Supreme Court sets flexible deadline to end school segregation
The Supreme Court directs end of public school segregation as soon as feasible, allowing lower courts to assess local conditions. Chief Justice Warren says courts may consider local problems and that full compliance should occur as early as practicable. Cases involve Clarendon County D C Prince Edward County Va Topeka Kan Claymont and HocKessin districts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Warren
High Tribunal
High Court
U. S
Eisenhower
Sobeloff
Clarendon County
D. C
Prince Edward County
Topeka
Kan
Claymont and
Hockessin
Del
District of Columbia
Memorial Day Weekend Traffic Deaths Hit Record High
The Memorial Day holiday weekend produced a new record in traffic fatalities with 365 highway deaths, 129 drownings, and 86 miscellaneous accident deaths. The overall toll rose to 580, as the National Safety Council raised its forecast to at least 375.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
National Safety Counci
Minnesota toll on Memorial Day weekend rises with traffic deaths
The Memorial Day toll in Minnesota climbs to 17 by daybreak with 11 traffic deaths, five drownings, and a boating accident fatality. A Minneapolis couple, T. G. Shurson and Mae Shurson, drown when their boat capsizes on Briggs Lake near St. Cloud while Mrs. Shurson’s mother, 82, Mrs. Mae Hord, is rescued. The incident follows a fatal crash near Anoka that claims Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cook, both 47, with their son Francs, 14, injured. Briggs Lake rescue details include Mrs. Hord clinging to the vessel until help arrives. The tally for 1955 reaches 199 deaths, with new drownings reported in the Minneapolis area and additional deaths elsewhere.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Fred C. Cook
Minneapolis
Anoka
Highway 10
Theodore Shelton
McGrath
Minn
Shelton
Francs
George Matheson
St. Paul
Four Fliers Freed by Reds Headed for Hawaii
Four American fighter pilots released by Communist China after more than two years in captivity arrived in Hong Kong and then flew on to Hawaii with families awaiting reunion. The men said they were well treated and appeared composed as they prepared for medical checkups in Hawaii.
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Hong Kong
China
Hawaii
U.S
O. W. D. Simpson
Canton
Shunchun
Special Air Force
Air Force
Washington
Talbott
Mukden
Manchuria
Lowu Bridge
Fan Ling Jockey Club
Col. Simpson
Simpson
U. S
Hong Kong-China
Lyle W. Cameron
Lincoln
Neb
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
Harold Fischer, Jr
Swea City
Iowa
Edwin L. Heller
Wynnewood
Tokyo
Two teens Escape Freeborn County Jail in Minnesota
Police in two states hunt 17 year olds Eddie Borner and Adolph Hanson who sawn bars and fled the Freeborn County jail between 2 and 3 am. They may have stolen a 1946 black Ford two door sedan license AA 2029. Hanson and Borner are described with heights 6 feet and 5 feet 7 inches respectively, blue eyes, and wore blue shirt jeans and dungaree trousers.
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Albert Lea
Freeborn
Carl Lindahl
Eddie LeRoy Borner
Adolph C. Hanson
Lindahl
Borner
Hanson
Boner
Red Wing
Army Resumes Firing Practice on Mt. Fuji
The U S Army resumes three day firing practice on the old Japanese range near Mt Fuji in Fuji Yoshida Japan with permission of the Japanese government. Villagers who protested earlier firings voiced no objections this time after the reduction in firing days.
Hospitality Room Planned As Memorial Gift At St Olaf Hospital
The new hospital addition will house a nine seat hospitality room funded as a memorial by Mr. and Mrs. H E Rasmussen publishers of the Austin Daily Herald. C W Hildreth hospital administrator said it features a dining counter refrigeration and gift display with volunteer staffing and a planned hospital auxiliary. The Area Division of the Hospital Building Fund will begin soliciting in Mower County townships and villages with village chairs named in multiple communities and Windom township chaired by A O Austinson.
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St. Olaf Hospital
H. E. Rasmussen
Austin Daily Herald
C. W. Hildreth
Hildreth
Hospital Building Fund
Mower County
George Reppe
Reppe
Lester Anderson
Sargeant
Harvey Nelson
Marvin Buck
Waltham
Arthur Lagervall
Tappi
William Spear
Elkton
Bert Myhre
Dexter
Rose Creek
John Aanonson
Olaf Johnson
Bernard Schammel
Gerhart Werner
James Hanson
Dale Westre
Maurice Halverson
Arnold Jacobson
Clarence Landherr
Windom
A. O. Austinson
Eisenhower Addresses Chinease Release Motive and Vaccine Plans
President Eisenhower said Communist China’s release of four imprisoned U S pilots may ease Far East tensions but cautioned against hasty conclusions. He noted vaccine progress and urged funding for Salk inoculations, while reflecting on politics and Nixon as a future running mate.
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Washington
Eisenhower
China
Far East
Red China
Congress
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Forces
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Raymond Smith killed in hay baler accident near Cantrill
Raymond Smith 45 a farmer four miles southeast of Cantrill Iowa was killed Monday when he was pulled into a one man hay baler. His chest was crushed in the mishap reported locally.
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Cantrill
Iowa
Raymond Smith
Here
Car Missing Radiator Sparks Memorial Day Parade Mystery
Memorial Day parade witnesses report Thomas Kough's car ran hot on Maple Street as he watched the procession. He found the radiator was gone when he returned from the service station, suggesting someone had stolen the part overnight.
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Thomas Kough
W. Maple
Kough
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Ronald Murray
Lincoln, Neb
Edwin Heller
Wynnewood, Pa
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Cross Frontier
Heller
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