Bogus Check Writer Sought In Carolinas
FBI seeks a man with many aliases over nearly 5000 dollars in cashed bogus checks. He fled Friday in a black Cadillac from a Charlotte bank after a teller tried to detain him. Operated from an office under the fictitious Seaboard Cast Aluminum Products Co. name and cashed fake checks in Gastonia and Spartanburg. He arrived Feb 25 and opened legitimate accounts across five Charlotte banks as a front.
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Charlotte
FBI
Carolinas
Seaboard Cast Aluminum Products Co
Gastonia
Spartanburg
S.C
Asparagus’s shift from medicine to food in the 17th century
The record notes that asparagus began as a medicinal plant before being adopted as a food in the 17th century, reflecting a change in use from therapeutic to culinary.
Woman Admits Part In Theft From Safe
Greensboro case ties Geraldine Grace Moore alias John Leigh Moore Jr to a 4700 dollar safe theft at J. P. Stevens & Co. plant in August 1956. She posed as a man during forgery charges and awaits trial in the U. S. District Court. FBI also arrested Richard E. House in Philadelphia for interstate transport of five eighty one dollar checks.
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Greensboro
Geraldine Grace Moore
John Leigh Moore Jr
J. P. Stevens & Co
U.S. Middle District
FBI
Richard E. House
Philadelphia
Stevens Company
House
North Carolina
Stevens
Man Held in Fatal North Wilkesboro Shooting
Robert Lee McLean is held in North Wilkesboro after confessing to the fatal shooting of Charlie Bumgarner who was shot three times in the back and four times elsewhere. Sheriff Billings said a coroner's inquest would be held soon and no charges were filed. McLean, 41, surrendered at his Cricket community home and used a .22 caliber target pistol.
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North Wilkesboro
N.C
Robert Lee McLean
Charlie Bumgarner
Claude E. Billings
McLean
Legal Snag Removed By Judge
Hyde County Board of Education moved to open bids on a new consolidated high school after Superior Court Judge Malcolm C. Paul denied a restraining order. The project near Lake Mattamuskeet faced ownership hurdles as the board had bought three acres and begun condemnation for an additional 12.11 acres.
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Washington, N.C
Hyde County Board of Education
Consolidated High School
Superior Court
Malcolm C. Paul
Earl Topping
Lake Mattamuskeet
Three Staunton youths indicted for rural store robbery attempt
Guilford County grand jury indicted Joseph Lewis Thompson Lee Wilson Combs and Charles Lawrence all 16 on conspiring to rob W J Lambeth store near Brown Summit after a penniless roving trip. Two other youths at the scene were sent to juvenile authorities.
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Greensboro
Staunton
Guilford County
Grand Jury
Joseph Lewis Thompson
Lee Wilson Combs
Charles Lawrence
W. J. Lambeth
Brown Summit
U.S
Lambeth
Negotiators Open GM Contract Talks
General Motors and the United Auto Workers begin talks on a new three year contract for 350 000 GM workers in Detroit. UAW President Walter Reuther and GM VP Louis Seaton lead their teams as early bargaining focuses on seniority classifications and a profit sharing plan with potential $600 extra per hour.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter Reuther
Louis G. Seaton
General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
Reuther
Seaton
Leonard Woodcock
Earl R. Bramblett
Fined For Baited Field Hunt in North Carolina
Rockingham North Carolina Judge Johnson J Hayes fines 11 men 50 dollars each for hunting doves in a baited field. The defendants include former General John R Hodge and local officials R B Tolar and W J Griffin. They testified they did not know the grain piles baited the migratory birds last Oct 5 on J A Singleton’s farm near Raeford.
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Rockingham
N.C
Johnson J. Hayes
John R. Hodge
Fayetteville
Robescou
R. B. Tolar
Saint Paul
County Commission
W. J. Griffin
Fairmont
Esperanto Alphabet Excludes Q W X Y
A historical note states that the Esperanto alphabet omits the letters Q W X and Y. The absence affects loanwords and spelling in the constructed language.
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