Principal Fire Sparks Lowndes County School Turmoil
In Valdosta a Lowndes County board ousted Principal A B Martin after an April paddling incident that triggered a mass staff walkout and parent protests. Martin resigned then withdrew amid ongoing dissension as Meacham plans a superintendent bid for re nomination in September.
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A. B. Martin
Lowndes County
Valdosta Surday
Martin
Steact
C. W. Meacham
Cher
Hall Mydarston
Georgis
Dwight Maples
Fe Uy
Maples
Myddle
Fes
Meacham
British and American agents probe RB47 crash party
London reports state British and American intelligence investigate a party at the Elefant and Castle inn in Bampton in the Bushey area after the RB47 reconnaissance plane was shot down. Innkeeper says no one claimed the flight was discussed, while crew and spouses attended.
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Torr London
Bampton-in-the-Bushe
Thames
Union
U. S. Indigence
Britain
Arthur Scott
Ihavian
Thomas Ryow
Bureay
Ikeda elected Japan Prime Minister faces Kyushu mine crisis
Tough Ikeda 60 won a landslide in Parliament to succeed Nobusuke Kishi as premier and begin forming his cabinet. He inherits a left wing crisis at the Miike Coal Mine in Kyushu where police clash with striking workers and militants behind barbed wire as nationwide elections loom this fall.
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Tokyo
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
Kyushu
Nobusuke Kishi
Kishi
Tkeda
America
Ikeda
Liberal-Democratic Party
Theds
Socialist Party
Miike
Four Methodist Church bishops consecrated at Lake Junaluska
The Southeast Jurisdiction quadrennial conference of the Methodist Church completed with the layin g on of hands for four new bishops after 16 ballots over two days. Newly ordained bishops are James W. Henley Nashville to Jacksonville area, Walter C. Gunn Norfolk to Louisville, Paul Hardin Jr. Birmingham to Columbia, and John O. Smith Charleston to Atlanta.
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Lake Junaluska
N. C
The
Methodist Church
Cuba
James W. Henley
Nashville, Tenn
Jacksonville
Fla., Episcopal
Walter C. Gunn
Norfolk
Louisville, Ky
Paul Hardin Jr
Birmingham
Ala
Columbia
S. C
John O. Smith
Charleston
D. C
Atlanta
Georgia Crime Laboratory Called Into Role Slaying
Bibb County Sheriff James Wood said clues in the death of James Clarence Chambers 58 were being checked and material evidence analyzed by the State Crime Laboratory. A cigar box with about 500 dollars missing, and Chambers fatally cut, were reported as key details. Four airmen signed the visitors book and five suspects were questioned.
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Bibb County
James Wood
James Clarence Chambers
Wood
Chambers
Billy H. Murphy
Coun priv Hecel armit 2 me Bere
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Georgia Girl Marries Arab in Moslem Ceremony in Charlotte
Margie Acree of Marietta and Sabir Hasan Mubarak Dahir of Jordan united in a Moslem wedding in Charlotte with Elder Ameen Dimish presiding. They planned a second Quaker ceremony for legal purposes and expect to reside in Jordan after the two ceremonies and reception for about 200 guests.
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Charlotte
N.C
Georgia
Margie Acree
Marietta
Sabir Hasan Mubarak Dahir
Jordan
Sabir
Ameen Dimish
New York City
Margie
Moselm
North Carolina
Mahmud Alway
Gie
Charlotte College
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
Business Booms At Bainbridge Inland Dock
Savannah and Bainbridge state docks see record activity as Georgia Ports Authority reports 1,051,349 tons moved in 1959-60, a surge from 232,920 in 1952-53 and 758 vessels call at Garden City and Ocean Terminal. Berthing upgrades planned with $4 million from Gov Vandiver. bids open Aug 9 for three Garden City berths and edible fats handling facilities bid opening soon.
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Savannah, Ga
Savannah
Bainbridge
Robert C. Norman
Georgia Ports Authority
Savannah State
Norman
State Docks
Garden City State Docks
Ocean Terminal
Garden City
Ernest Vandiver
Baptist leader calls Catholicism and communism deadly threats
The Rev. W. O. Vaught, first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, told his Arkansas congregation that Roman Catholicism and communism are the two most deadly threats to world freedom. He warned that if John Kennedy wins the White House he will protest from his pulpit.
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Little Rock, Ark
Southern Baptist Convention
W.O. Vaught
John Kennedy
White House
Georgia Senators Face Role in State Ticket Decision
Georgia Democratic leaders including chairman James Gray say the two U S senators will shape whether the state backs the Kennedy Johnson ticket. Gray cites input from Sen Richard Russell and Sen Herman Talmadge and notes a late September Jefferson Jackson dinner plans.
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Senators
Atlanta
Georgia
U. S
Democratic Executive Committee
James H. Gray
The
Albany Herald
Gray
Los Angeles
Atlanta Constitution
Sen
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Richard Russell
Herman Talmadge
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Peach State
Russell
Talmadge
Kennedy
Integrated baptism service broken up by picnickers in Georgia
Evangelist LeRoy Jenkins described about 125 whites and Negroes attending a Sweetwater Creek baptism Sunday in Douglasville. Picnickers surrounded the congregations, heckled, and shouted for separation as officers arrested Dean Vickers for driving without a license after he attempted to depart.
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Douglasville, Ga
Sweetwater Creek
LeRoy Jenkins
Douglas County
O. M. Redding
Dean Vickers
Atlanta
Redding
Jenkins
Douglasville
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Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Arthur J. Moore
Moore
William T. Watkins
Louisville
College of Bishops
South Carolina
Nolan B. Harmon
Georgia Crime Laboratory
Macon,ga
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Rina Keter Best
Eid
Rhodesia
Congo
London
Ng Weteus
Fletcher St
Bainbidge Inland Dock
Rocky
Jack Barnes
National “Draft
Rockefeller
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Barnes
New York State
Henry Jackson
Washington
Margaret Price
Ann Arbor
Mich
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Jackson
Georgia Democraty
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Thomasville
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