Cane Choppers Flown Back After Florida Pay Dispute
Eighty Jamaican sugar cane cutters were flown home and 52 jailed after a pay dispute at a Florida Everglades plantation. The workers clashed over deductions and doubled workloads while earning at least federal minimums, leading to an eight-hour riot response and arrests on inciting to riot and unlawful assembly charges.
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Pahokee
Fla
Jamaica
Florida Everglades
Palm Beach
William Heidtman
Dan Bradley
Migrant Legal Services Program Inc
British West Indies
Bradley
Meranda Co
College Student Dies at Age 81 in Miami
Roy Earl Miller 81, former Rochester bank auditor, retired to Miami in 1953. He earned a high school diploma after retirement and entered the University of Miami, earning a bachelor's degree in 1959. He was to receive a master’s degree posthumously after work on a German migration thesis.
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Miami
Fla
Roy Earl Miller
University of Miami
Miller
Rochester
N.Y
The
University
C. W. Tebeau
Gas Rationing Begins in Cuba Amid Castro Order
Fidel Castro ordered gasoline rationing on the ninth anniversary of his takeover. The government published a coupon system allowing 8 to 25 gallons monthly per car, with higher horsepower cars like Ford and Chevrolet in the 20 gallon bracket. Public celebrations accompanied the announcement as lines formed for coupons.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Soviet Union
Revolutionary Plaza
Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Committee For the Defense of the Revolution
Courts Still Clogged With Summer Rioters
The summer riots in Newark and Detroit keep courts crowded as hundreds of arrests await trial. In Detroit 4,200 jailed, 1,200 felonies start trials next spring. Newark has 1,300 detainees with 330 cases pending. Many pleas reduced charges, but 40 remain jailed for serious offenses.
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Newark
Detroit
Thousands of Books Return in Chicago Library Amnesty
Thousands of delinquent books arrived at 62 branch libraries in Chicago during the library system's first amnesty day. A Thackeray copy checked out in 1934 and overdue 33 years was among the returns, found in shoe boxes and bags.
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Chicago
Chicago Public Library System
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
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UPI
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Paragot
Claude Rand
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Pay
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Glades
Ment
Heidtman
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William Bennett
Reader's Digest
Reader’s Digest
Morris Plan
Iowa
Peter F. Bezanson
Morris Plan Company of
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N. E
Cedar Rapids
Morris
Armed Forces
Associated Press
Jay Nolan
Wayne County
Dave Carter
Bob__ McNamara
Andrew Zazzali, Jr
Smulekoff
Aldon
Bigelow
Masland
Philadelphia
Armstrong
Armstrong Budget Menswear
Armstrong Sport Goods
Budget Fashions
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