Kennedy's Guard Still Segregated
The Secret Service said no Negroes serve on the White House police force or the White House detail among about 195 officers. they would hire without race bias, though no Negro has been assigned. The Treasury and labor leaders push for more Negro recruits. two applicants were considered but withdrew. The service notes few Negro agents exist, with about 300 total agents nationwide.
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Secret Service
White House
Kennedy
The
Treasury
Secretary of Labor
Arthur J. Goldberg
District of Columbia Police
Howard University
Howard
Norman Mailer Leads Pro Castro Pickets Near UN
Novelist Norman Mailer joins pro Castro demonstrators outside the United Nations in New York. He criticizes U S Cuba policy as stupid or sinister and compares Kennedy to a Napoleonic figure. Anti Castro crowds grow to about 3000, later marching uptown to the Soviet U N delegation building with eggs stones and a burned Soviet flag.
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New York
Norman Mailer
United Nations
Cuba
America
Mailer
United States
Kennedy
Perk Avenue
U.N
Goldberg Vows Fight On Crime
Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg says he will vigorously enforce labor management corruption controls and indicates a major union embezzlement case may be disclosed soon. He mailed letters to presidents of international unions and major management groups outlining enforcement plans with a call for fairness.
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Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Kennedy
Congress
Hope, Help From Strangers For Crippled Boy In Arkansas
Parents of 18 month old Peter Lollar, born with osteogenesis imperfecta, gain hope thanks to a flood of kindness after an AP photo. Donors discuss possible surgery at Shriner facilities, and letters pour in from across the United States and abroad as the family considers pinning bone marrow with steel pins and learns of potential aid.
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Little Rock, Ark
Peter Lollar
Oris B. Lollar
Peter
Associated Press
Thomas McCluskey
Hopesdale
Ohio
Shriners
San Francisco
Chicago
Mrs. Lollar
Lollars
Jobless U.S. Faces Need for 7.3 Million New Jobs
Washington AP reports the United States must create about 7.3 million jobs in 1962 to cut unemployment toward four percent. Secretaries Goldberg and Hodges stress the challenge from automation and a growing labor force, urging action by management and labor. New Orleans set for 1962 ASNE meeting.
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Washington
United States
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Kennedy
Felix McKnight
Dallas, Tex
Times Herald
New Orleans
Hodges
Congress
Seven-Stage Rocket Fires Meteorite Test Launch
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency announced it fired a seven stage rocket from Wallops Island Virginia. The test sent an artificial meteorite outward and back through the earths atmosphere at 25000 mph. Three stages lifted the craft to 175 miles before the remaining four propelled the meteorite back through space.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
Wallops Island
Broken seats plague Buffalo audience during TV stunt
An AP report describes Captain Kangaroo hosted a children’s music program in Buffalo where youngsters pretended to be bucking broncos to illustrate re entry physics. The stunt caused 32 seats to break as high speed objects and strains of music filled the atmosphere.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Captain Kangaroo
Vet Leader Forecasts Birchs Collapse Over Nonsense
Harold Russell AMVETS national commander warned the John Birch Society would collapse under its own poisonous rhetoric. He urged congressional review to decide if legislation is needed to curb organized oddballs.
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Tribes Hill
N.C
John Birch Society
Harold Russell
Amvets
Russell
Queene Anne Post
China
Earl Warren
Day Eases Rule To Aid Voters
Postmaster General J Edward Day announced a plan allowing local election boards to use change of address files to update voter registration lists. Boards can request temporary access, pay five cents per changed address, saving funds and improving registration accuracy for large districts.
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Washington
J. Edward Day
Day
Democratic
Republican National Committees
Allegheny County Board
Election Board
Duke Student Heads Baptist Youth Group
Anne Strickland a junior at Duke University was elected president of the North Carolina Baptist Student Union at Wake Forest College. Other officers include Ann Smith of Garland publicity chair, Carroll Stegall music director, and John Clinard UNC representative to the BSU Committee.
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Winston-Salem
Anne Strickland
Washington, D.C
Duke University
North Carolina Baptist Student Union
Miss Strickland
BSUS
Wake Forest College
Ann Smith
Garland
North Carolina State
Carroll Stegall
Randleman
Wake Forest
John Clinard
The
University of North Carolina
BSU
General Board of the
Baptist State Convention
Fingerprint rule eases for long stay nonimmigrants
The United States announced that most nonimmigrant foreigners staying longer than a year will no longer need to be fingerprinted. Immigrants remain fingerprinted, while tourists stay exempt. Excluded are travelers from 14 countries where Americans are fingerprinted, including Bolivia Brazil and Spain.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ethiopia
Hong Kong
Malaya
Monaco
Nicaragua
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Spain
Venezuela
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Kim Emmons
Cadillac
Mich
Roxanne Rogers
Fayetteville
N. C
Fort Bragg
Kim
North State
Duke Student Heads Baptist Youth Group
RCA Victor
Total Sound
Rca-Victor
N. Main ST
Busters
Rose
Lavender
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