Mississippi adopts new tactics to curb civil rights protests
Mississippi officials deploy new laws and policing techniques to avert summer demonstrations by civil rights workers. Measures include expanded riot powers, curfews, restrictions on protest movement near government buildings, mutual aid pacts, and harsher penalties while Klan activity remains largely covert.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Hattiesburg
Canton
Greenwood
Clarksdale
Johnson
Gacksgn
Ku Klux Klan
New York World Fair Vivid Echoes Clarke Countryside Enthusiasm
Clarke countryside residents recount the New York World Fair as fabulous and larger than 1938, with multiple locals planning visits, hotel stays, and weekend trips. Notes trace departures for Tanganyika Mission teaching, social events, and regional club activities across Maryland Virginia and beyond.
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New York
Charles Schutte
Tyree Dillard
Clarke Countryaoe
Frank Cayce
John Paul Carter
John Baden
Winchester
U.N
Nairobi
Kenya
St. Philip’s Theological College
Kongwa
Tanganyika
Kenneth Gilpin
Scaleby
Bridge
Mary O'Fallon
St. Louis
Nigeria Opens Its First Liquor Distillery
Lagos marks the opening of Nigeria’s first liquor distillery operated with N V Erven Lucas Bols of Amsterdam. Nigerian Fermentation Industries Ltd, 40 percent government owned, begins producing gin blended whiskey and other products to cut imports and curb illicit gin production and smuggling.
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Lagos
Nigeria
N.V. Erven Lucas Bols
Amsterdam
Nigerian Fermentation Industries Ltd
Ammonition Guns Taken From Armory in Mississippi
In Collins Mississippi 41 rifles and 1000 rounds of ammunition were stolen from a National Guard armory in Covington County. Guardsmen reported the break in to the sheriff on Saturday and federal agents were notified due to federal property involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Sheriff's Office
Clemson Head Rebuffs Surgeon General Smoking Report
Clemson College president Dr Robert Co Edwards dismissed the surgeon general smoking report as gobbledygook. Leaf Tobacco Exporters Association leaders criticized the report as biased against the economy while electing new officers including A C Monk Jr as president and R B Bridforth as vice president.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Clemson College
Robert Co, Edwards
South Carolina College
Edwards
Leaf Tobacco Exporters Association
Leaf
A. C. Monk Jr
Farmville, N. C
Carr
R. B. Bridforth
Danville, Va
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St. Augustine Beach
Fla
By Dudley Lehew
Paul Johnson
Mississip
Highway Patrol
Larry Moore
Mgr
Figt Genele
Lendons Fercet
Virgie John Reid
Chappaqua
N.Y
Ferdinand Kelly
Houston
Texas
Caseys
Joseph Farland
Carter Hall
Washington
William Clagett
Springfield
Mt. Desert
Maine
Roland Mitchell, Jr
Page
Saratoga
Vaida Boyd
Timothy Birch
Bayse Mountain
Mt. Jackson
Samuel Birch
Grayston
Harry Stimpson
Safaway
Safeway
Bel-Air
Wentaomane Ward
Sa Bbonde
THURS
London Zoo
Footers Cleaners
Valley. Ave
Drug Fair
W. Amherst
S. Loudoun St
Clemson
Association
C. Stuart Carr Jr
Richmond
C.G
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