Space Needed For Race Progress Ex-Editor Asserts
Former editor Charles McKnight told the ASNE meeting that newspapers should give more space to the quiet and constructive progress of school desegregation. He argued coverage has been unbalanced and often distorted, noting desegregation is spreading beyond the South and into a national issue.
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Washington
Charles Xe McKnight
American Society of News ‘Paper Editors
ASNE
McKnight
Miy
Vi McKnight
South
Crippled Girl Dies in Home Fire Trapping Her Wheelchair
WINCHESTER Ky July fire trapped 11 year old Bobbie Jean Shelton in her wheelchair at the family farm while her parents were away. The girl, largely confined by a long standing illness, died in the blaze. The article also notes a general fact contrasting Indian and African elephants.
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E. Winchester
Bobbie Jean Shelton
Two Fort Scott Boys Get Salk Polio Vaccine
Despite chickenpox, Billie Roy Davidson and Edward Hood were brought from their homes to the school principal’s office for their first Salk polio shots in private. A nurse administered doses from a supply donated by a Fort Scott store.
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Fort Scott
Billie Roy Davidson
Edward Hood
K U Band Concert Sunday at Hoch Auditorium
The 115 member Kansas University band directed by Prof. Russell L. Wiley will perform its spring concert at 3 30 p m Sunday in Hoch Auditorium Three featured numbers include Rimsky Korsakov s Concerto for Trombone and Band with Warren George Merriam mezzo soprano Carolyn Craft will sing Habanera from Carmen and a trumpet trio Percy Clarke Mary McMahon Don Shaffer and Bill Littell will play Allegro Moderato Other works include Pageant by Persichetti Celebration Overture by Creston Chorale and Alleluia and Conquest from Captain from Castile by Newman The program also lists Irish Suite and The Girls Left Behind Me among pieces with intermission after Chorale and Alleluia
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Kansas University
Russell L. Wiley
Hoch Auditorium
Warren George Merriam
Rimsky-Korsakov
Carolyn Craft
Junction City
Vincent Persichetti
Aliegro Moderto
Robert L. Clarke
Mary McMahon
Don Shaffer
Leroy Anderson
Harriman Names Corsi to New York Refugee Committee
Governor Averell Harriman revived the State Committee on Refugees and named Edward Corsi as one of its 17 members. Corsi, fired April 10 as a refugee problems consultant by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, called the firing shabby. Harriman said Eisenhower and Dulles gave no support when the weather got rough, while noting McLeod runs the refugee program.
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Albany
N. Y
Averell Harriman
State Committee On Refugees Today
Edward Corsi
Corsi
John Foster Dulles
Harriman
Eisenhower
Monroe County Democratic Committee
Rochester
Dulles
R. W. Scott McLeod
State Department Securrity
Two Illinois Fugitives Nabbed Near Tonganoxie
Two teenage brothers Charlies Daniels nineteen and Gerald Daniels seventeen from Moweaqua Illinois were chased near Tonganoxie after a field and hill foot race. Deputy Brauer caught them, they tossed an object into a pond, and a gunshot scare preceded their surrender. They face car theft charges and will be held for Illinois authorities. Separately Mindanao residents evacuated as Mt Makaturing vented smoke and fire.
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Ilinois
Tonganoxie
Don Brauer
Charlies Daniels
Gerald Daniels
Moweaqua
Brauer
Decatur
Iil
Shelby
Leavenworth
Illinois
Manila
Mindanao Island
Mt. Makaturing
Volcano lies dormant in southern Lanao after deadly quake
A 5025 foot volcano in densely forested southern Lanao Province remains inactive after a 50 year lull. Lanao was the hardest hit area in the April 1 earthquakes where hundreds were killed.
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Lanao
Peron Quits Cigarettes in Surprise Health Push
In Buenos Aires on December 12 a bulletin says President Juan D Peron has quit smoking after years of heavy tobacco use. The government reports 22 000 doctors enlisted in an anti tobacco education campaign aimed at youth to deter smoking.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Eisenhower hears baptism suggestion at White House visit
Washington President Eisenhower greeted 130 Baptist ministers and wives in the White House rose garden and playfully considered a minister’s offer to baptize him. He shared a Fort Worth Baptist convention memory and recalled Billy Graham’s water-in-head quip, noting the joke about true baptism.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House Rose Garden
Texas
Sen
Carson
R-Kas
Carlson
Baptist Convention
Fort Worth
Billy Graham
National Presbyterian Church
Graham
Chou En-lai Meets Takasaki Over Relations
Premier Chou En-lai and Japan's Tatsuno suke Takasaki held a one hour meeting in Bandung Indonesia. An informed source said both sides agreed that restoring diplomatic ties would be difficult now due to the world situation.
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Bandung
Indonesia
Chou En-lay
Japan
Tatsunosuke Takasaki
Cho
Takasaki
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