Kennedy Late On Direct Plea On Civil Rights
President Kennedy in 1960 favored direct public persuasion over force to handle civil rights but delivered only one televised appeal and has shown reluctance for further broadcasts. He warned of possible violence as Mississippi and Alabama tensions rise and weighs using presidential power to back desegregation.
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Negro postal workers promoted over whites in Dallas
Three Negro postal employees in the Dallas Post Office were promoted to supervisory duties under an equal employment opportunities program despite at least 53 white workers ranking higher on a regional merit scale. The promotions, reportedly ordered from Washington, mark the first Negro supervisors in operating roles at the Dallas facility. The office employs about 3,000 people with roughly 20 percent Black workers.
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Lanette Miller Sets Sights On Miss Snyder Pageant
Lanette Miller 20 a Snyder High School graduate and trained X Ray technician seeks Miss Snyder in the June 14 high school auditorium pageant. She sings as her talent and lives near the hospital in the Nurses Home. Miller, a Beta Sigma Phi member sponsored by Lambda Kappa, aims for Miss Texas in Fort Worth and Miss America in Atlantic City. Tickets cost 1.50 reserved and 1.00 general.
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Zoo News Varied Tales From Bronz Zoo and Beyond
In New York the Bronz Zoo welcomes its third offspring for pygmy hippos Hugo and Henrietta a 15 pound arrival. A six month old bongo antelope arrives by air en route to a Cleveland zoo with quarantine planned. Four agoutis unsold through a city surplus auction head to bidders in New York City.
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Texans Reorganize Baptist District System in State
The 192 member executive board of the Texas Baptist General Convention approved dissolving 17 geographic districts to form 49 smaller areas to avoid overlapping missions. In Japan 23,000 decisions for Christ were reported from 156 meetings. The board plans an $11,377,892 budget submission.
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Arlington Schools Plan To Integrate
Arlington public schools will begin a stair-step desegregation plan in September. First grade integration starts in the 1963-64 school year, with a new mixed grade added each year. The district says the move reduces potential taxes and litigation for taxpayers.
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Rockefeller Aims for 1964 Nomination in October Move
Washington sources say New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller plans an October public entry into the 1964 GOP nomination fight. Supporters note his Albany briefing strengthened expectations of an announced bid this fall and Javits predicts a strategic primary campaign.
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Survivors Lost As 101 Aboard DC7 Crash Off British Columbia
An Associated Press report details a Northwest Orient Airlines DC7 with 101 aboard that crashed into the North Pacific off British Columbia. Messages from rescue ships indicated no survivors. debris and bodies were recovered as evidence of a high impact. Passengers included 58 servicemen, 22 military dependents, 15 civilians, and 13 women among them two stewardesses. Relatives at McChord AF Base waited in vain for news amid family groups wiped out or left with one parent.
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Flint Hunter Jr. Grows After Brain Surgery
Roger Flint Hunter Jr. 10, of Macon Georgia, has grown three inches since last September after removing a malignant brain tumor and pituitary gland, restoring growth. A gifted student with interests in science and electronics, he favors work over school and is guided by his father in construction, accompanied by his boxer Beauregard No. 2.
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Youth Is Blown From Pickup Truck Killed in Hutchinson
In Hutchinson Kansas a gust blew 18 year old Douglas Whited from the back of a pickup into the path of another truck. A stock tank was also blown free and struck him after he was hit by the following vehicle. Whited had graduated from Buhler High School a week earlier and was riding on a truck driven by his employer Willard Rayl who ran a service station.
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Capitan Peak Rises 6 078 Feet Above Texas Plains
Capitan on the Texas plains features a sheer cliff reaching 6 078 feet in height, dominating the landscape and marking a notable geographic landmark in the region.
Haiti's historic role as a colonial sugar power
The piece notes that historically Haiti was the most productive New World colony, supplying Europe with all its sugar and France with half its revenue, highlighting its economic centrality in colonial sugar trade.
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