Abolition Call Emerges From Wake Forest BSU Assembly
A Wake Forest College delegation proposed abolishing the death penalty at the Baptist Student Union State Convention in Raleigh. The resolutions committee approved the motion pending a six month study with a report due at the Leadership Training Conference in Mooresville next spring. Nearly 1,000 BSU members from colleges across North Carolina attended the Forest Hills Baptist Church gathering, which runs through Sunday morning.
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Raleigh
Wake Forest College
Baptist Student Union State Convention
BSU
Mooresville
North Carolina
Forest Hills Baptist Church
William Hall Preston
Sunday School Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Nashville, Tenn
Sanford urges students to enter farming at NC State
Governor Sanford urged 1,500 high school students and educators at North Carolina State College to pursue careers in modern agriculture and related fields. He said the state needs more trained agricultural scientists, businessmen and technologists and highlighted farming as North Carolina’s big business.
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Raleigh
Gov
Sanford
North Carolina
School of Agriculture
North Carolina State College
State College
Bowen C. Dees
National Science Foundation
Cadet Weaver Returns Home After Disappearance
Cadet Paul M. Weaver II, missing since Aug 30 from West Point, reappeared in Portsmouth Ohio arriving Friday night. He greeted his father with I’m sorry Dad and explained travel around the country before meeting FBI agents. He may resign from the academy to avoid disciplinary action. desertion status noted administratively.
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Paul M. Weaver II
West Point
Weaver
Portsmouth
Dave Major
Paul M. Weaver
FBI
Ft. Hayes
Columbus
Bunny Hop Future in Doubt in North Iredell
The North Iredell County town may cancel its annual bunny hop after a local American Legion post meeting. Commander Pierce J. Van Hoy said decision hinges on whether sticks will be used to kill rabbits and noted humane societies’ protests last year.
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Harmony
Iredell
American Legion
Pierce J. van Hoy
Legion Post
van Hoy
The
Humane Society
Humane Societies
Weekend Weather Outlook From Plains to Lakes
A weather forecast calls for scattered light snow from the northwestern Plains to the upper Lakes on Sunday. Light rain is expected from the mid Mississippi Valley to western Ohio Valley and across the central and southern Appalachians and the Pacific Northwest. Some showers are forecast for the east Gulf region with cooler conditions in the Plains, Mississippi Valley and New England, and warmer readings in the northern and central plateau, Rockies, and eastern Lakes and Ohio Valley regions.
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Upper Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Central
Southern
Appalachians
Pacific Northwest
East Gulf
New England
Plateau
Rockies
Lakes
Reds Still Testing Says AEC Exposes Soviet Explosions
The Atomic Energy Commission reports continued Soviet nuclear tests in the Arctic with a 31st blast in the Novaya Zemlya series yielding several megatons. Fallout cloud from Monday’s 50 megaton blast passed over the Great Lakes and eastern Canada en route to the Atlantic as air shocks were recorded in Japan.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Arctic
Novaya Zemlya
AEC
Great Lakes
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Japan
Meteorological Agency
Tokyo
US Weather Bureau
Gamble Plans To Fly To New York
Paris AP reports heiress Gamble Benedict Porumbeanu and her husband arrived with their baby and plan to fly to New York to attend probate proceedings of her grandmother Mrs. Katherine Benedict. They say they will object if needed and deny risk of arrest on contempt orders.
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Paris
Benedict Porumbeanu
New York
Hensmen
Porumbeanu
Katherine Geddes Benedict
Porumbeahu
Statesville Growth Story Tapped By Mayor At UNC Event
Garner Bagnal Statesville mayor tells UNC Institute of Government audience that industrial development raises city revenues. He cites streets paved, airport built, utilities upgraded, and 15 163 jobs in a city of 19 844 as payroll grows from 12 million to 52 million. Public budget rose without tax hikes.
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Chapel Hill
N.c
Garner Bagnal
Statesville
Governor's Conference On Economic Development
Institute of Government
University of North Carolina
Bagnal
Three Shots Spell Death in Kannapolis Family Tragedy
Police responded to a neighbor alarm at the Beaver home and found Elmer L. Beaver and his wife dead from gunshot wounds. Coroner ruled homicide and self inflicted death. investigators noted a jammed pistol and a second shot. The couple had one child living in Statesville.
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Kannapolis
N.C
Elmer L. Beaver
Clifford Brown
Cabarrus County
Beaver
Beavers
Statesville
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Southeastern Seminary
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Ohio
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High Point
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NEW England Life
N. Main St
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Massaglia Hotels
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