Mississippi Votes On Segregation Amendment For Public Schools
Mississippi prepares to vote on a constitutional amendment designed to preserve segregation. The measure would let the Legislature abolish public schools, set up private schooling, and allow leasing or selling school facilities to private individuals as a means to bypass the U.S. Supreme Court ban on segregated schools.
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Jackson
Miss. CP
Mississippi
Legal Educational Advisory Committee
U. S. Supreme Court
Terran
South Carolina
Georgia
Pigeons Deliver News as WWBG Goes On Air
In Bowling Green Ohio WWBG launches news service by carrier pigeons after a dispute cuts AP lines. Howard Ward uses Toledo department store rail to access AP and borrows ~30 homing pigeons including Okinawa Queen and G I Joe. G I Joe earned British decoration for wartime duty.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
WWBG
Northern Ohio ‘Telephone’ Company
Howard R. Ward
Associated Press Service
Ward
FCC
Toledo
American Homing and Racing Pigeon Union
Pigeondam
Okinawa
Pacific
Mississippi Election Segregation Debate Highlights Racial Split
The article notes that private school funding is at stake and that Black Mississippians, though about 45 percent of the population, are only about 5 percent of registered voters. It emphasizes limited political influence for Negroes in the election context.
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Tuiion
Negres
Mississippi
Fabulous Hotel opens Florida season with grand opening
The $14 million Fountainebleau Hotel on Collins Avenue begins its winter season with a charity ball reservations by 1,500 socialites. Dignitary Senator Hubert Pajot will plant a pine tree on the grounds. The 14 story oceanfront hostelry employs 47 staff and features 363 rooms priced from 37 to 200 dollars daily. Antiquities and 19th century pianos from Europe adorn the interiors.
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Karina
Fountainebleau
Gold Coast
Les Supremes de Volailley
Les
Hubert Pajot
May
France
Pajot
America
Harvey A. Firestone
Henry Ford
Warren G. Harding
Thomas
Thrifty Shopper Robbed After 16 Block Walk
Charles Lockhart, 43, walked 16 blocks to a Baltimore grocery for cut rare goods to save bus fare. On return, three youths assaulted him and robbed his grocery bag and a wallet containing money.
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Baltimore
Charles Lockhart
Lockhart
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