North Carolina Faces Mixed Recession Outlook
The state shows varied signs with some areas improving like Greensboro stores and Wilmington tips rising, while upholstery and textiles face closures. Across NC unemployment rose, sales lagged, and tax receipts fell, yet construction boomed and many predict a late-year upturn amid cautious optimism.
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Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Asheville
Alleghany
Camden
Clay
Curtiguck
Dare
Gates
Graham, Hyde and Tyrell
Union Seeks Auto Strike Support
DETROIT AP The United Auto Workers prepare for a late summer showdown with car makers over labor contracts with talks in recess until Monday. Union leaders aimed to drum up support for strike votes as Walter P. Reuther said no strike is planned now. Strike votes at GM and Ford plants ran 58,669 for and 4,397 against from 33 GM locals and 13 Ford locals.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
General Motors
Ford
Reuther
New York
Chrysler
Butler Blasts Ike Demand for Adams Resignation Grows
Washington AP report says Republican Chairman Paul Butler accused the Adams affair of corruption while the White House defends Adams and denies seeking a successor. VP Nixon urges restraint as the Senate investigation into federal agencies continues through summer.
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Washington
Sataric
Paul Butler
Sherman Adams
White House
Adams
Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Butler
Omaha
Admiral Burke Rebuked For Opposing Pentagon Reorganization
Secretary of Defense McElroy denounced Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, for opposing parts of President Eisenhower’s Pentagon reorganization plan. He praised Burke yet warned the admiral he must heed the President’s views, while leaving open Burke’s possible removal but stating no change in his status is planned.
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Quantico
McElroy
Arleigh Burke
Naval Operations
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Burke
Navy
Defense
Defense Command
House
Senate
Marine Base
Adm. Burke
Rebel capital Menado reportedly seized by Indonesia
Indonesian radio reported the rebel capital of Menado in North Celebes fell Saturday though Jakarta officials were not immediately confirming the claim Makassar broadcast from the southern Celebes tip noted Menado's 60 000 population The rebels had sought to topple Sukarno linked guided democracy and push for more regional self rule while clashing with government forces that had recaptured oil fields and driven rebels into the jungle from Padang and Bukittinggi
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Menado
Celebes
Makassar
North
Sumatra
Sukarno
Padang
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara
Caltex
Bukittinggi
U S Troop Use in Lebanon Deemed Remote by Officials
Washington officials said U.S. troops in Lebanon are unlikely to be used, despite Dulles suggesting we might participate if invited. Some interpretations see this as brinkmanship echoing Korea and Indochina, with only minor aid to UN observers likely.
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Washington
U.S
Lebanon
State Dulles
Dulles
United Nations
6Th Fleet
U.N
Life Magazine
United States
Korea
Formosa
Indochina
Nixon Cites Threat In Mountain Talk
Vice President Nixon warned at Roan Mountain that poverty disease and strife threaten world peace amid a large crowd at the Rhododendron Festival. He argued communism appeals where freedoms are scarce and urged support for freedom as the path to a better life.
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Richard M. Nixon
Charles R. Jonas
Roan Mountain
Nixon
Tennessee
North Carolina
N.C
Sherman Adams
Little Rock
South
Nixons
Washington
Johnson City
Tenn
Elizabethton
Frank Clement
B. Carroll Reece
R-Tenn
Judge Grants Stay in Little Rock Desegregation Case
U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley granted a 24 year pause on the Little Rock Central High School desegregation plan, allowing the school board to suspend ongoing integration for the 1961 term. The NAACP said an appeal would be filed promptly and Gov. Faubus defended the ruling as restoring normal relations.
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Little Rock
Ark
U.S
Lemecya Tuuunk
Central
New York
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Orval Faubus
Inter
Federal District Court
Central High School
Lemley
Central High
Gov
Judge Lemley a Loyal Southerner and Archaeology Enthusiast
The late 74 year old U S district judge Lemley, rooted in Virginia and Arkansas, is noted for a deep loyalty to the South and a passion for archaeology. He runs a fireproof Indian relic museum in Hope Arkansas and has a long record of meticulous, fair judging since 1939.
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Lemley
U. S
South
Virginia
Upperville
Randolph - Macon Academy
University of Virginia
Washington and Lee University
Hope
Arkansas
West Point
Army
Navy
Mississippi Valley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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David Cox
Ike
Gov. Adams
James C. Hagerty
New York Post
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Fred Seaton
Hagerty
Post
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
NAACP
Harry Lemley
Judge
Marc Pendleton
Glenda Ricks
St. Louis
Erma
Fay Willard
Kennett
Municipal Swimming Pool
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