Take Trip To Jail In Florida Over Desegregation Spat
In St Augustine Florida a day of desegregation clashes left about 120 arrests in six days. Negroes blocked a motel restaurant and churches while Dr Martin Luther King Jr was released on bond after arrest at a segregated restaurant. White and Black marches endured heavy police presence and tense silent processions through Negro and white sections.
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ST. Augustine, Fla
James Brock
Martin Luther King Jr
Rubber Manuey
C. T. Vivian
Atlanta
Khrushchev Begins 18 Day State Visit to Scandinavia
Soviet Premier Khrushchev departed Moscow with Nina and officials for an 18 day tour through Denmark Norway and Sweden. Crowds greeted him at Byelorussia station as he left for Kaliningrad then Copenhagen with aims to ease North Atlantic defense tensions and push for a Baltic sea of peace.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Scandinavia
Byelorussia
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Nina
Baltic
Kaliningrad
Copenhagen
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Hungary
United Arab Republic
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Scandinavian
Germany
NAT
Beauties Claim Pageant Contests Won By Advances
In London the 20 year old Paula Williams Miss North Wales alleges beauty contests are partly fixed by judges advances. She says she refused offers and notes instances where two rivals who accepted won over others who did not. Williams cites a Wales television interview and says other queens agree.
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London
Paula Williams
Sunday Mirror
Miss Williams
Rough Rider Langdon Offers Cuba Solution at Las Vegas Reunion
Jesse D. Langdon, 84, a surviving Rough Rider, proposes creating a Cuban state to avert trouble, arguing the United States mishandled Cuban policy since the Spanish American War. He and fellow veterans Frank Brito, Charles Hopping, and Arthur Tuttle gather in Las Vegas, New Mexico, annual reunions dating to 1899.
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Las Vegas
N.M
Rough Riders
Jesse D. Langdon
East Rockaway
N.Y
Teddy Roosevelt
Las Vege
Langdon
U.S
Cuba
Frank C. Brito
Las Cruces
Charles Hopping
Long Beach
Calif
Arthur L. Tuttle
Salinas
New Mexico
Teddy
Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Cyprus Stay Seen Three Months By UN Troops
Adlai E Stevenson said the UN Security Council would likely order continued UN forces in Cyprus for at least three months. United States pledged 2 million dollars and Britain 1 million to fund the mission, with UN Secretary General U Thant seeking about 5 million total. Stevenson called the Southeast Asia crisis a grave matter and noted his potential VP candidacy.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Security Council
United Nations
Cyprus
United States
Britain
U.N
U Thant
Sum. Stevenson
U. N
Southeast Asia
Democratic Party
Johnson
Thief Grabs Church Collection During Richmond Service
A thief entered Trinity Lutheran Church in Richmond Virginia during Sunday worship and took a bank bag containing about $300 in checks and cash. The bag had been stored in an unlocked closet by church officers after collection.
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Richmond
Trinity Lutheran Church
Donald Machow
Governors and Mayors Plowed Into Civil Rights Push
Senator Hubert Humphrey urged governors to convene post passage conferences and asked the U S Conference of Mayors to seek ways to apply the civil rights law. He said national action and community support are needed, with focus on education poverty housing and economic conditions.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
United States Conference of Mayors
Humphrey
Johnson
Minnesota
Mercer County Home Looted of 1200 Dollars
State police in Princeton report a Mercer County residence was looted of 1200 dollars from locked boxes beneath a bed. The couple, Sam Shrewsberry and his wife, were away from Sunday June 7 to Saturday June 13. No forced entry noted. police suspect an insider knew of the money.
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Mercer County
Princeton
Sam Shrewsberry
Rt. 1
Rock
Spanishburg
William Johnson
Shrewsberry
Johnson
Beatles welcomed by huge crowds in Melbourne
Police and troops faced a massive crowd as the Beatles arrived in Melbourne from Adelaide. About 50,000 fans on the ground and as many as 250,000 in the city greeted the group, with 300 officers guiding the reception.
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Melourne
Australia
Beatles
Adelaide
L. M. Patterson
Self-Styled Scientist Murders Moscow Official
A man from Kuibyshev traveled 450 miles to Moscow and shot V. G. Karitsky in the Commission of Spectroscopy building. The 37 year old Osokin, a legal adviser by trade, claimed his late night scientific work justified the killing and was arrested after the June 9 murder. Izvestia reported no remorse and said he believed his discovery misunderstood.
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Teddy
Moscow
Sapunov Street
Commission of Spectroscopy
Academy of Sciences
V. G. Karitsky
Vacheslav Nikolayevich Osokin
Osokin
Kuibyshev
Izvestia
Nyet
Karitzky
Scranton Takes Lead Bid as GOP Moderates Rally
Gov William W Scranton of Pennsylvania announced his entry into the Republican presidential race citing party moderates' disheartened mood after Barry Goldwater's California victory. He aims to build a campaign to curb Goldwater at the July 13 convention in San Francisco and says he could support either Goldwater or Rockefeller if not nominating himself.
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Scranton
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Sen
Barry Goldwater
California
San Francisco
American Broadcasting Co
Goldwater
Associated Press
Rockefeller
Issus
LA Drivers Strike Paralyzes Los Angeles Transit System
In Los Angeles, 2,500 bus drivers walked out, six days after talks stalled with the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Eight cents separate the sides on a proposed pay raise as 500,000 daily riders face long waits and overcrowded freeways across four counties. Pickets appeared at twelve terminals with no incidents reported.
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Los Angeles
Metropolitan Transit Authority
Brotherhood of Railroad
Los Angeles County
Orange
Riverside
San Bernardino
MTA
Steel firms and unions unite for racial equality pact
Eleven steel companies and the United Steelworkers Union announced a joint pact to promote racial equality in the steel industry. The agreement follows individual signings of the plans for progress with the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity by firms including U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Jones and Laughlin, Armco, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Inland Steel, Colorado Fuel and Iron, Wheeling, Great Lakes, and Pittsburgh Steel.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
Five Are Injured In Two Car Wreck
Five persons were hurt Sunday night in a two car collision near Kanawha Falls Fayette County. Four people in one car, including Richard Underwood 28 his wife Noma 27 Elizabeth Underwood 16 and Cynthia Underwood 1, were injured all except the baby in serious condition in a Montgomery hospital.
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Montgomery
W.va
Kanawha Falls
Fayette County
Richard Underwood
Lockwood
Noma
Elizabeth Underwood
Craigsville
Cynthia Underwood
Goldwater Poised Ahead of Texas Montana Delegates
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater gains momentum as 618 first ballot delegates boost him toward the 655 needed for nomination. Scranton’s rise introduces a contest to hold or shift delegates in the run up to the July 13 convention in San Francisco.
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Goldwater
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
GOP
Texas
Rockefeller
Scranton
Lodge
Nixon
Washington
Montana
San Francisco
Associated Press
Nelson A. Rockefeller
William W. Scranton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Margaret Chase Smith
Richard M. Nixon
Goldwater Rejects Radio-TV Debates
Sen. Barry Goldwater declined a CBS invitation to a two hour face-to-face radio television debate with rivals Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton. He said he prefers debating President Johnson and suggested he does not want to help opponents gain public attention. The invitation aimed for next Sunday night.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Johnson
Columbia Broadcasting System
Goldwater
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Surgery Successful For Siamese Twin In Mississippi
A three day old infant separated from her Siamese twin was reportedly nourished Sunday at Greenwood Leflore Hospital in the Mississippi delta. The baby, born Friday to Elnora Moore, 33, was taking about a quarter ounce of formula every three hours.
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Greenwood, Miss
Greenwood-Leflore Hospital
Mississippi Delta
Elnora Moore
Parked Auto and Trailer Hit in Shawnee Bottom Shooting
A speeding car fired bullets at a parked auto and a house trailer at Shawnee Bottom in Mercer County about 1 a.m. Sunday. Woodrow Blankenship and his family were asleep inside the trailer when bullets entered the bedroom area. Investigators believe more than two people shared in the attack and bullets struck five times plus a shotgun blast.
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Shawnee Bottom
Mercer County
William Johnson
Woodrow Blankenship
Johnson
Blankenship
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