Newsmen Lose Jobs as Two Los Angeles Papers Fold
In Los Angeles 270 newsroom staffers lose jobs as two metropolitan papers shut, while about 70 more accept positions at remaining papers. The Mirror and Examiner fold, with the Herald-Express and Times absorbing staff, and severance packages up to 60 weeks and retirement plans offered.
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Morning Times
Evening Mirror
Times-Mirror Co
Afternoon Herald-Express
Morning Examiner
Hearst Publishing Co
The
Mirror
the Times
Examiner
Hearst
Herald-Examiner
Herald
Times-Mirror
Hearst Company
Mississippi nightclub owner slain in gangland style
James Grubbs, 33, was shot beside his pickup while pleading for life. J W Riley, 35, a former convict, surrendered and admitted the shooting. Witnesses saw a 16 gauge shotgun fired as Grubbs kept his hands up.
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Tupelo
Miss
Mississippi
James Grubbs
Frank Carter
J. W. Riley
Carter
Riley
Grubbs
Bill Miles
Tupelo Daily Journal
Nehru Declares India Will Not Withdraw From Goa
Prime Minister Nehru told a cheering Con gress audience that India would never withdraw from Goa and the two former Portuguese enclaves. He warned that Western powers backing a provisional Goan government in Lisbon would complicate matters, calling Portugal a Fascist dictatorship. He reaffirmed peaceful, nonaligned policy and friendship with all nations even those opposed to India.
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Patna
India
Nehru
Lisbon
Goa
Congress Party
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Portugal
United States
Britain
Himalayan
Kashmir
United Nations
Congo
U.N. Sec
Bragg Units Ready For War Games
Army troops from Fort Bragg will arrive in Monongahela National Forest next Wednesday for six months of war games. About 380 soldiers from the 7th Special Forces Group and the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division will live with no shelter as supplies are dropped from aircraft to simulate survival conditions.
Tent City Emerges For Evicted Negro Tenants In Tennessee
In Brownsville Tennessee three olive drab tents rise in a cornfield signaling western Tennessee's second tent city for evicted Negro tenant farmers. Six families await moving in as white landowners deny mass evictions while a federal injunction restricts removals tied to voter registration efforts.
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Brownsville
Tenn
Tennessee
Odel Sanders
Haywood County
Somerville
Fayette County
League of Negro Citizens
Frank Harper
Memphis
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Los Angeles
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Dag Hammarskjold
U.N
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Krishna Menon
China
North State
Paramount Theater
E. Commerce ST
Cristan
Corey
Bettie Wind & Weather
Dewitts
KOTEX
Westinghouse
Norris
Panaee
iPanayy
Money Back
SEE Carton
VICKS
VAPO
Dorothy Gray
High Point Enterprise
Eckerds
Eckerd’s
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Eckerd’s Drug Stores
South Main and
College Village Shopping Center
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