Around The Clock Police Tighten School Guards
In New Orleans area schools an around the clock police presence was tightened after protests by women who attacked bystanders during demonstrations against token integration. A federal court order struck down over twenty acts aimed at keeping schools segregated and sparked further protests. Police cleared a four block area near William Frantz School to allow six white children to enter safely while two U S marshals escorted the lone Black student home.
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New Orleans
Tulane University
Baton Rouge
William Frantz School
Frantz School
U. S
Frantz
Sydney Goldfinch
Tulane
School Board
State Plan
Sam I. Rosenberg
Gulf States Shiver as Cold Grips Eastern U.S.
Clear and unseasonable cold spread across the eastern two thirds of the nation with freezing temperatures in northern and central Gulf states. Minneapolis led with 26 degrees, while Atlanta logged 2% and Augusta 23, Mobile 29, and Tallahassee 33 as readings varied from the teens to the 20s from the Northern Plains to the Atlantic Coast.
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Gulf States
Minneapolis
Atlanta
Augusta, Ga
Mobile Ala
Tallahassee
Rla
Plains
Atlantic Coast
Midwest Cold Eases Slowly as Temps Moderate
Temperatures moderated across snow covered Midwest with a warming trend from the Rockies east through the middle Ohio Valley. Northeast remains largely cold with little relief forecast soon.
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Midwest
Rockies
Ohio Valley
Weather notes: cold snap ends with warmer days ahead
The forecast calls for a easing cold snap with fair tonight and a low near 22. Saturday will see temperatures rise into the mid range. The next five days should average 4 to 8 degrees above norms of 26 and 43. About a half inch of rain is possible Monday or Tuesday. Yesterday’s high reached 3 pm at 3 with a 17-degree overnight low at 7:30 am.
Chuckle Criticism Targets Different Faults
A humorous remark notes that disapproval is aimed at people not for their faults but for faults of a different kind than our own. The quip reflects social judgment and relatability in lighthearted critique.
Tragic Maryland Farm Fire Kills Seven Family Members
In Charles County Maryland the Powell family perished in a frame house fire after a mother urged her daughter to save the children. Rose Ella Powell and nine siblings were in the home when flames engulfed the building. The fire, likely started by an overheated stove, left one survivor and prompted neighbors to raise the alarm.
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LA Plata
Rose Ella Powell
Robert Dana Powell
Maryland
Charles County
Rose Ella
Powell
Soviet dogs fly in space aboard new ship
Bedford reports radar shows only tumbling Soviet satellite debris while Moscow says the space craft with Pchelka and Mushka in weightlessness operates calmly. Khrushchev hails the mission as a step toward manned flight and television monitors record the dogs’ behavior aboard the five ton craft. If pattern repeats, scientists may attempt Earth return after 24 hours aloft.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Earth
Knollwood Bank Robbery Targeted in Beavercreek Township
Dayton report says the Knollwood branch of Farmers and Merchants National Bank in Beavercreek Township was held up shortly before noon. The incident followed a prior robbery at the same bank about a year earlier. No details yet on number of holdup men or loot.
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Dayton, Ohio
Knollwood
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Beavercreek Township
Kennedy selects Bell as budget director at Kennedy unveiling
President elect John F Kennedy named David E Bell of Harvard as budget director from his Georgetown doorstep. Bell 41, secretary of Harvard Littauer Center for Public Administration, stood by Kennedy as he announced the choice amid cold, shivering reporters on the sidewalk.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
David E. Ball
Harvard
Kennedy
Georgetown
Bell
Harvard Littauer Center For Public Administration
Kennedy selects Bell for Kennedy budget liaison post
Bell, a Truman veteran and 6 foot 4 Jamestown native with Pomona College and Harvard economics training, will join the Budget Bureau as liaison to the Kennedy administration. He will work with Maurice Stans to adapt Eisenhower budget ideas to Kennedy plans, with Mike Feldman assisting briefly.
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Harry S. Truman
Will l Flee
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Maurice E. Stans
Bell
Nassar Seizes Belgian Properties in Egypt
Cairo AP report says President Nasser ordered seizure of all Belgian commercial assets in Egypt after Congo broke relations with the UAR. Actions hit Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oasis Co, with Belga News Agency and Sabena Airways largely spared. Bond payments to Heliopolis shareholders set at 12 years with 5 percent interest.
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Cairo
Egypt
Congo
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
U.A.R
Joseph Kasavubu
Cairo Electric Railways
Heliopolis Oasis Co
Kasavubu
Leopoldville
Patrice Lumumba
Brussels
Belga
Sabena Airlines
Rockefeller Nixon Meet Raises GOP Leadership Question
New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller meets with Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Washington. Rockefeller says he will cooperate to strengthen the party but regards Nixon as leader in name only and calls for collective leadership with leaders across states. The disagreement touches President Eisenhower who had hinted Nixon would head the party for four years.
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Washington
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Rockefeller
Nixon
Hhe
Eisenhower
White House
Castro blasts U.S. rocket debris as Havana protests rise
Cuban media accuse the United States of aggression after fragments from a Cape Canaveral launched rocket fallen near Holguin and Palma Soriano. Fidel Castro plans to present the incident at the United Nations while Cuban officials examine reported 40 pound pieces.
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Havana
Cuba
U.S
United Nations
Fidel Castro
United States
U. N. General Assembly
Oriente Province
Palma Soriano
Holguin
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Washington
Castro
Ime
Maj
Manuel Fajardo
Fajardo
U. S
Chorch
Britons Press Treasury over Ford Bid in Britain
London reports say the U S Treasury faced criticism for intervening in Ford Motor Co s bid to take complete control of its British subsidiary. Ford offered 20 50 a share for the remaining 46 percent, valuing the deal near 300 million. Shares rose on government approval but fell after rumors of Treasury appeal.
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London
U.S. Treasury
Ford Motor Co
Detroit
Ford
America
Eisenhower
Daily Mail
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Henry Ford
Papal welcome as Pope and Archbishop meet at Vatican
Pope John XIII received Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher in a historic hour long audience at the Vatican. The leaders spoke in a cordial, courtesy filled session outlining hopes to strengthen Christian unity. An interpreter was present as details remained guarded.
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Vatican City
John XIII
Canterbury
Church of England
Vatican
Church of
Msgr
Antonio Samore
Congregation For Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs
Roman Catholic Church
Mobutu Announces Capture of Lumumba in Congo
Col. Joseph Mobutu said Congo troops arrested Patrice Lumumba and six companions after he fled the capital. Lumumba to be brought back to Leopoldville for trial on charges including inciting rebellion. Mobutu warned any harm to Lumumba would be answered for.
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Leopoldville the Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Mobutu
Lumumba
Congo
Port Francqui
Stanleyville
Leopoldville
Luluabourg
Anicet Kashamura
Rebels Besiege Katanga Town Luena Under Moroccan Guard
UN troops foil a dawn siege by 3000 rebel Baluba tribesmen on Luena a coal town 150 miles from Elisabethville in Katanga. Moroccan troops and Katanga police repelled attackers after bitter fighting. civilian deaths reported. About 350 Moroccans and 20 Katanga police guard the town with 15 European mine workers remaining. This is the second siege with Baluba forces. ten days earlier rebels withdrew after reinforcement arrival.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
Luena
Ub. N
Tuena
Vivien Leigh Granted Divorce From Laurence Olivier
Paris AP reports actress Vivien Leigh obtained a divorce from Sir Laurence Olivier on grounds of adultery with actress Joan Plowright. Olivier and Plowright did not defend. Leigh was 47. Gage and Leigh’s divorce case also noted.
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London
Vivien Leigh
Sir Laurence Olivier
Oliver
Joan Plowright
Miss Plowright
Roger Leonard Gage
Sir Laurence
Olivier
Gage
New York
Miss Leigh
Jon Grounds
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David E. Bell
Ribicoff
Sec. of Health, Education and Welfare
G. Mennen Williams
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Connecticut
Abraham Ribicoff
Health, Education and Welfare
Budget ‘Bureau
Mike Feldman
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Truman
Jamestown
N.D
California
Pomona College
Littauer Center
Budget Bureau
War Organization
Marine Corps
Nassar
Heliopolis
Cairo Stock Exchange
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Ers
Dr. Crane
Valley News
Geoffrey Kisher
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Istanbul
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