Galveston Stores Integrate Counters
Downtown Galveston Texas stores opened integrated lunch counters amid racial tension as Nashville Tennessee planners urged a 90 day trial to desegregate portions of restaurant facilities. Detroit? No. Orangeburg South Carolina saw 50 Negro students convicted. Memphis Tennessee eight students fined for disorderly conduct. Mayor Barr of Pittsburgh faced issues returning misplaced salary checks.
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Tex
Nashville
Memphis
Tenn
siGms
Sls
Ben West
C. M. Sarratt
Vanderbilt University
Land
Orangeburg
Savannah
Pittsburgh
Joseph Barr
Fittsburgh
Addi Barr
Martin H. Brackbill
Barr
Harrisburg
Brackbill
Mayor Faces Obstacles As Salary Stores Remain Quiet
In Pensacola Florida 6 tech workers staged a brief sit in at a lunch counter behind white customers. They did not request service and no arrests followed. The event occurred at two local variety stores during a tense civil rights era moment.
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Tech
Pensacola
Fla
Police press drive against Negro agitators in South Africa
In Durban Lamontville the police moved into an African hostel, confiscating clubs axes and three guns after clashes that left one African dead and four wounded. Government officials vowed swift action against inciters while business church and opposition leaders urged negotiation and moderation. A bill to outlaw the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress won Senate approval, becoming law soon.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Lamontville
Durban
Church
United Party
M. D. de’ ‘Wet Nel
Senate
Hyo
Pan Areanist Congress
African National Congress
Ammunition Tumbles From Cabinet Into Furnace in Kansas City
Mrs Judith Ann Scott 20 was cleaning a cabinet when a box of 22 caliber ammo spilled onto the floor, tumbled into ducts and into the furnace. Fifty bullets were recovered after police and a repairman turned off the pilot and retrieved the shells. A new rule bans ammo in the Scott home.
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Kansas City
Judith Ann Scott
Scott
Leroy
Wild horse attack disrupts San Francisco traffic
In San Francisco area traffic, a kick and run horse reared and struck Lloyd Hathrook’s windshield at a Moss Beach intersection. Witnesses say three horses then headed into the fog, while a season named Svena Erik was picked up by Berkeley police heading toward San Francisco Bay near the UC campus.
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Lloyd Hathrook
Moss Beach
Halbrook
Svena Erik
Berkeley
San Francisco Bay
Kappa Alpha
University of California
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