Court rules Virginia pupil placement law unconstitutional
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Virginia's pupil placement statute unconstitutional, finding it denies Negroes adequate remedies and enables school closures and withdrawal of state funds to sustain segregation. The decision stems from desegregation suits against Newport News and Norfolk school boards heard by Judge Hoffman.
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Richmond
Virginia
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
Newport News
Norfolk
U. S
Walter E. Hoffman
Civil Rights Bill Split Over Troop Use Limitation
In Washington civil rights supporters in the Senate split over a proposed amendment to ban racial discrimination. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia opposes the administration’s bill and backs one of three amendments, while Senator Clinton Anderson of New Mexico supports the bill but contemplates offering a similar change. Anderson argues section three should come out, calling it potentially dangerous.
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Washington
Senate
Richard B. Russell
Clinton P. Anderson D
N.M
Bay Area Metal Strike Hits 8000 Workers
Federal mediator plans new talks after four hours yielded no progress in the Bay Area metal strike lockout. Union representatives and California Metal Trades Association negotiators met with F B Dunmire but failed to move on wage demands of 25 to 55 cents per hour. CMTA says the general lockout is successful as about 8,000 Bay Area members face unemployment amid the dispute.
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Bay Area
F. B. Dunmire
California Metal Trades Association
CMTA
Robert Grunsky
Metal Trades
Masked Prowler Caught In Trash In Broad Daylight
A burglar, masked and hiding in a trash can, was spotted by officers after a morning chase. The suspect was captured in Cushing Oklahoma after the woman reported an attempted bedroom break in during the night. The scene ended with the wearer still in mask.
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Cushing
Oklaw
Aly’s son becomes Aga Khan at Versoix
Karim Aly Khan, 20, heir to the Aga Khan fortune, was proclaimed Aga Khan IV at Villa Barakat near Lake Geneva. He is an Harvard University student described as a straight A pupil. He succeeds the late Aga Khan and met Muslim representatives from India, Pakistan, East Africa and Singapore.
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Versoix
Switzerland
Aga Khan IV
Harvard University
India
Pakistan
East Africa
Singapore
Villa Barakat
Lake Geneva
Aga Khan
Karim Aly Khan
Harvard
Prince Aly’ Khan
Aly
Aga
Three Fires Hit Hayward Area In Quick Order
Three fires struck Southern Alameda County in one morning. Police spotted flames at the Saan Patrolman Tom Hussey entrance of Hayward's Green Shutter Hotel, with firemen limiting damage to a stairway area worth about 250 dollars after a cigarette was tossed into a trash can. Separately, Davis Center Bakery in Castro Valley reported about 12,000 dollars in interior losses, likely from a defective refrigerator motor, with fourteen men and four pieces of equipment battling the blaze for 30 minutes. The Castro Valley fire followed a 9:45 p.m. ignition at Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center hog pens, where several piglets and hogs were killed, exact losses not known.
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Hayward
Green Shutter
Saan
Tom Husisey
Main St
Alameda County
Davis Center
Redwood Rd
Castro Valley
Floyd Stinnett
Ave
San Leandro
Santa Rita Rehabilitation
Center
Rodeo Collision Injures Cowboys at California Rodeo
Two cowboys were injured when horses collided during the pony express race in Salinas in front of the grandstand. Larry Lewis from San Luis Obispo and Buddy Cox of Hanford were treated at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. Bay View Day observances featured Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco and a representative of Oakland Mayor Clifford Rishel.
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Salinas
Jet Pilot Traps, Slays Suitor, Kills Sergeant at Home
Oklahoma City report says a National Guard lieutenant who flew a jet fighter from Wyoming lured his wife's alleged suitor into the living room of their home and killed him after shooting a sergeant who entered. The incident followed the pilot's emergency leave from his Casper encampment as the Oklahoma Air Guard staged summer maneuvers.
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Oklahoma City
Air, National Guard
Wyoming
Air Force
Leo J. Canavan
Donald ‘Clark Ohmann
Tinker Air Force Base
Canavan
Ohman
Casper Wyo
Oklahoma Air Guard
Mock Atoric Resiutts And Canavan's Shocking Encounter
A wife, Emilie Canavan, 19, reported a caller claiming to be Edward Douglas harassing her with 15 plus calls. Canavan confronted the assailant, resulting in a pistol draw and a struggle with a sergeant, but police won’t file charges. Meanwhile a civil defense drill described a massive simulated nuclear attack, with 95 million residents in urban areas imagined to be hit and a total yield of about 452 megatons.
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Canavan
Emilie
Edward Douglas
INS
Falen
Thell.s
Edward
Bay Area
Valley Hospital District Hope Dimmed by Exclusion Vote
County supervisors rejected forming a Valley Hospital District in Pleasanton and Livermore valleys by excluding over half of the area’s assessed valuation. Lands on the Altamont Hill eastern slope and Murray School District near Dublin were removed, leading to a 4-1 vote against feasibility and no election date set.
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Chester E. Stanley
Livermore
Flood Control Fund Okayed for San Lorenzo Creek Project
The U S Senate appropriations committee advanced federal flood protection funding for homeowners in San Lorenzo and Hayward. The San Lorenzo Creek plan includes channel clearing bank revetment channel lining concrete work between Foothill and Lorenzo areas, riprap, and levees to protect the Bay region.
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San Lorenzo
Hayward
Congress
San Lorenzo Creek
U. S. Senate
Appropriations Committee
House
B St
Foothill Blvd
Foothill
Lorenzo Ave
Ike on Links at Gettysburg Golf Course Visit
President Eisenhower arrived at Gettysburg farm at 8 40 AM during a Civil Defense exercise weekend recess and went directly to the golf course with his nine year old grandson David accompanying him.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
David
San Diego Gobs Hit by Flu Wave
San Diego naval personnel faced a flu wave with thousands of cases in the naval district. Authorities estimated about 7000 service members in the area were down with some type of illness since June, as the outbreak continued to spread among personnel.
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San Diego
Naval Dist
Contract Awarded on Davis Street Job
SAN LEANDRO The California Department of Public Works awarded a contract for 136 915 to Independent Construction Co of Oakland to grade and pave travel lanes and parking areas from one half mile west of the Southern Pacific crossing.
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San Leandro
California Department of Public Works
Davis St
Independent Construction Co
Oakland
Southern ‘Pacific
AEC Delays Diablo Nuclear Test Firing Again
LAS VEGAS The Atomic Energy Commission delayed firing of the Diablo device for another 24 hours due to unfavorable weather. The shot, planned for 4 40 a m tomorrow, was postponed because strong winds could carry fallout into populated areas northeast of the test site.
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Las Vegas
Atomic Energy Commission
Tomor
AEC
Senator Better TM After Collapse
Senator Theodore Green, 89, veteran senator, was listed in excellent condition after a heat exhaustion episode at a reception last night in Washington. Green, a long-serving Democrat from Rhode Island, collapsed briefly but recovered quickly.
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Washington
Ims
Theodore ¥. Green
D-R.1
Senate
Girl 16 Succumbs to Cancer in Encinitas
Irene Jaroncyk, a 16 year old cancer patient who gained national attention last year for her wish to celebrate another Christmas, died last night in Encinitas after moving from San Diego. Her father William J. Jaroncyk said she died without pain.
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Encinitas
Calif
Irene Jaroncyk
Irene
Christiay
San Diego
Tren
William J. Jaroweyk
Afghan Chieftain Will Visit Moscow
Afghan ruler Mohamed Zahir Shah to visit Moscow next Wednesday for about two weeks. Soviet sources say the king’s land borders the Soviet Union to the north and Iran, Pakistan to the west and south.
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Moscow
Ins
Mohamed Zahir Shah
Afghanistan
Soviet Union
Iran
Pakistan
Boy Builds 3-Foot Guillotine Sparks Juvenile Probation
A 13 year old in Cedar Rapids built a three foot high guillotine from two by fours, a box, and a sharp steel plate. Authorities turned him over to a probation officer for his knowledge of French Revolutionary era furniture. The incident drew attention to juvenile probation procedures.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Autos Collide At High Speed Near Lovelock Nevada
A head on crash on U S Highway 40 east of Lovelock Nevada killed Emile Raymond Vestry 28 Cedar Rapids Iowa and Aletta Linman 24 Fountain Colorado and seriously injured 11 others including several children. The eastbound car driven by James Tanner 21 Corning California drifted into the westbound lane colliding with Leland Linman 2 husband of the dead woman. Vestry was a passenger in the Tanner car along with Beulah Tanner 16 Orland California and Helen McLaughlin 33 Marion Iowa. Kenneth McLaughlin and two Linman children Axel and Becky ages 2 also in the Tanner vehicle were treated at Pershing General Hospital. Physicians said injury extent of the 11 injured was not yet determined.
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Va Ana
cunning + Humboldt
County Inc
Winnemucca
Emile Raymond Vestry
Cedar Rapids
Aletta Lirnien
Fountain
Colo
State Highway Patrol
James Douglas Tanner
Corning
Calif
Leland ‘Linman
Vestry
Buelah Tanner
Orland
Helen McLaughlin
Marion
Kenneth ~McLaughlin
Linman
Axel
Becky
Pershing
Mystery Veil Over Local Bid For Giants in Hayward
Negotiations continue to lure the New York Giants to Hayward with an $8 million stadium plan by Brandon Enterprises. A meeting with Giants president Horace Stoneham is reportedly set for next Friday, but details remain secret as officials cite confidentiality.
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Hayward
Brandon Enterprises
South Hayward
New York Giants
Giant
Horace Stoneham
Chiof
New York
Branden
Alameda
Alameda County
Purchico
A. L. Branden
Anderson
Stoneham
Brandon
Unseasonable Bay Area Rain Forecast With Mackerel Sky
The Bay Area woke to a mackerel sky signaling possible rain by nightfall as an unsettled storm brings heavier precipitation toward Ukiah and Redding. Forecasters expect clearing by tomorrow afternoon with thunderstorms in the Sierras today and tomorrow and fair weather along coastal valleys tonight and tomorrow.
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San Francisco Bay
Weather Bureau
Ukiah
Redding
Bay Area
Sierras
San ‘Joaquin
Salinas Vall
Leys
Santa Maria
San Luis
Obispo
Ex Nazis in Key Egypt Jobs Stir Debate In Germany
DUSSELDORF Germany UP a German Jewish Community newspaper charges former Nazi SS officers hold key posts in Egypt secret police and propaganda agencies The weekly Der Juden in Deutschland says 6249 Arabized former Nazis work in Egypt and Germans with Egyptian names lead Egypts State Security Service SSC
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Dusseldorf
Germany
Der
Egypt
State Security Service
SSC
Navy Pilot Killed In Crack-up Found
The body of a Navy pilot was found after his fighter bomber crashed and burned in rugged terrain by the Feather River about 23 miles east of Oroville. Local authorities reported the crash earlier today and are investigating the incident.
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Navy
Oroville
Tight Credit Policy Urged By Federal Reserve Official
In Denver Martin, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, called for continued tight credit and stronger measures as inflation remains a major threat. He warned that credit demands have greatly exceeded funds despite more savings and bank credit in two years, and urged increasing savings as the most effective way to curb inflationary potential.
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Denver
Federal Reserve Boarch
William M. Mare
Martin
Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank
Hayward Woman Hurt in Table Bluff Crash
Mrs Jennie Bockman 76 of 1962 B Street Hayward was admitted in good condition to Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna with a broken hip from a Wednesday night traffic accident near Table Bluff. She was riding in a Bt car driven by her cousin Ma Anna Beungartner of Eureka.
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Eureka
Jennie Bockman
St. Hayward
Redwood Memorial Hospital
Fortuna
Table Bluff
Bockman
Ma Anna. Beumngartner
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