Mot ley Sees NAACP Win in Housing Segregation Fight
Dallas July 2 A NAACP leader said the fight against segregated housing is near victory in public projects. Constance Motley of New York chaired a workshop on Un segregated Housing and noted the push to open large new developments to Negroes. She cited seven federal wins and stressed desegregation aims extend beyond public housing to private developments. The Thalheimer awards were given to Portland, Baltimore, and Arkansas groups, while Dr Theodore K Lawless will receive the 39th Spingarn Medal for contributions to medical research.
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Dallas
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People's
Constance B. Motley
New York
Freedom
NAACP
Thalheimer
Portland
Ore
Baltimore
Arkansas State Conference
Keneth B. Clark
Clark
Spingarn
Theodore K. Lawless
Chicago
Buell Gallagher
The
College of the City of New York
Lawless
Exchange Club Refuses To Expel Chinese Member
STOCKTON Calif July 2 UP The Stockton Exchange Club defied national orders to expel Richardt Wong a third generation American businessman after a 31 to 2 vote against expulsion Wong who had led the unit in 1952 resigned at HQs request and the charter faces revocation The unit may operate independently or affiliate elsewhere the California unit previously expelled a naturalized Chinese Ting in Menlo Park last week
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Stockton
Calif
Stockton Exchange Club
Richardt Wong
Wong
Presi
Dent
National
Toledo
Exchange Club
California
Exchange Ub
Menlo Park
Robert U.M. Ting
Week's Polio Cases Rise 19 Percent Across Nation
Public Health Service reported 499 new polio cases last week, a 19 percent rise from the prior week. Texas led with 99 cases, followed by California, Florida with 51, Mississippi 32, and Louisiana 28. Alabama New York North Carolina and Ohio had 36 combined, less than a third of last year's comparable week. Since April 1 the disease year began with 2,589 cases, up from 2,470 a year earlier.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Texas
California
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Conscience Money Swells Treasury in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania woman sent $5 to Gov. John Fine for a conscience fund after feeling guilty about discarding paper on the street in Wilkes-Barre. Since then nearly $7,000 has been donated over 25 years by Pennsylvanians to onetime tax, unemployment, and other state debts. Donations remain anonymous and are used for general state needs.
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Harrisburg
John
Wilkes- Barre
Commonwealth
Illinois
Pennsylvania
High Winds Ravage Fort Worth Meacham Field
Fort Worth Meacham Field suffered gusts up to 80 mph on Thursday night, wrecking 35 to 40 airplanes and scattering aircraft beyond the field. Ten planes were damaged in hangars, hangar roofs and walls collapsed, and one hangar end was blown away. No casualties reported. initial damage estimates around $1 million, mostly to aircraft.
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Fort Worth
Meacham Field
W. G. Fuller
Jim Maye
Southwest Aircraft
Southwest
Fresh Water From Sea Device Unveiled by UC Engineers
In San Francisco on July 21 a device built at the Los Angeles engineering school of the University of California extracts pure drinking water from seawater. Gerald Hassler developed the osmotic oil membrane claiming a cubic yard can yield about 2,000 gallons daily. The unit costs around $1,000 and lasts twenty years, funded by a $10,000 Interior Department saline water project grant.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles Engineering School
University of California
Gerald Hassler
Hassler
Department of Interior
Woman steps aside as husband drives car crash in Milford
Mrs. Phyllis White moved over to let her husband drive the family car. Police say she stepped on the gas by accident, sending the car roaring across the street, missing other vehicles, crossing Joseph Benedaso's lawn, and smashing through a concrete block and stucco garage, tearing down two doors before stopping. The husband was injured, while she escaped unscathed.
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Milford
Conn
Phyllis White
Joseph Benedaso
Chivalry Bows To Radar In St Louis Court
St Louis court hears five women drivers cited for speeding by the same officer. Assistant City Counselor Roy A Fish quips that the age of chivalry is gone. The officer replies that radar speed controls clocked the motorists, keeping chivalry intact.
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ST. Louis
Roy A. Fish
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Sarasota, Fla
Robert T. Biller
Nancy
Sarasota
March Air Force Base
Orient
Tokyo
Fort Worth Field
Baytown
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Cotton Twistalones
S-M-L
Panamas
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