Stevenson accuses GOP of fooling farmers in Iowa
Adlai Stevenson charged the Republicans with brazen political expediency on farm issues during a Des Moines stop at the National Field Days and Plowing matches. He contrasted his critique with Eisenhower, urging stronger farm policy while touring on the Joe Smith Express amid a 11 state swing.
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ED Creagh Newton
Towa
Adlai F. Stevenson
Eisenhower
J. Merrill Anderson
Stevenson
Des Moines
Iowa
Denver
Indiana Governor Warns War Risk If Democrats Win
Gov. George N. Craig, speaking in Charlotte, urged Republicans that a Democratic victory in November would raise the chance of U S involvement in another war. He praised Eisenhower as peace’s best defense, attacked Adlai Stevenson as inexperienced, and urged measured, deliberate leadership over impulsive action in crises.
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Charlotte
N.C
George N. Craig
Indiana
Craig
Eisenhower
U. S
Workers Vote To End Strike At Rock Hill Plant
A five week strike at Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Co ended when union workers voted to return under a management back-to-work proposal with no pay raise. The plan starts Monday on a seniority basis, and officials affirmed no job loss for strikers.
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Rock Hill, &.C
Rock Hill Printing & Finishing Co
NAACP Renews Pledge to Fight School Segregation
Southern leaders including Roy Wilkins pledged to continue legal action against school segregation. They announced cooperation from 14 state presidents and warned against injunctions and laws aimed at curbing NAACP activities in Texas Louisiana Alabama Virginia South Carolina and Mississippi. Representatives from 14 states attended the one day meeting and asserted mob threats would not deter desegregation efforts.
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ST. Louis
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Roy Wilkins
New York
NAACP
Wilkins
Texas
Louisiana
Alabama
Virginia
South Carolina
Mississippi
Supreme Court
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
West Virginia
Delaware
Missouri
New Buildings Open at North Carolina State College
North Carolina State College in Raleigh began classes in two new structures this week a pulp and paper technology laboratory and an agricultural engineering building The two buildings will be toured by the board of directors of the Pulp and Paper Foundation Inc during its annual meeting held on campus next Friday.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State College
Pulp and Paper
The
Pulp and Paper Foundation Inc
Miss America 1956 Sharon Ritchey Weds Don Cherry
Sharon Kay Ritchey, Miss America 1956 at 19, married singer golfer Don Cherry 32 in a Sept 22 ceremony. They met five months earlier in Wichita Falls Texas where Cherry based his career.
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Denver
Sharon Kay Ritchie
Don Cherry
Wichita Falls
Tex
Somoza Survives Assassination Attempt in Leon
In Leon, Nicaragua, President Anastasio Somoza was shot three times while awaiting re election nomination. He is reported conscious with non life threatening injuries. a gunman was killed by the crowd. A U S medical team is en route with three top specialists from the United States.
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Somoza
Leon
Liberal Party
Washington
Panama Canal Zone
Managua
U.S
United States
Guatemala
Rigoberto Lopez Perez
Dulles Sees Gains in Suez Crisis Settlement Efforts
Secretary of State Dulles returned from London to report to President Eisenhower that solid gains toward a peaceful solution of the Suez Canal crisis were made at an 18 nation London meeting to form a Suez Canal Users Association. He said the plan favors referring disputes to the U N and noted initial membership could total 15 nations as Ethiopia Iran and Pakistan face Egyptian pressure not to join.
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John M. Hightower Ashington
Dulles
London
Eisenhower
U. S
Assa
U. N
National Airport
Suez Canal
Egypt
White House
Nasser
Britain
France
Naser
Ethiopia
Iran
Pakistan
Nasser in Saudi Arabia for Arab Big Three meeting
President Gamal Abdel Nasser arrived in Dhahran to meet with King Saud and Syria's Shukri Kuwaity, part of the Arab Big Three. The leaders greeted at the airport and raised their joined hands in a show of solidarity, according to the Egyptian Middle East News Agency.
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Cairo
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Saudi Arabia
King Saud
Syria
Shukri Kuwaity
Dhahran
Arabian American Oil Co
Nasser
Six prisoners escape after riot at Woman's Prison
Six inmates fled Raleigh's Woman's Prison fence after a short riot that damaged dining hall trays and windows. Prison nurse Mrs. T. M. Bird was struck during the incident. Police organized a rapid roundup of the 18 offenders and 13 non-escapers remained on grounds.
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Raleigh
Woman's Prison
William F. Bailey
T. M. Bird
Bailey
Bacco Queen Judges Named
SELMA Sept 22 Four judges were named to select a Golden Queen candidate representing the tobacco industry. The panel includes Fred S. Register, Hoover Adams, Charles Craven, and Marion Candy Jones with Jones as chairman. Twenty candidates hail from the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia.
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Selma
N.C
Fred S. Rogister
Henderson
the Bright Belt Warehouse Assn
Hoover Adams
The
Dunn Daily Record
Charles Craven
Raleigh News & Observer Ecolumnist
Marion
Candy Jones
Con‘over Career Girls School
New York City
Carolinas
Virginia
Georgia
YDC Candidate Declares Run in North Wilkesboro
Al F. Sigmon of North Wilkesboro announces candidacy for vice president of the North Carolina Young Democrats Middle District. The election will be held during the state convention October 4 to 6. Sigmon serves as deputy collector of state revenue in North Wilkesboro.
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North Wilkesboro
N. C
al F. Sigmon
North Carolina Young Democrats
Sigmon
Assailant Spoke Of His Plans In Managua Trip
SAN SALVADOR El Salvador Sept 22 The man identified as the assailant of President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua lived in San Salvador until a month ago and was an outspoken enemy of the Somoza regime Acquaintances said he lived there for years worked as a salesman for a local firm and made frequent trips to Managua He was a Nicaraguan citizen engaged to marry a Salvadorean woman The man quoted himself saying If I do anything I will do it alone because I don t want to implicate anyone else.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Anastasio Somoza
Nicaragua
Somoza
Rigoberto Lopez Perez
Managua
Mayflower II slides down ways in launch at Tor Bay
In a misty Tor Bay ceremony the Mayflower II, a replica of the 1620 voyage, slid down greased ways amid rain and a bugle of the Battle Hymn. Clergy blessed the ship as plans to sail from Plymouth England to Plymouth Rock Massachusetts proceed in six months.
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England
Misty Tor Bay
Somerset Light Infantry
Plymouth
Plymouth Rock
Massachusets
America
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