Chicago NAACP Parade Ends Year of Decision Rally
The NAACP wrapped up its convention with an Independence Day march in Chicago led by Mayor Richard J. Daley. Roy Wilkins Medgar Evers Fred Shuttleworth James Meredith and Harvey Gantt attended as police estimated far fewer than 50 000 marchers. Delegates condemned the reception of two Jockey Club figurines at the Morrison Hotel and passed an emergency resolution denouncing the statues as Uncle Tom caricatures.
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Chicago
Uplni
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
March For Freedom
Richard J. Ley
Detroit
Freedom Fighters
Roy Wilkins
Medgar Evers
Mississippi Inter
Fred Huttlesworth
Alabama Christian Movement For Civil Rights
Birmingham
James Meredith
Air Force
University of Mississippi
Harvey Gantt
Clemson College
Charles Laws
United States
Morrison Hotel
Nnck
Jockey
Jockey Club
Another Spy Case Nears Break in Britain
Reports say a British air ministry official faces imminent arrest over alleged access to American secrets. The figure reportedly worked in Washington during Brit ish American talks that ended the Skybolt program. Officials deny knowledge of the story as U S arrests of four people for a Soviet spy ring are cited as the exposure lead.
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London
Britain
Air Ministry
Washington
British Defense Ministry
United States
95th Reservists On Firing Range
More than 2,200 reservists of the 9th division began a July 4 weapons firing session at Ft. Polk ranges. The division known as the Victorymen hails from Louisiana Arkansas and Oklahoma and is undergoing its annual active duty training.
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Fort Polk, la
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Salute Opens July Fourth Holiday in Lawton
Fort Sill fired a 50 gun salute to mark Independence Day in front of McNair Hall as about 1,000 people joined a fifth annual U S Army picnic. The day featured a band concert, fireworks, and a downtown quiet in Lawton with stores closed and public offices shut through Sunday.
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Fort Sill
States of the Union
McNair Hall
Association of the U. S. Army
Landing Strip No. 15
Lawton
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Oklahoma
Texas
Baby Surprises Fort Lauderdale Couple with Newborn
A Fort Lauderdale woman, Mrs. John Connor, 30, discovers she is nine months pregnant after going to the hospital for stomach pains. The couple, married seven years with no prior children, welcomed a baby boy weighing about a pound and a half, born Tuesday, with the infant reportedly doing fine.
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Lauderdale
Fra
Fort Lauderdale
John Connor
Cuban envoy Guevara greeted in Algiers by Ben Bella
Ernesto Guevara representing Cuba arrived in Algiers to attend Algeria’s independence celebrations and was greeted at the airport by Prime Minister Ahmed Ben Bella.
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Algiers
Ernesto
Che
Convict Gunman Kills Three In Georgia Escape Drama
Escaped prisoner Melvin Weaver, 23, shot dead three men and wounded another as he fled from Marianna Florida toward Georgia. He seized a hostage, took a patrol car, and hid in a pecan grove before a trooper's rifle ended the pursuit. Deputy Finch and others were killed. Hale, the hostage, later fired on Weaver as he died. The escape began after a jail fire and hospital confrontation.
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Americus, Ga
Melvin Allen Weaver
Marianna
Fla
Weaver
Georgia
Charles Richard Hale
Smithville
Pecan
Robert Benson
Cordele
Young Hale
Hale
Cpl
C. H. Bentley
Americus
Bentley
Memorial Hospital
J. J. McCrary
Aron Creel
Creel
McCrary
Alan Finch
Finch
Hubert Mayo
Dickie Sangaree
Jane
Freedom
Sangarees
De Gaulle Begins Bonn Visit as West German Policy Bends
President Charles de Gaulle opens a two day trip to Bonn to press France influence in shaping West German policy. The talks seek a middle course between Kennedy grand design for an Atlantic alliance and De Gaulles third force strategy between the United States and the Soviet bloc.
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Bonn
Germany
Charles de Gaulle
France
Kennedy
United States
Atlantic Community
de Gaulle
Soviet Bloc
Russia Breaks With Red China Ahead of Peace Talks
Moscow charges Beijing used broad propaganda to sway Russians, tossing leaflets from trains and distributing a letter that states China’s position. The Kremlin expelled five Chinese officials for circulating the letter as Pravda and Izvestia report an open rift ahead of ideological peace talks.
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Henry Shapiro
Moscow
UPI
Kremlin
Red China
Peking
Soviet Foreign Ministry
Odessa
Leningrad
Kiev
Dubna
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Chinese Communist Party
Pravda
Soviet Communist Party
Soviet Communist Party Central Committee
U.S.S.R
Moscow-Peking
Russia
Bellmon Gains Control Of Pike Authority and Seeks Eastern Road
Gov. Bellmon gained control of the state Turnpike Authority and called a special meeting to discuss financing an eastern Oklahoma toll road. He named two new members Albert Cherry and Harper Thomas to the seven member body and said a third appointment will follow. He floated selling 60 to 65 million dollars in bonds and plans to appoint successors to Ned Shepler and Kirk W Ridg ewood.
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Oklahoma City
Henry Bellmon
State Turnpike Authority
Oklahoma
Bellmon
Turnpike Authority
Bellman
Albert Cherry
Hugo Cleaning Firm
Albert Mason
Durant
J. Howard Edmondson
Harper Thomas
Chickasha
Ned Shepler
Lawton
Authority
Shepler
Charlie Payne Lawton
Mason
State Senate
Thomas
University of Oklahoma
New Schools Take Shape And Additions To Six
Lawton public schools push major expansion with Edison and Western Hills new sites under construction. Edison 12 rooms at N W Columbia and 58th aims for July finish. Western Hills 10 rooms between N W Kinyon and N W Liberty underway. Four elementary additions and Eisenhower high school auditorium add to a $347,000 project.
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Jan Jacobs
Lawton Public Schools
Edison
Western Hills
Western Hillis
N. W. Columbia
B. W. (Buster
Melton
James Marshall
N. W. Kinyon
N. W. Liberty
Eisenhower
W. C. Shelton and Co
Nofisger, Lawrence and Associates
Oklahoma City
W. D. Ford and Son
Westwood
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Dunbar
Cottingham and
Cook
Dunbar School
Noftsger, Lawrence
N.W. Columbia
58Th
Lawton Public School System
B. W
Buster
Traffic Deaths Mount Slowly During Holiday Weekend
The Associated Press reports rising Fourth of July traffic fatalities to 47 with wet areas on the weather map while most travel is dry. A Butler Pennsylvania family of six, Edwin Beckwith 37, Betty 37, and four children aged 14 to 4, died when their new car collided head on with a convertible on Pennsylvania Route 38 north of Pittsburgh. The National Safety Council projects holiday tolls could reach 550 to 650 in the 102 hour window from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday.
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Associated Press
Butler
National Safety Council
Edwin Beckwith
Betty
Pennsylvania 38
Pittsburgh
Heat stretches into Independence Day with dry forecasts
Lawton residents endured a hot Fourth of July as the weather pattern remained dry. The forecast calls for Friday highs near 97 degrees, with overnight lows around 70. Statewide, overnight lows ranged from 68 at Guymon to 78 at Tulsa, and Wednesday highs spanned 94 at Hobart and Guymon to 102 at Tulsa.
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Lawtonians
Guymon
Tulsa
Hobart
Soviet says conditions exist for East West partial test ban
Anastas Mikoyan told Western reporters in Moscow that all conditions for a partial nuclear test ban are met and it now depends on the West. Khrushchev suggested simultaneous steps toward a limited test ban and a NATO Warsaw Pact non aggression pact to ease East West tension.
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Moscow
UPI
Anastas Mikoyan
Soviet Union
Valerian Zorin
Mikoyan
U.S
Washington
Harold Macmillan
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