Testimony in Hurst Case Continues in Arkansas Trial
In Hot Springs the government presses the income tax evasion case against state Sen. Q Byrum Thurst. Witnesses include a garbage collector, babysitter, shoe salesman and milkman detailing expenses from 1956 to 1959 as prosecutors seek unreported income totaling 22913 dollars. Court records show 358 exhibits and 120 witnesses. trial expected to extend through the week.
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Hot Springs, Ark
Q. Byrum Thurst
U.S. District Court Today
Hurst
Hot Springs
U.S
Hursts
Air Group Assigned to Little Rock Air Force Base
Testimony before a House Appropriations Subcommittee disclosed plans to assign a Strategic Air Command B58 medium bomber mission to Little Rock AFB. The Air Force seeks 1,646,000 for base facilities to support the B58 and other units, including a heavy air refueling squadron, a strategic missile squadron, and an Air National Guard mission.
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House
Air Force
Strategic Air Commandiay
Little Rock Air Force Base
Congress
Air National Guard
Col
F. L. Luschen
Directorate of Aerospace Programs
Carswell Air Force Base
Tex
Carswell
Baz
Luschen
Governors Meet TOKYO in Japan cultural trade ties
American and Japanese governors will convene in Tokyo from October 14 to 18 to discuss expanding cultural exchanges and boost trade links between the two nations.
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Tokyo
Amercan
Hot Springs Moves Toward School Desegregation
Hot Springs School Board announced plan to desegregate elementary schools this fall, becoming the third Arkansas city to act. Desegregation will begin in first and second grades, with assignments for grades 3-12 staying by last year’s or orientation school. The board stressed local control and urged public support while noting no member agrees with the Supreme Court decision.
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Hot Springs
Ark
James Donald Rice
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Young Women’s Christian Association
Two Escape Jail at Des Arc in Prairie County
DES ARC Ark AP Two men sawed through a jail cell bar and escaped from Prairie County Jail in Des Arc. Sheriff E O Hamilton said Robert Davidson and Richard Williams both in their early 20s were jailed on two burglary charges and one for possession of stolen merchandise. He noted they came from California last year and had lived between Hazen and De Valls Bluff. They were previously arrested in January for a Hazen burglary and out on bond when arrested again Aug 2 over a July 3 robbery.
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Ark
Prairie County
Hamilton
Robert Davidson
Richard Williams
Arkansas
California
Hazen
de Valls Bluff
Arkansas districts integrating by year in schools
About 13 school districts in Arkansas admit Negro students with whites while Little Rock stands as the only city with a sizeable Negro high school presence, reporting 114 Negro students in high and secondary schools.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Faubus urges local solutions to curb conflicts at tax admin meeting
Governor Orval Faubus told 400 delegates at the Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators luncheon that problems should be solved locally to prevent growth. He warned specialization fuels conflicts of opinion and urged understanding. Chester Lauck of Lum and Abner fame is scheduled to speak at a closing banquet in Biscay. The sheriff said a stolen car may have been used in the getaway.
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Ark
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators
Chester Lauck
Lum
Abner
Rioting Workers Free Prisoners in Brazzaville Clash
Congolese workmen storm Brazzaville prison amid a strike over wages and graft accusations against President Youlou. Police fire kills at least five, injures several as explosions rattle the city. Diplomatic sources note no American involvement.
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Congo
Fulbert You- Jou
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You- Jou
Picket at United Nations seeks fair hiring in 1964 65 exposition
Seventy civil rights demonstrators picketed the United Nations in New York calling on nations to halt construction exhibits at the 1964 65 World’s Fair until more Negroes and Puerto Ricans are hired. James Farmer warned protests could move to fair sites in Flushing Meadow Park. Signs urged African pavilions be built with nonwhite labor and representatives noted no Negroes or Puerto Ricans were employed at pavilion sites in Guinea and Sierra Leone as of last week.
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New York
United Nations
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Waquality
Flushing Meadow Park
Queens
U.N. Plaza
Joint Committee For Equal Employment Opportunity
Guinea
Sierra -Leone
Dear Helen and the Poor Little Rich Girl
A reader asks if a wealthy teenage girl may publish stories and poems now. Helen Worden Erskine says yes with effort, practice, and submitting to magazines, cites Poetry and Seventeen contests, advises building writing skills, avoiding cliches, and reading broadly.
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Helen Worden Ersking
Helen
Seventeen
Notes in Butts case differ from Burnett records
Atlanta AP A real estate agent testified that the seven pages of notes Burnett had after the Butts Bryant call were not the same notes Carmichael had seen. The seventh day of Wally Butts libel suit featured Burnett’s revised recounting as he faced questions about the 1962 Alabama game rigging claim.
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Wally Butts
George P. Burnett
John Carmichael
Burnett
Carmichael
Georgia
Paul
Bear) Bryant
Alabama
Allen Lockerman
Defensor
Welborn Cody
Butts
Curtis Publishing Co
Evening Post
Bryant
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