Drive for Voter Registration in Dixieland
In Tuskegee and across the South a massive voter registration drive by Negro organizations seeks to enroll thousands who never voted. A sample Alabama form is filled by a 50 year old woman at the Tuskegee Civic Association as officials outline where to file a real application. The effort aims to increase political leverage against segregation, with clinics and transport aid, and has seen rising registration in places like Haywood Fayette counties and Montgomery.
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Associated Press
Tuskegee Civic Association
Alabama
TCA
South
Tuskegee
Tennessee
Haywood
Fayette
Justice Department
Bullock County
Ala
Montgomery
Southern Regional Council
Wiley Branton
SRC
Macon
Driver Mows Down 21 Soldiers at Fort Dix
Twenty one soldiers were struck by a car as they marched at Fort Dix New Jersey. Fifteen were admitted to Watson Army Hospital with fractures, six treated and released. The driver, 23 year old Robert C Keyser of Toms River was being questioned by military police. The unit Company D of 144 men was returning to barracks after a night training exercise.
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FT. DIX
N.J
Watson Army Hospital
Army
Pfe
Robert C. Keyser
Toms River
Keyser
Stewart Dias
Browns Mills
More Room Needed For State Agencies Move
TOPEKA AP The State Hotel and Restaurant Board moved from a state building to an office building in downtown Topeka to accommodate more room for additional personnel authorized for the State Department of Public Instruction. Loyd E. Stone said all space is used and other agencies are set to expand. Representatives of 104 nations attended the World Food Congress in Washington with Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman as chairman.
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Topeka
State Hotel and Restaurant Board
Loyd E. Stone
State Department of Public Instruction
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Home Under House For Three Years
In Miami a 47 year old yardman named Gilbert Kennedy lived secretly under a widow’s house for three years. He admitted it was cheaper than paying rent and was found by police digging under a siding after the widow Rose Haaskins had protective boards installed. Kennedy faced vagrancy charges.
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Miami
Fla
Gilbert Kennedy
Rose Haaskins
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Dixieland
By Belman Morin
Tuskegee, Ala
Huntsville
George W. Baker
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Department of Justice
Southern Regional Councils
House Judiciary Committee
Robert F. Kennedy
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
U.S. News and World Report
Birmingham
T. Eugene (Bull) Connor
United States Weather Bureau
Iceland
Reykjavik
Caldwells
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