Segregation Recommendation Sparks DC School Debate
A House subcommittee dominated by Southern members urged reestablishing racially separate public schools in the District of Columbia, arguing integration harms education. The report, critiqued by the Washington Committee for the Public Schools, notes higher costs and social disruption from integration.
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Wilmot Hercher
Washington
House
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Washington Committee For the Public Schools
Miller
Nebraska
Hyde
Maryland
James C. Davis
DNC
Broyhill
R-Va
Virginia
National Capital
William L. Dawson
D-Ill
Subcommittee
Eisenhower to Seek Middle East Fight-If-Necessary Authority
President Eisenhower prepared to ask Congress for standby authority to use U S military force in the Middle East if needed and for a broad economic aid program up to a half billion dollars. Secretary Dulles will join leaders on New Year’s Day to discuss the plan and U N involvement.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Middle East
Congress
Sorabatinn
Dulles
U. S
Standiby
State Dulles
New York City
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
New York Times
U.S
Sen
Mansfield
D-Mont
United States
Wiley
R-Wis
Bhisen*hower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Green
D-Ri
White House
Eisenhoer
Palestine
State Department
Far East
Eisenhowler
Red China
China
Formosa
Nation urges safe driving for New Year weekend
President Eisenhower calls on all Americans to make the New Year weekend the safest on record as traffic and overall tolls during Christmas holiday set new highs. National Safety Council officials warn the four day period could yield a record number of motor vehicle fatalities.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
National Safety Council
NSC
White House
Chicago
George C. Stewart
Stewart
Weather Bureau Names For 1957 Atlantic Storms
The Weather Bureau announced the list of possible names for the upcoming Atlantic tropical storms. Names include Audrey Bertha Carrie Debbie Father Brenda Gracie Hannah Inga Jessie Kathie Lisa Netty Odelle Patty Quinta Xie Sandra Theo Undine Venus Wenda Xmay Yasmin and Zita.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Audrey
Bertha
Carrie
Debbie
Father
Brenda
Gracie
Hannah
Inga
Jessie
Kathie
Lisa
Mar
Netty
Odelle
Patty
Quinta
Xie
Sandra
Theo
Undine
Venus
Wenda
Xmay
Yasmin
Zita
Eisenhower Authorizes World Air Route
President Eisenhower approves a second round the world air route. Civil Aeronautics Board announces the plan linking New York to Europe the Middle East India Ceylon Colombo Japan Thailand Philippines and onward to the U S West Coast with Trans World Airlines and Northwest Airlines operating the service.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Civil Aeronautics Board
Ee Trans World Airlines
Northwest Airlines
New York
Europe
Middle Eest
Colombo
Ceylon
India
Japan
Thailand
Philippines
Pacific
U. S
Negro Woman Shot On Bus in Montgomery Night of Violence
Rosa Jordan, 22, was shot in the leg on a Montgomery city bus as a second shooting occurred shortly after. Police ordered all bus service halted for the night following the attack, the worst violence since desegregation a week earlier. Police listed the injury as superficial and no other injuries were reported.
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Montgomery
Ala
Clyde Sellers
Rosa Jordan
Laneiaienery
E. Y. Lacey
Scotland Yard Breaks Jewel Smuggling Ring
Scotland Yard announced it had cracked a diamond smuggling ring after tracing a group of businessmen who used loaded dice with hidden compartments for gems. Detectives followed gambling trips between Britain Ireland and the Continent and expect arrests.
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London
Scotland Yard
U N Strikes Delay Clearing Suez Channel
In Suez Egypt the U N canal clearing effort stalls as Egyptian authorities and the UN face an unspecified hold up despite earlier promises to begin removing sunken ships at the southern entrance. Salvage ships remain idle awaiting orders and mine clearance.
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Zamalek
Suez
Suez Canal
Cairo
United Nations
Egypt
U. N
Ismailia
U.S
Raymond A. Wheeler
U.n.’S
P. W. Dekoe
Tyne
U.N
Middle East
Wheeler
Chemist Injured In Industrial Explosion At Cyanamid Plant
In New Castle Pennsylvania a chemist Orrin W Calderwood aged 57, was critically injured in an explosion at the American Cyanamid Co ammonia building. Five other workers escaped with scratches and bruises as the blast leveled the building and damaged nearby structures.
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New Castle
American Cyanamid Co
Pennsylvania
Orrin W. Calderwood
Varied Reactions as Bluefield Women Learn of Jury Call
Bluefield women called for jury service reacted with a mix of surprise, pride, and reluctance. Miss India Parks, Miss Mary Frances Douthat, Mrs. W. E. McDougle, Mrs. N. F. Wickham Jr., Mrs. Fred S. Richmond, Mrs. C. H. Nichols, Miss Norma J. Longenacre, Mrs. Charles Hudson, and others described their views after learning they were selected following the recent amendment allowing women to serve on juries.
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Bluefield
India Parks
Charles W. Parks
Augusta Street
Miss Parks
Parks
W. E. McDougle
Oakgrove Street
MccDougle
N. F. Wickham, Jr
Parkway
Fred S. Richmond
Spring Garden Drive
C. H. Nichols
Parkness
Mary Frances Douthat
Frederick Street
Flat Top National Bank
Charles Hudson
Third Street
Norma J. Longenacre
Agpeleesion Electric Power Company
College Avenue
Midway
Charles E. Burgoyne
Fairview School
Mary Frances Doube
Norma
Longenacre
William E. Dougle
Charles Nichole
Fred 8. Richmond
N. F. Wicheham Jr
Ten Area Women Selected For Jury Duty
In Charleston on December 28 Mrs Bonham Dorothy a former city treasurer’s office employee in Princeton became the first West Virginia woman chosen for jury duty. Ten women were drawn along with men from Mercer McDowell Monroe and Wyoming counties for grand and petit juries with petit duty to report January 21.
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Princeton
Charleston
Bonham
Dorothy
West Virginia
Mercer
McDowell
Monroe
Wyoming
Moore
New Hazardous Devices Placed Across New York
A spike in hoax devices disrupted New York City as three objects resembling bombs were found in Madison Square Garden Queens storefront Staten Island Macy's basement and a Times Square theater. No device contained hazardous material, and police treated the incidents as copycat scares amid warnings and numerous false alerts.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Queens
Staten Island
Macy's
Walter Leroy
Paramount
Times Square
Alfred Hitchcock
Negro Killer Identified by FBI in Terminal Shooting
The FBI fingerprint file identifies Leon Daily, 24, of St. Louis, as the gunman who shot bus driver Lee T. Almerica and passenger Georgeann Kartzke at the Greyhound terminal, wounding five others before being killed by police. Daily had a prior Army court martial and larceny conviction and left home in October 1955.
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Cleveland
FBI
Greyhound Terminal
Leon Daily
St. Louis
Chicago
Georgeann Kartzke
Fort. Eustis
Lee T. Almerica
Daily
William Daily
Ft. Leavenworth
Britain Car Workers Get Three-Day Week
London report eighteen thousand British automobile workers were placed on a three day week due to a slump blamed on gasoline rationing and reduced demand.
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Britain
London
State Department Revokes Passport for Three American Journalists
The State Department revoked the passports of three U S journalists for entering Red China against a travel ban. The action cited their cases to the Treasury Department under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Lincoln White said he did not know the act’s provisions while noting China’s detention of 10 Americans hinders travel.
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Washington
State Department
U. S
Red
China
Department
Treasury Department
Lincoln White
White
Liam D. Worthy
Fague Fee Pega Os
Tony Gine le Bellmore
Manor
Kay
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Ihe
Warren Rogers
Russia
Nation
Ike
By Antoine Yared
Port Said
Pretty Dam Sartor
Detroit
Brooks and Perkins
Naval Testing Laboratories
Vanguard
Bulldozer Braves Flames
Coral Canyon
Malibu
Calif
Epia
City Traction Co
Homer W. Hanna
Joseph C. McKee Jr
Hanna
Ben Moore
Charles E. Bungoyne
N.Y
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