Joe B is Freed to Return Home After TB Sanatorium Stay
After eight months in the Mt. Vernon sanatorium Joe B, a tuberculosis patient, is cleared to go home. He will continue medicine for a year and have periodic checks. The Williamson County sanatorium board will arrange exams and chest X rays, while Joe must rest, eat well, and follow doctors orders to stay well.
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Joe B
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Joe
Health Department
County Sanatorium Board
Williamson County
Ethel Fallon
Marion
Sanatorium ‘Board
1B Centre
Cairo Route Favored in Economic Study for Interstate
Wilbur Smith and Associates estimate Nashville to Cairo path offers best return per dollar spent. Report puts total new construction costs at about 187.7 million for Nashville to Metropolis via Cairo, with Cairo route premier for time, distance and safety gains.
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Nashville
Cairo
Wilbur Smith and Associates
New Haven
Conn
Linols
Cairo-Missouri highway plan favored over Metropolis route
Engineers compare two proposed routes, Cairo-Missouri and Metropolis path, noting Cairo would require 1845 miles of new construction vs 177.2 miles for Metropolis. Total costs, savings and rate of return are analyzed, with Cairo showing higher benefit and 20.17 percent return versus Metropolis at 16.1 percent. Weather and map notes appear in the article.
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Cairo
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Metropolis
Ilinois
Pollen Count Sets Season's Record Today
Pollen count hits 36 the season's high as hay fever sufferers feel the impact. Michael Salazar, chief sanitarian of Franklin Williamson Bi-County Health Dept., warns the high count may persist until rain or wind shifts reduce pollen. Stay indoors in air conditioned spaces for relief.
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Michael Salazar
Franklin-Williamson Bi-County
Salazar
Largest Vote Suit Filed In Birmingham
The Justice Department filed its largest voting registration suit to date, seeking immediate registration of more than 2,000 Negroes in Birmingham, Alabama. The suit names Jefferson County board members and the state of Alabama, alleging discriminatory standards used to test Negro applicants and significant gaps between registered Negroes and whites.
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Washington
Justice Department
Birmingham
Ala
Atty
Robert IF. Kennedy
U.S. District Court
Alabama
George Bellsnyder
Richard M. Harris
J. M. Farvis
Board of Registrars
Jefferson County
Kennedy
Mississippi Arrests 52 during bi racial committee demo
Clarksdale Mississippi police arrested 52 people, including NAACP president Aaron Henry, after protests for a bi racial committee. Thirty two gathered at City Hall and twenty marched near a Negro church without a permit. Four ministers waited at City Hall during a National Council meeting.
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Clarksdale
Miss
NAACP
Aaron Henry
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
City Hall
National Council
National Council of Churches
W. S. Kincade
Patrols Strengthened After Border Shootings
U S military chiefs monitor signs of possible communist escalation as border clashes near the demilitarized zone in Korea intensify. Pentagon sees week’s incidents as isolated but warns of potential shift in threat if ambushes continue. Patrols tighten, three U S soldiers and a Korean constable killed, two infiltrators die near the armistice line. China and Soviet policy analyzed as Washington notes regional dangers and leverage from allied forces in Korea and Asia.
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Korea
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North Korea
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
South Korea
No Man’s-Land
U.N
Red
State Department
Richard J. Phillips
Asia
Phillips
India
United States
China Rejects Nuclear Ban Pact. Signals Rift With Moscow
Tokyo July 31 AP report says Red China rejected the U S British Soviet nuclear ban agreement and indicates Peking may near a formal break with Moscow. The notice notes a possible shift in Moscow Beijing relations and comments on Soviet government actions.
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Tokyo
Red China
Peking
Moscow
Dr Ward Convicted Amid coma in Old Bailey trial
London July 31 AP Dr Stephen Ward was convicted of living on immoral earnings of prostitutes as he lay unconscious in hospital from a drug overdose. The jury at Old Bailey resumed verdict deliberations while Ward remained in a coma and was not to be sentenced until able to attend. Christine Keeler reacted with shock as Ward faced judgment and hospital authorities said recovery was possible. Ward, 50, an osteopath and artist, was found unconscious in his Chelsea flat by friend Noel Jones after spending the night there.
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Bill
Bil
Bulletin
London
Stephen Ward
Old Bailey Court
Archie Marshall
Ward
Christine Keeler
Noel Howard Jones
Chelsea
Mississippi Senator accuses Kennedy of cover up in civil rights clash
Mississippi state senator John C. McLaurin charged Attorney General Robert Kennedy with a brazen cover up for saying there is no evidence of Communist control of current civil rights demonstrations. He testified before the Senate Commerce Committee amid pushback on public accommodations legislation. McLaurin urged relocation plans for Negroes and cited alleged Communist influence claims by Barnett and Wallace.
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Atty
Robert Kennedy
John C. McLaurin
Senate Commerce Committee
Kennedy
McLaurin
Patterson
Joe
T.va
Mike Monroney
D - Okla
D-Midh
Con McLaurin
Barnett
Martin Luther King
Highlander Folk School
Tennessee
Ken
Federal Bureau
Nhdy
House Committee On Rights
Canete
Reuther Urges Rights Action in Civil Rights Crisis
Labor leader Walter Reuther warned in Los Angeles that delaying racial reform could let hate peddlers seize power and push the nation toward a new civil war. He urged democracy to act and said he would join the August 23 civil rights march in Washington to press Congress on the President's civil rights plan. Protesters gathered outside a Brooklyn hospital site praying for an end to national unrest.
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Los Angeles
Walter Reuther
United States
Reuther
Washington, D. C
Congress
Brooklyn
Democrats Submit Remap List For Illinois Commission
Powell Included Demos Offer Remap List Springfield July 31 AP George Dunne of Chicago for Ten Democrats including three legislative leaders have been Carmi former Illinois attorney nominated for appointment to as general Alvin C Fields East St Louis mayor and a state central committeeman Robert Z Hickman Danville attorney Richard Nelson of Evanston an aide on Tuesday to go with 10 names as her former Gov Adlai E Stevenson ready submitted by Republicans Dan Pierce of Highland Park state committeeman and James A Ronan of Chicago state chairman The commission will be made up of five Democrats and five Republicans to be appointed by Kerner from the list of 20 nominees Republicans did not place any of the seven of the 10 commission members on their list which is headed by former Gov William G Stratton Others nominated by Democrats are large in the state and would be free to run next year.
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George Dunne
Chicago
Mer House
Ivan Elliott
Carmi
Illinois
Alvin C. Fields
East St
Louis
Thellinois
Robert Z. Hick
Adlai E. Stevenready
Sam
Dan M. Pierce
Highland
Otto Kerner
Park
James A. Ronan
Democratic State Committee
Central Committee
Paul
Powell
Vienna
John Touhy
Edward Rpublicans
Kererspacher
Shelbyville
Commission
William Ping
G. Strattoning
Abrois Representa
Tives
Five Senators To Witness Pact Signing
Secretary of State Dean Rusk will lead a bipartisan delegation to Moscow for the formal signing of the nuclear test ban treaty. The group includes five senators J W Pulbright Hubert Humphrey John O Pastore Leverett Saltonstall and George Aiken. Not present are Everett Dirksen and Rourke Hickenlooper as Republican leaders held back from attendance amid ratification uncertainty.
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Dean Rusk
Moscow
White House
J. W. Pulbright
Arkansas
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
John O. Pastore
Rhode Island
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
George Aiken
Vermon
I Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Ilinois
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
GOP
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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