Iron Curtain Lifts For Sarasota Pair In Bylnice
John Horak, veteran circus musician, and his wife Anna are set to visit Bylnice after a 26 year separation. Their return trip, aided by the Francke Travel Bureau and Czech contacts, culminates in a six week homeward voyage from New York to Prague and Bylnice.
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Czechoslovakia
John Horak
Horak
Anna
New York
Sabena Airlines
Brussels
Prague
John
Francke Travel Bureau
Sarasota
Chicago
Chi
Francke Agency
John Ringling
America
Merle Evans
Evans
Arthur Smith Music Co
Horaks
Hitler
Ringling Circus
President Steps Out as Bank Board Resigns in Unrest
Theodore A. Davis Jr resigns as bank president along with six directors over a clash between formal and informal governance styles. Thomas J. Bell will lead temporarily as seven board members meet Wednesday to appoint a new president and fill vacancies. The bank reports total resources around 14 million dollars and assures patrons of sound stability.
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Citizens Bank
Theodore A. Davis Jr
Thomas J. Bell
Davis
Frank Conrad
John Fite Robertson
Herbert Horn
John D. Kicklighter
O. F. Quartulo
Ray R. Littrell
Bell
J. C
Marathon
Ten Dead In Chicago Area Floods After Violent Storms
Torren tial storms drenched Chicago and surrounding areas causing ten deaths including five electrocuted by live wires and three heart attack victims. More than nine inches of rain fell in 16 hours in Kankakee and Bradley, with widespread damage and evacuations.
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INS
Midway Airport
Assn. of Commerce and Industry
Kankakee and
Bradley
Kankakee
Civilization
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey
Ill
Diligenti Quintuplets to Celebrate Fourteenth Birthday
A fivefold package of dynamite the Diligenti quintuplets of Argentina will hold a reunion tomorrow to celebrate their 14th birthday. See story and photo on page 3. A school budget over 3 million dollars will be submitted to the Board of Public Instruction tomorrow. Details on page 7.
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Diligenti Quintuplets
Argentina
Board of Public Instruction
Min Renames Windy City in Metropolis Mockery
Minnie Mermaid argues Chicago is turning chaotic citing the Midwest mess and winds up calling the Windy City the Wettest City. Sarasota forecast runs partly cloudy with thundershowers later. high near 90.
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Midwest
Minnie Mermaid
Chicago
Windy City
Sarasota
Falling Window Kills Yonkers Boy at Window
In Yonkers New York a two year old boy Alexander Cann died when a window fell while he leaned out of his second floor bedroom window. His brother William seven discovered him with the window still on his neck as police investigated the freak accident.
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Yonkers
N. Y
INS
Alexander Cann
William
Cork Boat Found Near Venice in Mystery Drift
Venice police and Border Patrol pursue origin of a 15 by 5 to 6 foot cork raft beached near the Beach Casino at 8 p m. Two youths Sidney Wilkinson and Dean Perkins spotted and hauled it ashore. No identification, likely water logged after long drift, no missing vessel reported.
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Border Patrol
Venice
Sidney Wilkinson
Dean Perkins
Spot
R. C. Flynn
Fort Myers
Flynn
Coast Guard
St. Petersburg
Trunk Shipment Reveals Slain Man Bound for Los Angeles
Police probe a homicide after a 194-pound man was found sealed in a 30 by 42 by 22 inch imitation leather trunk at a Railway Express terminal in New York. The corpse bore taped mouth and nose and was wrapped in plastic. addressee listed as Hal Jefferson at the Hotel Ambassador in Los Angeles, a name not found in records. The body dated to late Friday night or early yesterday and was to be examined at Bellevue Hospital morgue.
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New York
INS
Los Angeles
Railway Express Agency
Hal Jefferson
Ambassador
Calif
California
Sidney Weinberg
Bellevue Hospital
Westside Railway Express
Express Company
Firemen Answer Two Minor Alarms
City firemen responded to two minor alarms yesterday. At 10:45 a.m. a car owned by Raymond Whitted of 3133 Myrtle St. caught fire at the Ringling Shopping Center, but the blaze was out on arrival. At 4:50 p.m. a smouldering fire was extinguished in a dump area in the 2700 block of 12th Street.
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Ringling
Raymond Whitted
Myrtle St
12Th Street
Civil rights fight splits Senate over troop use ban
Senators clash over a proposed amendment to strike section three of the civil rights bill, amid threats to remove the provision that critics say would allow troops to enforce school integration. Supporters and opponents argue the measure would shape federal enforcement and the bill’s reach.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Sen
Clinton P. Anderson
D-Nm
Karl Mundt
R-Sd
Russell
Mundt
Virginia pupil placement law ruled unconstitutional
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals held Virginia's pupil placement law unconstitutional, stating it leaves Negroes with no legal recourse under the state package plan that could close schools and withhold funds upon integration. The ruling, in desegregation suits against Newport News and Norfolk, sets Aug 15 as the deadline to end school segregation, with appeals anticipated.
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Richmond
INS
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Virginia
Newport News
Norfolk
U. S. District Court
Walter E. Hoffman
U.S. Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Freight cars derail into Saline River injuring youths and killing man
Five derailed freight cars plummeted into the Saline River near Crossett Arkansas. George Kelly 52 of Hamburg died at the scene. Injured were his son William Cecil Kelly 12 and Don Kelly 19. another man said Joseph Lee Kelly. Rescuers pulled the youths from wreckage. all were described as bruised but in excellent condition.
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Kelly
N. W. Sled
E. D. Sled
Haley Says Hells Canyon Bill Doomed
Rep. Haley a Florida Democrat who joined Republicans in a House interior subcommittee to defeat a Hells Canyon dam bill predicted the measure will die in the full committee. The panel had defeated the bill 15-12 on July 2, amid a private versus public power struggle over federal vs private development of Snake River hydropower between Oregon and Idaho.
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Washington
Haley
D-Fla
House Interior
Hells Canyon
Snake River
Oregon
Idaho
Idaho Power Co
Eisenhower
Senate
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