Racial Issue Is Raised After Dallas Post Office Promotions
Washington debate erupts over three college educated Negroes promoted in Dallas Texas post office. Officials cite merit promotion plan and Civil Service rules while critics allege racial discrimination and bias in top nine selection.
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Dallas Post Office
Dallas
Washington
Dallas, Tex
Lee C. White
Kennedy
Civil Service Commission
Post Office Department
Richard J. Murphy
J. Edward Day
University of Oklahoma
Semina Amon
Post Office
Fices
Texas
Day
Dist
Murphy
Hudson
Buford R. Tyler
Andrew J. Calloway
Herschel Gillins
John W. Macy Jr
Integrationists Held In Baltimore Fray
Police arrested over 100 demonstrators at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Woodlawn as 6000 white spectators watched. More than 400 arrests have occurred since July 4, with hearings set for 100 as clashes drew in clergy including Rabbi Israel Goldman and other religious figures.
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Baltimore
Woodlawn
Eugene Carson Blake
United Presbyterian Church
Baltimore County
Robert Lally
Lally
James F. Price
Gwynn Oak
Price
Maryland
Gwynn Falls
Park
Israel Goldman
Maryland Commission On Interracial Problems and Relations
Press Ruffled By Vietnamese Press
South Viet Nam confronts protest over police rough treatment of Western reporters at a Buddhist memorial service for Quang Duc. Police actions disrupted mourners as AP and CBS crews were assaulted and cameras damaged during the North Saigon pagoda event drawing monks and nuns.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Kennedy
U.S
Hmself
Chantereansay
Quang Duc
CBS
Fishing Mishap Fatal To Topekan Saturday
Nick H. Thomas 55, of Topeka, drowned while setting fishing lines in the Delaware River six miles north of Ozawkie. Coroner Harry Hampton said the accident happened between 9:30 and 10 p.m. and one body was recovered 14 hours later. Thomas, in swim trunks, was in about eight feet of water when a leg cramp struck as he checked lines. His wife and three children heard the calls. his stepson, Robert Malsbury, attempted a rescue. Thomas was a construction laborer and World War II veteran.
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Oskaloosa
Kan
Nick H. Thomas
Topeka
Delaware River
Ozawkie
Harry Hampton
Jefferson County
Hampton
Thomas
Robert Malsbury
Zanzibar Votes Today for New Government
Zanzibar voters decide today on a new government that would push the island toward independence if Britain accepts its political stability. The referendum reflects efforts to shape Zanzibar’s future as a self governing entity within the region.
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Zanzibar
Spice Island
Britain
Four Kansas deaths on long Fourth of July weekend
The Associated Press reports four traffic deaths during the long Fourth of July holiday period ending midnight Sunday. Victims include 31 year old Donald Nelson of Wichita in a Clyde, Kansas wreck, plus two others at Fort Riley and near Matfield Green, and another near Ottawa Friday night. A drowning death was an 18 year old Fred Cox of Augusta at Courtney-Davis Lake Resort in Harvey County.
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Kansas
Donald Nelson
Wichita
Clyde
Kan
Fort Riley
Matfield Green
Ottawa
Fred Cox
Augusta
Courtney- Davis Lake
Harvey County
Four Are Dead In 3 Car Crash Near Danville
Four people died in a three car collision on U.S. 40 two miles west of Danville. Todd Vincent Phillips and Sylvia Phillips, both 23 or 24, of Thomaston Georgia, plus their daughter SuzAnne Phillips 24, and Gould D Miller 25 of St Louis perished. Todd Phillips Jr. 5 survived in fair condition. Witnesses said the Miller car struck a bridge railing then the Phillips car and Gillig’s car hit the wreckage.
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Danville, Mo
Georgia
Kansas
U.S. 40
Danville
Todd Vincent Phillips
Sylvia
Thomaston
SuzAnne
University of Missouri Medical Center
Columbia
Gould D. Miller
St. Louis
Todd Vincent Phillips Jr
Calloway County Hospital
Fulton
Charles B. Phillips
Junction City
Kan
Phillips
Clifford Alexander
Poplar Bluff
Julia
Larry T. Gillig
Hermann
Karen
Richard D. White
Sterling Green
Miller
Gillig
Wichita man drowns after boat drifts at Lake Texoma
Clyde T. Johnson 43 of Wichita Kansas drowned after swimming after a boat that drifted away during a family holiday outing at Rock Creek Camp about 20 miles south of Madill Oklahoma. His body was recovered about two hours later and sent to a Whitesboro Texas funeral home.
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Madill
Okla
Clyde T. Johnson
Wichita
Kan
Lake Texoma
Johnson
Rock Creek Camp
Madil
Oklahoma
Whitesboro
Tex
Violence Overshadows Peace Steps in Race Tensions
A Bronx teenager was wounded by a gunshot near a diner linked to racial disturbances as white and Negro CORE members protested. The scene contrasted with peaceful church steps in Tucson and Richmond, while National Guard troops left Cambridge and governors called for action against public discrimination.
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New York
Baltimore
Bronx
Jack Cippolla
Cippolla
Congress of Racial Equality Core
White Castile
Tucson
Ariz
Richmond
Pueblo Gardens Methodist Church
Wilbur Johnson
National Guard
Cambridge
J. Millard Tawes
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Governors Conference
Kentucky
Bert Combs
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Robert W. Hare
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