Atlanta Loses On Segregation
Federal court injunction requires Atlanta officials to propose a plan for desegregation without immediate integration. Judge Hooper states racial discrimination exists and outlines three required points while warning state funds could be cut if orders are ignored. Attorneys anticipate appeal as both sides argue on discrimination proof.
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Atlanta
U.S. Dist
Frank A. Hooper
Avlanta Board of Education
Suduhl
Hooper
Boyd Sloan
U.S
Yooper
B. D. Murphy
Board of Education
Murphy
Ira Jarrell
UPI
Adenauer Keeps Chancellor Post After Backing of CDU
Konrad Adenauer won broad CDU support to remain West Germany's Chancellor and forego a presidential run. The 83 year old argued he is indispensable as debates turned stormy and some opponents called the move a power grab while Western diplomats warned against outside interference. The decision preserves his leadership at least until the 1961 national election and complicates the race for the presidency to be decided July 1.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Theodor Heuss
Adenauer
Christian Democratic Party
Wil Rasner
Andrei Gromyko
Geneva
North Atlantic Alliance
Non-Union Coal Workers Ambushed in Kentucky Ramp
About 20 non union coal workers were ambushed from the Sassafras ramp in Perry County Kentucky near Hazard. Chester Balair was shot in the leg and another bullet hit his hand as rifles fired during unloading. The attack followed a three month United Mine Workers strike seeking higher pay and a non union coal clause.
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Whitesburg
Sassafras
Joe Romeo
Perry County
Here
Hazard
Chester Balair
Isam
Romeo
Blair
Kentucky
United Mine Workers Union
Propane Tank Car Derailment Evacuations Hit Iowa Falls
An overturned rail tank car carrying 10 000 gallons of propane derailed in Iowa Falls causing a six hour alert. A two block radius including a hospital and a hotel was evacuated with about 200 people displaced. Police report 40 hospital patients and 40 hotel guests affected.
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Iowa Falls
Iowa
Lynn Stachell
Subcommittee Approves Youth Conservation Corps Plan
A Senate Labor subcommittee approved Humphrey bill to establish a youth conservation corps similar to the CCC. Eligible ages 16 to 21, total enrollment capped at 30,000 first year, 100,000 second, 150,000 thereafter. Participants would receive 60 dollars monthly starting pay. bill advances to full committee.
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Washington
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Youth Conservation Corps
CCC
Mercer Board Declines Participation in Transfer Hearing
Mercer county board of education in special session votes 4 to 1 against taking part in a June hearing sought by the West Virginia Education Association to probe the transfers of three Mercer high school principals. The action follows a request by Phares Reeder to participate and includes consideration of hearing access and press presence.
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WVEA
Mercer County
Mercer County Board of Education
West Virginia Education Association
Ray Barnett
Jack McClaugherty
D. J. Sexton
Fred Snead
C. R. Justice
Melvin McClain
Princeton High
Kelly Shutt
Princeton Junior High
Madoc McKenzie
Glenwood
Harry Hutchinson
Hutchinson
State Association
Phares Reeder
Reeder
McClaugherty
Mercer School Board
Princeton Appalachian
State Education Association
Association
W. R
Pete) Cooke
Board of Education
Barnett
Mercer County Board
Herter Attacks Soviet Berlin Plan At Geneva
U S Secretary of State Christian Herter blasted Moscow’s plan for West Berlin calling it a disguise for eroding West Berlin freedom. He outlined Western minimum terms for any stopgap, while Gromyko rejected the charges and defended Soviet aims at the Geneva talks.
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Geneva
U. S
Christian A. Herter
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Herter
East Berlin
Moscow
Palace of Nations
Berlin
Herner
German Democratic Republic
West
Gromyko
Soviet Bloc
Gromiyko
Allied Invasion Of Europe Marks 15th Anniversary
The 15th anniversary of D Day is observed recalling Allied forces landing on Normandy beaches at 6 30 a m June 6 1944 and paratroopers' night drops behind German lines as the European campaign began ending with Nazi defeat months later.
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France
Europe
Nazi Germany
Normandy
Crockett Faces Murder Charges In West Virginia
Thomas Houston Crockett 70 waived a preliminary hearing on charges he shot to death his common law wife Lamah Turner 56 and William Jennings Tadlock Jr. 38. Crockett bound over to Mercer County grand jury for July 6. no bail. He reportedly admitted shooting Tadlock, claimed Turner died accidentally. Bodies found at his Tipple Hollow shack near Montcalm after a drinking party. Cecil Spicer was questioned and released. Coroner says both victims bled to death and help may have saved them.
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Lamah Turner
William Jennings Tadlock Jr
Thomas Houston Crockett
Mercer County
Clyde White
Crockett
Tadlock
Tipple Hollow
Montcalm
Here
White
Cecil Spicer
Spicer
Bristol Youth Dies As Car Plunges Into Lake
In Abingdon Virginia a Bristol Tennessee pair drove off a cliff into South Holston Lake. Stephen L. Dickerson 19 drowned as Laura Melinda Gray 20 escaped the submerged car and alerted responders. Two local teens recovered the body while a young witness described the plunge.
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Bristol
Abingdon
Tenn
South Holston Lake
Stephen L. Dickerson
Laura Melinda Gray
R. L. Young
Aven’s Bridge
Dickerson
Donald
Starkweather Death Date Set By Nebraska Supreme Court
Nebraska Supreme Court fixes June 12 for execution of Charles R. Starkweather. ElectrocutIon to occur between 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. Atty. Gen. Beck filed the request. Guy Starkweather seeks habeas relief with US Supreme Court involvement. Father says a new state appeal is possible if counsel is found.
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Odell Hanson Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Supreme Court
Charles R. Starkweather
John Grenoltz
Nebraska
Beck
Guy Starkweather
United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court
US District Court
Starkweather
Charles Starkweather
Federal Circuit Court
Federal District Court
Weekend Shower Forecast Across West Virginia
The Weather Bureau predicts warm weather with scattered showers in West Virginia this weekend. Friday thundershowers are possible with Saturday and Sunday totaling about one tenth to one half inch. Temperatures through next Saturday may run four to eight degrees above normal, with cooler Monday and warmer Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
15YearOld Student Admits Child Slaying
In Philadelphia a 15 year old honor student confessed to strangling a 3 year old girl found in a basement closet. Anatol Holt the victim's father and a UPenn mathematics instructor urged understanding and guidance for youth. Edward Cooney Jr faces Juvenile Court proceedings and a psychiatric examination while his parents may also be evaluated.
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Philadelphia
Anatol Holt
University of Pennsylvania
Holt
Philadelphia Bulletin
Becky
Edward Cooney Jr
Cooney
Municipal Court
Sydney J. Hoffman
Edward
Cooneys
Explorers Find Plane Missing For 16 Years
The Pentagon released the names of crewmen last aboard a B24 bomber found intact in the Libyan desert 16 years after it disappeared during a 1943 mission to Naples. The Army explains addresses come from 1943 files, many outdated, and confirms no crew trace.
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Washington
Pentagon
Air Force
Army
Soluck
Libya
Naples
Italy
William J. Hatton
Amelia J. Hatton
Whitestone
Queens County
New York
Robert F. Toner
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W. German Helm
Herb Altschull
Labor Subcommittee
Okays
Mercer
Brack Curry
East Germany
United States
Britain
Lothar Bolz
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
THE
Associated Press
Shore
Becky Holt
Air Corps
Mortuary Service
Frankfurt
Joseph Silvestei
Joseph Sylvester
Sylvester
Silvestri
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