Meredith weeps over NAACP convention backlash
Air Force veteran James Meredith, who integrated Ole Miss, cried over intolerance at the NAACP convention in Chicago. He denounced bigotry by fellow blacks and warned the civil rights movement could be endangered by such treatment and rumors of apologies. Roy Wilkins criticized Meredith for using the term burrheads in a speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meredith
Air Force
University of Mississippi
NAACP
Frank L. Spencer
United Press International Chicago
UPI
James H. Meredith
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Roy C. Wilkins
Naacp Execu
Khrushchev Ditches Moscow Meet in China Talks
Khrushchev reportedly left Moscow for Kiev as summit talks between Soviet and Chinese Communist negotiators opened in Moscow. Tass disclosed Kennedy urged joint effort on key divides. Delegations led by Suslov and Teng Hsiao-ping, discussing peaceful coexistence and critiques of de Stalinization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Shapiro
United Press International
Moscow
UPD
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Peking
China
Russia
Khrushchev
East Germany
Kiev
Moscow Radio
Kennedy
Tass
Communist Party Central Committee
Tang Hsiao-Ping
Mikhail Suslov
Presidium
Teng Hsiao-ping
Argentine vote looms as 70,000 troops kept peace
Argentina braces for Sunday elections amid martial law style security. 70,000 troops and thousands of police patrolled to quell Peronist unrest after a seven day postponement clash. Three main candidates include Aramburu Ilia and Oscar Alende with a proportional plan meant to curb Peronist gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Fallon
United Press International
Buenos Aires
UPI
Argentina
An D. Peron
Arturo Frondizi
Pedro E. Aramburu
Unity Party
Arturo Ilia
Peoples Radicals
Oscar Alende
Peronists
Peron
Madrid
Two Injured In Two-Car Collision Near Commercial and Avenue D
At 6 48 p m yesterday two-car crash at Commercial and Avenue D left Franscio Avilia Jacquez 25 of 524 North 3rd Street with cuts on both knees and unknown injury extent while Virginia Postello Freeman 32 of 600 6th Street Santa Rosa suffered a bad chin cut and was treated and released at Lovington Hospital. Freeman ran a stop sign and collided with Jacquez who had no valid driver's license. The Ford was a total loss and the Chevrolet about 1000 in damage. Citations were issued for Freeman for failure to yield and Jacquez for no valid license.
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Commercial
Avenue D
Franscio Avilia Jacquez
North 3Rd Street
Lovington Lea General Hospital
Virginia Postello Freeman
6Th Street
Santa Rosa
Lovington Hospital
Grains of Courage In Flight Tragedy At Grants New Mexico
Mrs Frances Tweed recounts a Globe Swift crash near Grants New Mexico. She describes a downdraft, engine trouble, hitting a tree, fire, and her husband Wendell dying that night. She saved herself and tended to him, enduring heat, flies, and lack of water through the ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Tweed
United Press International Grants
N.M
UPD
Grants
Wendell
Frances
Dire
Tweed
Desert Letter Seeks Texas Cowboy Pen Pal
In Amarillo a sheriff receives a letter from Liliane in France requesting a tall fair haired Texas cowboy as a pen friend. She vows to improve her English through letters about life on the West Texas plains. The note mentions travel, ranch life, and hopes for rescue amid a storm and CAP sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Tex
Liliane Bachelard
France
Plains of Texas
Potter County
Jim Line
Liliane
Estienne
Dorves
Nice
Texas
Dies on Fourth Accident Victim Services Set Today
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today for an accident victim. The obituary notes Smith-Yarbro Funeral Home arranging arrangements. The brief item lists the death as the focal point and mentions the location and time for services.
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Smith-Yarbro
June permits total sixty four thousand three hundred
Building permits issued in Lovington during June totalled 64,300 and pushed the year's total to near the half million dollar mark. The permits were about half the total issued in June 1962, when the June total was 116,250. The year’s permits now total 990. June permits include listed addresses and amounts for several projects, and the report ends with a fatal car crash summary and obituary details for Tommie (Mutt) Lewis.
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Levington
Herb Cunningham
Ave J
E. H. Kelch
Mechem Warns of Disarmament Dangers in Hobbs Speech
Senator Edwin L. Mechem of New Mexico warned about disarmament blackmail and a potential world government at a Hobbs High School auditorium gathering. He criticized the U S Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Kennedy era treaties, urging Americans to consider risks and question assurances from U S and Soviet leaders. He cited staged three article treaties and called for careful citizen scrutiny of disarmament proposals.
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Edwin L. Mechem
RNM
Hobbs High School
U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Congress
United Nations
United States
India
Tibet
Mechem
Lea County Veterans
Disarmament Agency
State Department
Committee On Disarmament
Geneva
U.S
Russia
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Wilkins
Mr. Mere
Lovington
Lovington Lions Club
Country Club
Jerry Wright
Peronist
General Labor Confederation
CGT
National Popular Front
Peronist Popular Union
Frondizi
ED Mechem
Wendall
Podnuh
Civil Air Patrol
Oral
Tommie (Mutt) Lewis
Tatum
W. M
Billy) Beauchamp
Lovington Cemetery
Dora Crockett
Henry Griffin
Denver Dunlap
Claude Fort
L. B. Townsend
Barney Townsend
Lewis
Midland
McDonald
Alvin
Leroy
San Jose
Calif
Charlie Lewis
Ruidoso
Ernest Lewis
el Cajon
Billie Lewis
Sibley Lewis
Pete Adams
United Natins
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