Carrier Boy Appreciated Gets Raincoat and Lamp
Bennie Merrill an 18 year old High Point Enterprise carrier on a 166 route serving Centennial Avenue and College Village area received a raincoat after customers collected. Local volunteers organized the drive with residents from Centennial and E Dayton Avenue and left enough for a desk lamp. He will enter State College this fall to study nuclear engineering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennie Merrill
High Point Enterprise
Bennie
Centennial Avenue
College Village
Stanley Spangle
Jean Goodman
Centennial
J. T. Sharp
L. L. Wofford
E. Dayton Avenue
Youth 9
R. B. Merrill
Tabor Street
State College
Recovery Squadron Forming
GREENSBORO Lt. Col. Arthur J. Foster announces the newly organized 9,306th Air Force Reserve Recovery Squadron seeks personnel for radar and telephone maintenance fire protection supply air police medical communication and electrical operations among others. Recruiters invite applicants to 110 E Washington St or call Broadway 48005 Greensboro. The unit trains one weekend a month and pays on an Air Force scale as part of a nationwide Reserve reorganization to mobilize quickly and operate non military airfields and recover aircraft if bases are knocked out by enemy action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Arthur J. Foster
306Th Air Force Reserve Recovery Squadron
Foster
E. Washington Street
Broadway
Air Force Reserve
Army moves officer who helped part Berlin TV controversy
The Defense Department removed Lt. Col. Dallas Hoadley, Baltimore, from his Berlin information officer post for improper performance of duty. Col. J. R. Dean Jr., San Francisco, commanding officer of the 2nd Battle Group, 6th Infantry, was admonished for diverting a squad from regular training to join activities beyond their mission.
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Washington
Defense Department
Jack Paar
West
East Berlin
Dallas Hoadley
Baltimore
Berlin
J. R. Dean Jr
San Francisco
2Nd Battle Group
6Th Infantry
Germany
These Twins Are Still Mixed Up
In Torrington Connecticut the FBI examined footprints from the 11 week old Buckler twins born June 21 and found them not legible for identification. Parents John Scott Buckler and James Thomas Buckler have struggled to tell their sons apart since a diaper change weeks ago mixed them up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torrington, Conn
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Scott Buckler
James Thomas Buckler
Washington
FBI
Joseph Buckler
Torrington
Western North Carolina Methodists Launch Builders Club
Western North Carolina Methodists announce a four year drive to raise 750000 for 56 new churches and site purchases. Enrollment Sunday aims for 10000 members, with 180000 plus yearly goals, funds split between conference projects and district use.
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North Carolina
Methodists
Western North Carolina
Builders Club
Belafonte Wife Gives Birth To Baby Girl In New York
Julie Belafonte wife of Harry Belafonte gave birth Friday to a baby girl at Mount Sinai Hospital. The couple already has a son named David age four.
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New York
Julie Belafonte
Harry Belafonte
Mount Sinai Hospital
David
Guard Helps Search For Abductor In North Carolina
National Guard troops joined a large search for Sam Evans, an ex convict who shot a 19 year old Negro girl and abducted her near Person County. Col Dan K Edwards led about 150 searchers through wooded McGee s Mill terrain while bloodhounds failed to find a trail. The victim s name was not released.
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Roxlord
N.C
National Guard
120Th Infantry
C. C. Holeman
Person County
Sam Evans
Dan K. Edwards
Durham
Person County Sheriff's Department
Evans
Army Plans Second Guerrilla Warfare Group
The Army will form another guerrilla warfare group at Fort Bragg North Carolina this month. About 200 personnel will join the unit named the 5th Special Forces Group. Its mission is to penetrate enemy lines and organize native guerrillas with teams of about 12 trained in demolition, intelligence, weapons, communications and basic medical skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Bragg
Okinawa
Bad Tolz
Germany
Gorilla Born In Captivity At Washington Zoo
A seven pound male gorilla was born early at the Washington Zoo. It is the fourth gorilla born in captivity and the second in the United States. The infant, neglected by its mother, was placed in an incubator and fed with special formula. It will remain with Bernard Gallagher, the gorilla keeper, at a suburban Maryland home during infancy. Zoo director Theodore Reed noted apes often neglect their young. Mrs Gallagher will bottle feed the baby. The birth followed anticipation since last June and occurred in the early hours unseen.
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Washington
Washington Zoo
United States
Maryland
Bernard Gallagher
Theodore Reed
Zoo
Advisory Group Backing 32 Hour Week Seeks Jobs
Pittsburgh AP The Presidential Management Labor Advisory Committee may back a 32 hour work week and longer vacations to create jobs. United Steelworkers Union President David J McDonald said the recommendations will shock the steel industry. The committee meets at the White House on October 16.
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Pittsburgh
Presidential Management-Labor Advisory Committee
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers Union
McDonald
White House
Test pilot Joe Walker’s wife gives birth to daughter
Lancaster California AP An 8 pound 6 ounce daughter was born Friday to Grace Walker 37 wife of Joe Walker chief test pilot on the X15 project at Edwards Air Force Base The NASA pilot is set to attempt a new winged manned flight speed record around 2700 mph next week a test planned for this week was postponed
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Lancaster
Calif
Joe Walker
Edwards Air Force Base
Walker
Grace
Joseph
James
Thomas
National Aeronautics and and Space Administration
Modern Day Noahs Ark Sought By Geneticist
Italian geneticist Professor Adrian Buzzati Traverso urged immediate action on a modern Noahs Ark to bank uncontaminated human genes. He backed Herman J Muller s sperm pool concept and called for carrying reproductive seeds from a cross section of men to endure a nuclear war. He spoke to 700 delegates at the International Conference of Human Genetics in Geneva.
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Rome
Science Congress
Adrian Buzzati-Traverso
Buzzati-Traverso
Hermann J. Muller
University of Indiana
United States
Muller
Genetics Institute
University of Pavia
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Conference Board of Missions
Robert M. Smith Sr
Mount Airy
Methodist Builders Club
Gordon L. Wilson
McGee’s Mill
Patao
High Point
PTA
Northwood
Arthur Lyon
H. S. Godwin
Union Hill
Wilmington
Bermuda
Ariadne
Cenick
World Travel Service
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Carolina Cities
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World Council of Churches
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Seaboard
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