Marchers Face Large Crowds in Williams ton Protest
About 135 Negro demonstrators marched on Williams ton’s main street under 74 Highway Patrolmen. The 32nd straight night of demonstrations drew roughly 400 white onlookers. Police reported two white arrests, though local agencies had no record, and officials blamed provocations by irate whites for clashes as patrols monitored the march to city hall.
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Williamstown
N. C
Williamston
Highway Patrol
C. A. Speed
Raleigh
Martin County
Floyd Banks
City Hall
S. H. Mitchell
Fayetteville Doctor Dies Of Injuries In Collision
Dr Raymond Pittman a prominent Fayetteville physician and hospital founder died after a head on collision with a pickup in Asheville. He was 75 and died 13 hours after the wreck. The driver James Baxter Lewis 41 of Asheville was in serious condition. Pittman graduated from UNC and Jefferson Medical College in 1910. He built the Pittman hospital in Fayetteville in 1919 and ran it for years. He is survived by wife son and step daughter plus several brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Fayetteville
Raymond Lupton Pittman
Asheville Hospital
Pittman
James Baxter Lewis
Pravda Attacks Red China as Imperialist Foes
Pravda denounces Chinese leaders as bellicose imperialists for opposing the Soviet British American nuclear test ban treaty. It accuses Beijing of siding with the most frenzied imperialist circles in resisting limits on nuclear weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Pravda
Red China
Communist Party
Peking
People’s Daily
Soviet Union
Tar Heel Soldier Credited With Killing Reds in Korea
In Korea a 1st Cavalry Division action near Munson Ni saw Sgt. Abraham McManus of Hamlet North Carolina and Pfc. Robert Eldridge of St Louis Missouri credited with killing two North Korean infiltrators after they ambushed a unit that included Cp. George Larion of Davison Michigan. McManus and Eldridge described rapid fighting with M60 machine guns as they avenged the fallen. Eldridge noted the quick, shifting engagement and confirmed his role as the machine gunner in the division.
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Robert E. Eldridge
St. Louis
Abraham McManus
Hamlet
N. C
Eldridge
Calvary Division
Korea
Munson-Ni
McManus
Cp. George Larion
Davison, Mich
McMants
Larion
Reds
1St Calvary Division
Willie McCovey
San Fran
Cisco Giants
Germany
80Th Artillery
7Th Infantry
Protests continue as police seize eggs at Brooklyn build site
Police arrested four men outside Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn after eggs were seized as missiles during protests for more minority jobs in publicly financed projects. A man charged with felonious assault refused to reveal his name as officers moved 234 cops to contain the crowd amid dozens of arrests citywide over three weeks.
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New York
Downstate
Brooklyn
Milton Galamison
Rutgers
Manhattan
East Side
Rochdale Village
Queens
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Robert F. Wagner
Scientists Seek To Tame Hurricanes By Seeding Clouds
U S scientists plan a three month test to repeat 1961 Storm Fury seeding with silver iodide to dampen hurricane winds. Eleven airplanes, seven Navy and four Weather Bureau, will target a 200 square mile area around the hurricane eye. If results mirror 1961, this could mark a step toward reducing hurricane fury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
U.S
Navy
Weather Bureau
Ward in iron lung near death after Old Bailey verdict
Dr Stephen Ward, 50, lay in an iron lung with bronchial pneumonia and coma after a verdict convicting him on two counts of living off prostitution connected to Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies. Sentencing postponed. Ward to be brought to court in about a week.
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London
Stephen Ward
Britain
Society
Ositeopath
Ward
Old Bailey Court
Profumo
John D. Profumo
House of Commons
Christine Keeler
Home
Henry Brooke
Christine
Marilyn
Mandy) Rice-Davies
Eugene Ivanov
Vicky Barrett
Mervyn Griffith-Jones
Mandy
20Th Century-Fox
Lucky) Gordon
Gordon
Border Leaf Prices Fall On Opening Tobacco Markets
Prices and quality were lower than last year as the South Carolina North Carolina belts opened the season. First hour sales showed a general average of 40 to 50 dollars per hundred pounds with untied tobacco dominating early auctions and heavy volume across markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
North Carolina
Federal State Market News Service
Stabilization Corporation
Georgia-Florida
Ten Killed In Fiery Collision Near Genoa Ohio
A night collision between a bear-truck and a station wagon near Genoa Ohio left ten dead including eight children. Felix Campos and family migrant workers were returning from a movie when the six passenger wagon burned. Charles Strong of Swanton survived by leaping from the cab and was treated in hospital.
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Toledo, Ohio
Genoa
Felix Campos
Emil Webert
Elmore
Ohio
Charles Strong
Swanton
Highway Patrol
Strong
Senate Commerce
JFK
Kennedy open to changes in civil rights plan
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said he would accept limits on covering beauty shops barber shops and swimming pools under public accommodations and supported limited jury trial provisions while resisting a full rewrite. Senator Ervin pressed for a non coverage amendment and Kennedy declined to pledge support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kennedy
Congress
Ervin
Deepening Crisis as Negro Vote Drive Expands
A mass voter registration effort among African Americans grows across the South. In Tuskegee a 50 year old woman learns the registration process with aid from the Tuskegee Civic Association while volunteers visit homes, offer transportation and babysitting, and hold voter clinics to convert prospective voters into registered citizens amid segregation.
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Associated Press
Relman Morin
Tuskegee, Ala
Tuskegee Civic Association
Alabama
TCA
South
Goldwater Attacks Pentagon Civil Rights Directive
Sen. Barry Goldwater accuses a Pentagon directive of creating a police state by barring servicemen from segregated areas near bases. He charges the attorney general shaped the policy via Alfred Fitt and defense civil rights teams with dossiers on local businessmen. A Defense Department spokesman denies the claims. Goldwater calls for an investigation into the directive and its backers.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Pentagon
Arizona Republican
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Goldwater
Senate
Attorney General's Office
Alfred B. Fitt
Secretary of Defense For Civil Rights
Defense Department
Fitt
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
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Miles
Kaesong
Taeryeng
Legen
Korean Action Cross
Munsan
South Korea
Joe Doe
Dr. Ward
W. Mayne Butcher
U.S. Army
Lowell D. Skinner
Akron
Hong Kong
China
Skinner
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Tuskegee
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