Plan for nonpartisan school board selection debated
Raleigh AP report on a Senate Education Committee hearing about a proposed plan for nonpartisan school board selection. The measure offers appointment or nonpartisan election, with an effective date in 1969 to allow transition and term continuity. State Superintendent Carroll urged setting qualifications for board members.
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Raleigh
Senate Education Committee
Jimmy V. Johnson
Dell
Ray Walton
Brunswick
House
Ira T. Johnston
Ashe
Johnson
Johnston
Charles F. Carroll
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Kennedy to address nation on Costa Rica talks and Cuba
President Kennedy will speak tonight on the Costa Rica conference that produced a seven nation accord to speed economic development and curb Cuba based subversion. He met with Panama and five Central American presidents in San Jose and will outline policy for the hemisphere.
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Washington
Kennedy
Costa Rica
San Jose
Panama
United States
el Salvador
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Honduras
Soviet Union
Cuba
Alliance For Progress
White House
Andrew T. Hatcher
Medium Level Cape Fear Bridge Wins Approval
The State Highway Commission voted to build a medium level drawbridge across the Cape Fear river with an expressway, estimated at 10.5 million dollars, instead of a high level bridge cost of 18 million. Col George W. Gillette criticized the choice while Wilmington officials urged a high level solution.
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Cape Fear
Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Cape Fear River
George W. Gillette
Army District Engineers
Wilmington
C. 0. Allsbrook
Highway Commission
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Army Engineers
Lauch Faircloth
Commission
Faircloth
Communists to Gather for Continental Congress in Rio
An AP analysis notes Castroist alliance plans a Rio de Janeiro congress titled The Continental Congress in Defense of Cuba to accelerate revolutionary activity and rally mass support for Castro. Moscow backs the meeting to counter Peking and guide action across Latin America.
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William L. Ryan
Latin America
San Jose
Costa Rica
Kennedy
Rio de Janeiro
Continental Congress
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Moscow
Khrushchev
Party
Peking
Gress Hall
Rio
Congress
Kremlin
Mexico
Venezuela
Printers Reconsider Settlement Offer in New York
Striking International Typographical Union Local 6 plans to revisit the proposed two year contract terms Sunday at Madison Square Garden. Mayor Wagner arranged the venue to allow broad attendance and urged acceptance after a prior rejection.
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New York
Bertram A. Powers
Afl-Cio International Typographical Union
Madison Square Garden
Robert F. Wagner
Powers
Elmer Brown
Brown
Manhattan Center
Stuyvesant High School
Widespread Frost Forecast in North Carolina
Snow flurries on the first day of spring hit the North Carolina mountains and northern Piedmont with two inches at Newfound Gap. Temperatures dropped to the 30s in the mountains and near 40 along the coast as frost was expected statewide through Friday. Tornado season warning urged residents to remain alert for occasional twists from March through June.
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North Carolina
Piedmont
Weather Bureau
Winston-Salem
Newfound Gap
Bureau
Associated Press
Tennessee
Helen Lane
Crab Orchard
Cumberland Mountains
Kinston Springs
Harpeth River
Nashville
New Orleans
New Department For Mentally Ill Proposed
RALEIGH AP Legislation to create a separate State Department of Mental Health would place mental hospitals clinics and private institutions licensing under one agency. Sen David Clark and Rep Hugh Johnson introduced the bill aligning with a study commission’s recommendations.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
David Clark
Lincoln
Senate
Study Commission
State Department of Mental Health
Hugh Johnson
Duplin
House
North Carolina National Guard
North Carolina
Cullowhee
Clarence Stone
Pentagon Officials Testify In Closed TFX Hearing
In Washington the Pentagon’s top civilians, Secretary McNamara and Deputy Gilpatric, testified to a Senate subcommittee about the disputed TFX fighter contract. The subcommittee probes whether the award to General Dynamics was justified and cost effective versus Boeing.
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Washington
Pentagon
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Robert S. McNamara
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Evening Star
Air Force
Subcommittee
Senate
Jerome S. Adlerman
Eugene Zuckert
Defense Department
General Dynamics Corp
Fort Worth
Tex
Boeing Co
Seattle
Wash
McNamara
General Dynamics
Boeing
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Gilpatrie
Alaska warmer ends severe winter era
The 1962 63 winter, among the harshest in a century, gave way to warmer Alaska conditions at 3 20 a m. Weathermen noted severe cold across the nation while the South faced heavy losses from weather linked events. Citrus and palm industries across Florida and the South suffered multi million dollar impact.
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Associated Press
U. S
England
Japan
Tokyo
Chattanooga
Birmingham
Cleveland
Atlanta
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
Alaska
South
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Francisco J. Orlich
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ABC
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Biddeford
Maine
Reds
THE
Department For Mentally Ill
South Carolina
Florida
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