. Nantahala president Archer regretted the setback while Duke president McGuire welcomed continued private service.
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Raleigh, N.C
Nantahala Power & Light Co
Duke Power Co
Nantahala
Duke
State Utilities Commission
North Carolina
North Carolina Supreme Court
Utilities Commission
Commission
Charlotte
John W. Archer Jr
W. B. McGuire
Duke Power
Soviets Show Interest In Johnson Arms Plan At Geneva
Western and neutral delegates at the 17 nation disarmament conference report Soviet study of President Johnson's proposed arms controls with exceptional interest. Johnson urged a verified freeze on nuclear posts and a ban on underground tests, while Tsarponkin reflected on broader disarmament steps and a path toward a comprehensive treaty. No immediate Soviet response was shown. next meeting may reveal立.
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Michael Goldsmith
Associated Press
Geneva
Soviet Union
Johnson
Tsarapkin
Semyon K. Tsar
Apkin
U.S
North Atlantic Alliance
USIA
Acceptance of Stereo Draws Fire in Senate Probe
Sen John J Williams attacked Lyndon B Johnsons acceptance of a stereo set worth over 500 and other gifts cited in a Baker investigation. The memo notes Reynolds testimony about insurance sales and advertising buys tied to the LBJ Co with Mrs Johnson in control before the presidency.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
Robert G. Baker
John J. Williams
R-Del
Williams
U.S
Don B. Reynnolds
Washington and Silver Springs
Baker
Johnson
Reynolds
Austin
Tex
LBJ Co
Relay 2 Circles Earth As Echo 2 May Join Friday
Relay 2, a U.S. communications satellite, circled the Earth after launch from Cape Kennedy aboard a Delta rocket. Echo 2, a giant balloon, is planned to launch Friday from Vandenberg to test global radio and TV links with RCA and US agencies pursuing a world wide space communications system.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
Mojave
Calif
Nutley
N.J
United States Information Agency
Vandenberg Air Force Base
United States
Russia
RCA
Nuclear Power Could Cut Canal Work Costs
The United States might use nuclear explosives to dig a Central American canal if feasible, risking Soviet veto under the test ban. Experts say costs could drop from over 2.5 billion dollars to about 500 million, pending treaty constraints and Soviet consent.
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Washington
United States
Central America
Soviet Union
Panama Canal
Moscow
Central American
Pacific
Joint Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
House
Joint Committee
Dean Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Goldwater assails U.N. admit of Red China in NH
Senator Barry Goldwater assails a United Nations vote to admit Red China saying the world body would be almost completely in the hands of enemies. He urges revision of the U.N. charter and warns of unilateral disarmament under President Johnson's proposals during a Keene news conference in New Hampshire.
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KEENE
N.H
Barry Goldwater
United Nations
China
al Capone
Goldwater
New Hampshire
United States
U.N
John F. Kennedy
The
Birch Society
Johnson
Night Robbery at Hampton County Bank in Varnville
Bank president Frank A. McClure said the overnight safe burglary yielded about $4,000 with about $3,500 in coins and possibly $500 in burned bills. He noted burglar’s damage included a one and a half inch hole in the safe and some burned currency.
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Varnville
S.C
Hampton County
Frank A. McClure
McClure
Bank vault break in Hampton County town under investigation
A bank in a brick one story building on Railroad Avenue was looted between midnight and dawn. The vault was opened with an acetylene torch after the front door was jimmied with a crowbar. Local investigators say the burglar acted neatly and that MUlure values above 100000 were taken. Federal agents are on scene investigating.
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Mulure
Bank
Hampton ‘County
Railroad Avenue
Bank Group Weighs Public Votes In Closed Sessions
Raleigh AP report says the State Banking Commission voted to discuss matters behind closed doors while voting in public. Commissioner Johnson proposed secrecy for discussions, but others urged public votes. Edwin Gill backed public sessions, noting rare exceptions for internal matters may require executive sessions. Also Sanford to welcome a Car nes Corp plant in Verona Wis with 40000 square feet, starting Jan 1965.
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Raleigh
State Banking Commission
Charles M. Johnson
E. D. Gaskins
Monroe
Johnson
Edwin Gill
Commission
Jack van Lindley
Greens‘boro
Sanford, N.C
Carnes Corp
Verona
Wis
Sanford
Khrushchev Castro Meeting Photo In Moscow Image
A Moscow gathering shows Khrushchev with Castro while Leonid Brezhnev stands second from left in the rear and Soviet ambassador to Cuba A Alekseev is behind Castro. Others remain unidentified in the Tass AP wire photo.
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Khrushchev
Castro
Leonid Brezhnev
A. Alekseev
Cuba
Tass
Fidel Castro
Moscow
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Semen Budenny
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Norfolk
Arlington Cemetery
GOP
Echo 2
J. D. Jamieson
Savannah Office Society
Ssses
Ss, &Ila
Federal Bureau of Inves- Financial Investstigation
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