Birmingham Tensions Rise as Riots Shake City
Demonstrations in Birmingham involving more than 3,000 Negroes escalated with police and firemen using hoses and rocks. Gov. George Wallace moved 250 state troopers to Birmingham to restore order while President Kennedy monitored developments. King vowed new protests citing merchant promises to end segregation as Bobby Robinson and other leaders planned demonstrations and a nationwide Birmingham pilgrimage. The scene drew commentary from James Baldwin and SANE critics warning of escalating conflict.
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Ala
South
Alabama
George Wallace
Montgomery
Kennedy
White House
Whi House
Andrew Hatcher
Burke Marshall
Martin Luther King Jr
King
New York
Jackie Robinson
Martin Luther King
Washington
James Baldwin
San Francisco
Mobile
With
SANE
Georgia Board of Regents
Savannah State College
North Carolina
Senate
Madison Tenn
Jackson City
U.S. Dependent Evacuations From Haiti Proceed
A UPI report details an 88 dependents evacuation by airliner from Port au Prince with 106 others, including 84 dependents of military personnel, boarding a charter flight. A second plane aimed for Miami and a broader evacuation of about 220 government civilians and dependents was planned, amid political instability and a curfew as Duvalier’s regime faces pressure and potential uprising.
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Haiti
UPI
Washington
Miami
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Pan American World Airways
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Prince
U. S
Reed
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Francois
Duval
Willemstad
Curacao
Haitii
Passen
James
Duvalier
Negro Republic
Dominican Republic
Hispaniola
Toerance
Organization of American States
OAS
United Nations Security Council
U.N
Egal
McLellan Store Manager Transferred to Hamilton Ohio
RA Baumgartner, longtime manager of the McLellan Store in Washington, is transferred to Hamilton Ohio to run a McCrory store. He and his wife will move in the morning as Hamilton, a city of 72 000 near Cincinnati, prepares for new leadership.
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RA. Baumgartner
McLellan
Washington
Hamilton
Emma Ada Schilling Dies at Burlington
Emma Ada Schilling of Burlington died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital Washington. Funeral Friday at 10 a.m. in Prugh Chapel Burlington with burial at Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the chapel. She was born Emma Ada Clark daughter of Iris and Angeline Clark and married Lee Roy Schilling on December 8 1909 in Washington. She was a Bethany Lutheran member and Rebekah Lodge member in Washington. Survivors include daughter Grace Walker of Burlington.
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Emma Anaseming
South 13Th Street
Burlington
Pam
Mercy Hospital
Ngton
Prugh Chapel
Memorial Park
Emma Ada Clark
Iris
Angeline Clark
Washington
Lee Roy Schilling
Bethany Lutheran Church
Rebekah Lodge
Grace Walker
Legion Seeks World War and Korea Veterans Photos
Washington County American Legion officials seek photos of all county residents who died in World War I and II and in the Korean conflict. Dr. E D Miller of Wellman heads the project gathering county memorial pictures. Also sought are pictures of all deceased veterans since the two world wars and Korean conflict. Pictures may be sent to the family’s photographer and should have the owner’s name and address on the back. All pictures will be returned.
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Washington County
American Legion
E.D. Miller
Wellman
Legion
Federal Court Lets Shaff Plan Vote Move Ahead
A three judge federal panel ruled Iowa's present apportionment discriminatory but postponed ruling on the Shaff reapportionment plan until after the Dec 3 vote and a Supreme Court standard ruling. The decision notes inequities yet defers constitutional questions until after the vote.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
General Assembly
U.S. Supreme Court
Legislative Branch
Govern
Iowa Federation of Labor
Afl-Cio
Towa
Iowa General Assembly
Iowa Senate pivots to withholding tax proposal in debate
Republicans in the Iowa Senate shift to support a Democratic amendment for a personal income tax withholding system amid resistance to raising the sales tax. Senate leaders approved a border county sales tax exemption for Nebraska and Minnesota shoppers and debated major tax package revisions aiming for new revenue to fund school aid and property tax relief.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Senate
GOP
Vigor N. David O. Shaff
R-Clinton
Ways and Means Committee
Shaft
Hughes
Shaff
Nebraska
Minnesota
The
Tax Commission
Counies
Richard C. Turner
Council Blutts
Robert Fulton
Waterloo
Fulton
Marvin Selden
Selden
Martin Wiley
Cedar Rapids
Ways and Means
House
Robert Wallace 48 Dies in Brighton Tuesday Morning
Robert Wallace 48 a Brighton resident died Tuesday at 11 am of a heart attack in a doctor's office. He was born August 12 1914 in Washington the son of Herman and Bertie Wallace. He married Gertrude Morgan September 25 1937 and lived in Brighton most of their married life. Surviving are his wife four daughters five grandchildren a half sister and a half brother.
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Robert
Wallace
Priday
Mr. Wallace
Washington
Herman
Bertie Patterson Wallace
Gertrude Morgan
Howard Moore Jr
Crawfordsville
Marvin Hole
Elmer Rotenberger
Ainsworth
Linda Wallace
Fred Chalipa
Raymond Wallace
Wabash
Ind
Walton League Public Auction Planned May 12
Chicagua chapter of the Izaak Walton League will hold a public auction Sunday afternoon at the Walton club house four miles southwest of Washington on highway No 1. Proceeds go to the crippled children's outing at Lake Darling. Items include used outboard motors and fishing gear. Catfish dinner at noon and a trap shoot starting at 10 a.m. Donations invited at Washington Schoonover Drug and Ken Peters barber shop Brigh ton Orville Harbison Ka tona.
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Izaak Walton League
Walton Club
Washington
Lake Darling
Walton League
Uch
Schoonover Drug
Ken Peters
Brighton
Herb Stouse
Katona
Orville Harbison
Joe Jones Named State 4H Officer Nominee
Joe Jones of Washington County has been chosen as the county’s nominee for State 4H Club officer. Merritt Canady notes that a county committee selects about 20 nominees for personal interviews, eight go to the State 4H Conference in June, and delegates vote to appoint four state officers, forming the top 40 club members statewide.
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Washington
Washington County
Merritt Canady
Ames
Y's Men Clean Lake Camp to Prepare for Campers
Y's Men spent the early evening hours at the Lake Darling Youth Center cleaning cabins furnishings dining and recreation hall and tidying the grounds. Fairfield men joined the annual effort and charcoaled steaks were served after the work.
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Washington Y's
Lake Darling
This Y
Fairfield
Russell Stoops Dies in California Today
Russell Stoops died early today at Pico Rivera California at age 46 as reported by his brother James Stoops of Wayland. He was raised in Washington and moved to California in the early 1910s, a son of Mr and Mrs James M Stoops.
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Wayland
Russell Stoops
Pico Rivera
Calif
James Stoops
Wellman Girl Faces Rare PKU Diet Challenge
Mary Ulin in Wellman battles phenylketonuria a rare PKU condition requiring a strict protein free diet. Doctors explain the need to avoid phenylalanine to protect brain development while Mary shows gradual improvements in coordination speech and social play with her family.
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Wellman
Mary Alin
Mary
van Ulin
Ialso
Ivan
Towaity
Weather Update from United Press International
Iown fair to partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with cooler temperatures. Lows tonight and Thursday near where Friday brings partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers and cooler air.
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United Press International
Omaha grandmother named American Mother of 196
Mrs Engdahl a 67 year old Omaha resident and mother of many children was chosen by the American Mothers Committee as American Mother of 196. Her husband John Dahl 73 called her the nicest girl in town. The couple has one daughter six sons and 14 grandchildren. She is active in Trinity Lutheran Church and civic groups and favors loving children without spoiling them.
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PKU
Mary
Mrs. Olin
Ivan
New York
UPL
Uigaarson
Engdahl
Omaha
Neb
Johndahl
American Mothers Committee, Inc
Su Shantung
Dahl Top and Body Co
Omaha National Bank
Northwestern Bell Tel Phone Co
Scottsbluff
Trinity” Luther Church
Women’ Auxiliary
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Charles L. Davis
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Washington Evening Journal
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Robert Wallace
Joe Jones
Lake Camp
California
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Ulins
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Tommy
Cindy
Mrs. Engdahl
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