Walters Named Kefauver Successor in Tennessee
Nashville announces Herbert S. Walters is appointed to succeed the late Estes Kefauver as U S senator. Walters endorses a limited nuclear test ban and tax reduction, avoids civil rights stance, expects no 1964 campaign, and plans to visit Washington soon. Clement retreats from White Sulphur Springs to confirm the appointment. Walters, long an East Tennessee political figure, built a southeast construction firm after starting with mules.
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Nashville
Tenn
Herbert S. Walters
East Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Frank Clement
Kefauver
Walters
Morristown
Tennessee
Harry Byrd
Hubert Humphreys
Civil Rights Fight Avoided at Southern Governors Meet
Southern governors adopted a unanimity rule at the Southern Governors Conference to block anti civil rights resolutions. Gov George C Wallace aided the change and said the rule gives him veto power over disliked regulations. Demonstrators near Greenbrier Hotel urged action while West Virginia Gov W W Barron met with marchers. Mississippi Gov Barnett floated dividing the Negro population by the salon.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Donald Russell
South Carolina
Orval EB. Faubus
Arkansas
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Elbert N. Carvel
Delaware
Carl Sanders
Georgia
John B. Connally
Texas
Yerry Sanford
North Carolina
Greenbrier
Barnett
Washington
W.W. Barron
West Virginia
Troopers Use Tear Gas to Break Louisiana March
In Jaquemine Louisiana state troopers armed with tear gas halted a 400 strong Negro march as 17 demonstrators were arrested Monday night. Several were jailed in nearby Donaldsonville and one boy was knocked by a gas bomb. CORE leaders and local clergy faced riot and peace disturbance charges as a voter registration drive was pursued.
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Jaquemine
Louisiana
Donaldsonville
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Plaquemine
Mississippi River
Baton’ Rouge
Dennis Songy
Gordon Carey
Core Nationals
Plymouth Rock Baptist Church
Bertrand Tyson
Ronnie Moore
Core State
J. W. Davis
Racial Quota Plan Rejected By Plumbers
Washington Aug 20 union plumbers and their employers rejected compulsory federal apprenticeship quotas aimed at minority inclusion. They warned of possible sanctions on federally funded construction if their programs fail merit based selection. The groups cited undemocratic quotas and insisted they will not accept government dictation or private pressure. The protest risked straining a 10 day informal agreement between government, employers, and workers on discrimination in apprenticeships.
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Warren Weaver Jr
New York Times
Washington
Ihe United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters
Plumbing Industry
Department of Labor
Plumbing Crsckerel
Labor Department
Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training
National Mechanical Contractors Association of America
National Joint Plumbing Apprenticeship Committee
National
Joint Steam Fitters
Kennedy Eyes Western Trip
President Kennedy weighing a Westward swing to inspect natural resource and wilderness efforts with planned stops from Grand Coulee Dam to Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona. The journey, if undertaken in October, would include Arizona and other Western states to boost visibility ahead of 1964.
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Washington
Kennedy
West
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
White House
Interior Department
Grand Coulee Dam
North
Glen Canyon Dam
Nevada
New Mexico
Locomotive Stolen While Engineer Ate Lunch
In Carbondale Colorado on Monday engineer Joe Cheskaty of Grand Junction left his Rio Grande locomotive idling as he ate at a nearby restaurant. A joyrider climbed aboard and piloted the diesel engine on a 21 mile trip to Woody Creek before a section foreman stopped it. The thief disappeared.
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Carbondale
Colo
Joe Cheskaty
Grand Junction
Cheskaty
Rio Grande
Aspen
Woody Creek
Bear mauling kills Alaskan near Fairbanks
An attack by a hungry bear near Fairbanks, Alaska, kills William Strandberg, a prominent local figure. Police say three bears were later tranquilized but soon released and recaptured, amid reports of multiple prior bear encounters in the area. State biologist Bud Burback cites scarce wild berries as a factor driving bears toward meat in recent weeks.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Here
State Pot Line
Remit
Pepe
William Strand
Wen Acepes
Berg
Greater
Anchorage
Puise Wwenen
Telala
Khrushchev and Tito greet in Belgrade embrace
Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade and rushes into Tito arms in a warm welcome. They exchange bear hugs and kisses as wives look on, signaling a thaw in relations and a joint push toward nuclear test ban cooperation. Weather figures and area notes accompany the dispatch.
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Khrushchev
Belgrade
Tito
Kansas City
Belleville
Los Angeles
Louisville
Yugoslavia
Quincy
Memphis
Rockford
Miami
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Albany
New York
Ism
Albuquerque
Oklahoma City
Atlanta
Omaha
Bismarck
Philadelphia
Boise
BO Phoenix
Boston
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Portland
Faires
Cincinnati
Rapid City
Cleveland
St. Louis
Denver
Salt Lake City
Detroit
San Diego
Des Moines
Seattle
Fort Worth
Tampa
Helena
Washington
Home Robbed Of $250000 In Madison N Y
In Madison New York burglars forced entry through a basement safe and made off with 250000 dollars in cash and papers from widow Mrs Grover Hinman. Police believe the caper occurred Sunday while she and a sister were away. no sign of forced entry. The Hinman family had substantial real estate holdings and her late husband was an automobile dealer.
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Madison
N.Y
Grover Hinman
East St. Louis Livestock Prices Report
Hog prices at East St. Louis ranged 17.28 to 18.35 for 190 to 250 lb barrows and gilts, with sows 13.25 to 16.75 for 275 to 625 lb. Cattle and calves totaled 4,500 head with steady calves, good to choice steers 22.50 to 25.25, heifers 23.00 to 24.25, utility cows 14.50 to 17.00, wealers steady to 1.00 higher, and good to choice 25.00 to 31.00.
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East St. Louis
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