Chicago CORE Leader Steals Thunder From Dr. King with March in Cicero
Robert Lucas heads Chicago CORE and led a 200 person march for open occupancy into Cicero amid tension over civil rights. The 41 year old mail handler from the Chicago post office organized the action after King skipped Cicero, highlighting CORE’s push for open housing despite taunts and skepticism about Lucas’s militancy.
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Harvard Psychiatrist Lists Drinking Problem Guidelines
UPI reports Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Dr. Morris Chafetz outlines seven criteria to flag drinking problems. A person intoxicated four times in a calendar year, work intoxication, needing alcohol to perform work, driving drunk, injuries from intoxication, legal trouble, or acting unlike themselves while drunk signal possible alcoholism.
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Farm Workers March for $1.25 Wage Reaches Austin Capitol
A 10,000 strong Texas labor march arrived at the Capitol grounds seeking a state minimum farm wage of 1.25 dollars an hour. Leader Eugene Nelson urged action while Gov. Connally declined a meeting and urged education as a remedy. The march grew from 40 to 10,000 since July 4, with workers reporting pay as low as 40 cents per hour. Severo Benavides, 82, recalled decades on the farms of the Rio Grande Valley and urged better prospects for his descendants.
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Paris Tower Death Raises Safety Barrier Concerns
An unidentified man scaled safety barricades at the Eiffel Tower on Monday night and leaped to his death from the 337 foot level. He is counted as the 349th self-inflicted death at the landmark since 1889.
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