Alabama Board Excludes Autherine Lucy From Classes
Demonstrators clash with police at the University of Alabama campus after Autherine Lucy, a Birmingham Negro student, is admitted under a federal order. The Board of Trustees, meeting in emergency session, excludes Lucy from classes to ensure safety amid violence and threats by outsiders.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
University of Alabama
University Board of Trustees
Autherine Lucy
Birmingham
Miss Lucy
Autherine
Lucy
Louis Carson
Arthur D. Shores
C. C. Carmichael
Alabama
W. C. Tompkins
Demos Push Tax Plan for Road Bill
Washington announces a plan to raise 12 billion dollars for highway funding through higher federal gas and tire taxes. Rep. Boggs introduces the measure with hearings set for February 15 as lawmakers weigh a 51 billion dollar highway improvement plan.
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Demos
Washington
House
Rep
Boggs
Rayburn
Texas
Ways and Means Committee
Fallon
House Public Works Committee
Congress
Jailbreaker Goes on Trial
A White Bear Lake man, Raymond Thayer Lawton, 50, who escaped from Rice County jail last May and was recaptured in July, is to be tried today on a prior charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The escape occurred while awaiting that trial. conviction could trigger habitual criminal penalties. He waived a jury trial. John E. Coughlin now defends him.
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Faribault
Minn
White Bear Lake
Rice County
Twin Cities
Raymond Thayer Lawton
Axel Anderson
Lawson
Otis Godfrey
St. Paul
John E. Coughlin
Urban J. Steimann
Adlai Stevenson to Speak in Moorhead March 17
Adlai Stevenson, Democratic presidential candidate, will address Greater Moorhead Days at Concordia College fieldhouse Moorhead Minnesota on the afternoon of March 17. The event closes the annual civic observance as part of the March 20 Minnesota presidential primary activities.
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Moorhead
Minn
Adlai Stevenson
Minnesota
Greater Moorhead
Stevenson
Concordia College
Miller and Burton Wed in Las Vegas Nuptials
Actor director Sidney Miller aged 39 and dancer Iris Burton aged 25 were married yesterday in Las Vegas. Co best man was Donald O'Connor, with Glenn Rose serving as publicist for the couple.
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Las Vegas
Sidney Miller
Iris Burton
Donald O'Connor
Miller's
Glenn Rose
Pillsbury Mills Pleads Guilty in Grain Subsidy Case
Pillsbury Mills Inc pled guilty to 34 counts in a federal indictment for wrongful collection of grain subsidies. The firm admitted mixing Canadian with American wheat for export flour and repaying $208,000 in subsidies after auditors found the error. Conviction relates to actions between November 1950 and April 1953 with subsidies ranging from $5,000 to $91,000.
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Minneapolis
Pillsbury Mills, Inc
Edward J. Devitt
Commodity Credit Corp
Allen Q. Moore
Anthony C. Owens
Vacations Gone Wrong Behind Rainy Travel To Mexico
Traverse City Michigan reports a five week family trip to Mexico ended as a total loss. A sick child, ruined car components in Arizona, flooded streams, frigid temperatures, and a stuck camera shutter produced no usable color film from the $50 stock.
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Traverse City
Mich
Mexico
Taylor
Arizona
Fire destroys seven room farm home near Elkton
A family of ten led by Mr and Mrs Fred Zimmerman is homeless after a blaze gutted their seven room farm home two miles west of Elkton Minnesota Monday night. Mrs Zimmerman discovered the fire while eight children aged under 15 were elsewhere. Fire officials say an overheated chimney caused the blaze and no loss estimate is available. Red Cross aid was to coordinate emergency assistance.
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Elkton
Minn
Fred Zimmerman
Red Cross
Beard Growing Duluthians Aim to Make Centennial 'the Bushiest'
In Duluth Minnesota men rally behind a Beard growing centennial push with August as the deadline. Bosses and wives challenge the plan amid a labor dispute over two clerks with beards who were temporarily dismissed then reinstated. Air National Guard members may wear beards though pilots must keep mustaches. The city prepares for a tape measure mainfiest while locals weigh the sight of bearded workers and a wary public.
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Duluth
Minn
Air National Guard
Duluth Air Base
George D. Johnson
Johnson
Washington
District 128 votes to merge with Austin Dist 27
District 128 voted Saturday to consolidate with District 27 in Austin. Thirty-one ballots supported consolidation and 11 opposed, with one void. Voters favored assuming a share of District 27 debt by 31 to 12.
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Dist
Austin
Missing diamond-studded billfold reported by hotel resident
Mrs. Samuel W. Dittenhofer of the Lowry Hotel reported today that her diamond-studded leather billfold, valued at 1200 dollars, was lost. It contained a small amount of cash and identification papers.
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ST. Paul
Samuel W. Dittenhofer
Lowry Hotel
Resort Owner’s Wife Delivers Baby in Duluth
Mrs. Arthur Madsen, 33, gave birth to a 7 pound 1% ounce girl at St. Mary’s Hospital after traveling 180 miles by snowshoe dog team snowmobile car and bus from her remote border resort home. Mother and baby reported well.
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Duluth
Minn
Arthur Madsen
St. Mary's Hospital
Senate Probes Bribe in Gas Bill Vote Amid Tight Passage
The Senate votes 53 to 38 to pass a natural gas bill freeing producers from federal price controls and sends it to President Eisenhower. Leaders move to bipartisanly probe a $2,500 campaign contribution tied to Sen. Case, who opposed the bill. The House cleared a companion measure last year.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
House
Commerce Committee
Additional Attorneys Considered for Taylor
Federal Judge Nordbye heard a request by defense attorney Irving Nemerov to appoint at least one more attorney to defend James P. Taylor, 30, a Detroit ex convic t charged in a four count indictment with robbing the Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls and killing cashier Kenneth Lindbergh. The court gave two weeks to file motions attacking the indictment. no decision date was set.
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Taylor
Detroit
Thief River Falls
Kenneth Lindbergh
Irving Nemerov
Minneapolis
Nordbye
Nemerov
Woodke Gets Shorter Federal Sentence for Draft Board Falsehood
Gene A. Woodke, 25, from Minneapolis, will serve one year and one day in federal prison instead of two years for making a false statement to a draft board in Duluth. Judge Edward J. Devitt reduced the sentence after reconsideration of the originally imposed two year term.
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Minneapolis
Gene A. Woodke
Duluth
Edward J. Devitt
Woodke
Trio Nabbed in Gun Battle to Be Charged
Alexandria Minnesota reports three men wounded and captured after a gun battle when Sheriff Benny Arness and his sons interrupted a burglary at the municipal liquor store in Garfield. Suspects Clement Ransom John Hoffmann and Clarence Salmay face burglary assault and burglary tools charges in municipal court.
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Alexandria
Minn
Benny Arness
Howard
Luther
Garfield
Clement Clayton Ransom
John Hoffmann
Minneapolis
Clarence Leo Salmay
Senate votes to probe $2500 donation tied to gas bill
A Senate vote created a four member committee with subpoena power to investigate a $2500 offer to Sen. Francis Case aimed at influencing his stance on the natural gas bill. Case voted aye after being asked about withholding his vote. The probe report is due by March 1.
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Washington
Senate
Sen. Case
Senate Today
Francis Case
R-Sd
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Johnson
Case
Sen
George
D-Ga
Thoes
John M. Neff
Lexington
Neb
Friends
Neff
Nebraska
Texas
Knowland
Calif
Ellender
D-La
Kennedy
D-Mass
Moe Namara
D-Mich
Millikin
Cole
O’mahoney
D-Wye
Russell
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Hearing Set on Bus Fares in Twin City Rapid Transit
The Railroad and Warehouse Commission will hold a hearing Thursday on Twin City Rapid Transit’s petition to raise bus fares. The firm filed the request after agreeing to a 13 cent wage increase to avert a 1,500 driver strike. Current fare stands at 20 cents cash or five tokens for 9 cents.
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ST. Paul
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Twin City Rapid Transit
Minneapolis
Actor Michael O'Shea in satisfactory condition in Santa Monica
Santa Monica California actor Michael O'Shea is listed in satisfactory condition after treatment for a virus infection. He entered St John's Hospital yesterday.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Michael O'Shea
St. John’s Hospital
Priest Bus Driver Fills Morning Route In New Ulm
In New Ulm Minnesota Father Otto Neudecker of Swan Lake and Middle Lake parishes drives a Catholic school bus for 25 Holy Trinity students. He financed part of the nine thousand dollar bus with parish donations and his own funds. He rises at 4 50 to say mass then begins classes at the high school and carries out church duties in the afternoon.
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New Ulm
Minn
Otto Neudecker
Swan Lake
Middle Lake
Father Neudecker
Minnesota
Holy Trinity
Nicoliet
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