Five-Year-Old Survives 40 Hours in Sierra Wilderness
Kathy Paxton aged five survived over 40 hours without food or shelter in the High Sierra after sleeping in a crevice and climbing granite ledges. She was found by Alvin Van Dell and Louis Avery near Woods Lake at 8,500 feet and reunited with her stepfather. An Air Force medical team checked her before a precautionary return to Carson City.
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Markleeville
Calif
Kathy Paxton
High Sierra
Woods Lake
Alvin van Dell
van Dell
Louis Avery
Kathy
Kit Carson Pass
Lou
Avery
Stewart Crandall
Cupertino
Stead Air Force Base
Reno
Air Force
Carson City
Nev
Singing on Mountain lights up Grandfather Mountain crowd
The 30th Singing on the Mountain drew about 35 000 people to Linville North Carolina for a day of gospel and folk songs. Ted Malone spoke about poetry as happiness and Joe Lee Hartley 83-year-old founder led the event honoring a Hartley family reunion tradition.
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Linville
Grandfather Mountain
Carolinas
Virginia
Tennessee
Georgia
Ted Malone
Malone
Hartley
Joe Lee Hartley
NC Bar Assoc Endorses Court Procedure Reform at 56th Convention
The North Carolina Bar Association resolved to back legislation to streamline Tar Heel court procedures during its 56th annual four day convention in Wrightsville Beach. It supports a modified rotation system for Superior Court judges and transferring rulemaking authority to the State Supreme Court. Joel B. Adams of Asheville was elected president, replacing William L. Thorp of Rocky Mount.
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Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina Bar Assa
NCBA
State Supreme Court
Joel B. Adams
Asheville
William L. Thorp
Rocky Mount
North Carolina Rural Letter Carriers Hold 51st Convention
Wilmington hosts the opening of the 51st annual Rural Letter Carriers Association convention with about 300 carriers in attendance. The session runs through Tuesday with convention chairman Kenneth Taylor of Magnolia presiding, and speakers including Dr. B. Frank Hall of Wilmington and Albert W. Highsmith, special assistant to the U S Postmaster General.
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Kenneth Taylor
Magnolia
B. Frank Hall
Albert W. Highsmith
U. S
Deaf Association Elects Winston-Salem Leader at NC Convention
The North Carolina Association of the Deaf held a three day convention in Winston-Salem. John E. Crutchfield of Winston-Salem was elected president. His brother Paul Crutchfield, a trainer at Morganton School for the Deaf, received a wrist watch for his Boy Scouts work at the Morganton School.
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Winston - Salem
North Carolina Assn. of the Deaf
John E. Crutchfield
Winston- Salem
Paul Crutchfield
North Carolina
U S influence grows in Bolivia amid economic hardship
In Bolivia under the MNR led by Victor Paz Estenssoro, U S aid stabilizes the economy after tin nationalizations hurt revenue. Bolivia, with three million people, faces food and fuel shortages, relies on U S food aid of 12 million dollars, and rebuilds under U S supervision amid strong American goodwill.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
United States
National Revolutionary Movement
MNR
Uncle Sam
Eisenhower
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Paine, Hochschild
Aramago
U.S
Robbers Hit Dice Game Near Atwood Tenn
In a corn field near Atwood Tennessee three robbers armed with a sawed off shotgun and pistols raided a 20 man dice game yesterday and fled with about nine thousand dollars. State troopers Cpl Hal L Smith and Patrolman Chester Bullington Jr said the shooters forced participants to remove shoes and chased them into the woods while shots were fired over their heads. The pursuing trio briefly caught the robbers before they escaped after a gunfight.
Mother and three children perish in Phillipsburg fire
In Phillipsburg New Jersey a young mother Thelma Baker 25 rushed back into her burning home to save her two sons Ronald 5 and Robert 2 and ten year old niece Claudia Ludwig of East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. All four died in the blaze. Ronald was Baker's son from a prior marriage. The mother had fled the house before hearing the children's screams.
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Phillipsburg
N.J
Thelma Baker
Ronald Sebring
Robert Earl Baker
Claudia Ludwig
East Stroudsburg
Ronald
Miss Truman Plans to Go On With Show Tonight
Margaret Truman arrives with the cast of Autumn Crocus in Binghamton as Harry S. Truman rests well at Mountain Home. She says she will cross that bridge when they come to it if her father’s health allows.
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Binghamton
N.Y
Margaret Truman
Harry S. Truman
Miss Truman
Mountainhome
Missouri
Actress Wanda Hendrix Starts Honeymoon After Garden Wedding
Hollywood reported Wanda Hendrix aged 25 and James Langford Stack Jr. aged 38 left yesterday for a two month honeymoon at the Stack family's Lake Tahoe lodge after a Saturday garden wedding at Stack's mother's home.
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Hollywood
Wanda Hendrix
James Langford Stack Jr
Lake Tahoe Lodge
Stack
Tunisia Without Government Faces Turmoil
In Tunisia the Nationalist cabinet of Mohamed Salah M Zali resigned, leaving the French protectorate with no caretaker government. Ministers quit June 16, citing violent methods and group incomprehension. France runs affairs on a temporary basis amid nationalist terror blame after three pro French leaders were assassinated.
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Tunis
Tunisia
Mohamed Salah M'Zali
Television beams live show from Pacific Ocean floor
TV chalks up a first as a nationwide program is broadcast live from the ocean floor off Avalon California. The stunt marks a milestone in undersea broadcasting with technicians monitoring the transmission from the studio.
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Avalon
Calif
Pacific Ocean
Grand Opening Brings Prize TV to Local Winner
Mr. C. W. Fielder of 211 Venable Street receives a 21 inch Westinghouse TV as the grand prize from Al Newton, owner of Newton's Gulf Service at N Main and Montlieu after Newton’s new shop opening. Newton says the event was a success and invites local customers to shop at the new location.
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C. W. Fielder
Venable Street
al Newton
Newton
Gulf Service
N. Main
Montlieu
Fielder
Westinghouse
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Friends
Deaf End Convention
Royal Arch Masons High Point
R.A.M
L. F. Honeycutt
Nesbit Caughman
Young's
Furniture & Rug CO
N. Main ST
Ring-Harris
Belk’s
Drucgist
Hughes Watch Shop
Sram Pat Tris
Cecil
Office Equipment CO
S. Main ST
Oga
AS National Bank
Federal Reserve System
Commerce Street
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
BUY Ist Tire
America
H.P. Firestone
Church St
Dominion
NBC
Santa Catalina Island
Avalon Bay
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