Boy Hit by School Bus in Wake County
A one year old child was seriously injured when hit by a Wake County school bus. The boy Gary Jerome Roberts was run over after darting from behind a hedge into the bus path. Doctors amputated the child's right leg. The bus, driven by Thomas Wilson, was not the correct bus. The driver did not stop.
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Garner
N. C
W. C. Moore
Rt. 2
Raleigh
Wake County
Fred Smith
Gary Jerome Roberts
Thomas Wilson
Smith
Newspaper Mail Rate Hike Favored by Senate House Group
Washington negotiators agreed on staged postal rate increases starting January 1 1959 to raise about 25 million dollars yearly. The plan affects advertising and reading portions of newspapers with 60 percent boosts for ads and 30 percent for reading material in three yearly 20 and 10 percent steps. Final passage by both houses required. date set to ease publisher adjustment.
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Washington
Senate House Group
House
Senate
Eddie Ceed
Olin D. Johnston
D-Sc
New York Airport Bars Auto Salesmen From Field
Twenty five auto dealers in the New York area agreed to bar auto salesmen from the field to end high pressure sales to returning servicemen at the airport.
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New York
New York International Airport
New Plant Tax Break Hinted At Washington Conference
Secretary Weeks and the Business Advisory Council discuss a plan to liberalize tax write offs for industry to spur plant expansion. The idea aims for late summer or early fall action and would extend depreciation allowances to encourage investment in plants, machinery, and equipment.
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Hot Springs
Congress
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Business Advisory Council
Washington
Defense McElroy
BAC
R-Ind
Russians Tighten Slav Line Over Yugoslavia Crisis
Soviet Union adopts a tougher stance toward Yugoslavia as Khrushchev faces a challenge to his leadership. Polish sources say Chinese Reds and Stalinists unite against him while the Central Committee debates domestic industrial goals. Molotov rumors surface as Moscow factions realign after last year’s Malenkov/Molotov purge.
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London
Soviet Union
Yugo Slavia
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Communist Bloc
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Warsaw
Communist Party
Oneen
Trybuna Ludusa
Georgi Malenkov
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Rescued Coal Miners Survive 13 Hours Trapped
Twenty four men trapped for more than thirteen hours in a flooded coal mine near Sharpies West Virginia emerged at dawn unharmed and in good condition through an abandoned air shaft of Boone County Coal Corp No 2 A. Rescue crews and families awaited outside the bathhouse as trucks carried the men away.
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Arthur Fraley
Boone County Corp
Sharples
W. Va
Jean
Boone County Coal Corp
Orville Kitchen
Robert Turner
James Bradley
Bradley
Lon Hamilton
Crawford L. Wilson
West
Turner
Eisenhower Praises Nixon After Peru Demonstration Incident
President Eisenhower sent a personal note to Nixon praising his courage and calm in facing a mob at San Marcos University in Lima. He urged Peruvian and U.S. citizens to condemn the incident and noted the Peruvian government’s expressed regret.
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Nixon
Quito
Ecuador
San Marcos University
Lima
Peru
Eisenhower
United States
Pat Nixon
Pero
Committee Cuts State Departments Budget
The House Appropriations Committee trimmed 15.41 million dollars from new funds requested for the State Department and US Information Agency. It proposes 192.86 million for State and 101.75 million for USIA, with the President's totals of 199.99 million and 110.03 million respectively. The panel also cut overseas entertainer tours and reduced funds for the Justice Department and federal judiciary.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
State Department
U. S. Information Agency
House
USIA
Justice Department
States Department
Riviera
Nice
France
Treasury Department
United States
United States- Mexico
Tar Heel marks 25 years leading Argentine orchestra
Harold Mickey a Raleigh native and former UNC leader celebrates 25 years as Buenos Aires orchestra leader with his trio at the American Club. He and two Argentine musicians have long tenure, reflecting his role in shaping American music’s popularity in Argentina.
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Tar Heel
Buenos Aires
Harold Mickey
Carolina Boll Weevils
University of North Carolina
Mickey
Williams Foundation
United States
Winston-Salem
Zebulon Vance
Harry Frances Mickey
Winston-Salem Civic Symphony Orchestra
Harold
Moravian Sunday School
Salem ‘College
New York
Durham Man Heads State Bankers
J. Fleming Wily Jr. of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. was elected president of the North Carolina Bankers Assn. at the 62nd annual convention in Pinehurst. Thurman Sensing of Nashville opened the session as executive vice president of the Southern States Industrial Council, with over 1,000 registered for the event. The elder Wily led the association in 1906, predating his son's 1940s rise to the presidency.
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Pinehurst
N.C
Durham
North Carolina Bankers Assn
J. Fleming Wily Jr
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
Bankers
Thurman Sensing
Nashville
Tenn
Southern States Industrial Council
Wily
C. Lacy Tate
Chadbourn
Waccamaw Bank & Trust Co
Whiteville
Bankers’ Organization
Ballentine says NC farmers poised on brink of disaster
North Carolina cotton and tobacco farmers face disaster from persistent rain says Commissioner Ballentine. Delays in planting push back 2 to 4 weeks, topsoil washed away, pasture growth slowed, and tobacco plants crowding or ruin feared. Rasor notes limited transplanting. soybeans just beginning. prior year planting rates higher.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Jure
L. Y
Ballentine
H. L. Rasor
Federal State Crop Reporting Service
Rasor
Pakistan Politician Killed in Lahore At Home
Dr. Khan Saheb aged 76 founder and chief of Prime Minister Firoz Khan Noon's Republican party was assassinated at his Lahore home. An attacker was overpowered after a car driver ran him down as Khan Saheb sought reinstatement. He had served as first chief minister of West Pakistan and led regional politics for years.
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Lahore
West Pakistan
Khan Saheb
Firoz Khan Noon
Republican Party
Khan
Khan Brothers
North‘west Frontier
India
Cantase Abdul Ghaffar
Ex Envoy to Russia Joseph E Davies Dies at 81
Washington venerable diplomat Joseph E Davies longtime ambassador to the Soviet Union dies after a lengthy illness at his Washington home at age 81. He served under four presidents including Roosevelt and Truman and authored Mission to Moscow which boosted US sympathy for the Soviets after 1941.
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Washington
Joseph E. Davies
Soviet Union
Davies
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U. S
Kremlin
Moscow
Hitler
Belgium
Luxembourg
Roosevelt
Truman
Watertown
Wis
Wilson
White House
Nixon Attacked by Students at Peru's San Marcos
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon faced stones and jeers at the ancient San Marcos University in Lima as protesters shouted for him to quit. A Secret Service agent was injured, and El Comercio called on police to curb the outbreaks while Raul Porras offered apologies.
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Lima
Peru
U.S
Richard Nixon
San Marcos University
Nixon
United States
Soviet Union
Quito
Lima University
Secret Service
Catholic University
el Comercio
Raul Porras
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Clarence Seidenspinner
Goodwill Industries
Tewerate Ie
Ike
D. E
Pakistan
Russia
Joseph E. Davis
Peru University
University
Coe
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