Move Urged For Informal Arms Talks At Geneva
Seventeen nations pressed for immediate informal negotiations on disarmament between the United States and the Soviet Union. India proposed the move as Brazil urged compromise and India’s Krishna Menon urged leaders to meet promptly. The Soviets rejected Kennedy’s test ban terms, insisting on national inspection and stalling broader disarmament steps.
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John M. Hightower
Geneva
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
India
Francisco San Thiago Dantas
V. K. Krishna Menon
Rusk
Gromyko
Menon
Soviet Union
Kennedy
U.S
Moscow
Tsarapkin
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Arthur Dean
Joseph Godber
Khrushchev
United States
Tass
Plane missing with 107 aboard between Guam and Philippines
U S military aircraft and ships search a five-engine Flying Tiger Constellation missing with 107 aboard including 93 soldiers as it traveled from Guam toward Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Weather was reported good and flights routine before loss 270 miles west of Guam.
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Manila
U.S
Guam
Philippines
Viet Nam
Flying Tiger Line
Pacific
Clark Air Force Base
Ine
Vonslemauon Caribu
U.S. Army
Travis Air Force Base
California
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Phillippines
Route of Missing Plane Over Pacific
A U.S. Air Force chartered airliner with 107 aboard is missing on a Guam to Manila flight over the Pacific. The craft was chartered from Flying Tiger Airlines.
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U.S. Air Force
Guam
Manila
Pacific Ocean
Flying Tiger Airlines
Guatemala Faces Red Revolt as Clashes Erupt in City
President Miguel Ydigoras says 40000 supporters join army to crush a Castro Communist led revolt. In Guatemala City protesters clash with police. fires set, vehicles destroyed, transport paralyzed. Four dead and 72 injured, with censorship on outgoing calls. crisis follows disputed December election that kept Ydigoras Conservative government.
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Guatemala
Miguel Ydigoras
Guatemala City
Central America
Panama
Ydigoras
Congress
Fidel Castro
Slayton Out. Carpenter to Fly Mercury Mission
Astronaut Donald K. Slayton is grounded by a heart condition detected two years ago, with spaceflight plans shifting to M. Scott Carpenter. The move follows an Air Force medical review and NASA confirmation, while Slayton remains a Mercury program member.
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Barry Schweid
Washington
Donald K. Slayton
John H. Glenn Jr
M. Scott Carpenter
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Air Force
Slayton
Space Agency
U.S
Glenn
Earth
Kennedy Declares Coastal Areas Major Disaster
President Kennedy designated coastal New York and North Carolina as major disaster areas after a Atlantic storm causing severe damage. The move makes these areas eligible for federal aid to restore public facilities, with totals to be determined after Office of Emergency Planning studies. Governors Rockefeller and Sanford were notified by letter.
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Washington
Kennedy
New York
North Carolina
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
White House
Pierre Salinger
Office of Emergency Planning
Salinger
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Mrs. Rockefeller Obtains Divorce
Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller divorces the New York governor in Reno Nevada proceedings that lasted about ten minutes. She had filed to end her 31 year marriage the day after establishing residence enabling a quick Nevada divorce.
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Reno
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Kennedy Names McPherson To USO Board
President Kennedy named Holt McPherson of High Point North Carolina editor of The High Point Enterprise and journalism leader to the USO board joining Thomas G Thrasher of Huntsville Alabama Jacob Blaustein of Pikesville Maryland and Dr Dewitt T Burton of Detroit and Harvey S Firestone Jr of Akron Ohio all named to USO governors and corporation posts McPherson serves as vice president of the American Council on Education for Journalism.
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Washington
Jacob Blaustein
Pikesville
Dewitt T. Burton
Detroit
Kennedy
United Service Organization
Thomas G. Thrasher
Huntsville
Ala
Holt McPherson
High Point
N. C
Harvey S. Firestone Jr
Akron
Ohio
USO Corporation
McPherson
The
High Point Enterprise
Journalism Foundation of North Carolina
American Council of Education For Journalism
12 More Candidates File For North Carolina Congress
Filing for state and national offices closed with no opposition for several incumbents. Sam J. Ervin Jr. won the Democratic nomination unopposed while new GOP contenders emerged for U S Senate and federal seats. Ralph Scott faces William Z. Wood in the 5th District Democratic contest.
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Raleigh
Herbert C. Bonner
L. H. Fountain
State Board of Elections
United States
Sam J. Ervin Jr
GOP
Congress
William Z. Wood
Winston-Salem
Ralph Scott
A. Chalk
Morehead
David M. Henderson
Harold D. Cooley
Alton Lennon
Hugh Q. Alexander
Basil L. Whitener
Roy A. Taylor
Charles R. Jonas
George E. Ward
Richard S. Sapp
Two Top American Communists Arrested in Registration Crackdown
Gus Hall and Benjamin J. Davis, top leaders of the American Communist Party, were arrested in New York at its Chelsea headquarters on six counts each under the Subversive Activities Control Act. They posted bail of 5000 dollars each after indictment in Washington. Davis, once a New York City councilman, and Hall, general secretary, have prior Smith Act convictions.
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New York
Gus Hall
Benjamin J. Davis
Communist Party
Hall
Davis
U.S
Chelsea
Manhattan
Washington
New York City
Benjamin Davis
Thomas J. Lunney
Federal Court Building
Pair Tortured Before Being Shot To Death
In Jasper Tennessee two elderly siblings Grant Carter seventy one and Tara Carter seventy seven were tortured for hours with fire and scalding water before being shot. Autopsy findings described two hours or more of torture as intruders searched for money. Four thousand nine hundred dollars in hundred bills were found on Grant and three thousand nine hundred on Tara. The bodies were discovered on their isolated farm off U S 41. Local authorities labeled the crime as a brutal robbery.
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Jasper
Tenn
Kenneth Shelton
Tennessee Bureau of Identification
Shelton
Grant Carter
Tara
Carter
U. S. 41
Brewer Delayed Tax Hearing in Raleigh Case
Superior Court Judge Raymond Mallard postponed ruling on whether Raleigh businessman Kidd Brewer must appear before Revenue Commissioner William A. Johnson to discuss his income tax returns. Brewer faces a separate April trial on conspiring to defraud the state in highway sign purchases. the hearing was adjourned to next Wednesday as attorneys review potential self incrimination issues.
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Raleigh
Superior Court
Raymond Mallard
Kidd Brewer
State Revenue Commissioner
Brewer
William A. Johnson
Mallard
Revenue Commissioner
Lucius Pullen
Dist
Lester Chalmers
Chalmers
Johnson
NCEA Endorses UFE Plan for 90 Million Program
North Carolina teachers at the NCEA convention fully endorsed the United Forces for Education proposed 90 million dollar legislative program for 1963 65. The plan aims to raise per pupil spending by 41 and average teacher salary by 539 while seeking to reduce elementary class sizes to 25 students. UFE officials say total needs exceed 90 million in additional funds over the next biennium.
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Raleigh
United Forces For Education
North Carolina
North Carolina Education Association
UFE
UFE Organization
NCEA
Dallas ‘Herring
State Board of Education
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Miles
AVA
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Okinawa
Japan
Y Formosa
Carpenter
Haorushnevy
West
Kremlin
Alexander Ushlinsky
USO
Claud L. Greene Jr
Robersonville
Charles H. Babcock Jr
S.c.eggers
Boone
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
John Abt
Pullen
Answers Brewer
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