Minnesota Presidential Primary Opens Under Spring Weather
Minnesota voters faced a fair to brisk early turnout across cities and farms as the presidential primary opened. St Paul reported heavy municipal election turnout while Minneapolis lagged. Kefauver and Stevenson campaigned against the Eisenhower administration with farm policy as a key battleground.
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Minneapolis
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Washington
Freeman
Minnesota
Texas Welcomes Spring With Mild Weather Across State
The Associated Press notes spring began at 9 21 a m with fair weather in Texas. Lows ranged from 32 in Amarillo Dalhart Texarkana to 65 in Corpus Christi. Some clouds may move northward and showers are possible Wednesday in East Texas.
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Associated Press
Texas
Amarillo
Dalhart
Texarkana
Weather Bureau
Abilene
Houston
San Antonio
San Angelo
Corpus Christi
Insurance Policy Hearing Scheduled in Shoemake case
A court hearing is set for Monday in Austin to decide if the receiver for U S Trust & Guaranty Co should pay a 5000 premium by March 31 to keep two Occidental Life Insurance policies totaling one million dollars on A B Shoemake in force. Shoemake, president of the Waco firm, was shot Jan 7 and is recovering at the Veterans Hospital in McKinney. The receiver seeks guidance on premiums as assets for creditors. A two year death-accident clause may cap recovery to premiums paid if suicide within two years. A medical forecast on Shoemake’s recovery is being sought.
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Austin
U.S. Trust & Guaranty Co
A. B. Shoemake
Occidental Life Insurance Co
California
U.S. Trust & Guaranty
Shoemake
Waco
Veterans Hospital
McKinney
J. D. Wheeler
U.S
Charles Betts
Wheeler
Veterans Administration
King Trial Opens in Montgomery Bus Boycott Case
In Montgomery Circuit Court Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faces a boycott conspiracy case with 90 Negro leaders, each allowed separate trials. State witnesses outline funds linked to the Montgomery Improvement Association, with Dungee confirming a $30 000 bank deposit and checks totaling almost $5 000 signed by King and herself.
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Montgomery
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
Erna Dungee
Dungee
Montgomery Improvement Assny
King
Eugene Carter
Improvement Association
Carter
A. W. Wilson
The
Colorado Frats Ordered to Integrate by Sept. 1962
Colorado's Board of Regents requires social fraternities and sororities at the University of Colorado to abolish national race color or religion restrictions by Sept. 1 1962 or face probation without rushing or initiating rights. The 4-2 vote followed a day long hearing as about 1500 to 1000 attendees, including students and alumni, filled the room.
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Boulder
Colo
University of Colorado
Board of Regents
Ward Darley
Denver
Regents
Detective Gets Reward for Solving 1953 Clark Murder
Fort Worth detective Captain O R Brown received a 6000 dollar reward from an oilman’s estate for solving the William Clark homicide on May 22, 1953. An underworld informer, Harry Huggins, named Cecil Green and Leroy Eggleston and Mrs. Mary Clark. Green and Eggleston were later killed in gangland slayings before trial. Mrs. Clark was acquitted. Huggins pled guilty and got five years.
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Fort Worth
O. R. Brown
William Clark
Underworld
Harry Huggins
Clark
Cecil Green
Leroy
Tracy) Eggleston
Mary Clark
Green
Eggleston
NAACP Texas membership drive starts strong
Fort Worth reports 1,131 new members with Austin at 200 and Waco near 100 while Texarkana exceeds 800 in a Texas NAACP drive aimed at 22,000 new members by the June national convention. Meetings are set in Marshall April 8 Amarillo April 15 and Wichita Falls April 29.
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Fort Worth
George Flemmings
Texas
National Assn. For Advancement of Colored People
Texas Naacp
Flemming
Austin
Waco
Texarkana
Marshall
Amarillo
Wichita Falls
Tire Chains Sold Quickly By Dealer In New Jersey
Thompson & Co of Union New Jersey sold out its $50 000 stock of automobile tire chains during yesterday's snow. The firm distributes auto supplies to retailers and had held a huge stock for three or four years with no takers.
Farm Bill Called Unworkable By Benson
Senate Republican leader Knowland said Benson regards the Senate approved farm bill as unworkable and may urge a veto unless modified. The bill, passed 93-2, heads to a House Senate conference for reconciliation amid broad criticism and major revisions to price supports soil bank and set asides.
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Washington
Senate
Knowland
Benson
California
White House
GOP
Eisenhower
Sen. Aiken
Senate House Conference Committee
Congress
Bush
R-Conn
Flanders
R-Vi
Sen
Ives
R-Ny
House
Soil Bank
Jewel Theft Is Solved
BROWNSVILLE Detective Shérin Boynton Fleming announced an arrest in a $250,000 jewel theft from a Brownsville hotel Sunday night. The case involved interstate shipping over $5,000 and the New York salesman Maurice Lehman reported a valise with diamonds. Deputies recovered the valise with 28 watches three diamond rings and a jeweler's scale. the suitcase was found in a canal on the west side of Brownsville.
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Brownsville
Shérin Boynton
Fleming
FBI
New York
Maurice Lehman
Lehman
Matamoros
Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity Still Closed At Texas
Alumni board leader W J Barnes of Houston defended the Texas campus suspension as a harsh penalty after a father’s complaint over a Paul Barney initiate injury in a hell week stunt. The committee cited an almost total lack of responsibility and ordered the UT chapter to close before March 31.
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Austin
Delta Sigma Phi
University of Texas
W. J. Barnes
Houston
Paul Barney
Train Kills Akron Man and Wife in Domestic Tragedy
Medina County coroner ruled the deaths of Charles F. Keener and his wife Dolores as murder and death by own action. Keener, 34, was found at an Erie Railroad Crossing after strangling Dolores, 27, in their home as their two young daughters slept upstairs. Police noted reported domestic trouble prior to the incidents.
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Akron
Ohio
Wadsworth
Medina County
Andrew J. Karson
Charles F. Keener
Dolores
Keener
Erie
Kaiser
Sherif Charles Williams
Virginia May
Darlene
Williams
Keeners
Four Negro Children Die in Houston Fire
Four young Negro children died in a second floor Houston apartment fire. Their mother and a fifth child were hospitalized. The victims, a girl and her three brothers all under six, were children of Mrs. Cora Holmes, 23. Fire captains and a firefighter rescued the mother and a young girl, but could not revive the four boys or reach a second girl who died in the apartment.
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Houston
Cora Holmes
Blizzard smothers Northeast on first day of spring
A blizzard born in West Virginia paralyses the Northeast, dumping up to 20 inches in parts of Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut and forcing shutdowns from Boston to New Jersey. The storm, followed by another Friday night, hits 14 states with at least 135 deaths mainly in traffic and shoveling accidents.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
New England
Maine
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Ohio
Vermont
Boston
Logan
Weather Summary for Texas Regions
Snyder morning reading shows 46 degrees. North Central Texas expects partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon with cooler northwest winds and scattered showers tonight and Wednesday. West Texas remains partly cloudy with cooler conditions on Wednesday. South Central Texas also partly cloudy through Wednesday with scattered showers mainly in the northeast and southeast coastal winds moderate to fresh.
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Snyder
Yesteray
North Central
Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
Plains
South Central
North East
Hoover Says Economic Aid Best Answer To Soviets
Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Eisenhower’s foreign aid plan. He argued the aid program strengthens allies and reduces Soviet influence, noting a $4.86 billion request with a $2.0 billion military increase and $200 million for economic funds including Middle East Africa and Asia.
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Hoover
Soviets
Washington
Herbert Hoover Jr
Congress
America
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
John B. Hollister
International Cooperation Administration
Middle East
South
Southeast Asia
Far East
Asia
House
Richards
D-Sc
Senate
State Dulles
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