Heart of Atlanta Motelplea before Supreme Court
The Heart of Atlanta motel argued at the Supreme Court to strike down the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act. The case centered on whether Congress can regulate private business practices under the commerce clause and if the owner’s right to choose customers was violated. The court opened its term with this test case as it also prepares to hear Ollie’s Barbecue in Birmingham and other civil rights arguments.
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Washington
Heart of Atlanta
Supreme Court
Moreton Rolleston, Jr
Atlanta
Congress
Rolleston
Commerce Powers
Hugo Black
High Tribunal
Justice Department
John Harlan
Harlan
Archibald Cox
Ollie
Birmingham
Ala
Hilda Shrugs Off Front as Scattered Squalls Hit South
Former Hurricane Hilda weaken to a large low pressure area with gusts to 50 mph as it moves along the Georgia Florida coast. The storm brings tornado risk, power outages, beach erosion, and heavy rain across Louisiana Georgia and South Carolina with two reported deaths and missing teen surfboarder.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Ocala
Charleston
S.C
Georgia-Florida
Louisiana
Johnson
Feder
Hilda
Florida Gulf
Atlantic
Pensacola
Georgia
South Carolina
Blountstown
Lucille Clendenon
Vatican Council Backs Unity Effort Amid Discords
The Vatican Ecumenical Council voted that the Catholic Church was not to blame for Christian divisions and approved an exhortation urging Catholics to work for unity. Four votes on the first chapter of the ecumenism schema covered goals, Christ's will for unity, fault in separations, and a call to truthful conduct toward other Christians.
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Vatican City
Vatican Ecumenical Council
St. Peter’s Basilica
Council
Computers urged to aid CIA in detecting assassins
Washington DC May 14 1964 McCone told the Warren Commission that federal agencies should adopt computers and data processing to improve handling of potential assassins and share information across agencies. He urged modern automatic data processing for personnel and related files while warning a computer cannot replace human judgment.
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Washington
John McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Warren Commission
Kennedy
Washington Evening Star
McCone
White House
CIA
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
Allen W. Dulles
Commission
State Department
Lee J Harvey Oswald
Russia
Richard Helms
Oswald
Helms
Mexico
Waterloo Youth Changes Plea in Slaying Case
John Thomas Kyle 16 changed his plea from innocent to guilty in the sex slaying of Diane Kay Gable 19 in Waterloo Iowa. The hearing before District Judge Blair Wood will determine guilt degree and sentence. The two families lived nearby and Kyle attended Waterloo West High School with the victim.
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Waterloo
John Thomas Kyle
Diane Kay Gable
Blair Wood
Kyle
Mass East German Tunnel Escape to West Berlin Reported
Fifty seven East Germans fled to West Berlin over the weekend through a tunnel dug under the wall. One border guard was killed during the escape, East Germany called murder, amid reports of a large covert operation and gunfire at the tunnel exits.
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George Boultwood
Berlin
West Berlin
Red Wall
East Germany
East Berlin
Defense Ministry
Egon
Schultz
Bernauerstrasses
Civil Rights Survey Shows Woes Among Cedar Rapids Negroes
A preliminary NAACP survey of Cedar Rapids' roughly 1 100 Negro residents finds 87 percent believe civil rights problems exist in the city. Only six percent say no problems and seven percent have no opinion, with interviews conducted August–September by 45 interviewers across 260 families.
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Cedar Rapids
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Jane Boyd
Stanley Ervin
Mary Ericson
Coe College
Tentative GM UAW agreement reached ending nationwide strike
A tentative three year national contract between General Motors and the United Auto Workers ends an 11 day strike at GM. The deal includes higher wages in years two and three, expanded fringes, longer vacations and a Christmas bonus. Ratification by the union is pending.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Union
Leonard Woodcock
UAW
GM Department
Walter Reuther
America
Ford
Chrysler
Louis Seaton
Reuther
Inmate Hurt In Jail Fight at Linn County Jail basement
Cedar Rapids reports a 17 year old prisoner at Linn County jail received a cut on the head during a basement scuffle with fellow inmate Jack Lee Lemburg 23. Tharp was treated at St Luke's hospital and returned to custody while Lemburg received solitary confinement. Sheriff Jim Smith said County Attorney Jack Fulton will be informed. Tharp is jailed for driving with suspended license. Lemburg’s 30 day sentence earlier for assault and battery. Tharp listed 1621 Forty eighth street NE and Lemburg 1224 L street SW.
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Don Tharp
Linn County
St. Luke’s Hospital
Jim Smith
Jack Lee Lemburg
Lemburg
Tharp
Smith
Jack Fulton
Forty-eighth Street
L Street
More FBI arrests in Miss confirmed
The FBI confirmed new arrests in the McComb area tied to civil rights bombing this summer. An FBI spokesman declined to elaborate. McComb sources say there were at least five additional arrests.
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Jackson, Miss
FBI
McComb
Miss
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Not
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Miss Gable
First Federal Savings and Loan Assn
Black Hawk Hockey Club
Harpers Ferry
Mississippi River
Kyles
Gables
Waterloo West High School
Young Kyle
C.R
By Ken Sullivan
By Gene Schroeder
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