France seeks new UN delegate to replace Cornut Gentille
The French mission at the United Nations reports Bernard Cornut Gentille is ill with malaria and liver trouble and has returned to France. France is looking for a new permanent delegate to succeed him after five years as high commissioner of French West Africa and his partial Security Council presidency during the October Middle East dispute.
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United Nations
N.Y
France
Bernard Cornut- Gentille
Corput-Gentille
U.N
French West Africa
Council
Middle East
Egypt
Cornut-Gentille
Marine Goes On Trial Today At Parris Island
A 19 year old former junior drill instructor, Pfc. Frederick A. Renton, faces general court martial on maltreating recruits at the Marine Base. He allegedly used recruits for unauthorized physical exercises after charges were filed. Renton has been restricted to base and reduced in rank. Trial counsel is Lt. Charles H. Washburn Jr. Maj. Donald Holden and Maj. Jack Herod serve as defense and law officer. Court members include Col. John Hetles, Col. Wilson E. Hunt, Lt. Col. aa ert A. Thompson, Maj. Gerald B. McIntyre, Maj. Theodore E. Metzger, Maj. Marvin Hewlett, Capt. Themistocles Annas, Capt. Willard J. Suits, 1st Lt. Frank R. Smith, and 1st Lt. William E. Lewis.
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Parris Island
S.C
Marine
Frederick A. Renton
Renton
Pg Aga
Renton H E
Charles H. Washburn Jr
Donald Holden
Jack Herod
John Hetles
Wilson E. Hunt
Aaert A. Thompson
Gerald B. McIntyre
Theodore E. Metzger
Marvin Hewlett
Themistocles Annas
Willard J. Suits
Frank R. Smith
William E. Lewis
Iron Lung Student Tops Grades at Gardner-Webb
Martha Mason of Lattimore High School fame, confined to an iron lung, earns a 96.20 average in her first Gardner-Webb College report card. Her scores include 100 in history and 98 in French, with 91 in English, as she attends via two way telephone links from her bedside.
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Boiling Springs
N. C
Martha Mason
Ee - Webb College
Martha
Lattimore High School
Cleveland County
Gardner - Webb
Water, Sewage Experts Meet in Charlotte
Water works and sewage experts from North Carolina gathered for the 36th annual meeting in Charlotte. Delegates discussed the need to spend about 300 million dollars annually to meet expanding water service demands through imagined and engineered solutions.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Rally to mark Soviet anniversary met by anti Soviet pickets
In New York last night anti Soviet demonstrators, largely Hungarian and Hungarian American, jeered a National Council of American Soviet Friendship rally outside the Pythian Temple. They hurled ammonia, tomatoes and eggs. Robeson arrived flanked by police and was booed as the event marked the Soviet Union’s 39th anniversary and diplomatic ties with the United States.
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New York
National Council of
Paul Robeson
Brooklyn
William Eo Melish
Pythian Temple
Hungary
America
Robeson
Soviet Union
Gulf Shooting Sparks Conflict Over Taxpico Gulf Incident
Gulf coast guardsmen and Texas shrimp fishermen give conflicting accounts after a Mexican cutter shot shrimp boat Pescadora near Tampico. Captain Tom Wilson was wounded and hospitalized in Brownsville Texas as a hearing on seizure or release of the vessel proceeds. Mexican officials hint at release without charges, while a nine mile territorial limit dispute lies at the core of the clash.
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Tampico
Mexico
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Watersay Sassen
Tom Wilson
Pescadora
Brownsville
Tex
U. S
George D. Whittinghill
Wilson
Coast Guard
Rockingham Man Leaves Hungary During Flight To Safety
Charles Hiott of Rockingham North Carolina was stopped by Russian authorities from leaving Budapest and hid with a Hungarian family for four days while helping a friend’s young niece and nephew. He praised the family for their generosity and sacrifice. The report notes he is a gyro sales manager for a U.S. encyclopedia firm and spends time in Frankfurt and Paris.
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Vienna
Rockingham, N.C
Budapest
Charles Hiott
Hiott
Frankfurt
Aris
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