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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1957
Page
1
James Marlow analyzes how filibuster rules constrain civil rights legislation in the new Congress. He notes Senate reluctance, party splits, and the impact of Democratic and Southern factions on prospects for reform during the current session.
A Associated Press survey shows 1956 highway deaths rose over 1955 by at least five percent, totaling over 40,000. States plan tougher safety laws and enforcement, patrols, tighter licenses, inspections, National Guard support, roadblocks, radar speed checks, and new or expanded speed limits to curb the rising carnage.
Crime reports say a man with a German accent warned of a bomb at the American Museum of Natural History and other sites including Roxy Theater and City College of New York. Bomb squads found a four inch imitation device and evacuated institutions in New Britain Connecticut and Ramsey New Jersey, among others, with several manufacturing plants affected.
Two inmates jailed on burglary and grand larceny charges escaped from the White County jail in Searcy after knocking down a guard in the exercise area. Keneth Ray Bull and Marlin Dale Williams, both 22, fled as Sheriff Jack Price said authorities pursued roadblocks with city police, state troopers, and National Guardsmen. Ball, 18, and brother Jerry Thorn were already in custody on related burglaries. Williams faced additional charges tied to Oklahoma, with Ball remaining jailed.
Northern Ireland police say two IRA raiders were fatally wounded in a minute attack on a police barracks near here. Six constables inside fought back as two truckloads of attackers fired and grenades exploded. Bodies of two raiders found later. four bystanders wounded at a New Year roadblock. An American Airlines plane was searched for bombs with no findings amid bomb threats.
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