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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jul 24, 1959

Page

3

Little Rock High Schools Sign Up Negro Students for Fall Term

In Little Rock, 24 Negro students registered for fall term at Central High and Hall High, amid ongoing desegregation efforts. The three-day intake showed most registrations at Central, with a surge the moment doors opened. one student shifted to a Negro high school when preferred course was unavailable.

Little Rock Lyttle Rock Ark UPD Ee Central High Central Hall High Lozrat

Little Old Lady Refuses to Pay Traffic Fine in Jail

CHICAGO UPi A 72 year old woman driver chose jail over paying an 18 dollar traffic fine. A dozen people offered to cover the amount but Miss Zora Squier stayed jailed to uphold her principle. Judge Norman Eiger noted he wished to pay the fine but said no citizen can defy the courts. Miss Squier insisted she was not guilty and would not leave. A neighbor later offered 13 dollars, a photographer added 3, but she remained in jail to serve the remaining seven days of her eight day sentence.

Chicago Upi Zora Squier Volza Teered Sliss Squire Detec- Classified Andrew Aitken Miss Squier Norman N. Eiger Eiger Miss Sq John G. Nalmsten

Officer Shoots Self in Accidental Leg Wound

An incident near Los Angeles involving San Bernardino lieutenant EE Etewre shows two companions during a rapid pistols display. He accidentally wounded his right leg.

Los Angeles EE Etewre San Bernardino

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