Release Of Americans Delayed At Guantanamo
Delays in freeing U S captives at Guantanamo Bay are blamed on poor communications. Thirty three Americans and one Canadian remain held by Fidel Castro's rebels with rumors they will release others after further negotiations. Lt Cmdr John V. Gorman ferried out three Americans, bringing total released to sixteen. James P. Stephens Jr. said there was no one else at the loading point when he left.servicemen protest stalled releases while Havana sources say rebels seek U S recognition as belligerents to gain rights. Sherman Avery White and another official were released alongside the three.
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Guantanamo, Cuba
Fidel Castro
Adm
R. B. Ellis
U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
John V. Gorman
Grand Pass
James P. Stephens Jr
Edmond
Okla
Stephens
United Fruit Co
Castro
U.S
Navy
Havana
Fulgencio Batista
Sherman Avery White
New York
Grand Rapids, Mich
Morehead Election Urged for North Carolina Railroad
Gov Hodges urged the election of John M Morehead as president of the boards of directors of the North Carolina Railroad Co The state will be represented by State Treasurer Edwin Gill at the next stockholders meeting Prospective officers include Edwin S Poll secretary treasurer Har ley B Gaston and Ray Byerly for director posts Readies nominees Anne Burwell Elsie Croft John Haworth Reginald Harris Walter Lee Horton Charles Brady Harry Vander Linden and others for board seats Finance Committee nominees are W O Woltz E W Freeze and Harry Nelson Sr.
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Raleigh
Hodges
John M. Morehead
New York City
The
North Carolina Railroad Co
Edwin Gill
Betwen Goldsboro
Greensboro
Southern Railway
Edwin S. Poll
Harley B. Gaston
Belmont
Ray Byerly
Sanford
Morehead
Anne Burwell
Warrenton
Elsie Croft
Charlotte
John Haworth
High Point
Reginald Harris
Roxboro
Walter Lee Horton
Charles Brady
Salisbury
Harry
Barefoot Run Marks Pageland Watermelon Festival Folklore
In Pageland South Carolina men outrun in the annual watermelon festival barefoot as a local custom. Women wear shoes, often gaudy, while the men dash across the street in a spirited community ritual.
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Pageland
S.C
South Carolina Leaf Sales Open August 5
The tobacco auction season begins August 5 in South Carolina with leaf sales in lower-state warehouse towns. The SC Warehouse Association set a 5 hour sale day and maximum 300 pound basket weight as growers prepare for a multi million dollar flue cured crop. The Florida Georgia belt opens July 29 and the V NC Old Belt starts September 15. The industry seeks extension of credit and state agriculture support.
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Florence
S.C
South Carolina
Assahere
Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corp
Decisions Rest With Consumer
Chapel Hill N C AP Basic decisions in the U S economy rest mainly with the consumer says an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Va Dr Robert P Black told a class for the Carolinas Bankers Center and employees from North and South Carolina are enrolled for five days of classwork in the 22nd annual conference oldest of its kind in the nation The state or other centralized agency makes basic economic decisions in communistic and socialistic systems Dr Black declared In the United States it is mainly the consumer who determines what goods should be produced by expressing demand in the market this in turn decides who will produce for only the producer whose prices are competitive can remain in bust through It will be offered for ex in the management program
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Chapel Hill
N. C
U.S
Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond
Robert P. Black
Carolinas
Last Planes In Air Derby On Final Hops
Charleston AP reports about 21 women pilots completing the Powder Puff Derby toward a noon deadline in the 12th transcontinental race from San Diego to Charleston. A 61 starter field covers 2100 miles. judges will name the winner by plane speed handicap as weather delays extended the event.
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Charleston
S.C
San Diego
Calif
Fortune
Basgin
Probers Turn To Missing Greenlease Money
The Senate Rackets Committee widens its probe into the missing $300,000 from the Greenlease ransom case. Subpoenas target St. Louis figures and union-linked individuals as investigators seek money trail details from 1953 kidnapping.
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Greenlease
Washington
Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
St. Louis Globe Democrat
St. Louisans
Bobby Greenlease
Robert Greenlease
Kansas City
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Brown
Kennedy
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Cab Company
Robert B
Barney) Baker
Teamster Union
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Hager
Hall
Macon
Abiley
Tex
Frances Bera
Long Beach
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Louise Sacchi
Jenkintown
Donna Brown
Inglewood
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