Righters Charge Chicago School Board Packed Meeting
Nearly 300 civil rights protesters packed Chicago Board of Education meetings and charged the session was stacked with teachers and staff. CORE leaders threaten a city wide boycott of mobile classrooms as they protest de facto segregation through boundary changes and insist on a pupil count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mort J. Sullivan
United Press International
Chicago
UPI
Chicago Board of Education
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Public Board
Clair M. Roddewig
73Rd
Lowe Streets
Roddewig
South Side
Board of Education
B. Elton Cox
Raymond W. Pasnick
Cox
O. W. Wilson
Jackie Kennedy Leaves Hospital For Seaside Recuperation
Jacqueline Kennedy exited Otis Air Force Base Hospital with John F. Kennedy after Caesarean birth and the infant’s death. She will curtail official duties for the year to focus on rehabilitation, with replacements lined up for social duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Thomas
United Press International
Hyannis Port
Mass
UPD
Jacqueline Kennedy
White House
Otis Air Force Base
Squaw Island
Pierre Sal
Troops Beat Buddhists at Hue Funeral Provokes Clash
In Hue City Viet Nam troops and secret police fractured a Buddhist funeral for 17-year-old novice priest Thich Thanh Tue who burned himself in protest. Soldiers seized the coffin, knocked 25 mourners unconscious, and injured several more with helmets and rifle butts near Phuc Duyen pagoda. Tue died after self immolation, the third such act since June against President Ngo Dinh Diem's government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hue City
South Viet Nam
UPD
Thich Thanh Tue
Ngo Dinh Diem
Tue
Phuc Duyen
Stardust Balloon Lost In New Mexico Thunderstorms
An 85 foot Stardust balloon launched from Palestine Texas was carried into Mexico by thunderstorms after its 13 hour flight. It carried meteor collection gear and a radio transmitter tracked by a plane. last position 45 miles southeast of El Paso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
UPD
Wilds
Mexico
Balloon Flight Center
Palestine
Texas
Bob Behrens
Federal Aviation Agency
Paso
Behrens
Pecos
Tex
Biggest Tax Cut in History Gains House Support
The House Ways and Means Committee approved Kennedy’s tax relief plan for individuals and corporations, with an average 20 percent cut for individuals and an extra 55 million in corporate relief. Net reductions exceed 11 billion, moving toward 10.6 billion after possible revisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent J. Burke
United Press International
Washington
UPD
House Ways & Means Committee
Kennedy
Ways & Means
House
Senate
Lovington School Enrollment Begins Friday
Registration for the Lovington School District starts Friday with an expected 3,700 students. The schedule runs Friday and Saturday August 16 17 and continues through Monday August 19 with a preschool workshop for staff August 20 24 and 36 new teachers reporting Tuesday at 9 00 a.m. An additional three day faculty workshop begins Wednesday.
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Lovington
Lea
Jefferson
Yarbro
Parkview
State Counties Win Civil Suit Over Ad Valorem Taxes
The settlement with General Telephone Co. yields $50,000 to the state and more than $750,000 to Lea Eddy and Curry counties. The 1958 taxes totaling $159,568 will be paid plus 80 percent of 1959 1960 1961 and 1962 taxes. The suit moves to Santa Fe district court for routine approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE
UPD
General Tele Phone Co
Boston E. Witt
W.G. Girand
Hobbs
Santa Fe District Court
Lea
Eddy
Curry
Tax Commission
Band students report for instrument selection at three schools
Parents with children interested in enrolling in band studies at Parkview Lea or Liano elementary schools and who have not chosen instruments should notify J. D. Fry Lovington High School band instructor. He may be reached today and Friday at the high school band building between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkview
Lea
Liano
J. D. Fry
Fry
Lovington
US and USSR clash over stop to bomb material production
Geneva report says the United States offered an immediate agreement to halt production of fissionable materials for bombs and to divert stockpiled uranium to peaceful uses. The Soviet delegation rejected the plan as not a genuine disarmament measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Callcott
United Press International
Geneva
UPD
United States
Soviet Union
Charles C. Stelle
U. S
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Tsarapkin
Stelle
Moscow
Great Britain
Steele
Sheriff Reports Two Arrests In Lea County
Lea County Sheriff's office reported two arrests Tuesday morning and a lookout for a group of reckless firearm users. Douglas M. Moore of Lovington was booked on petty larceny and sentenced to 30 days in jail. A Hobbs man faced abandoning dependents and perjury charges that were dismissed and he was released. A group of unidentified shooters fired a .22 rifle at passing cars near Arkansas Junction, believed traveling toward Lovington in a white and turquoise Chevrolet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lea County
Douglas M. Moore
Herrison
Lovington
Justice of the Peace
Hobbs
Sheriff's Office
Arkansas Junction
Midge Problem Discussed by Lovington Area Farmers
About 20 Lea County farmers met at the Lovington Co op Gin to hear entomologists discuss sorghum midge damage. Speakers outlined the midge life cycle, spread from West Texas, and control methods focusing on Johnson grass management and late blooming chemical sprays including Sevin, Endrin, and Toxaphone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovington Area
Lea County Farms
Jim Gilstrap
Lea County
Lovington Coop
James Spearman
J. R. Ever
New Mexico
New Mexico State Agriculture Department
Stanley Cappock
New Mexico State University
Don Cleveland
Stauffer Chemical Company
Lubbock
Texas
Russell Enzi
Eyer
Carl Armstrong
Caprock Fertilizing Company
Littlefield
Lovington
Coppock
Gilstrap
Eyre
Plainview
Lea
Johnson
Earl
Jim Montgomery
Montgomery
Cleveland
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