Healthy furniture market opens with broad buyer turnout
Buyers line up at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building for the summer market opening. Retailers from 13 southeastern states gather as industry observers note steady prices and a push for aggressive merchandising for fall and Christmas promotions.
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Robert Marks
Southern Furniture Exposition
Southern Furniture Market
North Carolina
Exposition
Southern Buying Syndicate
Southeastern
Esther Palmer
Southern Retail Farm
Art Richardson
Admission Fees Opposed by State Board at Meeting
The North Carolina State Board of Conservation and Development voiced strong opposition to a House bill proposing admission fees for national parks. Meeting in Boone, the board unanimously adopted a resolution by Charles B. Wade of Winston-Salem, opposing fees for sites like Great Smokies, Blue Ridge Parkway, and Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Peace Congress Opens as United States Tests High
The World Peace Congress in the Kremlin opened quietly as the United States exploded a nuclear device 200 miles high over the Pacific. Pravda hailed the test as a gift to the congress while delegates and Soviet media denounced American atom maniacs and warmongers. World figures including John Bernal Kaoru Yasui and Mao Tse tung weighed in on legality and dangers, as Khrushchev prepared to address over 2 000 delegates from 101 countries.
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Stanley Johnson
Moscow
World Peace Congress
Kremlin
United States
Pacific
Congress
Pravda
Georgi Zhukov
Radio Moscow
Judith Cook
Britain
John Bernal
Bernard Lovell
Kaoru Yasui
Japan
Bernal
Olauda
Latvian Academy of Sciences
Khrushchev
Mao Tung
Red China
Formosa
Tung
Powerful hydrogen blast lights Pacific skies over Hawaii
A 10 megaton thermonuclear device exploded 200 miles up over Johnston Island as the United States completed its third high altitude test. The blast disrupted radio and telephone links across the Pacific, with Hawaii briefly washed out and Auckland viewing a 15 minute pyrotechnic display. Officials called it a spectacular but weather-neutral event while the Soviet Union denounced the test as aggressive timed with a world disarmament congress.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Hawaii
Australia
United States
Johnson Island
Soviet Union
World Congress For General
Earth
Japan
Johnston Island
Auckland
New Zealand
New
Japanese Overseas Telephone and Telegraph Co
Oakland
Calif
Buenos Aires
Hal R. Cooper
London
U.S
Britain
Moscow Radio
U.S.A
World Congress For General Disarmament and Peace
Moscow
Eight Die In Head On Collision In Maryland
Eight people from Washington D C died in a head on crash 13 miles southeast of Washington D C when their speeding convertible racing another car slammed into a third auto at Maryland 5 near T B Prince Georges County The victims were Evelyn Adams 21 John L Ford 22 Vincent Whitfield 22 Jean Jackson 19 Barbara Hollis 15 Oliver Armstead 20 and Joan Ball 22 The stillborn infant was the Ball child poškod. Police said all the deceased were Negroes. John Amos Johnson 20 survived.
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Brandywine
Jean Jackson
Barbara Hollis
Oliver Armstead
Joan Ball
U S high altitude blast draws criticism and defense abroad
The Pacific nuclear test drew Soviet denunciations and British defense as observers watched a ten minute fireworks display. Moscow radio called it a crime while London scientists said the blast could not affect weather.
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London
R. C. Sutcliffe
British Meteorology Office
Department of Research
Congress Focuses on Medicare Aid and Foreign Help
In Washington this week Congress weighs two Kennedy priorities health care for the aged under Social Security and a $4.7 billion foreign aid authorization. The Senate may push Medicare debate into next week while the House fights over budget balance riders and wary Rules Committee posture. Government Operations panel led by Sen. McClellan plans resumed action.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Senate
House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Republicans
Democrats
Ways and Means
Rules Committee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
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Ahmed Ben Bella
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Cairo
Mohammed Yazid
Rabah Bitat
Secret Army
Saad Dahlab
Yazid
Bitat
Yazid Long
Mali
Senegal
Mexico
Romania
Communist Party
Communist
China
Waikiki Beach
Pacific Ocean
Fiji Islands
Fiji
Nikita Khrushchev
Alfons Gorbach
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