Court injures Mississippi over college desegregation
The 5th Circuit issued a sweeping injunction barring Mississippi and its officials from interfering with desegregation at the University of Mississippi. Five of seven judges supported the action, with two dissenters noting doubts about naming the state as a party. The ruling also bars actions against James Meredith and related harassment or legal moves, while contempt charges against Gov. Barnett and Lt. Gov. Johnson Jr. were under consideration.
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Atlanta, Ga
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
State of Mississippi
University of Mississippi
Justice Department
Washington
Griffin B. Bell
Atlanta
Walter Gewin
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
Paul B. Johnson Jr
Barnett
James H. Meredith
Meredith
James Howard Meredith
Circuit Court
District Court
Johnson
U.S. detonates low yield silo blast in Nevada desert
The United States conducted a low yield underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert Friday, announced by the Atomic Energy Commission. It is the 55th test disclosed in the current Nevada series, with a blast force under 20 000 tons of TNT.
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Washington
United States
Nevada Desert
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
New Jersey Joins Free Milk Market Movement
Gov. Hughes suspended minimum milk prices in New Jersey prompting mixed reactions. The Office of Milk Industry posted the order effective 11:59 p.m. Saturday while 3,500 industry representatives were being notified. Jug milk dealers cheered, but processors warned of market risks for dairy farmers.
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Newark
N.J
Richard J. Hughes
State Office of Milk Industry
Hughes
Secretary of State
New Jersey
Floyd R. Hoffman
OMI
New Jersey Milk Institute
Carleton E. Heritage
New Jersey Farm Bureau
Rutland city won’t appeal ICC abandonment ruling
Mayor John Daley says Rutland will not appeal the ICC decision authorizing the line abandonment. He notes no loophole or severance pay for 400 out of work workers since 1961 and says the ruling aligns with state claims. Lawyers for four operating brotherhoods may appeal if no move is made, or the decision will become final next month.
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Rutland, Vt
John Daley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rutland
Daley
ICC
National Jaycee Head Whisks By Local Welcome
Doug las Blankenship president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce toured Bennington with eight white Buicks led by a Vermont State Police car. The Bennington Jaycees waited at Putnam Square for a stop that never came as the delegation sped to Mount Snow for the New England convention. Gifts of Vermont cheese and maple syrup remained unclaimed.
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Douglas Blankenship
Chamber of Commerce
Bennington
Main Street
Bennington Jaycees
Putnam Square
Vermont
Jaycee New England
Mount Snow
Albany, N.Y
Arthritis Victims Warned of Banned Liefcort Drug
Massachusetts Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation warns sufferers against Liefcort, a Canadian liquid drug banned as imminently dangerous by the FDA. Dr. Richard P. Stetson notes some imports may remain available in the state. The Canadian regulator also halted Liefcort distribution.
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Arthritis
Liefcort
Boston
Massachusetts
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The
Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation
Richard P. Stetson
Canadian Food and Drug Administration
Canada
National Newspaperboy Day Observed By Vermont Governor
Governor F Ray Keyser Jr honors National Newspaperboy Day praising Vermont newsboys for delivering papers and informing readers. He compares them to mail and milk carriers, noting their dedication and honesty in keeping the public informed. Across the nation newspapers salute these young couriers on October 20.
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America
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Vermont
United States
Witten Becomes State's Attorney At Midnight
Gov. Keyser appoints R. Marshall Witten interim Bennington county state’s attorney effective at midnight replacing John A. Burgess. Witten, 26, Yale and Columbia Law graduate, will serve until Feb. 1 and is expected to be elected unopposed. Burgess to enter private practice in Montpelier.
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F. Ray Keyser Jr
R. Marshall Witten
Bennington
Williams and
Yale University
Columbia Law School
New York District Attorney's Office
Jones, Ehrich and Dollard
John E. Williams
Five U S Nazis Picket Gas Hall Fined
Five members of the American Nazi party were fined ten dollars each for disorderly conduct and breach of the peace after picketing a downtown hotel where Communist Gus Hall spoke. They were arrested last Friday in Arlington Virginia and held on a separate inciting to riot and conspiracy charge.
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U.S
Philadelphia
Nazi Party
Robert Sharp
Bernard Davids
Edward Lester
Bernard Cook
Paul Uhrig
Arlington, Va
Gus Hall
West German Court Jails Soviet Spy for Eight Years
The West German Supreme Court sentenced Bogdan N. Stashinsky to eight years in prison for killing two Ukrainian nationalist leaders. He defected to the West allegedly to win the love of a German girl and was said to be a Kremlin tool.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
Kremlin
Bogdan N. Stashinsky
West
Walks Away Takes Eyes Off Road In 90 Foot Flip
Mrs. William E. Connelly 37 of Bondville drove off Vermont 11-30 at the Manchester Winhall town line at 7 20 p m and flipped a new Volks wagen 90 feet upside down then back on its wheels. She and a passenger had minor injuries while their daughter Luella 18 had scrapes. Husband uninjured. Mrs Walter J Ayers escaped injury when her car on gravel road off Vermont 153 hit a hole then guard rail and rocks.
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William E. Connelly
Bondville
Vermont
Manchester Winhall Town Line
Luella
Thirty Nations Press for Nuclear Test Ban at UN
Thirty nonaligned nations urged a total halt to nuclear tests by January 1, 196? at the United Nations. The United States and Britain countered with a plan for a limited ban and on site inspection amid East West disarmament talks.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
Britain
U.N. General Assembly
Assembly
Geneva
Africa
Asia
Latin America
Scandinavia
Geneva Disarmament Committee
East West
Soviet Union
Computer Controls Dutch Traffic Lights
ALKMAAR Netherlands the city of 45000 claims to be first in Europe with electronic computer controlled traffic lights Traffic streams are counted by trip levers set in the pavement and figures are fed into the computers commanding stop and go operation began this week.
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Alkmaar
Netherlands
Europe
Ranger 5 Moon Shot Fails. Ranger 6 Planned for 1963
The United States attempted a high quality lunar mission with Ranger 5 but power failed eight hours 44 minutes after launch from Cape Canaveral. Jet Propulsion Laboratory begins work on Ranger 6 with six cameras to capture the moon from close range before crash.
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Pasadena
Calif
United States
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ranger 5
Tax Benefits Aid Motels Eateries and More
IRS revises depreciation rules expanding tax benefits for a wide range of industries. Major gains go to auto, machine tool, electrical equipment makers, aerospace and rail sectors, and to hotels motels restaurants and bottling plants. Deductions apply to new facilities over their useful lives.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
California Governor Race Called Dirtiest in History
In Los Angeles AP reports both parties trade charges of smear and fakery in the Brown Nixon California gubernatorial contest. Democrats accuse Republicans of fake photographs and link to Murray Chotiner. Republicans call the charges reckless distortions and say Chotiner had no involvement.
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Calif
Los Angeles
California
Edmund G. Brown
Richard M. Nixon
GOP
Brown
Murray Chotiner
Nixon
Chotiner
Eugene L. Wyman
Pat Brown
CDC
California Democratic Council
United Nations
H. R. Haldeman
Purdy Seeks Reapportioning Plan Before Vermont Panel
Rep. Ellery Purdy requests a legislative commission adopt his six page plan to reapportion the Vermont General Assembly. The plan groups small towns into single voting units to elect one representative by population while expanding representation for larger cities and towns. Rep. William Mikell is invited to appear alongside the study commission chaired by Rep. Ernest Gibson III as they prepare proposals for the 1963 General Assembly.
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Montpelier
Ellery Purdy
Mendon
Vermont General Assembly
Purdy
Senate
William Mikell
South Burlington
Ernest Gibson III
Brattleboro
Kennedy Signals Informal Talks With Khrushchev On Berlin
President Kennedy indicated to Soviet leader Khrushchev that he would meet informally if Khrushchev visits the United Nations but refused any formal two man summit on Berlin. Talks with Khrushchev and Foreign Minister Gromyko yielded no progress or negotiable papers as Western powers stand firm on Berlin rights and calls for a German peace settlement that excludes Western presence.
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Washington
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Berlin
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations
Kendy
Dean Rusk
Gromyko
White House
State Department
Rusk
U.S
Kremlin
West Berlin
West
Moscow
Lincoln White
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