New Terror Group Poqo Rises in South Africa
Testimony at a racial rioting inquiry in Paarl describes Poqo a militant underground group vowing to kill whites. Operates in segregated townships, plans to seize power by 1963 and uses home made weapons. women excluded, meetings held in darkness.
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New
S. Africa
Henri Jonker Paarl
South Africa
Poqo
Pan-Africanist Congress
Supreme Court
Paarl
Pogo
Pogo Terorists
S. I. Sauerman
Security Police
Sauerman
Woman pleads innocent over $1 overtime parking charge
In St. Petersburg, a woman told Municipal Judge Laurence D. Childs she was at the dentist when the meter expired. She argued about rules and mood as the case hinged on a trivial parking fine and a distracted moment.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Laurence D
Childs
Brazil's Christmas Through Rio Delights and Struggles
In midsummer Rio de Janeiro decorates for Christmas with a 50-foot Santa near Copacabana and a lighted rosary on Christ the Redeemer. The piece notes Brazil’s economic strain with a trillion cruzeiros deficit, inflation, and a cruzeiro devalued to 850 per dollar, while detailing Christmas foods, traditions, and music including samba takes on Silent Night.
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Rio
Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana Beach
Brazil
10 DE Janeiro
Santa Claus
Favelas
Christ
Marshal Floriano Peixoto
Corcovado
Patrick Peyton
Father Christmas
U.S
Public Library Christmas Week Schedule
The main library opens Monday 9 to 1 and is closed Christmas Day. Bookmobiles and Kenwood branch closed Monday and Tuesday. One bookmobile out for year end painting. Bookmobile sites include Wednesday at Municipal parking lot 2 to 4 30 p m and Witwer Farm Market 5 to 8 p m. Thursday Williams Boulevard 2 to 8 p m. Friday East Sun Mart 2 to ? p m.
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Public Library
Kenwood
Sixteenth Avenue
C Street
Witwer Farm Market
First Avenue NE
Williams Boulevard
Eighth Avenue
East Sun Mart
Mt. Vernon Road
Kenwood Branch Schedules Updated for Week
Regular schedules imply hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. The Kenwood branch at 3030 First Avenue NE will operate 12:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday in temporary quarters.
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Egular
Kenwood
First Avenue NE
Silent Spring author denies call to end insecticides
Author Rachel Carson told the Women’s National Press Club she never advocated total elimination of insecticides. She urged safer control methods and cited crashes, pilots’ deaths, and studies suggesting chemicals accumulate in body cells while criticizing industry and government critics.
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Washington
UPI
Rachel Carson
Miss Carson
Chemical Industry
U.S. Agriculture Department
National Press Club
Northwest
Boston
Canada
Turkey
Federal Aviation Agency
Turnabout: Writers face personal questions from readers
Johns Hopkins University writer Lynn Poole recalls how readers probe authors personal lives and incomes. A journalist tests a reader’s boundaries by turning questions back, revealing authors accept scrutiny as long as questions stay respectful.
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By Lynn Poole
Johns Hopkins University
Penicillin Could Cure All Diseases One Day Says Surgeon
Dr. Jack Strominger of Washington University in St. Louis forecast penicillin may one day kill germs of all infectious diseases. He spoke before the Arkansas Academy of General Practice noting penicillin has been modified to create new drugs and applications and that an anti allergic type may allow those who cannot now take penicillin to use it safely.
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Baltimore
Chicago
Los Angeles
Little Rock
St. Louis
Jack Strominger
Washington University
Arkansas Academy of General Practice
Strominger
Mighty Midget Want Ad Promises Fast Results
A short promotional line urges readers to use the Mighty Midget want ad for quick, low-cost sales, rentals, or hires. It directs dialing EM 2-112 for placing an advertisement.
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