Negroes Claim Victory In Lunch Counter Sitdowns
Demonstrations against segregation spread across eight southern states as students in North Carolina and elsewhere are served while seated in lunch counters. In Winston-Salem a two hour protest ended with a brief prayer and later some vendors moved to standing service only. In Salisbury and Bluefield orderly pickets occurred with protesters demanding equal seating.
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City Hall
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Livingstone College
Bluefield
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Colonial Theater
Bluefield State College
Woman Is Sent Back To Georgia
Boston AP reports a 1766 Massachusetts law, still on the books, allows courts to deport non citizens on public welfare to their former residence. Municipal Court Judge Jacob Lewison ordered 19 year old Sonya Lightfoot to return to Georgia, noting she came to Boston in December from Millen, Ga, and has lived at a city welfare home.
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Jacob Lewison
Sonya Lightfoot
Georgia
Millen
Tarred Senator Glossary Sparks White House Row
Washington current: Senator Barry Goldwater proposes a tongue in cheek glossary in the Congressional Record to explain Southern speech. The list includes terms such as ABODE BECKON HOMINY and TARRED with humorous definitions reflecting regional phrases and mispronunciations.
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Barry
M. Goldwater
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Goldwater
How Ohioans Voted in Recent Senate Roll Calls
AP reports detailed roll calls as Ohio members faced civil rights and budget votes in the Senate. Motions on adjournment, tabling amendments, and restoring funds dominated the record with party lines and absences noted.
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Ohio
Senate
Pension Checks For Ohio Aged Show Small Gain
Ohio pension payments rose in February with the average old age check at 64.53 dollars, up from 63.46 in January. Recipients fell from 85,883 to 85,184, while total disbursements edged up to 5.501 million dollars. Health care payments totaled 838,949, with 140,078 for institutional care and 45,808 for death awards.
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Ohio
James A. Rhodes
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Powell Faces Tax Evasion Trial in Federal Court
Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr. of Harlem goes on trial in New York federal court on income tax evasion charges for allegedly filing a false 1991 tax return for his wife Hazel Scott and for a $3000 joint return in 1952. Scott is not a defendant. If convicted, Powell could receive up to 15 years. Indictment May 8, 1958. health delays noted. Powell has served in Congress since 1945.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr
D-Ny
Harlem
Powell
Hazel Scott
Miss Scott
Paris
Why the Senate uses cloture instead of closure
Washington AP reports that parliamentary experts question why the U S Senate uses the French word cloture for closing debate rather than closure. Cloture, originated in French, requires a two thirds vote of those present and voting to end debate under current rules. The British term is closure and the concept originated in the 1882 House of Commons with a motion that the question be now put.
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U.S. Senate
Senate
House of Commons
World's Largest Calla Lily Field near San Bruno
The field at the base of San Bruno Mountain south of San Francisco sprawls with more than 25 miles of sprinkler pipes feeding the world’s largest calla lily crop.
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San Francisco
Redhead Confesses to Multistate Murder Spree
Seventeen year old Dennis Whitney admits to seven slayings across Phoenix Tucson Victorsville and Los Angeles. Detectives warn there may be more killings as evidence mounts. Whitney earlier killed in Dade County and hijacked a car before his capture.
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Warren D. Holmes
John Kirk
Whitney
Phoenix
Ira Lee Hardison
Spencer Ace
Dade
Miami) County
Victorsville
Calif
Frazier
Tucson
Ariz
Los Angeles
Ralph Whitney
Dennis
Curtiss-Wright
North Hollywood
Woman Gets 3 Years in Embezzlement Case
Miss Edna E. Arndt 44 was convicted of embezzling about 107000 dollars from a Cuyahoga Falls branch of First National Bank of Akron where she had worked 13 years. She was sentenced by Judge Paul Jones to three years in Alderson W Va. Reformatory.
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Cleveland
Edna E. Arndt
Cuyahoga Falls
Miss Arndt
Cincinnati Driver Dies in Ohio 37 Collision
Ohio AP report: Robert William Schuermann 47 of Cincinnati was killed Monday in a head on crash 10 miles north of Cincinnati at the intersection of Ohio 37 and Route 256. Police identify no other injuries.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Robert William Schuermann
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