Snowbound North Carolina rescue boosts amid heavy improvisation
Helicopters and ground teams pressed snowbound operations in Ashe and Avery counties to aid 1500 needy families as five feet of snow slowed efforts. Red Cross, Army, National Guard and civil defense directed food fuel and medical aid while Weasel snow vehicles shuttled supplies and personnel. The day also saw desegregation court actions and protests in South Carolina and Texas.
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West Jefferson
N.C
North Carolina
Ashe
Avery
Russ Jones
Red Cross
Atlanta
Army, National Guard
Civil Defense
State Highway Department
Langley Field
Charlotte
Jones
Snow Front Sweeps East Stalling Rescue Work
A severe late winter storm moved from the inland South to the sea and halted relief efforts in North Carolina and Georgia. The blizzard dumped up to 50 inches in some counties, delayed 600 snowbound families, and brought in 250 National Guard and civilian volunteers to haul supplies and clear roads in Georgia and the Carolinas.
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Uazen Uy Nature
Southland
Kentucky
Tennessee
Georgia
Carolinas
Virginia
North Carolina
Capus Way
Nick
National Guard
Gainesville
Rescue Of Miners Is Set Back In West Virginia
Logan AP reports rescue crews wrestling with deadly fumes after a ventilation failure delays access to 18 entombed miners. Officials from Island Creek Coal Co and state mines chief Crawford Wilson say 10 to 24 more hours needed for underground work. Four blocked passageways and new pipes were used. canvas and timber now seal the remaining routes as air flow is reassessed.
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Logan
W. Va
Island Creek Coal Co
Crawford L. Wilson
Wilson
Church Notebook Highlights High Point Plans and People
Snowbound pastor Rev. F C Lester edits The Christian Sun from Asheboro and High Point. The 80 member congregation plans building on Chestnut Street Extension and selling the former W Green Street church. The Lesters aim to move to High Point in June and host a range of church activities from their apartment at 202 Edgeworth St. The couple, active in church media, hope for continued growth as Lester praises High Point’s developing status.
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High Point
F. C. Lester
First Congregational Christian Church
Lester
Asheboro
Christian Sun
United Church of Christ
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Tomlinson School
Chestnut Street
W. Green Street
Emily
Edgeworth St
Lesters
Mr. Lester
North Carolina
Pioneer V Heads Five Month Flight Toward Sun Orbit
Pioneer V, a 26 inch space probe launched from Cape Canaveral, speeds toward a sun orbit in about five months. It will pass the moon’s distance by afternoon and then continue to an orbit that brings it within seven million miles of Venus, sending back data via a 150 watt radio.
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Earth
Terra Firma
America
Soviet Union
Venus
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Pioneer V
Eclipse of Moon Occurs Early Sunday Morning
New York AP reports a full moon will be totally eclipsed by Earth's shadow for 1 hour 25 minutes at 2 41 a m EST. The coppery red glow will be visible across the Western Hemisphere weather permitting, the first total lunar eclipse since 1956.
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New York
Southern lawmakers brace for civil rights clash in House
Southern members prepare for a Monday trial to block a Senate move aimed at killing or altering a key civil rights provision. The section would make it a federal crime to enforce through force or threats a federal court school integration order.
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Washington
House
Senate
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Socialite releases anacond a at Manhattan news conference
Stella Reeves arrives from Philadelphia with a 12-foot snake named Adam and a hairless dog after a jungle expedition in Brazil. She describes spearing a 340-pound jaguar and poses with the snake at the Algonquin Hotel as photographers snap away.
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New York
Philadelphia
Pretty Stella
Sissy, Reeves
Floyd Reeves
Brazil
Manhattan
Algonquin Hotel
Miss Reeves
Adam
Chessman Fights On as May Ninth Execution Looms
San Quentin inmate Caryl Chessman, backed by attorney George T. Davis, pursues a new legal move to avert a May 2 execution in California. Governor Edmund G. Brown announced he is finished with the case after granting a February 19 reprieve ten hours before the scheduled death.
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San Francisco
Caryl Chessman
San Quentin
Edmund G. Brown
Los Angeles
Brown
Chessman
George T. Davis
Davis
Newsmen
Mrs. Roosevelt Escorted After Threat Near Bradenton
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt faced a threat as state troopers and sheriff deputies ringed her in Bradenton Florida after an anonymous caller said he would kill her. The call came to the yacht club desk where she spoke at a Democratic rally and she was escorted to a secure location. State Sen Ed Price was reported ill and absent.
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Bradenton
Fla
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Price
Sunday Enterprise Features Tomorrow
The Sunday Enterprise previews issues for the Piedmont area including farmer perspectives on snow and moisture affecting early planting. Braxton Younts covers the snow’s mixed impact and its influence on spring work. The edition also examines a two week hospital chaplaincy program and a Thomasville sorority Follies production with a backstage look and cast.
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Piedmont
Braxton Younts
Enterprise
High Point Memorial Hospital
Thomasville
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
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