North Carolina Bill Clears First Hurdle for Local Dog Race Tracks
A House committee approved a bill to legalize gambling with local option for dog race tracks in Moyock and Morehead City. The measure would require local votes and statewide administration, facing Senate hurdles and possible delays. Christian ministers urged opposition citing moral concerns during the public hearing.
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Raleigh
House
Moyock
Morehead City
Addison Hewlett
Finance Committee
Senate
Rep
M Buchanan
Jackson
Iverele
Currituck
Carteret
Supreme Court
Buchanan
Contalier Coates
Legislation backs 10 percent pay boost for new teachers
A Raleigh sub committee proposed 10 percent salary supplements for beginning teachers who pass mandatory exams. The plan would cost about half a million dollars the first year, with higher certificates requiring tests. The group rejected optional testing and a merit system, directing a bill for passage.
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Raleigh
Watts Hill
Durham
House Education Committee
North Na Education Assn
R. H.stone
Wilson
NCEA
Hill
Tar Heel Veteran Treated for Leprosy at Carville
A 35-year-old World War II veteran from North Carolina is being treated for leprosy at the Carville leprosarium. He served in a Pacific theater where the disease is endemic and was not identified in the report.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
U.S
Carville
Pacific
Little Rock Graduates Are Few in Integration Crisis
In Little Rock Arkansas graduation will be late and small as 225 seniors graduate from two all white private schools and none from a third while public high schools remain closed by federal court actions. Raney High School will graduate 200 of 767. Baptist High School 25 of 365. a Trinity Church school has no seniors.
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Little Rock
Minnie Hanson
University of Arkansas
Second Baptist Church
Little Rock, Ark
State Educational Department
Raney High School
Baptist High School
Church School
Trinity Episcopal Church
Central High School
Ernest Green
Los Angeles
Arkansas
Governor Gain In Trustees Says North Carolina Bill
Raleigh AP reports a House bill would let the governor appoint five of the 25 trustees on the Consolidated University of North Carolina board with legislative confirmation. Current practice has the Legislature electing the full board. Senate counterparts seek tax withholding measures.
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Raleigh
Consolidated University of North Carolina
House
Ed Wilson
Caswell
Senate
Sen
Arthur Kirkman
Senate Finance Committee
Gov
Hodges
Advisory Budget Commission
Kirkman
Wilson
General Assembly
Agriculture Budget Slashed In Committee
The House Appropriations Committee cut the Agriculture Department budget by 142 million dollars and urged more aggressive overseas sales of surplus commodities. It recommended 3.94 billion for the year starting July 1, while signaling concern over department operations and urging a return to competitive sales for surplus cotton.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Jamie L. Whitten
D-Miss
Farmers Home Administration
Rural Electrification Administration
Commodity Credit Corp
U.S
Treasury
87 Newspapers Increase Prices in 1959 First Four Months
New York AP report shows 87 U S daily newspapers raised prices from January through April 1959 due to rising costs. ANPA General Manager Cranston Williams notes papers delayed hikes as long as possible. one paper said the increase was its first in 22 years.
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New York
U. S
American Newspaper Publishers Association
ANPA
Cranston Williams
Air Force clears key hurdle in nuclear powered plane plan
Lt Gen Roscoe C. Wilson announced the Air Force has solved radiation shielding for a nuclear powered aircraft and is moving toward a subsonic prototype. The design aims to match B52 size and takeoff runway, with potential to launch long range missiles and carry nuclear bombs. He outlined direct and indirect power cycles under development by General Electric and at the National Reactor Testing Station.
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Roscoe C. Wilson
Aviation Writers Assn
Wilson
General Electric Co
Evendale
Ohio
National Reactor
Idaho
North Carolina Governor Seeks Harmony in Education Feud
Gov. Hodges says Supt. Charles Carroll and the State Board of Education should resolve their differences amicably. He avoids details on the dispute while pressuring for a workable bill clarifying board policy versus the superintendent’s duties. He also notes internal dissension rumors within the NC Education Association and confirms the House killed a 10 million incentive fund for counties.
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Raleigh
Hodges
Supt. of Public Instruction
Charles F. Carroll
State Board of Education
Dr. Carroll
Dallas Herring
Rose Hill
Education Board
Watts Hill Jr
Durham
House
North Carolina Education Assn
Sschool
House Education Committee
Anvil on Highway Wrecks Cars in Kings Mountain
A salesman in Charlotte hit a 200-pound anvil left on U S 74 near Kings Mountain causing heavy damage to his new sports coupe and minor damage to a following car. Patrolman Shaney suspects a prank. no fire occurred and speeds were around 50 to 55 mph.
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Kings Mountain
N.C
Here
R. E. Shaney
U.S. 74
Thomas L. McNab
Charlotte
Pete Barkley
McNab
Shaney
Barkley
High Rate Of Polio Feared In 1959 Early Report
Raleigh dispatch reports the State Board of Health warning that 1959 may see high poliomyelitis activity with five polio cases in January through April, four of them paralytic, two of whom had no vaccine. The year includes a new vaccination law for six year olds.
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State Board of Health
Board
Fidel Castro Jr Undergoes Operation After Car Crash
Fidel Castro Jr the nine year old son of Cuba's revolutionary prime minister had a one hour surgery for lung injuries from a Thursday night automobile accident. He was reported improving satisfactorily.
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Havana
Fidel Castro Jr
Cuba
Judge Demoted for Personal Divorce Marriage
In Taipei the Quemoy District Court judge Hu Tao hui, 51, was demoted for granting a divorce to a woman and then marrying her before the decree was final. The woman's husband Hung Tien pe i had not been notified of the action.
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Taipei
Hu Taohui
Quemoy
Hung Tien-pei
Gromyko presents treaty at Geneva Big Four session
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko unveiled Moscow’s peace treaty for divided Germany at the Geneva talks. Western observers found no major changes from the January version, while Khrushchev pressed for a peace treaty with the two existing German states and warned of a separate pact with East Germany if the West resists.
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Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
Germany
Moscow
West Germany
United States
Britain
Gromyko
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Big Four Foreign Ministers
Kishinev
West Berlin
East
West
East Germany
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Tass
Pravda
Communist Party
ADN
Khrushchev
Nyet
Berlin
Eisenhower seeks funds for two mile atom smasher at Stanford
President Eisenhower urged federal financing for a new atom smasher at Stanford to advance basic nuclear research. The plan estimates a 100 million dollar cost, six year completion, and would be about 50 times longer than Stanford's current 220 foot unit. He spoke at a Chicago, New York event and discussed federal cooperation with private groups.
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New York
Eisenhower
America
Stanford University
Manhattan
Waldorf-Astoria
Sym
Stanford
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Hart
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McDonald
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