Florida Democrats Vote For Governor
Florida voters faced a crowded gubernatorial primary with 10 candidates. The race includes Bryant, Burns, Carlton, Dickinson, and David as leading contenders, with a runoff possible May 24 if no majority is reached. Major issues include reapportionment, roads, and school openness amid integration.
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Haydon Burns
Farris Bryant
Doyle E. Carlton Jr
Fred O. Dickinson
West Palm Beach
Tallahassee
Bryant
Burns
Carlton
John McCarty
Dickinson
House
Ted David
Florida
George C. Peterson
Fort Lauderdale
Emerson H. Rupert
St. Petersburg
Oldster 91 Takes Over Job in Sydney
Joseph White, 91, asked officials to strike him from unemployment rolls. After six months out of work the spry carpenter reports he has found a job with a contractor in Sydney N. S. and the AP note the unlikely return to work of an elderly man.
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Sydney
N.3
Joseph White
Alleged Victim Of Chessman Sits In Trance
LOS ANGELES AP One victim of Daryl Chessman’s sexual attacks a dozen years ago sits in a trance unable to grasp that he has gone to the gas chamber. Mary Alice Meza 29 suffers the impact as the execution nears. Her mother Ruth Shaw calls the whole tragedy a terrible burden. Another victim Mrs Andrew Brennan weeps and recalls a polio recovery before Chessman attacked her.
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Los Angeles
Daryl Chessman
Mary Alice Meza
Ruth Shaw
Chessman
Shaw
Andrew H. Brennan
Gunman Sought After Atlanta Kidnap Robbery of Cigarette Vendor
Police hunt a gunman linked to a daylight kidnapping and robbery outside a hotel in Atlanta. A cigarette vending agent, Frank E. Brooks, described being forced at gunpoint to drive to a woods then freed himself. About $900 in cash and $1,000 worth of cigarettes were stolen. the truck remains missing.
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Atlanta
J. H. Barnes
Frank E. Brooks
Brooks
Southern Presbyterians Close 100th General Assembly
The Southern Presbyterians in Jacksonville wrap up their 100th General Assembly a day early. They reaffirm church state separation, reject a study of NC Church membership legality, back anti communism probes, stay pro integration, uphold religious freedom on birth control, and avoid reopening union talks with the United Presbyterian Church. The assembly also broadens studies on tranquilizers and cancer smoking links, and ends with no minority reports.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Presbyterian Church
U.S
National Council of Churches
National Church Council Board
General Assembly
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Bonifay
George Downes
Winter Park
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Hialeah
Bill Hendrix
Ku Klux Klan
Oldsmar
Carlton and
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Ladies’ Dusters
Southern Presbyterians
United Presbyterian Church In
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Assembly
Committee On Christian Relations
United States
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