Filibuster Rule Crisis Flares Ahead of Alaska Statehood
The Senate faces renewed friction over the filibuster as Alaska joins the union. Civil rights advocates eye potential leverage but may still struggle to gain ground with 98 senators. Parliamentarians weigh whether the 66 yes votes requirement applies, or if a point of order could bypass the two thirds rule when 98 members sit.
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Washington
Senate
Alaska
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Big Planetarium Program Opens at UNC Tonight
The Morehead Planetarium presents Land Sea and Sky for IGY year with 30 special effects. A. F. Jenzano calls it the largest production yet, featuring simulated flights to the South Pole a Bathyscaphe ocean dive and a Moon zoom. Showings daily 3 and 8:30 p.m. weekends add morning times.
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Chapel Hill
Morehead Planetarium
International Geophysical Year
University of North Carolina
Planetarium
A. F. Jenzano
IGY
South Pole
Antarctic
Jewelry Firm Founder Sylvan Dies at 87 in Columbia
Johannes Bengtson Sylvan 87 founder of Sylvan Bros. jewelry firm died at his Columbia home. A native of near Helsingborg Sweden he built properties in Savannah Tryon Fort Jackson Beaufort and more. Survived by six children including Gus J. Sylvan I and J B Sylvan Jr. born 1870 arrived at 18.
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Columbia
Johannes Bengtson Sylvan
Sylvan Bros
Sylvan
Sylvan Island
Savannah
Tryon
N.C
Beaufort
America
Fort
Montgomery
Ala
Gustaf J. Sylvan
Carolina Elizabeth Coleman
Deling
E. R. Lipscomb
Gus J. Sylvan I
J. B. Sylvan Jr
Dallas, Tex
W. C. Sylvan
Roanoke
Thomas A. Moore
Spartanburg
Typhoid Hospitalizes Five Airmen at Nellis Base
Five airmen at Nellis Air Force Base Las Vegas are hospitalized with typhoid fever marking the first cluster in Clark County in eight years officials say the outbreak is contained to the base and nearby housing with health officials monitoring contacts and sanitation.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nellis Air Force Base
Clark County
State auto fatalities 1956 linked to traffic law violations
Sixty percent of the state's fatal automobile accidents in 1956 involved at least one driver breaking a traffic law or regulation. The statistic highlights law violations as a major factor in deadly crashes.
Court Chiefs and Justices Named in Little Rock Integration Case
The circuit court chief justice Archibald Gardner, age 90, will name three of seven members to hear the appeal on delaying Little Rock high school integration. The case asks if seven Negro students can return after troop-enforced integration. Justice Gardner urged District Judge Davies to quit the case and suggested an Arkansas judge hear the postponement plea. The Arkansas governor faced defeats as the court upheld bans on National Guardsmen at the school.
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Circuit Court
98 Rock Central High School
Supreme Court
Little Rock High School
Archibald K. Gardner
Gardner
U. S. Dist
Harry J. Lemley
Hope
Ark
Little Rock
Joseph W. Woodrough
Omaha
Charles J. Vogel
Fargo
N. D
Martin D. van Oosterhout
Sioux City
Iowa
Harvey M. Johnson
Hastings
Neb
John B. Sanborn
St. Paul
Minn
Martin C. Matthes
St. Louis
Justice Gardner
Ronald Davies
Arkansas
Davies
Circuit
Coolidge
Orval Faubus
Armless Judge Seeks Congress Seat in Florida
A. J. Hayward Jr., 37, armless Pasco County judge, announced as a Democratic candidate for Congress. He aims at the seat held by Rep. William C. Cramer of St Petersburg. The judge, born without arms, was praised in 1952 by the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults for overcoming his handicap.
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Dade City
Fila
A. J. Hayward Jr
Pasco County
William C. Cramer
St. Petersburg
National Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Makes It Second Trip Makes It Second Trip
Austin Gailey of Scarsdale New York went to City Hall to see City Engineer E F Hovermale who as ill in hospital Gailey later fell down stairs and broke his hip after returning to work at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company His roommate was Hovermale in hospital in Washington County Hospital
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Hagerstown
Austin Gailey
Scarsdale
N. Y
City Hall
E. F. Hovermale
Hovermale
Washington County Hospital
Gailey
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Hos Os
Hover
Thieves Steal Bronze Armor Statue From Funeral Home
A thief broke into the Douglas and Sing Funeral Home in Charlotte North Carolina Sunday night and took a 30 inch black bronze statue of a man in a suit of armor holding a lamp. Police said the statue could be recognized if recovered.
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Charlotte
N. C
Douglas & Sing Funeral
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