Clinton Residents React to Conviction in Integration Case
In Clinton Tennessee six men and a woman were convicted of criminal contempt for defying a federal order on school desegregation. Jury members, all white Tennesseans, were unknown after the verdict. Local reactions mix concern and resolve, with residents stressing law and order despite mixed feelings.
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Clinton, Tenn
Clinton
Ku Klux Klan
Ova D. Abston
Southland Cafe
Knoxville
William Brakebill
Lawrence Brantley
Alonzo Bullock
Clyde Cook
W. H. Till
Mary Nell Currier
John Kasper
Robert L. Taylor
Kasper
Washington
East Tennessee
Sidney Davis
Abston
Rights Bill Faces Shift Toward Voting Rights Emphasis
The Senate narrowed Civil Rights Bill provisions likely removing wide enforcement powers. Supporters suffered two defeats on limiting attorney general suits as Anderson and Aiken push to focus on voting rights for Negroes. Amendments would allow direct enforcement of voting rights with contempt for violations of federal injunctions.
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Washington
Senate
Anderson
D-Nm
Aiken
Sen. Bricker
Ohio
Chamber
Sen. Cooper
Anderson- Aiken
Mee's Beau To Quit Army
London reports Princess Margaret’s favorite Lord Patrick Beresford 23, Royal Horse Guards, intends to resign his army commission within weeks. War Office calls it a routine assignment but Beresford says he will resign before year’s end and will not go to Cyprus.
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London
Princess Margaret
Cyprus
Patrick Beresford
Royal Horse Guards
War Office
Daily Mail
Government to Build Five Nuclear Reactors For Public Power
A Senate atomic energy subcommittee approved a plan under which the government would directly construct five nuclear reactors for cooperative and public power plants. Sites listed include Piqua Ohio Elk River Minnesota Big Rapids Michigan Chugach Alaska and a Nebraska site chosen by consumers.
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Washington
House- Senate Atomic Energy
Piqua
Ohio
Elk River
Minn
Big Rapids
Mich
Chugach
Alaska
Consumers of
Nebraska
Neptune patrol bomber crashes with 10 dead
A Neptune patrol bomber, the third to crash since last Friday, exploded and fell into the Pacific Tuesday, killing all 10 Navy men aboard. The disaster adds to a wave of air service losses in the region.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Weather roundup with scattered showers and warm periods
Readable forecast fragments show clear and sunny conditions in West Virginia and many U S cities. Temperatures vary from cool nights around 50s to highs in the 70s and 80s with a 2 to 4 degree below normal trend in Ohio and a chance of showers in late week.
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Orio
West Virginia
Ohio
Albuquerque
Cleveland
Ceeus A
Des Moines
Fort Worth
Arena Rapids
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Raleve i
Miami
Pesda'e
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Giorf
New York
Omaha
Phoenix
Lovie
San Francisco
Beasule
Clare
Luxuries Probed in Union Officers Expenses
Senate rackets panel probes purchase by United Textile Workers officers of brassieres milk stools and golfer lamps plus radio and TV sets charged to union funds. Witnesses include UTW President Anthony Valente and Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd Klewert as Kennedy cites at least $100 000 in questionable items.
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Washington
Senate
McClellan
United Textile Workers
Anthony Valente
Lloyd Klewert
Robert F. Kennedy
UTW
French Senate Gives Final Approval to European Market Treaties
The French Senate approved the West European common market and Euratom atomic pool treaties by 222 to 70, completing France's parliamentary ratification of the measures.
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Paris
Euratom
France
Jury Cannot Reach Verdict In Dio Case
New York all male jury could not reach a verdict on charges of conspiracy to extort $30 000 from two companies in a month long trial against racketeer Johnny Dio and two union officials. The judge ordered further deliberations at 11 a m Thursday. Dio is also linked to an acid blind attack on labor columnist Victor Riesel and a separate trial delay continues as witnesses refuse to testify.
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New York
Johnny Dio
General Sessions Court
John A. Mullen
Dio
Victor Riesel
Riesel
Fort Worth to Dayton In Hour 17 Minutes
A new B58 jet bomber on its first flight flew from Fort Worth Texas to Wright Patterson Air Base Ohio at faster than sound. The base spokesman said the 775 air mile trip took one hour and 17 minutes from 9 03 a m to 10 20 a m.
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Fort Worth
Dayton
Tex
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Two Men Return For Questioning In Amish Farmer Killing
Two youths from Ohio and Iowa waived extradition and agreed to return to Ohio to face first degree murder charges in the slaying of 25 year old Amish farmer Paul M. Coblentz at his Mount Hope farm. Dumoulin and Peters were questioned for over four hours in Illinois before the move.
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Michael George Dumoulin
Wooster
Ohio
Cleo Eugene Peters
Muscatine
Iowa
Peoria
Ill
Lacon
Paul Coblenz
Mount Hope
Lacon, Ill
Michael G. Dumoulin
Dumoulin
Peters
Bet
Illinois
Harry Weiss
Holmes County
Paul M. Coblentz
Weiss
John Evans
Marshall County
Illinois River
Kewanee
Emery Baldwin
Baldwin
Evans
Coblentz
Ashland
Philadelphia
Ninth A-Test Blast At Atomic Site Shocks Desert Crowd
The ninth shot of the AEC test series exploded at 4 50 a m in the desert. A blue purple flash lit the sky as a dust cloud rolled past 700 military observers 3000 yards away and hit News Nob where 31 foreign observers watched.
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Atomic Energy Commission
News Nob
Saxbe Rules on Funds for Health Districts
Ohio Atty. Gen. William Saxbe rules health districts may not transfer funds or exceed itemized expenses once county commissioners approve their budget appropriations. The ruling limits reallocations after initial budget approval.
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Columbus
William Saxbe
American Scholar in Indonesia Details Escape Plot and Medical Work
Lucien Ira Zamorsky a 32 year old Ford Foundation fellow held in Indonesia spoke in Beirut on his flight home. He described faking illness to contact the U S ambassador and said he would take a powder to escape if not released. He claimed to have treated about 5000 people and saved 40 to 50 lives using penicillin and other antibiotics.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Indonesia
U. S
Jakarta
Thorugh
Zamorsky
Ternate
John M. Allison
Meigs County leader Hurt In Minersville Collision
Dan C. Hartinger 51 Meigs County commissioner from Letart Falls was injured when his car collided with a 1957 tractor trailer south of Route 124 in Minersville at 9 15 am. Hartinger suffered lacerations and possible toe fracture with severe shock. Driver Charles Goff Stanley 42 of Waverly W Va was uninjured.
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Pomeroy
Dan C. Hartinger
Meigs County
Letart Falls
Meigs General Hospital
Minersville
Hartinger
R. E. Boice
Progres sive Education Magazine Closes After 33 Years
New York reports Progressive Education Magazine ends its 33-year run as interest in progressive methods wanes after World War II. Dr. H Gordon Hullfish announced the closure amid a shift toward the three R's reading writing and arithmetic in postwar schooling.
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New York
H. Gordon Hullfish
13 Month Old Boy Crushed Under Gasoline Truck
A 13 month old child died when he crawled under a gasoline delivery truck at his parents farm home seven miles north of Mount Vernon Ohio. The driver started to pull away unaware the child was beneath the vehicle as the rear wheels passed over him.
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Mount Vernon
Ohic
Ronnie Eugene Wise
Here
Wedler Is Fake Adds 26th Name To Sheppard Hoax List
Cleveland investigators Dr. Samuel H. Gerber and James E. McArthur say Donald Joseph Wedler, 23, a Deland Florida fugitive, is a complete hoax. Wedler is not connected to Cleveland or the 1954 Sheppard murder case. Gerber and McArthur deem his story untrue after a 3 hour 45 minute interview. They intend no further contact with Wedler.
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Cleveland
Sam Sheppard
Ohio Penitentiary
Florida
Samuel H. Gerber
Cuyahoga County
James E. McArthur
Donald Joseph Wedler
Deland
Fla
Wedler
Gerber
McArthur
New York Today
Erle Stanley Gardner
Court of Last Resort
Sheppard
Sheriff Thursby
Iowa
Ernest James Kolofolias
Long Beach
Calif
Waterloo
Kolofolias
Government Projects May Be Continued
GSA says expiration of the Lease Purchase Act does not automatically invalidate 149 federal building projects, including in Ohio, as they remain technically eligible for contracts though costs and space needs now exceed approved plans. Senate backs extension, House committee urges return to direct appropriations.
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Washington
General Services Administration
Ohio
Public Works Committees
House
Senate
GSA
House Public Works Committee
Bodies removed after plane crash in Fradusta peaks
Italian alpine rescue teams labored to recover the bodies of 11 U S Navy airmen killed when their twin engine plane struck the Fradusta mountain side last Friday.
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Trento
Italy
Fradusta Peaks
U. S. Navy
Congress Debates Antis segregation Amendments in School Aid Bill
The House opens voting on amendments to a 12.4 billion school construction measure. Wainwright may push a ban on federal aid to segregated districts while Powell backs an antisegregation proviso. Roosevelt opposes Powell here. The bill also funds local bonds and state finance aid, totaling about 2.4 billion dollars in federal participation.
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Washington
Rep
Wainwright
R-Ny
Powell
DNY
House
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
D-Calif
Desperate Desert Slaughter Ends In Triple Death
In Hobbs New Mexico a killer shot truck driver J D Cantrell 27 of Carlsbad and two Hobbs women 23 Barbara Edwards Lemmons and Dorothy Fern Gibson on remote desert roads. Six .22 shells were found near Cantrell. A later abduction attempt by the same suspect was thwarted by a Tinnie postmistress with a pistol. The sheriff links Cantrell to stopping to help the women with a flat tire on U S 180.
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Barbara Edwards Lemmons
Dorothy Fern Gibson
Hobbs
Cantrell
Tinnie
Lea County
U. S. 180
Rucker Acting in Line of Duty Fatally Wounds Gard Partner
In Niagara Falls New York Pvt Ira Rucker 24 Cincinnati was killed within the line of duty when he fatally wounded Pvt Juan A Toledo 21 of Je mez Pueblo New Mexico after Toledo attempted to wrest a rifle from him during a quarrel Toledo had earlier slashed another soldier with a knife and was taken into custody preliminary military reports say Ft Niagara.
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Ira Rucker
Cincinnati
Juan A. Toledo
Jemez Pueblo
N. M
Ft. Niagara
Toledo
Rucker
Made Clay Animal Figures Mother Daughter Reunited
Mrs Eunice Brillhart released from Alderson and reunited with her daughter Diane in Columbus Ohio. She plans a brief stay with her in laws before moving to Sandia Base New Mexico with her husband Army Sgt Robert Brillhart. He states they want a normal life and he will remain in the Army.
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Columbus
Eunice
Sally) Brillhart
New Mexico
Brillhart
Federal Reformatory For Women
Alderson
W. Va
Army
Robert W. Brillhart
Africa
Wade Brillhart
Diane
Two Deaths Baffle Police in Cincinnati Area
Police pressed to uncover background after two unrelated deaths. Dottie Fox, about 25, was found beaten in a gravel pit at Heaven on Tuesday. Louise Williams, 52, was found dead in a vacant building in Cincinnati on Sunday. Three men have been arrested, two for Fox’s death and one who confessed to fighting Williams.
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Cincinnati
Dottie Fox
Heaven
Louise Williams
Miss Fox
Compensation Claims Dropped Last Week
The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reports continuing claims fell from 55,898 to 53,369 for the week ended July 20. New claims slipped from 9,915 to 9,909. July prior year averages were 8,835 for weekly new claims and 49,911 for continuous claims.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of
Flu Reaches Romania Amid Epidemic Reports
The Romanian Communist party paper Scanteia claims Asian flu has arrived in Romania and is spreading rapidly reaching epidemic proportions.
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Romania
Vienna
Scanteia
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