Furniture Market Opens With Busy Start At Southern Expo
The big fall furniture market opened with light early registration but rapid acceleration by mid morning. Attendees included buyers from Macy's and Montgomery Ward as officials praised smooth operations and on schedule progress despite one hotel garage fire that stranded some buyers.
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Southern Furniture Exposition
Furniture Plaza
Leo Heer
Paul Casey
Heer
Macy’s
New York
Peo
Lenoir Showrooms Jammed As Furniture Mart Opens
LENOIR The fall Southern furniture market opens with crowded showrooms as buyers from stores and syndicates nationwide pack Lenoir factories. Manufacturers forecast a good quarter and spring market. new and expanded showrooms from Hibriten, Broyhill, Bernhardt, Kent Coffey, and others highlight a strong industry outlook.
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Lenoir
Furniture Mart
Blue Ridge
Broyhill Furniture
Bernhardt Furniture Co
Kent-Coffey Furniture Co
Hibriten Furniture Co
Hibriten
Hibriten Chair Co
Greensboro garage fire destroys 31 late model cars
A King Cotton Hotel parking garage fire in Greensboro gutted both stories of the Bargain Box and burned 31 late model cars with losses potentially reaching 150000 dollars. Fire origin linked to a shack between the Bargain Box and the parking area. most cars belonged to furniture buyers at the fall High Point furniture market.
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Greensboro
King Cotton
Asst
Fred Trulove
King Cotton Hotel
High Point
Tropical Storm Gerda Moves Up Coast
Tropical storm Gerda intensifies as it races north off the coast. Boston Weather Bureau warns of whole gale and coastal gale warnings from Rhode Island to Eastport Maine. Northeasterly winds 50 to 65 mph Block Island to Provincetown, 35 to 50 mph north of Provincetown to Eastport, with rough seas. Winds diminish tonight. Gusts near hurricane force 75 mph east of Cape Cod at Texas Tower Bravo, with 67 mph sustained.
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Boston
Gerda
Boston Weather Bureau
New England
Rhode Island
Eastport
Maine
Block Island
Provincetown
Cape Cod
Texas
Tower Bravo
Six Nations demand halt to Soviet 50 megaton test proposal
Six countries led by Canada Denmark Iceland Japan Norway and Sweden urged the United Nations to appeal to the Soviet Union to cancel a planned 50 megaton nuclear explosion before month end. The move, backed by spokesmen from Denmark Japan and Canada, followed Prime Minister Khrushchev's announcement and aimed at halting further nuclear tests. Indian Defense Minister V K Menon urged a voluntary moratorium while noting shared responsibility for resumed testing.
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United Nations
Soviet Union
General Assembly
Canada
Denmark
Iceland
Japan
Norway
Sweden
Khrushchev
V. K. Krishna Menon
Menon
Snow Flurries Hit Western N C Drought Relief Seen
Snow flurries moved through northwest North Carolina as cool air chased away the drought. Boone saw a low of 32 with little ground accumulation while Mt. Mitchell reported 11 inches of precipitation and 18 degrees at 7 am. Freeze warnings were issued for the mountains and rain totals varied across the state with Charlotte at .29 inch in 24 hours.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Boone
Asheville
Mt. Mitchell
Grandfather Mt. Re
Denunciation Drive Targets Malenkov and Kaganovich
Pravda discloses a purge style denunciation campaign against former Premier Georgi Malenkov and former Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich. Speeches accuse them of beatings tortures and executions during Stalin era and link them to Yeshov's repressions. Expulsion from the party is sought, with Molotov and Voroshilov also named for possible future charges.
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Stanley Johnson
Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Lavrenti Beria
Stalin
Georgi M. Malenkov
Lazar M. Kaganovich
N. I. Yeshov
Kaganovich
Malenkov
V. M. Molotov
Klementi V. Voroshilov
Voroshilov
Nikolai Podgorny
Ukraine
Khrushchev
Gennady Voronov
Kennedy Economist Warns 1962 Could Mark Critical Economic Period
President Kennedy's chief economist Dr. Walter W. Heller told the Business Council in Hot Springs that 1962 may be a critical period with creeping inflation possibly halting full employment gains. He urged restraint in price and wage decisions and praised Kennedy’s letter urging moderation in steel price hikes.
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Hot Springs
Kennedy
Industry Today
Walter W. Heller
Council of Economic Advisers
Business Council
Heller
United States
Roger M. Blough
United States Steel Corp
Blough
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
Surprise Snowstorm Hammers Virginia and West Virginia
A sudden autumn snowstorm crippled parts of southeastern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. Beckley and nearby communities lost power. Flat Top Mountain recorded nine inches, Mercer County Airport eight inches, and Bland County up to six inches. Telephones and power lines failed in Giles Wythe and Bland counties as temperatures plummeted from the 70s to below freezing. Rain also fell in portions of North Carolina and Virginia.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Virginia
Beckley
W.va
Flat Top Mountain
Mercer County
Bluefield
Bland County
Giles
Wythe
Bland
North Carolina
Your Middle Years by Howard Whitman
A columnist notes a new phase of teen behavior marked by unreachability. Parents vent feelings of being used or ignored while fearing their children grow up too fast and seek independence. The piece offers reassurance that parents can endure this period with logic and patience.
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Howard Whitman
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