Dodgers Move to Los Angeles Faces City Vote
The Los Angeles City Council adjourned after a night session amid four failed amendments to a Dodgers relocation contract. Mayor Poulson’s telegram signaled the council could muster the 10 votes needed for passage on second reading, paving the way for Walter OMalley to announce transferring the Dodgers to the West Coast. A bomb scare interrupted the debate as police searched the chamber.
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Los Angeles
Aft- Council
John S. Giber
Brooklyn Dodgers
Los Ans
Beles
Norris Poulson
Dodger
Walter O'Malley
West Coast
O'Malley
Poulson
Dodgers
Gunman Killed After Slaying 2 State Troopers
A chaotic downtown gun battle in North Vernon Indiana left two state troopers dead and a gunman killed as a woman and another gunman escaped with a Jennings County deputy hostage. Authorities linked the incident to a Michigan trooper shooting and car thefts, with a suspect and a woman later cornered in nearby woods.
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North Vernon, Ind
Indiana
Scottsburg
Ind
Michigan
North Vernon City
Jennings County
Oree
North Vernon
Louisville
William Kelems
Kellems
Lester Kenens
Robert Tond
Clyde Perkins
Fennings
Police Put on Alert in Amman
Jordanian police and troops went on alert in Amman amid rising tensions in the three cornered Syrian Jordanian Israeli dispute. Israel accused Syria of raiding and kidnapping two UN observers and an Israeli lieutenant from a UN post near the Syrian border. The abducted were returned to Israel. Syria charged former director Adib Shishaley with complicity in an American plot to overthrow the government, naming former embassy secretary Howard Stone as organizer.
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Amman
Jordan
Israel
United Nations
U. N
Syria
Adib Shishaley
Howard Stone
Changing Capital race composition in Washington DC schools
U S News chart shows the city’s school population at 70 percent Negro and 30 percent white, with 77 000 Negro children and 93 000 whites. It notes white child enrollment dropping while Negro share rises, and reports 45 percent of the city’s Negro population. The piece continues on Page A-8.
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U.S
France Premier Bourges-Maunoury Falls to No Confidence Vote
In Paris the Bourges-Maunoury government loses a no confidence vote in the National Assembly by 279 to 253, triggering resignations. President Coty asks the premier to stay on for now, continuing current business as France awaits a new formation. Bourges-Maunoury, 42, heads a coalition and began office June 12 as France’s youngest postwar premier.
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Paris
Ufi—Premiser
Mauri
Bourges-Maunoury
Setia
National Assembly
Elysee Palace
Rene. Coty
Coty
Guy Mollet
France
Armand Fallieres
Charles de Gaulle
School Bus Crash Kills 3 Pupils and Injures 24 More
A school bus crash killed three pupils and injured twenty four others after braking failed and the bus plunged into a ditch turning upside down. The driver Meldon Smith was pictured seated with a bloodied face as authorities investigated the incident.
Hoffa Pressure Rapped by Foes at Teamsters Meet
At the Miami Beach convention James R. Hoffa faced opposition from foes who pressed for AFL CIO involvement. John F. English blasted Dave Beck and urged restraint as Hoffa, the Detroit union vice president, solidified his command amid ongoing union scandals and a three day cleanup order.
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Miami Beach
Fla
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters
Afl‘cio
George Meany
John F. English
Dave Beck
Hoffa
Detroit Union
Beck
Ate
Oceanfront
English
AFI+CIO
Afl-Cio
William A. Lee
Chicago
Patrols Pared in Little Rock
In Little Rock Arkansas troops scale back patrols at Central High as integrated classes resume. Barricades are removed and bayonets sheathed while a lighter military presence watches students including Ning Negro youths who walk home with Army vehicles. Paratroops recalled, inner and outer posts reduced to two-man foot patrols amid the court ordered enforcement near the school.
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Little Rock
Ark
Central High School
Ning Negro
Roguish Monday Night Chaos at the L Ta Tower
A balmy autumn day gave way to turmoil inside the L Ta tower as a party of boys celebrated while an Army helicopter landed beside a playing field where white and Negro girls played softball during gym class. The scene shifts to a federal district binge as Judge Ronald Davies weighs a decision amid the uproar.
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Federal District
Ronald Davies
Bess Truman Brother Dies in Denver
Fred Wallace, 57, brother in law of former President Harry S. Truman, died Monday of heart disease at Porter Sanitorium after an earlier heart attack. His wife and sister Mrs. Bess Truman were at his bedside. Truman traveled from Independence, Missouri. Wallace was an adjuster for the Colorado Highway Department and had lived in Denver 15 years.
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Denver
UPI
Fred Wallace
Harry S. Truman
Wallace
Porter Sanitorium
Bess Truman
Mrs. Truman
Largest private ship-building order by American revealed
Pendleton Marine captain, nearing retirement, faces three years in prison for embezzlement as the paper notes a major maritime history marked by a five super-tanker order.
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Pendleton Marine
Ponday
Runaway Parochial Bus Plunges 25 Feet Into Ravine
A All Saints Parochial School bus carrying 35 to 40 children crashed through a guard rail and toppled into a 25 foot ditch on Highsby Ave in East Los Angeles. Three children Steven Majorca 8 John DeSantis 8 Edward Alwelling died later at Central Receiving Hospital. At least 24 others injured with some in critical condition. Driver Meldon Smith 53 trapped for 30 minutes, rescued by firefighters and taken to hospital with a broken arm. The brakes allegedly failed as the bus failed to stop at a dead-end torrid downhill grade. The crash occurred near a high school as students were being dismissed. Further details on page A-5.
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Los. Angeles
Meldon Smith
Steven Majorca
John DeSantis
Edward ‘Alwelling
Central Receiving Hospital
All Saints
Highland Park
Wau
Los Angeles
Dam Break Traps Fla. Motorists
Rain swollen Lake Tarquin burst its dam flooding State Highway 20 in Liberty County Florida. Rescuers pulled five people including two state legislators from swift waters, while four remained missing. Civil Air Patrol planes aided in rescuing occupants of three cars and a truck swept away. State Sen. Bart Knight recounted clinging to a tree limb for two hours before rescue and was hospitalized in Quincy Florida.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Lake Tarquin
Liberty County
Here
Civil Air Patrol
Ochrockner
Tarquin
Gulf Coast
Bart Knight
Blountstown
Knight
Quincy
Fis
Lon
Washington
Air Force Assn
Florida
Ed Peters
Knight's
Air Force
Air
Army
J.B. Medaris
Defense
W. M. Holaday
Wilson
A. Sa
America
Air ‘Force
Red Chine
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Clinton
Mich
Gordon Lecromier
Jackson
Clifton
L.A.C
Voi
Miter
Eas English
Roger, Dodger
L Ta
Nary
Troe
L.A
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