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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1961
Page
14
In Manhattan's Lower East Side a stone fired from a rooftop and aimed at police struck bystander Ramon Rojas 43 as a crowd of about 100 gathered around two officers questioning a man. Police have stepped up rooftop patrols in troubled areas after several stonings of police.
Police security measures began as nine Negro students prepared to attend white high schools in Atlanta marking the first integration in Georgia history. Damaris Allen, 16, chose Spelman College over Brown High, while others were assigned to Murphy Grady and Northside. Local officials anticipate peaceful desegregation amid boycott literature and protests, and a separate bid seeks to bar state funds from desegregated schools.
Former Vice President Richard Nixon remains undecided on a California governor bid. Dwight Eisenhower pledged full support if Nixon seeks the office and asks for help. Eisenhower and Nixon spoke after dinner near Gettysburg while Rockefeller urged Nixon to run and called him GOP head material but warned against one party dominance.
A national survey notes a rising wave of civilian attacks on police in the line of duty. New York reports 1171 assaults in six months. Philadelphia and Detroit log hundreds more. Other cities face varied patterns with some noting little trouble.
Cape Canaveral reports a remote radio launch system will fire Minuteman missiles once housed in underground silos starting in 1962. Command signals travel from control centers up to 10 miles away via buried antennas and surface-bent waves to buried receiving antennas at the silos, a system said to be virtually jam proof.
The Abraham Lincoln nuclear submarine with 16 Polaris missiles began its first underway from Charleston South Carolina. The attack boat set out on its inaugural patrol as part of the U S Navy deterrent patrol force during the crisis era.
A vessel named the Abraham Lincoln arrived August 16 to be outfitted with missiles and to pick up additional supplies at the Charleston Naval Ammunition Depot.
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