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Newspaper
Miami Times
Location
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1957
Page
11
The piece discusses federal rulings against segregation, a pending summary judgment set for February 4, and NAACP guidance for sit-ins on Miami Transit Co. buses. City leaders consider meeting with Negro leaders and state officials to resolve desegregation, amid ongoing public scrutiny.
In Tallahassee Judge John Rudd sets January 31 for trial of three University students charged with viol ating the bus ordinance. Two are from FAMU and one from Florida State University. A fatal rock truck crash on 183rd street kills William Lee Witherspoon. Ex mayor Abe Aronovitz criticizes oil and gas price hikes. Dr Kenneth Rodgers visits Nassau to check a patient at Hialeah track. Dade County's new commission mobilizes idle funds, depositing them in banks at up to 3 percent. In Birmingham Klansmen shooting case two men wounded, bond set at $10,000 each. City measures enforce five dollar jaywalking fines beyond downtown. Delegates from 11 Caribbean islands gather in Jamaica BWI.
Barbadoes Windward and Leeward Island leaders meet this week to form a British Caribbean Federation under Commonwealth ties. The two week session drafts a federal constitution selects a capital and defines defense and foreign policy while aligning some finances. Pompano district reports crops drowned by heavy rains causing 15 million dollars in damage. Florida Board of Control warns students that participating in bus desegregation protests threatens university welfare.
Claude Barnetts visit Miami features Mr. and Mrs. Claude Barnett of Chicago stopping in on route to Haiti. They toured the city with Dr. Kelsey Pharr, longtime friend. Barnett directs the Associated Negro Press in Chicago and Mrs. Barnett is noted as renowned stage artist Etta Moten with her NBC radio program I Remember When.
Miss Juliet Butler became the bride of Edward V Porter on December 30 1956 at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in a quiet ceremony attended by family and close friends.
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