Buyers Crowd Showrooms At Southern Fall Furniture Market
Buyers packed the Southern Furniture Exposition Building and showrooms in High Point and nearby towns as the fall market opened amid strong early demand. Industry spokesmen reported heavy traffic, with premarket notes of caution due to the steel strike and a potential impact on orders and backlogs in upholstery and beds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
Southern Furniture Exposition
High Point
Thomasville
Lexington
Hickory
Lenoir
Ing
Exposition Building
Busi
Founder's Furniture Co
Skidding Car Slams Into Mother and Son in North Wilkesboro
A mother Annie Jeanette Huffman Royal 27 and her son Ray Vaughn Royal Jr 7 died after a skidding 1951 Ford struck them on old U S 421 nine miles west of North Wilkesboro North Carolina. The boy’s sister Jane Royal 5 was injured.
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North Wilkesboro
N.C
Wilkes County
Annie Jeanette Huffman Royal
Rt. 1
Parlear
Wilkes General Hospital
Ray Vaughn Royal Jr
Hospi
Ter
Jane Royal
R. G. Pottseeaoe
Ray Vaughn Royal Sr
U.S. 421
Here
Lincoln Day McGlamery
Pat McGlamery
Carolinas Site For Maneuver Dragon Head Exercise
The Carolinas and southern Virginia host the Strategic Air-Exercise Dragon Head to train STRAC commanders and staffs. Eleven thousand five hundred soldiers from 113 units in 16 states participate over the next two weeks, with rapid deployment to world hotspots as a core aim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Bragg
N.C
Carolinas
Virginia
Strategic Air
STRAC
First Visit Furniture Market Opens With Elegant Chaos
Journal reporter tours the Thomasville 64 Exhibition Building on Main Street as decorators scramble through fall displays. The Erwin-Lambeth and Thomasville sectors showcase Horizon and Motif groups, with early American and French Provincial floors highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville 64 Exhibition Building
Main Street
Three Coal Miners Die In Roof Collapse At Marianna
Three miners were killed when the Is land Creek Coal Co mine roof collapsed at Marianna six miles west of Pineville. Victims were Jack Moody 32 Sanrock WV Rhonal Lilly 35 near Beckley WV and Carl Bailey 35 Rhodell WV. The slate fall crushed them about 3 200 feet from the mine main air shaft.
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Pineville
W. Va
Island Creek Coal Co
Marianna
Jack Moody
Sanrock
Rhonal Lilly
Beckley
Carl Bailey
Rhodell
Steel talks resume after court order in Pittsburgh
Negotiators returned to bargaining on the 102 day steel strike after a court edict, with President Eisenhower urging settlement. The Big 12 companies and United Steelworkers led talks, which were set to continue Sunday afternoon as observers reported little progress.
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Pittsburgh
Eisenhower
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
Bed Hin
Cooper
U.S. Third District Court
McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
Elvis Presley Reported Hospitalized in Germany
Elvis Presley, 24, a U.S. Army specialist, was hospitalized in Frankfurt with tonsillitis for the second time in four months. In satisfactory condition at the 97th General Hospital, doctors planned to decide by Monday if tonsils must be removed. he had a prior tonsillitis episode last June and was discharged around February or March.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Elvis Presley
U.S. Army
97Th General Hospital
Presley
North Carolina bond plan tests state needs funding
Tar Heel citizens vote next Tuesday on a 34 million dollar statewide bond package covering education, mental institutions, community colleges, and state facilities. Gov Hodges backs passage amid light turnout. critics note lack of legislative funding in 1959 and a disputed 4.5 million legislative building bond.
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Raleigh
Tar Heel
Hodges
D. Lacy
McBryde
Fayetteville
Medical Care Commission
Esso Cuts Statewide Gas Price in North Carolina
Esso Standard Oil lowered its statewide regular gasoline price by 2 cents from 29.9 to 27.9 per gallon in a move tied to Shell Sunoco and Texaco cuts. State officials consider possible action against fair trade companies, while Esso claims the reduction benefits consumers and avoids localized price wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Esso Standard Oil Co
Shell
Sunoco
Texaco
Esso
North Carolina
Dowd
Dave Horn
Horn
Malcolm Seawell
Flash Floods Hit Raleigh Rocky Mount Area
Severe rains up to six inches caused flash floods in Johnston and Wake counties. Seven people were rescued near Clayton. Clayton washouts blocked highways and power failed for three hours. Raleigh logged over 3 inches and Rocky Mount saw 3.66 inches as streets flooded.
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Associated Press
Raleigh-Rocky Mount
Clayton
Johnston County
Union Carbide Research Farm
Raleigh
Wral-Tv
WTVD
Rocky Mount
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Leonard Harden
Denver, Colo
Albert S. Davies
Palm Beach
Fla
Janet Teague
Thomasville Chair Co
New York
Cameron
Erwin - Lambeth Inc
Roughton
Elvis
North Carolina Armory Commission
Southport
John W. Umstead Jr
Chapel Hill
Sook East
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