Negroes Move Into House Amid Jeers and Threats
A Black couple moved under heavy police escort into a damaged row house in Folcroft Pennsylvania amid jeers and rocks from a largely white crowd. State police, 132 total on call, kept order as four injuries occurred and eight people were arrested including University of Pennsylvania professor James Van Dyk. The couple, Horace and Sara Baker, sought a stable home and vowed to obey the law despite threats and vandalism.
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Folcroft
Shaeffer
Horace Bakers
Philadelphia
Bakers
Baker
Camden
N.J
Sara
Philadelphia Hospital
University of Pennsylvania
James van Dyk
van Dyk
Massive pro government rally in front of USIA HQ Saigon
In Saigon a large pro Diem demonstration gathered at the USIA headquarters and downtown mall as martial law entered its 11th day. Security increased with Marine guards and citizens urged indoors. Simultaneously Communist Viet Cong activity escalated with 18 US helicopters hit and two Americans killed.
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U.S. Information Agency
Ngo Dinh Diem
Saigon
U.S
Marine Guard
City Hall
Traffic Death Toll Rises During Labor Day Weekend
The 78hour Labor Day weekend opener saw multiple fatal crashes as millions hit the highways. The National Safety Council estimates 420 to 520 Americans may die before Monday night, with deaths beginning Friday at 6 p.m. and increasing Saturday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safety Council
Letter Tip Wins Contest For Gwynn
Gwynn Steere, 11, daughter of Mr and Mrs Myron Steere, wins The Heralds $5 weekly tip contest with a story about herself. A Kansas Highway Patrolman delivered the prize message from a friend in Canada, Jacqueline Dorral of Manitoba, whom Gwynn met while vacationing there. Other tip contributors include Mrs Ann Poss Garnett, Mrs J S Blake 403 E 4th, Mrs Harold Leitaker 502 Willow, Mrs Kenneth Stoffer Pomona, and Mrs Don McCleary 723 N Cedar.
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Gwynn Steere
Myron Steere
S. Mulberry
Herald
Canada
Kansas
Jacqueline Dorral
Manitoba
Gwynn
Ann Poss
Garnett
J. S. Blake
Harold Leitaker
Willow
Kenneth Stoffer
Pomona
Don McCleary
N. Cedar
The
Hotline Opens Between Washington and Moscow for Emergencies
The direct line linking Washington and Moscow is now operational under a U.S. Soviet agreement to deter war. The system, announced by the Pentagon, is for use in emergencies only to prevent nuclear conflict. Kennedy cited Cuban crisis delays as a reason for faster direct communication.
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Washington
Moscow
White House
Kremlin
Pentagon
Geneva
Kennedy
Russia
United States
Administration
Khrushchev
Missing Miner Louis Bova Fears Entombment
Hazleton Pennsylvania AP reports a volunteer rescue effort ends speculation that Louis Bova may be entombed in the same underground chamber as two others from the Sheppton mine cave in. Drillers continue deep shaft work while a remote camera suggested a manlike image, later identified as a plug remains.
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Hazleton
Louis Bova
Bova
Sheppton
Andy Drebitko
Pottsville
David Fellin
Henry Throne
H.B. Charmbury
Pennsylvania
Weather in COUNTY partly cloudy and mild through Sunday
Partly cloudy with mild temperatures and scattered showers and thunder-showers late tonight through Sunday forenoon. Highs in the middle 80s, lows around the mid 60s, with Sunday highs in the 80s.
Can't Control His Habits In Come Tax Case
New York AP report says James M Landis 63 former Harvard Law School dean and adviser to three presidents received a 30 day sentence on income tax charges. He is under psychiatric care for a habit he found difficult to control and was brought to court from the Neurological Institute of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
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New York
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Landis
Securities and Exchange Commission and
Civil Aeronautics Board
Neurological Institute of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Boy’s hackberry bass club proves big catch
Scott Chesbro a 13 year old bass fisherman graduated with honors in the tale from his grandfather Bruce Allison. Scott reportedly caught a big bass weighing near five pounds in a pasture hackberry area where the fish feed on hackberries. Allison notes hackberries draw bass late August and advises using a stout club to surprise them.
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Scott Chesbro
Vern Chesbro
S. Hickory
Bruce Allison
North American Hotel
Bruce
Scott
Allison
Prohibitionists Pick Presidential Candidate
ST. LOUIS AP A soft spoken college professor never holding office is the first recognized party nominee for U S president in 1964 E Harold Munn Sr 59 head of Hillsdale College education department won on first ballot at the National Prohibition party convention He has long campaigned against liquor and previously was the party vice presidential nominee Munn will campaign across the nation with running mate Rev Mark R Shaw 74 associate minister Cliftondale Methodist Church Saugus Massachusetts to press a platform banning alcoholic beverages
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ST. Louis
United States
E. Harold Munn Sr
Department of Education
Hillsdale
Mich
National Prohibition Party
Munn
Prohibition Party
Greenville College
Illinois
University of Michigan
Northwestern
Central College of
Mark R. Shaw
Cliftondale Methodist Church
Saugus Mass
Junta Leader Still Popular in South Korea Election
Chung Hee Park, the junta chairman and acting president, told a cheering convention that he accepts the nomination for president. Park, 45, retired from the army to meet a law requiring civilians as candidates in the October 15 vote, while retaining his grip on the regime. He had seized power in the May 1961 coup and leads the Democratic Republican party created to back his candidacy.
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Seoul
Korea
Chung Hee Park
Republic
South Korea
Democratic Republican Party
Tany's Toot on the Size of the Fish That Got Away
A local figure known as Tany's Toot questions whether the fisherman described the catch size accurately. The exchange centers on the claimed weight and bragging rights tied to the elusive fish tale.
Co op Plant Begins Work Near Old Depot
The new Co op bulk fertilizer blending plant north of the Old Depot Museum is complete and opens for an open house from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on September 7. The $36,000 facility blends 15 to 20 tons per hour with eight bins holding two car loads each. A conveyor unloads one car load in two hours into the bins. Larry Smith, Ottawa RID 1, will operate the plant in a 92 by 49 foot building.
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Co-op
Larry Smith
Ottawa
RID
Gas May Have Caused Blast At Texas Gulf Sulphur Mine
A federal official indicated a gas buildup may have triggered the potash mine explosion at Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. killing 18 men. James Westfield of the Bureau of Mines said a federal state probe would proceed with no preconceived ideas, noting evidence of methane during recovery.
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Moab
Uta
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co
James Westfield
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Westfield
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March
Saigon South Viet Nam
Diem
Fellin
Throne
Drebiko
Charmbury
Ohguass
Eesiee
Carrie Feinstein
Ron Fowler
Prohibitionists
Tany
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