Raney High graduates first senior class in all white private school
The T. J. Raney High School in Little Rock awards its first senior class diplomas to 196 students, with Gov. Orval Faubus delivering the commencement address. The school, created after public schools were closed to avoid integration, plans to enroll about 1,000 for 1959 60.
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Armstrong Winks as Doctor Says He Is Improving in Italy
Louis Armstrong, 58, recovering from pneumonia in a Spoleto hospital, shows signs of improvement. Doctors report his fever near normal and note oxygen tubes, sedation, and heart risk while plans to fly him home are postponed. His wife Lucille and two American reporters visited as he whispered to her during a late night bedside moment.
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Vetoes of Farm Bills Set Stage for Bitter Squabbles
Washington AP reports Eisenhower vetoed two farm bills Wheat and Tobacco, pausing further action this session. Benson backed the veto saying surpluses worsen the situation. Democratic leaders pledge to argue the bills would have cut costs and reduced production. Benson soon travels for 10 day farm trade mission to Europe. In Minnesota, 14 year old Stevie Paulson drowned after falling from a dock at Leech Lake while inspecting a newly purchased motorboat.
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