Town Split Into Bands By Negroes
Levittown Pa residents split into two factions over a Negro family moving into an $11 000 home. The Levittown Betterment Committee led by James Newell opposes the Myers family and urges them to stay out, while the Citizens' Committee for Levittown led by Rev Ray L Harwick advocates calm legal resolution and unity. Myers, a college educated refrigeration engineer, has not yet moved in as mobs gathered outside his new home.
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Levittown
Levittown Betterment Committee
William J. Myers
James Newell
Myers
Newell
Citizens’ Committee For
Harwick
Concord
Barden
Collee
Philadelphia
Dragstrip Tragedy Claims Day ton Racer Life
A 28 year old Dayton car racer Thomas Edgar Heeter died in a dragstrip crash west of Dayton during time trials at Cahio dragstrip. Heeter’s car skidded after rear wheels wavered at about 107 mph, flipped, and threw him from the vehicle. his clothing was torn off and he was killed after the car ripped 30 feet of earth. His brother Richard witnessed the accident. Burial set for Woodhill Cemetery after services at Eaton Funeral Home in Franklin.
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Dayton
Here
Thomas Edgar Heeter
Wonderviewer
Richard
Robert Clark
Heeter
Cahio Dragstrip
Clark
Dervices
Auard
Holland Furnace
Middletown
Robert
Eaton
Franklin
Woodhill
Two Die in Butler County Crash Near Middletown
A head on collision on Rt. 122 west of Middletown early Sunday killed William Albert Ballard 28 and Mrs Wilma Ward Maggard 31. Three others were injured including Ballard's son William Edward Ward 7 and drivers Robert Ray Cisco 27 and Earl Dalton 17. Ballard died in the emergency room and Maggard was dead on arrival. The deaths were Butler County's 23rd and 24th traffic fatalities of the year.
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Wilma Ward Maggard
Ohio
Middletown
William A. Ballard
William Ward
Russell Sproul
William Albert Ballard
Bridge St
Franklin
Central Ave
West Carrollton
Maggard
William Edward Ward
Middletown Hospital
Robert Ray Cisco
N. Broad St
Earl Dalton
Olive St
Franklin Cisco
Dalton
West Middletown
Rt. 122
Ballard
Cisco
Dayton
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Butler County
Gas-Filled Death Trap Blast Rocks Oswego Tunnel
An explosion in a 6,250 foot tunnel under Lake Ontario killed three workers and left another dead and two rescued as retrieval halted for ventilating equipment. Victims were John Lagoe 40 electrican Oswego Phil Ayler 36 tunnel foreman Harrisonburg Va Linwood Hieston 47 Elkton Va. Lloyd Matteson 32 Scriba collapsed after escaping with oxygen mask torn off. Bodies located about 4,000 feet inside the gas filled tunnel during rescue efforts. The tunnel is part of a new city water supply project. The cause of the blast was not immediately known.
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Oswego
N. Y
Lake Ontario
Lloyd Matteson
Scriba
Matteson
Coast
Phil Ayler
Harrisonburg
Linwood Hieston
Elkton
Morros case links Martha Dodd Stern to Soviet espionage
House investigators cite testimony by Boris Morros naming Martha Dodd Stern and her husband Alfred Stern as part of the Soviet apparatus. Morros described a Prague embassy secretary and a German intelligence worker as Soviet agents and alleged Soviet requests for compromising information on Eisenhower.
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Richard Wesley Washington
House
U. S
Boris Morros
Walter
D-Pa
House Committee On Sodiemieas
Morros
Martha Dodd Stern
Mexico City
Morris
Martha Dodd
Alfred Stern
Stern
Hollywood
Wag
New York
Welter
U.S
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Eisenhower
United States
Mexico
Connecticut
Japs Brace For Typhoon Agnes Strikes Kyushu
Southern Japan braces for Typhoon Agnes expected to hit Kyushu by nightfall. Strong winds lash Kyushu as huge waves pound the coast and the storm packs winds up to 160 miles per hour.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kyushu
Syria Army Purged as Leftists Take Over in Beirut Shadow
Pro Soviet officer Gen Afif Bizry consolidated control of Syria's army after purging rightists. Thirteen officers dismissed. many fled to Beirut. President Kuwatly, amid Moscow aligned moves, signed Bizry’s promotion, while Cairo talks and U.S. expulsions followed a declared coup plot.
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Cominy
Tom Masterson
Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Afif Bizry
Middle East
Bizry
Damascus
Sabri Assali
Shukri Kuwatly
Kuwatly
Kuwaily
Russia
United States
U.S
State Department
Tewfik Nizam Eddin
Nizam Eddin
Switzerland
Jordan
Khaled el Azem
Moscow
Cairo
Poison-Covered Kris Stolen From Indonesian Official
A poison coated kris with ivory handle and gold scabbard, valued at 3000 dollars, was stolen from the Riverdale home of Koesmartono Prawotadoikoesoemo, deputy chief of the Indonesian consular supply mission. Police warned the dagger is deadly if touched to an open wound.
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New York
Riverdale
Koesmartono Prawotoadikoesoemo
Probers To Quiz Hoffa On Unions
Washington AP report says Einar Mohn executive vice president of the Teamsters Union was called for questioning on accusations he issued charter for phony locals in New York as part of a plan by James R. Hoffa to broaden influence. Hoffa to testify before the Senate Rackets Committee amid probes of ties to racketeers and mob influence within the union.
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Washington
Einar O. Mohn
Teamsters Union
New York
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Midwest
Teamsters
Dave Beck
Giant
Senate
New York Area
Thomas A. Hickey
John O'Rourke
McClellan
D-Ark
Rackets Committee
Joint Council
Autumn Weather Settles Over Miami Valley This Week
The weatherman predicts a cool autumn pattern across the Miami Valley through Tuesday. Today should be partly cloudy and mild with a high near 85 degrees, followed by fair and cool conditions tonight with a low around 66. Sunday in Middletown reached 86 at 4:45 p.m. and 64 this morning at 6 a.m. Weekend rainfall was minimal.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Northern Democrats push to bring civil rights bill to House
Northern Democrats move to force a Rules Committee vote on the civil rights bill as Republicans withhold support. The plan seeks to align with Senate and Eisenhower proposals, including jury trial limits and injunctions in voting rights cases.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Eisenhower
GOP
House
Senate
Attorney General
General Civil Rights Authority
Money Found In Open Bank Drawer In Toledo
A total of 11288 dollars was found in an open cash drawer at Farmers Savings Bank in Toledo. Janitor George Stewart counted the money with helper Harrison Penn then informed Leonard Stewart who counted it. They notified their mother who directed them to Rev William Coleman. The money was driven to the Greater Bethel Church and counted by Coleman and church members. Police arrived and Detective Woodrow Zeitler contacted J H Bowen who counted the funds and locked them in a vault.
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Toledo
Ohio
Farmers Savings ‘Bank
George ‘Stewart
Stewart
Harrison Penn
Leonard
City
Stewarts
William Coleman
Greater Bethel Church
Mr. Coleman
Woodrow Zeitler
J. H. Bowen
Bowen
Chuckle Golf Ends Up In A Letter Carrying Sketch
In a humorous bit the golf scene is reduced to a single afternoon routine where letter carrying ditch digging and carpet beating are playfully imagined as the sport’s tasks. The gag hinges on absurd efficiency and domestic calamity.
Four Die as Public Service Bus Crashes in New Jersey
A Public Service bus from Atlantic City to New York blew a tire and slammed into a Garden State Parkway abutment in Wall Township New Jersey. Four people were killed and about 30 injured. The bus traveled about 50 mph before the crash. Rescue crews freed victims as traffic backed up for miles. The driver Lester Hooker 35 and four others were trapped in the wreckage.
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Pos
Belmar
Lester Hooker
Hooker
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