Freedom March Faces Courtroom Feud and Mississippi Tension
A Las Vegas city panel debated hiring a consultant to study Municipal Court operations amid backlogs and possible court-building needs. In Mississippi, King led 500 freedom marchers in Philadelphia while whites jeered and a separate Canton protest faced heavy police guard as Mer edith rejoined the walk toward Jackson.
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Canton
Miss
UPI
Martin Luther King
Freedom” Walkers
Philadelphia
Freedom
Jackson
Mississippi Capitol
James H. Meredith
Meredith
University of Mississippi
Memphis
Tenn
King
Negro District
Burr Head
Stokely Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
America
Foster Kids Return To Las Vegas Family
Three foster children returned to Robert D. and Joyce Rafey in Las Vegas after state officials investigated irregularities in foster placements. The children, two girls and a boy, will stay with the Rafeys until July 1 when the Welfare Board's recommendation on felon foster placements is issued. The case sparked scrutiny after a burglary suspect with prior felonies was placed with three parolees from Elko Reformatory.
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Las Vegas
Robert D. Rafey
Joyce
Palm Ave
Grant Sawyer
Rafey
Sawyer
Elko Boys Reformatory
Raley
Colorado
State Welfare Board
Teamster Claims Lockout Amid Atomic Energy Trade Talks
Kiehn reports talks with the union continue this weekend with a federal mediator present. The Building and Construction Trades Council kept its workers at work at the AEC facility, while contracts barred sympathy strikes and lockouts. Carter accuses Reynolds of trying to trigger a general strike and cites travel pay cuts as a leverage point. The Trades Council has not yet learned of the alleged lockout and will meet Monday to decide its stance.
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Kiehn
Building and Construction Trades Council
Teamsters
Atomic Energy Commission
Carter
Kevin Efroymson
First Aid
Reynolds
Silvaggios vow to rebuild Tropics club after arson attack
Two men beat a bartender at 7 a.m. and threatened Negro owners amid a fire that destroyed the Tropics in Paradise Valley Las Vegas. The Silvaggios, leasing talks with Sammy Davis Jr and Bob Bailey, face questions about motive. Frank Silvaggio leads P and J Enterprises. fire chief cites arson experts.
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Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Paradise Valley
Silvaggios
Sammy Davis Jr
Bob Bailey
Las Vegas
Sammy
Bailey
Sammy Davis
Mississippi
Tropics
Davis and Bailey
Silvaggio
Frank Tegano
Pat Ginn
Sahara Boulevard
al Silvaggio
Frank
Nevada exec orders curtail anti-buncer practice
The governor cites two years of federal and state law violations in Nevada and accuses officials of abuses. Sawyer, two months into office, says the president issued an execution order prohibiting the practice and resists government overreach, proclaiming a free country.
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Sawyer
Solicitor General
United States
Nevada
Court Will Take Entire Summer To Decide Jack Ruby's Fate
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals heard Ruby defense lawyers argue for a new trial contending perjured testimony and improper pretrial procedures tainted the Oswald killing verdict. They urged the court to overturn the conviction or grant a retrial, noting Supreme Court reversals in comparable cases and the impact of publicity on the trial.
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Jack Ruby
Austin, Tex
UPI
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ruby
Tonahill
Oswald
U.S. Supreme Court
Sam Sheppard
Cleveland
Billie Sol Estes
West Texas
Gertz
Sol Dann
Detroit
Phil Burleson
Dallas
Sam Houston Clinton Jr
Austin
Supreme Court
Danny Eacobedo
Ernesto Miranda
OAS to withdraw IAPF from Dominican Republic
The Organization of American States voted to pull its Inter-American Peace Force from the Dominican Republic. Chicago barbers vote by mail on raising haircut prices to $3. Secretary of State Dean Rusk begins a five nation Pacific trip with SEATO talks in Canberra and U.S. trade discussions in Tokyo. Pageos 1 balloon satellite continues to circle Earth as scientists note its precision in measuring the planet.
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Domingo Washington
UPI
Organization of American States
OAS
Inter-American Peace Force
IAPF
Dominican Republic
Chicago
Washington
Dean Rusk
Canberra
Australia
Seato Alliance
Tokyo
Vandenberg Apb
Calif
Pageos
Federal Space Agency
World Briefs Global Tensions Rise Amid Southeast Asia Strain
SEATO advisers warn that Communist aggression in Asia grows despite an improving Viet Nam situation. In London an American clergy man resold two Van Gogh paintings for about 490000 dollars. one set a world record at 441000. Buenos Aires reports a military chiefs meeting amid brewing political crisis. Jakarta reports parliament split over restoring constitutional rule and ending Sukarno’s lifetime mandate.
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Canberra
Australia
UPI
Asia
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
London
Vincent van Gogh
Payola Hearings Probe Bribes to Disc Jockeys and Promoters
FCC held a secret session in Los Angeles examining payola practices involving disc jockeys and program directors. Carrie Grant testified payola included cash, cars, paints, clothing, and even prostitutes, with two teen idols among witnesses. Grant and Huskey filed a civil suit two years earlier alleging blacklisting by five record companies and several radio stations, seeking damages of 230000.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Federal Communications Commission
Jay A. Kyle
Carrie Grant
Grant
FCC
Albert Huskey
California
Pasadena
San Bernardino
San Diego
Huskey
Climax Nearing In Ship Strike Talks
Union leaders and shipowners suspended direct talks after 414 hours of meetings with no official mediation. The National Union of Seamen reviews the situation as talks hinge on its decision. A proposal sought to trade an immediate 16 hour cut in the 56 hour week for a shipowners concession on annual leave.
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London
UPS
National Union of Seamen
NUS
William Hogarth
Shipping Federation
Ford Geddes
Ministry of Labor
Lord Pearson
Court of Inquiry
New York City Doctors Walk Out Over Wages
One thousand five hundred city doctors from the Doctors Association walked off the job closing 142 public health clinics to non emergency cases. The strike stemmed from stalled negotiations with the Health Department and continued amid renewed talks Friday morning as an emergency meeting declared.
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New York
API
John V. Lindsay
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
United Nations
Lindsay
Israel
Nelson A. Rockefeller
U.N
UPS
New York City
The
Doctors Association
Dodd's Son Apologizes After Threat to Witness
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd says he regrets his son Jeremy's threat to Michael O'Hare as the Senate Ethics Committee probes Dodd over actions on behalf of Julius Klein. O'Hare testified that a former Dodd aide warned of repercussions if he resigned, highlighting fears within Dodd's inner circle.
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Washington
UPI
Thomas J. Dodd
Senate Ethics Committee
Dodd
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Jeremy Dodd
Michael O'Hare
O'Hare
Senate
Jeremy
Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Connecticut Democrat
Johnson
Julius Klein
Michael O’hare
O’hare
Pearson
Anderson
Gerald Zeiller
Zeiller
New Hampshire
Norris H. Cotton
R-N.h. Stennis
Dod
Klein
Chicago
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Union Pacific Railway
San Francisco Bay Area
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U.S
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Yemen
Goldberg
Charles Kunstler
Kunstler
J. H. Townhill
Jasper
Tex
Patrick T. Dean
Dean
Secret Service
Forrest Sorrell
Jacqueline Kennedy
Atty
Henry Wade
Tonnhill
Eva Grant
University of Texas Law
Elmer Gertz
Sheppard
Burleson
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Rusk
World Briefs
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Sukarno
Jakarta
Indonesia
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