Guardsmen Placed On Alert For West North Carolina Duty
Gov Hodges announced National Guardsmen in Avery Ashe Watauga and Alleghany counties and areas west of Asheville may assist in delivering food and medical supplies after heavy snow. Road crews rushed to clear primary and secondary routes as two feet buried northwestern counties.
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Raleigh
Hodges
Avery
Ashe
Watauga
Alleghany
Asheville
U. S. 276
Waynesville
Brevard
Highway Department
Piedmont
Senate Cloture Vote On Civil Rights Debate Seen Today
The Senate prepares to vote on a cloture petition to limit debate time in the civil rights fight now in its fourth week. A House civil rights bill body debate also opens, with Southern opposition wary of the Senate measure.
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Washington
Senate
House
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
B. Johnson
D-Tex
Everett M. Dirksen
Resignation Expected for FCC Chairman Doerfer
New York Herald Tribune reports FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer preparing a letter of resignation to present to President Eisenhower. He testified on accepting broadcaster hospitality during a Florida vacation, saying six nights aboard a yacht owned by George B. Storer and flights on Storer’s plane. Doerfer defended his conduct amid Washington criticism.
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NEW York
New York Herald Tribune
John C. Doerfer
Federal Communications Commission
Eisenhower
Doerfer
House
Florida
George B. Storer
Washington
Storer
Roof Collapse Smites Street Level Shops in Durham
Snow load brought down part of the Star Brick tobacco warehouse roof, smashing two cars and furniture below while beams crashed through to Diamond Feed Store and Arc Electric Co. Twenty-one other cars and four trucks parked inside the warehouse escaped damage.
Emperor's Daughter Becomes Plain Housewife in Tokyo
Emperor Hirohito's daughter Princess Suga renounced her title at a private Shinto ceremony to marry Hisanaga Shimazu, a bank clerk. The 21 year old will manage household affairs at a Tokyo suburb home funded by a $11,000 residence and a $41,000 dowry while He plans to keep his salary. A May honeymoon is planned in Miyazaki, with an abroad trip deemed unlikely.
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Suga
Hisinaga Shimazu
Tokyo
Hisanaga
Japan Import-Export Bank
Miyazaki
Japan
Rescue crews push to reach 18 trapped miners in coal mine
Rescue officials extended the target time to reach 18 men trapped four miles inside Island Creek Coal Co No 22 Mine Holden West Virginia after a slate fall and fire halted progress since Tuesday. Temperatures rose to 19 degrees and heavy snow covered the site as crews persisted.
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Logan
W.va
Island Creek Coal Co
Holden
Chessman Abolition Bill Falls To Narrow Senate Defeat
In Sacramento a marathon 12 hour hearing ended with an 8-7 defeat in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Gov. Brown's death penalty repeal bill. The session noted Barbara Graham's confession and Chessman's fate now rests with the governor after the Supreme Court rejected his latest petition. Brown had given a 60 day reprieve but warned he would let Chessman die if the legislature rejected abolition.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Edmund G. Brown
Senate Judiciary Committee
Daryl Chessman
Edwin J. Regan
Tee
Senate
Chessman
Brown
California Supreme Court
A. L. Wirin
Cision
Three Captured High Point Escapees Sought In Florida
Four men fled in a stolen car after assaulting Nina Warren near Zephyr Hills, tying her by the road. A Tampa trooper was wounded during pursuit. Rufus Gainey was captured as the others fled into foggy woods. Fred Bowman remains the subject of a statewide search.
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Tampa
Fla
North Carolina
Fred Bowman
High Point
N. C
Nina Lee Warren
Zephyr Hills
U.S. 301
John Cheshire
Big Storm Moves Into East U S
A winter storm that battered the Midwest and South pounded the East with snow sleet and rain. Snow depths reached up to two feet in parts of southwest Virginia with 3 to 6 inches in Maryland and Delaware and lesser amounts forecast for New Jersey and New York. A new storm forming in the Rockies extended south into the Dakotas and the upper Ohio Valley adding more snow to the central region.
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Midwest
Virginia
Georgia
Carolinas
Ohio
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
mid-Atlantic
Mississippi
Appalachians
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Rockies
Dakotas
Ohio Valley
Texas Panhandle
Adoption Struggle Tests New Jersey Foster Family
Four year old Alice faces uncertainty as state welfare opposes her adoption by the Combs family in Old Bridge New Jersey. Three judges in Trenton weigh whether the intelligent child remains with her foster parents amid public attention and television exposure.
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Old Bridge
N.J
Richard Combs
Alice
Mrs. Combs
Combses
State Child Welfare Board
Trenton
New Jersey Child Welfare Board
State Board
Irephoto
Snowbound North Carolina schools and roads shut by heavy snows
The state endures a second major storm with up to two feet of new snow in mountains and spreading to the coast. U.S. highways including 64 176 26 19 and 441 face closures while 25 and 176 remain passable with chains. Raleigh Charlotte Asheville Winston-Salem and Greensboro report heavy snowfall with double digit inches. Linville tops 38 inches on the ground. Alleghany Ashe Wilkes counties face critical road conditions. Sparta resident Hassell Billings 47 found frozen near home. rural areas report food and fuel shortages and starving livestock. Wilkes courthouse and North Wilkesboro city hall stay open for distressed residents.
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Henderson County
Hendersonville
Spartanburg
S.C
Waynesville
Soco Gap
Great Smoky Mountains
Highway Patrol
U.S. 25
U.S. 176
Raleigh-Durham
Charlotte
Asheville
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Linville
Alleghany
Ashe
Wilkes
Hassell Billings
Sparta
Three County
Alleghany County
Virginia Line
Wilkes County
North Wilkesboro
Children Are Pulled From Rubble in Aga dir Earthquake
Rescue teams in Rabat report five children ages six to fifteen pulled from wreckage in Aga dir ten days after a quake. Among 2,400 Jews in the city 50 percent are dead. Two Americans among the estimated 12,000 fatalities.
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Rabat
Agadir
Saada
Werner Bauer
Placentia
Calif
Norene
U.s.naval Hospital
Port Lyautey
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