United Nations Day Proclaimed By Ministers Association
In High Point churches Sunday the United Nations Day proclamation and UN literature are distributed by the Ministers Association. A prayer by Rev. Lloyd E Sechr iest asks blessings on leaders and workers and urges righteousness to exalt a nation. The text envisions global cooperation and spiritual guidance for better material and moral conditions.
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High Point
United Nations
Ministers Association
Lloyd E. Sechriest
Ministers’ Association
Father
Revival at Green Street Baptist set for Oct 31 to Nov 7
Dr Marshall Craig will lead a revival at Green Street Baptist Church from October 31 through November 7. A series of 48 family prayer meetings is planned for next week as part of the event.
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Green St. Baptist
Marshall Craig
Southern Baptist Convention
Piedmont Mission Study Institute Held at Green St Baptist
The Piedmont Associational Mission Study Institute met last night in the Green St. Baptist Social Room with Mrs. Bill Creech in charge. Classes included Pilgrim to Brazil for adults, Land of Many Worlds for youth, Missionaries for intermediates, Adventure in Brazil for the “Little Missionary” group, and a session by E. L. Myers. The event was postponed from Friday due to stormy weather.
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Piedmont Associational Mission Study Institute
Green St. Baptist
Bill Creech
Association
Presbyterian Visit to Present Music at Home
About 25 members of the Girls' Auxiliary of First Baptist will visit the Presbyterian Home on Greensboro Road Sunday afternoon to present a special music program. Miss Mattie Bunce will lead the program.
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Presbyterian
First Baptist
Greensboro Rd
Mattie Bunce
Youth Rally to Be Held Across Three Cities Tonight
Youth from Concord Charlotte and High Point will gather at First Church of God for a 7 30 p m rally. Walter Vincannon will deliver the message and music will be led by Rev Charles Freed. The attendance trophy will be presented and a refreshments program will follow at Emma Blair Clubhouse led by Guy Kinney.
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Concord
Charlotte
High Point
First Church of God
Walter Vincannon
Charles Freed
Arlo F. Newell
Emma Blair
Guy Kinney
Wesley Memorial Methodist to convene full membership meet
The Wesley Memorial Methodist Church will host a meeting of its entire adult membership in the church sanctuary on Sunday. Details and agenda are continued on page eight.
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Wesley Memorial Methodist
Nixon Stevenson trade charges in two party campaign volleys
The Associated Press reports Nixon at a Butte rally cited a secret memorandum linking Communist influence to Democratic policy. Stevenson at Milwaukee rallies accused Nixon of McCarthyism in a white collar campaign and warned of Communist in government rhetoric.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Community Party
Democratic Party
Adlai Stevenson
Butte
Mont
California
Communist Party
Stevenson
Milwaukee
Eisenhower
Teshonen
Stephen A. Mitchell
GOP
Leonard Hall
Johnson outlines seven point plan for Democratic congress
Senator Lyndon Johnson disclosed a seven planked program for the 84th Congress promising full cooperation with President Eisenhower on a united foreign policy. He predicted a five seat Senate margin and larger House, with 17 Democratic committee chairs forming a Cabinet to push the agenda, many from the South and West. He pledged a thorough review of the Nixon Dixon Yates deal under Senator Anderson of New Mexico.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
D-Tex
Congress
Johnson
House
Eisenhower
Minnesota
Democratic Senate Committee
Nixon - Dixon - Yates
Clinton P. Anderson
D-Nm
Atomic Energy Committee
Nixon
Dixon- Yates
TWA
Democratic Party Spending in North Carolina Races
The North Carolina Democratic Party pours over 10,000 into Ninth and Tenth Districts where GOP strength is strongest. A pre election expense report filed by State Democratic Chairman John D. Larkins Jr shows total contributions of 30,694.24 dollars.
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Raleigh
John D. Larkins Jr
Molotov Delivers New Note on German Question
Moscow reports Foreign Minister Molotov summoned the American British and French ambassadors and handed them a new Soviet note on Germany. The note replies to the Sept 10 Western preconditions for talks and follows London nine power consultations on the German question amid NATO rearmament issues.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Germany
Britain
France
United States
Molotov
Soviet Union
U.S
Charles F F.bohlen
Sir William Hayter
Louis Joux
Foreign Ministry
London
West Germany
NATO
Paris
Sharp Eye On Missouri Convicts After Prison Riot
Jefferson City authorities patrolled Missouri's state penitentiary after a noon riot in the mess hall over prison fare. No damage was reported this time, and convicts were quickly returned to cells. The state previously suffered four fatalities, thirty injuries, and seven buildings burned in a September riot.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
State Penitentiary
Thomas E. Whitecotton
Saar Put Under Union in European Status Deal
French Premier Mendes France and West German Chancellor Adenauer reach a compromise to place the Saar under the Western European Union with a European status similar to the District of Columbia model. A referendum will decide the status, with elections for a new Landtag after acceptance, and measures to bar agitation for regime change.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Konrad Adenauer
Saar
Western European Union
Adenauer
Mendes- France
District of Columbia
Germany
Landtag
Third Ceremony Affirms Marriage
In Beirut Saudi Prince Talal, brother of King Saud, weds Mouna Solh daughter of the late Lebanese premier. The third ceremony held at Beirut hotels with about 2000 guests. the man’s reception at Hotel Bristol and the women’s at Normandy. The engagement occurred in spring and the marriage contract was legalized in August. The groom declared the honeymoon begun.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Talal
Saud
Mouna Soelh
Riad Solh
Sami Soth
Bristol
Normandy
Talan
Oil industry balks at temporary shutdown for smog test
Southern California oil firms declined Gov. Knight’s proposal to halt operations for a smog study. Union Oil President Reese H. Taylor labeled the plan political, while others like Standard Oil of California and Shell urged caution. The Independent Refiners Assn called the move impractical and urged political neutrality.
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Los Angeles
California
Goodwin J. Knight
Reese H. Taylor
Union Oil
Knight
Richard Graves
Union
Leght
Standard Oil of
Shell
Independent Refiners Assn
Langer Flags AP and L blunder in Dixon-Yates suits
Sen Langer said Arkansas Power and Light erred in filing a two million dollar slander suit against Arthur E. McLean as part of the Dixon Yates power contract probe. He warned of swift public backlash and said the subcommittee will aid McLean's defense if legally possible.
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G. Milton Kelly
Washington
Sen
Langer
R-Ind
Arkansas Power & Light Co
Senate
Dixon-Yates
Wall Street
Little Rock
North Dakota Republican
Arthur E. McLean
Arkansas Power
Ap&l
McLean
North Dakota
Sidney Davis
Sid McMath
Arkansas
McMath
Arkansas State House
Middle South Utilities Inc
Dixon-Yates Power Group
Dixon - Yates Group
West Memphis
East Tennessee
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Tennessee
Kentucky
AEC
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Idaho Senator presses hearing on third party Senate bid
Sen. Welker moves a congressional hearing spotlighting Glen Taylor's bid for the U S Senate after Taylor released testimony from two former FBI agents claiming he sought Communist support for his 1942 Progressive Party run with Henry A Wallace. Taylor calls it a one man hearing and accuses bias.
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Boise
Idaho
Sen. Welker
U.S. Senate
Glen Taylor
Taylor
Progressive Party
Henry A. Wallace
Welker
FBI
Washington
Senate
Matthew Cvetic
Herbert Philbrick
Wallace
Gace Easports
France and West Germany agree on Saar rearmament move
Paris reports a cabinet quick approval to sign accords bringing West Germany into a Western European Union and NATO. The deal ends Allied occupation, grants near sovereignty, and allows German rearmament while Saar coal mine ownership is reserved for a later settlement. Molotov summoned ambassadors in Moscow as negotiations continue.
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West Germany
Germany
Pierre Mendes-France
Saar
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Mendes-France
Adenauer
Merides - France
Mendes- France
Ex-Convict Eludes Police Dragnet
Amedeo Gus, 26, fled after fatally shooting Detective Charis P. during a June 28 clash at the Criminal Courts building. A mass manhunt of 200 officers was called off as authorities said he vanished with a blond woman. Dolores del Genio Marcus, 23, was later seized for smuggling the gun to him.
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Chicago
Gus Amedeo
Sonora
Frank Pape
Amedeo
Criminal Courts
Charis P
Dolores del Genio Marcus
Illinois
Burlington Man Acquitted Of Murder
HAMPTON VA Robert M Syrotchen 31 of Burlington North Carolina was acquitted of murder in the death of Earl L Hartman 23 of Rochester New York an airman at Langley Field A jury deliberated twenty minutes and the defendant testified he and Hartman and two others had been drinking on July 4 but he denied any involvement He left when Hartman failed to give direction for a cab and faces a parole violation hearing stemming from a separate federal charge
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Hampton
Robert M. Syrotchen
Burlington
N.C
Carpenter
Earl L. Hartman
Rochester
N. Y
Langley Air Force Base
Syrotchen
Hartman
Erereden
Syrotehen
Federal
Anew
Raftsman William Willis Survives 115 Days at Sea in Raft
William Willis of New York recounts a 6500 mile Pacific voyage on a 35 foot balsa raft with the cat Meekie and a second cat Peekie eaten before Pago Pago. He described 35 hour watches, constant steering, sea water drinking, and mind over matter as key to survival.
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Honolulu
Peru
American Samoa
Pacific
William Willis
New York
South Pacific
Pan American Airways
Ocean
Salesman Admits Bank Robbery in North Carolina
Elbert Dens Woodcock, 23, a hosiery salesman, confessed to robbing the People's Bank and Trust Co. in Rocky Mount on Sept. 20, taking about 8209 with a toy pistol. He led officers to a cache near the Tar River where roughly 7300 was recovered, and pled guilty at a Rocky Mount preliminary hearing. Bond set at 15000. case moves to Wilson federal court with an expected Nov. 8 start.
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Charlotte
Elbert Dens Woodcock
Fee
North Rocky Mount
People’s Bank and Trust Co
Ray Abbaticchio Jr
Ware
Woodcock
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