National YMCA basketball tournament opens at High Point
The 25th annual national YMCA tourney runs today through Saturday at the High Point YMCA gym. Seven teams attend breakfast with coaches and officials. Opening games include Butler versus Kannapolis and Philadelphia against Buffalo. High Point faces Chattanooga in the nightcap.
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Wilt Cham
High Point Ymca
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Philadelphia
Hoboken
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Buffalo
N. Y
Kannapolis
N. C
Salem
Ore
Central Ymca of
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennesseans
Senate fight over Bohlen Russia ambassadorship
The Senate paused for debate on Charles E. Bohlen's nomination as ambassador to Russia. Tempers flared as Sen. Knowland and Sen. Knowland ally urged confirmation by a large margin, while opponents questioned Bohlen's security links and past policies. A related memo to Dulles prompted disputes over endorsements from former ambassadors.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Charles E
Chip) Bohlen
Russia
Taft
Ohio
GOP
Knowland
California
United
Adintee
Sen. Bridges
RNH
Bohlen
Hugh Gibson
Joseph C. Grew
Norman Armour
Moscow
Foreign Service
Sen. Dirksen
R-N
Gibson
Dulles
Foreign Relations Committee
Gibson, Grew and Armour
Street work bill aids small towns. toll bridges study ends
Raleigh lawmakers back a measure requiring the State Highway Commission to perform street work for towns under 5 000 on request, funded from Powell Act funds. A second bill would authorize revenue bonds for toll supported bridges over Croatan Sound and Alligator River. Observers linger on constitutional amendments affecting Senate representation and redistricting.
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House Roads Committee
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House Committee
Croatan Sound
Alligator River
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Dare
North Carolina League of Municipalities
Highway Commission
General Assembly
House Committee On Constitutional Amendments
Senate
Mecklenburg
Forsyth
Guilford
North Carolina Teachers Association Opens 72nd Convention
Raleigh hosts the 72nd annual NC Teachers Association convention with about 3,000 Black teachers expected. Registration underway, afternoon session planned. four general sessions and 34 group meetings scheduled through Saturday.
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Raleigh
The
North Carolina Teachers Association
Margaret Hall Wins State Speaking Contest at A and T College
Margaret Hall of Pleasant Garden, a 15 year old student at Dudley Negro High School, earned 300 dollars and an expense paid trip to Chapel Hill for the North Carolina Bankers Association annual meeting after winning the state speaking contest at A and T College in Greensboro yesterday.
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Greensboro
Margaret Hall
Pleasant Garden
A. and T. College
North Carolina Bankers Association
Chapel Hill
Association
Physicists Gather in Durham to Share Frontline Research
The United States lead physicists convened in Durham to exchange papers from the American Physical Society Solid State division. Topics included plasticity and dislocations, ferromagnetism, semiconductors, nuclear physics, cosmic rays, general physics and cytogenics.
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Durham
American Physical Society
Speeches at Wilmington Meeting Highlight Coastal Development
The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association opened a two day Wilmington meeting. State Treasurer Brandon Hodges will address a dinner on economic and industrial growth for coastal communities.
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Wilmington
American Shore and Beach Preservation Association
Brandon Hodges
Scotland Yard hunts murder flat in Notting Hill case
London detectives widen a methodical search of the murder flat at 10 Rillington Place where four strangled women have been found, including a 25 year old servant identified as Hectorina MacLennan. Christie, 55, is sought while a 1949 case links him to killings in the same house.
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Scotland Yard
Rillington Place
British Isles
John Christie
Notting Hill
Christie
Hectorina MacLennan
UN Forces Bomb and Burn Old Baldy as They Withdraw
U S planes and artillery blasted Old Baldy into a smoking ruin as American troops pulled back to abandon the fort to Chinese forces on the Western Front. The Seventh Division dynamited trenches and bunkers while Reds halted the UN advance along the Kumhwa ridge line.
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George A. McArthur
Seoul
Old Baldy
U. S
U. N
Kumhwa
Queen Mary Death Spurs Calls for Windsor Return
London editorials urged the Duke of Windsor to return to England to live and end exile after Queen Mary’s death at 85. A state funeral is planned for Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth II to be crowned June 2. Messages of condolence poured in as Britain prepares for royal ceremonies.
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Daily Express
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England
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Queen Elizabeth II
St. George’s Chapel
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Lady Astor Says Poison Would Be A Drink
Washington dispatch reports Nancy Astor told Senator McCarthy I wish the drink he was sipping were poison. She stated the line twice in the Taft Eisenhower tea party setting. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and others chastised her, McCarthy claiming he did not hear the remark.
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Washington
Nancy Astor
Jose Rh. McCarthy
R-Wis
Eisenhow R
Robert A. Taft
Astor
McCarthy
Stock Market Edges Higher In Morning Trading
The market opened up with mixed volume as Chrysler edged gains after a price cut announcement while General Motors dipped and United States government bonds fell. Commodities declined though Socony Vacuum posted record sales and profits and Baldwin raised its dividend. Wheeling Steel was forecast to rise.
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Chrysler
General Motors
United States
Socony-Vacuum
Baldwin
Wheeling Steel
Bugs Bunny Easter Coloring Contest Starts Up
The Enterprise announces a Bugs Bunny Easter Coloring Contest for kids up to 12 years old excluding newspaper staff children. Three sketches must be colored, signed with name age and address, then mailed or delivered by March 31 with winners announced April 5.
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Enterprise
Hearings Set On Prisons Separation And Utility Rates
Raleigh reports scheduled committee hearings on a prisons department separation bill and a utility rate reform proposal. A House session planned to study Gov Umstead’s human element theme for consolidating schools with a hearing set for next Wednesday.
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Eisenhower Defends Korea Ammunition Supply and Bohlen Nomination
President Eisenhower said the ammunition situation in Korea is sound and not a factor in the fall of Old Baldy. He defended nominating Charles E Bohlen as ambassador to Russia amid Republican criticism and outlined plans for a presidential commission on federal state tax and social security relations. He urged loyal government service and noted ongoing inquiries into Wesley Roberts.
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Korea
Charles E
Chip) Bohlen
Russia
Bohlen
Pentagon
James A. van Fleet
van Fleet
Eighth Army
Senate
Old Baldy Mountain
Old Baldy
Congress
Wesley Robert
Kansas
Roberts
Eisenhower backs Bohlen for Moscow post amid Senate clash
President Eisenhower defended Charles E Bohlen as the best qualified candidate for ambassador to Moscow amid sharp Republican and Democratic opposition led by Senator McCarthy and others. He said Bohlen's record shows devotion to the United States and noted past personal ties as justification for the nomination. The Senate dispute marks the administration s first public foreign policy clash with McCarthy.
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Eisenhower
Charles E. Bohlen
Moscow
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Bohlen
Sens
McCarran
D-New
Dean Acheson
United States
Senate
North Carolina Supreme Court Limits Suits Against Charitable Hospitals
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that charitable hospitals cannot be sued by paying patients for injuries suffered while hospitalized, applying the immunity to two cases. Justice Barnhill dissented, arguing the rule should differ when patients pay for services. The decision also included multiple opinions and sentences from other cases, including narcotics and burglary charges.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
M. V. Barnhill
Willie Williams
Moore County
Randolph Hospital
Union County Hospital Association
Ellen Fitzgerald Hospital
Rachel Virginia Williams
Jeff Johnson Jr
Barnhill
Superior Court
Buncombe County
Ray Miller
Miller
Supreme Court
Jack L. Templeton
Reds Attack Western Korea as Old Baldy Holds
Reported late Thursday Chinese Reds launched new assaults in Western Korea while Allied forces shelled the area. About 750 Reds attacked Bunker Hill near Panmunjom and were repelled. another force of around 150 Reds was beaten back at a nearby outpost. Hand to hand fighting continued at several positions for hours with no casualty numbers provided.
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Seoul
Korea
Old Baldy
U. S
Bunker Hill
Panmunjom
Imjin
Baldy
Munsan-Panmunjom
Associated Press
Stan Carter
Battle Front Report From Imjin and Baldy Hill Skirmishes
Chinese attacked four outposts near Munsan Panmunjom area while Baldy Hill defenders held key ground. U S forces shelled and bombed as Colombian soldiers escaped a bunker, reporting intensified shelling and heavy Chinese losses, with uncertain enemy strength on Old Baldy.
Weather outlook and temperatures
Nightly low around 30 with tomorrow’s high near 58. Today’s high reached 50 and last night’s low was 33. Sunset is 6 37 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 6 14 a m.
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