Reform split over Senate size in Florida reapportionment
Tampa area lawmakers clash as proponents push to raise Senate seats from 38 to 42 and add a Sarasota County member. House small‑county bloc narrowly preserves current 38–95 setup despite administration pressure and a $6.5 million Northeast Florida Mental Hospital veto claim.
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Sarasota County
Henry S. Bartholomew
Siesta Key
Equitable
House
Senate
Crews
Florida
Officials Explain Fund Juggling In Bakery Union Case
Washington bankers testified that Anthony J. Conforti deposited private funds and funneled union money to a personal account. He claimed George L. Stuart, international trustee of Local No. 1, ordered the transfers and that $1550 from dues was given to organize at Salerno Megowen Biscuit Co. He described Stuart as seeking a propaganda win by leading a union drive.
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Washington
INS
Anthony J. Conforti
Chicago
George L. Stuart
Conforti
Stuart
Salerno-Megowen Biscuit Co
Tary
Local 300
Union
Local 100
Chicagoan
Kansas City
Robert F. Kennedy
Conforeti
Truck Versus Tractor Trailer Kills 14 Migrant Workers in N Carolina
A collision between a truck carrying migrant farm workers and a tractor trailer near Fayetteville, North Carolina, killed 14 and injured 21. The dead were Negro migrants from Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina en route to bean harvest work. The driver of the tractor trailer, Gilbert R. Peters of Wapwallopen, Pennsylvania, was uninjured but treated for sedation. The crash scattered victims along the highway and into ditches as responders arrived.
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Fayetteville
State Highway Patrol
Hos
Georgia
Tennessee
Florida
Mississppi
South Carolina
North Carolina
State
Gilbert R. Peters
Wapwallopen
Highsmith Hospital
Mt. Olive
N. C
Dunn
L. L. Guy
Guy
Willie Solomon
Florence
8.C
Habeas Corpus Filed For Girards Return
A petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed in federal court to compel the Defense Department to return Army specialist William S. Girard of Streator Illinois from Japan. The filing names Defense Secretary Wilson and other officials and argues the killing on duty falls outside the status of forces treaty. If granted, Girard would be brought to a U.S. court to face trial.
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Washington
INS
Defense Department
William S. Girard
U. S
Japan
Girard
Streator
Earl Carroll
New York
Dayton Harrington
Louis
Ottawa
T Brucker
Maxwell Taylor
Army
W. H. Maglin
Lyman Lemnitzer
Far East
Harrington
Joseph C
Girard Silent As Army Lawyer Calls Death An Accident
Major Stanley F. Legin said William Girard killed the Japanese woman by accident in an exclusive IN S report. Girard refused to discuss the case, though his attorney declared the act an accident.
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Carroll
Girard
Stanley Levin
INS
William
Giarard
Stanley F. Legin
Hollywood
Calif
International No Service
Minnie Seeks Local Probe and Reports on Case
A garbled dispatch mixes commentary about local probes with remarks from Army lawyer Levin on custody and a case involving Girard, a 21-year-old on leave, and the slaying of Naka Sakai at a firing range near Tokyo. The narrative includes weather data and references to enticement claims and court actions at Camp Whittington.
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Levin
Girard
United States
Japan
Naka Sakai
U.S. Army
Someghara
Tokyo
Camp Whittington
D-Day memories from area veterans recall Normandy day
Veterans describe the Normandy invasion as they remember the monumental day thirteen years ago. The page also notes zoning debates and a self-purchased bus project by Illinois youths headed for Sarasota, along with Billy Graham’s remarks on prejudice in New York.
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Normandy
Illinois
Sarasota
Billy Graham
New York
House Panel Moves To Kill 81 Million Grocery Tax
In Tallahassee the House Finance and Taxation Committee moved to kill the 81 million dollar grocery tax amid a broader fight to raise about 125 million dollars for spending programs. A subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend ending the bill. A fallback plan preserves the 84 million dollar sales tax expansion and adds a 30 percent auto tag hike and a 2 mill per dollar tax on stocks bonds and accounts receivable.
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Tallahassee
House Finance and Taxation Committee
House
Senate
Sarasota 301 Highway Four-Laning Delayed In Long Saga
A historical look at Sarasota Highway 301 four-laning delays as budgets and political shifts stall start dates. The piece cites prior promises, title searches, and county-city actions, noting attempts to widen from a two to four lanes along the North Trail corridor and the long path since the 1930s.
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Sarasota
Sarasota County
State Road Dept
Alan
County Commission
Ben Drymon
Bradenton
Bird Street
Alfred McKethan
State Road Department
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Bartholomew and Youngberg
Manatee County
William C. Grimes
J. E. Pratt
Charlotte County
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Punta Gorda
LeRoy Collins
Big
House Committee On Constitutional Revision
John Crews
Baker
Thomas Beasley
Walton County
Secre
Carolina
Fayetteville, N. C
McClellan
John McClellan
Speedphoto TV
Tim Moore
Amos ' Andy
Vivian J. Cravens
Moore
Girards
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
John Foster Dulles
Wilber
Transpacific
Minnie
Bakers
Minnie Mermaid
Inside the News
Sears
Coos
Sarasota Saga
Washington Boulevard
Sarasota-Manatee
Randolph Calhoun
James A. Haley
Jerry Collins
William Ray
Manatee
A. B. Edwards
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