Bitter Governor's Race Sets Mississippi Runoff
The Mississippi governor contest pits Democrat J P Coleman against incumbent Moses Johnson in a bitter runoff driven by the 1962 Oxford desegregation crisis. Voters in 1,890 precincts cast ballots from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST to choose between Coleman and Johnson, with the winner facing Republican Ruchel Phillips and Independent Ed Bishop in November.
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Kennedy
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Coleman
Meredith
Johnson
Mississippi
U.S
James McShane
Kennedys
Adams County
Natchez
Ruchel Phillips
Ed Bishop
Ackerman
Airman dies after 80 foot fall at Cape Canaveral
CAPE CANAVERAL CAPTAIN Airman A2C Billy McCubbin of Alhambra California died after an 80 foot fall from an antenna at Patrick Air Force Base where he served with the Ground Electronic Engineering Installation Agency The Air Force released the death Friday with details emerging Saturday stating the accident occurred while he was working on the antenna and the cause was not disclosed at first
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UPI
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Billy McCubbin
Frank S$. McCubbin
Alhambra
Calif
Young McCubbin
Patrick Air Force Base
GEEIA
McCubbin
New Thresher Class Nuclear Sub Is Ready
The Barb, a $70 million nuclear submarine, was commissioned at Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula. It is the first of the Thresher Class to be accepted since the Thresher tragedy, and carries 129 men. Rear Adm. E. B. Fluckey and Vice Adm. F. Grenfell attended the ceremony as the ship heads toward San Diego, joining the Pacific fleet.
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Navy
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Board of Inspection and Survey
Pacific Fleet
San Diego
Fall From Tug Fatal For Man
New Orleans officers said Ned P Benoit 53 of Thibodaux La fell from a tug and drowned in Lake Cataouatche Saturday. Capt J A Seardino Jr of the sheriff s department in Baal slipped off to McDerysder mott dredge tug Ralph T about 129 a m
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Ned P. Benoit
Thibodaux
Lake Cataounche
J. A. Seardino Jr
Sheriff's Department
Baal
McDeryseDermott
Ralph T
Monroe Man's Club delegate to national convention named
Miss De Corte chosen to represent the Monroe Men's Club at the National Federation of Men's Clubs convention in Shreveport August 31 to September 2. She will preside as princess at the coronation hall, a convention highlight. De Corte is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Nick De Corte of 3303 Gordon and attends Ouachita High School.
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National Federation of Men’s Clubs
Shreveport
Coronation Hall
Miss de- Corte
Nick de- Corte
Gordon
Ouachita High School
Lake Charles News Editor Dies At Work
Eugene Hughes 37, news editor for the Lake Charles American Press, died of a heart attack in the newsroom. A Mobile, Alabama native, he joined the paper in 1953 as an editorial writer and rose to news editor in 1961, after earlier work with Gadsden Times and AP in Birmingham. He is survived by two brothers and two sisters. funeral arrangements were in progress.
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Mobile
Ala
University of Alabama
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Times
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Birmingham
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Corpus Christi
Tex
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Baltimore
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Sacramento
Calif
Edna Smith
Army Missile Chief dies at 53 in Huntsville
Maj. Gen. F. J. McMorrow, veteran ordnance officer and commanding general of the U S Army Missile Command, died Saturday of a heart attack in Huntsville Alabama. He was 53.
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Ala
UPI
F. J. McMorrow
U. S. Army Missile Command
Khrushchev touts production to bury capitalism in Yugoslavia
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged that communism would bury capitalism through mass production during a visit with Tito in Yugoslavia. He argued workers will prevail, citing assembly line methods and automation, and noted the United States currently leads in output but Russia aims to match and exceed US levels within six to seven years, with a target 1980 per capita gains.
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