Summer routines in Garland fill the dull news page
The Northeast Corner notes hot humid days as city life carries on with no controversy. City departments maintain schedules, roads like Austin Street gain improvements, and construction on churches hospitals and schools progresses. Vacations rise while pools and summer programs draw crowds as locals keep to routine.
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Hodcarriers
Garland
Stephen F. Austin Junior High School
Dairy Road
Seajhs
Independent School District
Dick Nalley
Alabama
Moscow
Garland Memorial Hospital
Elton Miller
Kennedy to Speak in Charleston on Statehood Day
President Kennedy plans to speak in Charleston West Virginia on June 20 during Statehood Day ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the state.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Charleston
W. Va
Bykovsky In Orbit Aims At Long Cosmic Flight
Soviet space mission Vostok 5 carries Lt Col Valery Bykovsky after liftoff at 3 p.m. Moscow time. Officials hint at a record eight day flight to study long-duration conditions and possibly pair with a pioneering space woman.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
Valery Fedorivich Bykovsky
Air Force
Romanov
Juliet
Nikita Khrushchev
Bykovsky
Harold Wilson
Kremlin
Tass
Radio
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
Valentina
Dalhart Boy Hurt In Fall
Twelve year old Jack Lee Brown Jr. visiting in Garland from Dalhart Texas was injured when a play slide collapsed on him Thursday evening. He suffered three broken vertebrae and was taken to Garland Medical Center by a Creel Spurlock ambulance.
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Jack Lee Brown Jr
Garland
Dalhart
Tex
Cleo Haddock
Garland Medical Center
Creel - Spurlock
Outsiders Kept Out As Racial Tensions Flare
State troopers manned check points into Danville Virginia to curb violence amid racial tension. In Jackson Mississippi and Savannah Georgia, protests led to clashes and arrests as police dispersed crowds. Medgar Evers slaying evidence was sent to FBI labs for analysis. officials vow to solve the case.
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United Press International
Danville
Jackson
Miss
Savannah
Julian Stinson
Mississippi
Medgar Evers
FBI
Washington
Evers
Allen Thompson
Profumo Scandal Widening As Keeler Claims Russian Ties
Christine Keeler allegedly told Michael Eddowes her Soviet lover wanted her to obtain warhead information from John Profumo. Eddowes spoke as Macmillan faced cabinet pressure and denials from Lord Hailsham, amid fears of a government crisis.
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London
UPI
Christine Keeler
John Profumo
Eddowes
Miss Keeler
Eugene Ivanov
Macmillan
Labor Party
House of Commons
Commons
Profumo
Lord Hailsham
Hailsham
Valerie Hobson
Rail unions split complicates effort to avert nationwide shutdown
A sharp split emerged among five railroad unions over work rules threatening a possible nationwide shutdown after midnight Monday. The Switchmen's Union and Conductors and Brakemen may withdraw from joint talks, complicating Labor Secretary Wirtz’s mediation efforts as tensions rise among engineers firemen and trainmen.
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Washington
UPI
Switchmen’s Union
Switchmen
Neil Speirs
Louis J. Wagner
Est
W. Willard Wirtz
Seagoville Prison Chief Praises Reform Tone At Lions Club
James Stambaugh, chief of Seagoville Federal Correction Institution's classification and parole section, told Garland Lions Club the prison system has moved away from eye for an eye practices. He described Seagoville as a model facility with no armed guards towers or fences beyond cow deterrence. He noted a shift from cruel treatment, citing historic hangings as examples, and introduced four inmate musicians who performed for the club, including a steel guitarist formerly with Bob Willis and an Opry performer.
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America
Garland Lions Club
James Stambaugh
Federal Correction Institution
Seagoville
The
Lions
Stambaugh
England
FCI
Appeals Court Rules NLRB May Order Interest on Back Pay
The U S Court of Appeals upheld NLRB authority to require Aztec Ceramics Co San Antonio Texas to pay 6 percent interest on back pay to 10 workers illegally fired. The ruling stems from an appeal of an NLRB decision.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
The
Aztec Ceramics Co
San Antonio
Tex
Murray Netted $1 800 000 From Oil Deals While On 1946-62 Commission
Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr reported former Railroad Commissioner William Murray Jr earned about 1.84 million dollars from oil related transactions while in office. The findings cover 1946 to 1962 with a peak income year in 1961 over 1.05 million dollars. Murray resigned in April after questions about a 1960s West Texas venture and potential conflicts of interest. The report urges tightening state conflict of interest laws and references Langdon replacing Murray.
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Carr
Murray
Connally
House
Senate
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Kansas
Missouri
Legislative Council
Jim Langdon
Langdon
el Paso
Labor Pledges Support To JFK Five-Point Civil Rights Program
About 300 union leaders meeting at the White House promised to back President Kennedy’s civil rights plan. AFL-CIO Vice President James B. Carey and Steelworkers President David J. McDonald said the pledge covers job discrimination, with local unions enforcing the commitment. The five point program aims to create more jobs for African Americans this summer and to support Kennedy’s forthcoming legislation.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Organized Labor
Congress
White House
Afl-Cio
James B. Carey
Carey
David J. McDonald
Support Offered To JFK
The Soviet Union promised President Kennedy its full support and cooperation in ending the cold war. Tsarapkin warned the West to reconsider its attitude toward Moscow disarmament proposals and urged adherence to Kennedy’s call for improved international relations. The Soviet reply framed as cooperation but tied to Western concessions.
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Geneva
UPI
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Semyon K. Tearapkin
West
Moscow
Tsarapkin
American University
Washington
United States
U.S
Kremlin
Charles C. Stelle
4 Year Old Loses Bicycle To Thief
A 26 inch boys bicycle owned by Kenneth Patterson, 4, of 168 East Marguerita, was stolen from the front yard Thursday. Garland Police Patrolmen Jerry Johnston and JR Burns investigated the theft.
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Kenneth Patterson
East Marguerita
Garland
Jerry Johnston
J R. Burns
Travel Service Gift Spending Draws GOP Fire
Washington Housed Appropriations Committee rejected 4.2 million travel service budget after finding 2 141 in gifts to foreign visitors. House panel cut 308 million from 2 1 billion request for State Justice Commerce. They also criticized overseas offices and planning costs while funding FBI at full request with 550 extra staff.
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US Travel Service
House Appropriations Committee
Travel Service
State, Justice and Commerce Departments
Kennedy
House
Con Agency
State Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Evers Burial Near Arlington Amid Slaying Probe
Medgar Evers body heads to Arlington as FBI lab examines slaying evidence including a .30 caliber rifle and a fingerprint. Police couriered the evidence to the FBI while Mayor Thompson pled officers and urged quiet as NAACP leaders pressed for racial reforms.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Medgar Evers
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
FBI
Evers
Allen Thompson
Masonic Temple
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Naacpp
Fight
Thompson
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