North Carolina lawmakers split on special session bond vote
Raleigh AP report shows North Carolina legislators divided over summoning a special session to revisit a whittled down 61.6 million bond program. Some oppose any new bonds, others support only urgent hospital and education funding, while a few favor a trimmed package if voters are informed.
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J. Shelton Whicker
Lee
House Finance Committee
Clifton Blue
Moore
W. Brantley Womble
Wake
Lindsay C. Warren
Beaufort
U. S
Robert Lee Humber
Pitt
John Henley
Cumberland
Hector N. McGeachy
Rep. L. Sneed High
Raleigh
Cuba level attacks U.S. in Security Council session
In New York Cuba accused Washington of planning armed intervention to block the Dominican Republic's political future. The Soviet Union was expected to join as Valerian Zorin convened the Security Council. Cuban ambassador Garcia-Inchausteghi demanded a U.S. denial of alleged sovereignty violations and air violations. Adlai Stevenson rejected the charges.
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United Nations, N
Mario Garcia-Inchautegui
Zorin
United States
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Caribbean
Military men bristle at Socialist charges of indoctrination
New York AP reports Socialist Party charges that radical rightist indoctrination exists in the armed forces drew quick pushback from officials. Norman Thomas and Irwin Suall led a briefing claiming multiple officers fostered right wing groups, while Pentagon officials declined comment pending study.
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New York
Socialist Party
Pentagon
Norman Thomas
Socialist Movement
United States
Socialist Report
Defense
Robert S
McNamara
Robert Goldthwaite
Western Sea Frontier
Goldthwaite
San Francisco
Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation
Irwin Suall
Suall
Thomas
Looser Trade Restrictions Urged to Defend Free World
A congressional study paper for the Joint Economic Committee urged easing U S trade barriers and closer work with free nations. It warned that Western civilization faces a growing totalitarian threat from the Soviet Union and Red China and called for a vigorous crusade to mobilize public support.
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Washington
United States
Joint Economic Committee
Soviet Union
Red China
Governor weighs call for special session on bond issue
Raleigh AP Gov Sanford signals possible special legislative session to salvage a scaled down bond plan. The fight follows a $61.6 million statewide bond defeat aimed at financing state colleges and mental hospitals. He assailed Republican leadership and faces GOP reactions from William Cobb.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Associated Press
Sanford
North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation
North Carolina
William Cobb
Handsome Young Germans Admit Spying For U S
In Moscow two German men Walter Naumann and Peter Sonntag pleaded guilty to spying for the United States. They acknowledged guilt in the sense of the indictment, insisting they acted as stated, while the U S and West Germany deny they were spies.
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U.S
East
United States
Moscow
Francis Gary Powers
Walter Naumann
Peter Sonntag
Soviet Union
Sonntag
Supreme Court
Books on School List Called Pornography
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Pearl Buck's The Good Earth and Walter Edmonds Drums Along the Mohawk were labeled pornography by 16 parents seeking removal from Pontiac Northern High School reading lists for 10th and 11th graders. They cited obscene language and raw descriptions, including childbirth in The Good Earth and an adulterous theme in The Scarlet Letter, with calls to withdraw the books.
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Pontiac
Mich
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pearl Buck
The
Good Earth
Walter Edmonds
Pontiac Northern High School
Dana P. Whitmer
Earl Oltesvig
Philip Somers
Marimont Baptist Church
Edward Bigger
Security Director of NSA resigns under conduct standards
Washington AP The security director S Wesley Reynolds of the National Security Agency resigned at the Defense Department's request under the standards of conduct rule banning favors from firms doing government business. The move follows the firing of James B Cash Jr as FHA deputy commissioner. Reynolds said the resignation was voluntary and declined to detail the circumstances. The Defense Department said the action came from a lead from the House Un American Activities Committee, which also reported NSA personnel director Maurice H Klein had been forced to resign for lying on his job application 12 years earlier.
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Washington
National Security Agency
S. Wesley Reynolds
Defense Department
James B. Cash Jr
Federal Housing Administration
Reynolds
Department
FBI
House Un-American Activities Committee
Un-American Activities Committee
NSA
Maurice H. Klein
Klein
William H. Martin
Bernon F. Mitchell
Soviet Union
Cash
Union Fines Upheld By Production Standards Clash
The National Labor Relations Board launches a test case against Local 283 of the United Auto Workers in Wisconsin over fines for over producing. Union rules allegedly penalize members for exceeding production standards set to pressure employers. Rothman notes the case tests rights to regulate members versus worker freedom to push back.
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Washington
United Auto Workers Union
Wisconsin Motor Corp
West Allis
Wis
Stuart Rothman
National Labor Relations Board
Rothman
Iowa physicists challenge Libby on fallout shelter claims
Dr. James Van Allen and seven Iowa Physics Department members denounce Willard Libby’s series on surviving atomic attack. They say promoting shelters risks false security and could overlook civilization-ending dangers of nuclear war. Libby defends that shelters boost survival for nondirect hit cases.
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Iowa City, Iowa
James van Allen
University of Iowa
Willard Libby
van Allen
Iowa Physics Department
Iowa Physicists
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Libby
Associated Press
Thanksgiving Weather Outlook Damp and Snow Expected
Rain and snow are forecast across the country for Thanksgiving. Snow fell in parts from Minnesota to Michigan with three inches in Wausau Wisconsin. The Weather Bureau predicts a damp, dismal holiday in many regions with warmer highs in the east and south and colder readings from Texas to Illinois.
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North
Minnesota
Michigan
Wausau
Wis
Maine
New England
Texas
Oklahoma
Idaho
Montana
California
Pacific Northwest
Weather Bureau
Midwest
Middle Atlantic States
New Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Illinois
Ohio Valley
Rockefeller Conducts 500 Mile Search For Missing Son
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller led a 500 mile coastal survey along New Guinea seeking his son Michael lost after a boat capsized. Dutch troops, natives, and navy ships joined the search and Michael was found far closer to shore than earlier thought.
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Merauke
New Guinea
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Michael
Flamingo Bay
R. S. Wassing
Wassing
Cook's Bay
Rockefeller
Ehilanden
Nelson Rockefeller
William Kouwenhover
Dutch New Guinea
Michael Rockefeller
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Harnett
Vance
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A. A. Zollicoffer
Wayland
Roger Kiser
Scotland
J. Y. Jordan
Buncombe
Merry Meter
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Tribune
Borge Andersen
Cuba
Ira L. Beard
4Th Army
San Antonio
Tex
H. H. Allen
U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory
San Diego
Calif
Steven Huffaker
Oxnard Air Force Base
Frank B. Herold
Louis Leith
Huffaker
Maxwell Air Force Base
Montgomery
Ala
Leith
Milwaukee
Dinky Doolittle
Tom Turkey
Tom
Dinky
Santa Monica
Pacific Ocean Park
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