Strikers Told to Return to Work at Great Lakes Plant
In Morganton North Carolina the Great Lakes Carbon Co plant sent letters asking striking workers to report back by next Wednesday. The notice warns that noncompliance could lead to permanent replacements. The letter states returning workers will keep wages benefits and the 3 percent raise plus sick leave and vacation improvements offered during negotiations. Union leaders cite a work speed up as the main issue. Fewer than 10 workers were reportedly fired.
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Morganton
Nlc
Great Lakes
Thor Able rocket hurls nose cone 5500 miles over Atlantic
The Thor Able launch from Cape Canaveral at 1 44 a m EST sends a nose cone 5500 miles across the Atlantic. Preliminary data indicate the nose cone reentry test achieved most objectives with successful recovery tests noted from prior flights.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Atlantic
Cape
Air Force
Withholding Vote Targets Major North Carolina Corporations
Raleigh The House backed a plan to apply the withholding system to large corporations paying up to 100000 a year in income taxes. The move would affect about 41 companies and followed rejection of a 10000 cap. Debate included sharp exchanges between Rep. Addison Hewlett Rep. Thomas Turner and others with Rep. Regan claiming the proposal clarifies tax law for the public.
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Raleigh
House
John Regan
Robeson
Thomas Turner
Guilford
Turner
Stanly
Addison Hewlett
Herb Hardy
Greene
Graham in Moscow after parks remark shocks London press
Evangelist Billy Graham left for Moscow amid reaction to his remark that London parks were turning into bed rooms. He said his comments may need amplification and noted witnessing daylight sex acts. he and his wife plan to stay in Moscow about five weeks.
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Alvin V. Steinkopf
London
Billy Graham
Moscow
Graham
America
Nixon in Meeting with Rockefeller in New York
President Nixon and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, old friends, meet in New York to share ceremonial honors and discuss politics ahead of the 1960 GOP nomination while Rockefeller plans a Hudson discovery celebration. Rockefeller travels to Washington after the ceremonies. Nixon proceeds to San Francisco.
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Washington
New York
Richard Munn
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Hudson
Rockefeller
Nixon
San Francisco
Congress
Gibsonville ABC Vote Is Passed
RALEIGH AP Residents of Gibsonville will vote on allowing alcohol sales as the Senate passes the measure on second reading by a 23 to 19 vote. The town sits on the Guilford Alamance border with most area in Guilford and Alamance voting dry in recent years.
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Raleigh
Gibsonville
Senate
Guilford-Alamance
Guilford
Labor Bill Faces Hidden Debate in House Committee
The House Labor Committee opened secret sessions as it negotiates a labor bill amid divergent views. James R Hoffa's Teamsters switch to backing a labor rights draft signals a possible compromise after weeks of hearings. The panel aims to draft a House version that may drop harsh penalties from the Senate bill.
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House
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Senate
Notly
D-Mass
Sam J.ervin
House Committee
Air Academy Graduate's Teen-Age Wife Is Killed
Barbara Ann Barnwell died in a car crash near Durango Colorado. Her fiancé Lt Lee Barnwell survived the collision after his car struck a culvert and overturned. They had married one day after graduation and had met at the academy chapel weeks earlier.
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Air Academy
Durango
Colo
Air Force Academy
Colorado
Barbara Ann Barnwell
Denver
Ree Tate
Lee Barnwell
Greenviln
Herbert Luoma
Cras
O.K
Luoma
Barnwell
Mercy Hospital
Academy Grounds
Colorado Springs
Breachesasen
Academy Chapel
Barbara
Hussein
Chicago
Denver Boy Wins 32nd National Spelling Bee
Joel Montgomery, 12, of Denver Colorado, won the 32nd annual National Spelling Bee defeating Robert Crossley, 12, of Center Square, Pennsylvania. The champion spelled fanfaronade and then catamaran to clinch the title, earning 1000 dollars and a New York trip.
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Washington
Joel Montgomery
Denver
Colo
Robert Crossley
Center Square
Joel
Robert
William Cashore
Norristown
New York
Allan Lee Kramer
Lake Worth
Fila
Allan Lee
Herter Gromyko Meet in Geneva Over Berlin Talks
Secretary of State Christian Herter and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko conferred in Geneva seeking a basis to continue Berlin negotiations. Herter’s consultation with Western colleagues followed a 30 minute session. Gromyko showed some willingness to ease the Soviet demand temporarily but rejected a one year deadline. The talks aimed to identify pullouts from Western proposals or the Soviet package plan to keep pressure on Berlin.
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John M. Fig
Geneva
Christian A. Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Herter
Gromyko
Sel
West Berlin
Liquor Election Bill Favored by North Carolina House
In Raleigh the House advanced a bill allowing towns in dry counties to hold liquor elections annually. The measure would permit any town or city to schedule liquor votes in each General Assembly year, expanding local control over alcohol sales.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Testifying Victim Describes Car Assault by Four Youths
A 19 year old Black university student testifies she begged to be released as four white youths with a knife and a public safety item assaulted her on May 2. The witness recalls being blindfolded and forced to lie on the car floor. defense claims consent under pressure.
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Hendrix Chandler
Tallahassee
Fla
University
South
Toney
Collinsworth
Navy scientist seeks deepest hole for mantle sample
A Navy research scientist aims to drill the deepest hole ever, potentially 15 000 feet through the crust, to obtain a 100 foot mantle sample. The Mohoe Project seeks geophysical insight into earth’s origin, oceans’ existence, and crustal history, with ocean drilling as a possible route.
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Birmingham
Ala
Navy
Geophysics of Naval Research
Lill
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