Medgar Evers Shot, Dies After Driveway ambush in Jackson
Medgar W. Evers 37, NAACP field secretary, was mortally wounded as he stepped from his car in Jackson Mississippi. He died about 50 minutes later at University Medical Center. A $10,000 NAACP reward was announced for his assassin amid a nationwide outcry.
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Jackson
Miss
Medgar W. Evers
South
Evers
Mississippi
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
University Medical Center
W. B. Pierce
FBI
New York
Roy T. Wilkins
NAACP
Movement For Human Rights
Wilkins
Willie Mae Bishop
Racial Tensions Rise as Evers Is Killed and Wallace Standoff
Medgar Evers is shot to death in Jackson, Mississippi after a civil rights rally. Gov. George C. Wallace faces federalized guards as two Negro students enroll at the University of Alabama, signaling a national push to end racial segregation. Other items note Greece's political crisis, U.S. disarmament outlook, and Indiana tax policy.
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NAACP
Medgar Evers
Jackson
Miss
University of Alabama
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Kennedy
United States
Tense Race Riot Erupts In Cambridge Maryland
Two white men were shot and several injured when a race riot broke out in Cambridge Maryland amid a march by Negro demonstrators. Fires and gasoline bombs followed as police struggled to separate crowds and state police were recalled from leave.
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Maryland
Cambridge
Negro Section
Col
Carey Jarman
George E. Davidson
Davidson
Nuclear ban talks planned by big three in Moscow
NO COMMENT TOKYO reports that the United States the Soviet Union and Britain have agreed to hold talks on a nuclear bomb ban in Moscow next month with no official comment from China.
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Tokyo
China
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
Moscow
Quiet Beginning at Alabama U as Two Negroes Enroll
Two Negro students Vivian Malone and James Hood began classes at the University of Alabama under National Guard protection in a calm campus scene. White students greeted them cordially as federal marshals and a guardsman observed from Comer Hall. No crowds or incidents occurred.
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Relman Morin
Tuscaloosa
Ala
University of Alabama
Vivian Malone
James A. Hood
Jimmy
Comer Hall
Miss Malone
National
University
Hood
National Guard
Police Clash With Harlem Demonstrators At New Hospital
New York demonstrators and police clashed at the site of the 800 bed Harlem Hospital Threen on Lenox avenue and 136th street. About 150 protesters spoke against alleged discrimination in building trades employment. 12 pickets blocked the entrance and police repelled them with wood barricades, delaying work by 30 minutes. NAACP official Herbert Hill said he would meet with Acting Mayor Screvane to protest police brutality and illegal practices at construction sites. He cited Negro participation in New York City building trades as under 2 percent, with 2 percent in the trowel trades.
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New York
Harlem Hospital
Lenox Avenue
136Th Street
Herbert Hill
Naacp National Labor
Paul R. Screvane
City Hall
Hill
New York City
Weather Map Summary from U S Weather Bureau
Weather map notes show 6 am reading 55, 9 am 58, sunrise 5 22, sunset 8 ty. River stage 3.6 ft and rising. Local conditions report yesterday high 75 and low 51 with no precipitation.
Forecast for Terre Haute and Vicinity and Illinois
Partly cloudy and cool tonight with a more cloudy and warmer Thursday and a chance of showers. Temperatures include a low around mid 50s tonight and highs near upper 70s Thursday. Illinois sees considerable cloudiness and warmer conditions with showers and possible thundershowers, with similar temperature patterns.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Polish Cardinal Arrives in Rome for Conclave
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski arrives in Rome to take part in the conclave to elect a new pope. Crowds cheer the primate of Poland as he urges mourners to remember Pope John XXIII in this time of grief.
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Rome
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Poland
John XXIII
Ius
State FHA meeting opens with guest speakers Thursday
The Indiana Future Homemakers of America two day convention begins with Phil N Eskew and Mrs Elizabeth Noland Jackson as guest speakers at the ISC Student Union auditorium. The event draws 800 visitors to the city. Delegates from 136 chapters attend the Thursday and Friday sessions, with a pre conference meeting for state officers and an executive council dinner planned at 6 pm.
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Future Homemakers of America
Indiana State College
Kathy Arnold
Plainfield
Deedee Keller
Stilesville
Marsha Richman
Albion
Cynthia Wysocki
East Chicago
Pat Colglazier
Salem
Mary Watson
ISC
Paulette LeCount
Wawaka
Margaret Jones
Franklin
Jane Johnson
Suzann Shackleton
Pine Village
Pat Spindler
Owensville
Vickilyn Garrigus
Brazil
Phil N. Eskew
Elizabeth Noland Jackson
Indiana Future Homemakers of America
Eskew
Indiana High School Athletic Association
Jackson
Social Health Association of
Marion County
ISC Allendale Lodge
President Kennedy appeals for peaceful civil rights reform
President Kennedy warned that racial discrimination has sparked fires of frustration and danger and announced a broad legislative program for Congress. He urged a peaceful, constructive revolution based on the principle that race has no place in American life or law and spoke after Governor Wallace yielded to federal pressure at the University of Alabama.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
North
South
Alabama
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
New Yorks tallest waterfall is Taughannock Falls
The highest waterfall in New York state is Taughannock Falls at 215 feet in the Finger Lakes region. It stands 48 feet taller than Niagara Falls, per the New York State Department of Commerce.
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United Press International
New York State
Taughannock Falls
Finger Lakes Region
Niagara Falls
New York State Department of Commerce
Wabash Valley Boosters Seek $20 Million for Surveys
More than 150 members of the Wabash Valley Association urged a $20.2 million appropriation for surveys planning and construction in the valley at a House Public Works Appropriations Subcommittee hearing. Senator Hartke backed raising Indiana projects budget to $53.4 million for the year starting July 1. Congressmen from Indiana and Illinois supported the request including a $1 million Wabash basin survey to finish in three years.
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Washington
Wabash Valley Association, Inc
Indiana
Southern
Illinois
House Public Works Appropriations
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Kennedy
Corps of Army Engineers
Birch E. Bayh
Wabash
Ohio River
Bayh
Association
J. Edward Roush
Wabash Basin
Army Engineers
Anaconda Management Conference At Terre Haute Concludes
A two day managers conference of Anaconda Aluminum Company and The Anaconda Company wraps up at Terre Haute with plans for Thursday and Friday sessions. Executives from Anaconda Wire and Cable and Anaconda American Brass join company officers including Thomas Cobhart Archie Cochran Carl Hufflage Nate Everett and others from Louisville Columbia Falls Fairlawn and Mon tana. A Thursday dinner is set at the Terre Haute House as Terre Haute hosts the gathering for semi annual meetings.
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Anaconda Aluminum Company
Anaconda Company
Anaconda Aluminum
Kentucky
New Jersey
Montana
Terre Haute
Thomas Cobhart
Archie P. Cochran
Carl Hufflage
Louisville
O. K. Schmied
J. F. Smith
Columbia Falls
Mont
Nate Everett
E. C. Tatgenhorst
J. B. Sanderlin
T. B. Wilson
H. S. Payne
J. M. Shepherd
D. W. Everett
K. E. Searcy
Fairlawn
N. J
E. O. Wester
W. H. Liddicoat
Warren Bogue
Terre Haute House
Anaconda Wire and Cable Company
Anaconda American Brass Company
Indiana State College Opens Summer Session With Five-Week Term
Indiana State College begins its first five week summer session today running to July 18. Four workshops follow later in the term including an orchestra workshop June 17-28 and a junior high music workshop July 1-12.
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Indiana State College
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Merle Beasley Evers
Henry Graham
George Wallace
Foster Auditorium
Wallace
AP News Digest
U. S. Disarmament
William C. Foster
Senate
Russia
West
Greece
Paul
Constantine Caramanlis
State Revenue Board
Harlem
U. S. Weather Bureau
FHA
White House
Wabash Valley Boosters
Anaconda
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