Eight Negro pupils barred from Sturgis High School
In Sturgis Kentucky eight Black students were refused entry as H Earl Evans read a Union County School Board order. A crowd of about 250 gathered outside while Lt Col Clarence Busch escorted two students inside to retrieve books. National Guard had previously protected the pupils.
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Sturgis
Sturgis High School
H. Earl Evans
Union County School Board
Shelby Garnett
Evans
Carlos Oakley
Clarence O. Busch
Stedman Campbell
Dunbar School
Morganfield
Margaret Garnett
Shirley Beasley
Unbar
James
National Guard
Kentucky
A. B Chandler
God Gave Us the Strength to Withstand Shock
An exhortation on human resilience noting how the eye, feet, hands, heart, and mind endure many shocks. The piece urges gratitude for divine protection and calls readers to use latent abilities to meet life’s stresses with greater ease.
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Robert L. Dieffenbacher
D.D
NEA
Colombian May Be Oldest Living Man
Juan Pereira a 4 foot 4 inch, 75 pound Colombian travels to Cornell Medical Center seeking tests to verify claims he may be the world s oldest living human Estimates place his age as high as 167 years though he cannot read or write and does not know his exact age Doctors note unusually vigorous heart action and circulation for his age with wrist joints and radial artery showing signs of extreme age
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Javier Pereira
Miami
Colombia
Pereira
Fla
New York
Juan Pereira
Columbia
Cornell Medical Center
Jose Miguel Restrepo
San Vicente de Paul Hospital
Medellin
Town Without Telephones Strikes Portsmouth Ohio
Portsmouth Ohio without phone service as a two month long strike closes exchanges. Police declare emergency and call up officers as 25 assailants attack five supervisors, leaving hospitals aided by a local hot rod club courier system.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Ohio River
Hugh Rudity
Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co
Sciotoville
Here
C. E. Williams
Williams
Company
Communication Workers of America
Workers Sign 2 Year Contract in Roanoke Rapids
ROANOKE RAPIDS NC Halifax Paper Co and Local 425 of the International Brotherhood of Papermakers signed a two year contract covering about 37 cents an hour total wage increases and a new pension plan. An immediate 13 cent raise and a 5 percent general rise with a nine cent minimum take effect Sept 15 1957. About 600 hourly workers are affected.
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Roanoke Rapids
Halifax Paper Co
International Brotherhood of Papermakers
Two Men to Take Lie Tests in Skeleton Case
In Raleigh the State Bureau of Investigation arranged lie detector tests for two men, Jack Gantt and Bill Jones, who were questioned in Gaston County about two skeletons found in a burned farm house near Cherryville. The victims were identified as Paul Brown and Robert Pearson.
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Raleigh
State Bureau of Investigation
Gaston County
SBI
James W. Powell
Jack Gantt
Cherryville
Bill Jones
Lincolnton
Paul Brown
Robert Pearson
Dulles urges UN backing for Suez canal users’ group plan
In London John Foster Dulles pushes Egypt toward a canal users association as a stepping stone to a peaceful solution. He says the UN might invoke the scheme as talks with Egypt and major maritime nations continue and outlines a proposed operating staff and governing board.
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Phleger
Dulles
Egypt
Canal Users Association
London
John Foster Dulles
Tas Amida
Oulcs Ullisid
U. S
United Nations
Users’ Association
Nasser
Selwin Lloyd
U. N. Security Council
Sweden
Iran
Spain
Association
West
Suez Canal
Bulganin pushes six power conference on Suez crisis
Soviet Premier Bulganin said Moscow would join a six power heads of state conference with United States Britain Soviet Union France Egypt and India to avert war over Suez. He proposed Geneva as a possible site and offered UN ratification of any agreement.
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Moscow
Bulganin
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
France
Egypt
India
Suez Canal
United Nations
Geneva
International News Service
National Freedom in Washington School Inquiry Opens
Congress opened a District of Columbia subcommittee hearing on racial integration in Washington public schools. NAACP official Clarence Mitchell warned the probe could cost the Democratic Party votes, urging intervention to halt the inquiry. Chairman James C. Davis opened with the legislative origin of the investigation and DC Board of Education President C Melvin Sharpe testified.
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Washington
Congress
The
National Assn.y For the Advancement of Colored People
Democratic Party
House District of Columbia
Clarence Mitchell
NAACP
New York
Ohio
District of Columbia
Mitchell
James C. Davis
D-Ga
C. Melvin Sharpe
District of Columbia Board of Education
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
John McCormack
Massachusetts
Gradual inflationary groundswell seen by economists
A rising number of economists both inside and outside government warn of a long gradual inflationary trend. They cite wage contracts and rising business costs, with productivity lagging. Officials foresee some price increases ahead though not as steep as before, with August CPI possibly dipping from July’s peak. Meat and other goods may rise as new price markups unfold.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington i
White House
President May Shift Tactics
President Eisenhower plans a televised address to lay out a blueprint for a more secure peace and prosperity. He will not barnstorm this campaign but will begin a tour with talks in Iowa at Newton and Des Moines along with the National Field Days event.
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Washington
Stevenson
Nixon
Eisenhower
CBS
Russia
Iowa
Newton
Des Moines
Adlai E. Stevenson
All B52s Grounded After California Crash
The Air Force ordered all B52 bombers grounded to determine the cause of Monday’s crash in California. Gen. Edwin Rawlings announced the measure, with Castle Air Force Base delaying only briefly. Grounding shifts long range nuclear bombing to B36 and B47 aircraft pending investigation.
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Washington
Air Force
California
Air Force Headquarters
Edwin Rawlings
Air Materiel Command
Castle Air Force Base
Calif
Strategic Air Command
Kefauver Promotes Feasible Food Stamp Plan
Senator Estes Kefauver said a government study shows a food stamp plan would be workable and cost less than current farm programs. He argued it would direct surplus food to undernourished Americans and boost retail food sales by about two percent, while noting the Eisenhower plan would waste surplus.
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ST. Paul
Kefauver
Nefativer
Agriculture Department
Joe Smiths Welcomed By Adlai
Adlai E. Stevenson derided a Republican bid for an open convention and framed Joe Smiths as a campaign unifying theme. He unveiled honorary Joe Smith backers including Joseph Edward Smith of Oakland to lead a seven million dollar Democratic fund drive, contrasting Democratic fundraising with Republican wealth.
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Stevenson
Paul M. Butler
Joe Smith
Smith
Nebraska
Nixon
Terry Carpenter
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Carpenter
Joe Smiths
United States
Joseph Edward Smith
Oakland
Calif
Joe Smithslone
Josephine
Pilot goes off course in 150 mile flight from San Antonio
Miss Ingar Eliasson, 35, a waitress who recently learned to fly, departed San Antonio for Corpus Christi and landed hours later at West Port Airfield between Eagle Pass and Laredo, 150 miles off course. She says her compass went haywire.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Ingar Eliasson
San Antonio
West Port
Eagle Pass
Laredo
One-Eyed Monster Breaks Up Family in TV Tale
Sidney Conroy, a 41 year old ice cream salesman in St Colomb, England, tells a court how television ruined his 20 year marriage. He describes the TV as a monster demanding silence and causing estrangement with his wife and children. He admits hiding funds and discarding 204 pounds after a breakdown, and awaits transfer to a higher court on theft charges.
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ST. Columb
England
Sidney Conroy
Conroy
Conroy Bal
Hescue
Ehateer Tae
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