March for Freedom Now Opens in Washington
A large protest march in Washington to demand civil rights began peacefully near the White House with several hundred demonstrators and an equal number of spectators and reporters present in Lafayette Park marking a orderly start. Georgia ports set to hit a yearly tonnage peak as Brunswick and Savannah ports show a 41.6 percent rise from May 1962 amid a longshoremen strike.
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Washington
White House
Lafayette Park
Bavannah
Georgia
Brunswick
Georgia Ports Authority
House panel backs 200 FBI agents to fight organized crime
The House Appropriations Committee recommended funds to hire 200 more FBI agents as part of a $1.8699 billion FY 195? appropriation. The package covers State Justice Commerce departments the federal judiciary and the U.S. Information Agency for the year starting July 1.
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Washington
FBI
House Appropriations Committee
State, Justice and Commerce Departmenta
Federal Judiciary
U.S. Information Agency
North Korean general deflects on fate of missing American
In Panmunjom North Korea Maj. Gen. Chang Chun hwan refused to reveal the fate of the captured US airmen. He condemned US human rights while displaying a photo of a police dog attacking a Black man in Birmingham. In Moscow the USSR seeks a $280 million oil refinery deal with Britain. Harold Wilson reported talks with Nikolai Patolichev but gave no progress update.
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Panmunjom
South Korea
Pirote
Commuunist
Birmingham
Als
Chang Chun-hwan
Moscow
Soviet Union
Britain
Harold Wilson
Gaullist Bloc Approves French West German Treaty
The Gaullist majority in the National Assembly approved the European cooperation treaty with West Germany by 325 to 107 with 42 abstentions. Debate moves to the Senate on Thursday where approval is seen as virtually certain. Supporters call the pact helpful for European unity while critics label it outdated and nationalistic.
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Paris
National Assembly
Senate
Assembly
European Unity
Peace talks sought by Hopson Afanassiev in Laos
In Vientiane British Ambassador Donald Hopson and Soviet Ambassador Yergei Afanassiev flew to Pathet Lao HQ at Khang Khay to press the pro communists to resume Geneva peace talks with neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phoume. Pathet Lao chief Prince Souphanouvong said he would meet them only as government representatives. In Columbus Ohio state troopers cleared the House chamber to end a 10 hour protest over housing legislation with three sit in demonstrators carried out.
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Vientiane
Laos
Donald Hopson
Yergei Affanassiev
Pathet Lao
Khang Khay
Souvanna Phoume
Britain
Soviet Union
Hopson
Souphanouvong
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio House of Representatives Chamber
Chamber
Capitol
Keeler Reveals Soviet Attempt To Obtain Nuclear Secrets
Christine Keeler states a Soviet naval attaché urged her to obtain nuclear data from ex War Minister John Profumo. The claim deepens the Profumo scandal and pressures Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, with Eddowes delivering the letter and Macmillan summoning security chiefs.
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Iqndon
Christine Keeler
John Profumo
Harold Macmillan
Mise Keeler
Michael H. B. Eddowes
Macmillan
Ward
Profumo
Lord Dilhorne
Yevgeny Ivanov
Security Services
Eddowes
Dilhorne
Scotland Yard
Special Branch
Miss Keeler
Ivanov
West Germany
Stephen Ward
Four men convicted in conspiracy case in Baltimore
A federal court jury in Baltimore convicted former congressmen Thomas F. Johnson and Frank W. Boykin, plus two others, on 32 counts of conspiracy. Sentencing is postponed pending appeals. Johnson faced conflict of interest charges tied to aiding Edlin on mail fraud claims.
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Baltimore, Md
Thomas F. Johnson
Frank W. Boykin
Johnson
Edlin
Maryland Savings and Loan
Colquitt Thomas Pact Creates Area Airport
Thomas and Colquitt counties reach an agreement to jointly operate Sunset Air Field near Moultrie and redesignate it as the Moultrie Thomasville Airport. Each county will name equal board members to a joint authority overseeing the airfield and expanded air service.
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Colquitt-Thomas Pact
Thomas County
Thomas and
Colquitt County
Sunset Air Field
Moultrie
Thomasville
Colquitt Airport
Moultrie Thomasville
Fleetwood
Southern Airlines
Khrushchev Announces Fifth Soviet Man in Orbit
Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced Lt. Col. Valeri Bykovsky, 29, the first man aboard Vostok V, as the Soviet Union leads the United States by launching a single cosmonaut into orbit at 112 to 146 miles altitude. Tass reports an 86 minute orbit with weightlessness tests to study long flight effects.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Valeri Fedorovich Bykovsky
Vostok V
Tass
Earth
Wilson
Dramatic Rites Planned For Slain Civil Rights Leader
Jackson Mississippi faces an air of foreboding as Negro leaders promise a March March March strategy and prepare a funeral for Medgar W. Evers, NAACP field secretary, at the Negro Masonic Temple. FBI and police pursue clues in several states as evidence rushes to Washington. Evers to be buried at Arlington next week.
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Jackson
Miss
FBI
Medgar W. Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Evers
Graham School Cattle Breeding Course Planned in Kaw
Russell Singletary of Thomasville has enrolled in a one week cattle breeding and herd management course at the Graham School for Cattlemen in Barnett Kansas. City Commissioner N Pratt Secrest will address the 56th annual Georgia Forestry Assns meeting June 18 19 at Jekyll Island and speak on Marketing lumber from private forest lands.
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Russell Singletary
Rt. 3
Thomasville
Graham School For Cattlemen
Barnett, Kaw
N. Pratt Secrest
Secrest Pulpwood and Timber Co
The
Georgia Forestry Assns
Jekyll Island
Secrest
Miss Georgia Forestry
Albany pool sale blocks injunction ruling in Atlanta case
Federal Judge Griffin Bell refused to enjoin Albany Georgia from selling a public pool and tennis courts citing no irreparable harm. He ordered the motion set for a three judge panel hearing scheduled in Montgomery Alabama with the case tied to challenges to segregated facilities. The dismissal earlier by Judge J Robert Elliott noted no proof of denied use or forced segregation.
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Atlanta
Albany
Griffin B. Bell
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Montgomery
Ala
U. S
J. Robert Elliott
Bell
Beaia
Grady Boy Killed In Crash In Cairo
A 16 year old Grady County farm youth died and four others were injured when a car collided with a State Highway Dept truck at Ga 93 and 14th Ave N E in Cairo. Dell White died en route to Albany hospital.
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North East
Cairo
Grady County
State Highway Dept
Ga. 93
14Th Ave
N. E
A. L. Hester
Dell White
Daniel H. White
Herd
Albany
Grady General Hospital
Billy Thursby
Hester
Sam C. Collins
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B. Morton
Maryland
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Commons
Roscoe G. Fleetwood
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Bob Wright
Pavo Rd
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Colquitt County Airport
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Nikita
United States
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Kremlin
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Blair Street
John Salter
Flagstaff
Ariz
Graham School
Dad
Abby
Albany Pool Sale
Grady
Tenance
Jack Pyles
Will Wick
Tallahassee
Georgia State Patrol
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Hugh Lee Brinkley
Miller Funers
D. H. White
D. H. White Sr
Meigs
Harry H. White
Mary Phillips
Bainbridge
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