Pentagon orders off base equal opportunity inventory
The Defense Department, led by Norman Paul, ordered an off base equal opportunity inventory to map racial discrimination near bases. The questionnaire covers transportation, education, housing, public accommodations, and local laws, seeking data by Nov. 8. It prompts bases to describe integration status and any segregation in services and facilities used by military personnel and their families.
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Defense Department
Armed Services
Associated Press
Norman Paul
Pentagon
Paul
Imilitary
Per
Congress
Texas Tower 2 Deck Sunk in Atlantic Waters
The Texas Tower 2 platform, a 1800 ton two story radar outpost, sank 25 miles north of its former station about 120 miles east of Chatham while being towed to a scrap yard in New Jersey. The Air Force had just declared Towers 2 and 3 obsolete and awarded removal contracts.
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Boston
Texas Tower 2
Atlantic
Kearney
N. J
Chatham
Air Force
Three whites arrested as dynamite linked to Birmingham bomb probe
In Birmingham Alabama three white men were detained and over 190 sticks of dynamite found in a wooded area as investigators pursue racial bombing cases. John W Hall 36 of Gardendale and Robert E Chambliss 59 posted bonds on illegal possession charges. Chambliss earlier faced a habeas hearing. Col. Al Lingo said 193 sticks were found in a wooden crate with others nearby signaling progress in the probe. Shuttlesworth condemned the investigation while noting prior sentencing and bond disputes as federal officials weigh involvement and next steps.
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Birmingham
Ala
John W. Hall
Gardendale
Robert E. Chambliss
Chambliss
Beas Corpus
al Lingo
State Highway Patrol
Fred Shuttlesworth
Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
Charles Cagle
Birming
Ham
Ment
George Lewis Bailes
Shuttlesworth
FBI
Kenneth l. Royall
Earl Blaik
Associated Press
Pennsy Central Merger Opposed by Justice Dept
United States officials oppose the proposed Pennsylvania and New York Central railroad merger as anticompetitive. Assistant Attorney General William H. Orrick Jr. said the plan would eliminate key traffic routes and threaten smaller railroads not included in the deal. The administration would back other mergers if conditions are met.
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Norfolk& Western
Nickel Plate
Admin
Istration
Pennsylvania and
New York Central
Orrick
Pennsylvania Central Combine
Bill would curb Italy prostitutes in Senate debate
Rome reports that Interior Minister Mariano Rumor submitted a draft bill to the Italian Senate to expand police power to arrest prostitutes amid a reported rise in venereal disease. The measure would authorize police to arrest women soliciting publicly and to report prostitutes to health officials, with penalties and protections for minors under 18.
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Rome
UPI
Mariano Rumor
Senate
New
Fire Destroys Boston Negro School Four Students Charged With Arson
Four boys aged 12 to 15 were charged with arson after a five alarm blaze destroyed the 92 year old Sherwin School in Roxbury. The school with 316 Black students and one white pupil had been a focal point in civil rights protests. Firefighters battled winds as floors collapsed and two were treated for smoke exposure. The district superintendent announced staff and pupils would be relocated to other schools.
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Boston
UPI
Sherwin
Troxbury
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Stene of
Roxbury
Birmingham
Ala
South
William H. Ohrenberger
Boston Schools
Boston Trade School
Lost Scout Found By Soldier In Hospital
Webster Massachusetts AP Gary Nester a 12 year old Whilinsville Scout on a fruit juice and oxygen diet recuperates from a 72 hour ordeal in Douglas State Forest He will be hospitalized for a couple of days for throat infection and dehydration after being found mauled at a 20 foot cliff by an Army private who heard him moaning and exhausted and asked for water.
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Webster
Mass
Htendenfoot
Gary Nester
Douglas
State Forest
Whilinsville
Gary
Patriarca files $10 million libel suit in two states
Raymond Patriarca of Providence Rhode Island filed a libel suit for 10 million against the Merald Traveler Corp. The Boston Traveler article dated August 8 alleged he was king of Cosa Nostra in New England. He seeks 5 million damages in Rhode Island and 3 million in Massachusetts. The case is before Federal Judge George Sweeney.
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Raymond Patriarca
Providence
R.1
Merald Traveler Corp
Patriarca
Boston Traveler
Cosa Nostra
New England
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
George ©. Sweeney
Manhunt Stages for Missing Boy Amid Harsh Rain Storm
An intensive search by about 1500 people is underway for Gary who disappeared Saturday afternoon during a scouting trip. John Donnelley, 21, of Poast, and friends helped in the search as freezing rain drenched the area. Temperatures plummeted to 36 degrees as the boy was finally found hours before dawn.
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Gary
Pfe
John Donnelley
Poast
Jilmva
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