Twin Girls Destined To Live In Darkness
Jane and Janet McBride, born June 11 1955 in High Point, increasingly blind from retrolental fibroplasia. Both mothers describe rapid eye deterioration after premature birth and oxygen exposure. Jane loses both eyes, Janet one, with future removal planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
Jane
Janet McBride
Janet
High Point Memorial Hospital
W. B. Donald Jr
High Point
Donald
C. B. Mektride
Willowbrook St
Steel Strike Inches Toward End as Work Call Looms
About 650,000 steel workers stay on the picket lines or at home as negotiations with individual companies near completion. Officials indicate a return-to-work call could come early next week after contracts are signed. Secretary Mitchell helped arrange a meeting between David J. McDonald and major steel leaders in Newark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Washington
Eisenhower
Mitchell
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
McDonald
Newark
Two Charged After Doak Street Auto Fatality
Thomasville police report a 2:30 p.m. crash on Doak Street killed George Chaney, 51. Edward Calicutt, 34, and Chalmers Williams, 28, are held on manslaughter and related charges with a $5,000 bond, after abandoning the 1953 auto and fleeing the scene. Chaney's funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Thomasville
Doak Street
Turner St
Chalmers Williams
Church Street
Calicutt
Williams
Sseet Oat Cubiding
Ams Ischa
Run
Chaney
Doak
Huger
Model Automobile
Main Street
Miss North Carolina 1957 Crown Goes To Joan Melton
Morehead City July 28 Joan Spinks Melton of Albemarle piano prodigy won Miss North Carolina 1957 in a packed Carolina Racing Association dog track. She edged Becky Lee of Dunn and Santa Marie Averette of Wake County, with judges’ questions deciding the final five in the three day event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morehead City
Joan (Spinks) Melton
Albemarle
North Carolina
Brownette
Raleigh
Faye Arnold
Carolina Racing Association
Melton
Becky Lee
Dunn
Wake County
Santa Marie Averette
East Carolina College
North Carolina Symphony
Sonja Marie
Pat Ee
Jrma Lambert
Diane Ruth Johnson
Randolph County
Asheboro
Anne i
Miss Averette
Miss Maultsby
Miss Whichard
Miss Lee
Miss Melton
Two Unconscious After Accident Near Kernersville Road
Harold and Judy Young of Winston were hospitalized after a car went into a ditch on the Kernersville Road three miles west of Horneytown. Harold remained unconscious with a critical head injury. Judy woke partially with injuries deemed not serious after initial checks.
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Harold
Judy Young
Winston
Here
Horneytown
Kernersville Road
Nixon gains GOP renomination momentum amid party support
Support from Republicans across the party strengthens Vice President Nixon's bid for a second term. Stassen pushes for an Eisenhower Herter ticket while Goldwater brands dissension claims, and Nixon meets with Eisenhower as Stassen seeks party unity ahead of the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Cederbert
R-Mich
Walter Williams
Citizens For Eisenhower
San Francisco
Christian Herter
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Eisenhower
Congress
Eepemeen
Eisenhower-Herter
Sen
Goldwater
R-Ariz
Taft
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Thye
R-Minn
White House
Murray Snyder
Four Polish Cadets Land In Austria
Four Polish air cadets flew two stolen training planes to Austria landing 60 miles apart in lower Austria after a 400 mile night flight. They sought political asylum saying Poland’s living conditions are unbearable. The crew claimed guards fired but had no hits.
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Vienna
Austria
Poland
Lower
West Germany
Pozman
Deblin
Warsaw
Munich
Pre Pam
U S Rebukes Nasser Over Intemperate Canal Claims
The United States orally protested Egyptian President Nasser for intemperate and misleading statements about U S lies on Egypts ability to build the Aswan Dam. The crisis over Suez prompted Secretary of State Dukes and Undersecretary Murphy to coordinate with Britain and France to keep the canal open to international traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Nasser
Egypt
Aswan Dam
Ahmed Hussein
Suez Canal
Eisenhower
Robert Murphy
London
Measuers
Murphy
Dukes
Peru
U.S
Hoover
White House
Britain
France
Sonarus
Nasser's Downfall Seen Near Despite Canal Move
Rome July 28 Middle East experts say nationalization of the Suez Canal likely signals Nasser’s fall from power within months. Internal problems and stalled reforms plague Egypt while anti Western sentiment rises abroad and Western aid dries up, threatening the dam project and economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sue Canal
Middle East
Egypt
Israel
Nasser
Britain
Nile Republic
United States
Aswan
Church Burns After Lightning Strikes Steeple
RALEIGH July 28 Historic Edenton Street Methodist Church burned tonight after its 200 foot steeple was struck by lightning in a severe electrical storm. A crowd watched in the rain while fire ate through the approximately 70 year old structure where governors and other high state officials had worshipped through the years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Edenton Street
Nasser declares Egypt to proceed with Suez Canal nationalization
In Cairo Nasser warns foreign interference may block navigation of the Suez Canal as he announces nationalization from Alexandria. Crowds greet his train at every stop and in Cairo, pro-Russian anti-Western chants fill the streets while he vows Egyptians will meet force with force and blasts Britain and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suez
Egypt
Nasser
Cairo
Alexandria
Suez Canal
Britain
France
Tragedy in Lake Orion as 3-Year-Old Martha Little is Found
In Lake Orion Michigan a two year old furnace cleaner confessed to killing Martha Little a three year old girl who vanished from a sandbox. The body was found in a hayfield near a road twenty miles from town with skull injuries. Neighbor Howard W Moore is held for investigation after admitting to assault while attempting to abuse the child and leading police to the secluded site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Orion
Mich
Martha Little
Howard W. Moore
Detroit
Moore
Oriain
St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital
Pontiac
Littles
Martha
Chile
Donald Kratt
Michigan
Lake Rion
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U.5
C. B. McBride
Leff
Edith Burton
Steel Force
Elw Thomas Funeral Home
Funeral Home
Chair City
Anne Shay
Fairfield, Conn
Pfc
John Kruse, Jr
Monterey
Calif
Shay
Charles E. Simpson
Oberbergen
Vietton
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