One Racial Incident Marks Little Rock Baccalaureate
The first racially integrated baccalaureate at Central High School in Little Rock was held with heavy police and National Guard protection after one white youth spit on a Black visitor. About 25 Black and white attendees were present. Ernest Green, the first Black graduate, faced tight security and some restricted press coverage amid ongoing tensions.
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Ark
Central High School
Ernest Green
Green
Virgil Blossom
Blossom
Simeon Booker
Ernest Withers
Johnson
Jet
Ebony
Sarah Clack
New York Amsterdam News
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Withers
Eugene Smith
Capita Citizens Council
Wesley Pruden
Supt
Three Killed In Dixie Train Auto Crash Near Augusta
A 23 year old driver asleep at the wheel crashed into a Georgia freight train near McBean killing Budd Andrews his wife Norma and son Coy. Their other children Lois Harold and Alvord were injured with Lois and Harold undergoing brain surgery. The family from North Carolina was en route to Pisgah Forest when the collision occurred on Georgia Highway 56.
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Central of
Alvord
North Carolina
Cocoa
Fla
Pisgah Forest
N. C
Georgia
Anders
Norma
University Hospital
Coy
Dodd Sees Victory In Senatorial Bid
Wallingford May 25 AP Former U S Rep Thomas J Dodd of West Hartford predicts winning the Democratic senatorial nomination at the Hartford party convention next month competing with former Senator William Benton of Southport and former Gov Chester Bowles of Essex He says he does not expect a primary and aims for a 51 percent plus delegate majority He credits Governor Ribicoffs hands off policy for the smooth process and notes the governor will not intervene in the nomination decision.
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U. S
Thomas J. Dodd
West Hartford
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Southport
Chester Bowles
Essex
Wilsonian Democratic Club
Ribicoff
Campanella Offered New York Boxing Post
Governor Harriman offered Roy Campanella, paralyzed since January, a deputy state boxing commissioner job at $8,000 a year. Doctors say Campanella will sit in a wheelchair for the first time tomorrow as he continues rehabilitation at NYU Bellevue.
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AF Crew Escapes As Plane Explodes At Otis Base
An AC-121 Super Constellation blew up on the takeoff ramp at Otis Air Force Base Massachusetts. The 14 crew members escaped unharmed with minor rope burns. the cause is undetermined and a Board of Officers will investigate. The incident occurred before a scheduled 6 p.m. takeoff for an active Air Defense mission.
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Otis Air Force Base
Mass
North Atlantic
Texas Towers
Marchers Heckled Oxford Protest Against H Bomb
A tear gas cloud dispersed about 200 demonstrators starting from Oxford in a protest march toward a nearby U.S. Air Force base. Police escorted the procession through the university town as local Labour figures and a university physicist led. A rally earlier drew heckling from the anti communist group Common Cause. The march planned a overnight stop at Whitney before continuing to Brize Norton the next day.
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Oxford
England
U.S. Air Force Base
Common Cause
Whitney
Brize Norton
Graduation by Candlelight at Dalton High School
In Madisonville Kentucky on May 25 AP reports that Dalton High School held commencement in candlelight after a power outage occurred as the 15 graduates entered the auditorium. Workers completed repairs about an hour later as the last seniors exited.
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Madisonville
Dalton High School
Summer openings at Gillette castle and Harkness Memorial
Connecticut state parks announce weekend openings for Gillette Castle in Chester and Harkness Memorial in Waterford with gardens and bird paintings noted. Bathhouse at Hammonasset Beach and pavilions at several state parks ready by July 1. Campsites at Hammonasset almost fully reserved. City budget requests park funding increases for Calf Pasture Beach, Veterans Memorial, Seaview, and other sites, plus personnel and maintenance boosts. Community notes include Boys Group momentum, VFW officers installed, and upcoming commemorations and receptions.
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Connecticut
Gillette Castle
Chester
Harkness Memorial
Waterford
State Park and Forest
Donald C. Mathews
Toway
Ta Crag
Connecticut River
William Gillette
Board of Estimate and Taxation
Tel
Veterans Memorial Park
Seaview Park
Carl Braun to Speak at ICC Award Night
Carl Braun of the New York Knickerbockers will speak at the Jewish Community Center on Tuesday night for the Center's 20th annual Father and Son inward nite. Irwin Dorman, chair of the Athletic committee, says over 30 participants and parents will attend to honor sports winners amid dinner, entertainment, awards, and decorations.
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Carl Braun
New York
Knickerbockers
Irwin Dorman
Mac Besserman
John Klein
Charles Belzer
Sy Knepler
Larry Hornstein
Ben Lebow
Susan Cohen
Maryland Reached by Ferce Walkers From Delaware to Elkton
A peace march group crossing from Delaware into Maryland spent the night in Elkton firehouse. Ages range 7 to 71 as they trek a week to Washington to oppose nuclear weapons testing production and stockpiling. Twenty six walkers arrived in Elkton after marching from Wilmington where the event began Saturday. The oldest participants are 71 year old Donald Stewart of Arden and Florence Luscomb of Boston. The Walk for Peace is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and other groups.
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Delaware
Maryland
Washington, D.C
Wilmington
Del
Donald Stewart
Arden
Florence Luscomb
Bostton
American Friends Service Committee
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WANTED BOOK LOVERS FOR A GREAT BOOK CLUB
A 19 year old Bridgeport mail clerk, Stanley Dlugotenski of 248 East Main Street, seeks partners who own or read a set of great books The Works of Plato Aristotle Spinoza Freud and others to form a serious discussion club of literature and philosophy not a social group He plans to meet with readers who share his passion for the classics and the 45 volume collection he has gathered since age six through The World’s Greatest Books series.
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Bridgeport Post and Telegram
Ellery Queen
Stanley Drugotenski
Fast Main Street
Plato
Aristotle
Spinoza
Freud
Dlugotenski
Stokowski Arrives in Kiev for Soviet Union Concert
Conductor Leopold Stokowski arrived in Kiev for his first Soviet Union concert. Radio Moscow said he was greeted by local musicians and given flowers by Natan Rakhlin. U S ambassador Llewellyn Thompson attended with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He will conduct the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra in a program of Russian and American works.
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London
Leopold Stokowski
Kiev
Soviet Union
Radio Moscow
Natan Rakhlin
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Moscow
Philadelphia Orchestra
Stokowski
Ukrainian State Symphony Orcheste
Couple released in Westport case acquittal noted
May 25 Town Court Judge Harvey L Koizim acquitted Mrs Jan Peters of Imperial Park on lascivious carriage charges. Her companion Aric Van Breem of Stamford faced unlawful co habitation and abandonment of wife and child and had those charges dismissed. Both were arrested April 10 at Peters home after Mrs Van Breem filed the complaint. Trial began Monday and was adjourned until Friday after testimony.
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Westport
Harvey L. Koizim
Jan Peters
Imperial Park
Aric van Breem
Shippan Avenue
Stamford
Operators buy Newtown Inn in South Center district
Mr and Mrs Nina DeNicola who ran The Newtown Inns on Route 25 in South Center district bought the property from Otto Heise. They plan continental cuisine and continue operating the inn built around an 1787 fireplace. The two story building houses five dining rooms with 125-seat first floor. the DeNicola family lives on the second floor.
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Newtown
South Center District
Otto Heise
Heise
Andrew F. Euston
Yale School of Fine Arts
Newtown Inn
DeNicola
Clifford Richardson
Tragic plane crash kills two men in New Hampshire
Concord New Hampshire May 25 two men died and a Northampton Massachusetts man was critically injured when a single engine light plane crashed despite the effort of a airport tow er to guide it through drizzle and fog. Police identified the victims as pilot Frederick A. Lange and LeRoy F. Bower both of Massachusetts. Wesley P. Bauver of Northampton was hospitalized with unspecified injuries. The Tri Pacer circled for about two hours seeking a hole in overcast with ceiling at 300 feet and visibility a quarter mile before attempting an instrument approach and dropping to 900 feet when contact was lost.
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Concord
N.H
Frederick A. Lange
Northampton
Mass
LeRoy F. Bower
Easthampton
Wesley P. Bauver
Pilot Dies as Navy Avenger Crashes Near Home
In Fonthill Ontario on May 25 an Avenger plane of the Royal Canadian Navy crashed 15 feet from Lloyd Burton’s home on the outskirts. The pilot was killed. Debris damaged the Burton porch and shattered windows while trees were singed. no family members were hurt.
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la Garden
Lloyd Burton
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