Tar Heels Win In National Truck Roadeo Semifinal
Leo Wallace Ford of Durham driving for Pilot Freight Carriers won first place in the straight truck semifinals at the National Truck Roadeo in Chicago. Ford scored 328 points, edging Aubrey Harper by 10, with Donald Wigant third at 295.
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Chicago
Leo Wallace Ford
Durham
Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc
Winston-Salem
N.C
American Trucking Assn
Ford
Aubrey Harper
Harper
Super Service Motor Freight
Chattanooga
Tenn
Donald Wigant
Long Transportation Co
Detroit
Mich
Wigant
International Amphitheatre
ATA
North Carolina
Tar Heels
Paul Lee Pittman
William F. Rosswell
Roadway Express Inc
Pittman
Rosswell
Clyde B. Poore
Harry R. Wooten
Ed Hennis Freight Lines, Inc
Perry Reid
James E. Tucker
Charlotte
Grayson Thomas
Burlington
James S. Jackson
Prayer Day Planned In Little Rock
National Council of Churches says its 37 million Protestant and Orthodox members will join tri faith leaders in Little Rock Arkansas on Columbus Day for interracial understanding and law and order. The Rt Rev Robert R Brown proposes citywide services in churches with a reconciliation mission. Protestants Catholics and Jewish leaders back the plan amid the integration crisis.
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New York
National Council of Churches
Little Rock
Ark
Robert R. Brown
Arkansas
United States
Discovery of a new twin tailed comet reported
The Hayden Planetarium announced a new twin tailed comet sighting. Howard S. Gates of Palomar Observatory in California discovered it yesterday and notified Harvard College Observatory. The comet should appear in the northeast sky before dawn, visible to the naked eye between Regulus and Denebola in Leo.
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New York
Hayden Planetarium
Planetarium
Howard S. Gates
Palomar Observatory
California
Harvard College Observatory
Leo
Regulus
Denebola
Monkeys Mostly Found Where Fur Nursery Goods Rare
The text notes that with one exception, monkeys reside in regions not requiring fur furnaces or furs. The lone anomaly is the langur or snowy monkey living in the cold evergreen Himalayan foothill forests.
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Himalayan
Djilas Receives New Prison Term For Book Publication
Milovan Djilas former Yugoslav vice president and wartime comrade of Tito was sentenced to nine years after a one day trial for writing The New Class a book published in New York that allegedly undermined socialism The court also stripped him of war decorations and denounced his actions as grave faults against the revolution Djilas previously faced multiple convictions and jail terms amid the break with Tito and disputes over Yugoslavia’s political direction
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Djilas
U.S
Yugoslavia
Sremska Mitrovica
Milovan Dijilas
Tito
New York
Diilas
Eeia
Nikola Nikolin
Dijilas
Yugocoe
Sectorito
Communist Party
Separation of Siamese Twins Achieved in Philadelphia
A 16 member team at Children's Hospital Philadelphia today successfully separated the eight day old Siamese twin girls Pamela and Patricia Schatz born in Mercy Hospital New York. The operation lasting about two and a half hours was led by Dr Everett Koop. Both babies remained largely normal in function though one had a temporary heart stoppage during the procedure. The girls weighed 13 pounds 7 ounces together prior to surgery and were joined at the pelvis.
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Philadelphia
Mercy Hospital
Long Island
New York
Children's Hospital
Pamela
Patricia Schatz
Everett Koop
Carolina Radio Hams Track Satellite Signal
Associated Press reports North and South Carolina radio amateurs logged signals from a satellite. Operators at Jacksonville Greensboro and Cramerton heard beeps and voices with the orbit timing described, suggesting the artificial moon near overflights and varying signal strengths.
Automation Used In Wood Finish
A quake and windstorm devastated Kerkennah Islands off the east Tunisian coast. Officials report 11 killed in Kratten village and 130 injured as the quake struck after midnight, followed by a storm that destroyed 150 homes. Medical teams rushed in with supplies to the 15,500 residents.
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Tunis
Kernennah
Kratten
Gulf of
Gabes
Tunisian
Tunisia
Satellite Sends Coded Information To Moscow
Cambridge mass October 5 an authority on satellites said the Russian launched earth satellite is sending coded information to Moscow but exact content cannot yet be determined The beeps picked up in the United States indicate messages to Russian scientists Dr Whipple noted the Russians promised to publish details later and the satellite could transmit AM and FM signals powered by batteries estimated at one watt for about three weeks
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Jacksonville
N. C
WJNC
Rod Jones
Lee Haverty
Ben Rhodes
Russell Barnes
Greensboro
George Phillips
Operation Moonwatch
Edgar Lineberger
Cramerton
Charlotte
Lineberger
Florence
8.C
Malcolm McMullen
Moscow
Globe
Dr. Whipple
United States
Washington
Whipple
Russia
Pasadena
Calif
Earth
Longest Migration North American Bird Night Hawk
The night hawk is noted as North Americas longest migrating land bird, traveling from Alaska across to Argentina in South America. It spans vast latitudes and crosses multiple countries on its annual journey.
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Alaska
Argentina
South America
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Uiion
Nework
Frederick A. Praeger
Army Chief of Staff
Carolina
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Associated Press
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iPorfume
Cologne
Sabher
Happ
Cambridge, Mass
Spivey
P. O. Box
Lil Hombre
Harllee
Harllee’s Sportswear
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