Middletown Seniors Break Into Merit Scholarship Race
Five Middletown High School seniors Tom Campbell Emilie Doring Richard Henry Betsy Little and James Spindler passed the national Merit Scholarship preliminaries ranking among 7 500 national finalists from 162 000 seniors. The group now faces a three hour college board exam next Saturday to determine the 700 Merit scholars announced about April 25.
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Middletown
Tom Campbell
Emilie Doring
Richard Henry
Betsy Little
James Spindler
Middletown High
Helen Hartman
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
F. W. Woolworth Co
Standard Oil of Indiana
International Nickel
Plan to seat people on buses sparks racial rights clash
In Tallahassee a city rule mandating bus seating by race is denounced by Black civic groups as a crime against the United States and an evasion of Supreme Court rulings. The plan imposes fines up to 500 dollars or jail for drivers. Gov Collins delayed testing the plan after a Black leader’s home was attacked and a store shot. He defends nonsegregated seating as acceptable to most whites and urges peaceful means.
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Tallahassee
Fla
United States
U. S. Supreme Court
Negro Inter Civic Council
Supreme Court
Leroy Collins
Collins
Man Gets Buck And False Teeth In One Feat
In Little Fort British Columbia local gunsmith Frank Wharton found a buck and kept the antlers buck value and also fashioned false teeth from the deer's teeth He then ate the deer as part of the unusual tale highlighting his inventive craft and hunting skills.
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Little Fort
B.C
Frank Wharton
Burglars Stagger Out With Liquor
Baltimore police allege Frank Williams Jr aged 98 and James Richardson aged 35 burglarized a tavern closed after a recent fire, stealing 61.75 dollars of liquor and drinking seven fifths on the scene. Both men were held in 3000 dollars bail for grand jury action as they admitted breaking in. Williams claimed they drank but did not think anyone would mind, and said it tasted burnt.
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Baltimore
Frank Williams Jr
James Richardson
Crand
Williams
Megistrate
Historical Rights Law Urged By Sen Humphrey
Sen. Humphrey urged the new Congress to pass civil rights laws, asserting a historic claim on progress. He and allies planned 12 measures including federal protection of voting rights, ending discrimination in transportation and employment, penalizing lynching, and creating a rights division in the Justice Department. The group stressed the administration has votes if it acts, while noting past defeats in this long civil rights struggle.
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Il Rights
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