Desegregation Expands in Southern School Systems
An Associated Press survey across 11 Southern states shows faculty integration rising though Mississippi lags. Knoxville reports 20 of 68 schools with mixed Negro and white teachers while Winchester Virginia plans one system for all. Alabama courts push desegregation amid a Wallace backdrop. private school growth and transfer requests surface. Virginia and North Carolina show notable progress with executive positions and new appointments for Black educators.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jack Johnson
Winchester
Huntsville
Ala
Alabama
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
Wallace
George Jr
Montgomery
Arkansas
Sanford
Fla
Interlachen
Campbell County
Plaquemines Parish
Louisiana
Justice Department
Mississippi
North Carolina
Fire spreads in Martinsburg second floor apartment
A Saturday fire in Martinsburg West Virginia caused substantial smoke damage to a second floor apartment. Officials expect damages to exceed twelve thousand five hundred dollars though an exact estimate was not yet available. The report notes the fire occurred on Charles Street.
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Martinsburg
W. VA
Charles Sts
Black and White Movies Vanish From Hollywood Promptly
A survey shows only six black and white features among current releases and productions, as Hollywood shifts to color. Television demands color programming, insurers higher resale value, and drive-ins favor color for clarity, while some critics argue color dulls mood despite one dramatic exception Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which remains black and white for stylistic reasons.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
George
Seaton
Germany
Virginia Woolf
Ernest Lehman
Five Dollar Stamp Honors Jurist John Bassett Moore
A new Prominent Americans stamp features John Bassett Moore, noted as a young assistant secretary of state and later an international law authority and judge on the Hague Tribunal and the Permanent Court of International Justice. The Britannica notes early Roman bullring sport and its evolution into bullfighting.
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John Bassett Moore
Moore
Hague
Permanent Court of International Justice
Science Shrinks Piles Without Surgery Says New Substance
An advertisement from New York reports a discovery called Bio-Dyne that shrinks hemorrhoids, stops itching, and relieves pain without surgery. The new healing substance is sold as Preparation 9 in suppository or ointment form at drug counters.
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New York, M. D
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North River Telephone Co
Federal Rural Electrification
Erma Farr
the Exchange
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Colosseum
Julius Caesar
Spain
Augustus
Encyclopeedia Britannica
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Natroroff Urreen
Smalts Garden Center
National Ave
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Ted Gett
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Virginia Hospital Service Association
Virginia Medical Service Association
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