Cities To Get Legislature Power Smith says urban centers will gain clout
Lt Governor Pres ton Smith told city officials that a shift from a rurally oriented Texas Legislature is coming. He cited Supreme Court population guidelines and projected redistricting to boost Dallas Houston San Antonio and Fort Worth seats in the Senate and House after 1970 census.
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Austin
Preston Smith
Texas
Smith
Institute For Mayors
Supreme Court
Texas Senate
Dallas
Houston
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Senate
House
Leyland to Sell Cuba 500 More Buses
Leyland Motor Firm in London plans to sign a new contract to supply 500 additional buses to Cuba. This follows an earlier deal for 450 buses valued around 10 million dollars and under renegotiation with Cuba.
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London
UPI
Leyland
Cuba
Barry's Delegates Stay Loyal Despite Anti-Rights Ballot
A seven-state check shows Goldwater delegates remain loyal after his civil rights vote. AP counted 655 first-ballot votes with Goldwater at 694 pledged and unpledged support reported. Scranton eyes a shift within about ten days to block a first-ballot win.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Associated Press
William W. Scranton
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Henry Cabot Lodge
Margaret Chase Smith
Richard M. Nixon
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Mississippi Invaded By Yankee Whites in Civil Rights Project
Scores of college volunteers from across the nation arrived in Mississippi to support COFO efforts aimed at helping Negroes gain the vote. About 200 volunteers spread to 25 cities to open freedom schools, with no major trouble reported yet amid caution from Negro leaders and officials.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Council For Federated Organizations
COFO
Khrushchev Arrives in Sweden Under Tight Guard
Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Sweden amid heavy security for a five day state visit. Police report anti-Soviet incidents include two flags torn down and a banner urging Khrushchev to go home. Khrushchev, Nina Khrushchev, Andrei Gromyko, and officials disembarked from Bashkiria to meet King Gustaf Adolf and Premier Tage Erlander.
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Stockholm
Nikita S
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Sweden
Haga Palace
Red
Nina
Andrei Gromyko
Bashkiria
Denmark
Gustaf Adolf
Tage Erlander
Texas League Eyes Local Option City Sales Tax Poll
The Texas Municipal League authorized an opinion poll of city officials on a local option city sales tax proposal. The idea was approved at a closed meeting on the eve of the third annual institute of mayors councilmen and commissioners.
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Austin
UPI
Texas Municipal League
Institute of Mayors
League Board of Directors
Woman Lay Dying Customer Ignores Plea in Fort Worth Store
In Fort Worth an East Side liquor store customer ignored a dying woman and walked away with a tin of tobacco after Mrs. J. D. Johnson, 50, was fatally shot nearby. Johnson found dying as the unnamed man claimed to help others. Police noted two pistols were near the scene but neither fired.
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J. D. Johnson
Johnson
Ernest Wiggins
Wiggins
Johnsons
Lyards
Sukarno Starts New Asia Fight
Johnson and Turkish Premier Ismet Inonu began talks at the White House to avert war over Cyprus. The leaders voiced peace and justice aims as Greece and Turkey face possible invasion and a UN mediated solution. Johnson highlighted U S Turkish friendship and world peace as discussions commenced.
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Williamsburg
White House
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Turkey
UPI
Washington
Cyprus
Inana
Inonu
George Papandreou
Ionu
California
Dean Rusk
Papandreou
Makarios
Johnsson
Paratroopers Repel Viet Cong At Bang Lang Heavy Losses
U S backed forces report 29 Americans killed and 85 wounded in a major battle near Bang Lang 45 miles southwest of Saigon. At least 54 Viet Cong guerrillas died as two Viet Cong battalions were routed. Four U S helicopters were downed and one American missing man is now confirmed dead.
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Bang Lang
Viet Nam
UPI
South Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
Court Overrules Passport Bars Against Reds
The Supreme Court struck down the 1950 Internal Security Act provision barring Communist Party members from applying for or using passports to travel outside the Western Hemisphere. The 6 to 3 decision held the travel ban unconstitutional, with opinions by Justice Goldberg and dissents by four justices.
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UPI
Supreme Court
Communist Party
Western Hemisphere
Arthur J. Goldberg
Tom C. Clark
John M.clark
John M. Harlan
Byron R. White
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Herbert Aptheker
Indonesian Guerrillas Attack Gurkhas After Tokyo Peace Conference Collapse
Indonesian guerrillas launched a six hour attack near the Kuching frontier killing five Gurkhas and wounding five others as Sarawak officials warned of a grave frontier situation. Security forces forced the guerrillas to retreat amid fears of a broader campaign after the Tokyo summit collapsed.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Borneo
Sarawak
Kuching
Nepal
Far East
Tokyo
Radio Indonesia
State Security Council
Malaysian Borneo
Stephen Kalong Ningkan
Ningkan
Indonesia
Sukarno
Antara
North Kalimantan
Subandria
Philippine
Diosdado Macapagal
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Two Men Rob Galaxy Restaurant at World’s Fair
Two men robbed the Galaxy restaurant in the travel and transportation pavilion at the World’s Fair. They tied up two cashiers and escaped with more than $10,000 in a foot locker, in what was the fair’s first reported robbery.
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New York
UPI
Galaxy
Travel and Transportation
Weather forecast from WA station at Terminal
Partly cloudy with little change in temperature through Tuesday. Scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers in the area.
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Terminal
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