Mixed Schools Open Across North Carolina in Integration Year
Four more integrated North Carolina districts opened the new academic year without incident. High Point began its first year of token integration with two Black sisters attending, and Greensboro and Charlotte reported smooth openings. Wayne County and Winston-Salem prepared for Wednesday openings while no major disruptions occurred.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
High Point
Greensboro
Gillespie Park
Charlotte
Garinger
Wayne County
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Havelock
Cherry Point Marine Base
Winston-Salem
Durham
Miriam Lynn Fountain
Brenda Jean
Dot Benjamin
Greensboro Record
Gillespie
Rockefeller Seeks State Help Over Rising Youth Violence
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller convened his executive staff to discuss mounting teenage violence in New York City after four youths were killed in a week. He urged mobilizing private and police forces, noted 57 under 21 arrests for murder or manslaughter and 197 for rape since January, and a curfew debate began as Mayor Wagner scheduled a Thursday meeting to curb juvenile hoodlums.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Stephen Pey
En Ee
Robert F. Wagner
City Hall
Gas Tax Favored In House
The House Public Works Committee approved a billion-dollar gasoline tax increase to fund interstate highway work for 22 months. The bill, moving to the Rules Committee, faces Senate opposition and a possible House approval in days.
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Washington
House Public Works Committee
House Rules Committee
House
Charles A. Buckley
D-Ny
Public Works Committee
Senate
Resisted Pressure For Talks With Soviet Union
London dispatch says President Eisenhower turned down a bid by Prime Minister Macmillan for an early summit. He insisted that top level talks depend on the outcome of his meetings with Nikita Khrushchev. Macmillan accepted Eisenhower’s position after realizing it wouldn’t change. Informants say the Big Four ministers in Geneva had urged early talks despite the disagreement.
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London
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Harold Macmillan
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Macmillan
Geneva
Special Session Possibility Looms Over Bond Rates
President Eisenhower warned Republican leaders he may summon Congress for a special session this fall if the bond interest ceiling is not raised. He also signaled readiness to call a session if foreign aid is cut below his minimum national security level. Democratic and Republican leaders see adjournment without action as likely before mid September.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Row With Menon Is Alleged
Reports claim that the heads of India's three military services resigned in a dispute with Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon and that Nehru was handed a resignation letter. No official confirmation followed as tensions rose over China’s frontier actions and a Bhutan incursion story circulated.
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India Today
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Nehru
Army
K.S. Thimayya
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S. Mukherji
London
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Ex MBS Officials Indicted Over Propaganda Payments
A federal indictment accuses three former Mutual Broadcasting System officials of taking 750000 dollars to push political propaganda favoring a foreign principal. Named are former president Alexander L. Guterman, Hal Roach Jr., and Garland L. Culpepper Jr.
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Alexander L. Guterma
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Hal Roach Jr
Garland L. Culpepper Jr
Critics To Meet Targets Tonight
London AP describes a stag dinner at Winfield House with Eisenhower and 23 British World War II colleagues. The imagined dialogue gathers frank opinions from Montgom ery Churchill Alanbrooke and others on leadership, tactics, and their wartime rifts.
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Francis de Guignand
Monty
Old Belt sales delayed to September 14 in Danville
The Old Belt flue cured tobacco market opening was postponed for a second time to September 14. W. N. Terry of the Old Belt Warehouse Assn. cited five major buyers from South Carolina missing the Sept. 10 target as the reason, risking lower belt prices and baring some tobacco from current readiness to markets.
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Danville
W. N. Terry
Old Belt Warehouse Assn
South Carolina
First Day Middle Belt Tobacco Auctions Open Season
A general price average of 59.73 per 100 pounds was set at North Carolina Middle Belt flue cured auctions opening the season. Gains of 12 per 100 pounds for fair to better quality were seen versus last year with top prices reaching 72 dollars and practical tops at 69. The Flue Cured Stabilization Corp. took about a quarter of offerings, up from 12 percent a year ago, while auction bid averages outpaced expected government loan rates by up to 17 dollars.
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North Carolina Middle Belt
Federal State Market News Service
North Carolina
Charlotte Garbage Workers Strike for Higher Pay and Hours
Charlotte garbage collectors voted to seek a 20 percent raise and a 40 hour work week. About 250 regulars and helpers earn roughly 42 dollars a week, working around 50 hours as city council schedules action for October 1.
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Charlotte
Oklahoma Liquor Sales Begin Today
Oklahoma opens 500 state sanctioned package stores at 10 a.m. ending Prohibition after 52 years. Gov Edmondson hails liquor taxation era while crime officials plan monitoring for disturbances and bootleggers face obsolescence.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
State Crime Bureau
Forrest Castle
Castle
J. Howard Edmondson
Prime Rate Of Lending Is Boosted
New York based First National City Bank raised the prime lending rate from 4 percent to 5 percent effective immediately. The move signals higher interest costs across banks as money tightens and business loan demand grows ahead of the fall season.
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New York
First National City Bank of
The Day The War Came Berliners Hear Hitler’s Call to Arms
A Berlin reader recalls the morning of September 1 1939 when Hitler ordered force against Poland. News and radio marked the moment as Germans wondered what comes next while families learned of conscription and fear spread. The author describes the scene in central Berlin and the anticipation before attending Hitler’s Reichstag address.
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Associated Press
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