Atlanta School Segregation Ruled Illegal
U S District Court orders Atlanta Board of Education to halt segregated public schools and craft an integration plan. Judge Hooper finds racial discrimination exists and grants an injunction while allowing time to submit a feasible plan. Atlanta enrolls about 70,000 white and 31,000 Negro students.
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U.S
Urey
Georgia
Frank A. Hooper
Atlanta
Hooper
Atlanta Board of Education
B. D. Murphy
Board of Education
X15 Flight Delayed by Burned Ventilation Motor
Edwards Air Force Base reports the maiden X15 flight delayed after a cockpit ventilation motor burned Smell noted by test pilot Scott Crossfield and the B 52 Stratofortress carrying the rocket was to drop it at 8000 feet for a glide to earth. The X15 aims for 100 miles altitude and 4000 mph. The Monday flight was postponed.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Scott Crossfield
Earth
Red Cross to start Winchester learn to swim program
Donald Tinsman new chairman of First Aid and Water Safety for the Winchester Frederick County Chapter announces the local learn to swim program will begin soon. Last year 800 people, including children and adults, participated in classes.
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Donald Tinsman
First Aid
Winchester- Frederick County
American Red Cross
Plea for Peace Theme of Bean's 6th of June Talk
West Virginia State Senator Ralph J. Bean urged a forward march in humanity toward a world not ruled by hate and fear. Bean spoke at Stonewall Cemetery during Sixth of June rites organized by the Turner Ashby Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, with about 100 attendees. The ceremony, led by Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., included prayer, a volley by American Legion Post 21, and taps, as Bean contrasted Union preservation with Southern state concerns and highlighted America’s strength.
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Lee
Jackson
Ashby
Ralph J. Bean
Moorefield
West Virginia
Stonewall Cemetery
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Sen. Bean
Turner Ashby
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Carl W. Hiser
First Evangelical United Brethren Church
Conrad Hoover
Post 21
American Legion
Jonas Chamberlin
United States
Paratrooper Dies in Mass Jump at Fort Bragg
At Fort Bragg North Carolina during a mass air drop exercise two paratroopers encountered trouble. Sgt Franklin N DeFazio 26 died when both chutes failed to open during Dark Cloud Pine Cone IT. Pfc Willie Gray 18 from Brooklyn New York was entangled but escaped with no injuries.
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FT. Bragg
N. C
Franklin N. DeFazio
Willie Gray
Gray
Brooklyn
N. Y
DeFazio
Louisville
Get Diplomas At JW Exercises
One hundred and thirty James Wood High School graduates received diplomas at lawn exercises attended by about 1,500 people. Rodney Owens received the Scholarship Foundation award, while Deborah Ward and Patricia Parker were valedictorian and salutatorian. The Armstrong award provides a $1,000 yearly scholarship for four years to a chosen college.
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James Wood High School
Rodney Farrell Owens
Guy M. Owens
Route 2
Robert E. Ayler
Morris Cather
Hebron Baptist Church
Gore
Deborah Karen Ward
Carolina Ward
Route 1
Patricia Vaneta Parker
Beta Club
Ayler
Melton Wright
Armstrong
Rodney Owens
V.P.I
116th Hit Omaha Beach 15 Years Ago
Veterans recall the June 6 1944 assault on Omaha Beach by the 116th Infantry Regiment 29th Division. Local men in I Company suffered casualties including John Wohlford Millard Timbrook James Taylor and Capt William Pingley. Wounds were reported for Henry Seal and Douglas Orndorff as taps sounded in memory at the cemetery and French monument.
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France
Normandy
Europe
Nazi Germany
Omaha Beach
116Th Infantry Regiment
116Th
Stonewall Brigade
Mifflin B. Clowe
A. S. Sproul
John Shepherd Wohlford
Millard Timbrook
James E. Taylor
William G. Pingley
Winchester
K Company
Henry F. Seal, Jr
Douglas A. Orndorff
Associated Press
Atomic Test Ban Talks Reopen in Geneva Monday
Washington cautions optimism as atomic test ban talks resume in Geneva with the Soviet Union, while Germany’s foreign ministers meet under a different tone. US aims to separate talks from a possible summit package and push for inspection and detection provisions amid technical scientific questions. Khrushchev signals new study cooperation on high altitude blasts. Washington seeks details on inspections and veto waivers amid cheating controls.
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Geneva
Washington
US S
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Car Plunges 150 Feet Into Lake in Virginia Crash
A young couple driving an afternoon excursion swerved off a Southwest Virginia cliff and plunged 150 feet into South Holston Lake eight miles south of Abingdon. Stephen L. Dickerson, 19, of Bristol Tennessee, was killed. Laura Gray, 20, of Bristol, freed herself and swam to shore for help. Gray was hospitalized with knee and facial injuries. Two teenagers recovered Dickerson's body from 15 feet of water. State Trooper R L Young said the car did not slow before leaving the road.
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Virginia
Stephen L. Dickerson
Bristol
Tenn
Laura Gray
South Holston Lake
Abingdon
Dickerson
R. L. Young
Desert bomber mystery puzzling Libya find
A World War I B24 bomber with nine crew is found buried in the Libyan desert 380 miles south of Bengazi. The plane, dated 1943, lies intact except for tail damage. no crew remains are found. The Pentagon identified the aircraft and notified next of kin after 16 years missing.
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Washington
Sahara
Annals of the Seas
Libya
Bengazi
Naples
Italy
Pentagon
The
Des
Buford L. Moore
Portsmouth
Ohio
War Department
Mediterranean
Sindad absSekteas Whathors
U.S. Air Force
Western ministers fail to move Berlin dispute in Geneva debate
In Geneva the foreign ministers of the United States Britain and France and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko debated Berlin for two hours and made no progress. Gromyko pressed for Western occupation rights in West Berlin while Lloyd Herter and Couve de Murville stood firm, setting another secret meeting for Monday as four weeks of talks stall.
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Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Britain
France
Berlin
Selwyn Lloyd
Gromyko
West Berlin
Lloyd
Christian A. Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
Anders Gr
Myko
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Herter
Miner Killed in Kentucky Coal Fields Amid Strike Violence
In Hazard Kentucky a 25 year old miner Bobby Jenkins Jr was killed by a state trooper during an arrest attempt as violence flared in a week old strike over United Mine Workers demands. Chester Blair 20 was wounded twice while sniper fire targeted nonunion truckers near Sassafras and Kodak.
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Joe Romeo
Chester Blair
Hazard
Sassafras
Kodak Coal Co
Perry County
James Maggard
Kodak
Maggard
Stamper Collins
Teader
Collins
Jenkins
Columbus Haddix
UMW
Sunday Dinner Menu at Shirkey's Sunnyside
Shirkey's Restaurant Sunnyside offers a special Sunday dinner served from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The House of Good Food continues its tradition with a featured menu and inviting dining experience.
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Shirkey
Sunnyside
House of Good Food
West Berlin Faces Possible Blockade Over Election
East German official Gerhart Eisler warned in Berliner Zeitung that West Berlin could be blockaded if West Germany proceeds with its July 1 Bundestag meeting in the city to elect a new president. He said East German workers oppose plans and may halt all transports into West Berlin during the assembly. Bonn regards the gathering as a symbol of Berlin as capital, while Geneva talks hint at canceling the election in West Berlin.
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West Berlin
Bundestag
Federal Assembly
Theodor Huess
Bonn
Berlin
Germany
Foreign Ministers Conference
Geneva
Unfamiliar Rustle in VPI Parade
At Virginia Tech Miles Stadium 147 new officers received commissions in a ceremony led by Dr. Hugh M. Milton II. Patricia Ann Miller of Richmond became Tech’s first female commissioned officer. Ninety six joined the Army, 43 the Air Force, seven the Marine Corps.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Miles Stadium
Patricia Ann Miller
Richmond
Tech
Miller
Army Women’s Medical Specialist Corps
Hugh M. Milton II
Army
Edgar H. Thompson
Army Rotc
Air Force
Marine Corps
Khrushchev Warns of Balkan Rocket Bases If Peace Plans Fail
Khrushchev declared in Moscow that Soviet rocket bases could be set up in Albania and Bulgaria unless the Balkans become a rocket-free non social zone under mutual control. He warned Western powers and cited Warsaw Pact unity if aggression continues.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Albania
Bulgaria
Balkans
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
Socialist
Yugoslavia
Balkan Peninsula
Warsaw Pact
Lenin Stadium
Moscow
Hungary
West
Tass
Polio Cases Almost Double 1958 Period
The Public Health Service reports 178 paralytic polio cases from April 1 to May 30, nearly double the 89 cases in the same period in 1958. Through May 30 the total is 362 cases, up from 192 in the corresponding weeks of 1958, with increases concentrated in several regional divisions.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Middle Atlantic
East North Central
West North Central
South Atlantic
Pacific
Front Royal Courthouse as social and political hub
Warren County's courthouse in Front Royal served as the town's social and political center. Sara Fritts notes the present courthouse and its 1936 replacement in a feature on page 10.
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Warren County
Front Royal
Sara Fritts
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Cown Crier
Clarke County Jaycees
Ray Chapman
Conrad Devers
Jimmy Cobb
Boyce
Hammer Pierce
Wayne Whetzel
Berryville
Johnson-Williams
Rouss Junior Drum and Bugle Corps
Bara Jenkins
Gail Johnson
Shannon Lee
Sandra Patterson
Catherine Bowley
Bean
Eli W. Parker
Virginia National Guard
U. S
VPI
Greece
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