Civil Rights Commission urges fast desegregation of schools
The Civil Rights Commission urged the President and Congress to require every local school board with segregated schools to file a desegregation plan within six months. Plans should move toward full compliance with the 1954 Supreme Court ruling starting the next school year. Some members favored withholding federal funds from discriminatory higher education and private institutions.
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Washington
Civil Rights Commission
Congress
Commission
Supreme Court
Robert S. Rankin
Duke University
Political Science
Rankin
Young Mountain Climbers Die After 300Foot Fall
SEATTLE AP Two young climbers died after a 300 foot fall while ascending Gaye Peak near Snoqualmie Pass. Linda Cartwright 24 and Ed Goodman 28, both of Seattle, were on the ascent with Janet H MacDonald 36 and Brian Marts 18, also of Seattle. A rock allegedly gave way as Mrs Cartwright slipped. Goodman followed. Cartwright leaves a husband Walter 23 a Marine reservist sergeant and a daughter Karin 5.
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Seattle
Cascade Range
Linda Cartwright
Ed Goodman
Gaye Peak
Snoqualmie Pass
Janet H. MacDonald
Brian Marts
Marts
200 Berliners Routed By Reds
East German police evicted 200 residents from Bernauer Strasse and Harzer Strasse as part of a broad border clearance aims to block West Berlin escape routes. A resident dropped from a rope to a West Berlin street while a U.S. Army patrols the Berlin corridor resumed along the 110 mile route, signaling four power rights in the city.
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East Berlin
West Berlin
Theman
U.S
Berlin
West Germany
Air Show Crash Kills Three Parachutists at Wilmington Show
An Air Force cargo plane carrying six parachutists crashed during the Hanover County airport show in Wilmington North Carolina. Three died Sgt Robert Turner Capt John Markel and T Sgt John Lesso. The six sky divers were among the injured including Lt James Pearson and others. Rescue teams battled flames and treated victims at the scene. The event drew about 100000 spectators.
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Wilmington
N.C
Hanover County
Robert T. Turner
Ft. Bragg
Air Force
John E. Markel
John Lesso
Nellis
Nev
Air Force Base
James P. Pearson
M. Set. T. Hollis
Joe E. Norman
Wilfred J. A. Charrette
Bobby Leibetter
PFC
Robert McDonnell
John Weston
Willan FF. Maxey
Nellis Air
Jacqueline Kennedy flies to hear president at UN
Jacqueline Kennedy travels from Hyannis Port to New York to attend her husband’s United Nations speech. She is accompanied by Joseph P. Kennedy and two Kennedy sisters and a sister-in-law, with direct access to UN seating reserved for diplomatic corps.
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New York
Jacqueline Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Mass
United Nations
Joseph P. Kennedy
Peter Lawford
Sargent Shriver
Robert Kennedy
Destitute Chicago Mother Offered To Sell Daughters
A 30 year old Chicago mother Dolores Myers was arrested and charged with child abandonment after investigators say she offered to sell her two youngest daughters for seven thousand dollars to feed and clothe her other three children. Westchester resident Ella Bonifay was involved in arrangements.
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Chicago
Dolores Myers
Joseph Salerno
Cook County
State's Attorney's Office
Salerno
Ella Bonifay
Westchester
Train Derailment Injures Twenty In Arkansas
A freight train derailed and struck a stationary passenger train in Bay Arkansas injuring at least 20. Five are listed in critical condition at a Jonesboro hospital. A porter cited a hotbox as the cause and said about 20 of the freight’s 88 cars left the tracks, some piling on the overturned passenger coach.
Clothes Don't Make Man Poor Negro Had $5500 In Pockets
Natchez Mississippi special reports Harrison Lewis a 65 year old World War I veteran and longtime National Box Company employee died at his home on 15 Henderson Street. At Webb Funeral Home the director Aubrey Webb found 5500 in hundred dollar bills on the deceased and said the money was returned to the family.
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Natchez, Miss
National Box Company
Harrison Lewis
Henderson Street
Louis Armstrong
Webb Funeral Home
Aubrey Webb
Webb
Lewis
Natchez
St. Catherine Street
Probe Opens Into Boston Crash At Logan Airport
The Civil Aviation Board launches an inquiry into how an American Airlines Boeing 707 Astrojet skidded off a runway into Winthrop Bay during landing at Logan. All 71 aboard were rescued, five injured including a stewardess and the pilot. one rescuer died of a heart attack. Pilot Ted Jonson from Menlo Park said fog affected the approach. Eight crew members were sedated after the crash.
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American Airlines
Winthrop Yacht Club
Logan Inter
Boston
UPI
Civil Aeronautics Board
Winthrop Bay
Logan International Airport
John Lull
Revere
Mass
San Francisco
Chicago
Ted Jonson
Menlo Park
Calif
George van Epps
New York
Anthony Ripper
Vin Epps
Connie Fabres
Cancer Victim Stabs Himself in Bellevue Hospital
John Lawrence 74, a former sportswriter who helped Jack Dempsey return to the ring in the 1923 Firpo bout, is in fair condition at Bellevue with a self-inflicted knife wound. He dictated to police that the act followed his wife’s cancer diagnosis and his own illness. He previously wrote for the Evening World, New York Tribune, and New York American.
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NEW York
Jack Dempsey
Luis Firpo
Bellevue Hospital
John Lawrence
Kings County Hospital
Dempsey
Lawrence
Firpo
Thevening World
The
New York Tribune
New York American
Evening Mail
League of Women Voters to discuss desegregation ruling
A public League of Women Voters meeting will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Ouachita courthouse to discuss Louisiana desegregation rulings and the Legislature’s five special sessions from last fall.
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Louisiana
League of Women Voters
Ouachita
League
Khrush Takes Deadline Off Treaty Demand
Premier Khrushchev dropped the year end deadline for a East German peace treaty in talks with Paul-Henry Spaak. Spaak reported to NATO on the five hour Moscow discussion and Khrushchev said he would delay signing if negotiations continue this year. Western officials reacted with cautious skepticism about the conciliatory line.
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BOM
Germany
Khrushchev
East Germany
Paul-Henry Spaak
Spaak
Soviet Union
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Moscow
West Berlin
Berlin
NATO
Navy airmen survive Atlantic ditching near Bermuda
Three U S Navy airmen were rescued after a Marlin P5M patrol bomber ditched north of Bermuda Friday night. Survivors underwent treatment in Hamilton Bermuda where one man sustained a shark bite. Seven crew members remained missing as search efforts continued by air and sea. The survivors include Patrice J Imhod Peter D Hofstedt and Jack M Dockery with several others listed as missing.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Atlantic
Aviation
Patrice J. Imhod
Lebanon
Pressure On For Katanga Invasion
Gen Victor Lundula leader of leftist forces in Stanleyville pressures the Congo government to invade Katanga. Elisabethville fears renewed fighting as whites flee. Ndola reports nearly 400 whites, mostly Belgians, have arrived from Katanga. Lumumba supporters push the invasion, as Lumumba's faction regains influence with Gizenga's Stanleyville regime aligning with Premier Adoula.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Victor Lundula
Stanleyville
Congo
Katanga
Elisabethville
Ndola
Rhodesia
Patrice Lumumba
Republicans Plot Get Tough Drive in 1962 Elections
Washington ap report describes a planned Republican push for a sweeping campaign to gain House and Senate seats in 1962. Party leaders Barry Goldwater William Miller and Bob Wilson meet with Dwight D Eisenhower to outline an all out effort targeting Democrats on foreign policy and domestic programs. President Kennedy faces anticipated hard hitting attacks as the election nears.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Barry Gollwater
R-Ariz
GOP
Gettysburg
House
William E. Miller
Bob Wilson
R-Calif
Goldwater
Senate
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Temperatures Reach 86 to 90 Amid Scattered Storms
Warm conditions with widely scattered thundershowers this afternoon and early tonight were forecast. Daytime highs were expected between 86 and 90 degrees with overnight lows 64 to 68. Tomorrow should be cooler with highs around 80 to 85. Overnight lows ranged from 67 at Monroe to 79 at New Orleans as yesterday peaked at 91.
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Monroe
New Orleans
Refugees Flee Katanga as Violence Grows
More than 350 refugees from Katanga fled into Northern Rhodesia since Sunday amid rising violence. Police reported nearly 100 carloads of Belgian families crossed the frontier, with many planning to await Belgium’s repatriation while some 60 traveled by air to Brussels.
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Ndola
Northern Rhodesia
Katanga
Maurice Gaillard
Gaillard
Rhodesia
Elisabethville
Kasumbalesa
Belgium
Brussels
Ghost of woman in black pigtails terrifies Nottingham families
In Nottingham an apartment block’s residents report sightings of a female ghost in black pigtails. The Rev. George Muxlow counsels frightened women and children as the specter, seen only by females, moves objects and drifts through rooms. Some families plan to move.
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Nottingham
England
George Muxlow
Reginald King
Leslie Weatherill
Kennedy urges disarm plan and UN role at General Assembly
President Kennedy urged the United Nations to adopt a six point disarmament plan and form a U N peace force. He challenged the Soviet Union to join a peace race rather than an arms race and warned that a triumvirate for the secretary general would weaken the UN. He stressed strengthening the UN charter and Hammarskjold’s legacy amid the Berlin crisis. He called on small nations to back the UN against Soviet moves toward three man control over police power.
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United Nations
N.Y
Kennedy
United States
Soviet Union
Berlin
U.N
Troika
General Assembly
United Nation
Africa
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Weekend Deadly Accidents Claim Eleven Lives in State
United Press International reports eleven deaths over a weekend from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. Victims include eight auto crash victims, a fire death, a poisoning, and an accidental shooting. Ronald Bush, 42, of Rosal died in a two car collision seven miles south of Bur ne. A Shreveport mother and her 4 year old daughter were killed crossing a street. the driver Lee Simmons left the scene but later surrendered. Mrs Nancy Moore of Shreveport identified as victim. Loyd Leonard and wife of Pierre Port died when their car was struck by a train Saturday.
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United Press International
Ronald Bush
Rosal
Burne
Shreveport
Lee Simmons
Nancy ©. Moore
Simmons
Loyd M. Leonard
Pierre Port
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Baton Rouge
Charles Turner
Peter D. Hofstedt
Tarrytown
Jack M. Dockery
Hampton
Albert J. Tait
Kansas City
J. G. Cameron Page Cooper
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John J. McCloy
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