Students Bring Food To Counters In Sitdown Protests
Anes wrinkle in Carolinas sitdown demonstrations appears as Negro students at Elizabeth City Grant's Variety store occupy white counter seats after buying snacks elsewhere. About 20 students took turns sitting and eating, following a brief two week pause in protests. In Orangeburg, 27 more Negro students were convicted for breach of the peace for a mass sitdown, with fines or jail for many. High Point stores show mixed reactions to a 60 day plan for segregated service, as officials cite no change until customs shift.
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Carolinas
Elizabeth City
N.C
Grant's
Orangeburg
S. C
High Point
Variety
Committee On Human Relations
One Man Survives Air Disaster
Air Force investigators rely on the memory of 1st Lt. Thomas G. Simoak after a B47 bomber exploded over Little Rock. The pilot parachuted to safety. three other airmen died and eight homes were destroyed or damaged in the dawn blast from Little Rock Air Force Base.
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Little Rock
Ark
Air Force
Thomas G. Simoak
Richmond
Smoak
Little Rock Air Force Base
Jimmy Hollabaugh
Andrew L. Clark
Reynolds J. Watson
Athens
Herbert J. Aldrige
San Antonio
Tex
KK. E. Brose
Kewanee
Ill
Tailor claims chase of Stalin in 1907
Springfield Ohio AP aged tailor John Samosky 76 recalls pursuing Joseph Stalin in 1907 while he led an infantry company in Russia he says fired on Stalin’s gang during a bank wagon holdup and Stalin escaped Samosky was born in 1884 in Lithuania and left Russia in 1910
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Stalin
Springfield
Ohio
John Samosky
Joseph Stalin
Samosky
Russia
Lithuania
Snowbound Bills Counted in Snowbound Operations
State Highway Commission documented costs from Operation Snowbound as engineers from districts 11 13 and 14 reported equipment rentals and charges for clearing deep winter snows. 11th District West Jefferson area faced record snowfall while air and ground rescue aided hundreds of snowbound families. Road work costs in district 31 could exceed 370 000 with potential million dollar road damage west of the state. The panel also considered funds to study high and low bridge options over the Cape Fear River into Wilmington along with bids over six million dollars on 23 road projects.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
West Jefferson
31Th
Commission
Cape Fear River
Wilmington
White Students Jailed in Alabama Over Lunch with Negroes
A group of 13 white students from Illinois and a MacMurray College professor and his wife were jailed in Montgomery after dining with Black students at a Negro cafe. All released on bond. charges cited disorderly conduct and breach of peace. The incident sparked further sit-ins and boycotts across the South as NAACP leaders and local officials reacted to expanding protests and a federal desegregation suit in Memphis.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Montgomery
Ala
Dixie
R. D. Nesmith
MacMurray College
Jacksonville
Nesmiths
Welfare Department
Rufus Talley
South
University At
Eugene Conner
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Alabama ‘Christian Movement For Human Rights
Memphis
Tenn
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP
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Zett Air Conditioning and Heating CO
Tate
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Tallahassee
Fla
Marshall
Texas
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Talahassee
Birmingham
Winn Dixie
U.S.D.A
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Iisco
Crisco
Save &C—Astor Fruit
Superbrand
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Stratton Motor
Thomasville
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