Four Atlanta Schools Integrate as Negro Pupils Enter Classrooms
Nine Black students began classes at four formerly white Atlanta high and elementary schools amid police watchfulness. Officials reported orderly movement with no major incidents as desegregation spreads beyond Alabama Mississippi and South Carolina. several spectators were detained for disorderly conduct.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Bill Cody
Arlington
Neere
Murphy High
Brown High
President's School Bill Blocked by Coalition Vote
In Washington a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats defeated House consideration of the administration education bill by 242 to 169. The move likely ends federal funding for constructing public school facilities this session. Later parts of the package, aid for crowded schools and a student loan extension, may be salvaged.
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House
Powell
D-N.y
One Big Machine Plus Boy Equals One Broken Arm
Ten year old Mark Barnes climbed into a Haegg Construction Co. grader in Cedar Rapids and started it by pulling levers. The grader lurched to life and left him with a broken left arm after leaping off. An unidentified passerby shut it down. no property damage reported. Mark’s father Judge Donald P. Barnes rushed him to St Luke’s hospital and said the boy did not know how he started the machine. Juvenile officers note a chart with starting instructions in the cab.
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Cedar Rapids
Mark Barnes
Trail Ridgerd
Mark
Indian Hills
Haegg Construction Co
Tomahawk Trail
Tomahawk Street
Donald P. Barnes
St. Luke’s Hospital
Judge Barnes
Faroom
Barnes
Kennedy Urges Steel Firms to Forego Price Increases
President Kennedy on Wednesday called on steel companies to meet their public responsibilities by avoiding price hikes.
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Washington
Kennedy
Goulart Backed as Figurehead President in Brazil Crisis
Brazil's three military chiefs agreed to recognize Joao Goulart as figurehead president with a congress appointed prime minister until 1963. The move, if Congress approves, could end the crisis sparked by Jânio Quadros's resignation. The PM would wield presidential powers, Goulart and the PM to finish Quadros's term, followed by an election.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Joao Goulart
Congress
Janio Quadros
Goulart
Quadros
Psychiatrists Wife Shot By Young Teacher Patient
New York AP report describes Ann Mitzi Kiernan a former high school teacher from Mountain Lakes New Jersey charged with shooting Paule Laverne 27 in a Fifth Avenue apartment lobby as she protected her two children and infant during the attack. Laverne died at Mount Sinai Hospital. Kiernan had previously been the doctor’s patient and student.
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New York
Paule A. Laverne
Fifth Avenue
Ann ‘Mitzi’ Kiernan
Miss Kiernan
Dr. Laverne
Mrs. Laverne
Rescue 81 Sightseers From Cable
Rescuers completed the removal of 81 sightseers trapped for hours in Alpine cable cars above Mont Blanc after a cable snapped killing six. Survivors were ferried to Chamonix hotels as officials called the accident a test of safety measures aboard the Franco Italian cable railway linking France and Italy.
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Chamonix
France
Mont Blanc
Raymond Jacquet
Haute Salvoie
Italy
Aiguille du Midi
Kennedy names Clay personal representative in Berlin
President Kennedy announces Gen Lucius Clay as his personal representative in Berlin as he seeks to reassure the West and deter Soviet pressure. In related talks, Paris says France Britain the U S and West Germany plan a ministerial meeting in Washington on Sept 14. A US sedan under East German fire prompted tank deployments near the Iron Curtain.
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Kennedy
Berlin
U.S
Russia
Gen
Lucius Clay
Paris
French Foreign Ministry
France
Britain
West Germany
East Berlin
Iron Curtain
Wayne Winder
Sheridan
Ill
Friedrichstrasse
Wirth
Camp Good Health Budget Report for 1961
Budget notes show Total Budget for 1961 at 9300.0 with 1569.9 yet to be raised. Mentions prior items including 7675.0 for Barney's Paint and Wallpaper and 25.0 for a friend. Also memorials for Ethel M Mahon by Libby Reyhons and Lorraine Hager.
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Barney's
Csesce
Ccaacas
Ethel M. Mahon
Libby Reyhons
Lorraine Hager
J. T. Moon
Federal Aid Plea Marks New Policy
The ICC urged direct federal subsidies for the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad and others to maintain essential passenger service. It proposed about 7.3 million dollars yearly for the New Haven and a total program cost not exceeding 52 million dollars annually if all railroads applied. One commissioner dissented, preferring state and municipal support first.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Commission
ICC
New Haven
Howard Freas
Fatal coach plunge in Volos hospitalizes many
In Volos Greece an AP report states two people were killed and 27 injured when a Pullman coach plunged about 100 feet into a ravine Tuesday night.
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Volos
Greece
Memphis Hearings Prompted by Rejected Negro Applications
Fifty Negro applications for admission to all white public schools were rejected to compel hearings. The AP reports this action as part of ongoing school integration efforts in Memphis.
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Memphis
Linn County Officials Move to Put Able Bodied Men to Work
Linn county supervisors reveal two steps to curb aid costs. Able bodied relief recipients may be required to work, likely within a week, and an intensified probe of ADC abuse is planned. Proposal mirrors actions in Polk and Floyd counties as board discusses county road work and jail inmate labor options.
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Linn
Board of Supervisors
Linn County
Polk
Floyd
Dudley Henderson
Anthony R. Scolaro
County Board of Social Welfare
Miles Sutera
Scolaro
Ida Hampton
Henderson
Chuckle Note At NASA Desk Separate Inboxes
A playful memo notes each NASA desk now has two boxes labeled out and outer. The line hints at a pun or joke about space offices and a comic twist on mail sorting. The item reflects light newsroom humor from contemporary colleagues.
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National Space Administration
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