King Vows Mix In Oldest City For Civil Rights
Integration leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr vows to stay in St. Augustine Florida until segregation ends. He says he would go to jail again if needed as demonstrators march and 51 Negroes are jailed for attempting to dine in segregated establishments. The day also sees a surge of roll call votes in the Senate civil rights fight and various desegregation actions in Virginia and Alabama. Medgar Evers appears as a Jackson precinct delegate candidate in Mississippi Democratic precinct conventions.
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Fla
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Yale University
New Haven
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Herman E Talmadge
D-Ga
Strom Thurmond
D-S.c
Mobile
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Southern Presbyterian Church
Mississippi
Jackson
Medgar Evers
Dynamite Case Appealed In Birmingham Trial
Two Birmingham men face appeals of their dynamite possession convictions as Circuit Court Judge Elias C. Watson dismisses charges against Charles Cagle 22 for lack of proven corpus delicti. Cagle along with Robert Chambliss 59 and John Hall 35 were convicted last October. all appealed.
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Charles Cagle
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Robert E. Chamblss
John Hall
Recorders Court
Earl Langner
Civil rights meeting ends with mission hall fire after sniper killing
A civil rights meeting in Hattiesburg Miss was followed hours later by a fire at a Roman Catholic mission hall. The incidents occurred after a summer period marked by a fatal sniper attack on ballots.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Minister recalls dress caught in saddle incident at church
Louisville pensioner J. R. McAfee recalls a memory of a girl riding to church who was left suspended from a horse when her dress snagged in the saddle. He warned teens to look away as the embarrassing scene drew stares from a crowd of youths.
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Louisville
J. R. McAfee
Georgia Eyes In Poverty War
Atlanta AP report says Howard Bertsch FHA administrator states Georgia’s piedmont area will get concentrated attention under President Johnson’s poverty reduction push. He notes the Economic Opportunity Act targets root causes, not symptoms, and cautions on farm poverty and the survival of the family farm. Attendees from seven states discuss rural poverty dynamics.
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Farmers Home Administration
Georgia
Piedmont
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Howard Bertsch
FHA
Bertsch
Alabama
Florida
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Want Ads Get Results In Strange Eyewear Salvo
A comic exchange shows a man blocking one eye and joking he will risk one eye while evaluating a wanted ad lead. The scene plays as a light, humorous moment in a busy page.
State Water Projects Net Is Revealed
Washington report notes House approved 1.5 billion water projects bill allocating over 16.75 million for Alabama sites including Holt lock and dam at 8 million and Millers Ferry dam, with 1.5 million for Mobile Harbor and planning funds for Tennessee Tombigbee project before Senate review.
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Washington
Alabama
House
Senate
Holt
Millers Ferry
Mobile Harbor
Claiborne
Tragic Hart County Family Faces Losses Across Years
The Chandler family of Hartford Alabama endured multiple fatalities from 1955 to 1956. Twins Mary and Martha died in a 1955 car fire. Dan survived. In 1956 son Billy Gene was killed in Texas. On Tuesday 18 year olds David Chandler and Carl Williams drowned after a boat capsize while fishing, Williams found within an hour and Chandler hours later in vegetation.
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Texas
Honey Chandler
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Martha
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Chandler
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Billy Gene
David
Carl Williams
Williams
Record of Dry Spell in Bagdad California 1912 14
The longest US dry spell on record lasted 767 days from October 1912 to November 1914 in Bagdad California. Weather data show an extended period with no measurable rainfall affecting local agriculture and daily life.
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United States
Bagdad
Calif
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