Police chief testifies on cross burning and Klan arsenal
Georgia police chief Leo Blackwell testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that he arrested five Ku Klux Klan members after a cross burning in front of an arsenal. He cited two cars linked to the Klansmen and identified three suspects, noting an arsenal and robes found in the vehicles. Witnesses described drunken weekend parties at the house cited as the Klavern headquarters near Atlanta. The record included Nacirema’s charter claiming to promote patriotism and liberty, with original incorporators named.
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Geoffrey Gould
Washington
Georgia
Ier
Leo Blackwell
Griffin
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Mac- Tema, Inc
Philip Manuel
Nacirema
Klavern
Atlanta
Blackwell
Colbert McGriff
Oliver Custis Sanders
Allen Bayne
Thomas Royce Carlyle
Johan Mitchell
McGriff
Clyde J. Newborn
Tom Gentry
8.H. Wynn
de Kalb County
Kelly Lake Drive
John Brock
William Crowe
William Anderson
Robert Day
Billy F. Wilson
Brock
Wilson
Kennedy Reportedly Assured By Red Spy
Newsweek reports that Soviet spy Penkovsky assured Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that Soviet nuclear forces were not in a state of war readiness. The piece recounts Penkovsky’s intelligence flow to Britain and the United States and his later execution by the Soviet Union.
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New York
Newsweek Magazine
John F. Kennedy
Out
Newsweek
Greg Penkovsky
Penkovsky
Britain
United States
Walt
Khrushchev
Moscow
Wachovia Plans International Investment Corporation Subsidiary
Wachovia Bank announces creation of Wachovia International Investment Corporation as a New Edge Act subsidiary to finance overseas ventures for national interest, boost Southeast exports, and support the balance of payments. Directors will be bank officers. William G. Edwards Jr. to serve as president.
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Wachovia International Investment Corporation
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
J. Roscoe Adams
Carolina
Southeastern
Adams
U. S
Edge Act
New York City
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Act
Wachovia
Carolinas
Southeast
North Carolina
William G. Edwards Jr
Bank
Neuberger quits Senate race blasting campaign funds
Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger announced she will not seek reelection and attacked the financing of senatorial campaigns. She cited freeing herself from campaign money dependencies and plans to work on her husband’s papers and cancer recovery memories, while eyeing travel. The seat’s contest likely to attract Gov. Mark Hatfield and Rep. Edith Green.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Maurine Neuberger
D-Ore
Neuberger
Philip Solomon
Senate
Gregon
Mark 0. Hatfield
Edith Green
Oregon
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Jrun
Philip Solormen
Boston
Silice
Richard L. Neuberger
Neubergers
Dr. Solomon
Overseas Yule Packages Should Be Mailed Early
Post Office Department urges early mail for overseas Christmas parcels. By air, deadline Dec 10. otherwise Nov 10 for standard mail. Greeting cards overseas follow same schedule. Within the U S deadlines include Dec 5 for distant states Dec 14 for local or nearby states and Dec 10 for great distance ecards locally by Dec 15.
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Washington
Post Office Department
United States
North Carolina South Carolina Weather Forecast Update
North Carolina sees fair weather through Wednesday with a cold night and scattered frost toward the coast, lows around 36 inland and up to 39 in the mountains. Wednesday turns somewhat warmer. South Carolina remains fair through Wednesday with a cold night and coast frost risk, lows mainly in the 30s, warming later.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Airliner Rolls Off Runway at Byrd Field
An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 from Atlanta to New York rolled 150 feet off the runway on landing at Byrd Field Rich mond and sank into mud. No serious injuries among 49 passengers and six crew. Evacuated passengers waited for another plane as fuel was drained and heavy equipment arrived to free the craft.
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Richmont
Eastern Air Lines
Byrd Field
Eastern
Iatlanta
New York
Greensboro
N.C
Richmond
Hastern
Spust
Johnson First Man To Vote In Home Polling Place
President Johnson cast the first vote at his home polling site in Johnson City Texas after polls opened He appeared with Mrs Johnson amid a vote on Gov Connally's two year term amendment The White House said Johnson recuperating at his ranch with gallbladder surgery was feeling very well
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Cormier
Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Jennson
John Connally
Afl-Cio
Connally
White House
Carr To Address AMS Meeting
Austin H. Carr of Winston-Salem advertising will speak on Effective Communications at the High Point Chapter Administrative Management Society meeting. The chapter, in its second year, has about 56 local business executives as members. Dinner at 7 p.m. in the Sheraton Hotel main ballroom.
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Austin H. Carr
Long, Haymes and Carr Advertising
Winston-Salem
High Point
Administrative Management Society
Carr
Administrative Management
Ted Haning
Pilot ‘Life Insurance
Sheraton Hotel
Council Approves Recreation Facility Plan for HUD Project
City council approves a major addition to a recreation facility for a high rise public housing project on BR Green Drive with a cap of 375000 for construction and 325009 city share. Total cost may drop to about 8353 with expected federal grants, while 1100 local residents over 60 live nearby. The move is unanimous and paired with plans for a larger future complex under Leonard Street urban renewal.
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BR. Green Drive
Henry Price
Redevelopment Commission
Price
Jack Southerland
Parks Commission
Leonard Street
Motor Vehicles License Plate Agency
Wicker cancels NC State speech over speaker ban law
Tom Wicker, Washington newsman and UNC graduate, cancels a May 6 address at North Carolina State University citing opposition to the state speaker ban law that bars Communists or anyone who pleaded the Fifth Amendment. He says the move is personal and does not end his crusade for free speech.
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Raleigh
Tom Wick
Washington
New York Times
North Carolina State University
Wicker
University of North Carolina
Sabotage and the Sabot story of French workers
A note explains the origin of the word sabotage from French workers in the 1800s who threw their sabots into machines to halt production, illustrating how a protest tactic gave rise to a global term.
Train Slices Bus In Two Near Teotihuacan
A Mexico City bound train struck a bus at a crossing near Teotihuacan, killing 28 and injuring 16. Police said the bus driver apparently tried to race the train, with 14 people trapped in the front section. Wreckage and bodies were thrown about 285 feet.
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Mexico City
Veracruz
Teotihuacan
Street name changed for First Baptist Church parsonage
The Kingston Tennessee First Baptist Church reports that the new parsonage address has been updated from Bourbon Street to Lookout Street. The move reflects municipal street name changes and confirms the church location under the new designation.
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Kingston, Tenn
First Baptist Church
Bourbon
Lookout
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