Roy Wilkins A Quiet Crusader Leads NAACP
Roy Wilkins, 53, succeeds Walter White as NAACP executive secretary. The New York profile notes his calm, methodical leadership, long NAACP tenure since 1932, and views on ending segregation in education housing and employment by 1963. It highlights his background, experiences with Jim Crow, and plans for a nonmilitant but effective civil rights program.
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Greenwich Village
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Winnemucca
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El Kabir Shrine Horse Show Set for Cedar Rapids
More than 500 horses from Iowa and nearby states are expected at Hawkeye Downs for the fourth El Kabir Shrine Horse Show. The event features stake classes, large cash prizes over $5,000, and varied competition from harness to stock horses, with a free Saturday matinee and evening shows starting at 7 p.m. Sunday concludes with a stock horse stake and a two-wheel sulky finale. Local dignitaries note the event as family entertainment and a highlight of Cedar Rapids weekend fairs.
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Cedar Rapids
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New Zealand Envoy to Speak at Cedar Rapids Luncheon
Sir Leslie Munro New Zealand ambassador to the United States and permanent representative to the UN will address a Cedar Rapids luncheon on Thursday noon The event hosted by the Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce will be at the Roosevelt hotel Reservations are by phone 4-7791 or 4-4111 Munro also chaired the UN Security Council and has held multiple diplomatic roles in Auckland, Chicago and San Francisco.
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Chicago
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San Francisco
Mass murder sentence in South Korea for village killings
Yoo Hae Jin, a former Sinchang police officer, received a 15 year prison term for slaughtering 114 villagers identified as Communist collaborators in 1950 and 1951. He admitted the charges after being arrested last January for the machine gun killings.
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Korea
Yoo Hae Jin
Sinchang
Yoo
Montana Jury Edition Not For Public Readers
The Madisonian of Virginia City Montana printed a special jurors edition during a murder trial. Editor Warren Reichman produced only a few copies for jurors and barred any reference to the hearing from the issue.
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Panty Raid In Reverse At Regis College Campus
Denver police stopped a group of women from invading Regis College campus last week. Eight patrol cars responded after Rev Francis Malecek and other staff asked the women to leave. the crowd dispersed as officers arrived. The girls were believed to be from Loretto Heights College.
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Francis Malecek
Loretto Heights College
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Tongue Houses Most Muscles in Any Body Part
The tongue contains the greatest number of muscles of any single body part, enabling complex movements for speech swallowing and taste.
Girl Receives Flood of Scholarship Offers
PAWTUCKET R I AP Jane L Baltzell a Phi Beta Kappa senior at Pembroke College graduates mid June has earned multiple scholarships. She won a Fulbright for overseas study and Rotary Fellowship for England but chose a Marshall Fellowship at Cambridge University. Her father works for Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric and she was born in El Paso Texas.
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Gourielli Color Reviving Center Revives Men’s Hair in New York
New York unveils a men only shop off Fifth Avenue offering color reviving dyeing services. Arthil Gourielli targets well heeled men with color options from gray to brown, patch tests, six week results, and a full salon experience including contour cuts and a boutique.
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U. S
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Harrisburg
Officials Seek 3 Legged Cat In Pine Bluff
City health officials pursue a three legged cat after a diphtheria patient reports feeding and petting it. Sanitarian H C Roberts notes a cat carrier would be a unique diphtheria link, and authorities prefer capture over shooting.
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Machine Age Thief Targets Pay-Within Hobby Horse
Charleston police seek a machine-age thief who pried open the tummy of a pay as you ride mechanical hobby horse at a retail store and fled with 150 dollars in dimes. Police Director Marion J. Schwartz said the theft shows new methods by criminals adapted to modern devices.
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Charleston County
Marion J. Schwartz
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