Civil Rights Battle Blazes Across Washington Fronts
Washington fights over civil rights spread through sports arena integration and a proposed probe of protest leaders. Defense orders restrictions toward service members joining civilian demonstrations. Senate hearings focus on Kennedy proposals with leaders like Frick Rozelle Foss pressed for views on segregation in public spaces. Governors Barnett Wallace Bennett push for investigations into King and associates amid accusations of communist influence.
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Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Kennedy
Senate
Judiciary
Commerce Committees
Commerce Committee
Ford C. Frick
Pete Rozelle
Joe Foss
Ross R. Barnett
Mississippi
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Bruce Bennett
Arkansas
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King
A. S
Mike Monroney
Dekla
Racial Pattern Shifts Return to Segregation in US Cities
The Associated Press notes a reverse trend in school integration with resegregation in Washington DC Saint Louis Miami and Nashville driven by white flight and southern migration. Washington’s 1954 mixed schools gave way to a Negro majority enrollment and staff as residents moved to suburbs and migrants arrived.
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Washington
D.C
St. Louis
Miami
Fla
Nashville
South
Virginia
Maryland
Reed Sarratt
Morland
Casavant Elected President of Journal Publishing Corp
W Paul Casavant of Saco has been elected president of Journal Publishing Corp and will continue as publisher of the Biddeford Saco Journal and as corporation manager. The 35 year old former Navy veteran joined the paper in 1946, led advertising, then retail ads, and was named publisher in 1956. He serves as president of the One Daily Newspaper Association and is a Maine Freedom of Information member.
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W. Paul Casavant
Journal Publishing Corp
Biddeford-Saco Journal
Saco
Biddeford
Journal
U. S. Navy
Casavant
One Daily Newspaper Association
Maine Freedom of Information
GOP Pushes Senate Inquiry Into Vanishing Grain
Republicans pressed for a Senate investigation into 24 million bushels of U S grain missing on route to Austria worth 32 million dollars. Sen John J Williams alleged possible diversion to Western Germany or hidden behind the Iron Curtain, while officials said some grain may have reached West Germany though no losses to the barter shipments.
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Senate
Congressional
U.S
Austria
John J. Williams
Lester P. Condon
Agriculture Department
West Germany
Condon
United States
Williams
Justice Department
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Jack Miller
Lown
Orville L. Freeman
Optimism Pervades Moscow Nuclear Test Ban Parley
Talks in Moscow into a third day show United States Britain and the Soviet Union moving toward a partial nuclear test ban. Khrushchev remains involved and openness returns as negotiations focus on bans on atmospheric outer space and underwater blasts with inspections possible.
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United States
Britain
Soviet Union
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Khrushchev
Mats
North Atlantic Alliance
Warsaw Pact
Washington
Kennedy
Berlin
Europe
East Germany
Yeggs Net $1 000 At OOB Cafe
Police report a break in at the Roseland Restaurant on East Grand Avenue with about 1000 dollars missing in silver and bills. Entry was gained by forcing a rear window and a kitchen utensil was used to force a cabinet under the cash register. Investigating officers note the crime follows a prior theft at a local motel operators home yesterday.
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Old Orchard Beach
James Mimis
Roseland
East Grand Avenue
Staging Collapse Injures Three In Biddeford
Three workmen were thrown two and a half stories when a remodeling staging collapsed at Sullivan and Water Streets Biddeford. Reginald Dube 26 Richard Babineau 18 and Dennis Petit 17 were hospitalized Webber Hospital with injuries.
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Water Streets
Biddeford
Reginald Dube
Lincoln St
Saco
Richard Babineau
Emery St
Dennis Petit
Paul St
Webber Hospital
Roland L. Petit
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Talks Show Progress
Indications point to a possible agreement on a partial nuclear test ban in Moscow talks. In Washington the Pentagon restricts civil rights protesters from military participation. Senate Republicans seek a special inquiry into the disappearance of grain shipments to Austria. A presidential rail dispute draft moves ahead as signals suggest only Congress can avert a national strike.
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Washington
Pentagon
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Austria
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Congress
Plane makes forced landing near Old Orchard Beach High School
A light plane with oil trouble forced landed in an open field beside Old Orchard Beach High School. Pilot James E. Coon of Pease AFB New Hampshire and a young daughter escaped uninjured. The repair mechanic from Port of Maine in Scarborough replaced a broken oil line and the craft took off again, FAA officials in Portland reported.
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Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach High School
John Clark
Port of Maine
Scarborough
FAA
Portland
James E. Coon
Pease Afb
Coon
Rioting in Charleston Races Into Early Morning Mobile
Police dispersed about 750 Negroes after an eruption of violence in Charleston South Carolina during a month long series of racial demonstrations. Five police and a fireman were injured, three seriously, and about 150 Negroes were arrested Tuesday. Police moved in as crowds gathered before a Negro Methodist church. Continued on Page Two.
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Charleston, S.C
Charleston
Panel Grinding Out Rail Report Amid Threatened Strike
A presidential panel drafts its report on the railroad labor dispute as Congress faces possible action to block a nationwide rail strike. The panel will share the draft with carriers and unions before finalizing and sending it to the White House.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Kennedy
Rail Indust
Cambridge Racial Tensions Prompt Mixed Committee Action
A joint white and Negro committee in Cambridge Maryland moves to resolve racial frictions focusing on public accommodations. If no progress is shown by midafternoon demonstrations may resume. The group plans subsequent steps on school integration and equal opportunity in housing and jobs.
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Cambridge, Md
Stanley Branche
National Association For the
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