Pioneer industrialist Gurney Kearns dies in High Point
Gurney Harriss Kearns, 90, longtime leader in High Point furniture and hosiery, dies at High Point Memorial Hospital. He directed Crown Hosiery Mill for fifty years, supported education, and helped found High Point College and Wesley Memorial Church. Born in High Point, he studied at Trinity College before it moved to Durham. He began as a farmer and horse trader, taught school, then joined Tate Furniture Co. in the lumber yard before entering business.
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Lumbe Yard
Nehru reports Chinese capture of Se Pass and Bomdila
Prime Minister Nehru described the Chinese seizure of Se Pass and the fall of Walong as part of a broad offensive along the Burma to Kashmir frontier. Indian forces faltered as the attackers outflanked defenses and pushed toward Bomdila, with fighting centering near the Assam plains.
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le Pass
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UN expected to approve disarmament talks resolution
In New York the General Assembly quickly eyed approval for a resolution urging renewed disarmament negotiations in Geneva and a mid April progress report while Latin America faces an uncertain fate for a separate measure barring nuclear arms from the region amid Cuban base demands.
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Fire Out of Control Threatens Asheboro Businesses
A blaze at a 75 to 100 foot deep Asheboro building housing Stockner Barnes Appliance Co and other offices, including the Republican headquarters and a dentist, exploded from the boiler room. Five fire trucks and 206 volunteers fought the flames, two firefighters were injured, and two others overcome by smoke as the roof collapsed but walls held, threatening the main business district. The structure sits at 145 Fayetteville St across from the Courier-Tribune office, owned by Jones Industrial Co and Walter Stowe.
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Adenauer Government Faces Resignations Over Spiegel Affair
Five Coalition ministers from the Free Democratic party resign in protest over the Der Spiegel affair. They aim to force Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss out of office. Adenauer’s cabinet remains in place for now.
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Khrushchev Orders Drastic Soviet Industry and Farm Shakeup
Premier Khrushchev told the Communist Party Central Committee to overhaul industry and agriculture to boost production and stressed learning from capitalist methods. He called for tighter party control, firmed aims on heavy industry, and new structures to integrate factories and farms with specialized research and building power shifted to a new organization. The speech urged studying Western methods and centralizing design and management for profit-like efficiency.
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Europe Warned On Trade Policies
Paris AP Freeman outlines U S concern over Western European farm import policies and their effect on unity of the West. He warns of retaliatory steps and urges access for U S agricultural exports while noting Common Market measures favor European producers in wheat feed grains rice and poultry.
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Small Children Rescued From Gas Filled Room
Police saved three children from a gas filled apartment after their father fled. Horton reportedly beat his wife, who escaped to a neighbor and called for help. Officers found four stove burners on with a out pilot light, filling the rooms with gas.
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Harry Thomas Horton
Horton
Clara Cox
Robbery investigated in Rowan County store holdup
Worth Johnson operator of a market on U S 29A near China Grove was held up and robbed of about 1200 in cash and 700 in checks after closing his store. Investigators consider a link to a slaying of another grocer two weeks earlier as they pursue leads.
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Survivors tell ironical tale from burning Greek freighter
Five crewmen from the Greek freighter Captain George describe escaping a blazing ship as others chose a lifeboat and were lost at sea. Of 25 aboard, seven saved, three bodies recovered, 15 missing. The five men from the Aegean region arrived in Philadelphia on the Trinity Navigator after being rescued more than 200 miles northeast of Bermuda. They were Antonius Arapis, Costas Veletzas, Themis Patzatzis, George Anthis, and Stelios Paschalp...
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