West Proposes Unified Germany and Disarmament Plan
Western powers presented a four phase package to unify East and West Germany within 30 months and set disarmament steps including limits on US and Soviet forces. Berlin would be a united city under Big Four guarantees with troop presence until final peace settlement.
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Geneva
Russia
Berlin
West Germany
Foreign Ministers Conference
West Berlin
Nikita Rushchev
Germany
United States
Atlantic Alliance
NATO
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin Under Thenetsion” of Either the Big Powers
United Nations
Britain
France
Governor's Incentive Plan Killed by House Education Panel
Raleigh The House Education Committee rejected Gov. Hodges' proposed incentive plan to fund public schools by offering 10 million dollars yearly to counties that boost school support. The vote was overwhelming against the bill, despite a last minute radio appeal from the governor who urged contingency approval during the current session.
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Raleigh
House Education Committee
Hodges
School Finance Study Commission
Farmers Balk At Tobacco Proposals
Rail at a North Carolina tobacco hearing as about 400 farmers pressed lawmakers to reject a bill to outlaw maleic hydrazine used as a sucker control chemical on tobacco. The measure would make sale and use a misdemeanor. leaf buyers warned MH-30 harms leaf quality, while MH-30’s maker disputed the claim and farmers sided with the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Senate
House Agriculture Committees
D. J. Rose
Wayne
U. S. Rubber Co
Operation Shows Twining Has Cancer
Gen. Nathan F. Twining underwent exploratory surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Surgeons removed the upper left lung lobe after cancer was found. A Pentagon bulletin said the diseased portion was fully removed with no cancer detected elsewhere. Twining, 61, is expected to leave hospital in three to four weeks and resume duties about two weeks after dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Forsee
Army Hospital
Defense Department
Twining
Eisenhower Calls for Action on Highway and Wheat Bills
President Eisenhower urged rapid passage of highway housing and wheat legislation, warning of economic damage if Congress delays. Democrats may back large spending beyond his suggested limits, while opponents seek veto overrides using his own statements. Senate leaders doubt raising the gasoline tax will pass.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Sen
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate
Democratic
House
Mansfield
Thousands of Kurds Flee Across Iran From Iraq Frontier
AP report from Pasveh Iran notes thousands of Kurdish tribesmen flee Iraq to Iran’s Azerbaijan province to escape a pro Communist chieftain. In recent clashes 13 Barzani tribesmen died, with refugees also crossing into Turkey as fighting rages near the border.
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Soviet Union
Middle East
William L. Ryan
Pasveh
Iran
Iraq
Turkey
Amir Aly Ashegara
Azerbaijan
Sheik Raschid
Raschid
Family Eats Poisoned Bread Tragedy in Greensboro Area
In Guilford County a mother Lena Ratliff 23 and three of her children remain serious after eating poisoned cornbread. Gary 5 died, others Larry 1 Cathy 2 and Michael 3 were ill after the meal. The father said he bought rat poison with 80 percent arsenic for barn use.
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Greensboro
Lena S. Ratliff
Rt. 2
Brown Summit
Guilford County
Milwaukee man admits kidnapping and slaying of boy
Harold W. McLaughlin, 28, a convict in a state mental institution, confessed to police to abducting and killing six year old Ben Wagner whose battered body was found in a roadside ditch about six weeks earlier. He was booked on first degree murder after saying I caught him and stabbed him three times. Ben was the son of Mr and Mrs Louis Wagner.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Ben Wagner
Harold W. McLaughlin
Rudolph Glaser
McLaughlin
Ben
Louis Wagner
Navy blimp crash at Lakehurst kills crew member
A silvery ZPG-2 navy blimp crashed into a hangar in dense fog at Lakehurst New Jersey killing Lt. (j.g.) David Malcolm Loyd of Vega Texas. Six crewmen hospitalized and several others injured as rescuers freed men trapped in the gondola amid debris and a leaking gas bag.
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Lakehurst
N.J
J.g
David Malcolm Loyd
Vega
Tex
Squadron 3
U.S. Naval Ar Station
Navy
Shock Waves To Be Contained By Alaska Harbor Test
Two scientists outline plans to use atomic blasts in Kotzebue Sound Alaska in 1961 to create air ducts that redirect shock waves away from Siberia and inhabited Alaska. They warn ducting layers can carry 3 percent pressure surges up to 100 miles and may still cause window damage.
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Soviet Siberia
Alaska
U.S
Vate
Kotzebue Sound
Siberia
J. W. Reed
H. W. Church
the Sandia Corp
Nevada
Las Vegas
Reed
Church
Kotzebue
Eisenhower Breaks Ground for Lincoln Center in NYC
President Eisenhower arrived in New York to break ground for the 75 million dollar Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He hailed the project as a force for world peace and cultural exchange, noting plans for a new Metropolitan Opera House and a home for the New York Philharmonic. He described the center as a cooperative, cross nation venture that will unite governments, artistic groups, and private citizens.
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New York
Eisenhower
Lincoln Center
Washington
Newark
N.J
Robert B. Meyner
New Jersey
Manhattan
Lincoln Tunnel
Hudson River
Tunnel
Cultural Center
Metropolitan Opera House
New York Philharmonic
Soden
Car Train Collision Kills Three Near Huntersville
Three Mecklenburg County School Board employees died when their pickup struck a freight train near Huntersville North Carolina. Witnesses said the truck stopped at the crossing then lurched forward into the southbound train. Damages to the train were about 2000 dollars.
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Huntersville
N.C
Mecklenburg County School Board
Besseher
Albert K. Johnson
Here
Johnson
Lee 0
ACC To Open Playoff At Finch Field
Clemson and Wake Forest meet at 8 p.m. Saturday at Thom asville to start a three team playoff for the ACC baseball title. The winner faces North Carolina for the championship Monday in Gastonia.
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ACC
Finch Field
Greensboro
N.C
Clemson
Wake Forest
Thomasville
North Carolina
Gastonia
North Carolina State
Jim Weaver
Georgia Tech
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Reds
Herters
Herter
Gromyko
Ike
Spahr
Blimp
Ing
Atta
Rennie Taylor
SAN Francisco
Atomic Energy Commission
University of California
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Sandia Corp
Los Alamos
Alba
N.M
Livermore
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