Southerners Block Drive-In To Protest Mixed-Race Film Island in the Sun
At the Dixie drive-in in Wetumpka Alabama about 75 cars arrived and blocked the gates to protest Island in the Sun a romance between a Negro man and a white woman. A shotgun was fired into the air as workers and patrons fled, power was cut, and about 15 to 25 cars were allowed to leave. Theater owner Max Singleton and his wife escaped through a field and pledged not to reopen for safety.
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Wetumpka
Ala
Montgomery
Dixie Drive-In
Max Singleton
Singleton
Lester Holley
Richard Boone
Stows
Pho- Holley
Beirut War Without War Yet Its Peace Hard to Find
In Beirut the U S Marines guard sandbag blocks while Arab nationalism, led by Gamal Abdel Nasser, pressures the region. The city feels like a war zone by night and a calm beach scene by day as U S and British actions fail to resolve a brewing conflict.
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Beirut
Iraq
Syria
Egypt
Morocco
Tunis
Algeria
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United States
Gambler Wertheimer Dies at 74 in Los Angeles
Los Angeles report says Mer Wertheimer 74, famed for building a gambling empire from a Detroit craps game to casinos from California to Florida, died of leukemia yesterday. He and brothers Al, Lou built ventures including the Riverside Hotel Reno and Royal Palms casino in Miami area.
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Los Angeles
Mer
Wertheimer
Detroit
Iis
California
Florida
Detroi
Lou
Los Angesl
S Werdohne
Wil
Civil Defense Drill Deemed Effective by Air Force Officers
A 14 hour civil defense drill involving volunteers from Ohio Virginia Kentucky and West Virginia ended Sunday and the Air Force called it very effective. The exercise included spotting simulated enemy jets flown by West Virginia Air National Guard pilots tracking and reporting them.
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Charleston
W. Va
Ohio
Virginia
Kentucky
West Virginia
Air Force
West Virginia Air National Guard
Lima wife shoots husband in what police call fatal dispute
Lima, Ohio. Mary Porter, 25, mother of three, shot Booker Porter, 28, after he wounded her in the chest during a dispute near her father’s home. He died at the scene. she was unconscious. Prosecutors planned to talk with her to determine charges.
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Lima
Ohio
Allen County Prosecutors Office
Mary Porter
Booker Porter
Porter
Lima Iity
Allen County
Robert L. Balyeat
New Guards Replaced in Wage Dispute at AEC Sites
Civil Energy Commission reports 105 guards left posts in a wage dispute and formed picket lines at AEC installations in Las Vegas Tonopah and Mercury. Replacement guards from Los Alamos New Mexico number 42. The Nevada union seeks a 17 cent hourly raise plus 2.4 cents in fringe benefits while Federal Services Inc offers a 70 cent raise.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Civil Energy Commission
AEC
Tonopah
Mercury
Civil Service
Los Alamos
N.M
Independent Guard Assn. of
Nevada
Federal Services, Inc
New York Stocks and Market Quotes Snapshot
The page lists stock quotes for major firms including Admiral Armco Lockheed and United Airlines with varied percent changes. It also details crop and livestock prices with ranges for steers heifers cows veal hogs and sheep, indicating market activity and value shifts for the day.
Japs Reds Seek Shot For Party At Tokyo Convention
The Japanese Communist Party opened its 10 day national convention in Tokyo with about 500 delegates. The gathering aims to unite factions, set a new platform, and elect a new Central Executive Committee as party fortunes sag after postwar violence and May Day riots in 1952. The party lists 590 1000 active members and one representative in the 467 member lower house. previously it had 129000 members and 35 seats. Security officials link the decline to the 1952 riots.
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Torkyo
Comemniat Party
Cen
Tokyo
Paris opens world’s first school for blind children in 1764
Notice to Contractors Ohio 1958 1968 seek bids for improvements on U S Route 25 Butler Hamilton Counties Columbus bid forms plan offices. Details include reinforced concrete bridges spans roadways safety curbs and right of way work with minimum wage terms. Bids due August 5 1968 with $10000 certified check. Charles M Noble Director.
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State OF Oats
Department OF Highways
Columbus
Ohio
Butler
Hamilton
Union Township
Butler County
Sycapsa
Crescentville
U. S&s
Penney Wwente
Pennsylvania Railroad
Millcreek
Allen
Beckett Road
Leneth
Coper
Highway Credit Examiner
Department of IL
Charles M. Noble
Cincinnati Eggs and Poultry Prices Report
Cincinnati prices for eggs and poultry shown by grade and size. Current receipts and farmPrices include large and medium fryers, jumbo, large and small eggs, with numbers for U.S. A standards. Potatoes listed at 3.35 to 4.65 per unit.
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Cincinnati
F.e.b
U.S
Seasick From Love Ends Afloat Reunion Plan
Teresa Scott a 22 year old Scots girl chose seasickness over romance aboard the travel Eroican at Grimsby to be with deckhand Bert Reid whom she is to marry. After four days she deserted below deck and later deserted again ashore in the Faroe Islands. She is now aboard a boat bound for Aberdeen and will reunite with Bert on dry land when the Eroican docks at Grimsby Tuesday.
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London
Teresa Scott
Eroican
Grimsby
Bert Reid
Teresa
Bill Arnold
Faroe Islands
Aberdeen
Bert
Cincinnati Livestock Market Report Summary
Cincinnati market data shows cattle and calves steady to higher in price with 1,800 cattle and 300 calves examined. Slaughter steers under 800 lb active to strong up to 50 cents higher, over 1,000 lb not established. utility cows steady to strong. canners and cutters up to 50 cents higher. bulls steady. dealers steady to strong with some 1.00 higher for choice lots.
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U.S
Cincinnati Livestock
Cincinnati
USDA
No City Men On Navy List
A partial list of Navy personnel stationed aboard U S ships off Beirut Lebanon names two Hamilton men James D Smith junior communications electrician second class 2420 Ross Harding Road aboard the USS Wasp and Bobby Jones aviation machinist s mate third class 108 S B Street aboard the USS Saratoga Also listed are crew from the USS Des Moines heavy cruiser USS Robert L Wilson escort destroyer USS Hailey destroyer and USS Rooks destroyer
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Navy
U. S
Beirut
Lebanon
Hamil Jton
James D. Smith
M. Ior Communications Electrician
Ross Hanover
Wasp
Bobby Jones
Saratoga
Des Moines
Robert L. Wilson
Hailey
Rooks
Dog Kills Four Pullets in Millville Farmyard
Hamilton special: William Vogel reports a dog killed four pullets in his chicken yard on Millville Shandon Road. His wife saw the dog with a chicken and found additional dead chickens nearby. Deputies investigated the scene yesterday.
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Hamilton
William Vogel
Millville-Shandon Rd
Six Boys Held In County Break-Ins
Six youths ages 15 to 17 were arrested for a string of rural burglaries. They admitted to entries at Riverview Drive-In, Valley Drive-In, and other theaters plus homes on Princeton and Eaton roads. Two suspects were linked to a Garfield High School break-in under construction on Fair Avenue.
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Jesse Dennis
Sheriff's Department
Dennis
Riverview Drive- In
Hamilton-Cleves Road
Valley Drive-In
U.S. 127
New Miami
Old Oxford Road
Earl Zellner
Princeton Rd
David Stahlheber
Eaton Rd
Laen
Garfield High School
Hamilton
Fair Avenue
Closed Door Adams Probe Opens With Secret Hearing
Washington AP reports a closed door probe begins into White House pressure claims involving Sherman Adams. Chairman F Edward Hebert says witnesses will testify in secret at first, with public hearings likely. Roswell M Austin recalls White House interest in a Raglaine Worsteds case over an $8 500 penalty for late army uniform fabric delivery.
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Washington
White House
Sherman Adams
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee
Roswell M. Austin
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
New England
Ustin
Adams
Eisenhower
Raglaine Worsteds, Inc
Manchester
N. H
New Hampshire
Lloyd Home After Talks With Dulles
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, returning from Middle East talks in Washington, urged UN action on Iraq and Lebanon. He did not rule out a summit but favored solving the crisis in the UN forum with close US Britain alignment after meetings with Eisenhower, Dulles, and Nixon.
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London
Selwyn Lloyd
Middle East
Washington
United Nations
Iraq
Lebanon
Khrushchev
Lloyd
Aioe
Eisenhower
Dulles
Nixon
United States
Goldfines Reunited After Hospital Stay
Maxwell Goldfine, 36, treated for self inflicted razor blade slashes, spent less than a day in a Sarasota hospital and left with his wife. She declined to discuss divorce claims, saying all is well for now. He had locked himself in a bathroom Saturday morning and inflicted superficial cuts before yielding to pleas. The case touches on his father Bernard Goldfine and congressional investigations into relations with presidential aide Sherman Adams.
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Sarasota
Fla
Maxwell Goldfine
New England
Bernard Goldfine
Congressional
Goldfine
Sheriman Adams
Auto Workers Resume Talks With GM Ford
Detroit AP says the United Auto Workers resumed contact talks on an accelerated basis with full day bargaining sessions at General Motors and Ford. Chrysler and the UAW are set to meet tomorrow as the eight week old contract expires loom. Memorial Day weekend marked the prior contract expiry.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
UAW
Beagle and Terrier Lost in Jefferson area with rewards offered
Multiple lost pet notices include a Boston terrier female about 7 years old near Central Ave with a reward, a beagle hound pup about five months near Woodlawn Waite with reward, and a 3-month beagle lost around Fleming Rd. plus several other expired or mislisted items. Also listed are funeral notices and monument ads from local providers.
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Jefferson Lodge
Central Ave
Hamilton Watch
Fleming Rd
Woodlawn
Waite
Thank You Notes For Witherspoon Family
The family of Faward T. Witherspoon expresses gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives nurses at Middletown Hospital attending physician singer organist minister pallbearers for kindness floral pieces telegrams and support after the death of their husband and father They also thank McCoy Leffier Funeral Home for managing the service and list several local funeral homes for reference.
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Jos
Baker & Son Funeral Home
Dial GA
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Riggs Funeral Home
Saial
Schramm Funeral Home
Clark St
Dial
Ilson ™ Memorial Home
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Joan Fontaine
Harry Belafonte
Sarge
Korea
Britain
Westinghouse
Obi- Westinghouse
FDIC
Electro-Hygiene Sales Corp
Todd Road
Sterling Heights
Venezuela
Soa 5
Windigo
Bemidji
Minn
Cass Lake
Oeno Persky
New York
Ne & Ladd
Aeronca Mig
Ceciccvsce
Armco Steel
Vesasteceves
Lockheed Alrerait
BEY Marshall Fieices
Mead Corp Caste Ee Mony Werd
Aewee
National Auto
Paramount
Pennsylvania
Phelps
Philco Radio Sean Iote
Phillips Petroleum
Procter & Gamble Pullman Corp
Radio Corp
Ovsee Servel Inc
Seecceal Ae Sinclair
Omouthern Pacific RR
Wethern Rails
Studebaker-Pack Motors
Sunray Ov 2 Corp
Sh Paehavensset
United Airlines
Rubber
Steel
Westinghouse Electric
Wits
Paris
Dayton
Witite
Tom Turkeps
Cincinnati Produce
Middletown
Yeast Rday
Ladd
Dayton Livestock
Lloyd Home
Goldfines
Journal
of Pea
Sant Ads
HANNA
Barre
State
Trenton
Converse
Mt i
Ene Bubd
Verity Pr
14Th Ave
Oodside
Anstaf
Eeere Friends McCoy
St Constantine and Vo Greek Orthodox Church
Steven Serigianis
BRILL
Nellie
Miami St
Onio
Middletown’ Hospital
R. Baker & On
A. M
Rensee Oe
Cemet
Trenton Jos
Federale
Ralph Federick
Waynesville
Middie
Funeral Home
Hunter
Arthur
Cooper Alley
Jordan-Hall
Neem Neon
Rollen Hane
Merment Woodside Cemetery
Jordan-Hall Funeral Home
Tueeda
Alcorn
Sense Funeral Home
Verity Ga
Start Floral Co
Schraffenberger
Main St
la A
Coal & Feed
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