Five Convicted Of Spying For Soviet Union In Old Bailey Trial
In London, three men and two women including an American couple were found guilty of stealing Royal Navy secrets for the Soviet Union. Sentences ranged up to 25 years for Gordon Lonsdale, Peter Kroger and his wife Helen Kroger, and 15 years for Harry Houghton and his fiancée Ethel Gee.
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London
Soviet Union
Old Bailey Court
Hubert Lister Parker
Gordon A. Lonsdale
Scotland Yard
Peter J. Kroger
FBI
Morris Cohen
New York
Helen
Lorna Petra
Massachusetts
Harry F. Houghton
Royal Navy
Portland
Ethel Elizabeth Gee
Old Bailey
Henry F. Houghton
Roddey Gets Eight Years For Taking Secret Papers
Arthur Roddey, former Pentagon mathematician, was sentenced in Alexandria Virginia to eight years in prison for unauthorized possession of a secret defense document. He pleaded guilty to one count in a 12 count indictment tied to discovering Pentagon papers at his Falls Church home.
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Alexandria
Arthur Rogers Roddey
Pentagon
Roddey
U. S. District Court
Falls Church
Defense
FBI
Albert V. Bryan
Senate Witnesses Urge Redistricting In North Carolina
A North Carolina Senate committee hearing urged redistricting to conform to the 1960 census. Proponents led by Wake Forest College Law School chair Dean Weathers argued rural versus urban representation requires action. Opponents noted potential Republican gains if the bill fails as final action was postponed to the next committee meeting.
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Boyce Whitmire
Henderson
Stone
Senate
Claude Currie
Durham
Dean Carroll Weathers
Wake Forest College Law School
Weathers
North Carolina
General Assembly
Irving Carlyle
Winston-Salem
Holt McPherson
High Point Enterprise
Robert Gray
Fayetteville
Yale Tennis Star Sidney Wood Dies After Auto Crash
Yale tennis captain and team member were killed or injured in a highway crash near Fayetteville North Carolina. Sidney B Wood Ill 22 died five days after the accident that also killed the team captain and injured another player. The three were riding in a station wagon that drove over an embankment on Interstate 95 two miles north of Fayetteville.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Yale
Sidney B. Wood
Wood
Here
Education Board Study Is Favored
The Senate approved a measure to create a nine member study commission on how local boards of education are selected. The panel will include three members named by the governor, three by the lieutenant governor, and three by the House speaker and report to the 1963 General Assembly.
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Raleigh
Senate
Boards of Education
Gov. Sanford
House
General Assembly
Sanford
John Jordan
Wake
Florida
Dennis Cook
Caldwell
State Board of Health
GOP Bills Progress in North Carolina Education Committee
In Raleigh the House Education Committee moved a GOP backed Glen Alpine local school board election bill toward a favorable report while another GOP proposal for Clay County board elections received an unfavorable ruling. Rep. Dan Simpson urged action on polling places and election officials, and Rep. Wayne West pressed for popular elections amid claims of underrepresentation.
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Raleigh
Education
Dan Simpson
Burke
House
Simpson
Glen Alpine
Wayne G. West
Clay
Clay County
First Lady Chooses Easter Outfit Influencing Nation
In New York, Jacqueline Kennedy plans an Easter dress with designer Oleg Cassini. The First Lady, seen at a ballet with Adlai Stevenson, weighs where she'll wear it while balancing White House, Virginia and Palm Beach homes.
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New York
Jacqueline Kennedy
Oleg Cassini
Cassini
White House
Palm Beach
Fla
Virginia
United Nations
Adlai E. Stevenson
Hollywood
Ballet Theater
Kennedy
New York City Ballet
Adlai Stevenson Warns Cold War Clash at U.N.
Adlai E Stevenson denounces the Soviet attack on the Congo operation marking a warning that the Kennedy administration will not avoid a cold war slugging match in the General Assembly. Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko renews criticism of Hammarskjold and U.N. actions prompting renewed tensions.
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United Nations
N.Y
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.N. Congo
Kennedy
General Assembly
Andrei Gromyko
Dag Ham
Marshjold
U.N
Congo
Henry Ford Cooper
Siberia
Gromyko
Hammarskjold
Peel Defense Witness Is Hostile in Murder Trial
The first defense witness in the Chillingworth murder trial testifies as a hostile witness. Robert E. Hawkey, radio commentator, says he lived near a gun during Peel's West Palm Beach activities and would be hostile if subpoenaed. Defense aims to counter state evidence as proceedings continue.
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Fort Pierce
Fla
Chillingworth
Joe Peel
West Palm Beach
Robert E. Hawkey
WJNO
Carlton Welch
Hawkey
Peel
Joseph A. Peel Jr
Plotter
Circuit Court
C. E. Chillingworth
Welch
Chillingworths
Single Greensboro area airport plan favored by CAB examiner
Civil Aeronautics Board Examiner Paul Pfeiffer recommends concentrating trunkline air service for the Greensboro High Point Winston Salem region at Greensboro Friendship Airport. Eastern Capital or United would operate the trunkline. Winston Salem would lose Smith Reynolds service while Piedmont local flights continue. Parties have 10 days to file exceptions and 20 more to file briefs on Pfeiffer's decision.
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Enterprise
Washington —Civil Aeronautics Board
Paul Pfeiffer
Greensboro-High Point
Winston- Salem
Greensboro- High Point
Friendship
CAB
Bureau of Air Operations
Greensboro
High Point
Pfeiffer
Eastern
Capital Airlines
United
Winston-Salem
Smith Reynolds
Piedmont Airlines
Piedmont
Winston - Salem
Pied
Kennedy sets out drastic overhaul of foreign aid program
President Kennedy asks Congress for a sweeping long term foreign aid plan with 7.3 billion dollars in five year loan authority to back a decade of development. He envisions merging programs into a single agency reporting to the secretary of state and the President, arguing bold action is needed to prevent chaos and secure national security.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Eisenhower
Civil War News Handling Is Compared
In Lexington Kentucky an American Library Association official said Southern newspapers provided a more accurate Civil War picture than Northern papers. Richard B Harwell noted Southern papers printed more articles reflecting the spirit of the times and followed a gentlemen's agreement not to publish military details.
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Lexington, Ky
American Library Association
South
North
Richard B. Harwell
Association
Lexington
Food Tax Opposition Is Indicated By Poll
An Associated Press poll in 10 North Carolina cities finds 39 of 48 adults oppose a food tax to fund Governor Sanford’s education plan while 26 favor tobacco taxes and seven support a tax on luxuries. Several tax options are debated as Sanford keeps his stance on removing exemptions including food and drugs.
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Clyde O’ferrell
Greensboro
Richard C. Bayer
Raleigh
Terry Sanford
Tar Heels
Associated Press
Lenoir
Goldsboro
Shelby
High Point
Charlotte
Wilmington
Winston-Salem
Burlington
Asheville
Sanford
Avery Sasser
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Coon
Examiner
Ese
America
Dummy
Mobile
Ala
Vonda van Dyke
Arizona
Judy Skipper
Alabama
Mary Fran Luecke
Missouri
Abel
George Smith
Krogers
U.S
Rudolf Abel
Smith
Moscow
Assembly
Senate Committee On Election Laws
Clarence Stone
Rockingham
Pont Gee
Education Board
Adlai
By Kennedy
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