Week End Recess in Civil Rights Battle
Senators clash over end of a 108 hour filibuster on civil rights legislation. Johnson plans a Sunday recess and returns Monday to press for passage while Byrd and Allott dispute prospects of a bi partisanship compromise. Johnston argues Wilkins telegram signals growing support for action.
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Washington
Senate
E. L. Bartlett
Alaska
Gordon Allott
R-Cole
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Harry
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson
Ray Wilkins
The
National Assn
Advancement of
Colored People
Wilkins
Congress
Johnston
House
Metropolitan Opera Star Warren Dies On Stage
Warren a renowned baritone and New Yorker collapsed and died on stage during Verdi opera La Forza del Destino at the Met. He was performing Don Carlo as Agatha, his wife, watched from the audience. The stage stroke was diagnosed by Dr. Adrian Zorginotti. The audience was asked to remain seated as efforts followed.
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New York
Leonard Warren
Metropolitan Opera
Agatha
Warren
Don Carlo
Adrian Zorginotti
Met
Rudolf Bing
Bing
Metropolitan
Stuwily
Renata Tibaldi
Radio City
Music Hall
Bronx
Havana Ship Explosions Kill Over Forty In Harbor
In Havana a French munitions freighter exploded during unloading provoking claims of sabotage and accidents. Official totals ranged from 41 to 50-plus dead with hundreds injured and many missing as investigators weighed sabotage versus an unloading accident. The ship Ly Coulwe carried 76 tons of munitions for Castro's army when the blasts wrecked the hold and ignited a massive fire.
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Havana
Osvaldo iCortices
Ly Coulwe
Diaria de la Maria
Castro
Ha,vang
FCC official defends yacht trip amid payola questions
FCC chairman John Doerfer defended his six nights aboard George B. Storer’s yacht and a Florida vacation funded by the TV magnate as a social engagement. He testified before a House subcommittee, saying there were no FCC actions pending related to Storer stations and promising the public no improper gratuity. The hearing resumes March 15 as lawmakers weigh proposed legislation and payola questions linger.
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Washington
PCC Chen
John C. Doerfer
Florida
TV Mag
George B. Storer
Doerfer
Howse
Federal Communications Commission
Storer
John E. Moss
D-Calif
Heington
Doerter
FCC
Ment
Eisenhawyer
Diamond Alkali Ice Strands Twice on Great Lakes Route
The freighter Diamond Alkali bound from Toledo to Detroit became stuck in ice first in Lake Erie between Toledo and the Detroit river light and then in the Detroit river yesterday. Coast guard vessels freed the ship on both occasions.
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Detroit
Toledo
Great Lakes Steel Co
Lake Erie
Detroit River
Coast Guard
Renaults New York beats records with 1959 output
Renaults New York, listed as part of France’s Renault group, reported a record 515,119 vehicles produced in 1959, up 19.6 percent from 430,736 in 1958, marking the sixth largest global automobile maker’s strong year.
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New York
f—Renault
France
Flames From Wild Gas Well DIES AT TECUMSEH
Mrs Jane S McDowell 53 wife of Tecumseh schools superintendent died at Herrick Hospital after a week’s illness caused by heart condition Funeral at First Presbyterian Church Tecumseh with Rev Julian Gresham officiating Burial in Brookside cemetery Survivors include two sons Douglas Addison and Bruce at home Born Hudson Sept 14 1906 Active in Eastern Star Monday Club Presbyterian Women’s Association Wit and Wisdom Club and hospital auxiliary The well fire near M 60 west of the Jackson County line drew spectators and required extensive traffic control Red Adair Houston oil expert expected to intervene Fire burned two gas plumes with one rising about 250 feet and a ground flame traveling 200 feet. derrick collapsed after four hours
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Tecumseh
Jane S. McDowell
James McDowell
Herrick Hospital
McDowell
Mr McDowell
Order of Eastern Star
The
Monday Club
Presbyterian Women's Association
Wit and Wisdom Club
Lyman
Martha Sturgis Brown
Hudson
Douglas
Addison
Bruce
Pam
First Presbyterian Church
Julian Gresham
Brookside Cemetery
Collins-Corkery Funeral Home
Calhoun County
Jackson County
William J. Rosenau
Perry Falk
Scipio-Albion
Falk
Red Adair
Houston
Tex
Adair
Adrian
Lenawee
Calhoun
Jackson
Hunter and
Springport
Robert Stites
Wilbur Vogel
Edward Clark
Paul Pasley
Rollin Pontious
Vogel
Pontious
Stites
Denalies Clark
Pasley
Wayne Filch
Leo Ambler
Don Ambler
Homer
Fremon Ivy
Question on marriage choice shocks a Japanese census
In a 300 resident district in Whugata Japan the census asked if respondents would marry the same spouse again. Nearly half of men 48 percent and women 43 percent preferred a new partner. About 20 percent undecided. Six women found marriage disgusting and preferred spinsterhood if given another chance.
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Whugata
Japan
Two Pilots Cape Named for Fallen Airmen
Moscow radio reports Arctic cape renamed Two Pit Cape in memory of Lt. Carl B. Eielson and Earl Borland, two American aviators who died in a 1929 crash during a flight from the U S schooner Nanook. The men were missing after a snow storm in the Arctic.
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London
Arctic
Moscow
Carl B. Eielson
Earl Borland
Eielson
Borland
U.S
Eyewitness Report From Bakersfield Train Wreck
Eugene F Olsen describes the Bakersfield train wreck that killed 14 and injured 60 to 70. He and wife were in the seventh car near the diner and escaped with minor injuries. Rescue arrived within seven minutes, oil fires raged, and passengers were evacuated by bus to Bakersfield and Barstow before continuing to Chicago.
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Olsen
California Highway Patrol
Cutter General Greene Grounded on Cape Cod Shores
battered by a late winter blizzard as southern New England battered by seas the coast guard cutter General Greene ran aground on treacherous Cape Cod sands. her crew of 24 was brought ashore aboard an amphibious duck while the ocean-going tug M Moran was towed to Provincetown for safe harbor by another cutter.
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Sandwich
Mass
New England
Coast Guard
General Greene
Cape Cod
M. Moran
Provincetown
Agadir Earthquake Toll Soars As Rescue Ends
In Agadir Morocco the earthquake and fire rubble graveyard swallows thousands with 4000 dead and 6000 missing. Crown Prince Moulay Hassan directs rescue efforts then withdraws crews amid pestilence fear. One survivor found as U S aid of 500000 dollars moves supplies from military stocks.
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Agadir
Morocco
Washington
America
State Department
U.S
Khrushchev Returns From Long Asian Tour
Premier Nikita Khrushchev comes home to Moscow after a three week promotion tour through South Asia. He visited India Burma Indonesia and Afghanistan and urged neutralist nations to accept more Soviet economic aid while denouncing Western aid as self serving. A joint communique with Afghanistan noted an East West summit in May will mark an important landmark in settling international issues.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
South Asia
India
Burma
Indonesia
Alghanistan
Khrushchev
Afghanistan
NAACP Plans Counter Protest Against Segregation
Detroit NAACP units plan demonstrations in Detroit and Lansing to press civil rights legislation. They will picket and boycott five Woolworth stores and hold mass meetings on the state capitol steps. Ernest Green of East Lansing, a former Little Rock pupil, will lead a Kresge protest at an East Lansing store.
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Detroit
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Edward Turner
Lansing
Tie
NAACP
State Capitol
Turner
F. W. Woolworth
Woolworth
East Lansing
S. Kresge
Ernest Green
Netro
Central High School
Little Rock
Ark
Michigan State University
Green
Kresge
Ike Calls Off Golf For Rest At Ramey AFB
President Eisenhower canceled another round of golf at Ramey Air Force Base Puerto Rico citing fatigue. An aide said he would rest at SAC headquarters and possibly delay departure to Washington until Monday. The four grandchildren and Army Maj. John Eisenhower accompanied him on the South American tour.
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Ramey Air Force Base
Puerto Rico
Eisenshower
U.S
Strategic Air Command
Eisenhower
Washington
Army
John Eisenhower
Dorado Beach Club
Northeast Digging Out After Snow Storm
Northeast residents wrestled with heavy snow from Maine to the South as the Marci storm moved offshore. Snowdrifts blocked roads and forced rescue efforts while transportation crept back to normal slowly amid ice and freezing conditions. The nation reported near 350 deaths, with Massachusetts at 20 and Pennsylvania at 19 in what officials called the worst winter storm in over a decade.
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New York
North Atlantic
Maine
Dixie
New England
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Village Won't Take Chiefs Resignation
Former Novi police chief Lee Begole is kept on payroll by the wage council who refuse to recognize his resignation after he left for Cheboygan. Begole received a $182.75 two week paycheck and plans to bank it but not work. The council will continue to list him as police chief while he is in Cheboygan, with the Novi department under an acting chief.
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Cheboygan
Begole
Novi
Sees More Play, Less Work in Man's Future
College Park Md a physical education professor predicts automation will shift civilization toward athletic activity. Delbert Oberteuffer of Ohio State University told educators that as industry reduces to pushing buttons humans must return to physical activity for survival. He spoke on Basic Human Needs of the Nuclear Age during the University of Maryland program marking ten years of its College of Physical Education Health and Recreation.
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College Park
Delbert Oberteuffer
Ohio State University
America
Oberteuffer
University of Maryland
College of Physical Education, Health and Recreation
Hudsons Effort Sparks State Corn Picking Revival
Hudson Kiwanis Club leads efforts to reclaim Michigan corn picking contest amid late schedule worries. National committee weighs timing and representation as Hudson aims to attract more contestants from western and northern Michigan with plans for a mid October event near Hudson.
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Don Vogel Hudson
Lenawee County
Hudson
Hudson Kiwanis Club
Michigan
Donald W. Sawyer
Los Angeles
Two Mile
Ford Motor Co
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Sawyer
Hudson Kiwanians
Richard Goodrich
M&s Manufacturing Co
Goodrich
Lansing
Missouri
Ilinois
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Telegram
Tenawee Sheriff's Office
Tenawee
S.glengs
Moss
Philadelphia
Jane McDowell
Pusley
Tecuraseh
E.F. Olsen
Bakersfield
Calif
Eugene F. Olsen
Maumee Court
Jhule Perpe Unaul
Mr. Olsen
Pr Olsen
Cigis
Tarsengenr
Barstow
Chicago
Ares
Olsens
National Concrete Masonry ‘Association
Gene D. Olsen
Nikita
Ike
Finch
Clifford Bergland Farm
Eastern Michigan
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