Chicago Police Seek Gang After Murder
Chicago police pursued a gang of Negro youths after a white truck driver, James Jewell, said his brother John Jewell was beaten to death when a rock shattered a window. In Detroit, five teens held after a 90 minute shooting spree wounded two whites and fired on a police officer. In Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. urged voter registration attention as sit ins continue. In San Antonio, three restaurants closed after a white man slapped a demonstrator. both men were charged. The Diamond department store in Charleston reopened eating facilities to all. New Orleans poll shows 83 percent of white parents favor closing schools to avoid integration, while 94 percent of Black parents want schools.
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Associated Press
Chicago
James Jewell
John
Memphis
Tenn
John Jewell
Detroit
Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr
San Antonio
Eugene Nolte
Earl Graham Sr
Joske’s
New Orleans Parish
Theft Hits Erie Couple In Weekend Burglary
Near St Paul residents Mr and Mrs Glenn Womeldorff reported a burglary last Saturday night with fur coat a hi fi set records electric skillet and a typewriter stolen. Sheriff Sloan investigated with few clues. Several local residents and visitors are listed in accompanying notes from the area.
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Glenn Womeldorff
St. Paul
Springdale
Ark
Midwest
James R. Pierce
Earl Marshall
el Dorado
Everett Crismas
Raymond Wunderlich
Beaumont
Poll Respondents Exceed Fifteen Thousand White and Twelve Thousand Negroes
Report notes voter survey turnout with more than 15,000 white respondents and over 12,000 African American participants. The summary focuses on the scale of participation across racial groups in the poll.
Teachers sue to recover pay for missing conference
Two Rochester teachers Hiram Korpeck and Thomas V. Miller filed suit in New York Supreme Court seeking pay for a day deducted after they missed a teachers conference. They say they attended an Empire State Federation of Teachers meeting on Oct. 23 while the board had closed schools to permit attendance.
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Rochester
N.Y
New York Supreme Court
Hiram Korpeck
Thomas V. Miller
Empire State Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
New York
Hearing Set On Northern Kansas Telephone Expansion
The State Corporation Commission of Kansas schedules a hearing for June 7 1960 at 10:00 A M in Topeka to consider Northern Kansas Telephone Companys amended Certificate of Convenience and Authority to serve the Thayer exchange including Barston Mutual area Intervening parties may file to participate before or at the hearing date.
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Chanute Tribune
State Corporation Commission OF Kansas
Northern Kansas Telephone Company
Thayer Exchange
Barston Mutual Telephone Exchange
Raymond B. Harvey
Commission
Beau Purple Might Change Derby Pace at Churchill Downs
In Louisville Beau Purple gains Derby buzz as a potential pace disruptor to co favorites Tompion and Bally Ache in the 86th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Bally Ache and Beau Purple ran similar in the Derby Trial, which drew 12 sophomores. forecasts anticipate 12 to 15 entries for the $125,000 Derby.
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Louisville
Hardboots
Tompion
Bally Ache
Beau Purple
Churchill Downs
Cuvier Relic
Pied D'Or
Hasty Road
C. V. Whitney
Fourteen Indian Artists Garner Cash Awards in Tulsa Show
In the 15th annual American Indian Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, fourteen artists received cash awards or honorable mention certificates. Tulsa Osage Carl Woodring led with 450 dollars across three divisions as the cash prizes totaled 2270 dollars, with honored artists including Kiowa Comanche Blackbear Basin of Wichita Kansas. It notes a separate estimate that Americans drank 32 billion bottles of soft drinks in 1958, totaling 184 bottles per person.
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Tulsa
Okla
Carl Woodring
Wichita
Kan
Robert Smith Jumps Into Lion's Den at Central Park Zoo
In New York AP report laborer Robert Smith, 38, vaulted a guardrail at the Central Park Zoo and patted a lion on the head. The lion roared and bystanders screamed as two policewomen pulled him back over the railing. He was charged with disorderly conduct.
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New York
Robert Smith
Central Park Zoo
Smith
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Fredonia
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Jerry Sloan
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National American Legion Auxiliary
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Ted Kyle
Independence
Sae
Wizard
Ice
Toto Tiller
Barbeque Grill
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