Desegregation Crisis at Central High in 1957
A Little Rock scene unfolds as nine Negro students enter Central High amid mob cries and National Guard orders. President Eisenhower commits federal troops to enforce desegregation, ending in a tense standoff that marks a watershed in school integration.
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Little Rock
Ark
Central High School
Supreme Court
Central
Qmit
Orval Fairbus
National
Eisenhower
South
U.S.A
Central High
Hearing set on Fitzsimmons mental fitness for murder trial
Potter County District Attorney H B Fink says a competency hearing for George Fitzsimmons resumes November 10 to decide if he is mentally fit to finish the murder trial. The 38 year old, who allegedly killed his elderly aunt and uncle in 1973, faces transfers due to publicity and prior insanity findings.
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Greensburg
Potter County
Fitzsimmons
Corry Native Named Director of NMFS Northeast Region
William G. Gordon 44, a Corry native, was named director of the Northeast Region of the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Gloucester Massachusetts. Gordon, deputy regional director since 1971, succeeds in overseeing federal fisheries activities across 19 states from Maine to Virginia and inland to the Great Lakes.
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William G. Gordon
Corry
National Marine Fisheries Service
Commerce Department
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Gloucester
Mass
Maine
Virginia
Great Lakes
Robert W. Schoning
NMFS
Gordon
Northeast
Middle Atlantic
Mount Unin College
Alliance
Ohio
Univeristy of
Michigan
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
Wasington
D.C
Newbury
Abel to Appear at USW Conference in Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union opens its fourth International Safety and Health Conference with president LW Abel slated to address delegates from the United States and Canada. Workshops will cover coke oven emissions and related safety issues. Abel will testify Tuesday at an OSHA hearing on coke ovens. The union, 1.4 million members, seeks stiffer emissions rules from the Labor Secretary.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
LW. Abel
United States
Canada
Abel
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Farview State Hospital
Wayne County
Earl Keim
Farview
Keim
Western State Penitentary
Buffalo State Hospital
New York
Aben Franklin
Columbus, Pa
Cherry Builders
Corry Native Heads Federal Fisheries Area
Great Britain
England
Britain
Yorkshire
USW
John Dunlap
Soviet Union
U.S
Rte
Asoewetr
Orn
Patsy A. Nichols
City OF
Erie County
Karl Boyes
Boyes
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