Segregation Return Recommended in District of Columbia Schools
A House subcommittee report concludes that rapid school integration in the District of Columbia has damaged public education and led to higher costs while increasing juvenile delinquency and sex offenses. It urges reestablishing racially separate schools on an equal basis and cites scant preparation by the Board of Education. The panel, led by Rep. James C. Davis, prompts controversy among local school officials and echoes broader Southern bus desegregation disputes across Tallahassee Birmingham Baton Rouge Nashville and Tampa.
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District of Columbia
Eisenhower
Subcommittee
Associated Press
Deep South
House
Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Board of Education
James C. Davis
D-Ga
M. B. Pettit
Tallahassee
Fla
Birmingham
Ala
Cities Transit, Inc
Robert E. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
U.S. Supreme Court
Montgomery
Nashville
Pair Held For Grand Jury Action
Dillon County coroner's jury recommended holding a man and a woman for grand jury action in the November auto crash that killed Lumberton North Carolina couple Mr and Mrs Alton E Harris. The Parham woman was injured and the driver Locklear was named as an accessory before the fact. The jury heard testimony of liquor possession and driving without a license.
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Dillon
S.C
Dillon County
Lumberton
N.C
Alton E. Harris
Azille B. Parham
Earl Locklear
Harris
Anna
Parham
Florence
Locklear
Sam Bigger
B. F. Gasque
Harley Allen
Allen
Explosion hits American Cyanamid plant near Edinburg
An early morning blast rocked the American Cyanamid Co. chemical plant between Edinburg and Mount Jackson injuring one worker and shaking four others. Police and Civil Defense set up a five mile traffic ban as crews investigated in New Castle area near Beaver Falls and Edinburg.
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New Castle
American Cyanamid Co
Edinburg
Warren Calderwood
Beaver Falls
Mount Jackson
Pittsburgh
Camden Band Director Beaten by Hooded Men
Camden High School band director Guy Hutchins about 50 was hospitalized after a midnight assault by four or five hooded men accusing him of making an integration speech. He says they tied him to a tree, beat him with a board, and threatened to shoot him before fleeing. Hutchins had appeared on a Charlotte NC TV program and says he never spoke on integration to the Lions Club Auxiliary.
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Camden
S.C. W
Guy Hutchins
Kershaw County
D. E. Hilton
Hutchins
Hilton
Charlotte
N.C
Westville
Here
U.S. 521
Lions Club
Mount Zion
J. W. Brunson
Lions Auxiliary
Stock Market Mixed With Slight Upturn In Early Trading
Stocks moved mixed with small gains and losses as oils rose on Suez clearing hopes and rails and metals posted modest advances. DuPont Dow Jones and Gulf Oil led early movers while Ford and Santa Fe edged lower and aircrafts fell. The Associated Press 60 stock average rose to 180.80 at noon as oil, steel, and utility groups showed varying strength.
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New York
Suez Canal
Weeks
Lukens Steel
Bethlehem
Youngstown
U.S Steel
Gulf Oil
Royal Dutch and
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Texas Co
Ford
Studebaker-Packard
Illinois Central and Southern Railway
Santa Fe
Baltimore & Ohio
Southern Pacific
Associated Press
Steel tax clash slows expansion drive and price pressure
Uncle Sam denies fast depreciation for new steel mills delaying expansion plans and possibly lifting steel and wider prices. Steelmakers push for replacement-based depreciation arguing current costs warrant more liberal tax writeoffs. The impact could slow industrial expansion and affect other sectors. President Roosevelt noted as a bird watcher with seven species observed at the White House.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Sam
Washington
Dow Jones Averages at Noon and 1 P.M.
The Dow Jones averages show 30 industrials at 496.05 496.87 496.38 with 460,000 to 2,420,000 shares traded. Rails at 1638 and 153.72 to 156.4, utilities at 67.89, and 20 rails at 173.07 173.37.
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Bache
Cotton futures rise amid mixed New York trading
Trading on the New York market shows cotton futures advancing by five to twenty five cents per bale with several contract months quoted higher. Major industrial and consumer stocks such as Dow Chemical and General Electric display notable activity while the stock list includes many large U.S. firms with varied percentages.
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New York i
Idec
Icpsa
Dow Chemical
Eastern Airlines
Consolidated Edison
Eastman Kodak
Greyhound Corp
General Dynamics
General Electric
Gulf Oil
General Motors
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
International Harvester
International Tel. & Tel
Standard Oil Co
Jones Laughlin Steel
Johns Manville
Loew's Inc
Norfolk & Western Ry
Phillips Petroleum
Pennsylvania Railway
Ie epsi-Cola
Procter & Gamble Reynolds Tobacco
Republic Steel
Sears Roebuck
Southern Railway
J. P. Stevens Co
American Tel. & Tel
the Texas Co
Union Carbide & Carbon
United Aircraft Corp
Westinghouse Electric Co
U. S. Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
F. W. Woolworth Co
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Bache & Company
American Can Co
Allied Chemical & Dye
American Tobacco Co
the Borden Co
Bethlehem Steel
Burlington Mills Corp
Chrysler Corp
New York Central RR
Business Mirror
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Iee
Enterprise
Is Payments
High Point
East Commerce Street
Winston-Salem
North Cherry Street
Greensboro
North Elm Street
Asheville
Concord
Durham
Gastonia
Raleigh
Salisbury
Wilmington
Libbys
Pita OS Nene
Dow-Jones
GRACE
N. Wrenn & Howell
Sts
Tobias
Tobles
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