09 Jul 1963
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Newspaper
Lovington Daily Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1963
Page
1
A crowd of sign carrying pickets jeered as they marched before the Fontenelle Hotel where Mayor James Dworak led a bi racial committee to address Negro demands. Violence flared at a New York drive in restaurant amid racial tensions and related developments.
U Thant orders full pullout of United Nations forces from the Congo by December 31 to save money. The move faces calls to keep troops until army reorganization completes, with the U.S. and others citing cost concerns and funding resistance from the Soviet Union and France.
President Kennedy will meet at 10 30 a m with rail management and five unions to avert a nationwide rail strike set for Thursday. The White House seeks an off Congress settlement on anti work rules as deadline pressure mounts and discussions consider extending Railway Labor Act provisions.
The United States prohibited U.S. financial dealings with Cuba and froze about 33 million dollars in Cuban assets. The order, effective after midnight, aims to bar Cuba from using the U.S. banking system for dollar transactions worldwide and to halt fund transfers via U.S. banks to other Latin countries.
Lloyd K. Lyon Jr. of Lovington and Johnny W. Henderson of Tatum serve aboard the USS Hancock, an aircraft carrier on a six month Pacific Fleet deployment with the Seventh Fleet in the Far East. The ship departed Alameda June 7 and will drill under wartime conditions, with Pearl Harbor as the first port of call.
London reports reveal former diplomat Kim Philby may have been hired by the Sunday Observer after a Foreign Office nudge amid Tory pressure. The leak follows Profumo scandal fallout with Keeler suing her former manager as FBI denies Mirror claims Hoover denounced Britain’s security service failures.
Buenos Aires reports Arturo F. Dlia, a moderate, leads with 2,286,545 votes after 87 percent counted. Oscar Alende of the Intransigent Radicals follows with 1,477,387 and Gen. Ped To Aramburu, in a three party coalition, with 1,282,259. Peronists cast 1,354,839 blank ballots as orders from leaders prompted the action.
Burke Marshall, Kennedy administration civil rights chief, told Senate aides that a federal public accommodations law could have prevented Birmingham unrest. He said voluntary desegregation was the sole available remedy and noted Justice Department persuasion was needed in 1961 to push compliance.
Former County Judge Woodrow Wilson Bean was suspended from law practice for two years after an investigation into income tax evasion. District Judge C E Patterson announced the suspension. a jury had been set for disbarment proceedings as Bean faced possible penalties amid a 1962 congressman campaign and prior resignation.
Two Costilla men Billy De Herrera 25 and Ernesto De Herrera 34 and a Taos 17 year old boy face kidnapping charges in U S Commissioner Matias Zamora. FBI filed complaints accusing them of unlawfully transporting a 10 year old Pueblo Colorado girl from New Mexico to Colorado July 4 to commit a crime. The girl and Taos youth gave statements. the car halted near Costilla 18 miles south of the Colorado line. Authorities say the trio drove the girl toward Garcia Colorado before returning.
Graveside rites were held for Omar Rodriquez the stillborn son of Mr and Mrs Severiano Rodriquez at 1030 am Monday at Lovington Cemetery under Smith Yarbro Funeral Home direction. Surviving include the parents two sisters two brothers and two grandfathers Espansto Rodriguez and Flex Garza both of Liviana Delong Mexico.
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