Hurricane Hilda Near Tampico Prompts Regional Alerts
The hurricane, stronger than Connie or Diane, nears the Mexican coast near Tampico after crossing Cuba and the Yucatan. Rising tides threaten a sparsely populated coast as Tampico considers martial law. The Red Cross mobilizes 30 disaster specialists and emergency plans unfold along the seaboard. Naval stations in the southeast enter emergency status and aircraft stand ready for evacuation or relief flights.
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Cam
Tampico
Hilda
Ione
Cuba
Yucatan Peninsula
Connie
Diane
Coonnie
American Red Cross
Seaboard
Jacksonville
Fla
Elizabeth City
N.C
North Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Atlanta
Memphis
Birmingham
Ala
Hutchinson
Kan
Yucatan
Man Sustains Head Injury After Fall at Clara Cox Apts
A man tentatively identified as Robert Anderson fell down concrete steps at Clara Cox Apartments in Winston-Salem and sustained a head injury. He did not regain consciousness while being treated at Baptist Hospital after the accident last night.
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Robert Anderson
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Clara Cox Apts
Funeral Services For Mrs Connie Webb Sugg Held Today
Funeral services were conducted at Main Street Methodist Church this afternoon for Mrs Connie Webb Sugg wife of Robert B Sugg of 922 Old Winston Road She died yesterday at 12 40 PM after two years of declining health Interment followed at Floral Garden Park with burial arrangements at Seaver Funeral Home.
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Connie Webb Sugg
Main St. Methodist Church
G. Allen
Floral Garden Park
Se- Funeral Home
Sugg
Robert
Ellen Ensley Archer
Lexington Ave. Baptist Church
Oakwood
W. Coe
Putnam Ave
Hoas
Peseeel
Weather forecast for Atlantic Gulf and central regions
The Weather Bureau forecasts rain Sunday along the south Atlantic coast, Gulf coast, upper Great Lakes and central and southern Rockies. Cooler conditions are expected in the northern Plains, while the central nation warms. AP Wirephoto.
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Weather Bureau
South Atlantic Coast States
Gulf Coast Area
Upper Great Lakes
Central
Southern
Rockies
Plains States
Thomasville Driver Leads Cops In Chase
Thomasville police halted a high speed pursuit after a roadblock stopped Robert Pruitt 26 of Polk Street who reached 105 mph during a chase that spanned Main Winston Highland and Jacobs streets and the bypass between Thomasville and High Point. He faced speeding reckless driving no license and fail to stop charges awaiting bond. One passenger was later jailed for drunkenness.
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Thomasville
Robert Pruitt
Polk St
Pruitt
Main St
Winston St
Highland Ave
Jacobs St
High Point
Theft of Umbrellas Charged to Man
Police accuse John Henry Boyd a 41 year old man of larceny after two umbrellas were reported stolen from a local department store yesterday afternoon. Boyd was released on $100 bond on a larceny and receiving charge.
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John Henry Boyd
Boyd
Till Trial Opens On Monday
Reporter SAM JOHNSON details the high profile Till murder case in Sumner Mississippi as Roy Bryant and J W Milam face murder and kidnapping charges. The all white jury is to be seated in the Tallahatchie County courtroom while Mamie Till Bradley travels from Chicago to testify and the case unfolds amid racial tensions and national attention.
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Sam Johnson Sumner
Miss
Court House
Emmett Louis Till
H. C. Strider
Atlanta
Mississi Morgia
Chicago
National Guard
Greenwood
Till
Tallahatchie
Tallahatchie County
Leflore County
Mississippi
Roy Bryant
J. W. Milam
Chatham
Bryant
George Smith
Leflore
Arance
Cleveland
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Sumner
Rescue Workers Advance in Abandoned Colorado Mine
Rescue teams pressed through a water flooded tunnel 6,000 feet long at a Georgetown area mine seeking Kansans Glenn Dew and Melvin LeBlow who disappeared Thursday. Oxygen limits and bad air hindered progress as officials doubted the men survived past Thursday night.
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Georgetown
Colo
Glenn Dew
Melvin LeBlow
Dew
LeBlow
Ulysses
Kan
G. A
Bud) Franz
Colorado
Rocky Mountains
Ernest Stubblefield
Kenneth E. Hickok
Stubblefield
Stephen L. R. McNichols
Charles Dew
Western
Kansas
Heatwave Across Midwest Sets New Chicago 90 Degree Record
The Associated Press reports a broad midsummer heat wave from the Great Plains to the Appalachians with midday highs in the upper 80s to low 90s. Chicago set a 92 degree record for the date, the 44th 90-degree day this year, as a high pressure system stalled over the mid Atlantic.
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Associated Press
Great Plains
Appalachians
Chicago
Middle Atlantic
New England
Atlantic
Ione
Florida
Seattle
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Billings
Mont
Phoenix
Ariz
Burbank
Calif
New York
VFW backs full survival training for Air Force
The Veterans of Foreign Wars endorsed 100 percent survival training for Air Force fliers in simulated prisoner of war conditions. VFW commander Timothy J. Murphy praised Col Burton E. McKenzie and Stead Air Force Base staff for the program while noting criticism should not force changes. The Air Force said the phase will continue unchanged pending a wider directive for all services on handling prisoners of war.
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Washington
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Air Force
Timothy J. Murphy
VFW
Burton E. McKenzie
Stead Air Force Base
Nevada
Murphy
Nixon caricature by Arnautoff restored demand at festival
San Francisco muralist Victor Arnautoff demanded the return of his color lithograph depicting Vice President Richard Nixon as "Dick McSmear" after its removal from the San Francisco Art Festival in Civic Center. Festival officials cited public funding and political content considerations while writer Nixon commented he would not comment.
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San Francisco
Victor Arnautoff
Richard M. Nixon
Dick McSmear
Civic Center
Harold Zellerbach
The
Art Commission
Zellerbach
Arnautoff
Nixon
Wabash
Ind
Whitaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Felix Rosenthal
Richard Nixon
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Denise
Erin O'Flaherty
Jack Dempsey
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Joan O'Flaherty
Dennis O'Flaherty
Connie Sugg
Mrs
Ellen Archer
Wialhin Bureau Deparerent
Cordoba
Buenos Aires
Puerto Belgrano
Bahia Blanca
U. S
Asford University
Flowers Grace Flower Shop
Wrenn & Howell
High Point Merchants
Lee W. Boswell
Thea
Koonts-Mcghee Drug CO
S. Main ST
Buick
W. F. Mauldin, Inc
N. Main St
High Point, N. C
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