Anti Crime Witness In Long Fight In Portland
Portland city official Stanley W. Earl, a veteran labor leader and watchdog of vice, has spent a decade battling Portland's underworld. The 46 year old commissioner rose from CIO woodenworkers to public office, earning respect for forthright, blunt honesty and a strong fire department oversight. He is married with three children and enjoys gardening.
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Portland
Ore
Stanley W. Earl
Senate
Oregon
Earl
Benleg
Portland Boxing Commission
CIO International Woodworkers
CIO
U. S. War Manpower Commission
West Coast Lumber Commission
War Labor Board
C. B. Stephenson
First National Bank
Gardner Will Head Inaugural Committee for UNC President
CHAPEL HILL N C March 2 The inaugural committee for inducting William C Friday into office as president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina is headed by C Max Gardner Jr of Shelby after a preliminary planning meeting The inauguration will be at Memorial Coliseum Raleigh at 1030 a m Wednesday May 8 The Coliseum can accommodate the expected crowd Trustee members appointed by Gov Hodges include Gardner Bryant Umstead Mintz Whitehurst W D Carmichael Jr will be vice chairman of the planning committee Other members will come from faculty and groups across the three parts of the university
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Chapel Hill
N.C
William C
Consolidated University of North Carolina
C. Max Gardner Jr
Shelby
Memorial Coliseum
Raleigh
Hodges
Gardner
Victor S. Bryant
Durham
John Umstead
Albert Rudolph Mintz
Wilmington
Sam C. Whitehurst
New Bern
W. D. Carmichael Jr
The
Consolidated University
Racial unrest bill would grant SC governor near dictatorial powers
A South Carolina bill would empower the governor to declare a danger and rule by proclamation with lawlike force until revoked. The measure allows halting or taking over public carriers and utilities, mobilizing police and militia, issuing injunctions, and directing acts to prevent violence amid segregation tensions.
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Robert McHugh
Columbia
South Carolina
Secretary of State
Sen
Gressette
Calhoun
Montgomery
Ala
Timmerman
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Grossette
Goobernatorial Stunt Launches Peanut Week
Gov. Luther Hodges handed out 100000 bags of peanuts at Raleigh Durham Airport to start North Carolina National Peanut Week. He said the event marks a potential boost for the peanut industry as the state produces about two thirds of large peanuts in the U.S. Salted peanuts will be distributed to eastern airborne passengers next week by the North Carolina Peanut Growers Association.
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Raleigh
Luther Hodges
Raleigh-Durham
North Carolina
Hodges
United States
Plan Seeks Etiquette Law for Buses and Trains
South Carolina lawmaker Rep John Hart proposes a bill to require male passengers to obtain permission from a female passenger before sitting next to her on public conveyances. He cites penalties and aims to deter interracial seating arrangements, arguing it could reduce violence seen in Montgomery. Hart notes court rulings may block the law but plans to push the measure through the House via the segregation committee.
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Columbia
South Carolina
John Hart
Union
Union School
Montgomery
Ala
Hart
Sen. Grossette
Calearly
General Assembly
Revolutionary Pupil Assignment Plan Mixed NYC Racial Integration Efforts
New York City unveils a bold plan to reduce racial and wealth disparities in schools. The program includes rezoning, transporting students between districts, equalizing faculty quality, and locating new schools to serve mixed populations. Officials stress walking-distance limits for younger students, with extra bus transit for older pupils. Public concern argues uprooting children and transportation hazards.
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George W. Cornell
New York
New York City
Edens Announces New Trustees of Duke University
Duke University named two new trustees Deputy Defense Secretary Reuben B. Robertson Jr. and Wright Tisdale of Ford Motor Co. Robertson, a 1930 Yale graduate and Champion Paper head, was appointed by Eisenhower in 1955. Tisdale, born in Taunton Massachusetts, Harvard and Amherst graduate, owns a Warrenton home and is married to Marian Boyd.
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Durham
N.C
Reuben B. Robertson Jr
Wright Tisdale
Ford Motor Co
Detroit
Duke University Board of Trustees
Duke
Hollis Edens
Robertson
Yale University
North Carolina
Champion Paper and Fibre Co
Eisenhower
Tisdale
Warrenton
Taunton
Mass
Amherst
Harvard
Ford Company
New York
Marian Boyd
May Curb Boom Warns of Higher Costs and Rates
The Joint Economic Committee cautions that higher building costs and interest rates may curb a hoped-for boom in highway, school and industrial plant construction this year. For 1957 it expects continued gains in employment and production but no easing of cost pressures, with consumer spending likely to slow.
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Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
Air Force Sergeant Decorated for Heroic Crash Rescue
Charleston, March 2. Retired Air Force master sergeant William H. Rich received the Soldier's Medal at Charleston Air Force Base. The Asheville, North Carolina native saved a child after a C119 crash that killed nine and injured 11, in which he survived with six crew. Rich was honored before about 3,000 officers and men as Col. Clinton C. Wasem pinned the medal. The ceremony also marked the second anniversary of the 1608th Wing at Charleston.
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Charleston
S.C
Air Force
Charleston Air Force Base
William H. Rich
Asheville
N.C
Clinton C. Wasem
1608Th Air ‘Transport Wing
Rich
1608Th
Dean Marquis Named Fulbright Music Lecturer in Oslo
Dr. G Welton Marquis dean of the Woman's College music school has earned a Fulbright lecturer post in the history of American music at the University of Oslo for 1957 58. He will take leave from Woman's College in September for a nine month assignment and is the sole American in Europe for next year.
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Greensboro
G. Welton Marquis
Woman's College School of Music
University of Oslo
Norway
Marquis
Woman's College
Europe
Rumors of arson fail to be proven at Flat Rock fire
Governor Hodges ordered extensive probes into Flat Rock Elementary School blaze in Surry County. Arson investigators found no evidence of arson. earlier Franklin Elementary fire and other local blazes prompted rumors but yielded no proof of intentional setting. Local officials and state investigators reviewed rubble and interviewed deputies.
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Mountairy
N.C
Luther Hodges
Flat Rock
Surry
Neal
Mount Airy
Monte Boone
Franklin
Hodges
State Insurance
Charles Gold
Legislature Grapples With Money Problems
Raleigh March 2 lawmakers plan more appropriation requests and tax study as the Appropriations Committee resumes hearings on agency needs. The governor and budget commission had proposed reduced funding, while the Consolidated University seeks big boosts for Vege a and faculty salaries amid pay competitiveness concerns.
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Raleigh
Appropriations Committee
Hodges
Advisory Budget Commission
State Library
State Art Society
Board of Health
Medical Care Commission
Department of Tax Research
Consolidated University
The
University At
Mrs Coolidge Seriously III In Hospital
Mrs Grace Coolidge widow of former President Calvin Coolidge, 78, is in serious condition after cardiac and kidney failure at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton Mass. Doctor Hugh Tatlock says she is on the danger list. Her son John visits daily while she had a prior hospital stay for checkup in December.
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Northampton
Mass
Grace Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Cooley Dickinson
Hugh Tatlock
John
President Coolidge
Turncoat Hawkins Returns From China To Oklahoma City
Samuel David Hawkins, 23, of Oklahoma City and Peiping, China, arrived in Honolulu after years in North Korea POW camps and China. He said he fears charges at home but prefers living in the United States, and plans to proceed to Los Angeles and then Oklahoma City with his China-born wife Tanya.
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Samuel David Hawkins
Oklahoma City
Peiping
China
Hawkins
Manila
Immigration Office
Communist Party
Hong Kong
Los Angeles
U.S
North Korea
Tan ‘Ya
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Portland Central Labor Council
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Dorothy Stabb
Norwood
Philadelphia
Stabb
Easton
Cricket Club
S. C
Jacob Greenberg
William H. Ross
Queens
Board of Education
Russia
Harriet Ramos
Edens
Duke University
Oslo
Weather Bureau
New England
Appalachians
Great Lakes
Tennessee Valley
Cen
Tral Gulf States
North
Central Rockies
Cascades
Washington Coast
Central Plains
Cole
California
Miami
Venus
Diana
North Carolina State College
William C. Friday
Vege A
State
Budget Commission
Mrs. Coolidge
Parke, Davis & Company
Koonts-Mcghee Drug CO
Honolulu
Korea
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