National Guard faces push over segregation report
Washington sources say the presidential committee on equal opportunity may urge withholding funds from states that refuse to desegregate their National Guard units. The scope and tone of the final report, due by year end, highlight ongoing battles with Southern lawmakers and governors over civil rights and guard control.
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Taxpayer for 50 Years Calls for City Manager Exit
A reader signing as HOPS TAXPAYER urges returning to a Mayor and Council government and removing the City Manager after 37 years of dissatisfaction. The letter, dated October 14, 1963, appears in the City edition of The Star.
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Russians Halt Berlin Convoy Threaten Blockade Tactics
The British and Soviets accused each other of delaying tactics at Babelsberg near Berlin as a U S convoy was halted by confusion at the local level. Civilian traffic on the 110 mile Berlin West Germany autobahn continued unaffected.
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Berlin
West Germany
Mirror Sale Ends Mirror Paper Era Amid Bankruptcy
Hearst Corp sells the Mirror to the New York News with severance pay and an employment office for workers. Walter Winchell and other Mirror columnists will appear in the afternoon New York Journal American. Costs rose beyond revenues, deficits grew, and the 14 day city newspaper blackout compounded the Mirror’s troubles.
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Inn Employees to Vote on Representation at Pine Bluff
AP reports Holiday Inn staff in Pine Bluff Ark will vote Thursday on whether to form a labor union or accept a representative. The decision affects hotel workers and could influence labor relations at the Pine Bluff property.
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Deaths Around the Nation: Notables Pass Away
DETROIT AP Robert H Gordon 60 former Broadway show director died Monday in his apartment He directed Call Me Mister Inside USA I Hear America Arabian Nights Washington AP James Knudson 67 ex Interstate Commerce Commission member head of National Defense Transportation Commission 1950 1958 died Sunday of cancer Monterey Calif Julian P Graham 77 specialized in photographing Monterey Peninsula and known for news and mature pictures died Monday of a heart attack New York AP Elizabeth Walsh Long 57 wife of Augustus C Long Texaco Inc chairman died Sunday niece of late Sen Thomas J Walsh Detroit AP Horton Smith 50 longtime leading professional golfers died Monday night at Detroit Golf Club since 1946 Hodgkins disease PGA Hall of Fame member
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Texaco, Inc
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Hall of Fame
Drought and Fires Threaten Midwest and East
Drought damage in southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois may total 35 to 50 million dollars. Record October heat persisted across the eastern half of the country while storms lashed the Central Plains and Mississippi Valley. Hundreds of fires burned thousands of acres across more than a dozen states, with Michigan and Pennsylvania enacting fire bans and restrictions.
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Algerians Mobilize Thousands Amid Barracks Storming
Algerians responded to President Ahmed Ben Bella’s mobilization decree as fighting with Morocco continued. About 30,000 former soldiers were called to report for service, with volunteers flocking to Orleans barracks in Algiers. Talks in Marrakech between Algerian and Moroccan officials, including Mohammed Yazid and Slimane Hoffman, offered no clear progress. Reports from the Sahara indicated a lull in fighting.
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Slimane Hoffman
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Tone Down Continued on Page Two
Kennedy warned that the subcommittee backed civil rights expansions could deter liberal Democrats and risk creating a national police force. The House bill has lingered for four months, must pass Rules, reach the House floor, clear Senate panels, and survive conference before becoming law.
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Regional Weather Update for Missouri Arkansas and Louisiana
Missouri shows partly cloudy skies with scattered showers or thunderstorms through Thursday and cooler afternoon temperatures. Highs near the 80s, lows 57 to 65. Arkansas remains partly cloudy to cloudy with widely scattered storms inland tonight and Thursday. lows 56 to 66, highs mainly in the 80s. Louisiana expects clear to partly cloudy skies with isolated storms in the west today. modest temperature changes with lows 56 to 64 and highs in the 80s to near 90s.
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Collision Fatal to Memphis Man on Highway 27
Earnest Marion Hale, 20, of Memphis Tennessee, was killed Tuesday when his car collided head on with a 2 a pulpwood truck on Highway 27 at the Grant and Jefferson County lines. The truck was driven by Travis J. Voss, 32, of Sheridan, who was uninjured. River levels nationwide were near record lows, affecting barge traffic on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
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Ilia names three retired officers to armed forces posts
Buenos Aires Argentina AP President Arturo Illia named three retired officers Monday night as his armed forces secretaries the most crucial posts in his new government Gen Ignacio Avalos secretary of war Vice Admiral Martin Pita secretary of the navy and Commodore Martin Cairo secretary of the air force
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Parley Begun in Middle East Amid Tense Talks
In Istanbul American ambassadors from 13 Middle East and eastern Mediterranean countries opened a week long meeting. They aim to discuss regional diplomacy and security issues affecting the area. The gathering signals coordinated Western outreach as tensions persist across flashpoints.
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Middle East
Sertoma guest H A Zethren to address Arkansas clubs
AP report from Little Rock says H A Zethren vice president of Sertoma International based in York Nebraska will be guest at a Sertoma clubs dinner in Arkansas district Thursday night in Little Rock.
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