Crackdown on Adv ance Fee Racket Intensifies Across States
The Post Office and Justice Departments launch a broad crackdown on advance fee fraud targeting small businesses. Prosecutions include three Chicago men in Bismarck North Carolina and eight Iowans in Carroll Iowa with multi-count mail fraud convictions. indictments and investigations spread to Miami Puerto Rico and Birmingham while 100 other cases are under review.
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Washington
Post Office
Justice Departments
Bismarck
N.C
Carroll
Iowa
Arthur E. Summerfield
Chicago
Miami
Fla
Puerto Rico
Birmingham
Ala
Summerfield
Nathaniel E. Kossack
Justice Department
Postal Inspection Service
FBI
Kossack
David H. Stephens
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Moslem Faithful Prays Five Times Daily
A devout Muslim prays five daily prayers as a core practice of faith. The routine anchors daily life and reflects Islamic worship traditions across communities worldwide.
Khrushchev Tours Polish Farms Under Tight Security
Khrushchev toured central Poland farms on a secrecy filled visit as security forces barred Western reporters from witnessing speeches. He arrived in Poznan where 100000 gathered, with guards, arrests threatened in several incidents, while a factory tour yielded no press access to reactions.
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Poznan
Poland
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Gomulka
Ciegelski
Racot
History pays off for North Carolina coastal sites revival
Dr. Christopher Crittenden of the State Archives told the North Carolina Travel Council that efforts to develop Ft. Fisher and Old Brunswick Town as historic sites will include a museum on the old town site. He cited Tryon Palace’s recent restoration drawing $100,000 in three months from the fee trade.
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Carolina Beach
N.C
Christopher Crittenden
State Department of Archives
North Carolina
Crittenden
North Carolina Travel Council
Ft. Fisher
Old Brunswick
Confederacy
Brunswick
Tryon
New Bern
State Press Assn Elects New Officers
Don Chipman of Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel elected president of the North Carolina Press Assn at a three day convention in Morehead City. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen named vice president. Beatrice Cobb re elected secretary treasurer. Henry Lee Weathers and James A. Gray Jr. named directors for three year terms. The note adds that US daily newspaper circulation rose by 3 million since 1950.
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Morehead City
N.C
Don Chipman
Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel
The
North Carolina Press Assn
John S. Anderson
Transylvania Times
Brevard
Association
Anderson
Clifton Blue
Aberdeen
Sandhills Citizen
Beatrice Cobb
Morganton News-Herald
Secre Ary
Henry Lee Weathers
Shelby Daily Star
James A. Gray Jr
Functional illiteracy topics at Southern conference
The closing session at the Southern Industrial Relations Conference in Blue Ridge, North Carolina featured Rev. Dr. George D. Heaton defining a functional illiterate as someone with at most four grades of schooling. He cited 425 000 functional illiterates in North Carolina and 75 000 over 25, with three-fourths of a million in the two states overall. Heaton proposed TV classroom pilots beginning January 1960 as industry managers pledge help, with 1 100 top executives from seven Southern states attending the four day gathering.
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Blue Ridge
N.C
North Carolina
Southern Industrial Relations Conference
George D. Heaton
Matthews
Heaton
North
South Carolina
Southeast
YMCA
Niven and wife separate after 11 years marriage
Actor David Niven and his wife Hjordis a former Swedish model have separated after 11 years of marriage. Niven said they had been living apart for several weeks and no divorce is planned. He left for Honolulu with sons David 16 and Jamie 13 and will return in August to start a movie.
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Hollywood
David Niven
Hjordis
Niven
Honolulu
David
Jamie
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