Record crowds at Southern Furniture and Rug Market
Despite near 100 degree heat buyers registered in large numbers on day two. First day totals showed strong business and expectations for five days ending Friday. Registration reached 1600 buyers from 1000 stores in the Southeast with hotel demand indicating attendance may top 5000. Buyers seek modern and Early American bedroom items, focusing on prices and shipping, with six to seven week backlogs.
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High Point
Death Sentence Delayed in S C Marine Convicted of Raping
In Beaufort South Carolina AP the death sentence for 19 year old white Marine Pvt Fred G Davis convicted of raping a Negro woman was delayed after a motion by his attorney. The jury to sentence was not yet set as another rape trial for a black man attacking a white woman began selection. Davis from Atlanta works as an electrician at the Marine air station and faced possible execution that would be a first for a white man in a rape of a black woman case.
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Beaufort
S.C
Fred G. Davis
J. Henry Johnson
General Sessions Court
Legare Rodgers
Davis
Woul
United States
Atlanta
Marine Air Station
Burton
National Cemetery
J. E. McTeer
McTeer
Soviet seven year plan targets U S industrial lead
The Central Committee presented a master plan to accelerate industry in the Soviet Union. It calls for automation, retooling, and mass mobilization of scientific experts under tighter party and government control to advance the seven year plan aimed at surpassing the United States despite expert doubt about completing modernization in seven years.
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Moscow
Central Committee
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
Pravda
Izvestia
Averki B. Aristov
Eisenhower predicts record peacetime deficit in 1959
President Eisenhower warned of the largest peacetime budget deficit on record for fiscal 1959 with a forecast of about 12.9 billion dollars. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans suggested the figure could be several hundred million lower, while 1960 projections anticipate near balance or a small surplus if the expected economic boom continues.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Eisenhower
Congress
Mauriceh. Stans
Senate
City Council Eyes New Budget Seven Million Dollar Target
City Manager T E Hinson presents a record 7 043 255 48 budget for next year to the council with 1 338 211 in capital improvements and 246 000 for annexed area services. The interim budget plan keeps the 1 20 tax rate and assumes tax and utility revenue will cover the increase.
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High Point
T. E. Hinson
Hinson
Plane Crash At Okinawa School Kills and Injures Dozens
An unmanned U.S. Air Force F100 jet crashed into Miamori Elementary School in Na ha Okinawa injuring about 100 and killing 21. Fire and debris spread to 30 houses as crowds gathered, with officials noting many victims were local Okinawans including schoolchildren.
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Okinawa
U.S
Far East
Tokyo
Japanese Socialist Party
Robert W. Burns
5Th Air Force
Kadena Air Base
Ishikawa
John G. Schmitt Jr
Chalmers
Ind
Richard Roussell
Lockport
North Carolina Drivers Hit 100 Degree Heat Across State
A multiday heat wave continues in North Carolina with readings in the 90s and 100s. Monday highs reached 102 at New Bern and Fayetteville, 101 at Wilmington and Cherry Point, and 100 in Rocky Mount and Charlotte. Night temps stay warm, 70s to upper 70s, as a cooling front approaches reducing peaks but keeping highs in the 90s amid lingering heat.
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New Bern
Fayetteville
Wilmington
Cherry Point
Rocky Mount
Charlotte
Raleigh - Durham
Winston-Salem
Hickory
Great
Carolinas
Southeastern States
Gulf
Governor Earl Long Recovering From Nervous Breakdown
Psychiatrists label Long's condition a nervous breakdown not mental illness as he travels toward recovery. They note a recent small stroke and overactivity, plan to drop at least 40 state payroll workers, and reveal his rational, intact cognition despite life turmoil.
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Covington
Earl K. Long
Long
Robert
Soviet Exhibit Opens in New York for 42 Days
The Soviet Union launched a 42 day cultural and scientific exhibition in New York with Frol Kozlov at the opening urging peaceful competition. Vice President Nixon warned that no magic summit can end world tensions while Kozlov planned a Washington visit to push expanded US Soviet trade.
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New York
Kremlin
Frol ‘A. Kozlov
Richard M. Nixon
Kozlov
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Soviet Union
Washington
United States
Eisenhower
Graham Sees Faith Remains in Soviet Union
Evangelist Billy Graham reported that many Soviets are not atheists despite official Communist stance. He toured the Soviet Union and Australia for six months, saw teen attendance in services, and said communism should not control the United States. He planned a brief stop in Washington before returning home.
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New York
Billy Graham
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Montreal
N.C
United States
Australia
Christ
Graham
Washington
Eisenhower Kozlov Pushed By Crowds At New York Exhibit
President Eisenhower and Soviet Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov toured the Soviet scientific and cultural exhibit in the New York Coliseum. They endured rough crowding as spectators and newsmen jostled them, with police and Secret Service keeping balance. Both leaders smiled and carried on the visit.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Frol R. Kozlov
Kremlin
New York City
Kozlov
Soviet Union
Exposition Hall
New York
Secret Service
Moscow
United States
Wim
Frol Kozlov
New York Coliseum
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David Cox
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Forrest Cates
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