Oklahoma Desegregation Faces New Negro Resistance
Oklahoma City August 20 A shift arises as Negro leaders warn of internal resistance to school integration. Roscoe Dunjee cites teachers urging Black children into separate schools and communities fearing change. The piece traces legal wins from 1948 to 1954 and notes communities in about 50 counties ending segregation in public schools.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Roscoe Dunjee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Dunjee
Douglass High School
Dunkee
NAACP
Adam Lois Sipuel (Fisher
Chickasha
University of Oklahoma
U.S. Supreme Court
Fisher
G. W. Mclaurin
Langston Negro University
Oklahoma University
Oklahoma A&m College
Tulsa
Five Die In Freeport Maine Car Wreck In Collision
Five people killed and two injured after a two car crash on the Freeport cutoff near U S Route 1 and State Route 136. The dead include Cecile Goyette Bernadette Charest Alice Fortin Regina Janelle and Everett Anderson. The injured were Robert Steele and Philbrick Rowe Jr. Rowe drove the car carrying three men, while Charest owned the other car.
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Cecile F. Goyette
Lewiston
Bernadette Charest
Auburn
Alice Fortin
Regina Janelle
Everett L. Anderson
Freeport
Brunswick Hospital
Robert Steele
Philbrick Rowe Jr
Mortimer O’connell
Rowe
Odessa Boy Drowns In Colorado Lake
Sterling Colorado reports the drowning of 17 year old Lymon Elliot Brodnax from Odessa Texas in North Sterling Reservoir. He vanished after diving from a rowboat while swimming with six teens and was found about 90 minutes later.
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Odessa
Colorado Lake
Young Brodnax
Kenneth Lane
Lane
Panhandle Open Chess Meet Set At Caprock Hotel
The Panhandle Open Chess Tournament will open next Saturday and Sunday at the Caprock Hotel with about 500 entrants from Panhandle South Plains Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma. George Koltanowski will direct the five round Swiss event with prizes and trophies funded by the Amarillo Globe-News.
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Panhandle
South Plains
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Caprock
Lubbock
Marshall
Lubbock Club
City Recreation Department
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce
Borger
George Koltanowski
San Francisco
Amarillo
Pandan South Plains
Cochran
Hockley
Crosby
Dickens
King Counties
O’neill
Amarillo Globe-News
Shane O’neill
Dallas
United States Chess Federation
Dawson County 4H elects new officers at encampment
Pat Anderson of Lamesa was elected president of the Dawson County 4H Club during the overnight encampment attended by about 100 girls. Other officers include Katherine Johnson vice president Carolyn Ward secretary treasurer Patsy Jones song leader and Marilyn Jones reporter. Breakfast was served by club leaders.
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Lamesa
Pat Anderson
Dawson County
Knights of Pythias Hall
Katherine Johnson
Klondike
Carolyn Ward
Aryan
Patsy Jones
Welch
Marilyn Jones
Union
Officers Elected At YWCA Temporary Board Meeting
The Young Women's Christian Association formed a temporary board at a Saturday organizational meeting held in the Westminister Presbyterian Church library. Officers named are Mrs William C Smith president Mrs James G Allen vice president Mrs Lois Alexander treasurer and Miss Jewel Hodges secretary. The board plans a full time office headquarters a permanent director in 1956 and committee structure to carry out programs for women and girls in the area.
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Young Women’s Christian Association
Westminister Presbyterian Church
William C. Smith
James G. Allen
Lois. Alexander
Jewel Hodges
Cial
YWCA
Community Planning Council
Lewis Terrell
Hal Spencer
A. W. Bronwell
R. K. O’loughlin
F. L. Loving
Francis Torres
Imogene Fortenberry
Harvey Turnbough
Albert Skibell
Bobby Blocker
E. N. Jones
Ada Bell Jackson
Dudley Strain
Maragret Weeks
Lois Alexander
J. H. Stiles
W. S. Posey
Willie Lusk Jr
W. B. Price
Constitution
Edith Caveness
H. F. Godeke
James F. Moore
Myrtle Rochelle
Grace Pedley
Mae Simmons
A. Duran
R. O. Bennett
J. G. Allen
Ralls Resident Charles Bishop Travis Dies in Heart Attack
Charles Bishop Travis 79 a longtime Ralls resident since 1906 died at 7 15 p m Saturday after a heart attack He was stricken in a downtown store A retired farmer he came to Ralls from Bell County Funeral arrangements are incomplete with services tentatively set for 3 5 p m Monday Burial will be at Ralls Cemetery under Carter Funeral Home He is survived by his wife Miley Pearl daughters Mrs C L Sargent Ralls Mrs Wilburn Fuller Amarillo and Mrs Kenneth Watson Anton plus six others
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Ralls
Charles Bishop Travis
Travis
Bell County
Carter Funeral Home
Miley Pearl
C. L. Sargent
Wilburn Fuller
Amarillo
Kenneth Watson
Anton
Jehovah Witnesses End Three Day Convention Today
Four hundred and seventeen Jehovah's Witnesses from 18 congregations will wind up their three day convention at Fair Park Coliseum with a 3 p.m. address by R. E. Collier of Brooklyn. The session features the topic Why a New World is Possible.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
R. E. Collier
Brooklyn
Watchtower Bible and Tract Company
Fair Park Coliseum
Collier
Mexican Union Seeks Government Help for Stranded Migrants
The National Peasants Union urged Mexico to assist about 10,000 migrant workers stranded in Reynosa and Matamoros after deportation from the United States. It said funds exist to cover fares home but transportation is insufficient. The union notes workers aim for central Mexico. England fatally trapped 18,000 tax dodgers in 12 months, adding 79.6 million to the treasury.
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Mexico City
National Peasants Union
Rio Grande Valley
United States
Reynosa
Matamoros
England
Model Racer Crash Kills 3-Year-Old Boy Near Sydney
An eight-pound model racing car traveling over 100 mph left its wire guide and struck a safety fence in Ashfield. A fragment of the car hit a 3-year-old boy on the head, causing his death.
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Sydney
Australia
Ashfield
Canada to Ship Arms to France and Holland Under Mutual Aid
Ottawa reports several shipments are sent to France and Holland in the next fortnight under Canada's mutual aid program with NATO allies. The consignments include ammunition artillery tractors and dump trucks.
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Ottaw
France
Holeland
Canada
NATO
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Quinton Peters
Maine
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31St St
Pearlie Jean Suttle
Rt. 6
McCurry
Dawson
Ywca Board
Roneld
27Th St
Bert
Otis
Leon
Walter
Houston
Mollie Mabreyv
Mexican Union
Young's Carpet City
McSpadden Carpet CO
34Th St
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Frontier
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