Cutter Trial Coroner Testifies On Cause of Death
In the Cutter murder trial, Coroner W M Summerville testified that Delette Nycum died from shock due to multiple injuries combined with alcoholism. The prosecution cited 100 bruises, while the defense notes a blood alcohol of .42 percent and argues alcohol poisoning could explain the death.
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Charles L. West Charlotte
George King Cutter
Delette Henderson Nycum
W. M. Summerville
Summerville
Cutter
Nycum
Charles E. Knox
FBI
Robert T. Saunders
G. L. Hammings
Miracle save as crowded bus skirts bridge in North Carolina
A highway patrolman called it miraculous that no one was killed when a crowded Ne gro school bus carrying 72 students skidded along a bridge ditching about 10 feet of its side near Rich Square. Only 3 students were injured, driver Charles De Loatch said the bus slipped on rain slick pavement while entering the bridge.
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Rich Square
N.C
G. L. Swanson
Swanson
Charles de Loatch
Rt. 1
Conway
Creecy High School
Potecast Creek
Woodland
N.C. 35
Meat Price Manipulation Is Charged
Secretary of Agriculture Freeman accuses seven meat packers three national chains and two lamb dealers of price fixing and monopolistic practices under the Packers and Stockyards Act. A hearing will start Nov 14 unless waived. if proven violations, remedies may be ordered.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Packers and Stockyards Act
Agriculture Department
James Allan & Sons
San Francisco
Armour & Co
Goldring Packing Co
Los Angeles
John Morrell & Co
Rath Packing Co
Swift & Co
Wilson & Co
American Stores Co
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
Safeway ‘Stores
Dwight L. Heath
Lamar
Colo
Perry Holley
Ogden
Utah
Freeman
Underground U S Nuclear Tests Set To Resume Soon
The United States moves to start underground nuclear tests within 10 days as Congress reviews a secret plan for a new American series. Officials say low yield blasts will precede full testing and a secret briefing will cover military and civilian aspects of the Nevada program.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
United States
Joint Congressional Atomic Committee
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
Senate House Group
Atomic Energy Commission
Defense Department
Holifield
Joint Committee
Glenn T. Seaborg
F. J. Rodenhauser
Nevada
AEC
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Khrushchev
Reconsideration Sought of Airport Ruling Concerning Consolidation
Winston-Salem city officials and Forsyth County Airport Authority petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for reconsideration of its August 24 order consolidating trunkline air service for Greensboro High Point and Winston-Salem at Friendship Airport. They also asked for a 60 day delay in implementation. The filing argues the consolidation rests on an unfiled CAB policy and lacks hearings.
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Washington, D. C
Winston-Salem
Civil Aeronautics Board Today
Greensboro High Point
Friendship Airport
Winston - Salem
Chamber of Commerce
Forsyth County Airport Authority
Toll rises as Carla death toll hits 35 on Gulf coast
Hurricane Carla deaths climbed to 35 across Texas Louisiana and Missouri with eight family members found dead in Freeport. Flooding spread across multiple states bringing post storm health fears and continuing evacuations as National Guardsmen and officials aid survivors.
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Galveston
Tex
Carla
Gulf Coast
Midwest
Freeport
Texas
Louisiana
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Rockefeller kin jailed in Mississippi desegregation protest
The Rev. Robert L. Pierson, son in law of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and 14 other white and Negro Episcopal priests were jailed in Jackson Mississippi for breach of peace after attempting to desegregate the city bus terminal during a Prayer Pilgrimage. Trial set for 3 p.m. today.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Robert L. Pierson
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Jackson
J. L. Ray
New Orleans
Pierson
New York City
Evanston
Ill
Ann Rockefeller
Esther's on the Way Storm Heads Toward West
Hurricane Esther was located 1 075 miles east northeast of San Juan Puerto Rico moving west northwest at 12 mph. The tropical storm had top winds of 130 mph with gale winds extending 230 miles from the center. The Weather Bureau urged caution for vessels and noted landfall was uncertain as forecasts traced its path over the next days.
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Miami
Fla
Esther
San Juan
P. R
Weather Bureau
Americans Accused Of Hiding Woman In Berlin
In Berlin East authorities detain two American youths Victor S. Pankey and Gilbert P. Ferrey both 20 of Tustin California for allegedly concealing a East German woman in a car luggage compartment. They face Communist court action after being picked up at Friedrich strasse checkpoint.
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Interior Ministry
ADN
Friedrichstrasse
Europe
United States
Ferrey
David McFadden
Tustin
Calif
East Berlin
East
Ernst Lemmer
West Germany
East Germany
Soviet Marshals Warn Nuclear War Likely if West Attacks
Moscow reports say Marshal Rodion Malinovsky and deputy Andrei Yeremenko warned any Soviet Western conflict would turn into a nuclear holocaust. Malinovsky cited vast Soviet nuclear arms and bombs of millions of tons TNT. Yeremenko linked rising conventional forces to avoid nuclear war, predicting wars would escalate to nuclear use.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
West
Rodion Malinovsky
Pravda
Malinovsky
Andrei Yeremenko
Stalingrad
Red Army
Yeremenko
International Life
U.S
Germany
Western Strategy Mapped for Berlin Talks With Allies
Secretary of State Rusk opens a three day Western policy conference with British and French ministers to map the approach to Soviet Berlin negotiations and to discuss U N General Assembly issues. Von Brentano joins mid conference as talks aim for a joint Western position and possible emergency measures.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Soviet Union
Berlin
State Department
Rusk
Lord Home
Britain
Maurice Couve de Murville
Heinrich von Brentano
von Brentano
Home
West Berlin
United Nations
Collapse Of Porch Hurts Eight In Galveston
A Red Cross chapter house porch crowded with hurricane Carla evacuees collapsed in Galveston Texas injuring eight people. Gas fumes spread after the collapse and the two story building was evacuated by order of Red Cross regional director Howard Benton. Local police were managing crowds as evacuees sought registration and aid. Traumatized witnesses described a sound like a bomb at the moment of collapse.
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Galveston
Tex
Red Cross
Elmer Bertleson
Houston Chronicle
Bertleson
Howard Benton
Denver
Two Dollar Days in High Point Set for September 15 16
High Point hosts a two day shopping event sponsored by the Merchants Association with $100 prize drawn from registered participants. Free bus service runs Friday 9 am to 3 pm to downtown, while stores display the association emblem to show entry. Drawings occur the following week.
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High Point
Merchants Assn
G. W. Edwards
Penney’s
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Ariz
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America
Kennedy
Free World
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Municipal Auditorium
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Robert
R. W. Dunn
Joseph J. Drvar
Rockefeller
Rochester
N.Y
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