France imposes emergency rule in Algeria
Paris approved decrees give Robert LaCoste sweeping one man authority to run Algeria. Troops airlifted and 1500 more ashore at Oran with 300 interceptor planes to back a security campaign amid 16 months of rebellion. Press cautioned against false news and Europeans and Moslems urged to maintain general discipline.
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Algiers
Algeria
Robert LaCoste
Paris
LaCoste
France
Germany
Oran
Negroes Picket Shivers Talk At TSU In Houston
About 150 Negro demonstrators picketed outside the Texas Southern University auditorium as Governor Allan Shivers spoke at the inaugural ceremonies for TSU's new president. Shivers exited by car then walked through lines with Dr. S. M. Nabrit and TSU board chairman Mack H. Hannah Jr. He said he was pleased but offered no comment on the NAACP protest.
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Houston
Texas Southern University
Allan Shivers
S. M. Nabrit
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Narbit
Mack H. Hannah Jr
TSU Board
University
Francis L. Williams
Houston Naacp
Rites Pending for Car Train Victims in Lubbock
Funeral arrangements are pending at Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home for Mr. Johnny Martin Voshalike 22 and Mrs Colene Voshalike 20 of Lubbock who were killed when their car was struck by a Santa Fe freight train at the Eastern Street crossing. The car was dragged nearly a half mile. Voshalike worked as an engineer at the Caprock Hotel. He is survived by a young son, siblings, and in laws including the Roop and Voshalike families across Texas and North Carolina.
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Blackburn - Shaw Funeral Home
Lubbock
Santa Fe
Johnny Martin Voshalike
Voshalike
Caprock
J.C. Voshalike
210 Mountain Drive
Pleasant Valley
Calvary Baptist Church
Joe Mack Voshalike
Billy Joe Voshalike
Bobby Lee Voshalike
Amarillo
Walter Dean Voshalike
Canyon Falls
Minn
Betty Lou Mason
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Colene
Joe Mack
T. M. Roop
Judson Roop
Herman Roop
Donald
Eugene Roop
Carl Roop
Charlene Blackburn
Barbara Holland
Yerma
Calif
Theodora McCrady
Valera Roop
Elonia Roop
Meager clues haunt Canyon murder probe
Canyon investigators, led by Sheriff L S Johnston, worked amid sparse leads on the unidentified slaying of a man found mutilated near a roadside park. Wounds suggest two assailants and a possible earlier death elsewhere before the body was dumped.
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Daily News
Randall County
L. S. (Slim) Johnston
Ray Tinsley
L. D. Caldwell
Canyon
Here
L. S
Slim) Johnston
Johnston
Louis Bromfield Dies noted novelist in Ohio
Pulitzer prize winner Louis Bromfield died at University Hospital Columbus at 59. He had been hospitalized since February 28 with homologous serum jaundice and died from liver and kidney failure after infection. Bromfield, resident of Malabar Farm near Mansfield, was famed as a novelist columnist and historian.
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Columbus
Ohio
Louis Bromfield
University Hospital
Charles A. Dean
Bromfield
Doan
Mansfield
Malabar Farm
Scientists Release Atmospheric Energy Breakthrough
The ARDC reports a major breakthrough after a rocket from Holloman Air Development Center released nitric oxide gas 60 miles up, vastly increasing atmospheric nitric oxide and producing a flood of light described as chemically stored sunlight. The experiment aims to explore future energy extraction for propulsion in the upper atmosphere.
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Baltimore
Air Force
Air Research and Development Command
ARDC
Holloman Air Development Center
New Mexico
Weather Summary for Amarillo Area 1956
The report notes 70 of 78 sunlit days in Amarillo for 1956 with Sunday readings at 3 30 PM. Wind speeds recorded at 15 MPH with visibility good and clear conditions in Dallas Okla City and Amarillo amid partly cloudy skies.
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Amarillo
Dallas
Okla
City
Damage Slight In Fisk Fire
A small fire on the seventh floor of the Fisk Building damaged a stand of medical accessories and smoked a wall in Room 705. Dr Ernestine Smith's office was involved. Ralph Crabtree reported the incident after 2 p.m. Fire officials traced the blaze to an electrical short from the stand to the wall.
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Fisk
Ernestine Smith
Ralph Crabtree
Dewey Morris
Dr. Smith
Choir Member Murdered as Cypriot Tensions Rise
Four masked assailants killed a Greek Orthodox choir singer inside a Nicosia church during worship. The attack marks a wave of violence amid EOKA actions against British rule. a Turkish villager was also killed as British forces combed Pendakomo and Troodos villages for arms and rebels.
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Chakales Nicosia
Cyprus
EOKA
union-with-Greece
Mediterranean
John Harding
Makarios
Emote
Seychelle Islands
Indian Ocean
Britain
Acquittal Highlights Mississippi Racial Tensions
In Jackson an all white Lions Club deems the shooting of Clinton Melton by Elmer Kimbell an outrage while a prominent educator Rev. G T Gillespie discusses race relations. The piece notes differing views on segregation amid national tensions and media coverage.
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Fred Post
Sunday News Globe
Deep South
Jackson, Miss
Jackson
New Orleans
Kimbell
Melton
Press Association
Lions Club
G. T. Gillespie
Belhaven College
Mississippi
Gillespie
Karl Marx
Want Ads Help Rent the Place
Mrs. S. B. Chenault of 401 Independence posted two rental ads in six months. The Globe-Times notice offered a clean SAN JACINTO, 2 bedroom home with central heat, automatic plumbing, carport, utilities paid for $85 monthly. Contacts DR4-7416 or DR2-4011 for quick response.
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S. B. Chenault
Independence
Globe-Times
Group Offers To Fill Empty Negro Pulpits
The Fellowship of Reconciliation announced more than 200 white and Negro clergymen would be willing to go to Montgomery Alabama to occupy pulpits of 25 Negro pastors facing bus boycott charges. More than 400 ministers nationwide supported the non violent campaign with 90 percent expected to sign and about half ready to go.
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New York
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Montgomery
Ala
Fellowship
John M. Swomley Jr
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Nicosa
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