Lincoln School Integration Study Shows Harmony Across Races
In Oklahoma City Lincoln grade school the integration effort brings together 48 Negro pupils plus Indian Mexican Filipino and Japanese students. Principal Nina Birkhead says the approach creates an atmosphere of acceptance with seating based on need, not race. PTA members praise cooperative families and trust in teachers.
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Lincoln
Nina Birkhead
Lincoln School
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Oklahoma
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Harmony
Associated Press News
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Linda Hansen
Behind the Geneva Spirit Red Campaigns Unveiled
INS staff writer Arthur Kranish outlines how the U S Communist Party and its organs frame opposition to increased military spending and a tougher foreign policy. Foster accuses Eisenhower and Dulles of imperialist aims while urging unity against the cold war. Civil rights labor and Mississippi politics also feature in the party line.
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Geneva
United States
Red
U.S
William Z. Foster
Wall Street
Eisenhower
State Dulles
Moscow
Foster
Dulles
Asia
Africa
Congress
Mississippi
James O. Eastland
Afl-Cio
Daily Worker
Youthful Atom Giants Steps in 55
New York AP reports 1955 sees atomic energy advancing toward peacetime use. 42 reactors exist, 20 under construction, and 50 more planned. Britain expects 40 percent of electric power from atom by 1975, while the U.S. accelerates programs and submarine reactors.
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New York
Atomic Energy
Britain
Russia
West Milton
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Geneva
West
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Whale Watching Station Planned at Palos Verdes
Marineland of the Pacific oceanarium plans a whale watching station at Palos Verdes California to observe whale movement between Mexican mating and maternal waters and feeding areas off Alaska. Data will be provided to the U S Fish and Wildlife Service for a census.
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Calif
Ins
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Alaska
U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
Patrolmen Rip Roof From Doghouse to Nab Man
In New Britain Connecticut AP three officers forcibly remove the roof of a doghouse to arrest Henry Maselbas age 38 on a breach of the peace charge filed by his wife Maselbas was found hiding inside the doghouse after the search action illustrates a tense domestic dispute and police intervention in a mobile home scene
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New Britain, Conn
Henry Maselbas
Maselbas
Railroads Near Postwar Record
New York reports railroads rebound from 1954 cuts with 1955 earnings expected near 850 million dollars, up 25 percent from 1954. Carrier revenues hover around 9.7 billion, freight volume rises though rates compress profits, and optimism grows for 1956 amid legislative relief and modernization plans.
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New York
Prisoner Disrupts Jail Against One-Armed Officer
In Knoxville, a prisoner caused a disturbance at the county jail prompting Pon der Jenkins to attempt handcuffing the inmate. The officer could not secure the subject with one arm, leaving the restraint un successful.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Ponder Jenkins
Leap Year Lore Frames Husbands as Handy Quests
By Vivian Brown AP Newsfeatures Writer in New York a leap year augurs more marriageable maidens but they seek more than looks. Six million maidens restyle vows demanding handyman husbands who can fix leaks mend furniture and operate tools. An HQ test asks can he identify a washer install a shelf or fix a broken ironing board.
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Associated Press Newsfeatures
New York
A Good Man Is Hard to Find in Lean Year 2000
The speaker jokes about evaluating a man’s hosting skills and social graces. If he falters, he advises learning what he lacks and notes that a good man remains rare, a trait unchanged even as the year 2000 approaches.
Pays Way Into Service Through Installment Plan
Danville Illinois 18 year old seaman William Decker on leave from boot camp continues to pay off a 360 dollar medical bill for an August eye operation. He now serves in the navy with a 78 dollar monthly pay and 175 dollar balance remaining. He plans for a service school after boot camp and has a slight eye deficiency.
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Danville
William Decker
Navy
Decker
Great Lakes
Good Workman Three Year Old Reflects on Creation
A short Omaha AP item reports Debbie, daughter of Mrs Don Taylor, asking if God made her. Mrs Taylor confirms and praises the maker’s work noting Debbie’s remark at age three.
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Omaha
Debbie
Don Taylor
Propwash By Lou Brewer Air Force Academy Tradition
A profile of the Air Force Academy at Lowry field portraying its emerging tradition since opening. It cites Buck Shaw, Kitty Hawk, Eddie Rickenbacker, Schweinfurt raids, and the Long Grey Line as foundations, while noting cadets’ goal to stand alone beside West Point and Annapolis.
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Air Force Academy
Lowry Air Force Base
Denver
Annapolis
West Point
Lowry Field
Destructive Anger Strikes Texas Used Car Lot
A Paris Texas used car dealer reports three incidents on his lot sugar poured into one car tank removed fender skirts from another and wires cut from a third. He suspects someone harbored anger toward him.
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Paris
Texas
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