Methodists Urge Reversal of Liquor Sales to Army Officers
The Western North Carolina Conference of Methodists voted unanimously to urge President Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Wilson to rescind an order permitting liquor sales at service post messes. Dr. Joseph Owen led the presentation arguing the 1901 law banning intoxicants on military posts remains in force. The conference also announced next year’s meeting locations and heard reports on church growth and minister salaries.
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Enterprise City
Western North Carolina Conference Methodists Today
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
Joseph Owen
Charlotte
Board of Temperance
Owen
Central Methodist Church
Asheville
Dilworth Methodist
Centenary Methodist
Winston-Salem
Earl D. C. Brewer
Emory University
Candler School of Theology
Brewer
Sorely Needed Rain Falls On Carolinas
The Associated Press reports rain spread across the Carolinas easing water shortages. The Weather Bureau forecast totals of more than an inch with continuation through tomorrow afternoon. The system moved from southwest to northeast, reaching Greensboro Raleigh and northeastern North Carolina, but farmers had crops that were already damaged. Sixteen North Carolina counties were designated disaster areas for emergency farm loans. Temperatures were mild with highs from 60s to 80s across cities such as Asheville Charleston Charlotte Columbia Raleigh Spartanburg and Wilmington.
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Associated Press
Carolina
Weather Bureau
South Carolina
North Carolina
Greensboro
Raleigh
Asheville
Charleston
Charlotte
Columbia
Mt. Mitchell
Spartanburg
Wilmington
Legislators Propose Councils to Study Higher Education Costs
Delegates from 14 southern states at a Daytona Beach work conference heard a plan to establish councils to study higher education appropriations to maximize tax dollars. Endorsed by educators, the proposal aims to guide costs using factors such as teaching load research value living costs and funding sources.
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Daytona Beach
Legislative Council
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Claude Kirkpatrick
John Dale Russell
New Mexico University System
Pleas for high level meeting rise at United Nations
At the United Nations General Assembly, calls from many nations for a top level Western Soviet meeting to ease world tensions grow. Speakers urge the Big Four to reunite on Germany Austria Korea and disarmament as policy debates wind down and committees open.
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United Nations
N.Y
West
Russia
U.N. General Assembly
U.N
Korea
Palestine
Disarmament
Morocco-Tunisia
Germany
Austria
Thors
U.S
State Dulles
Andrei Vishinsky
Doubt Legality of City Merchant Patrol Plan
North Carolina Attorney General Harry McMullan told Lee Boswell of High Point that a private merchant patrol to protect businesses would be illegal. He cited statutes barring private citizens impersonating peace officers and forbidding private detectives from going armed in a body.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
High Point
McMullan
Lee Boswell
MecMullan
Green Played Nomination Role at 1944 Democratic Convention
At a memorial for William Green in St Louis Truman revealed Green helped nominate Harry S. Truman for vice president in 1944. Truman recalled Green warned him not to seek the post and stated his organization would back Truman for VP. He noted a breakfast with Green and the future president.
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ST. Louis
AFL
William Green
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Chicago
United States
Green
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Greensboro Man Fined For Contempt In Court
Greensboro industrialist George Albert McFetters, 51, was held in contempt and fined 100 dollars plus costs after lying under oath about his conviction history. Judge Archie Myatt questioned him on prior traffic records and a drunken driving revocation, revealing a January 1953 commutation of a prior license revocation by Governor Kerr Scott.
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George Albert McFetters
Greensboro
W. Kerr Scott
Archie Myatt
McFetters
Myatt
Superior Court
Boswell Patrol Faces Judge Over Uniforms and Guns
Municipal Judge Archie Myatt criticized Boswell merchants patrol calling members look like bandits. He ordered investigation of guns uniforms and badges on duty and arrest of off duty members. The judge refused Boswell access until pistol was removed from his own visit.
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Boswell
Archie Myatt
Myatt
C. C. Stoker
Chary
Judge Myatt
Interviews postponed by commission on prisoner interviews
The Korean Repatriation Commission postponed start of prisoner interviews to no fixed date, delaying the Allied push to persuade unrepatriated prisoners to return home. The five nation neutral panel cited incomplete arrangements, while debate over whether to count a 90 day period from the interviews or the start date continued among Allies and Reds.
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Panmunjom
Korean Repatriation Commission
Red
U. N
U.N
Reds
India
Sweden
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Allies
Redeiners
Typhoon Strikes Southern Japan Killing and Causing Disruptions
The season's 13th typhoon killed at least five people across Nara Osaka and Shikoku, disrupted trains and power, with 10 missing after debris in Osaka. A 10,000-ton tanker Chigusa Maru sent SOS off the Kii Peninsula while a smaller fighter ran aground near Osaka.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Osaka
Nara
Shikoku
U. S. Air Force Weather Bureau
Japan
Kobe
Kii
Honshu Island
North Korean pilot's mother to reunite with son in South Korea
Chung Wol, 43, mother of Lt. Noh Keum Suk the MIG 15 pilot who fled to Kimpo Airfield, appeared at Taegu and sought to see her son. U.N. and South Korean officials arrange a reunion in a few days amid drama surrounding the defection and a $100,000 reward.
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Seoul
North Korea
Taegu
Defense Ministry
Chung Wol
Noh Keum Suk
ROK Army
Kimpo
Mark Clark
U. N
South Korea
Three More Axed In Red Purge In Georgia Soviet
The Kremlin purge in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic removed three ministers from office. Agriculture and procurement chief Mikhail Baramia was replaced by Mikhail Porfirevich Geo, culture minister Chiaureli by Konstantin Guria, and education minister Tsulukidze by Georgy Cheviadze. Last week premier Bakradze and first secretary Mirts Hkulava were dismissed.
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London
Kremlin
Georgia Soviet
Lavrenti Beria
Tiflis Radio
Mikhail Baramia
Agriculture
Procuremen
Mikhail Porfirevich
Geo
Vladimir Ivanovich Chiaureli
Konstantin Ivanovich Guria
Rustam Konstantinovich Tsulukidze
Georgy Nikolyevich Cheviadze
V. M. Bakradze
Mirts Hkulava
Georgian Communist Party
Hurricane Florence Near Gulf Coast Brings Urgent Warnings
A powerful hurricane named Florence with winds up to 120 mph moves north toward the Gulf Coast including Mobile Alabama and St. Marks Louisiana. The Weather Bureau warns the center is about 340 miles south of Mobile with gales extending up to 200 miles northeast and 100 miles south and west. Coast Guard reports a tugboat and 263 foot barge with about 50 crew at the Mississippi River mouth unable to maneuver as heavy seas threaten. Military Air Transport Service begins evacuating planes from Mobile to inland bases to prepare for potential impact.
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Weather Bureau
Florence
Mobile
Coast Guard
Mississi River
Margaret Roote
Herman B
Southwest Pass
Military Air Transport Service
Ala
Tinker Air Force Base
Oklahoma City
Kelly Afb
San Antonio
Tex
Brookley Afb
Maxwell Afb
Montgomery
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