New School Suit Filed In Richmond
The Associated Press reports a desegregation suit seeks to bar West Point and King William County from denying Negro transfer requests to white schools. Richmond also seeks dismissal of a similar suit, arguing state courts should hear the case first. The West Point high school already desegregated with two Negro boys enrolled earlier.
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Associated Press
West Point
King William County
Richmond
Elliott Dunnard
Virginia
Mothers Club Benefit Tea Supports Negro Nursery Equipment
The Mothers' Club of the Negro Day Nursery plans a benefit tea at the nursery on Fremont Street from 4 30 to 6 30 p m tomorrow. Net proceeds will fund equipment needs for the nursery, which is a member agency of the Winchester Frederick County Community Chest providing operating support.
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Mothers’ Club
The
Negro Day Nursery
Fremont St
Winchester- Frederick County
National Baptist Convention pays for Freedom Farm to resettle evicted families
Somerville Tennessee report says the National Baptist Convention U S A has finalised payment on a 400 acre Freedom Farm to relocate black families ousted from tenant farms after registering to vote last fall.
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Somerville
Tenn
National Baptist Convention
U.S.A
Freedom
Misses Waist Size Seamed Suit Pattern 4754
Pattern Notice offers Misses' Waist sizes 24 to 30 with easy-sew instructions. Indicates fabric choices tweed or fine flannel with seaming and tab details. Includes mailing and catalog information from Anne Adams Winchester Evening Star pattern dept.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West Mth St
New York
N. Y
Dear Abby corrections and family burial dispute letters
A reader asks about tact with elders and ongoing family tensions. A woman laments a brother's burial next to his first wife and wonders about legal action. Abby suggests no action is available. The column offers readers a way to seek a personal reply by mail.
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Abby
Kelne
Borias
Marion Davies Dies at 64. 1920s Hollywood Queen
Marion Davies, famed star of the 1920s and philanthropist, died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital at age 64 after a three year cancer battle. She left films in 1937 to aid veterans and students, donating millions including a 1.5 million gift to UCLA Medical Center for a children’s wing. She rose with William Randolph Hearst, built the Versailles of Hollywood in Santa Monica, and married Capt. Horace Brown in 1951 after a high-profile career.
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Hollywood
Marion Davies
Cedars of Lebanon
Miss Davies
Horace Brown
Rose Adlon
Charles Lederer
Patricia van Cleve
Patricia
Arthur Lake
New York
William Randolph Hearst
Ucla Medical Center
Jewish Home For the
American Legion
City of
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Retarded Children
Blondie
The
Follies
Miss Glory
Las Vegas
Nev
Brown
Old Tunes, New Lyrics Shape Broadway Musicals
New handling of Jacques Offenbach melodies influences Broadway shows. Vernon Duke signs to score Helen of Troy, set for next season. The Happiest Girl in the World uses Offenbach tunes with new lyrics as a rival White Way production.
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New York
Jacques Offenbach
France
Vernon Duke
White Way
Offenbach
Kukla and Ollie return to NBC television in brief five minute segments
NBC brings back the puppets Kukla Ollie Fran Belah Witch as a five minute daily segment at 5 05 P M EDT for adults, offering sharp satire and topical humor. Steve Allen launches The New Steve Allen Show next Wednesday in a format similar to his NBC days. The Wayne and Shuster series repeats before vanishing, deemed not very entertaining.
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New York
Kukla
Fran
Ollie
NBC
NBC Oblingly
Oliver J. Dragon
Belah Witch
Steve Allen
ABC
Steve
Wayne and Shuster
Jack Benny
Tricky Legal Problems Surface in Rees Murder Case
Attorneys struggle over witness eligibility in the Melvin Davis Rees Jr murder trial in Spotsylvania as two prosecution witnesses are scratched and four more are in doubt. Judge John D. Butzner will rule on another witness’s admissibility after defense objections to Maryland ties in the case.
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Spotsylvania
Melvin Davis Rees Jr
Hyattsville
John D. Butzner
Rees
Carroll Vernon Jackson Jr
Apple Grove
Voman
Maryland
Butzner
Virginia Supreme Court
Thornton M. Shackelford
Orange County
Shackelford
Virginia
Commonwealth
Atty
T. Stokeley Coleman
Jackson
FBI
George A. Berley
Miss Virginia to Visit Winchester Frederick Community Chest
Miss Charlotte Ann Thomas of Roanoke named Miss Virginia 1961 will attend the Red Feather supper and marshal the Red Feather parade in Winchester. The event supports the Community Chest drive goal of $49,945 as Dr. Warren C. Gregory leads the Chest with campaign chairman Dr. Robert S. Boyd.
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Virginia
Charlotte Ann Thomas
Roanoke
Winchester-Frederick
Allegheny Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
George Washington
Thomas
Old Dominion
Community Chest
Warren C. Gregory
Robert S. Boyd
Mixed Marriages Decree Challenges Apartheid Policy
In Capetown the Methodist Church of South Africa releases a booklet arguing that racially mixed marriages, if rooted in shared culture and spiritual ideals, are not forbidden by law or God. It condemns apartheid and calls for an integrated multi racial society as civilization’s hope.
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Honey
Capetown
South Africa
Methodist Church of South Africa
Georgia
New York Charges Welfare Move Scam Across States
Rochester official William B Woods cites three cases where Florida and Georgia officials allegedly paid welfare recipients to relocate to New York and join its relief rolls. All cases were denied relief and referred for further action, while Florida and Georgia officials deny knowledge of such schemes.
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New York
Rochester
N.Y
Florida and Georgia
William B. Woods
Monroer
Florida
Georgia
Wood
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