Mineral museum plan eyed near Spruce Pine
Budget director D S Coltrane and budget engineer Frank Turner to confer with National Park Service architects in Boone on a new mineral museum near Spruce Pine. Western North Carolina delegation seeks $150000 from the contingency fund to aid construction of the museum. Registers of Deeds meet in Chapel Hill with talks by state officials and UNC Chancellor Robert B House.
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Mineral Museum
Raleigh
D. S. Coltrane
Frank Turner
National Park Service
Spruce Pine
Coltrane
Turner
Boone
North Carolina
William B. Umstead
Registers OF Deeds Meet
Chapel Hill
W. Frank Burton
J. H. Hamilton
C. R. Council
State Department of Hearth
North Carolina Registers of Deeds Association
Robert B. House
University of North Carolina
America
Realtors Institute enters second day at UNC Chapel Hill
The sixth annual Realtors Institute at the University of North Carolina moves into its second day with 41 North Carolina realtors, one from South Carolina and one from Virginia in attendance. Forum speakers include Fred W. Greene of Union National Bank Charlotte and Woodrow McKay Lexington.
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Realtors Institute
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Fred W. Greene
Union National Bank
Charlotte
Woodrow McKay
Lexington Realtor
John Harden
Burlington Mills
Greensboro
J. W. York
York Building Co
Raleigh
Williams
Piedmont Advertising Co
Salisbury
Bakers Elect Leaders at 24th Carolina Convention
The Bakers Association of the Carolinas ended its 24th annual convention in Myrtle Beach with Athos Rostan of Waldensian Bakery Shelby North Carolina elected president. W H Jennings of Charlotte Bread Co Charlotte North Carolina named vice president and Robert Jennings III of Palmetto Baking Co Orangeburg South Carolina named treasurer. Mrs Louise Skillman of Charlotte was reelected secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakers
Myrtle Beach
S. C
Bakers Association of the
Boys State opens with government lessons and elections
About 307 North Carolina boys begin a city and county government program at Boys State, hearing explanations of government functions and revenue sources as they prepare to form their own structure. a Governor will be elected Friday. In Charlotte a 26 year old iron worker Joseph Arthur Treadway died by self-inflicted gunshot as his wife listened on a telephone, with coroner ruling the death a suicide.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Charlo
Esterday
Joseph Arthur Treadway
H. M. Treadway
Virginia Cannap Treadway
Se Law Office
W. M. Summerville
Dulles
U. N
Eisenhower
U. S
Inchon
Milo Farnell
Kyuam
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
East Central Front
Maxwell D. Taylor
Eighth Army
Liquor Sales Fall in North Carolina ABC Stores
North Carolina ABC stores reported a May decline of 145,639 from last year with total sales of 5,056,048.80. Mecklenburg led with 840,597 in sales followed by Greensboro 500,497 Asheville 391,150 Wake 327,504 Winston-Salem 300,994 New Hanover 255,936 Rowan 254,291 Cumberland 246,646.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
ABC
Frank Erwin
Mecklenburg
Greensboro
Asheville
Wake
Winston - Salem
New Hanover
Rowan
Cumberland
Red Planes Bomb Port and Air Field Near Seoul
Fifteen Communist planes bombed Kimpo Airfield and Inchon port last night and today, starting massive fires visible for miles. Fire raged at the Inchon fuel dump. Seoul lit by flames twenty miles east as anti aircraft fire roared and searchlights pierced the sky. The raid, likely by Russian built PO2 planes, marks the fifth strike on the Seoul area in nine days.
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Seoul
Kimpo
Inchon
Fifth Air Force
Red Air Force
South’s Cheap Public Power Is Target
Madison chamber officials complain to Washington that cheaper Southern public power undermines Madison's bid for a large aluminum mill. Anthony Datillo Jr. says TVA offers power for about one million dollars less annually than Indiana Power. He argues federal funds cover the difference, forcing Madison to compete with taxpayer dollars and risk losing industries.
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Madison
Ind
Madison Chamber of Commerce
Washington
South
Anthony Datillo Jr
Chamber
Fantas
Service
New York
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Public Service Co
Indiana
Datillo
Security National Bank plans parking area and drive in
Security National Bank directors declared a 50 cent semiannual dividend on common stock totaling 75 000 and announced a 30 car parking lot lease on Commerce Street to serve the High Point bank. Construction has begun on a Cameron Village Raleigh drive in branch. Total resources as of April 20, 1953 stood at 94 430 531.
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Greensboro
Security National Bank
C. M. Vanstory, Jr
Commerce Street
High Point
Vanstory
Security
Cameron Village
Raleigh
Cameron Ave
Oberlin Drive
Fateful Panmunjom session nears truce decision
Top negotiators from the U N and China front faced a fateful Panmunjom meeting to vault toward a Korea armistice after nearly three years of fighting. A secret 11 a m session followed by staff talks aimed to fix the demarcation line and plan prisoner exchanges as fresh offensives raged along the East Central Front.
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Munsan
Panmunjom
Korea
U.N
East Central
U. N
U. S
Chinese offensive roils Korea as Reds seize Finger Ridge
Thousands of Chinese Reds seized Finger Ridge and attacked nearby terrain in a major spring offensive. A major air raid on Seoul produced huge fires visible from Inchon, as U S and allied forces clashed with MiG patrols near the Manchurian border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Inchon
East Berlin laborers demand shorter work day rally
Five thousand workers in East Berlin paraded through the Soviet sector calling for a reduced work norm. Police watched as crowds gathered, while the regime used loudspeakers for marching songs amid a publicity drive amid tensions over de sovietization efforts.
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Berlin
East Berlin
East Germany
Stalin Allee
Rosenbergs Seek Stay From Douglas For Execution
Washington reports two rival groups of Rosenberg defense attorneys asked Justice Douglas to postpone Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s execution, filing papers to study in his chambers after failing to win a full Supreme Court intervention. A separate habeas petition by Irving Edelman’s attorneys was rejected by Judge Kaufman in New York.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Douglas
Sing Sing
High Bench
Los Angeles
Irwin Edelman
Edelman
Rosenberg
Fyke Farmer
Nashville, Tenn
Daniel G. Marshall
Irving R. Kaufman
New York
McCarthy Targets Clucas as Conant Stands Firm in Germany
Senator McCarthy pressed Harvard president James Conant over U S high commission in Germany and demanded recall of Lowell M Clucas as he questioned security risks. Conant defended Clucas and Theodore Kaghan, while Clucas appealed for support from Munich.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
U. S
Germany
James B. Conant
U.S
Conant
Senate Appropriations Committee
Harvard University
Igh
cCarthy
Lowell M. Clucas
Munich
Senate
Clucas
Theodore Kaghan
State Department
Kaghan
Congress
High Commissioner's Office
Appropriations Committee
Conant Clucas
Eyahan
Dr. Conant
Negotiators Meet This Afternoon Shipping Tieup Averted Temporarily
New York reports a temporary halt to a potential shipping tie up as CIO National Maritime Union President Joseph Curran agrees to a status quo pending a federal mediation session at 3 p.m. EST. The union plans no new signings while talks continue and wages are sought. a United States liner docked at 7:15 a.m. and heads to Newport News for a drydock inspection.
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New York
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
Curran
United States
Europe
Newport News
Rosenbergs Sign Petition To Eisenhower
Rosenbergs Julius and Ethel sign a second clemency petition to President Eisenhower from Sing Sing a day before their scheduled execution. Their lawyer Emanuel Bloch shows the 10 page plea as the couple's two sons visit, declaring their parents innocent and urging the president to spare them.
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Rosenbergs
Eisenhower
Ossining
N. Y
Julius
Ethel Rosenberg
Emanuel H. Bloch
Sing Sing
America
Michael
Robby
Bloch
Little £62 Item Noted
A fragment records a price of 62 pounds in an item notation. No further context or identifying details are present.
Prison Official Proves Rioters Were Right
In Santa Fe convicts at the New Mexico State Penitentiary rebelled after deeming Deputy Warden Ralph Tahash too tough. Tahash, held hostage for 71 hours by about 25 inmates armed with improvised weapons, killed ringleaders Homer Lee Gossett and Adolfo Benevidez during a prison hospital assault as state police stormed the facility.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Ralph Tahash
Tahash
Edwin L. Mechem
Homer Lee _ Gossett
Gossett
Adolfo Benevidez
Weather signals mild night and warm tomorrow
The forecast shows a low of 62 degrees tonight with a high of 86 degrees tomorrow. Today's high reached 82 and last night’s low was 60. Sunset is at 7 39 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 5 03 a m.
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Conrad L. Wirth
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New York Giant
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Lorraine Day
Small Fry
Polo Grounds
Bank
Roks
India
Winston-Salem
Western Electric Co
CIO Communications Workers of America
Finger Ridge
Sinmak
Koksan
Singye
Sibyon
Kaesong
North Korea
Capitol Hill
Imunsan
Kumhwaep
South Korean
Kapyong
Uiyongbu
Yangpyong
Changijon
Chipyong
Texas
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Anchor Hill
Hwangpo
Reds
Kyoam
Pusan
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