Racial Roundup Signals Tense Civil Rights Scene
A Danville Virginia civil rights plan seeks federal contempt action against more than 18 people for segregation protests. In Philadelphia a memorial for Medgar Evers drew about 6,000, with thousands more in New York and Rochester. Amarillo saw about 40 Negroes breaking color lines at five churches and Denver reported a memorial march and park access debate surrounding black and white demonstrations.
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Savannah NAACP leaders urge end to racial demonstrations
About 20 NAACP leaders in Savannah appeal to African Americans to halt mass night protests until negotiations settle racial differences in the port city. The Savannah Roman Catholic Diocese, including most of Ranth On, is referenced in the fragment.
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Parade in Detroit and across U S blazes for civil rights
The large 1963 demonstration spanned Detroit and other cities as 120,000 marchers, led by prominent leaders, protested racial segregation and discrimination. Police deployed 1,600 officers in Detroit, with arrests including 24 COR members in Torrance and a range of sit-ins and peaceful actions reported nationwide.
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Gun Sight Print Trips Up Evers Sniper
In a press conference King spoke of another Birmingham possible in the offing. He cited Clarksdale Mississippi as a city invited for organizing efforts and described a boycott plan aimed at securing more and better jobs for Negroes as it nears planning. Demonstrators urged marchers onward amid a gala parade with flags and balloons as police tried to manage momentum.
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Blind man held after street stabbing in tavern dispute
In Philadelphia a blind man with a pen knife stabbed a passerby after a dispute over cigarette money. Arthur Hinson, 45, is held on assault charges in bail. His companion Louis Prather, 97, was hospitalized in fair condition. A separate Memphis FBI update described Byron de la Beckwith being linked to the Medgar Evers assassination with a WWI rifle sight clue found near the scene and ongoing questioning.
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King J arrives late to parade in Greenwood
A late arriving King J appears in a black limousine to a roaring welcome as a parade departs. FBI officials and local figures discuss fingerprints from evidence linked to Beckwith, with heat and ventilation concerns noted. An import dealer supplied a Japanese-made telescopic sight, distributed widely and passing through several hands before ending up with Beckwith in Mississippi.
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National Hair Experts Promises Help For Hair Loss
An ad urges readers to seek National Hair Experts for early action on hair loss. It warns delaying treatment worsens results, touts free examination with no obligation, and notes convenient hours from 10 am to 7 pm weekdays and 10 to 2:30 Saturdays. It promises to stop itching, dandruff, and abnormal shedding, and to regrow real hair if treated before complete baldness.
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Local AP News Rights Note in Paper
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Housing Officials Open Meeting Southwest Region Begins
The two day Southwest Region meeting of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials opened at the Gunter Hotel with about 30 attendees. Local commissioners and staff from urban renewal agencies and housing authorities across Texas and neighboring states attended. Speakers included Robert Burke Jones of Oklahoma City Bruce Savage of Indianapolis and Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez of San Antonio. Preconvention tours covered San Antonio urban renewal areas and Victoria Plaza.
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Australia Oil Field Promising at World Congress
FRANKFURT Germany AP Two U.S. geologists Moran and Gussow of the Union Oil Company Los Angeles told the Sixth World Petroleum Congress that Australia may become a significant oil region but cautioned it is too early to judge the Moonie field west of Brisbane.
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Public Housing Story Emphasizes Public Involvement
Robert Jones urged urban renewal and housing officials at the Gunter Hotel to tell the public their story and build an education program. He argued that urban renewal is a partnership between local governments and federal authorities and urged authorities to ask people what they want and communicate the facts clearly.
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Pupils Still On Horseback In Remote New York
Albany reports that 44 students in remote areas still ride to school on horseback due to narrow crudely fashioned roads where buses cannot operate. The State Education Department notes the percentage is small, while 905,962 children statewide were transported to schools last year excluding New York City.
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Kennedy seeks 60 million for supersonic airliner work
President Kennedy asked Congress for 60 million dollars to finance initial work on a supersonic airliner. The traveling White House said the money would fund FAA design competition and admin costs while the United States aims to develop by 1970 a commercial transport reaching speeds up to 2000 miles per hour.
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