Scheidt Retained as Motor Vehicles Chief With Tough Policy
Gov. Sanford reappointed Ed Scheidt as Motor Vehicles Commissioner, urging a tough stance on highway violations. Scheidt, 58, has led the department since 1953 and helped implement a point system suspending licenses after 12 points in three years. The post oversees about 1,650 employees.
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Raleigh
Sanford
Ed Scheidt
Scheidt
William B. Umstead
FBI
Scheitt
New York
North Carolina Highway Patrol
International Association of Police Chiefs
Quiet desegregation proceeds in Little Rock schools
Four white junior high schools and one high school in Little Rock integrate quietly with 48 Black students enrolled. Police present at seven previously all white schools. no crowds as Black students attend white facilities. Central High remains with 13 Black pupils this year. overall, some schools add Black students while most grade schools stay segregated.
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Little Rock
Ark
Pulaski Heights
Central High School
Central
Hall High School
Tech
West Side
East Side Junior High
Southwest Junior High
Forest Heights
Orval E. Faubus
Central Faubus
Carla Heads For Central Americas
Tropical storm Carla threatened northern Honduras northeastern Guatemala and British Honduras with flooding as it moved a north-northwest path through the Caribbean. Betsy remained harmless in the North Atlantic while Carla neared land with 40 to 50 mph winds and 100 mile gale bands.
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Miami
Fla
Carla
Honduras
Guatemala
British Honduras
Caribbean
Betsy
North Atlantic
Swan Island
Miami Weather Bureau
Gulf of Honduras
North Carolina Sales Tax Revenues Rise in August
State records show August sales tax receipts totaling 10,203,649 dollars, up 2,827,904 from August last year, marking the first month including food tax collections. The increase, driven by a 1961 legislative change to fund the education program, is part of a projected 63 million dollars in extra biennial revenue.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
W. A. Johnson
Gov. Sanford
Reuther Opens Marathon Talks With GM Over UAW Contract
Walter P. Reuther of the United Auto Workers begins a drawn out bargaining session with General Motors with a strike set for 10 a.m. Wednesday unless a new contract offer is presented. Seaton signals no new offer, elements of flexibility discussed, as both sides expect long talks.
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Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Union
Reuther
UAW
Louis G. Seaton
Seaton
General Motors
American Motors Corp
American Motors
De Gaulle Urges Force In Berlin
Paris President Charles de Gaulle declares Western Allies must hold positions and routes in free Berlin even by force if needed amid the Berlin crisis. He cites Khrushchev’s ambitions or Soviet internal troubles, warns against a world conflict with modern arms, and questions the value of ruling over the dead.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Berlin
Khrushchev
Campaign Of Terror Feared At Geneva Test Ban Talks
Western diplomats fear the Soviet Union may launch a campaign of nuclear terror to intimidate nonaligned nations as Geneva stalled the atmospheric test ban proposal. They warn Moscow could press nonaligned states to force concessions on Germany and Berlin, possibly triggering a broader arms race.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Kremlin
United States
Britain
U.S
Charles C. Stelle
Michael Wright
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Moscow
Tsarapkin
Siberia
Khrushchev
Germany
Berlin
Crisis in Brazil Ends as Goulart Cleared to Fly to Brasilia
In Brasilia AP dispatch reports the crisis over Joao Goulart's oath, sparked by alleged air force opposition, is resolved. Acting President Mazzilli met with armed forces ministers as congressmen convened briefly. Air force officials claimed calm and denied uprisings amid tensions.
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Brasilia
Brazil
Joao Goulart
Goulart
Air Force
Ranieri Mazzilli
Neutral Nations Urge Fresh Steps at Belgrade Conference
At Belgrade the 25 nonaligned nations drafted a joint appeal to President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev urging urgent moves to ease cold war tensions. Delegates planned sending special missions to Moscow and Washington carrying the message, with Nehru and Nkrumah likely traveling to Khrushchev and Washington. The draft communique aims to calm Berlin tensions and push disarmament while reconciling broad regional views.
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Belgrade
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Berlin
Moscow
Washington
Nehru
India
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Modibo Keita
Mali
Sukarno
Indonesia
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
U.S
A.m
Germany
Laos
Mauritania
Safe Burglar Cracks Hamrick Store Safe in Boiling Springs
A burglar with a cutting torch cracked the C. J. Hamrick general store safe on Monday night and stole $1,074.86. Sheriff Haywood Allen said the thief entered through a bathroom window, cut a 12 by 22 inch hole, and removed the money. This is the third break-in at the store in a year, with prior robberies from cash registers and a skylight entry.
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Boiling Springs
N. C
C. J. Hamrick
Hamrick
Haywood Allen
North Carolina Was Most Powerfully Armed Ship
The USS North Carolina was the most powerfully armed U.S. warship at commissioning on April 9, 1941. It introduced a modern anti-aircraft battery and housed new 16 inch rifles. The ship fired a 32,750 pound broadside in a Casco Bay gunnery exercise and began extensive shakedown across ports from Maine to Panama. It was the first U.S. battleship commissioned since 1923 and soon trained for World War II action including Pearl Harbor readiness.
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U.S.S. North Carolina
Margaret Kernodle Washington
Uss North Carolina
U.S
Casco Bay
Maine
Clyde R. Hoey
North Carolina
Isabel Hoey
Dan Paul
New York Harbor
Panama
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hampton Roads
Panama Canal
San Pedro
Calif
San Francisco
Soviet Union detonates third nuclear device
The Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviet Union detonated a third nuclear device in its current series. The AEC described the explosion as in the low to intermediate range and said the test occurred in the same general area as the first two, in the atmosphere.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Soviet Union
AEC
President Kennedy Returns From Cape Cod Sees Atomic Policy Crisis
President Kennedy arrived in Washington from Cape Cod and immediately convened with Secretary McNamara and Dr. Seaborg at the White House to discuss U S atomic policy after the Soviet Union detonated its second nuclear device. The 54 minute flight landed at Andrews at 10 31 a m. Kennedy, with Mrs. Kennedy and daughter Caroline, was aboard the cruiser Marlin returning to shore when he received a briefing on the test from Maj Gen Clifton. He refrained from comment on the test pending further discussion with Prime Minister Macmillan on a proposed ban on overhead explosions.
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Washington
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Mass
U.S
Soviet Union
Robert S. McNamara
Glenn T. Seaborg
Atomic Energy Commission
White House
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Caroline
Joseph P. Kennedy
Dead Neck
Cape Cod White House
Marlin
Central Asia
Chester W. Clifton
Harold Macmillan
Michigan Man Gets 8 Years
American tourist Marvin William Makinen of Chassell Michigan was sentenced by a Soviet military court in Kiev to eight years in prison on espionage charges. Izvestia described his two day trial and full confession. Makinen was recruited by two American agents and trained in spy techniques.
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Moscow
Kiev
Marvin William Makinen
Chassell
Mich
Izvestia
Makinen
Tass
MacKinnon
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Russia
West Berlin
Pennsylvania University
Philadelphia
Free University
Bill
Dyer
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Mark I. Kaminsky
Edwardsville
Garden City
Detroit
Jacob Hay
Michigan
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