North Carolina Senate backs compulsory vehicle inspection fee
The Senate Highway Safety Committee approved a $1 per inspection fee and a plan to implement annual inspections with a governor run program. The measure, backed by Sen. Perry Martin and Gov. Sanford's highway safety plan, would license service stations and aim to curb highway slaughter while easing administration.
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Raleigh
Senate Highway Safety Committee
General Assembly
House Highway Safety Committee
George Uzzell
Rowan
Uzzell
Senate
Perry Martin
Northampton
Martin
Coordinating Committee
Stringent teenage driver licensing rules advance in Senate
The Senate Highway Safety Committee approved a bill part of Gov. Sanford's safety program. It requires 16 to 18 year olds to complete a driver training course before a permit. License suspensions escalate with violations from 30 days to one year. Sixty day suspensions apply for injury or property damage over 100 dollars. Training would be run in NC high schools with at least one program per county and a coordinating committee may set up mothers.
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Gov. Sanford
H. J. Hatcher
Gordon Hanes
Sen
Robert Morgan
Cleveland
Martin
Hatcher
Coordinating Committee
Raleigh
Senate Highway Safety Committee
North Carolina
Motor Vehicles Department
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Cooper’s Wife Describes Mercury Capsule Launch as Beautiful
Mrs. Gordon Cooper called the Cape Canaveral launch beautiful as she and her daughters Camala and Janita watched from their Houston area home. Public affairs officer Dave Schwartz said the family remained secluded and would not appear before newsmen until Cooper’s safe recovery.
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Houston
Tex
Gordon Cooper
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Cooper
Schwartz
Bermuda
Camala
Janita
Atlantic
Pacific
Hattie Cooper
Orena Herd
Tecumshe
Oklo
Gordon
Faith 7
Withdrawal Of Patrolmen Tugs Birmingham Racial Tensions
A Negro leader accuses Gov. Wallace of undermining a biracial agreement by keeping state troopers in Birmingham to maintain order. Wallace urges removal of an advance planning unit, while Kennedy defers broader civil rights action. New tensions flare as Selma plans voter registration and a jail vigil is organized by an integrated group.
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Jack Stillman
Birmingham
Ala
George C. Wallace
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Wallace
Kennedy
Alabama
Shuttlesworth
White House
Congress
South
Selma
Madeline Sherwood
Gala
Duvalier May Fly Into Exile
Rumors mounted that Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier would flee today as his term ends. Reports of planned flight to Curacao then New York sparked international interest with Pan Am reservations in the name Duvalier. Diplomatic moves and exile claims dominated coverage as Curacao and Venezuela deflected inquiries.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Curacao
Venezuela
New York
Europe
Pan American World Airways
Paris
State Department
Washington
Louis Dejoie
Puerto Rico
Daniel
Romulo Betancourt
Haiti
U.S
Cooper completes fourth orbit in Mercury mission
Astronaut Gordon Cooper reports a thrilling flight as he passes the fourth orbit in the Mercury program en route to a possible seven of 22 orbits. The mission aims to collect medical data and test space endurance ahead of Gemini, with President Kennedy and world audiences watching closely.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
U.S
Pacific Ocean
Project Mercury
Air Force
Midway Island
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Cooper
No. 3
California
Florida
United States
Jacksonville
Mercury Control Center
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Washington
John H. Glenn Jr
M. Scott Carpenter
Cooper Ten Spaceflight Makes Cooper The Tenth To Go
CAPE CANAVERAL Fila AP Astronaut L Gordon Cooper Jr the tenth man to rocket into space since the first flight. The list of nine preceding space travelers includes Gagarin Shepard Grissom Titov Glenn Carpenter Admi Nikolayev Popovitch Schirra.
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Cooper
Cape Canaveral
Fila
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
U. S. Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
U. S. Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Gherman Titov
U. S. Marine
John H. Glenn Jr
Cmdr
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Children Die in Asheville House Fire Tragedy
Three young children perished in a back room of a two story Asheville house as flames raged. Their mother Yvonne Powers 20 suffered second degree burns and was hospitalized after attempting to reach the kids. Firemen attributed the blaze to a kerosene stove with deaths ruled accidental by Buncombe County coroner Dr. John C. Young who said the children died of asphyxiation.
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Asheville
Yvonne Powers
Sylvia Smith
Janet
Yvete
John C. Young
Buncombe County
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Florence
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Pavel Popovich
Japan
Havana
Trudy
Yuri Gagarin
Adniian Nikolayev
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