Los Angeles Faces Birmingham Style Integration Push
LA reverend Maurice A. Dawkins of the NAACP LA chapter says the city will be target of a Birmingham like effort to create a fully integrated community. He notes Los Angeles has the largest Negro population west of the Mississippi and signals planned strategy meetings with aims to press civil rights legislation, with unions identified as a focus in ongoing discriminatory practices.
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Los Angeles
Maurice A. Dawkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Mississippi
Alabama
Washington, D.C
Dawkins
McCurdy Dies En Route to Doctor’s Office
Berton Leonard McCurdy 65 of Pinckneyville died of a heart attack while driving to a doctor’s office. His car left the road and overturned west of Pinckneyville. his wife suffered minor injuries. Funeral at Beaucoup Baptist Church with burial in Pinckneyville City Cemetery. He was born December 9 1807 in Tamaraa and lived 34 years in Pinckneyville. He worked 18 years at Forest City Manufacturing Co. in Pinckneyville. Survived by wife Emma Morgan McCurdy and sons Eugene and Robert of Du Quoin and James and Charles of Pinckneyville, plus a sister Opal Henderson of Chester. A son Lenard Warren died in infancy. one sister and one brother preceded him.
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Berton Lenard McCurdy
Rt. 3
Pinckneyville
Beaucoup Baptist Church
Mr. McCurdy
Perry County
Barney West
McCurdy
Tamaraa
Murphysboro
Emma Morgan
Forest City Manufacturing Co
Eugene
Robert
du Quoin
James
Charles
Opal Henderson
Chester
Lenard Warren
Should U S Build Fallout Shelters Debatein Congress
Washington May 31 a lively yet tepid hearing on civil defense asks if the federal government should provide public fallout shelters for all Americans. experts warn of megaton blasts, gamma rays and a poisoned wasteland while the Kennedy plan seeks shelter space in schools and jails and 70 million people storage in inner building cores. Regulators argue shelters may not prevent panic and point to uncertain safety as lawmakers press for action.
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Raymond J. Crowley
Associated Press
Washington
Capitol Hill
House Armed Services Committee
Shelten
Albert Einstein
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Hiroshima
Kennedy
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Philip W. Kel Ieher
Alexander
Stewart
L. Pitt
lLangsdorf
De‘aa
Pas Jon
Pittman
Chicago
Canjon
Union
Chet
Hollifield
D-Calif
Holifield
Bat
Capitol Dome
Charles E. Chamberlain
Roscoe Pedigo dies at 72 in Herrin
Roscoe Pedigo 72 of Herrin died at 4 05 p m Thursday after a long illness Born March 31 1891 in Union County he was married to Martha Jeralds in 1919 He was a United Mine Workers Local 1776 member and Jesus Only Church He leaves his wife son Kenneth daughter Rosalie Barnes sisters Tressie Waller Bessie Linsey Zella Henshaw Mellie O Boyle four grandchildren and three great grandchildren Funeral services set for 2 pm Sunday at George Van Natta Funeral Home Herrin with Rev Chaves Finney officiating Burial will be in Herrin City Cemetery Friends may call after 6 pm today at the funeral home.
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Roscoe Pedigo
Herrin
Mr. Pedigo
Union County
Wilford
Anna Jill Pedigo
Martha Jeralds
Marion
United Mine Workers
Jesus Only Church
Kenneth
Rosalie Barnes
Tressie Waller
Bessie Linsey
Evansville
Ind
Zella Henshaw
Columbia City
Mellie O'Boyle
Chicago
George van Natta
Chaves Finney
Herrin City
Sparta Woman Lillian Adams Dies at 79
Mrs. Lillian Caldwell Adams 79 of Sparta died Thursday at Randolph County Nursing Home where she had been a patient four years. She was born November 14 in Gardner daughter of Joseph and Margaret Caldwell. She married Gilbert K. Adams October 1 1903 in Sparta. he died in 1947. She belonged to Westminster Presbyterian Church and Rebecca Lodge. Survived by sisters Margaret Kaiser Windsor Colorado Frankie Knowles and Pet Adams Sparta Leona Griffin St Louis. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Sunday Walker Colonial Sparta burial Caledonia Cemetery callers after 5 p.m. today.
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Lillian Caldwell Adams
Sparta
Randolph County
Adams
Gardner
Joseph
Margaret [Fleming Caldwell
Gilbert K. Adams
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Rebecca Lodge
Margaret Kaiser
Windsor, Colo
Frankie Knowles
Pet Adams
Leona Griffin
St. Louis
Walker Colonial
Tome
Caledonia Cemetery
Former Resident Bertha Hardesty Dies at 73
Bertha Ellen Hardesty 73 of Oak Forest died Tuesday at Granite City after living there 16 months. Born November 7 1089 in Sparta she was the daughter of John and Sarah Blair Finley. She married Alfred Hardesty who died in 1949. She was a retired nurse and a member of United Presbyterian Church Granite City and the Eastern Star. She leaves a sister Sara Starrett of San Jose California, with two brothers and three sisters deceased. Funeral services 2 p.m. today at Walker Colonial Funeral Home Sparta. Burial in Union Cemetery.
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Bertha Ellen Hardesty
Oak Forest
Granite City
Hardesty
al Sparta
John
Sarah Blair Finley
Valpariso
Ind
Alfred Hardesty
Hardesly
United, Presbyterian Church
Eastern Star
Sara Starrett
San Jose
Calif
Walker
Sparta
William
Hughes
Union Cemetery
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Lillian Adams
Bertha Hardesty
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Panamas
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Terrepec Peery A
See Ee
Sue
Oxfords
Rechter's
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