Oklahoma Solons Keep Normal Routines Amid Washington March
Oklahoma congressional delegation offices stay open with some absentees as about 100000 civil rights demonstrators march on Washington. Rep. Belcher gives clerical staff the day off, while Rep. Albert plans a meeting with Negro leaders in the speaker’s office. Three Oklahoma busloads, organized by the NAACP chapter, head to the capital to join the march.
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Page Belcher
Enid
Carl Albert
McAlester
House
Oklahoma
Washington
NAACP
Don Simmons
Sen. J. Howard Edmondson
Rail Strike Looms as Congress Faces Deadline
House Commerce Committee drafts Senate substitute to curb a nationwide rail walkout that could halt operations on five major unions engines firemen conductors brakemen and switchmen. Embargoes and freight suspensions line up as unions prepare strike headquarters and actions across Cleveland Buffalo Cedar Rapids and other sites.
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House Commerce Committee
House
Senate
White House
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Congress
J. E. Wolfe
Post Office Department
Post
Brotherhoods
Cleveland
Ohio
Buffalo
Cedar Rapids
Long Island Rail Road
City schools set to open. large enrollment planned
Education leaders list workshop this afternoon for teachers. Enrollment continues with sophomores at Douglass Eisenhower and Lawton high schools 8 to 11 45 a.m. Juniors and seniors totals shown. By week end 15 750 pupils expected. Cameron College begins Sept 9. St Marys and other Catholic schools also noted.
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Douglass
Eisenhower
Lawton
LHS
Central
Tomlinson
LEA
CTA
ACE
Shoemaker and Elkins
Cameron College
Guerrilla landings by six Nationalist groups cited
Six groups of Nationalist Chinese guerrillas landed on the mainland coast this month, according to a government agency in Taipei Formosa.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Funeral Rites for Harvey Lawson Miracle in Snyder
Services for Harvey Lawson Miracle 62 of Snyder will be at 2 30 p m Thursday in the First Baptist church Snyder with Rev. Donald Chaffin and Rev. J W Lobaugh officiating Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery Preston Leckie Funeral home in charge Miracle born January 10 1901 in Dibble moved to Oklahoma City as a youth married Cleo Dobbs March 13 1923 and worked for the Oklahoma Publishing Co 23 years He later founded Miracle Refrigeration Co Survivors include his wife one son Billy Miracle his parents a sister and three brothers plus one granddaughter The list of pallbearers is provided.
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Snyder
Harvery Lawson Miracle
First Baptist Church
Donald Chaffin
J. W. Lobaugh
Maysville
Fairlawn
Preston-Leckie
Mr. Miracle
Billy Miracle
Tulsa
A. C. Miracle
Oklahoma City
Lawrance Abernathy
Andrews
Tex
Glen
Pratt, Kans
B. L. and Boyd
Beavers
Carl Millicons
Curtis Williams
Ed Thorp
Leon Richardson
Glen McLaury
Bill Fults
March On Washington Civil Rights March Draws Massive Crowd
Police prepared for up to 250000 marchers as civil rights demonstrators gathered at the monument grounds near Constitution Avenue. Leaders planned meetings with Congress and President Kennedy while George Lincoln Rockwell led a small Nazi contingent as observers.
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John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Kennedy
Monument
Constitution Avenue
Washington
George Lincoln Rockwell
Monument Ground
Rockwell
Congress
Capitol Hill
White House
Chicago
Ledger Smith
Brooklyn
Congress of Racial Equality
New York
Justice Department
Georgia
Mississippi
Lincoln Memorial
Howard V. Covell
Drivers face multiple traffic charge list in county filing
A Tuesday county attorney office filing on request of the highway patrol lists drivers charged with license violations. Names include Rolland D. Haselhorst Geronimo Laquetta Caldwell 415 Washington Winfred D Eaton Ausman Perry Jimmie LeRoy Poe George Wesley Wermy Ralph W Wells and others with added counts for modified exhaust center-left driving reckless driving and license suspension cases.
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Highway Patrol
Rolland D. Haselhorst
Geronimo
Laquetta J. Caldwell
Washington
Winfred D. Eaton
Fort Sill
Ausman G. Perry
Midwest City
Jimmie LeRoy Poe
S. 17Th Place
George Wesley Wermy
Rt. 1
Cache
Ralph W. Wells
Duncan
John Joseph Vedechedsky
Arlington
Manuel Beaver
Carnegie
Phil Perdasefpy
Police Kill Two Officers in Night Club Slaying
Detectives track suspect Falco to a hotel after two patrolmen died at a New Jersey night club following a disturbance call. Falco and Trantino face first degree murder charges. four women and one man held on bonds as material witnesses.
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Newport
R. I
Anthony Cassarino
Falco
Trantino
Post Office Prepares For Possible Rail Strike
Lawton Postmaster Charlie D. Payne says planes trucks and buses will move air and first class mail within 150 miles if a nationwide rail strike happens. Other classes beyond 150 miles face suspension. perishable items and emergency shipments have specific rules. several Oklahoma areas stay within full service. Call EL3-1500 for details.
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Lawton
Charlie D. Payne
Payne
National Post Office
Oklahoma City
Wichita Falls
Dallas
Fort Worth
Ardmore
McAlester
Elk City
Enid
Harris Reaches Midpoint of Oklahoma County Tour
State Sen. Fred Harris of Lawton reports he has visited half of Oklahoma’s 77 counties in his drive for the U S Senate seat. The Democrat campaigns across McIntosh Haskell Latimer LeFlore Sequoyah Adair and Cherokee counties this week, totaling 45 counties and 255 towns.
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Sequoyah
Adair
Cherokee
Governor outlines mock funeral event and gas board dispute
Bellmon confirms march sponsors seek his appearance at a mock funeral. He notes no point in meeting with Corky Bishop as Shawnee deal attorney Ralph Lillard faces license revocation for alleged customer shorting. Lillard argues the board aims to drive him out by undercutting prices. Bellmon comments on mental health resignations and turnover, noting the program’s fragile state.
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Bellmon
Corky Bishop
Ralph Lillard
State
Lillard
Bellman
Joel Donovan
Brazil Cruzeiro Sinks to Record Low on Exchange Rules
The cruzeiro slid to a new record low against the dollar after new government exchange regulations. By noon the rate stood at 1,000 cruzeiros per dollar as inflation and policy moves fueled the decline.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
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