Texas Schools Begin Peaceful Desegregation Wave
A new wave of school integration started in Texas with reports of peaceful desegregation. Despite 61 districts announcing earlier they would integrate, few Negro parents sought transfers to all white schools, with only Carrolton reporting integrated classes among five districts near Dallas. Fort Worth prepares to open school year under federal orders.
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Associated Press
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Grand Prairie
Irving
Garland
Arlington
Birdville
Fort Worth
Gatesville
Dallas to desegregate schools as 60 to attend formerly all white
The district closes the only all Negro school and plans desegregation as 60 students will enter formerly all white schools. Across the state grade by grade integration continues with Dallas expecting at least two previously non integrated schools to open to Negro students on Wednesday.
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Dallas
Kennedy targets Diem regime over Viet Nam policy
President Kennedy demands a tougher Saigon government and warns the Diem regime to win popular support or risk changes. Officials say措施 may include US aid review and possible cutbacks while maintaining military assistance. The focus centers on Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu and Saigon’s military leadership.
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Kennedy
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
U.S
CBS
Hyannis Port
Mass
Viet Nam
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Saigon
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Nhu
Snyderite Wins In Today's Junior Editors Quiz
Miss Gingy Dulaney, daughter of Mr and Mrs Gene L Dulaney, wins the Snyder Daily News Junior Editors Quiz. Her winning question asks how dew is formed and what dew point means. Grand prize is a 20 volume World Book Encyclopedia.
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Snyderite
Snyder Daily News
Gingy Dulaney
Gene L Dulaney
Record Labor Day Traffic Toll Reaches 545 Deaths
Over the long weekend traffic deaths rose to a Labor Day record of 545, with 20 boating fatalities and 46 drownings. The total for all accidents reached 609, amid multiple fatal crashes including six in Michigan and a 10-death highway crash near Dayton, Texas.
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Associated Press
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Dayton
Texas
Weather snapshot for Texas regions and surrounding areas
The report outlines warm to hot conditions across Texas with high temperatures ranging from the 90s to near 100 degrees in many areas. Lows mostly in the 60s to 70s. Isolated thundershowers are forecast, mainly inland and in the north, with variable winds and partial cloud cover through Wednesday.
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North Central
Northenet
Texas
Faint Comet Discovered Near the Sun
The Goddard Space Flight Center announced a faint comet spotted near the sun by Belgian astrophysicist Dr Francois V. Dossit of Liege during the July 20 total solar eclipse. Ground observation was previously impossible due to the sun’s glare, but the eclipse allowed closer study. Some scientists theorize many such faint comets remain unseen.
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Greenbelt
Goddard Space Flight Center
Francois V. Dossit
Liege
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Giddard
Wallace Uses Troopers To Keep School Closed
Governor Wallace deployed 108 armed troopers and mounted deputies around Tuskegee Public School to delay the start of the fall term despite a federal desegregation order. The Macon County Board of Education insisted the school was open, while Doar and Kennedy eyed potential federal action.
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Ala
George Wallace
Consolidated
Macon County Board of Education
Col
al Linge
E.W Wadsworth
Linge
Macon County
Wallace
Dallas County
Jim Clark
Justice Department
Woman Burned In Wash House Fire At Beavers Trailer Court
A Snyder woman, Mrs. D. R. Hearn, was treated for second and third degree burns at Cogdell Hospital after fumes from gasoline ignited while she attempted to remove grease from the Beavers Trailer Court wash house. Her 14 year old daughter Linda suffered first and second degree burns on hands and feet. Bell Ambulance transported both victims. Snyder fire department found the fire out on arrival.
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D. R. Hearn
Beavers Trailer Court
Twenty-fifth Street
Avenue E
Linda
Bell Ambulance Service
Snyder Fire Department
Kennedy cuts holiday to address Alabama desegregation crisis
President Kennedy cut short Labor Day plans to return to Washington as Alabama desegregation tensions intensified the civil rights issue ahead of the 1964 election. He warned Republicans and Democrats to back equal opportunity while noting the political cost of his stance. He outlined a broad coast to coast tour to promote conservation and national park projects across ten states, including several carried by Nixon in 1960.
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Otis Air Force Base
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Hyannis Port
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Saigon
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Nevada
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Soviets Expected to Cheat on Nuclear Test Ban
Gen Maxwell D Taylor told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the Joint Chiefs assume the Russians would attempt clandestine testing under the limited nuclear test ban. He cited atmospheric tests of small tactical weapons as a likely avenue to gain antimissile information.
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Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taylor
Joint Chiefs
Curtis F. LeMay
Air Force
First Negro Georgia student Charlayne Hunter reveals secret marriage
Charlayne Hunter and Walter Stovall, a white Douglas, Georgia native, disclosed they secretly wed last spring and are expecting a December child. Stovall, 25, spoke of moving to Brooklyn and continuing his studies as Mrs. Stovall works at New Yorker. The pair met on campus and kept the marriage quiet to avoid university rules.
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Charlayne Hunter
University of Georgia
Walter Stovall
Douglas
George
Stovall
Atlanta Journal
North
Turnpike
Atlanta
Charlayne
Athens
Ho Hunter Jr
Tampa
Fla
New Yorker Magazine
Greenwich Village
Brooklyn
Miss Hunter
Wayne State University
Delray
Georgia
Hamilton Farr Holmes
Crowder Rites Held for James Frank Crowder in Dunn
Funeral services were conducted today at 2 00 p m for James Frank Crowder in Dunn born March 1 1888 in Denton County He married Edna Far Blackard in 1907 at Dunn Surviving are his wife three sons four daughters seven grandchildren and several siblings The Rev T L Nipp and Rev Alex Campbell officiated Burial followed in Dunn Cemetery under Bell Funeral Home direction
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James Frank Crowder
Twenty-Third Street
Denton County
Crowder
Dunn
Edna Far! Blackard
J Elmo Crowder
Snyder
Elton Crowder
Ira
Doyle Crowder
Sweetwater
Alex Campbell
Dunn Cemetery
Bell Funeral Home
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