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accepts Sec Gen Hammarskjold inv to s; to give reception for chief delegates; 3 other heads of govt have addressed sessions
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 11 -- An 8-year-old boy who was caught last night after breaking into an apartment here told the police today that he had committed at least ten burglaries "to buy candy and toys."
Wagner appts J I Straus, J D Butt, and J P McMurray to Slum Clearance Com; says aim is to give Com 'broader representation'; stresses he has not 'closed books' on disclosures; comments on planned changes in Com procedures; explains city unwillingness to handle relocation
4,500 reptd held since Aug 7, of these ???,000 in Santiago de Cuba; jails in all provs filling up; 80 counter-revolutionaries attack army post at Soledad sugar mill, Las Villas Prov; flee to Escambray Mts; R Castro reptd to have gone to Cienfuegos to direct operations; gunfire heard in Havana as round-up continues; Maj E Gutierrez Menoya and aide Capt W A Morgan credited with giving Govt data on plot; 15 Batista army members and arms captured, Camaguey Prov; repts that Castro was wounded denied; Castro to delay scheduled TV s until events are clarified; US Marine repts on questioning; says R Castro told him 3,000 are held; UPI writer J Secon held, Miramar; Sen Fulbright urges patience with Castro and avoidance of using 'Communist' tag
Faubus scores Police Chief Smith, educ officials as 'Fed puppets,' TV s; warns segregationists against violence; attacks Bd for rejecting his proposal for mixed school; holds current desegregation plan differs from '57 plan under which 9 Negroes were admitted to Central HS; offers no encouragement to Capitol rally; shots fired at Bates' home; citizens com warns against disrupting hss opening; Supt Powell issues memo to teachers
1959Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby league player[†]
Kerry Boustead is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the late 1970s, 1980s, & early 1990s. A talented representative wing for Queensland and Australia, at the time he was picked for the national team he was the youngest ever player so selected. A prolific try-scorer, he has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
1959Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (born 1877)[†]
Michael Joyce O'Neill was a starting pitcher and left fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1901 through 1907, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1901–04) and Cincinnati Reds (1907). O'Neill batted and threw right-handed. A native of Maam, Ireland, he played as Michael Joyce in his 1901 rookie year with the Cardinals.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]