Laos Invaders Exit Laos After Vietminh Withdrawal
French Laotian forces pursue the retreating Vietminh 304th Division as it heads toward Annam. Hoang Minh Tao's unit, aided by Red China trained troops, moved east and southeast after press reports of a near encounter at Luang Prabang. Explanations cite Soviet Chinese peace drive, monsoon rains, or supply line breakdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanoi
Indochina
Laos
Vietminh
Annam
Ho Chi Minh
Hoang Minh Tao
Viet Nam
Luang Prabang
Black River
Soviet Union
Red China
A-Bomb Program Safe Despite Major Atomic Budget Cut
Republican and Democratic lawmakers confirmed a $400 million reduction to atomic spending will not curtail weapons work. They warned civilian atom power research and construction of engines for planes and carriers will be slowed, while weapon development proceeds with adjusted funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Truman
W. Sterlingle
Rn.y
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Cole
Atomic Energy Commission
House
John Phillips
R-Cal
AEC
Chet Holifield
D-Cal
Holifield
Congress
Carl T. Durham
D-N.c
Joint Committee
Durham
North Carolina High School Physics Winners Named
Three students tied for first in the State High School Physics Contest announced in Chapel Hill. Richard L. Angstadt of Charlotte Ballard E. Troy of Durham and Robert L. Smith of Greensboro shared the top spot among 476 contestants from 42 schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Richard L. Angstadt
Charlotte
Ballard E. Troy
Durham
Robert L Smith
Greensboro
North Carolina ABC stores post April liquor sales rise
North Carolina ABC stores sold liquor totaling 5,076,434.40 in April, up by 110,000 from a year earlier. Mecklenburg led with 829,788.75, followed by Greensboro 498,766.20 and Asheville 370,951.25, with Wake, Winston-Salem, Rowan, Cumberland, New Hanover and Durham also reporting strong figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
ABC
Frank Erwin
Mecklenburg
Greensboro
Asheville
Wake
Winston- Salem
Rowan
Cumberland
New Hanover
Durham
North Carolina Peach Crop Forecast Drops After Frost Hit
The 1953 North Carolina peach crop is forecast at 1.4 million bushels, 15 percent below last year’s 1.65 million, per the Federal State Crop Reporting Service. Frost around April 20 caused most damage, with the mountain regions hardest hit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Federal
State
Tar Heel merchants hear two national figures at NC Retail Conventio
Winston-Salem hosts the North Carolina Retail Merchants Association 51st annual meeting with William B. Ryan of Broadcast Advertising Inc and John Hazen of the National Retail Dry Goods Association delivering the morning speeches. Edmund Harding of Washington will speak at tonight's banquet. A panel of department store executives discussed self help selling to boost profits and volume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
William B. Ryan
New York
Broadcast Advertising, Inc
John Hazen
Washington, D. C
National Retail Dry Goods Association
North Carolina Retail Merchants Association
Edmund Harding
Washington, N. C
Anthrax Threat At Monroe Textile Plant Prompted Action
Raleigh A reports a program was mapped to curb anthrax spores from imported goat hair used by Area Mills at the Monroe plant. Officials held a conference with health and agriculture leaders and agreed to process all future goat hair shipments to kill anthrax. A female employee recently contracted anthrax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Monroe
Arel Mills
Public Health
Area Mills
Jurors Arrive for High Profile Carthage Murder Trial
Three special buses delivered prospective jurors from Anson County as eight Negroes faced trial for the death of Carthage Police Chief Bernice Bunn Cameron on March 15. Judge J A Rousseau ordered the venire after a Moore County grand jury indicted the defendants and four others for accessory after the fact. The state alleges the four aided the eight in eluding officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carthage
Anson County
Bernice Bunn Cameron
J. A. Rousseau
Moore County
Final rites for Karl Grier Hudson noted Raleigh leader
Karl Grier Hudson died yesterday at 64. A prominent North Carolina merchant and church figure, he joined Belk in 1910 at Waxhaw, left Waxhaw in 1915 to found Hudson Belk's in Raleigh, shaping regional retail and religious affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Karl Grier Hudson
North Carolina
Hudson
Belk
Waxhaw
Hudson-Belk's
Senate Rejects President Freeze Power Amid War Authority Debate
The Senate voted 45 to 41 to defeat a proposal granting the President a 90 day wage price and rent freeze in a national emergency. The Byrd amendment limits such authority to wartime or after congressional action, a stance opposed by Taft who said the Capehart plan attacked free economy principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Taft
Rohio
Eisenhower
Sen
Capehart
R-Ind
Byrd
D-Va
Congress
Truce Allies May Free North Koreans Prisoners
Tokyo reports say Korean truce talks recessed for six days with a UN Command source noting a possible prisoner release of 34 000 North Koreans who refuse to return to communism. A revised armistice plan and extended recess to Monday were under consideration, to resolve the prisoner deadlock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
U. N
Ark Clark
Reds
South Korea
U. N. Command
Eisenhower to Push Six Month Extension of Excess Tax
President Eisenhower plans to ask Congress to extend the excess profits tax for six months beyond July 1 and keep individual income taxes at current levels for the rest of the year. GOP leaders reported after a White House conference that these measures are part of his fiscal proposals. He will outline them in a radio address tonight at 9 30 p m EST broadcast on major networks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
GOP
Sen. Saltonstall
R-Mass
Senate Armed Services Committee
Rep. Short
R-Mo
House Armed Services Committee
White House
Short
James C. Hagerty
Saltonstall
Truman
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Air Force
Atom Cannon Test Lights Nevada Sky Before 1953 Final Shot
An atomic blast near Yucca Flat in Nevada lit the dawn sky as the 1953 spring series nears its end. The 280 mm cannon fired next Monday will be the first atom gun shot, with 28 congressmen and about a thousand observers watching from a distance. The test, aimed at science, included drone and bomber operations and noted 60 tests conducted, with effects observed up to Bishop California 200 miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev.p
Nevada
Bishop
Calif
Atomic Proving Ground
Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca Flat
AEC
Navy
Indian Springs
Strategic Air Command
Roswell, N. M
Aldermen Lift Rent Controls After 11-Year Run
The Goldsboro board voted to end rent controls after 11 years. About 300 residents packed City Hall for the hearing, and officials said the controls will be lifted within 10 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldsboro
Oatis Says He Was Questioned Eight Hours a Day
Freed AP correspondent William N. Oatis returned to the United States after 25 months in a Prague prison and a two month pretrial questioning period. He spoke of harsh jailer methods, injections, a sun lamp, and tuberculosis while seeking to review the trial record and consider his confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oatis
New York
William N. Oatis
Communist
Czechoslovakia
Associated Press
United States
Prague
Laurabelle
New York’s
Germany
State Department
U. S
Anya
Iranian Expels AP Correspondent Marc Purdue
Iran orders Associated Press writer Marc Purdue to leave within three days for alleged false and provocative reporting. Purdue, based in Evansville Indiana, has been with the AP since World War II and previously covered Asia and India. The expulsion follows earlier foreign correspondent expulsions under the current regime and comes shortly after William M. Oatis was pardoned in Czechoslovakia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
Iran
Marc Purdue
Associated Press
Hossein Fatemi
Purdue
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co
Evansville
Ind
The
Press Association
Southeast Asia
India
Phil Clarke
Fatemi
Bakhtar
Clarke
1600 Attacking Chinese Troops Thrown Back in Korea
In Korea on Tuesday 1600 Chinese Reds attacked Central and Eastern fronts and were repelled with about 400 casualties. 20th ROK Division and 9th ROK Division halted the main assaults while MIG aces McConnell and Fernandez traded air combat highlights before being grounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo Farneti
Seoul
Korea
Republic of Korea
ROK
Mundung
Sniper Ridge
Rocky Point
Manchurian
Air Force
Joseph McConnell Jr
McConnell
Apple Valley
Calif
North Korea
Manuel Fernandez Jr
Eighth Army
Christmas Hill
Insurance Chief Finds Existing Law For Policy Termination
Raleigh Insurance Commissioner Waldo Cheek, failing to push House Bill 344 in 1953, reports he has located a current statute requiring that the effective and termination times of accident and health policies be stated in the policy. The bill previously would have gradually lengthened cancellation notice periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Waldo Cheek
Cheek
Ridgway Warns Europe Cannot Defend Itself
General Ridgway told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Western Europe cannot defend itself in the foreseeable future and that the Russian peace offensive hinders Western military buildup by swaying public opinion. He urged support for the $5.8 billion Foreign Aid Bill as vital to maintaining momentum and allowing U.S. troop withdrawals in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Western Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Free World
Europe
Ridgway
NATO
Eisenhower
U. S
Sen
Gillette
D-Iowa
European Defense Community
Wiley
R-Wis
Severe Storm Warning for Georgia and Carolina
The Atlanta Weather Bureau issued a bulletin warning severe thunderstorms with gusty winds and scattered hail across north and extreme north Georgia and northwest South Carolina. A slight tornado risk exists between noon and dark in the affected area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Atlanta Weather Bureau Today
Georgia
South Carolina
Supreme Court asked to halt death penalty for Daniels cousins
The State Supreme Court was urged to dismiss a petition for a new trial for Bennie and Lloyd Ray Daniels who face execution May 29 for murder. The attorney general argued no further hearing is warranted. Herman L. Taylor filed the petition alleging Pitt County jurors were drawn from voting lists rather than tax lists as required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Attorney General's Office
Bennie
Lloyd Ray Daniels
Herman L. Taylor
Pitt County
Daniel
Also Mentioned on This Page
Red Invaders
Eeseeeseess
Ceeeserseries
TVV
Anthrax
Hudson Rites
North Koreans
Matthew Ridgway
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Uest
Nevada Desert
U.S
Miami
Fla
Fernandez
Sabre
Weather Bureau
Boston
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
High Point
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Mobile
New Orleans
York
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!