Tar Heels reject state label for Ku Klux in editorial
Editorial argues North Carolina should resist the stigma of being No 1 for the Ku Klux Klan. It defends free speech while condemning hate, noting McCarthyism and Birch Society scars, and urges open discussion to reveal the movement’s ugliness. It calls for letting the Klan speaker face public judgment.
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Tar Heels
State
Ku Klux
North Carolina
Robert Jones
N. C. State University
Klan
John Birch Society
Congo turbulence deepens after Tshombe dismissal
Premier Moise Tshombe is dismissed by President Joseph Kasavubu after stabilizing the country. Tshombe may run again, while Evariste Kimba succeeds him and forms a coalition amid fears of renewed rebellion. Western diplomats seek a compromise to preserve Congo stability.
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Congo
Moise Tshombe
Joseph Kasavubu
Tshombe
Kasavubu
Conaco
Evariste Kimba
Kimba
Cyrile Adoula
Editorial Research Projection From Watts
The Presidential Commission on the Los Angeles rioting begins a five month census of Watts to guide government and private aid programs. Data will cover population, households, age, sex, income, employment, migration, and housing to inform schemes for other ghetto areas.
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Presidential Commission
Los Angeles
Watts
Presidential Commission On
United States
Washington
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
Baltimore
St. Louis
Cleveland
Department of Labor
National Action
North
South
Moynihan
Labor
Daniel P
Pat) Moynihan
New York City
le Roi Jones
Black Arts Repertory Theatre
Harlem
The
Wall Street Journal
Seymour Leventman
University of Pennsylvania
Waynick's Wayside Comments on Klan Letter From Viet Nam Mother
A Carolina letter published in the Durham Morning Herald recounts a mother’s wartime view of race and the Ku Klux Klan. She describes her son, a soldier in South Vietnam, praising a Black sergeant for saving his life and expresses evolving views on race, urging love and reconciliation while acknowledging prior prejudice. Virginia M Robinson of Durham signs the piece.
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Capus Waynick
Washington
Ee Carolina
South Viet Nam
Durham Morning Herald
Cha Lai
Viet Nam
North Cartling
Chester
S. C
Joanie
Johnnie
Virginia M. Robinson
Durham
High school draft protests and Nixon era pollution bill
The piece notes Student for a Democratic Society and allied groups plan anti draft actions in high schools to persuade 18 year olds to abstain from registering. It also discusses Johnsons Water Pollution Act and Texan Joe D Carters opposition to federal control, then speculation Carter could seek federal authority to enforce national cleanup.
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United States
Nazi Germany
Johnson
Congress
USA
Joe D. Carter
Texas Water Pollution Control Board
Texas
Washington
Fall furniture market swells as buyers flood in
The Fall furniture market draws thousands despite housing and parking strains. Exhibitors report strong orders, with one supplier noting five carloads sold Sunday. Market dates shift to start Monday, extending two weekends, easing but not erasing overcrowding. Civic leaders, including George A. Covington, coordinate lodging as officials explore urban renewal space for parking to ease chronic congestion.
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Sasten
George A. Covington
Chamber of Commerce
Greensboro
Winston
Stout
W. R. Gerhard
Automatic Lathe Cutterhead Company
William F. Mauldin
New South Exposition
J. Brooks Reitzel
Kemp heads Raleigh for study of NC Revenue Structure
State Senator Fd Kemp travels to Raleigh on Thursday for the organizational meeting of the Commission for the Study of the Revenue Structure of North Carolina. The panel, one of the era’s most important, reviews the Revenue Act to adapt sales tax and tax base to growth and explore possible tax relief. Kemp expects to stay busy in Raleigh as a special session to address the Speaker Ban Law and reapportionment ideas nears, with another possible session in early 1966.
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Fd Kemp
Raleigh
Commission
Kemp
Belk Organization Faces Big Business Week Feature
Senator Irwin Belk, new American Cancer Society NC chair, discusses Business Week’s coming piece on Belk. BW highlights 430 autonomous family run stores, 3300 pil lion in yearly sales, and plans for 50 new openings plus 150 modernizations. The Berks resist rigid centralization, preferring their established methods.
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Irwin Belk
American Cancer Society
N.C
Raleigh
Good Afternoon
Business Week
Belk
High Point civic events mix hospitals colleges and campaigns
High Point Memorial Hospital seeks more gifts as it plans expansion while avoiding a formal drive this year. High Point College begins its Golden Decade campaign, and residents hope the United Appeal tops targets before HPC’s drive launches. Other notes include Dr. Karl Shepard’s Duke Hospital surgery, Congressman Dorn’s speaking engagement, and local industry and fashion recognition.
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High Point Memorial Hospital
High Point College
United Appeal
Karl Shepard
Duke Hospital
William Jennings Dorn
Industrial Management Club
Sheraton
Cbe
McDonnell Aircraft
Wilbur Currie
Edgar Bergen
Sedgefield Manor
Moray
J. Harriss Covington
National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
Jack C. Slane
High Point
Margaret Hauser
Singer
Rome
J. N. Rawleigh
U.S
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High Point Enverprise, Inc
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Holt McPherson
D. A. Rawley
Charles Howard Lockwood
Aeneas Ipsa
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Salem
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Students For A Democratic Society
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