City issues Friday building permits and police reports
City clerk's office issued building permits for electrical work at 109 Ash St. NE and repairs at 1322 8th Ave. SE plus a garage at 407 12th Ave. SW. Police logged a missing youth case on 6th Ave. NE and a 1962 Lark collision near Walnut St. A Birmingham visit was noted and PTA plans a Tower House meeting. Police also reported three youths missing from Sunday.
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Gilbert Shelton
Ash St
Irwin Rogers
8Th Ave
B. L. Floyd
12Th Ave
6Th Ave
Walnut St
Frances Tucker Warren
Gadsden
Ala
Martin T. Gregory
Big Bend
Wis
Nations Sign Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The United States Britain and the Soviet Union signed a partial nuclear test ban treaty in Moscow calling it an important initial step toward lowering tension and strengthening peace among nations.
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Associated Press
Moscow
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Three powers sign historic nuke treaty in Washington
The United States Britain and the Soviet Union signed a landmark nuclear treaty in Washington with open signatures to others. Rusk Home and Gromyko signed at 434 pm Moscow time as Khrushchev observed. The leaders said it is a first step toward peace but not a guarantee against nuclear war.
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Washington
London
Moscow
Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Andrei A. Gromyko
Khrushchev
Rusk
United States
House Will Pass CR Bills Says U S Solon
U S House Republican leader Charles A Halleck predicts passage of a tax reduction revision bill and civil rights legislation in the House with likely Senate opposition. He spoke in a televised NBC program. The Ways and Means Committee nears a key tax cut decision while Kennedy pushes about 10.2 billion dollars in staged cuts. The Senate Commerce Committee finished civil rights hearings on a public accommodations ban and may begin deliberations. The House will consider a boosted vocational education outlay bill amid GOP anti discrimination amendment efforts.
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Washington
House
Charles A. Halleck
Senate
Indianan
NBC
Ways and Means
Kennedy
Thomas B. Curtis
R-Mo
New York
Senate Commerce Committee
Addressing School Discipline and Authority
A nationwide concern over lack of respect for authority and discipline prompts urging frank dialogue. The adviser urges a faculty meeting then school board action, stressing issue focus, not personalities, and cites Isaiah on juvenile delinquency as warning.
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F. B
Isaiah
Racial violence erupts in Asheboro tops North Carolina weekend
Police dispersed about 200 white youths in downtown Asheboro after a shotgun blast wounded four teens during a racial confrontation outside a newly integrated theater. Officers said the shooting followed taunts directed at a car with five Black occupants as the incident marked the town’s first major racial clash.
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Associated Press
Asheboro
N.C
C. J. Lovett
North Carolina
Gadsden
Ala
Washington
Kennedy
Mississippi Primary Tests Kennedy Shadowed Campaign
Kennedy is a major factor in the Mississippi Democratic primary though not on the ballot. Gov. Ross Barnett faces four main candidates James Plennon Coleman Paul B. Johnson Robert Mason and Charles Sullivan as Republicans mount a rare bid in decades.
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Jackson, Miss
Kennedy
Mississippi
Andrews seeks probe into 5th Circuit panel bias on integration
Rep. George W. Andrews proposes a congressional investigation into whether assignments of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges to panels have been rigged to tilt rulings toward integration. Also reports on a Baltimore case challenging trial venue, Alabama segregation protests in Gadsden, and Justice Douglas marrying a woman in her mid-20s.
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Washington
George W. Andrews
D-Ala
U.S. Circuit of Appeals
Buffalo
N. Y
William C. Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court
Joan Martin
Markets At A Glance Stocks And Commodities Mixed
In New York stocks advance in light to moderate activity while bonds show narrow changes. In Chicago wheat strengthens with demand, corn and soybeans steady to firm, hogs steady with top at 18.65, slaughter steers firm to 25 cents at 25.75.
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New York
Chicago
Boy Critical After Crash With Vehicle
Eight year old David Smith, son of Mr and Mrs Gather Smith of 728 14th Ave SE, was listed in very critical condition at Decatur General Hospital after striking a car early today. The boy suffered a fractured skull and was under oxygen following a collision with a 1957 Chevrolet driven by James E Bailey. Lieutenant J R Johnson reported the incident.
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David Smith
Gather Smith
14Th Ave
Decatur General Hospital
James E. Bailey
Ardmore
Tower
J. R. Johnson
Gathel Smith
Chevropolis
Bailey
Test Ban Approval Looms as Senate Sees Support
Senator Keating predicts overwhelming Senate ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty if Secretary Rusk denies any under the table deals. He urged a forthright response to ensure a two thirds majority, as Kennedy noted Moscow talks reached no agreement.
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Neil Gilbride
Washington
Kenneth B. Keating
Senate
Dean Rusk
Keating
New York
Rusk
U.S
Moscow
Nation
Kennedy
Five GIs Injured In Grenade Clash On Korean Front
Five American soldiers were scratched by grenade fragments after a two hour battle with seven North Korean raiders near a demilitarized zone outpost. The clash marked the longest since new fighting began, with no known Communist casualties. The attackers used whistle signals to direct the assault. The outpost lay about 1,000 yards east of last week’s jeep ambush and 13 miles from Panmunjom.
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Associated Press
U.S. First Cavalry Division
Korea
Nar
Panmunjom
U.N
North Korea
North
South Korea
Armistice Commission
Butts Libel Suit Began Against Saturday Evening Post
Wally Butts former University of Georgia athletic director filed a $10 million libel suit in U S District Court Atlanta against the Saturday Evening Post. The action seeks damages over published claims about his involvement in a college football game. Proceedings opened today in the federal court.
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University of Georgia
Wally Butts
Saturday Evening Post
U.S. District Court
Atlanta
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