Five Children Die in Fire in Powellsville NC
Aged 2 to 7, Betty Jean 7 Kenneth 6 Lorraine 3 and Denise 2 died when a four room frame house burned in Powellsville North Carolina. Deputy Dewey Swain identified them as children of Ernest Lee Freeman and Gladys Freeman. The parents left the children alone watching TV as Freeman says he turned off the heater and went to a roadhouse. He returned to find the home destroyed and the children dead. The wife was hospitalized for sedation. The cause of the fire remains undetermined.
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Dewey Swain
Bertie County
Ernest Lee Freeman
Betty Jean
Kenneth
Cur- Powellsville
N.C
Lorraine
Denise
Powellsville
North Carolina
Freeman
Swain
Gladys
N C Culture Week Meetings Scheduled
Fourteen statewide groups plan annual Raleigh meetings for Culture Week. Notables include Frank Stanton of CBS at the State Art Society dinner, Carlisle Humelsine of Colonial Williamsburg at the Antiquities luncheon, Gertrude Carraway of Tryon Palace speaking Friday, and Paul Green at the Friday and Saturday events. Degas painting to be presented to the North Carolina Museum of Art. New Roanoke Island award to honor Fred Morrison. Numerous history and literature awards to be announced.
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Frank Stanton
New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
North Carolina State Art Society
Carlisle H. Humelsine
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg
North Carolina Society For the Preservation of Antiquities
Gertrude Carraway
New Bern
Tryon Palace
North Carolina Library and Historical Association
Association
Paul Green
Chapel Hill
North Carolina Society of County
Degas
North Carolina Museum of Art
Edgar Degas
Roanoke Island Historical Association
Fred Morrison
Washington
Kill Devil Hills
Ruth Coltrane
American Association of University Women
Chrysler Wrapped Up and GM Next in UAW Pact Talks
The United Auto Workers concluded a three year contract covering 8000 salaried workers at Chrysler and eyed talks with General Motors. Chrysler announced a new three year pact at around 3 a.m. with salary increases from 35 to 87 dollars monthly retroactive to Oct 16 1967.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Today
Chrysler Corp
General Motors
Chrysler
UAW
Ford
Parathion Poison Links Bread to Tragic Outbreak in Colombia
In Bogota 146 people remain critically ill after a baker unwittingly used parathion insecticide in bread. Sixty six children and ten adults died, with mass funerals held as authorities drain antitoxins from international supplies and investigators arrest the baker Aurelio Fajardo and a flour truck driver.
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Bogota
Colombia
China
Venezuela
Panama
United States
Ayerst Laboratories Inc
Little Falls
N.J
Aurelio Fajardo
Fajardo
Pentagon Whiz Kid Backs Down on Helicopter Buy
Dr. Alain Enthoven, aide to the defense secretary, told a Senate subcommittee he urged McNamara to curb the 1965 Army helicopter purchase to about 720 units. He said the later Vietnam buildup showed the decision had been mistaken, as helicopter mobility proved valuable and more were needed.
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Washington
Pentagon
Whiz Kid
U.S
Vietnam
Alain C. Enthoven
Congress
Johnson
Enthoven
McNamara
Senate
Henry M. Jackson
Dwash
Jackson
Armed Services
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Raleigh
Roanoke Chowan
R. D. W. Connor
North Carolina Historical Review
American Association For State and Local History
Ane
Auro
Mann’s Drug Store
Parathion
Abi
Roe
Jaycee
High Point Enterprise
Mercury
Park Lane
America
Montego
Holiday Motors OF
High Point, Inc
S. Main Street
High Point
Rance
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