Violence Flares At Lamar Tech In White Picket clashes
In Beaumont Texas three taxicabs carrying Negro students tried to crash a white picket line at Lamar State College of Technology. A car windshield was smashed, drivers and one Negro student were taken to police headquarters for questioning, and a pistol was found in one cab. Police and two Texas Rangers controlled the crowd. No charges filed immediately.
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Beaumont
Tex
Lamar State College of Technology
Texas Rangers
State College
Etheridge Wright
Lamar Cecil
John Ben Shepperd
Lamar Tech
James R. Briscoe
H. H. Mericle
Mericle
Briscoe
Green Cement Blamed In 10 Deaths
Jackson Michigan UP a plumber who escaped a four story building collapse that killed ten workers charged removal of forms from fresh cement caused the disaster. George Berry Jr said his father is in that building now and cement poured recently is unsafe. Three hundred rescue workers searched all night for bodies still buried among steel and concrete in the basement. Missing and presumed dead were Gale Marble Floyd Baker Charles Amman Claude Dinschus George Berry Sr and William Rose. The bodies brought out Wednesday were William Bing and others.
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Jackson, Mich
George Berry Jr
Berry
Gale Marble
Flint
Floyd Baker
Spring Arbor
Charles Amman
Jackson
Claude Dinschus
George Berry Sr
William Rose
William Bing
Open-Air Parking Garage Collapse Injures 13 in Jackson
In Jackson Mississippi the second floor of an open-air parking garage under construction collapsed yesterday under 90 tons of wet concrete. Thirteen workers were injured and hospitalized with ten in good condition today. Workers were pouring concrete into V shape steel forms supporting a 40 by 40 foot section when the forms buckled. The garage stood beside the citys newest downtown structure.
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Jackson, Miss
Ten killed in Indiana auto crash near Muncie
A head on collision seven miles west of Muncie Indiana killed ten people including Fred Beal 32 his wife Lillian 30 their four young daughters Claudia 4 Vickie Lynn 5 Christiana 6 Inez 8 and Freds mother Marie Clark 60 sister Loretta Beal and friend Jesse Price 37 with the other car driver Thomas Bryan Burns 35 Keystone. Police said skid marks suggest Beals car crossed center line. Lillian Beal died later at Ball Memorial Hospital.
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Muncie
Ind
Headon
Here
Fred Beal
Lillian
Claudia
Vickie Lynn
Christiana
Inez
Beal
Marie Clark
Loretta Beal
Jesse Price
Thomas Bryan Burns
Keystone
John Nicewander
Burns
Nicewander
Lillian Beal
Ball Memorial Hospital
Hammarskjold pressues to ease Suez clash avert UN aid loss
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold uses private talks to avert a Security Council showdown over Suez. Britain and France push for UN endorsement of canal controls, while the US shows coolness. Iranian Djalal Abdoh and others back a negotiating panel to keep talks alive without taking sides.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Security Council
U. N
Suez
Hammarskjold
Britain
France
U.N
London
Djalal Abdoh
United States
U.S
State Dulles
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Selwyn Lloyd
Koca Popovic
Victor Andres Belaunde
Frick postpones second World Series game
Commissioner Ford C Frick announced the Dodgers Yankees World Series game two would be postponed due to forecast heavy rain. Don Newcombe would start for the Dodgers and Don Larsen for the Yankees if played. Frick ordered gates closed to prevent a ticket jam and noted the decision aimed to protect players and fans from adverse weather.
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Brooklyn
Ford C. Frick
Dodgers
Yankees
Frick
Don Newcombe
Don Larsen
Ebbets Field
Long Leaders Decline Public Comment On Wiretap
Gov Earl Long and Mrs Long refused comment on a federal disclosure that they and four other Louisiana political figures heard conversations tapped from New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Morrison during the January gubernatorial primary. The couple said they relayed what they knew to authorities long ago and saw no public purpose in comment. The statement followed a government reply to a bill of particulars in the wiretapping case naming Sidney Massicot, Robert Lizette, and James Donnelly as indicted suspects.
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New Orleans
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
deLesseps Morrison
Baton Rouge
Long
Winnfield
Longs
Federal District Court
Sidney J. Massicot
United Detective Agency
Robert Lizette
James F. Donnelly
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele
Grand Jury Balks At Indictment Of Murder Suspect
In EDGARD L A grand jury refused to indict H L Alfred over the death of his wife Margaret Alfred from a Oct 8 shooting in their bedroom. Sandra Alfred, the 13 year old stepdaughter, testified Alfred warned her to claim death by own action. Deputy Dominick Milioto recounted Alfred crying beside his wounded wife.
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Edgard
H. L. Alfred
Margaret Alfred
Sandra Alfred
Alfred
Sandra
Dominick Milioto
Fair Here Will Start Monday Meeting Tonight
The 32nd Ouachita Valley Fair opens Monday at West Monroe fairgrounds, with John Birdsong stating 30 to 40 thousand visitors are expected to tour home demonstration club booths, farm displays, and livestock. A workers' meeting is tonight to cement final plans, gates opening at 6 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. daily thereafter. junior livestock judged Tuesday and adult livestock judged later.
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Fair Grounds
Monroe
John Birdsong
Louisiana
Birdsong
Cloudy Skies and Showers Soften Ouachita Temperature
Cloudy skies and scattered showers kept Ouachita parish temperatures in the high 60s on Thursday morning. The high reached 68 degrees before noon, and the 61 degree low was recorded at Selman Field by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Rainfall from midnight to 6:30 a.m. was 0.22 inch. The forecast calls for partly cloudy to cloudy with more showers and thunder showers today, tonight, and Friday, with a low around 62 to 66 and a Friday high of 87 to 91. Pollen count stood at 25.
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Ouachita Parish
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Selman Field
Lewis Embarrassed By Wage Deal Not Signed
John L. Lewis, embarrassed, announced a new wage deal to the United Mine Workers convened in Cincinnati. He faced immediate questions as the agreement not yet signed, signaling potential delays and tensions within the union.
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Lewis
Cincinnatio
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Conven
Miners Union and Operators Agree on $2.40 Daily Wage Rise
President John L. Lewis announced that the United Mine Workers and coal operators have settled their differences and will sign a contract providing a $2.40 per day wage increase for about 200,000 northern soft coal miners.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Mine union seek pact as owners balk at signing
A 3,000 strong convention heard Lewis report that mine owners' representative refused to sign the proposed agreement, stalling a key labor accord and signaling renewed tensions in the industry.
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Lewis
Health Officer Fires Back at Racist Storm in Madison Fla
Dr. Deborah Coggins, 32, health officer for Madison Jefferson and Taylor counties, faces calls to resign after a luncheon with a Negro nurse sparked a regional racial controversy. She challenged Madison County commissioners, calling them fools and cowards as they refused to state if her dismissal was tied to the luncheon. She says she will not leave, insisting Madison is her home and birthplace of her husband.
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Madison
Fla
Deborah Coggins
Florida
T. C. Merchant Jr
The
Weekly Enterprise Recorder
Coggins
Madison County Commission
Madison, Jefferson,and
Taylor
Madison County
State Board of Health
Jefferson
Second Fage
Attacks On Segregation Charge NAACP With 'Using' L-Americans
The state sought to permanently outlaw the NAACP in Texas and presented evidence from a memo by Ed win C Washington to Texas NAACP chapters. The case, before District Judge Otis Dunagan in Tyler, involves a temporary restraining order and plans to indoctrinate children about new school enrollment amid the broader effort against the Houston NAACP chapter.
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Tyler
Tex
NAACP
Texas
Otis Dunagan
Edwin C. Washington
Washington
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Houston
Fate Of Holifield and Five Others Heads To Jury
In Hattiesburg Mississippi former Sheriff Morgan Holifield and five co defendants face a jury for conspiring to violate federal internal revenue laws by operating as liquor dealers without tax payment. Defendants include Otis Dunn Wilson Bud Stringer Ralph Lowry and Joe Carr. Final arguments concluded after a rebuttal witness for the government.
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Hattiesburg, Miss
Morgan Holifield
Holifield
Otis
Robert Dunn
Wilson
Bud Stringer
Ralph Lowry
Joe Carr
Steve Brogan
Carr
Lawrence Arrington
Jones County
Pershing Sullivan
Monroe Forest Festival crowns Miss Eleonor Cammack
Monroe LA October 4 1956 Miss Eleonor Cammack was named Miss Forest Festival at the Louisiana Forest Festival beauty pageant. The LSU sophomore defeated 22 rivals in front of about 1000 onlookers after a morning of judging educational booths and a gala parade. Governor Earl K Long crowned her.
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Winnfield
Monroe
Eleanor Cammack
Louisiana State University
Jonesboro
Carolyn Capps
Louisiana Tech
Georgetown
Soldier With Dead Girl In Car Seized By Arkansas Police
Fort Smith Arkansas police arrested Pfe James Coleman 24 of Muskogee Oklahoma a Korean War veteran after his wife screamed for help and a trunk body was found a 17 year old black girl strangled with a cord Identified as Mrs Mitchell Thomas of Fort Smith the wife of a Ft Chaffee soldier The car was stopped at a road block set for a holdup man when Mrs Coleman leaped out and cried for help
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Fort Smith
Ark
Pfe
James Coleman
Muskogee
Okla
Ft. Chaffee
Mitchell Thomas
Dead or Alive Reward Out For Gun Smuggler
In Managua Nicaragua the national guard issued a dead or alive reward for Edwin Castro Rodriguez son of a former Nicaraguan general suspected of smuggling the pistol used to assassinate President Anastasio Somoza. A 7000 reward was offered for information leading to his capture. President Luis Somoza said the murder weapon was bought in New Orleans by Noel Bermudez, a former Nicaraguan officer living in El Salvador.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan National Guard
Anastasio Somoza
Edwin Castro Rodriguez
Luis Somoza
New Orleans
el Salvador
Somoza
Smith & Wesson
Noel Bermudez
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Donald R. Good
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