Auditorium Focuses on Alabama Student Desegregation
On June 10 Vivian Malone is set to enter the University of Alabama School of Commerce amid fears of violence. Governors, editors, and community leaders urge law and order while preparing to enroll the second Black student since the university’s founding, amid tense national memory of Oxford and Autherine Lucy cases.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Foster Auditorium
University of Alabama
Vivian Malone
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Miss Malone
Albama
Birmingham Post-Herald
Wallace
Gadsden Times
University of Alabama Board of Trustees
Birmingham News
U.S
Rebel Underground
Republicans Move To End Segregation In Public Accommodations
Twenty House Republicans planned to push legislation to end segregation in all public accommodations and back a companion bill granting the attorney general broad civil rights authority. They accused the Kennedy administration of footdragging and urged immediate action.
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Washington
GOP
Safe Landing Dares Fate as 11-Month-Old Falls in Reading
Steven Palm, 11 months, fell three stories from a window to a cement walk. He landed on an old army cot and escaped with only a concussion and minor injuries. He was listed in good condition at Community General Hospital.
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Reading
Steven Palm
Community General Hospital
Britain Suffers Nationwide Car Jamboree Tieup
In a three day holiday weekend Britain faced chaotic traffic as record numbers of vehicles crowded narrow roads. A Royal Automobile Club spokesman called it the biggest motoring jamboree. the M2 turnpike traffic bottleneck worsened despite new throughways. Clacton on Sea and other seaside towns blocked by jams.
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London
Britain
Royal Automobile Association
Minnesota
Rochester
Chatham
Gillingham
Clacton-on-Sea
West Wittering
Twelve Die In Pennsylvania Roads Over Memorial Weekend
The Associated Press reports twelve traffic deaths in Pennsylvania over a 30 hour Memorial Day weekend. Seven fatalities occurred during the holiday period, with six on highways, plus one non traffic death of a Pittsburgh resident electrocuted while using a drill.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
NAACP CORE at Odds Over Philadelphia Job Bias
In Philadelphia the NAACP and CORE clash over race on city construction sites. NAACP reached a pact with labor and education officials to curb picketing and hire more Negro workers, while CORE rejects the agreement and plans to test contractor good faith with qualified Negroes on sites this week. The dispute prompts the Human Relations Commission to urge mayoral action to restore peace.
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NAACP
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Building Trades Council
Board of Education
Louis S. Smith
James J. Tate
Commission
Sadie T.M. Alexander
Philadelphia
Moore
The
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Guard Bivouac Opens At Camp A P Hill Va
Units of the 28th Infantry Division Pennsylvania Army National Guard take the field for a four day bivouac. About 9,000 men arrived Sunday and were split between Camp A P Hill and Camp Pickett. They will stay for two weeks.
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A. P. Hill
28Th Infantry Division
Pennsylvania Army National Guard
Camp Pickett
Rockefeller Begins Test Period for 1964 Presidential Bid
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller returns to public life with a busy slate and his new wife Margaretta Fitzgerald Murphy as he tests voter reception to his remarriage. He tours state events and plans fundraising stops in West Virginia Utah and Michigan while a July Walldorf dinner marks a key GOP gathering.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Margaretta Fitled Murphy
Pearances
West Virginia
Utah
Michigan
Albany
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Associated Press
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Kansas
Maine
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Oregon
Mrs. JFK Gets Ride
Two social secretaries were on duty at the White House for an official visit by the president of India. Letitia Baldrige ends two years of planning Mrs Kennedy’s events while Nancy Tuckerman begins as her successor.
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Washington
White House
India
Letitia Baldrige
Jacqueline Kennedy
Nancy Tuckerman
New York
Kennedy
Miss Baldrige
Eight Men Questioned in Quebec Terror Bombings
Montreal police questioned eight men in connection with the Quebec Liberation Front bombings. Police seized dynamite fuses and timing devices. one Belgian national was among those detained. The front claimed responsibility for a May 17 terror day and has targeted federal buildings in Montreal.
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Montreal
Quebec Liberation Front
J. Adrien Robert
Front
Josaphat Brunet
Cuba
Montreal Gazette
Quebec
Canada
Westmount
Jean Lesage
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
U.N. Poised to Fund Peacekeeping Operations
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. AP Prospects rise for General Assembly approval of resolutions to finance peacekeeping missions Congo and Middle East for the second half of 1963. Four draft measures aim to finance operations, collect assessments, and set general financing principles. Only the Soviet bloc is seen as likely to oppose.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
World Organization
U Thant
S. O. Adebo
Nigeria
Assembly
Adebo
Congo
Middle East
Pechan To Bolt Banks Over Liquor Tax Rift
Harrisburg AP Sen Albert R Pechan the Senate majority whip is expected to bolt GOP ranks to oppose a liquor tax hike from 10 to 15 percent. He warns it would curb revenue and drive drinkers to surrounding states, potentially delaying a tax package tied to Gov Scranton's 1963 64 budget.
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Harrisburg
Albert R. Pechan
Senate
GOP
Pechan
Gov. Scranton
Scranton
House
Chamber
Ford City
Senate Education Committee
Harrisburg Dims Hope Of July Adjournment For 1963 Assembly
The 1963 session shows slow progress with only three major bills approved by both houses and the governor, including a 5 percent sales tax and an eight cent cigarette tax. About 1,800 bills have been introduced since Jan 1 and 74 passed, leaving prominent measures like school district reorganizations and a new state education board unfinished. reapportionment orders complicate progress as lawmakers resist losing what they hold. Routine moves like agency transfers and a blind veterans pension have cleared.
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Harrisburg
General Assembly
Assembly
State Board of Education
Harness Racing Commission
Bureau of Professional Licensing
Explosion Destroys Atlas Missile Silo in New Mexico
Air Force investigators examined the wreckage of a $12 million Atlas intercontinental missile silo in Roswell New Mexico after a Saturday blast ripped two 32 ton doors from the hinges and hurled them about 75 feet. The five man crew escaped unharmed behind thick steel doors and concrete walls.
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Roswell
N.M
Air Force
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