Holiday Deaths Climb During Labor Day Weekend
The National Safety Council warned the three day Labor Day period could see 420 traffic deaths from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday, urging drivers to slam on the brakes as early tolls rose. The figure aimed to beat the 1951 and 1958 records, with 567 total accidental deaths counted in a weekend survey.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Highway Inter Sect
Labor Day Weekend News From North Carolina
Tar Heels enjoy a relaxed Labor Day weekend from porches to resorts while families prepare for public schools opening. North Carolina patrols expand with unmarked cars as Grandfather Mountain marks the Mile High Swinging Bridge anniversary with Senator Ervin speaking. Canton readies its 51st Labor Day celebration with parades shows and contests while many residents choose quiet leisure.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Grandfather Mountain
Linville
U.S
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Morganton
Canton
Tar Heels
Troops Practice After Atomic Blast Test at Nevada Site
At the Atomic Test Site in Nevada on August 31 troops staged a mock assault two blasts after a nuclear test device exploded. Infantrymen moved into action an hour and a half after the detonation as a brilliant light lit the western sky.
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Hiros
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Salies
Heckled Kasper Draws Small Crowd In Greensboro
About 300 people gathered in Greensboro to hear segregationist John Kasper speak on school integration. Police reported a quiet crowd with scattered remarks as Kasper criticized Greensboro and other city boards for admitting Negro students.
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N.C
John Kasper
Kasper
North Carolina
Nashville
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Kaspers
Courthouse
Eisenhowers plan New England vacation set
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower will fly to Newport Rhode Island next Wednesday for several weeks of rest after congressional adjournment. Mrs. Eisenhower continues convalescence from surgery and will skip a Newport civic reception. The President will hold a Tuesday news conference and spend time at Quonset Point before reaching Newport for golf and fishing.
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Eisenhower
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White House
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James C. Hagerty
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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Quonset
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Dennis J. Roberts
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Barbara Anne
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Washington Square
John Sullivan
Newport City
Knight and Knowland Clash Over California Governor Run
In a State Fair breakfast, Gov. Goodwin J. Knight warned of a hard contest if he faces Sen. William E. Knowland in California's Republican governor race. Knowland called Knight's pro labor stance a bluff and urged right to work, saying intimidation won’t prevail.
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Goodwin J. Knight
William E. Knowland
California
Senate
Congress
Knight
Knowland
Bill
U.S. Senate
Wisconsin
American Student Ordered Out Of China At Peiping
An American law student Shelby Tucker 22 from Pass Christian Mississippi is expelled from China after refusing to surrender his passport. Tucker will depart from Manchouli on the Trans Siberian Railway for Moscow. He arrived Aug 23 as a World Youth Festival delegate and studies at Oxford University on a fellowship.
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Red China
Peiping Radio
Shelby Tucker
China
Tucker
Manchouli
Moscow
Manchuria
Pass Christian
Miss
Peiping
Benson Criticizes Support Programs at Farm Meeting
Secretary of Agriculture Benson criticized government regimentation at the American Farm Economic Assn convention in Lake Junaluska urging farmers to produce for markets not government bounty. He warned postwar policies still encumber agriculture and urged objective analysis of his programs.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Lake Junaluska
D. W. Colvard
N. C. State College
Virgil Holloway
Haywood County
H. B. James
N. C
Benson
American Farm Economic Assnhere
Morros predicts fall of Khrushchev within eight months
Counterspy Boris Morros testified to the House Un American Activities Committee that Khrushchev will be ousted within eight months. He argued a military dictatorship could succeed, with Zhukov or Konev as key rivals in the Kremlin power struggle. Morros described the Red army as growing in influence and influence in Soviet policy.
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Washington
Boris Morros
Nikita Khrushchev
Georgi Morros
Walter
D-Pa
Zhukov
Eisenhower
Marshall Konev
Red Army
Malenkov
Khrushchev
Konev
Kremlin
Morros
Zhukovs
Russia
Civil rights push targets Senate filibuster changes in 1959
Washington reports civil rights advocates plan to seek a change in the Senate filibuster rule as their next major objective, possibly waiting until January 1959. Sen. Douglas heads five Democrats pushing maximum effort, while Sen. Thurmond’s marathon 24 hour talk aided opposition. Nixon suggests rules can be changed by majority vote at Congress start, viewing Rule 22 as unconstitutional for binding future sessions.
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Douglas
Ill
Sen. Thurmond
D-Sc
Nixon
Russell
D-Ga
Faubus Says Federal Aid Impossible If Chaos Follows
Gov. Orval Faubus charged the federal government is forcing integration at Central High School in Little Rock and cannot help keep order if trouble erupts. He disclosed a meeting with Arthur B. Caldwell of the Justice Department and said he sought federal guidance a month earlier but was told court decrees are the only aid available. Faubus said he would act with his own judgment when the time comes to handle any disturbance Tuesday.
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Ark
Orval Faubus
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New York Times
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Arthur B. Caldwell
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Warren Olney III
Arkansas
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Justice Department
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