North Says It's Against Bias But Jobs For Negroes Few
An Associated Press roundup from major Northern cities finds Negroes face fewer high paying jobs than whites. Employers and unions deny discrimination, citing lack of qualified Negro applicants. Demands for bias reform grow as confrontations occur in Philadelphia and New York. JFK administration actions and proposed vocational education aim to widen opportunities, but experts warn it may take years to change the pattern.
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Chicago
Hamp McKinney
Urban League of Chicago
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Department of Labor
Romeo Jenson
Aflcio Iro
Workers Local 11
Newark
N.J
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Aflcio
Poneschi
Kennedy
Congress
Young Republicans At National Meet Rally Behind Goldwater
About 1,000 delegates attend the 13th Young Republican convention in San Francisco as a civil rights stand is debated. Oregon Gov. Hatfield opens with remarks while Goldwater is favored by many delegates.
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Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Oregon
Mark Hatfield
Andrew Hunter
Massachusetts
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Cuba
Laos
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New Hampshire
Young Republican National Federation
Kennedy
Charles McDevitt
Idaho
Donald Lukens
House of Representatives Rules Committee
Congress
Lukens
McDevitt
Goldwater
John Tower
R-Tex
Washington
Limestone County Maid of Cotton Contest Set in Athens
Plans were completed for the Limestone County Maid of Cotton contest to be judged July 23 with the winner announced July 24 at the Tennessee Valley Experiment Station in Belle Mina. The winner will advance to the state contest October 3 in Birmingham and then to the national contest in Memphis. Contestants must be Limestone residents, single, never married, 19 to 25, at least 5 feet 5 inches, and willing to enter Alabama Maid of Cotton contest.
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Maid of Cotton Committee
Farm Bureau
Tennessee Valley Experiment Station
Belle Mina
Birmingham
Memphis
Limestone County
Gay Thrasher
Rochester
R. F. Patterson
Hubert Ivey
Raymond Roberts
Emma Lindsey
Gail Sandlin
Olin Looney
Athens
Braves Drop Tomahawk Emblem From Uniforms
The Milwaukee Braves change their uniforms this season removing the tomahawk emblem from the front and printing each player's last name on the back in letters four and a half inches high.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Braves
Power Outage Causes Four Second Decatur Shutdown
Decatur electric system and Joe Wheeler Coop halted most power for four seconds Tuesday at 10:13 p.m. Eddens said the brief outage stopped all electrical use in Decatur, affecting factories and households. He attributed the event to human error during a TVA substation maintenance.
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Decatur
Joe Wheeler Coop
Cae
Decaturite
Cancn
ROME
Eddens
TVA
Morgan County Danville Mas Birdie Mae Randolph Note
Birdie Mae Randolph of Morgan County Danville has undergone surgery last week at SP 9904 while John Tanner remains listed as a patient at the hospital.
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Morgan County
Danville
Randolph
John Tanner
Enrollment soars across all school levels by fifty percent
Ten years ago students enrolled in elementary and junior high, high schools, colleges, and professional schools totalled fewer. Now enrollment in each level shows a fifty percent rise, reflecting broader access to education across the community.
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