Fire Cross in Yard of Negroes Houston
Mrs Charles White the first Black Houston School Board member reported a cross burning in her front yard Monday night. Her husband extinguished a five foot blaze as three of their five children watched. She condemned the act while calling it not representative of the city. The Houston School Board faced a delayed vote on election results after a petition to recheck votes widened a tense night.
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Houston
Charles White
Houlston
Argentina declares state of siege to quell oil strike
President Frondizi proclaimed a state of siege to crush an oil workers strike branded as Communist inspired insurrection. Security forces conducted predawn arrests across the capital and interior cities, suspending constitutional guarantees and targeting agitators, as talks on foreign investment for nationalized oil faltered in Mendoza and other regions.
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Buenos Aires
Arturo Frondizi
Argentina
Frondizi
U.S
Andes
Mentoza
Reseda
UPI
Mendoza
Shipley Winsest In Tight 23rd District Race
Charles W. Wursett, veteran Republican representative in Congress, appears to have lost reelection. George E. Shipley, 31 year old Democratic sheriff of Richmond County, edged to a 176 vote lead in canvassing of 130 000 ballots in the 23rd District. Shipley’s apparent victory would give Democrats 282 seats to 183 for Republicans in the House. Official canvass from 14 of 15 counties shows Vursel 64 923 and Shipley 65 099 with final totals pending.
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Centralia
Charles W. Wursett
Congress
George E. Shipley
Richmand
Shipley
Vursel
Forner Sate
Canon City driver hailed for saving two on mountain run away
John Skerrance of Canon City received a Distinguished Driver Award from the Rocky Mountain AAA Club after racing a Southern Colorado Power Co truck to 1083 mph on a steep downgrade to stop a runaway car. The two rescued women were Mrs. Cleo Roberts of Denver and Mrs. Gladys Wheals of Wichita.
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Canon City
Colo
Rocky Mountain Aaa Club
John Skerrance
Sherjanec
Southern Colorado Power Co
Here
Hilsting
Skeeanee
Bmrs
Cleo Roberts
Denver
Gladys Wheals
Wichita
Kan
Skerjenec
Sarnoff Links U S Cause to World Mankind
Brig Gen David Sarnoff urged courage sacrifice and preparedness in a Veterans Day address at Arlington National Cemetery. He framed the American effort as inseparable from mankind’s, warning against Communist bluster and blackmail as World War I armistice anniversaries mark Veterans Day observances now in their fifth year.
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Washington
David Sarnoff
Arlington National Cemetery
Korea
Reds Seize Two Japanese Fishing Boats
Japan's Maritime Safety Board said two Japanese fishing boats with 24 men aboard were seized Monday by Communist patrol boats about 10 miles southeast of Tsinelao.
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Tokyo
Japan
The Face Was Familiar Goes to Wrong minister
Kugler 74 sought help from Rev. Charles Lee Johnson at First Christ Church in Kansas City for a trip to Los Angeles to see his wife. Police arrested him on a Sunday charge of regency. The man has a prior record for fraud and forgery and reportedly told a similar story in Chicago years earlier.
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California
Carnie Keppler
Los Angeles
Cotton Cotl
Fresno
Judy Kileen
Bakersfield
Carol Peterson
Kansas City
Lee Mason Kugler
Kugler
Charles Lee Johnson
First Christ In Church
Ban
Johnson
Chicago
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