Head-On Crash Kills 3 In Pinnacle North Carolina
A car carrying two Negro couples swerved across U S Highway 52 and collided head on with a tractor trailer near Pinnacle North Carolina killing Manny Junior Graham 25 Armigo L Edwards 24 and Ola Mae Bennett about 20 all Winston-Salem residents Barbara Rutledge 17 was listed critical with a head injury The truck co-driver R P Landy of Winston-Salem suffered facial injuries Ralph Gunter the driver was unhurt State Patrolman T J Badgett cited witnesses saying the car had swerved for several hundred yards before the crash The accident occurred on a straight stretch just north of Pinnacle.
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Pinnacle
N.C
Manny Junior Graham
Armigo L. Edwards
Ola Mae Bennett
Barbara Rutledge
Winston-Salem
R. P. Landy
Ralph Gunter
T. J. Badgett
Badgett
U.S. Highway 52
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New Yorker Surrenders in Wake County Bribery Case
Michael Siegal, one of six New Yorkers indicted on sports bribery charges, surrendered in Raleigh posting a $3,000 bond. District Attorney Lester V. Chalmers said Siegal cooperated and wants to help clear the case. One defendant, Bob Kraw, remains at large. authorities plan to seek his arrest with FBI help.
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Raleigh, N.C
Wake County Grand Jury
Superior Court
C. W. Hall
Michael Siegal
North Carolina State
Lester V. Chalmers
Bob Kraw
Siegal
Chalmers
Kraw
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Negroes urged to seek state jobs in North Carolina
North Carolina civil rights advisory committee urged agencies to ignore custom and tradition in hiring and to expand Negro job applications. The report notes 4,532 Negro workers among 31,977 statewide, but few in skilled or white collar roles. agencies see progress yet linger of tradition. most agencies report Negro workers as equal or better in efficiency. recruitment relies on friends and relatives of current workers.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina Advisory Committee On Civil Rights
Federal Civil Rights Commission
Jailed ministers hold jail prayer service in Mississippi
Fifteen Episcopal ministers, including Nelson Rockefeller’s son-in-law Rev. Robert L. Pierson, conducted prayers in jail after breach of peace convictions. They were moved from city to county jail and fined 200 dollars with four months imprisonment for attempting to desegregate a white bus terminal waiting room.
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Jackson
Miss
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Robert L. Pierson
Evanston
Rockefeller
Freedom Riders
Civil Rights Testimony on North Carolina Industrial Schools
John H. Wheeler of Durham urged positive steps to include Negroes in state industrial training schools and cited a cycle of denial due to perceived job gaps. A Greensboro woman reported being denied upholstery training while a white applicant was accepted, prompting scrutiny by the Kennedy-era Equal Opportunity panel. Committee chair McNeill Smith said a study of Negro opportunities in the schools is underway.
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John H. Wheeler
Durham
Wheeler
Kennedy
Committee On Equal Job Opportunity
Greensboro
Guilford County
Dores Patrick
Marion Holbrook
McNeill Smith
Mill Workers To Get Back Vacation Pay
Approximately 3,650 Cone Mills Corp. workers will share a $54,000 award from a court ruling in a union settlement. The payout covers a Christmas 1956 week of vacation without pay at Edna in Reidsville and Proximity and White Oak in Greensboro. The Fourth Circuit affirmed arbitration under the collective bargaining agreement. About 2,200 at White Oak, 1,100 at Proximity, and 350 at Edna will receive payments.
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N.C
Cone Mills Corp
Textile Workers Union of America
Afl-Cio
Edna
Reidsville
White Oak
U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Asheville
U.S. Middle District Court
Cone Mills
Julius Fry
Twua International
Proximity
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