Song praising Hoffa climbs trucker hit parade
Walter Breeland and Claude Gray wrote The Ballad of Jimmy Hoffa about Teamsters President Hoffa gaining support among truck drivers across the nation. Smokey Stover released a recording with a 4 cent Teamsters discount and the tune carries a 1960s election year undertone as drivers rally behind Hoffa despite Senate Rackets Committee and court scrutiny.
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William J. Eaton
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Senate
John L. McClellan
Arkansas
Jimmy
Walter Breeland
Houston
Claude Gray
Jimmy Hoffa
Smokey Stover
Ol’ Podner Record Co
America
Breeland
Jim
Football Players List From Texas Towns Read Like Draft Card
An OCR readout lists players by position with ages heights weights and hometowns across Texas and nearby Oklahoma. Notable entries include ships from Floydada Perryton and Amarillo with guards centers and backs representing towns such as Wellington Borger Sweetwater Lubbock and Pampa.
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Gary Cook
Perryton
Mike Stone
Panhandle
Ben Herndon
Sweetwater
Conard Epps
Amarillo
Mack Alexander
Big Spring
Ronnie Wasson
Lubbock
Virgil Nason
Sayre
Oklahoma
Geary Taylor
Mike Cope
Estelline
David Crockett
McLean
Gaylord
Buzzy) Poage
Tulsa
Joe Bob Chandler
Seymour
Danny Jordan
Buddy G. Rawls
Pampa
Jerry Richardson
Lamesa
Gary Lynn Abercrombie
Hillis
Fowler-Ardern-Lockett prize awarded in London
The Institute of Sewage Purification presented J. H. Edmondson with the Fowler Ardern Lockett prize for his writings on the activated sludge process, honoring the most outstanding contribution to literature in the field.
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Purity Prose
London
UPI
The
Institute of Sewage Purification
J. H. Edmondson
Eisenhower Eyes GOP Unity Amid Japan Trip Fallout
President Eisenhower aims to shield the Republican Party from a drubbing in this year’s political climate. He plans to stress successes from his visits to the Philippines, Formosa, and Korea, while attributing Tokyo tensions to Moscow. A Washington speech is prepared after his return, with MacArthur II directed to legalize the U.S.-Japan mutual security treaty.
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Honolulu
UPI
Eisenhower
Republican Party
Japan
Far East
Philippines
Formosa
Korea
Tokyo
Kremlin
Washinton
White House
Kaneohe Marine Air Station
Billow
Pacific
Kevin McCann
Douglas MacArthur II
United States
Polish Boss Expected to Endorse Khrushchev Reforms
In Bucharest Polish Communist Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka anticipated support Khrushchev's moderation and reinterpretation of Marx and Lenin to fit the times. Eastern bloc peers Hungary Czechoslovakia East Germany Bulgaria already voiced approval. China remained noncommittal. Khrushchev may address a mass meeting Sunday before leaving.
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Bucharest
Romania
U PI
Communist Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Gomulka
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Bulgaria
Khrushchev
Marx
Lenin
Communist China
Byrd Defies Butler Loyalty Pledge Demand for Convention Seats
Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia announces he will defy Democratic Chairman Paul M. Butler’s push for a personal loyalty pledge from delegates for the party’s national convention. Byrd says he is named a delegate but has not decided whether to attend and will challenge Butler’s proposal.
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Washington
UPI
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Paul M. Butler
Byrd
National Press Club
Butler
Chance Vought Rejects A Union Offer
Chance Vought Aircraft today flatly rejected a union proposal to let an arbitrator settle contract differences and have the arbitrator’s opinion be binding.
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Chance Vought
Dallas
Miss Tall America of 1960 crowned in Atlanta pageant
An Atlanta college student, 5 feet 10 inches, was named Miss Tall America of 1960 after a competition with 15 rivals. Connie Adams, 22, aims to become a teacher. runner up Elizabeth Schaefer of Los Angeles and third Patricia Anderson of Dallas. The event was part of the Tall Club National Convention. Separately, Arkansas founded its first Jewish synagogue in Little Rock in 1870.
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Atlanta
Negroes Plan Wade in Protests at Southern Beaches
NAACP delegates at St Paul outline tactics for beach integration modeled on sit ins at lunch counters. Amos Brown of Morehouse says methods vary by locality as students prepare fall actions while adults push economic pressure on national firms to desegregate. Moon warns negotiations first, with potential large scale boycotts if needed.
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ST. Paul
Minn
UPI
Amos Brown
Morehouse College
Atlanta, Ga
NAACP
Senate House clash over school aid and desegregation clause
Nixon stalled in committee earlier this year and gave no immediate comment on the dispute. The Senate House fight centers on teachers' salaries aid and an anti segregation amendment. Rules Committee Chairman Howard W Smith pressed for assurances that the amendment would be dropped if a conference was allowed. Four likely House conference members said they would favor removing it but offered no firm guarantees.
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Nixon
Senate House
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
House
Buying force of 18 million people described
The text states a buying force of 18 million people with economic power comparable to the entire population of Canada. It presents a broad claim about collective consumption and market influence without detailing a specific event or organization.
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Canada
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