Eighty Girls Finalists Vie For Miss North Carolina Title
In Charlotte ten finalists will emerge from eighty contestants in a statewide pageant to crown Miss North Carolina. Maria Beale Fletcher, Miss America 1962, will crown the successor who will compete in Atlantic City later this year and receive a $1,000 prize.
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Maria
North Carolina
Maria Beale Fletcher
America
Charlotte
Kenny McArver
Miss Fletcher
Dorcas Henley
Chapel Hill
N.C
Manning
S.C
Dorcas Elena Henley
Ginger Simmons
Monroe
Berma Jean Davenport
Raleigh
The Contest Was Unequal in Love and Law
Reginald A. Wike, 62, sued Miss Lucille Hackenberger over a 1953 blind date romance that ended in a long engagement. Superior Judge Eugene P. Fay ruled the match unequal, returning $75,000 in real estate and noting undue influence but insufficient proof on cash gifts.
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Reginald
Eugene P. Fay
Miss Hackenberger
Swain
Soviet goof wastes rubles on failed hydraulic press part
Washington officials note a Komsomolskaya Pravda report described a large cylinder for a powerful hydraulic press built by Russian workers who then cut it into scrap. The error, admitted by the Russians, cost thousands of rubles and contrasts with claims of flawless progress. American experts flagged the piece as inside look at Soviet troubles.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
U.S
Soviet Union
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Macmillan cabinets shakeup sparks push for election
Prime Minister Macmillan reshuffles seven ministers, drawing sharp opposition calls for a general election. Labor leader Hugh Gaitskell brands the move a political massacre and urges resignation and new polls, while Liberal leader Jo Grimond also presses for a vote.
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London
Macmillan
Labor Party
Hugh Gaitskell
Gaitskell
Liberal Party
Jo Grimond
Tories
Rowdy Connecticut Democratic Convention Chooses Senate Candidate
The Hartford convention narrows the field between Abraham Ribicoff and Kowalski amid protests and interruptions by Kowalski supporters. Ribicoff vies to become the nominee after resigning as welfare secretary. Kowalski seeks at least 20 percent of delegate votes to force a primary.
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Hartford
John Bailey
National Party
Kennedy appoints Celebrezze as HEW head
President Kennedy named Anthony J. Celebrezze mayor of Cleveland Ohio as the new secretary of health education and welfare. The announcement was read by White House aide Andrew J. Hatcher and Celebrezze is expected to take the post after Senate confirmation. He succeeds Abraham A Ribicoff who resigned to run for the Senate from Connecticut.
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Macmillan
Richard A
Rab) Butler
Home Secretary
Kowalski
al Gentile
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Bailey
Ribicoff
Kennedy
Horace Seely- Brown Jr
GOP
Prescott Bush
Hyannisport
Mass
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Cleveland
Ohio
Health, Education and Welfare
White House
Pres
Andrew J. Hatcher
Hatcher
Celebrezze
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Connecticut
Red Guerrillas Strike Convoy North of Saigon
A U.S. Army captain and at least 23 Vietnamese soldiers were killed when a government convoy was ambushed by Viet Cong forces 40 miles north of Saigon. 20 Vietnamese troops were wounded and four missing. paratroopers aided a relief battalion. The dead American’s name was withheld pending notification.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U. S
West Berlin student given 21 months in refugee escape case
Robert Mann a 19 year old Sepulveda California student was sentenced by a Communist court in East Berlin to 21 months in prison for alleged efforts to help a refugee escape to the West. He was arrested January 22 in East Berlin and counted time served toward the sentence.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Robert Mann
Sepulveda
Calif
Mann
Charles Mann
Robert
U.S
West Berlin
Stanford University
Young Mann
Uwe Sturberg
Watermelon shipments seek Kennedy boost for prices
South Carolina farmers send a load of melons to the White House hoping President Kennedy will help raise rock-bottom prices. State Rep. Mitchell Ott recalls a milk publicity moment but faced a flat reply from a White House aide. Ott then entreats Sen. Johnston to move the melons, shipping from Blackville Monday. A 20 pound melon brings about 10 cents, well below typical 35 to 40 cents, with overproduction and Georgia Florida Missouri competition depressing prices.
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van Load
South Carolina
White House
Kennedy
Mitchell Ott
Orangeburg
Ott
Wlete House
Blackville
S.C
Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
Georgia
Florida
Missouri
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Gail Jan Geyer
High Point
Janice Elizabeth Barron
Morganton
Viet Nam
Hollywood
Reginald A. Wike
Metropolittan
Lucile
Lucille Hackenberger
Red
Goof
High Point College
Enterprise
Enterprise Tomorrow
Your
Sunday Enterprise
William Shires
Raleigh Report
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Crisiis
Raymond E. Palmer
Demos
Ronald Autry
Bulletin
Airborne Brigade
Martha Mann
Laos
Cambodia
George Allen Walters
Columbia
S. C
Maxwell House
Nashville
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