Sylvania To Close High Point Plant Three Day Record Smashed
Nine important registrants at the Southern Furniture and Rug Market helped set a new three day attendance record totaling 3 632 at closing. Registration breakdown shows 1 947 on Monday 760 on Tuesday and 925 on Wednesday with the day’s total rising to 3 934 by 11 am. Retail stores represented reached 2 340 indicating strong buying power as traffic slowed but remained steady and some salesmen called it the best High Point market in memory.
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Dave Gillespie
Leo Heer
Southern Furniture Exposition
Police concede credit in Bomber capture
New York police chief Kennedy says a Consolidated Edison employee found the letters that led to the arrest of George Metesky the Mad Bomber. Metesky, 53, was nabbed Monday night at his Waterbury Connecticut home by joint NY and Waterbury officers. Edison credited Alice Kelly a 25 year staffer for locating the file of letters.
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New York
Stephen P. Kennedy
Consolidated Edison Co
George Metesky
Kennedy
Metesky
Waterbury, Conn
New York and Waterbury
Consolidated Edison
Electric and Gas
Alice G. Kelly
Campaign to Diminish Sin and Promote Safe Driving
A sermon-like note links a severe crash to human error and carelessness. It urges a public campaign to reduce sin in the same way campaigns for safe driving are used, highlighting innocent injuries and long lasting effects.
Gordon Gray to lead Office of Defense Mobilization
Gordon Gray, a Democrat and longtime official, named to replace Arthur Flemming as director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Gray, 47, former secretary of the Army, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, and North Carolina publisher, would join Cabinet ranks and sit on the National Security Council. Flemming plans to return to Ohio Wesleyan University after leaving the post.
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New York Times
Gordon Gray
Arthur S. Flemming
Office of Defense Mobilization
New York Herald Tribune
White House
Washington Dispatch
The
Times
Gray
Truman
North Carolina
the Times
Eisenhower
Times Dispatch
Flemming
Ohio Wesleyan University
Defense Mobilization
National Security Council
Senate
Baltimore
University of North Carolina
Piedmont Publishing Co
Winston-Salem
N. Ic
Twin City Sentinel
Army
Trio Seized In Bank Robbery In Baltimore Bust
FBI agents and police arrested Louis Arquilla 26 Martin Feeney 41 and Dorothy Borchard 19 in an edge of downtown Baltimore apartment raid. They were wanted for the Fidelity Baltimore National Bank and Trust Co Freedom Branch robbery on November 26. A snub-nosed 38 caliber pistol and a sawed off shotgun with ammo were recovered. Borchard was accused as the driver of the getaway car.
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Minneapolis
Louis R. Arquilla
Dorothy Frances Barchard
Martin Francis Feeney
Baltimore
Cal Howard
Dorothy Frances Borchard
Boston
Howard
Fidelity Baltimore National Bank and Trust Co
Freedom
Israel hardens deman ds at UN over Middle East pullback
Rival Israeli and Egyptian positions sharpen as a midnight deadline nears for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza and the Gulf of Aqaba area. Israel insists on guarantees of protection before any withdrawal, signaling a broader UN debate on sanctions and the future of the UNEF mission in Egypt.
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N.Y
Middle East
Israel
Egypt
Gaza Strip
U.N
Mediterranean
Gulf of Aqaba
Cairo
U. N
General Assembly
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Missing Tanker Plane Located Over Adirondacks
An Air Force KC97 tanker missing since Tuesday night with seven aboard was found in the Adirondack Mountains north of Rome New York. State Police reported no signs of life and a rescue party set out. A helicopter spotted the plane near Atwell about 40 miles north of Rome. Griffiss Air Force Base in central New York had last communicated with the tanker during a training flight from Westover Air Force Base Massachusetts.
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Rome
N.Y
Adirondack Mountains
Here
Atwell
New York City
Griffiss
Mass
Dulles Faces Senate Call for Middle East Aid Plan
Secretary Dulles urged Congress to trust the President to deploy up to 200 million dollars in economic and military aid to Middle East nations. He warned the situation could become a great disaster without prompt authority and troop readiness against overt Communist aggression. Senators Humphrey and Aiken signaled growing support despite lingering doubts.
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Dulles
Congress
Eisenhower
Middle East
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Senate
United States
U.S
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sen. Aiken
R-Vi
Humphrey and
Aiken
Foreign Relations Committee
Prospects for U S Russia Understanding Dimmed
Washington officials say hopes for better East-West understanding dimmed since Stalin's death. Eisenhower stressed unity among free nations, but Russians are hardening toward the United States. He warned of a perceived new colonialism and fears of U S military strength in the Middle East.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Russia
Eisenhower
Joseph
Stalin
Europe
Middle East
Sessenice Hke
Hungary
South Asia
North Africa
Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Mystery Veils Cause Of Sisters Deaths In Chicago
Police investigated a restaurant report that two teens Barbara Grimes fifteen and Patricia thirteen were seen with a dishwasher named Benny about three weeks before their bodies were found along a roadway. A taxi driver Rae Echols 27 said he saw them with a man at the restaurant on January sixth. Investigators continued to probe the cause of death after five hours of autopsy with no result.
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Chicago
Minnie Duros
Benny
Barbara Grimes
Patricia
Arrests widen in Hungary crackdown on counterrevolutionaries
In Budapest Premier Janos Kadar's Soviet backed government expanded arrests of anti government activists. At least 13 new detentions include eight prominent Budapest newspaper men among 15 jailed figures. Only one arrest was reported in state press. Affected targets face charges linked to aiding the October revolt. Secret police warned schools to curb student displays of the national emblem.
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Budapest
Janos ‘Kadar
Communist Secret Police
Gabor Folly
Miskolc
Power Shovel Operator Crushed To Death In Quarry Collapse
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania a 50 year old power shovel operator Floyd Hockenberry was found crushed beneath tons of stone after a 75 foot quarry wall collapsed. Rescue workers labored through the night removing nearly 1000 tons of rock and earth. Fellow worker Lee Shaffer aged 35 died after escaping the slide. Police indicate Hockenberry likely died instantly. The accident happened at a Valley View Lime Company quarry about 10 miles from Bellefonte in Cambria Pennsylvania.
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Bellefonte
Floyd Hockenberry
Lee Shaffer
Hockenberry
Ternoon
Valley View Lime Co
Camea
Pennsylvania
Sylvania to Close High Point TV Cabinet Plant by March
Sylvania Products Inc announced plans to shut its High Point cabinet plant due to a sustained shift toward portable metal TV cabinets. The gradual layoffs will run department by department, ending manufacturing by March 1 with the facility sold for property use. About 200 workers are affected as demand declines from 1955 levels.
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High Point
Sylvania Products Inc
Marion E. Pettegrew
Pettegrew
R. C. Jenkins
Jenkins
S. Main Street
Blair Park Municipal Golf Course
Sylvania
Blair Park Furniture Manufactureing Co
America
Governor stresses occupational health benefits for NC industry
Gov Hodges told the first Governor s Conference on Occupational Health that strong health services boost efficiency reduce turnover and absenteeism and lower accident rates. He urged faster progress noting NC could fall behind sister states and cited the industry's slow adoption as a major factor.
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Raleigh
Hodges
North Carolina
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