Reward Offered as Armored Car Loot Stolen in Denver
Police hunt two thieves who robbed an unattended armored car of 165 540 dollars in under a minute. A witness described one man as about 45, short and fat who used a key to open the lock and toss sacks of currency into a stolen car. The vehicle was abandoned in Lakewood after the heist.
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Greensboro Board Approves Desegregation Merger Plan
The Greensboro Board approves combining a Black parish street school with a white Caldwell School into a single unit. At term end, Black Pearson Street students will be reassigned to Caldwell. Parents may request reassignment under state law. Token desegregation has occurred in the area.
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Television Programs WFMY TV Greensboro Channel 2
Programs listing for WFMY TV Greensboro Channel 2 shows schedule entries and airtime notes for the evening. A price or fee of four dollars appears, indicating a possible listing fee or charge associated with the program guide.
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Greensboro
Solicitor Measure Killed in North Carolina Senate
The North Carolina Senate voted 24 to 21 to table a bill to make district solicitors full time under the attorney general and move them from private practice. Sen J Spencer Bell urged enactment while Sen Bunn Frank warned of a $214000 cost and unequal workload. The same session saw a favorable report on higher motor vehicle injury insurance and a House bill to aid counties in buying voting machines die in committee.
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FBI claims solved Parker lynching in Mississippi
The Tribune reports FBI solved the Mack Charles Parker lynching and handed alleged killers to Mississippi Governor James R. Coleman. About 10 men from Poplarville area said involved, identities not released. DOJ said no federal crime evidence. Parker, 23, a Black truck driver, was kidnapped from jail April 25 and found in a river May 4.
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Poplarsville
Budget Proposals Reviewed for 1959 61 State Funds
Raleigh The Joint Appropriations Committee reviews subcommittee budget recommendations to operate state agencies for 1959 61. The panel backed a 34 million dollar capital improvements bond issue, completing the major budget portion. Full committee aims to finish in two or three days and send the general appropriations bill to the floor. the general fund calls for spending over 81 million for the biennium with a potential 30 percent windfall from a income tax withholding plan, though a deficit of just over one million remains.
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College Case Back In Court
The Presbyterian College merger plan to unite Flora Macdonald, Peace, and Presbyterian Junior Colleges moves forward as a Robeson County court hearings begin. Four Flora Macdonald trustees oppose consolidation, with nine defendants including Peace College and church presbyteries named in the amended suit.
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Flora Macdonald
Clawson Williams
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Chapel Hill
C. T. Johnson
H. D. Jones
Gulf Oil to set fair trade gas prices in North Carolina
Gulf Oil Corp will implement fixed Gulf branded gasoline prices statewide in North Carolina effective June 1. Regular will be 19.9 cents a gallon, midgrade 22.9, premium 25.9 before taxes. consumers pay 29.9, 32.9, 35.9 with taxes and fees. District Manager F C Rogers cites market demoralization and use of fair trade provisions.
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Gulf Oil Corp
North Carolina
Gulf
Gulf District
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Goldsboro Boy Wins Optimists Oratorical Contest
In Atlanta Georgia Ray La won in the Optimists serial oratorical contest. Lanier captured the state championship a week earlier. Second place went to DeJuan Hardin 15 of Belmont and third to Tommy Heffner 15 of Newton.
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Optimists
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Lanier
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Belmont
Tommy Heffner
Newton
Strikers to Fight It Out at Harriet Henderson Mills
Henderson North Carolina AP union official says strikers remain determined to stay and press for a contract with Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills as National Guard presence continues. Company reports 33 of 921 bargaining jobs remain vacant and a third shift started to resume full operation since November 17 strike. Four strikers received jail terms and fines in Vance County Superior Court for violating a court order on picketing.
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Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills
Boyd Payton
Carolinas
Textile Workers Union of America
Payton
United States
Canada
John D. Cooper Jr
Vance County Superior Court
East Hampton Cottage Behind "Home Sweet Home" Tale
The home John Howard Payne wrote of in Home Sweet Home was a small cottage in East Hampton Long Island, anchoring the song’s famed American nostalgia.
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East Hampton
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