Negro Students Skip Orientation in Desegregation Drive
In Pickens County eighty six Negro students scheduled for enrollment in previously all white schools skipped today's orientation, saying they had registered earlier. Principal C W Ward gave no reason for the pre-registration. About 300 students registered, with some parents present, marking further steps in South Carolina’s desegregation of public schools.
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Charleston
Pickens County
C. W. Ward
Daniel High School
Joe C. Durham
Sting
Greenville
Richland
Darlington
Beaufort
Sion
South Carolina
Columbia School Board
Zumbia
Mayor Blames White Youths For Fracas
Blacksburg mayor Clyde Border blames white youths for a racial fracas after a Negro tavern incident. Police say four Negroes from Shelby NC paid for burgers at a white youth drive in, then two cars of white boys followed them to the tavern. Gunfire and bottles are said to have been thrown amid about 100 people and 75 Negroes. No injuries reported. Police may file charges. officials say names are on hand and investigations continue.
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Blacksburg
D.C
Clyde Border
Shelby
N.C
Leroy Earls
Border
J. P. Strom
Earl Collins
Collins
Fireworks Explosion Kills 42 in Mexican Celebration
In Atlatlahuca Toluca, central Mexico, a pile of fireworks exploded during a religious celebration, killing 42 people and injuring 33. Rescue workers sifted through debris as officials warned the death toll could rise and noted flames from nearby inflammable gas tanks. Authorities have not determined the cause.
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Toluca
Mexico
Here
Atlatlahuca
Drop Staged For Civilians In Highland Fox Drill
In Albemarle North Carolina members of the 6th Special Forces Group staged a para chute drop for civilians including Representative James T. Broyhill and mayors Dwight Stokes and Joe Taylor during a Highland Fox exercise. The war game aims to teach troops to cope with guerrilla fighting as seen in Vietnam.
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Albemarle
N.C
6Th Special Forces Group
James T. Broyhill
Convention Underlines Division Among Tar Heel Democrats
Atlantic City hosts North Carolina Democratic figures as Governor Terry Sanford chairs a divided delegation to the 1964 national convention. Dan K. Moore leads a separate camp after defeating Sanford ally Richardson Preyer in a runoff, signaling intra party splits ahead of Raleigh’s executive committee meeting to choose new leadership.
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William A. Shir
Atlantic City
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Sanford
L. Richardson Preyer
Hugh Cennon
Bert Benett Jr
W. H
Bill) White
Joyce Woodhouse
CID Board
Hargrove W. Bowles Jr
Raity Finance
Clifton L. Benson
Bruce Poole
Raleigh
Richardson Preyer
Preyer
Dan K. Moore
Canton
Moore
Sanford- Bennett - Preyer
Bennett
Benson
Democratic Executive Committee
Seri
J. Melville Broughton Jr
Broughton
Bishop Defends Priests Rights in Birch Society Stance
The Bridgeport, Connecticut bishop, The Most Rev Walter W Curtis, defends priest Francis E Fenton's right to belong to the John Birch Society. Fenton, rector of Blessed Sacrament Church, sits on the society's national council and faced diocesan reprimand last year after backing a petition to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Walter W. Curtis
Bridgeport
John Birch Society
Francis E. Fenton
Blessed Sacrament Church
National Council of the Society
Father Fenton
Earl Warren
Undersea Mountain Found Near Wake Island Discovery
Washington AP scientists report an undersea mountain 14 130 feet high below the Pacific surface 175 miles south of Wake Island. The Pioneer crew on a six month Indian Ocean expedition located the peak about 2 800 feet beneath the sea. The feature rises roughly as tall as California’s Mt Whitney from the ocean floor.
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California
Mt. Whitney
Pacific Ocean
The
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Wake Island
Pioneer
Indian Ocean
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