19 year old mother of United States first identical quadruplets
Delores Harris, 19, mother of the first known identical quadruplets in the United States, faces dim prospects with only 30 dollars a week under a court order for child support from her estranged husband. She plans to finish high school at Dunbar and seeks secretarial training while receiving charitable help for the quads and their brother. Community aid has begun, including cribs, clothing, and nursing visits, as she navigates separation and finances.
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Chicago
Delores Harris
United States
Bernard
Shawn
Sheena
Shawna
Sherry
Shannon
Davenport
Harris
Missing Michigan student sought in New York rally case
Jacqueline Wilson 16 an Ann Arbor honors student left Michigan for a Washington civil rights rally last Tuesday and did not return. Her father Dr. Russell Wilson said she talked about seeking adventure in New York with University of Michigan student Allen Ehrlich, an SNCC member. Police aid sought after Wilson learned she planned to travel with Ehrlich.
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New York
Jacqueline Wilson
Big City
Michigan
Washington
Allen Ehrlich
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Russell Wilson
Ehrlich
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Wilson
Khbritch
Dexter
Barbara Ann Jacobson
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Famed Big Ben Stopped In London Briefly
Big Ben halted Saturday near 10 am with its hands frozen for about 15 minutes. The Works Ministry said a painter’s brush left on the transmission shaft caused the stoppage and the clock resumed showing the wrong time until the fault was corrected.
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London
Big Ben
Parliament
Pas ha boy killed riding bicycle near Rittman
Akko area seven year old Mike Pas ha of Rittman died after riding his bicycle into a car near his home on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at Children’s Hospital in Akron.
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Akkon
Ohio
Mike Pasha
Rittman
Children's Hospital
Akron
Middletown High drills for fall season at Camp Campbell Gard
Middletown High School musicians spent a week at Camp Campbell Gard rehearsing and polishing halftime routines for the upcoming football season. The feature and photos are on page 17. The Maginot Line remains noted as a historical reference on page 14.
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Middletown High School
Camp Campbell Gard
British Spy Burgess Dies Of Heart Attack
Guy Burgess a British Foreign Office official who fled to Russia in 1951 died in a Moscow hospital after a heart attack. Friends said his death was announced Saturday to his mother. Burgess 53 had teamed with Donald Maclean to share Anglo-American secrets and fled with him years ago amid a Cold War spy scandal.
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London
Guy Burgess
Foreign Office
Russia
Moscow
Friends
Eve Bassett
Melinda Maclean
Donald Maclean
Burgess
Britain
Maclean
Death rides high during Labor Day traffic toll
The Labor Day weekend saw a rising traffic death toll with at least 107 fatalities within 24 hours and an estimated 430 to 520 lives likely lost over the 78-hour holiday. Through Saturday 169 deaths were reported, including 160 in beating accidents and 7 drownings, as the National Safety Council notes speed over conditions contributed to many crashes. It compares with 557 deaths during the 1963 Independence Day holiday and 461 nonholiday fatalities for the same period.
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The
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
Council
Associated Press
Diem Eases Pressure as Buddhist Crisis Feels Subtle Pause
In Saigon, President Diem’s government loosened martial law and allowed the Xa Lai pagoda to reopen after ten days. U S Ambassador Lodge walked unguarded in Saigon with his wife and journalists, signaling a rare display of open access. A mass demonstration drew mixed turnout, with government support chants and restrained cheers for Diem, his regime, and martial law while officials claimed over 200,000 in attendance but estimates ranged far lower.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Neo Din Diem
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Xa Lai
Diem
U.S. Information Agency
Sai
United States
South Viet Nam
Marine Guard
Lwere
Lodge
Presidential Palace
Ieople
Quiet Surrounds Negro Family Move in Folcroft
In Folcroft Pennsylvania crowds jeered and attacked the first Black family in a white development. State police under Maj. Shaeffer deployed about 100 troopers, searched cars, closed liquor outlets, and kept traffic moving. Four injured and eight arrested, including Univ. of Pennsylvania professor James Van Dyk charged with inciting to riot. The Bakers endured vandalism and a long blackout. police supplied water and food.
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Folcroft
Philadelphia
Col. E. Wilson Purdy
Pennsylvania
Horace Bakers
Singleton Shaeffer
James van Dyk
University of Pennsylvania
Baker House
Baker
Sara
van Dykl
Bakers
Sit-Ins Arrested At Rikes Dayton
Police in Dayton arrest 20 demonstrators at Rike's department store accusing them of trespassing and resisting arrest. A scuffle with a detective occurred but no injuries were reported. Demonstrators from the Dayton chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality carried signs accusing the store of discriminatory hiring and were led from the aisles and jailed.
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Dayton Ohio
Rike’s
Dayton
Congress of Racial Equality
Humorous Quip About Inheriting Earth Becomes Snappy Line
A witty remark expresses a playful wish about meek inheritors gaining power while noting concern they might not remain meek once empowered. The line evokes a light political edge with a dash of social commentary.
Dynamite Found Buried Near Pine Grove West Virginia
Workmen near Pine Grove uncover five wooden cases of dynamite labeled Red Cross buried during a highway relocation project on West Virginia 20. The boxes show no date and likely sat undisturbed for many years in the town of 760. A Harman Brothers safety supervisor says the material is highly dangerous and a demolition team removed the explosives.
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Pine Grove
W. Va
Harman Brothers Construction Co
Grafton
Red Cross
Robert Harman
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Philby
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Soviet Union
Tion
Death Rides
Angel
Tu Nghiem Na Goda
Horace Baker
Schaeffer
Glenolden
Darby
Rike
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