Reds Break Lull With New Korean Front Offensive
Chinese Communist troops aided by tanks and heavy artillery opened a renewed drive south of Kumsong on the East Central Front near Kumhwa amid rain and stiff Allied fire. Reports say 20 to 30 tanks and divisions are involved with several Red build ups observed as U N forces brace for further attacks and jet ace James Jabara claims another MIG.
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Seoul
Kumsong
Kumhwa
Pukhan
Alea
Kumsong River
Maxwell D. Taylor
8Th Army
Rea
James Jabara
Wichita
Kan
America
North Korea
Tokyo
U. N
McLeod Reunion in Fayetteville Names Guest of Honor
Dr J H McLeod of Fayetteville chaired a committee arranging a North and South Carolina McLeod reunion in Red Springs on September 29 with Dame Flora McLeod of Dunvegan Castle Isle of Skye Scotland as guest of honor. She will attend a homecoming at Old Bethesda Church near Aberdeen on September 27 and may visit Campbellton and Moore's Creek Battlefield in Pender County, sites tied to the clan's history.
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Fayetteville
J. H. McLeod
North Carolina
South Carolina
McLeod
Red Springs
Flora McLeod
Isle of Skye
Scotland
Dunvegan Castle
Old Bethesda
Aberdeen
Campbellton
Cape Fear River
Moore’s Creek
Pender County
Lennon sworn in as U.S. senator from North Carolina
Alton Asa Lennon of Wilmington took the oath to succeed the late Willis Smith in the Senate escorted by Senator Hoey. Lincoln family and Wake Forest ties noted. Lennon named to Government Operations and District of Columbia committees and vowed to serve at least seven years. A luncheon followed in the Capitol with family present.
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Washington
Alton Asa ‘Lennon
Wilmington
N.C
U.S
Willis ‘Smith
Hoey Lennon
Senate
Sen
Hoey
North Carolina
Rosser Yates
Karine Welch
Edna Lee
Alton
Butch) Yates Lennon
Harold L. Tribble
Wake Forest College
Wake
Vandenberg
Capitol
Lennon
United States Senate
State Beauty Pageant Opens in Morehead City
More than 37 contestants begin a three day event for Miss North Carolina 1953 with finals at the Carolina Racing Association track and Morehead City High School Auditorium. Prizes include a vacation, a $1000 scholarship, a $500 wardrobe, a diamond wristwatch, and more. Judge Miss Neva Jane Langley of Macon Georgia Miss America 1952 named on panel.
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Morehead City
N. C
North Carolina
Atlantic City
N. J
Queens
Morehead
Carolina Racing Association
Morehead City High School
Atlantic Beach
Neva Jane Langley
Macon
Coble Charges Ballentine With Misleading Facts
Dairy man George S. Coble accuses Agriculture Commissioner L. Y. Ballentine of misrepresenting milk price cuts by distributors. Coble, president of Coble Dairy, argues May prices show his firm pays farmers more than the state average, and cites Army and Navy contracts and unusually large summer production as reasons for lower bids.
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Lexington
N. C
George S. Coble
L. Y. Ballentine
Dairies
Ballentine
Coble
Coble Dairy Products, Inc
Coble Dairy Products
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
Cable Dairy
Army
Navy
Commissioner of Agriculture
East Berliners Trade Potatoes With West Amid Tense Berlin Rift
East Berlin residents bought sacks of potatoes in West Berlin as Soviet worries over growing resistance in Germany surface. The Taegliche Rundschau claimed numerous plots crushed by security police and warned of intensified vigilance against anti state forces. Nine tanks were moved by Russians into Berlin, while Kruezberg in the American sector saw another round of scarce butter and milk exchanges.
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Berlin
Taegliche Rundschau
West Berlin
Vladimir S. Semyonov
Eastmans
Slansky
Rajk
Kostoff
Indszenty
Hungary
Joseph Cardinal Indszenty
Neue Zeitung
U. S. High Commission
Biesdorf
Kruezberg
Germany
West Proposes Big Four Talk On German Unification
The United States Britain and France delivered notes to the Soviet Embassy proposing a Big Four foreign ministers meeting on German unification. They called for a plan to reunite East and West Germany and to advance an Austrian peace treaty with a session in autumn.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
State Department
Lincoln White
London
Paris
West Germany
White
Germany
Kremlin
Beria
East Germany
Dulles
Lord Salisbury
Georges Bidault
Europe
Western
China
Red
Korea
Eisenhower
Churchill
Lanrel
Bermuda
Little Liz Leads as Bride Grooms Motto Expected to Hold
A witty column notes that when a woman guides a man to the altar she often keeps the leadership role. The piece reflects on gender dynamics and social expectations in courtship rituals.
Assembly Closes Ninth Annual Royal and Select Masons Assembly
The Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons of North Carolina ended its 14th annual assembly. Delegates and Masons from the Carolinas and additional states and Brazil attended. Henry F. Collins, past grand master of Masons in South Carolina, gave the final address. Teams from Eustis Florida and Spartanburg South Carolina conferred eight degrees on Masons from Pisgah and Doric councils.
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Waynesville
Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons of
North Carolina
Carolinas
Mississippi
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Brazil
Henry F. Collins
Masons
South Carolina
Eustis
Fla
Spartanburg
S. C
Pisgah
Doric
County's Third Polio Death Sparks Massive Immunization Drive
In Hickory N C Catawba County reports its third polio death as a mass inoculation begins aiming to reach about 14 000 children across four clinics in Newton Conover and Hickory. More than 1 500 volunteers doctors and nurses operate in three shifts to battle the outbreak.
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Catawba County
Hickory
N. C
Patricia Ann Jones
Bailey Jones
Charlotte Hospital
Caldwell County
Sevem
Newton
Conover
Green Park
Department of Defense
San Francisco
Newark
N. J
National Foundation For
Charlotte
Gaither Hahn
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Foundation
State Board of Health
Benton V. D. Scott
Alexander County
Raleigh Durham Airport Authority to Approve Terminal Plans
Raleigh Durham Airport Authority is slated to meet next Tuesday and is expected to approve a $300,000 terminal building covering 18 979 square feet. The tentative approval came at a yesterday meeting as plans move forward.
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Raleigh
Raleigh- Durham
Oil stove blast suits raise damages to 200000 in Elizabethtown area
Three new lawsuits stemming from a February 17 oil stove explosion that killed Mrs. Paul Brewington, four of her children, another person, and injured her two-year-old son Larry push total claims against Eastern Oil Co. of Elizabethtown to 200000. Five suits earlier sought 170000, now three more for 30000 filed in Harnett County Superior Court accuse the firm of selling a kerosene gasoline mix as simple kerosene.
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Lillington
LLP
Eastern Oil Co
Elizabethtown
Paul Brewington
Larry
Harnett Counity Superior Court
Young Thieves in Burlington Held for Auto Part Thefts
Two Burlington youths Willard Thompson 17 and Albert Martin Jr 22 were bound over on multiple local break in charges with bonds set at 2500 and 2400 dollars respectively. Detective Sgt J O Oglesby said a third youth Albert Stewart 19 faced eight charges and was jailed in Conway S C related to a drug store break in. They allegedly lined up customers to buy Fender skirts and hub caps stolen from cars at night for ten dollars per set.
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Burlington
Willard Thompson
Albert Martin, Jr
J. O. Oglesby
Albert Stewart
Oglesby
Stewart
Conway
S. C
Thompson
Martin
State Crop Conditions Favorable Across North Carolina
The Federal State Crop Reporting Service says overall North Carolina crop conditions remain favorable with local variations. Rain was light to scattered through July 10, cotton prospects look good if boll weevil control succeeds, and July 1 shows improvement in the southern Piedmont cot ton. Corn production is forecast at about 74.9 million bushels, a record for the state, with tobacco crops in good to fair condition and regional variance in burley and flue cured yields.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Federal
State Crop Reporting Service
Piedmont
Secret session looms in Panmunjom truce talks
An authoritative source warned of a possible breakdown in Panmunjom talks as Allied and Communist negotiators prepare for a secret session. The dispute centers on guarantees South Korea will honor a truce and the recapture of prisoners freed last month.
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Panmunjom
U.N
South Korea
Sowce
Peiping
Tokyo
U. N. Command
Pohang
Sohn Won I
Alan Winnington
Winnington
Rhee
Gordon Gray's Wife Dies In Baltimore
Mrs. Gordon Gray, wife of UNC president and former Army secretary, died in Baltimore after collapsing during a badminton game. She was 39, a Winston-Salem native, and had resided in Chapel Hill with four children. An autopsy was planned to determine cause. services to be held in Winston-Salem with burial in Salem Cemetery.
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Baltimore
Gordon Gray
University of North Carolina
Army
Gray
Jane Boyden Craige
Winston-Salem
N. C
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Salem
Gordon, Jr
Boyden
Craige
Chapel
Burton Craige
Salisbury
National Cathedral School
Washington, D. C
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel
Rage Two-A
Eisenhower Holds Morning Briefing On Foreign Aid
President Eisenhower hosted a White House breakfast for top officials and a Senate luncheon to press Congress on foreign aid. Taber of New York avoided committing to preserving the 5.1 billion dollar authorization as the House appropriations panel reviews the aid bill. The meetings included Stassen Dodge Gruenther and Gen Persons as participants.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Taber
White House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Harold E. Stassen
Joseph M. Dodge
Alfred M. Gruenther
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Wilston B. Persons
White House hai‘Son
Gress
Congress
Weather outlook with temperatures and sun times
The forecast shows a low of 66 and a high of 88 tomorrow. Today’s high reached 88 and last night’s low was 63. Sunset is at 7 37 p m today and sunrise is at 5 15 a m tomorrow.
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Charlotte
Weather Bureau
Asheville
Peeenes Atlante
Boston
Cnes
Chicago
Columbia
Detroit
Sccessreaeeees
High Point
Cscee
Penne
Little Rock
Ccceseeenee
Los Angeles Co
Cc Rereeee
Memphis
Ccceeneaetnee
Miami
Mobile
Sneer
New Orleans
Esseneres
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Minnie High Lennon
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Alton ‘Yates
East Berlin
West
Little Liz
Cald
Bankers
Chapel Hill
J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr
State Planters Bank and Trust Company
Richmond
East Central Front
Syngman Rhee
Walter Robertson
McChord Field
Wash
Robertson
Pyongyang
Pusan
Red Radio
U.N. Stockades
Defense Ministry
Ike
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