King’s Group Plans Washington March After King Death
The SCLC will press ahead with the poor people’s march on Washington in mid May led by Coretta King and Harry Belafonte. Dr Ralph Abernathy will succeed King as SCLC president and planning sessions in Frogmore South Carolina will map the march route through Memphis where King was killed.
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Atlanta
UPI
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr
King
Coretta
SCLC
Harry Belafonte
J. W. Lowery
Ralph Abernathy
Frogmore
S. C
Penn Community Center
Abernathy
Andrew Young
Red China and Afghanistan sign development pact
Kabul reports a formal agreement in Parwan province north of the capital. China will assist with irrigation poultry silkworm and fish breeding projects under the pact with Afghanistan.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Red
China
Parwan
Here
Miners Rescued After 34-Hour Stay in Tunnel
In Carlsbad New Mexico two miners Fred Crabtree and Arnold Delso trapped for more than a day were freed by fellow workers using hand tools to dig a 35 foot escape. They were taken to St Francis hospital for observation after a 50 foot potash slab collapse.
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Carlsbad
N.M
UPI
Fred Crabtree
Arnold Delso
St. Francis Hospital
Delso
Crabtree
Four C.R. Students Honored on Wesleyan Dean's List
Four Cedar Rapids residents at Iowa Wesleyan College were named to the fall dean's list. The students are Michael Van Ham me, Becky Gouldin, Charles A. Potter, and Ned Johnson, all cited for their academic achievements.
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Iowa Wesleyan College
Cedar Rapids
Michael van Hamme
Twenty-first Street
Becky Gouldin
Maplewood Drive
Charles A. Potter
Ellis Boulevard
Ned Johnson
Ninth Street
Claims Cuts On IRS Will Cost Billion
IRS Commissioner Sheldon Cohen says congressional spending restrictions cost the government about 1 billion dollars annually by reducing new hires and limiting audits. He notes that cutting personnel budgets by one dollar effectively loses ten dollars in tax receipts and cites 80 million tax returns and three million audits projected for the upcoming deadline.
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IRS
Washington
Congress
Internal Revenue Service
Sheldon Cohen
Internal Revenue
Cohen
House
Treasury Department
Spring Fever Defined in Weather Bureau Explanation
The U S Weather Bureau explains spring fever as a response to sudden warmth. Blood vessels near the skin dilate to shed heat, slowing the body and making people feel lazy and listless during warmer spells.
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Windsor Locks
Conn
U. S. Weather Bureau
Win La Bridge Win La Bridge
A rubber bridge game in England features West seeking advice from Rixi Marcus on a seven spade sacrifice decision. Oswald and James Jacoby critique the bidding as questionable and doubt players would approve of the strategies used.
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Oswald
James Jacoby
England
West
Rixi Marcus
Critics Endorse Easts Spade Oriented Play In Bridge Row
Analysis supports Souths six heart opening as reasonable while Easts double is seen as ill advised. Norths seven heart is favored and Easts six spades bid without a double is praised. The discussion notes South should have doubled six spades and West would have shifted to seven spades.
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East
South
North
Negro Population Not Hurting Local Property Values
LOS ANGELES. A population researcher from the University of Southern California says an increased Negro population in a neighborhood does not decrease property values. He notes the area is often inherited by Black residents after Whites move to newer housing, and declines begin earlier in the trend.
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Los Angeles
John McQuiston
University of ‘Southern California
Population Research Laboratory
McQuiston
Israeli Jordan frontier erupts in battle again
Tel Aviv reports a day long clash along the Israeli Jordan frontier south of the Sea of Galilee. Israeli and Jordanian forces exchanged artillery and machine gun fire wounding two Israeli soldiers near Gesher Besan valley. Jordanians opened fire first and Bet Yosef and Yarden settlements came under fire.
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Tel Aviv
Sea of Galilee
Gesher
Besan
Middle East
Galilee
Bet Yosef
Yarden
Rapid Black Unity Committee Helped Calm Los Angeles After King's Death
Los Angeles human relations commissioners credited a quickly formed Black Operational Unity committee with preventing serious violence after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. The group emerged within hours of the death, drawing praise from City Human Relations Bureau director Leon Whaley and commission president Carol Arth Waters.
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Los Angeles
Martin Luther King
Dr. King
Leon Whaley
City Human Relations Bureau
Carol Arth Waters
Commission
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