Banjo Billy mural spurs Queens tensions at Jamaica Savings Bank
In New York a mural at Jamaica Savings Bank showing Banjo Billy provokes objections by some residents who call it a racist stereotype while the bank defends keeping the 168 foot work. Civil liberties union argues the commission lacks art review authority. Artist FitzGerald says Billy portrays a freed slave from 1829 and a guerrilla fighter scene follows.
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Billy
Long Island
City Commission On Human Rights
New York Civil Liberties Union
Edmond James FitzGerald
FitzGerald
Banjo Billy
Hearings Set on Selective Service Operations
The House Armed Services Committee plans a public review of the Selective Service System next week. Chairman L Mendel Rivers says hearings may run a week with Gen. Lewis B. Hershey as the first witness. Lawmakers accuse inequities and discrimination against the poor and uneducated in draft administration.
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House Armed Services Committee
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
LWT
Lewis B. Hershey
Congress
God Is Dead Controversy Disrupts Mayors Meeting
In Dallas AP reports a heated exchange at a mayors conference over a proposed constitutional amendment to permit voluntary prayer in public schools. Delegates argued after passing a resolution backing federal aid to urban problems, amid the dispute.
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God
Senate US
Detroit mayor elected U.S. Conference of Mayors president
At the annual meeting in Dallas Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh of Detroit was chosen president of the U S Conference of Mayors. Pittsburgh mayor Joseph M Barr was elected vice president and Portland’s Terry D Schrunk named chairman of the nine member advisory board.
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Jerome P. Cavanagh
Detroit
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Joseph M. Barr
Pittsburgh
Terry D. Schrunk
Portland
Ore
Workshop Set For Secretaries
Registration begins at 2 p m today for a church secretaries workshop at Wayland Baptist College led by Miss Gracie E Knowlton professor of secretarial training at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth The conferences cover records duplicating procedures fringe benefits salary advancement public relations file organization and letter writing.
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Wayland Baptist College
Gracie E. Knowlton
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Waylang
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