Racial Door Opens Yet Few Join Presbyterian Survey Finds
A Pittsburgh dispatch reports that while 85 percent of Northern Presbyterian pastors say their congregations would admit any race, only about 8 percent of congregations have active mixed memberships. Some 60 percent face segregation due to residential patterns. many whites live far from Black neighbors. The study notes some congregations would not take in other races, while others were unsure. Final merger talks proceed as the Northern and United Presbyterian churches plan a combined body of 3.5 million members.
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Presbyterian Church
Northern
Social Education and Action Department
United Presbyterian Church
United States
U. S
FCC memo ties Adams to TV channel contests
Washington AP report details an FCC memo to Adams outlining TV channel contests in St. Louis and Flint and a White House thanks note. The House subcommittee investigates Channel 2 moves to St. Louis and Springfield case reversals amid political pressure and new dealer labels.
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Federal Communications Commission
White House
Sherman [Adams
St. Louis
Flint
Mich
Stephen J. Angland
Special House
FCC
Adams
Eisenhower
Angland
Rosel Hyde
Hyde
Channel 4
Charles F. Willis
Springfield
Signal Hill Telecasting Corp
Wmay-Tv
Sangamon Valley Television Co
Oliver J. Keller
Sangamon Valley
Keller
Washington Dawyer
TV Channel 5
Boston
Boston Herald-Traveler Corp
Army builds lead-shielded bulldozer for radioactive zones
In Charleston, South Carolina, the Army announces a lead-shielded bulldozer designed to operate safely in radioactive areas. The device aims to protect operators while performing earthmoving tasks in contaminated environments.
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Charleston
S.C
Army
Chalk River Test Plant Is Shut Down
OTTAWA AP An atomic test reactor, possibly the Wests most powerful, has been shut for three or four weeks after an accident that contaminated its building. No injuries. The NRU reactor at Chalk River Ont operated by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd saw a uranium fuel rod catch fire after removal. The fire was extinguished but radioactive dust spread inside the NRU building.
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Ottawa
Chalk River
Ont
NRU
Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd
Missing Boy Identified in Ohio Disappearance Case
In Scioto County Ohio authorities identify a missing boy found hitchhiking barefoot between Circleville and Columbus as David Michael Allen 10. He had claimed to be Ronald Gregory 12 and said he was running away from an uncle to join his parents in Columbus. His stepfather identifies him. The boy and his mother and stepfather are to appear in juvenile court to explain the circumstances.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Sciotoville
Scioto County
David Michael Allen
Columbus
U. S. 23
Circleville
Ronald Gregory
Roy Baisden
Brisden
Labor chiefs call Ohio jobless laws inhuman
In Columbus Ohio the merged Ohio AFL-CIO executive board denounced the unemployment compensation law as inhuman and urged quick action in a forthcoming special session. They seek to lengthen benefits from 26 to 39 weeks and raise maximum payments to 75 percent of a worker's average weekly pay.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Afl-Cio
William O'Neill
Secrets of the Human Cell in June Reader's Digest
June Reader's Digest presents Secrets of the Human Cell explaining how two inherited cells begin life and how millions of new cells sustain the body every second. A feature on the building blocks of all living matter appears in June issue at newsstands.
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Reader's Digest
June
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