Clement Orders 3-Way Probe Of School Tragedy
Governor Frank Clement ordered a three way investigation into a freight train school bus collision in Spring City Tennessee that killed ten children and injured about thirty. The crash tore the bus apart as it traveled at speed through Ideal Valley near the grade crossing shocking residents. The driver Raymond Moore age 38 survived and prayed he would reach safety. Clement planned to meet grieving parents and visit hospitals in four towns where the injured were taken.
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Spring City
Tenn
Frank Clement
Raymond Moore
Clement
Ideal Valley
Knoxville
Leonard Pack
Sybil Hardaway
Mistaken Identity Leads to Dining Room Dispute in Houston
India's ambassador to the United States and his secretary were refused seating in a Houston restaurant after a supervisor believed they were Negroes. The incident, noted under local discrimination rules, occurred at Horizon House Restaurant near the International Airport.
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Houston
Tex
India
United States
Mary Alley
Three Men Sentenced to Angola Prison in Louisiana
Ouachita parish Negro prisoners were en route Tuesday to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Sheriff Bailey Grant announced the transfer by Deputy Sheriff William Booth. They were sentenced August 11 by District Judge David I. Garrett Sr. The group includes Joe Rogers Jr. 29 with six year terms on three burglary counts to run concurrently, Jessie J. Boyd 17 with a burglary sentence, and Isham Lister 24 given five years for simple burglary.
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Ouachita Parish
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Angola
Bailey Grant
William Booth
David I. Garrett Sr
Joe Rogers Jr
Jessie J. Boyd
Isham Lister
Heavy Turnout Reported In Miss Election
Mississippi voters turnout appears strong in the second Democratic primary for governor. Early reports from Hattiesburg Ackerman Laurel Biloxi and Gulfport note brisk voting under clear skies as J. P. Coleman and Paul Johnson compete with an expected statewide total over 400 000 votes.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
J. P. Coleman
Paul Johnson
Hattiesburg
Johnson
Ackerman
Coleman
Laurel
Biloxi
Gulfport
Jackson
Admission of LSU Negroes Upheld By 5th Circuit Court
The Fifth Circuit upheld Judge J. Skelly Wright's order requiring LSU to admit Negro undergraduates. The ruling follows remands after the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision. The court again enjoined LSU from denying admission to Negro students based on race.
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LSU
5Th Circuit
New Orleans
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
J. Skelly Wright
Louisiana State University
Alexander P. Tureaud Jr
Wright
U.S. Supreme Court
Appeals Court
High Tribunal
LSU Board of Supervisors
Bids On 11 Monroe Streets Are Received
Bids totaling about 50000 were opened for eleven Monroe streets with Coastal Asphalt Co. the sole bidder on asphalt resurfacing. Listed bids include Louise Anne 4702 Madison 3212.50 Ouachita avenue 3984 Peach 3642 and others. Streets work to be considered while a South 23rd street improvement notice was authorized for bidding. Parents petitioned for a patrolman at Plum Street crossing and bus routing changes to serve Barkdull Faulk school. Mayor Coon ordered department heads to comply.
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Monroe
Coastal Asphalt Co
Louise Anne
South 8Th
South 14Th
Madison
Sterlington Road
Filhiol
Ouachita Avenue
South 13Th
Peach
South 5Th
South 9Th
Texas
Ouachita
South 10Th
North 19Th
DeSiard
Breard
Elm
Powell
Selman Field
North 22Nd
Flynn
North 24Th
Wayne Huckaby
South 23Rd Street
Grammont
Parent-Teachers Association
Barkdull Faulk School
Plum Street
Bernstein Park
John Coon
Frank X. Cline
Jack Howard
The
Floods Freeze Northeast Industry and Daily Life
Flooding across Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Connecticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island halts normal business as workers clear debris. The toll rises with deaths from electrocution and flood incidents totaling at least 93 in Pennsylvania and 60 in Connecticut among others.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Wounded Woman Sues Louisiana Prison Over Escape
Mrs. Virginia Webb sues the Louisiana state penitentiary for 61041 in damages claiming negligence allowed an escaping convict to obtain a pistol and shoot her in 1953 near Angola. The suit notes Escobar stole a pistol, shot at her husband, kidnapped a storekeeper, and fled six hours before recapture.
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ST. Francisville
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Virginia Webb
Tunica Hills
Angola
Richard S
Chico) Escobar
St. Mary Parish
Escobar
Woodville
Miss
Bar
Webb
Emile Webb
Tunica
Hallie Walters
Mississippi
East Baton Rouge Parish
West Feliciana
T. H. Martin
Department of Institutions
Bomber Completes First Leg of Atlantic Test
A twin-jet English Electric Canberra landed in Brooklyn at 7:53 a.m. est Tuesday seven hours and 36 minutes after leaving London on the first leg of a one day round trip. The crew, two RAF veterans now working as pilot and navigator, aimed to return to London by supper. Official departure was 7:17:53 a.m. est over Croydon.
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New York
Brooklyn
London
Atlantic
Royal Air Force
Croydon
Eisenhower May Call Special Session for Flood Aid
President Eisenhower flew to assess flood damage in the Northeastern states and pledged to convene a special session of Congress if needed to secure adequate aid. He urged national Red Cross donations and announced a study of flood prevention and insurance options. He met with governors in Hartford before returning to Washington.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Red Cross
Colorado
New England
Hartford
Conn
North
South Carolina
Connie
Diane
Living Costs Rise for Second Month
The July consumer price index climbed three tenths of one percent led by higher food prices and services. The rise triggers penny per hour raises for about 650,000 auto industry workers under wage contracts tied to the index, with broader auto, aircraft, farm equipment and trucking sectors affected. The July index stood at 114.7 percent of the 1947-49 average, the largest gain since May 1954, as housing and medical costs also reached record levels.
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Washington
General Motors
Ford Motor Companies
Convict Offers Confession After Lie Detector Fears
In Angola Louisiana a convict in the state penitentiary health laboratory asked to confess after seeing the lab setup. He balked at taking a lie detector test while inmates and officers sought a routine X-ray in the prison paper Angelite.
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Angola
Angelite
Weird Ceremony Marks Return Of Flier Body
In Korea's neutral zone the Communists released 2nd Lt. Guy H. Bumpas and handed over Army Capt. Charles W. Brown in a strange ceremony. Bumpas described fair treatment during his confinement and answered questions from a Red officer before crossing back to Allied lines.
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Kumhwa
Korea
Guy H. Bumpas
Jackson
Miss
Army
Charles W. Brown
Louisville
Bumpas
U. N
Harold A. Dye
Atlanta
Brown
North Korea
Dye
Five Crewmen and Four Negro Residents Die In Air Crash
A C 119 Flying Boxcar crashed during takeoff near Charleston Air Force Base in Liberty Park. Nine people died including five crewmen and four African American civilians. Eleven were injured, six survived without critical injuries. The aircraft struck three houses destroying two, and only tail section remained.
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Charleston
S. C
Charleston Air Force Base
Air Force
Liberty Park
Air Force Base
ABA backs teaching communist theories in schools
At the ABA convention in Philadelphia the House of Delegates unanimously supported a Flood sponsored bill to set up a 1 member commission to provide information and suggested curricula on communist theory for U.S. schools, pending Congress action.
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Philadelphia
American Bar Assn
Congress
ABA
House of Delegates
Daniel Flood
D-Pa
French Columns Hit Tribal Strongholds in Morocco
Armored French columns with fighter plane cover struck rebellion strongholds in eastern Morocco. The operation targets 4000 Berber tribesmen raiding Oued Zem as French officials admit a rising weekend death toll possibly reaching 1000 in Morocco, with hundreds more in Algeria. Gen. Raymond Duval died in a plane crash nearby yesterday.
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Casablanca
Rabat
Meknes
Frech
Kasba Talda
Oued Zem
Cials
Morocco
Algeria
Kenifra
Khourigba
Raymond Duval
Escape Attempt Sparks Nebraska Reform School Riot
About 100 inmates at the Nebraska reformatory rioted Monday night to cover an escape bid. The two escapees were captured and rioters were stripped and jailed in the reformatory hole. Superintendent George Morris praised his unarmed guards and condemned penitentiary leadership while noting the uprisings followed last week's large fire and earlier riots at the prison.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Reformatory
Nebraska
Reformatory
Penitentiary
Hole
George Morris
Morris
Victor E. Anderson
University of Nebraska
State Patrol
Board of Control of the National Guard
Three Killed and One Hurt in Arkansas Crash
A head on collision on U S 67 seven miles south of Walnut Ridge near Minturn left three dead and one seriously injured. Don Sawyers, 35, of Lynn, was killed. Mrs. J M Willoughby and her mother in the other car were injured. Willoughby, 25, suffered a broken leg and internal injuries and was hospitalized in Jonesboro.
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
U. S. 67
Minturn
Don Sawyers
Lynn
Lawrence County
J. M. Willoughby
Willoughby
Sawyers
Jonesboro
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