Kennedy administration to push desegregation bills in Congress
The Kennedy administration plans a two bill package to speed school and public accommodations desegregation. A public accommodations bill would curb racial discrimination by interstate commerce businesses amid sit in protests. The school bill would implement the 1955 Supreme Court order with local timetables under federal guidance and possible federal timetables if locals fail.
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Robert F. Kennedy
House Judiciary Committee
Fallout Rise Seen From Soviet Tests In 1962
Washington AP report notes a likely increase in fallout this year due to Soviet nuclear tests. The Federal Radiation Council says exposure remains too small to cause concern and diet changes. Strontium 90 may raise bone doses temporarily. long term risk to bone and blood cancers remains unclear.
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Washington
Federal Radiation Council
Pontiff Fights Death as Vatican Radios Report Calm Dying
Vatican reports say Pope John XXIII, battling a stomach tumor and inflammation, remained serene yet near death. Doctors warned he could die at any moment while nurses and aides pressed prayers as his condition fluctuated through coma and brief rallies.
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Renewed Racial Protests Face Jackson After Arrests
In Jackson Mississippi a renewed civil rights protest is planned after more than 400 demonstrators were arrested and jailed briefly. NAACP officials led marches while police processed hundreds including 327 juveniles and nine adults for parading without a permit. A white ex-policeman was convicted of assault with a 100 dollar fine and 30 day jail term.
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Stuent
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Tougaloo College
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Pope John Emerges From Coma And Blesses Around
The Vatican reports Pope John Paul II has awakened from a coma and blessed those nearby but offers no expectation of recovery. In Jackson MississippiNegros launch a broad civil disobedience campaign for civil rights. Washington says Kennedy plan to push quick school and public accommodation desegregation laws next week. Rep Francis Walter dies at 69.
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House Committee On UN
Crowds Gather in St Peter's Square for Pope John XXIII Vigil
Vatican City AP The faithful endure a long night of vigil around St. Peter's Square as Pope John XXIII lies near death. Seminarians and later Romans and visitors pray beside the obelisk while dawn reveals the pope's studio window remains still. The dome glows as swallows fill the sky. The curator of a priestly order praises the pope’s universal esteem.
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Travel editors gather with Old Orchard Beach chamber leaders
Press and radio newsmen visit Old Orchard Beach for a Travel Editors weekend. Leaders are pictured at the Brunswick Hotel during yesterday afternoon registration, including Robert Elliot of the Maine Department of Economic Development, Bernard Johnstone of the Maine Publicity Bureau, William Mullen of the Town Council and Chamber of Commerce, and Joseph Fox of the Mon.
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Clayton Cartmill
Biddeford-Saco
Navy court reviews sunken Thresher as pictures surface
Pictures of the Thresher on the Atlantic seabed shown to a Navy court of inquiry shed light on the disaster that killed 129. Capt. Frank A. Andrews said the hull appears intact but badly split at one point. The sub’s final dive occurred April 10 in 8,400 feet of water about 220 miles off Boston.
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Andrews
County Residents Save By Being Over Age 65
New York report shows York County residents aged 65 plus saved about 497000 in federal income taxes in the last fiscal year due to higher personal exemptions and medical deductions. Nationwide, seniors over 65 saved 742 million, with 482 million from exemptions and 140 million from medical deductions. 18 states offer some tax relief.
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