GM UAW strike shuts GM plants nationwide
United Auto Workers walked out at General Motors because negotiators failed to reach a local level agreement. Talks extended and halted production as unions pressed for working conditions and economic issues, with GM and IUE contracts aligned and talks resuming later.
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Detroit
Mich
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors Corp
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Louis G. Seaton
Seaton
Ford
Chrysler
Snow Hill Rural Negro School Abandoned After Boycott
Warren County officials report the Snow Hill rural Negro school has been abandoned after a student boycott. All 45 students are transferred to Hawkins school three miles away, with patrons pleased by the move. Controversy at Afton Elberon persists as seventh and eighth graders may attend Macon, with possible state court action contemplated.
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Warrenton
Snow Hill
Warren County
J. R. Peeler
Peeler
Afton-Elberon
Macon
Superior Court
Raymond Mallard
Afton-Elberson School
Warren School
Afton - Elberon
State Supreme Court
Snow Hill School
County School Board
Hawkins School
Ex-Convict Nabbed With Girl Near Roxboro
Sam Evans, a parolee, and 19 year old Ruby Brandon were captured in Willie Williams's home about 14 miles north of Roxboro. Evans entered with the girl, the shotgun lay on a bed, and Evans offered no resistance. Brandon had been shot in the foot last Wednesday and received hospital care before Evans was jailed.
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Roxboro
N.C
C. C. Holeman
Sam Evans
Ruby Brandon
Willie Williams
Holeman
Evans
Williams
Darren Gillis
George Wilborn
Herbert Bray
Brandon
One Killed As Havana Catholics Clash With Police
Catholic demonstrators marching for Our Lady of Charity clashed with police and militia near the Presidential Palace in Havana. About 4 000 people protested the ban, shots were fired, one man died, three wounded, and many bruised as authorities dispersed the crowd over five hours. church leaders intervened and the procession was canceled.
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Havana
Cuba
Our Lady ‘of Charity
Church of Charity
Jesus Christ
Interior Ministry
Fidel Castro
Eisenhower Hosts Freshman GOP Congressmen at Gettysburg
At Gettysburg Pennsylvania ex president Eisenhower guides about two score freshmen Republican congressmen on a battlefield tour and lunch while denouncing a State Department pamphlet that paints him as unwilling to seize Berlin first. The event aims to boost re election prospects and allow questions after the luncheon.
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Geoffrey Gould
Gettysburg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
State Department
Berlin
West Point
Soviets Set Off New Blasts
The Soviet Union detonated two new atmospheric nuclear devices the first far larger than earlier blasts at several megatons while a second fell in the low to intermediate kiloton range. U.S. officials warned of increased fallout risk and pressed Khrushchev to stop atmospheric tests, a plea Kennedy and Macmillan echoed amid stalled negotiations for a wide scale underground ban.
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W. B. Ragsdale JR
Washington
Soviet Union
Atomic Energy Commission
Khrushchev
Arctic
United States
Hiroshima
U.S
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
Nehru on World Tension After Moscow Visit
Prime Minister Nehru said the world situation was a little less tense after his trip to Moscow Belgrade and the Soviet Union while cautioning that anything could still happen. He discussed Berlin Khrushchev and the Belgrade letter and predicted a summit meeting between Kennedy and Khrushchev.
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New Delhi
India
Nehru
Moscow
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Berlin
Khrushchev
Ghana
Nkrumah
Kennedy
Carla Forces Texas Coast After 11 Foot Tide Storm
Carla, the century’s fiercest Texas coast hurricane, lashed Louisiana and Texas with 173 mph winds and 11 foot tides. More than 400,000 fled inland as Port Aransas and Galveston suffered severe damage and power outages.
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Carla
Galveston
Tex
Texas
Louisiana
Corpus Christi
John Stallings
Carlanalead
Weather Bureau
Port Aransas
Aransas Pass
Matagorda Bay
John White
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Mustang Island
Coast
Bay City
Port Lavaca
Miss America Seeks Example Of Youth In America
Hazel eyed Maria Beale Fletcher Miss America of 1962 said she aims to show the world that young Americans are not juvenile delinquents. She spoke in New York outlining her plans to travel abroad as an example of American youth during her reign.
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New York
Maria Beale Fletcher
America
Asheville
N.C
Fletcher
Atlantic City
Refugees Flee Carla to North Texas in Massive Evacuation
Amid radar warnings and rising flood threats from Hurricane Carla, hundreds of thousands evacuated the Texas and Louisiana coast. Crowded highways, armories, hotels, and private homes hosted migrants as far north as Dallas, about 300 miles inland. Red Cross estimates place displacements around a quarter million with voluntary moves predominating and some mandatory orders.
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Corpus Christi
National
North Beach
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Carla
Texas
Gaveston
Galveston
John Sealy Hospital
University of Texas Medical Center
Louisiana
Grand Isle
Aransas Pass
Matagorda Bay
J.L. Lamanoco
Hitchcock
Lester Shemah
LaPorte
Texas City
Hector Morenos
Dallas
Gulf of Mexico
Paintings Stolen From Beverly Hills Mansion
A man hid a pistol in a bouquet and robbed four paintings valued at 670000 from industrialist David E Bright's Bel Air home. Only maid Jeanne Prosser 24 was present as Mrs Bright returned from New York to find frames mutilated and the scene described by the maid.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Bel-Air
David E. Bright
Jeanne Prosser
Sunday Parachute Jumping Declared Illegal in Florida
Florida New York AP state police warn that parachuting on Sunday violates section 245 of the general business law. Joseph Mausser, of the cloud-hoppers club, jumped Sunday to test the ruling and was arrested, later released on $10 bail. Police say Sunday exhibitions are banned as business on Sunday.
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Florida
N.Y
Joseph Mausser
Florida Cloud-Hoppers Club
Mausser
Our Baffling Berlin Bobble and the Berlin Crisis
Ace reporter Ray Cromley explores who blocked 1943 44 plans to connect Berlin with West Germany and whether Roosevelt or Churchill influenced the denouement. The three part dispatch questions Eisenhower advice and fault lines, offering new light on a pivotal prewar debate and the current Berlin crisis.
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Berlin
West Germany
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Ace
Ray Cromley
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