Quiet Day Seen At Little Rock Integation Return
Quiet Day opens in Little Rock as integration resumes with twelve Negroes scheduled to attend two formerly white high schools. One transfer reduced the number to eleven at Central High, Horace Mann, amid past clashes and a court-ordered desegregation. Delores York, age 6, will enter first grade at the previously all white school.
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Little Rock, Ark
Litle Neck
Everette Dixon Morehead
Central Wich
Horace Mann High
Central
Orval E. Fabhus
Dellarway
Pine Rivef
Delores Jean York
Chicago and Peshtigo Fire Toll From Oct Eruptions
Two million people perished in the Chicago Fire of October 8 1871. The following day a forest blaze near Peshtigo Wisconsin killed 1 162 residents and visitors in a deadly double disaster.
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Chicago
Peshtigo
Wis
Holiday Extended Kids Keep Sailing With Eisenhowers
President Eisenhower and his grandchildren extended a Potomac River cruise over Labor Day, choosing to continue the trip aboard two Navy cabin cruisers Barbara Anne and Susie E with Lt. Col and Mrs. Eisenhower aboard. The party anchored near Rocky Point, Maryland, fished, swam, and enjoyed sunny boating weather. The White House noted the voyage is for the youngsters, who voted to continue the trip through Sunday.
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Washington
Riva
Maryland
Rocky Point
Wicomico River
Potomac
641 Freight Cars I Leave Tracks. 2 Men Injured
A 134 car freight train collided with a trailer truck carrying heavy road equipment near Orange Texas. The impact threw three rail cars into a heap. Injured were engineer D B Brown 40 and fireman C E Johnson 3 both of Houston. The Southern Pacific train was moving west on Texas and New Orleans track and the truck was driven by Jimmy C Root 30 of Victor.
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Orange
Tex
API
D. B. Brown
C. E. Johnson
Houston
Southern Pacific
Texas & New Orleans
Jimmy C. Root
Victor
Marilyn Monroe Returns to Film Set After Exhaustion
Hollywood report says Marilyn Monroe leaves hospital in Reno to resume filming after a week rest. The actress, aged around 36, cited acute exhaustion from six days a week work in the Nevada heat. Her husband Arthur Miller reportedly stayed nearby during her hospital stay.
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Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
Reno
New
Hushnevi
Arthur Miller
Marilyn
Nevada
Seven Die in New England Fires Across Vermont and Massachusetts
AP reports seven killed in under 24 hours across New England fires. In Richford Vermont a hay barn blaze killed Donna Vashakalifski age 4 and Pamela age 3, with brother Danny 9 missing. In Boston Jamaica Plain a third floor fire killed Anne Marie De Lito 3, Mary Patricia 6, Paul Joseph 3, and Joan 7 months. another child Margaret 9 burned. In Cambridge Mass Patricia McDonald 7 died at home while brother Michael 9 was critically burned.
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Boston
New England
Richford
Donna Vashakalifski
Pamela
Danny
Marlborough
Conn
Jamaica Plain
Anne Marie de Lito
Mary Patricia
Paul Joseph
Joan
Patricia McDonald
Cambridge
Mass
Michael
Joan de Lillo
Counterfeit cash ring busted by Kentucky attorney
Lester Burns Jr a former state trooper turned attorney nabbed four men amid phony bills totaling about 15000 dollars He confronted the trio Ray Napier Pershing Napier George Swanson and Burdette Copps and recovered the counterfeit money The suspects from Richmond Ky and Chicago were charged with possession of counterfeit currency
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Manchester
Lester Burns Jr
State Police Academy
Burns
Kentucky
Ami
Sam King
Ray
Pershing Napier
Richmond
George Swanson
Burdette Copps
Chicago
Ring
Dance Hall Wrecked In Portland Riot Fracas
In Portland Oregon police charged 17 youths with disorderly conduct and incitement after a late Saturday fracas at a downtown dance hall. A crowd of about 1900 danced to Ray Charles Hestra when it began. six people suffered minor injuries and three officers were hurt. Box office disruption and property damage followed as accounts cited a racially mixed crowd.
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Portland
Ore
Donnybrook
Ray Charles
Charles’ Hestra
Joe Jones
Charles
Sesiile
Bandstone
Charles Sullivan
Echo Times Echo 1 Weather Almanac Outlook
Echo Times Echo 1 will return over the Middletown area tonight and tomorrow with evening passes. Forecast lists times 7 31 pm and 9 35 pm for northward paths with varying compass bearings and a later 11 4 pm listing. Tuesday shows 7 03 pm and 9 13 pm northward trajectories and 11 21 pm southward track.
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Echo 1
Middletown
General Tire Chairman William O Neil dies at 75 in Akron
William Francis O Neil 75 co founder and chairman of General Tire and Rubber Co died at his Akron home. He steered the firm into entertainment rocketry chemicals and plastics expanding to 600 million in sales. He built RKO General and owned radio networks including Don Lee Yankee and Mutual. Aerojet rocket firm acquired in 1945 grew to 21 000 employees and 300 million in yearly sales. Burial at Holy Cross Cemetery with High Mass at St Sebastian Church.
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Akron
Ohio
William
Francis O'Neil
General Tire and Rubber Co
O'Neil
St. Sebastian Catholic Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
General Tire
Michael G
General
RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc
RKO General
Don Lee
Pacific Coast
Yankee
New England
Mutual Broadcasting System
Aerojet Corp
Azusa
Calif
Aerojet
Huntz Hall and Colleen Vico wed in civil ceremony
Colleen Vico and Huntz Hall, both on honeymoons in Las Vegas, were married Saturday in a civil ceremony in the desert resort. The actors were 32 and 40 respectively and are now on their honeymoon.
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Las Vegas
Nev (Ap
Huntz Hall
Colleen Vico
Divorce petition filed in Butler County court
Valerie Cornett a minor 17 through her mother Mildred Anvil petitions for divorce from Bobby Joe Cornett a minor 20 whose residence is unknown in case No 4320 in the Common Pleas Court Butler County Ohio The defendant must answer by October 1 1960 or the petition will be granted Notices dated August 15 22 29 September 5 12 19 with clerk Joseph T Kiep deputy Alton H Combs attorney
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Bobby Joe Cornett
Valerie Cornett
Mildred Anvil
Common Pleas Court
Butler County
Ohio
Joseph T Kiep
Hilda Dresch
Alton H. Combs
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Terry Schrunck
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