Abortion Sentence Appealed
Concord physician Dr. P. H. Lee, 74, freed on $1,000 bond pending appeal of a 12 year term for performing an abortion on Mrs. Joan Porter. Porter testified Lee treated her in January. the child died after a May birth. Lee admitted seeing Porter but denied abortion attempts. he has prior abortion convictions.
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Concord
N.C
P. H. Lee
Lee
Superior Court
J. A. Rousseau
Joan Porter
Charlotte
Rousseau
Porter
Old Church At Fontana Wins Title
St Mark's Evangelical and Reformed Church in Alamance honored at the 29th annual grange convention in Fontana Dam North Carolina. The century old church with German roots and a 400 member base received praise for spiritual contributions and growth. Honorable mentions went to Great Marsh Baptist Church St Pauls Hephzibah Baptist Wendell and Congregational Christian Sophia.
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Fontana Dam
N.C
St. Mark's
Great Marsh
St. Pauls
Hephzibah
Wendell
Congregational Christian Church
Sophia
Paratrooper doubles as preacher at local Baptist churches
Paratrooper Donald Toomey, a 6 foot 3 inch specialist second class with the 18th Airborne Corps Artillery, serves as minister’s helper, Sunday school teacher, and choir member at Bonnie Doone Baptist Church near Fort Bragg. He plans to complete ministerial studies under the GI bill after discharge next spring. His wife Elizabeth teaches a church class and plays organ. about 60 percent of church members are soldiers and families.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Donald Toomey
18Th Airborne Corps Artillery
Bonnie Doone Baptist Church
Toomey
New Orleans
Sam
Elizabeth
Flu Patients At UNC May Write Own Excuses
UNC officials announce students ill with flu may present their own class excuses during the epidemic. Chancellor Aycock said infirmary excuses are not required while cases decline. About 50 in infirmary, under 100 sick in dormitories, and roughly 1,500 ill since the outbreak began 13 days ago.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
University of North Carolina
William B. Aycock
Virginia Democrats hold third party talk in check for 1960
In Virginia, conservative Democratic leaders refrain from backing a third party for 1960 as Little Rock fallout quickens caution. They focus on Almond's governorship and preserving key congressional posts, while Republicans welcome any split in Democratic ranks. The Richmond paper says Byrd likely stays in the Senate, spurred by civil rights battles.
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Richmond
Virginia
Eisenhower
Little Rock
J. Linday Almond Jr
Congress
National Party
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Harry F. Byrd
Senate
Byrd
Licly
Wasp Sting Helps Fort Scott Man Treat Rheumatism
Frank Becco of Fort Scott led Lyle W Amer to a duck blind after wasps drove Becco away. Amer endured stings to clear the nest, claiming relief for rheumatism. A local physician noted the toxin might ease pain in small doses but warned about the hard method.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Frank Becco
Lyle W. Amer
Amer
Becco
Clinton lose multi million plant to cutback blamed
Government cutbacks in airplane contracts led Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing to abandon plans for Zenith Plastics at Clinton. Algernon Butler cited Zenith president Herbert Benton saying there is no need for new facilities. The project would have moved Zenith Plastics Co from Gardenia California to Clinton.
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Clinton
N.C
Algernon Butler
Clinton Development Corp
Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Co
Fof
Zenith Plastics
Zenith Plastics Co
Gardenia
Calif
Minnesota Mining
NAACP vows continued legal clash over last resort integration
At the South Carolina NAACP convention in Rock Hill Gloster Current pledged ongoing court challenges against last resort segregation measures. He denounced gradualism in Souther n integration and praised Gov Faubus for accelerating change through action.
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Rock Hill
S&.c
National Assn. For
Gloster B
NAACP
South Carolina
Gloster
Ruby Hurley
Atlanta
Roy Wilkins
South
Gov
Faubus
National Guard
Little Rock
Eisenhower
Students Rescue Mother After Car Crush in Rain
An Oak Ridge mother, Mrs. Charles M. Benbow, 31, was trapped under a station wagon after a skid in heavy rain near Oak Ridge, North Carolina. Bus driver Richard Warf, an 18 year old Guilford High School student, and about 12 youths lifted the car and aided her until medical help arrived. she was reported improving at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro with fractures to an arm and an ankle.
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Oak Ridge
N.C
Guilford High School
Here
Charles M. Benbow
Moses Cone Hospital
Greensboro
Benbow
Richard Warf
Warf
Critics denounce figures seeking censorship lift in soviet era
Critics denounced individuals in their midst for asking a lifting of literary censorship. They accused those people of looking for only bad things in our reality and attempting to blacken the Soviet system.
Negroes denied access to Asheville library due to deed terms
Pack Memorial Public Library trustees say they cannot integrate the facility, held by the city, because a Sandley Library deed restricts use to whites and would void title if violated. Librarian Margaret Ligon notes attempts to provide some books via the Market Street branch and an appointed committee studies Negro use of libraries amid broader integration push.
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Asheville
N.C
Board of Trustees
Pack Memorial Public Library
Margaret Ligon
Ashevill
Market Street
North Carolina
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New York
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C.L.A
Special Agent
the Prudential Insurance Company OF America
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Prudential Insurance Company of America
Jacksonville
Florida
High Point
North Main Street
L. J. Weatherford
Harllee
Ry Gores
Fabergé
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Faille
Golden Lin Ng
Cologne
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