North Carolina Travel Council seeks bigger role for tourism
The North Carolina Travel Council, led by President Lynn Nisbet, reviewed progress from infancy toward a full-scale tourism agency at its two day annual meeting. An $8 000 budget was adopted with goals to reach about half a million annually, expand membership, and boost information on accommodations and attractions along highways.
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North Carolina
Nisbet
Terry Sanford
Hargrove Bowles
George Stephens
Asheville
Committee On Highways
Virginia
South Carolina
Board of Conservation and
Five Children Die In Kankakee River Boat Disaster
A rowboat carrying ten people on a family picnic sank in floodwaters near River Waters, Indiana. Five children Theo dora Murzyn Charlotte Murzyn Kenneth Bell Deb bie Murzyn Regina Murzyn drowned. Ted Bell and Rose Bell survived with Patsy Bell and Chris Holmquest. Volunteers attempted rescue as others waited for park keys.
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Scineider, Ind
Kankakee River
Ted Bell
Calumet City
Ill
Bell
Theodora
Charlotte
Kenneth
Debbie Murzyn
Regina Murzyn
Darlene Murtyn
Hammond
Rose
Patsy Bell
Chris Holmquest
Eldon Graham
Kathryn Holmquest
Soviet Pravda backs Laos talks over war and warns SEATO
Pravda endorses a negotiated Laos solution and notes British proposals for an immediate ceasefire followed by an international conference. It condemns SEATO intervention, urges U S military advisers to withdraw, and warns force will meet force while stressing peaceful settlement. President Kennedy’s call for a neutral Laos highlighted by Moscow.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Laos
Communist Party
Pravda
SEATO
Kennedy
Andrei A. Gromyko
Washington
Kremlin
U.S
Students Riot After Unlighted Beach Closed
Rioting college students from six communities battled police for nearly two hours after the unlighted beach north of Fort Lauderdale was closed. About 50 were arrested and 25 injured by flying glass as crowds halted traffic with stones beer cans and bottles. Two students helped quell the unrest using police loudspeakers.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Here
U. S. Aia
J. Lester Holt
Florida
Jim Dickie
Indiana State
Sanford Says State Price Fixing Suspected Beyond Perishables
Gov. Sanford claimed price fixing extends to more than perishables as legislation to curb same moves through the General Assembly. Officials reported identical bids on state contracts for bakery goods and other commodities, prompting denials from bakers and brokers while lawmakers push criminal penalties for price fixing.
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Raleigh
Gov
Sanford
General Assembly
Associated Press
North Carolina
Gov. Sanford
State Division
State Senate
William C. McIntire Jr
North Carolina Bakers Council
Greensboro
Paul C.jones
Harold Bar
Sanford calls for textile import quotas to shield NC jobs
Governor Sanford urged the General Assembly to back a federal move to set quotas on imports by countries and categories. He said the textile industry employs about half of North Carolina's industrial workers and warned against importing unemployment, noting Kennedy administration study and need to protect workers.
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Raleigh
Sanford
General Assembly
Kenneldy
Congress
North Carolina
Kennedy
Governor names underdeveloped areas program as top priority
The governor called a state area development plan the administration’s main goal. He framed it as a long term effort to reduce unemployment and underemployment in chronically depressed regions, coordinating leadership without a new state agency.
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Raleigh
Sanford
Countries seek Eichmann trial observer status
Four countries Austria West Germany United States and Yugoslavia have applied for admission of special observers to the Eichmann war crimes trial set to begin April 11 government sources said Sunday.
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Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Austria
West Germany
United States
Yugoslavia
Our Ancestors Brings Unusual Wit To Enterprise
Richard Q. Yardley a Baltimore Sun editorial cartoonist debuts OUR ANCESTORS in The Enterprise a humor column using past eras from cave man to 1942. The feature appears on the classified ad pages with old fashioned maps and a historic slant.
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Enterprise
OUR Ancestors
Richard Q. Yardley
Baltimore Sun
Yardley
The
Quincy
Drifter Confesses North Carolina Murder From 1938
Frederick Penland, 50, confessed to shooting Charles Warren in Asheville in 1938. He said he wandered the region, had a wife in New York, and was jailed for other offenses after arriving in Philadelphia last week. Magistrate set bail at 2500 dollars for a further hearing.
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Philadelphia
Asheville
N.C
Frederick Penland
Charles Warren
E. Y. Ponder
Madison County
Verhan
Buncombe County
North Carolina
Penland
Harry Ellick
William Reiman
Reiman
Philadelphia Inquirer
New York State
New York City
U S Aircraft Believed Shot Down In Laos
U S officials say a C47 missing since Thursday with eight American servicemen aboard is likely shot down by Communist fire over Laos. The craft departed Vientiane en route to Saigon, with no confirmed crew details, as clashes involve royal Lao forces and rebel groups aided by Soviet and North Vietnamese sources.
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Washington
State Department
U. S
Laos
Joseph W. Reap
U.S
Reap
Vientaine
Saigon
Viet Nam
Vientiane
Thailand
GOP Backing Kennedy On Laos Grows In Congress
Republican leaders in Congress express bipartisan support for President Kennedy's Laos policy. Senators Styles Bridges Jacob Javits Hugh Scott say Kennedy's strong stance may avert a Communist takeover and favor SEATO coordinated action if needed. Scott warns against pure neutralism while endorsing US troop use only as a last resort.
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Washington
APY
Laos
Kennedy
Kremlin
Congress
U.S
Senate
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Bridges
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Jacob K. Javits
R-N. Y
SEATO
Javits
U. S
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
York
Gromyko Kennedy Meet on Laos Crisis at White House
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko conferred with President Kennedy at the White House over the Laos crisis amid signals Moscow may back away from a battlefield confrontation with SEATO. Pravda urged settlement at the conference table and a cease fire.
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Washington
Andrei A. Gromyko
Kennedy
White House
U.S.S.R
SEATO
Laos
Gromyko
Khrushchev
Pravda
Moscow
Britain
Kennedy Administration
State Department
Joseph W. Reap
U.S
Pennsylvania Avenue
Mikhail Menshikov
United States
Menshikov
Mike
Harold Macmillan
English Mansion Gets Pay Phone
Paul Getty, among the world's wealthiest, has installed a coin-box telephone at Sutton Place near London. He notes guests and workmen often run long calls, inflating bills, and says a London call costs one shilling three pence. Getty paid about 2.8 million dollars for Sutton Place.
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London
Paul Getty
Getty
Scotland
Sutton Place
England
Duke of Sutherland
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