Complaint forces Hotfoot Sam Q to quit dancing
Milford Delaware residents complained that Hotfoot Sam Q, real name Charles Jackson, a 60s Black street performer who stuck bottle caps to his feet and danced for coins on summer weekends, was noisy and a bad influence on children. He said he misses work and earned about 30 dollars a weekend but kept none. He now works as a farm laborer after moving here 12 years ago.
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Hotfoot
Charles Jackson
Milford
Delaware
Ieeine
Mit
Reler
A. Mitchell
Mrs.Mitchell
Holfoot
Red Fighters Downed By PETER ARNETT 3
U S and allied air units claim success against North Vietnamese targets during a day of air strikes over northern Vietnam. Phantoms reportedly destroyed MIGs south of Hanoi while bombers hit bridges depots and buildings 85 miles northwest. Navy jets engaged in dogfights near the coast and a Viet Cong junk raid 290 miles northeast of Saigon produced casualties.
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Peter Arnett
Phtom
Viet Nam
U. S
Hanoi
U.S
Nam Dinh
South
Sait
Par
Boy survives Niagara plunge five year memory fade
In Lakeland Florida Roger Woodward recalls the 1960 Niagara Falls accident when a snapped pin on a boat ride led to a plunge over Horseshoe Falls. He, his sister Deanne, and foreman James Honeycutt faced the torrent. Honeycutt died, Roger survived, and a passing officer from New Jersey helped Deanne escape.
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Lakeland
Fla
Roger Woodward
Frank Woodward
Roger
Niagara Falls
Deanne
James Honeycutt
Niagara
Falls
Niagara River
Honeycutt
Mr. Honeycutt
John R. Hayes
Union Township
N. J
New York Mayor Wagner to marry Barbara Cavanagh
AP reports Mayor Robert F Wagner, 55, plans a July 26 wedding to Barbara Jo Cavanagh, sister of Deputy Mayor Edward Cavanagh. The ceremony will be at St Patrick’s Cathedral with Archbishop Spellman presiding. Wagner’s sons Robert Jr 21 and Duncan 18 expected as best man and groomsman.
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NEW York
Robert F. Wagner
Barbara Joat’ Cavanagh
Edward “Fy 'Cavanaghl
Robert Jr
Wagner
Duncan
Francis Cardinal Spellman
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Miss Cavanagh
House Passes Vote Rights Bill 333 85
The House approved a tough voting rights bill by 333 to 85, aiming to clear the polls for Negroes in the South. It suspends literacy tests in six states and allows federal registrars to sign up Black voters, but clashes with the Senate over poll taxes may delay enactment.
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House
Washington
Senate
Senate House
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Georgia
South Carolina
Virginia
North Carolina
Rep
Hale Boggs
Boggs
Cat Lives High In Tree In Hampton Neighborhood
In Hampton Georgia an attractive brunette and her three children feed a grey striped cat that climbed a spreading oak tree three weeks ago Friday. For two weeks they use a long cane pole to pass food to the cat as it clings to thin upper branches. The family, Jim 13 Ginger 11 Betty Ann 6, hope the cat will descend while attempting to coax it with meals.
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Hampton, Ga
J. J. Henderson
Hendersons
Earth
Henderson
Jim
Ginger
Betty Ann
See the USA First Push Highlights Travel Plans
President Johnson urges Americans to travel as many High Pointers plan trips this summer. Danny Greene reports in the Sunday Enterprise about the national theme and reader interest. Don Wrenn examines Randolph County library service gaps, especially Archdale Trinity, in a forthcoming Enterprise report.
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USA
Johnson
Danny Greene
Sunday Enterprise
Randolph ‘County
Archdale- Trinity
Don Wrenn
Enterprise Tomorrow
Bedridden farm wife paints to fund ranch life
Mrs. B. C. Edwards, 44, paralyzed from the waist down for 14 years, supports herself by selling paintings and raising livestock from her bed or wheelchair in Wichita. Once a rodeo performer, she still breaks a colt from her chair, buys cattle with painting proceeds, and helps butcher two steers each fall to provide meat for the year.
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Wichita
Kan
B. C
Georgie
Edwards
E. C. Edwards
Senate Approves Medicare in Bipartisan Vote
The Senate and House backed a landmark Medicare plan aiding 19 million seniors and boosting Social Security checks. Senate passage by 68 to 21 sends bill to conference with the House, which approved its version 516 to 114. Key elements include a basic hospital and home health plan for those 65 plus, a voluntary supplemental insurance with a $3 monthly premium, and a 7 percent Social Security increase retroactive to January 3. Estimated annual program cost around $7 billion funded mainly by higher Social Security taxes.
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Washington
Senate
House
S. C. Accident Kills 4 Persons
Four people died and six were injured in a three car crash near Prichardville in Lower Beaufort County. All victims were Black. The injured were transported to a Savannah hospital about ten miles away. State troopers released initial details. identities of the dead were not yet known.
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Beaufort
S. C
Prichardville
State Highway Patrol
C. Taylor
Savannah
Vietnamese Take Town After Viet Cong Overrun
South Vietnamese troops cleared shattered corpses, reoccupied Dak To district after Communist guerrillas overran it. Regulars began withdrawing, leaving a Militia guard, district chief stripped of rank, and the defense of Highway 14. Over two regiments of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars patrolled the nearby mountains with ambush risks high. Fresh graves lined the town’s outskirts as the area remained tense 275 miles north of Saigon.
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Dak
South
Viet Nam
Horst Faas
Dak TO
South Viet Nam
Taguard
Highway 14
Highland Plateau
Pleiku
Saigon
Harlem Fall Kills Baby and Injures Babysitter
A two year old girl was killed and her 14 year old babysitter critically injured when they fell five stories from a Harlem window early today. Jerry Patterson told police he sat on a sill with the baby on his lap when he became dizzy and toppled into a rear courtyard. Patterson remained in critical condition at Knickerbocker Hospital with internal injuries and a broken leg. Neighbors said Patterson had cared for the child since moving from Winston-Salem, North Carolina two weeks ago.
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New York
Harlem
Jerry Patterson
Tampa
Patterson
Knickerbocker Hospital
Winston-Salém
N. C
Telephone Jrritae
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US. Navy
Hoa
Ha ‘Noi
U. S. Navy
Qui Nhon
Medicare
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