Truce in Birmingham Faces Breakdown Over Leadership Split
Tense truce frays as Birmingham Negro leadership remains split on strategy to end five weeks of demonstrations. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth voice hope for a solution by 1 pm EDT while biracial talks resume. Police, including highway patrol and plainclothes officers, maintain order as jail terms and bonds are levied on King Abernathy Fulton and 24 associates.
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Kennedy says progress on civil rights hinges on equal treatment
President Kennedy urged that the United States must remove barriers to equal treatment for all citizens as race tensions rose in Birmingham. He defended calm, warned federal action would depend on jurisdiction, and called for constructive steps to ease the dangerous situation while praising both white and Black Birmingham citizens for their efforts to end the unrest.
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Cooper rehearses for 22 orbit trip amid Haiti evacuation
L. Gordon Cooper Jr., a 36 year old NASA astronaut, prepared for a 22 orbit flight as U S forces coordinated flight and ground actions in Port au Prince and the Bay of Gonave. The evacuation involved U S citizens and dependents while reassurances were given that the mission is a precautionary withdrawal rather than military action.
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Haiti
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Bowery hardware store clerks face poisoning charges
In New York two clerks at a Bowery hardware store were charged after several vagrants fell ill from wood alcohol sold as a solvent. Authorities say the deaths rose to around 30, with 21 in critical condition, while welfare officials lament lax handling of the shelter population amid the alcohol poisoning wave.
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UPI
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David Fertles
Bowery
Bellevue
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Weather summary and political notes from northeastern Ohio and Laos
Cloudy with possible showers tonight in eastern Ohio near Lake Erie with warm, humid conditions. Temperature highs near 82, low 30s tonight, with a 24 hour average around 69. In politics Admiral George W. Anderson may shift posts. Khrushchev eyed to curb Lao attacks and two trace helicopters were destroyed.
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Erie
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United States prepares for bold spaceflight by Cooper
Preparations for what may be the most ambitious U S manned space mission continue with rehearsals today and Friday. Cooper and backup Alan Shepard Jr. will undergo final medical checks in Hangar 5 at Cape Canaveral before a weekend launch attempt aboard an Atlas rocket for a 34 hour, 373000 mile mission around Earth. Cooper rode a gantry to the Faith 7 capsule for a lengthy practice run yesterday as part of extensive simulations leading to the flight.
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Russia
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Middle East
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Food centers mobilize to feed Chicago relief families
Chicago relief agencies rush food distribution as relief checks stall due to a legislative deadlock. Welfare groups urge Mayor Daley to press for rent and utility moratoriums and for emergency aid, with ADC funds exhausted and many recipients in Chicago's South Side facing hunger.
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Woodlawn
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