U N Group Pushes Talks On Disarmament at United Nations
The United Nations Political Committee urged a vote on Western disarmament proposals as the eighth Assembly session nears its December adjournment. Moscow’s Vishinsky and Western replies fueled debate while a private subcommittee idea for key powers was proposed. Britain’s Selwyn Lloyd called the Western response a setback for disarmament amid other unresolved questions on Korea and China.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. N. Assembly
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Assembly
Security Council
Canada
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Vishinsky
U.N
V. M. Molotov
China
Molotov
Moscow
Selwyn Lloyd
West
Korea
Burma
Budget Group Approves Pay Increases For 15 Officials
The Advisory Budget Commission approved pay raises for 15 top state officials including Utilities Commission chair Stanley Winborne and four commissioners. Increases range from about 600 to 1,000 dollars yearly, aimed at aligning salaries with state judges and comparable jobs.
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Raleigh
Stanley Winborne
The
Utilities Commission
Advisory Budget Commission
Asst
D. S. Coltrane
Winborne
Fred C. Hunter
Sam O. Worthington
Edward H. McMahan
Harry T. Westcott
Coltrane
Budget Commission
J. T. Currie
Department of Tax Research
Gwyn Price
Rural Electrification Authority
C. C. Crittenden
Archives and History Department
H. A. Wood
State Blind Commission
East Carolina College
Greenville
A&t College
Greensboro
Elizabeth City State Teachers College
State Hospitals Board of Control Authority
State Lets Hospital Contracts Amid Building Boom
The State Hospitals Board of Control named architects for a 22 million dollar mental hospital program. H. Raymond Weeks of Durham and McMinn Norfleet and Wicker of Greensboro win the largest award for a 4.5 million training school for white feeble minded at Greensboro. Six Associates of Asheville to 3.03 million renovation at Butner Hospital. A. J. Maxwell Jr. of Goldsboro awarded 1.5 million renovation of Raleigh male wing. J. N. Pease & Co. of Charlotte to 620 thousand boys dormitory at Caswell Training Site in Kinston.
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State Hospitals Board of Control
H. Raymond Weeks
Durham
McMinn
Goldsboro
Associates of
Asheville
Butner Hospital
Weeks
A. J. Maxwell Jr
Raleigh Hospital
J. N.pease & Co
Charlotte
Caswell Training Sct
Kinston
Mercury Transit Across Sun Visible Today Statewide
The Transit of Mercury occurs as Mercury moves between Earth and the Sun, visible as a tiny dot through telescopes. Hayden Planetarium warns to use dark filters. viewing window in the United States runs from 10:56 a.m. to 1:12 p.m. EST with the next transit on November 6, 1960.
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United States
Mercury
American Museum
American Museum-Hayden Planetarium
Planetarium
Boy Makes TNT Disposes of It in Ohio River
Jules Kaplan, 17, built about two pounds of TNT in a Louisville basement using borrowed materials. Firefighters, police, Coast Guard and Army detonation experts coordinated a two hour operation to submerge the volatile liquid in the river using a 50 foot rope and sawdust filled pail. The evacuation affected eight people in the house and ended with relief from authorities.
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Louisville
Jules Kaplan
Ohio River
Jules
Fire Prevention Bureau
Ft. Knox
Army Post
Coast Guard
Morgan
Solon Demands Hoover Testify In White Case
Rep Walter of Pennsylvania on the House UN American Activities Committee urges FBI chief J Edgar Hoover to testify about the Harry Dexter White case. He says all involved should reveal what they know as Brownell or Truman are linked to White. Jenner questions Hoover about possible 1946 promises and surveillance.
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FBI
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Hoover
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White
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Truman
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Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
Clark
House
Jenner
Igor Gouzenko
Ottawa
Alger Hiss
Ion
Army Secretary Denies Spying at Fort Monmouth Lab
Secretary of the Army Stevens said 33 suspended workers at Ft Monmouth radar laboratories were not suspected of spying. He noted suspensions were loyalty based with some serious charges, pledged fair hearings, and cited ongoing Senate spy inquiries led by Sen McCarthy as context.
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Washington
Stevens
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
Senate
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Army Signal Corps
Monmouth
Julius Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Army
Ftonmouth
No Party For Prince On Birthday
Prince Charles turned five with no birthday party or cake and no parents at home. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip planned a quiet Sandringham weekend before their Australia and New Zealand tour, sending Charles to Windsor with the Queen Mother for a tea and a later celebration with select palace children. A red motorized limousine, built to the Duke’s specs, tops his gifts.
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Prince Charles
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New Zealand
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Princess Anne
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Windsor
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Peace talks agenda set as Korean dispute moves ahead
Allied and Communist negotiators agreed on an agenda for preliminary talks to arrange a political conference in Panmunjom. The plan places composition and location first, with time to follow, while Dean and Reds spar over who attends and how proceeds proceed. Observers warn the process remains slow and fragile.
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Ich
U. S
Arthur Dean
Korean Repatriation Commission
Red
Armin Daeniker
Commission
Dean Ch
Dean
U. N. Assembly
Russia
Korea
China
Eisenhower Warns Canada on Red Threat and Defense Ties
President Eisenhower told Canada's Parliament that the United States and Canada must plan for a Soviet atomic attack on North America while preserving commitments to Europe and the Pacific. He cited increased Soviet capability, urged joint defense steps, and highlighted the St. Lawrence Seaway and NATO as key links in a global security effort.
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Eisenhower
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North America
U. S
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Russia
Germany
Austria
House of Commons Chamber
Louis St. Laurent
St Laurent
United Nations
St. Lawrence Seaway
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Washington
Jury Frees Widow In Shooting at Home
An all male Rockingham County jury acquitted 32 year old widow Frances Carter Proctor in the Sept 2 shooting of her husband Lawrence Proctor 52. She testified she shot him after he came home drunk and threatened her in their bedroom. She said she loved him and would keep working as secretary and nurse for a Reidsville doctor.
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Wentworth
N. C
Rockingham County
Frances Carter Proctor
Lawrence Proctor
Mountaineer Receives Life For Murder
A 51-year-old mountaineer must spend life in prison for the murder of Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Crawford Noah Dockery, who pleaded guilty to first degree murder after the March 8 shooting near Dockery’s home. The case followed a warrant served over alleged complicity in a burned sawmill.
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N.C
Cherokee County
Frank Crawford
Noah Dockery
Crawford
Dockery
State Supreme Court
General Assembly
French Worker Priests Plan Revised to Fight Communism
Paris three French cardinals announced a radical revision of the worker priests experiment aimed at combating communism in France. The plan, begun a decade ago, placed priests in factories, in work attire, and paid as workers to get closer to labor and revitalize church activity. Critics said priests were being converted by workers and some priests joined Communist demonstrations. It followed reports that the Vatican called a halt to the program last August.
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Paris
France
Pius XII
Truman to broadcast on White case from Kansas City
Former President Truman announced an all-out broadcast Monday night from Kansas City to tell all the facts about the Harry Dexter White case. He spoke in the Waldorf Towers lobby before boarding a train home to Independence Missouri.
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Truman
Kansas City
Harry Dexter White
Waldorf Towers
Independence
White
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International Monetary Fund
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