Mississippi adopts new tactics for civil rights demonstrations
Mississippi officials deploy new laws and a larger patrol to curb summer demonstrations by civil rights workers. Gov Johnson backs expanded Highway Patrol and mutual aid pacts while authorities seek to prevent violence amid rising activity and tense race relations in Jackson and across the state.
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Hattesburg
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Politician Cancels Trip as Remarks Stir Silence
Independence Missouri reports Former President Harry S Pigs pa cancels a planned trip to Louis due to unspecified reasons. Tru man 80 offered no explanation. The AP dispatch notes various brief society items and political mentions across cities.
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Harry S. Pig
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Truman
Women Press for Repeal of Cosmetics Tax in Senate
Washington AP reports women lobby senators against excise taxes on cosmetics and for ladies items. Senator Everett Dirksen says he will again seek repeal as the levies also hit furs and jewelry, bringing in about 800 million dollars yearly.
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Everett M. Dirksen
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Uncle Sam
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Bathing Beauty Contest Entry Refused by Legion Group
McAllen Texas AP The American Legion post chapter declined to admit an entrant in the annual bathing beauty review who wished to wear a topless bathing suit. Blanche Doster executive secretary of the June 3 event refused to name the contestant.
Utility Leaders Mobilized in War on Poverty Drive
Washington AP reports 15 000 rural electric and telephone system managers urged to lead Johnson era anti poverty efforts in rural America. Assistant Secretary John A Baker of Agriculture chairs REA activities and announced loans exceeding 4 billion to local power cooperatives and telephone units. He spoke at a REA field conference in Milwaukee.
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John A. Baker
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Rural Electrification Administration
Milwaukee
Rural Poverty Drive Aims to Mobilize REA Staff
The Agriculture Department promotes President Johnsons rural anti poverty plan stressing loans grants and technical help to raise living standards for low income rural families. Baker notes mobilizing REA managers and directors could field over 15 000 people and 38 000 additional employees backed by 5 million members.
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Agriculture Department
Johnson
Writer Frank Scully dies at 71 in California
Palm Springs AP report says Frank Scully died at age 71 from a coronary occlusion. The Hollywood and show business writer, who joined 20th Century Fox in 1932, endured more than 40 operations over 30 years and wrote about his pain with humor.
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Frank Scully
Scully
Hollywood
20Th Century-Fox Studios
Show Business
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