Alabama Governor Undermines Agreement Over Birmingham Troops
A Negro leader accuses Gov. George C. Wallace of undermining a biracial Birmingham agreement by keeping state troopers in the city. Wallace insists troopers stay to maintain order while federal troops remain in Alabama. President Kennedy delays civil rights action as voter registration efforts expand in Selma and Gadson hosts a jail vigil. MLK Jr. says discrimination must end and desegregation in Birmingham would ripple across the South.
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Fred L
White House
Wallace
Alabama
Kennedy
Congress
South
Selma
Madeline Sherwood
Gadson
Martin Luther King, Jr
Cleveland
Ohio
Lifelong Pioneer Gordon Cooper Ready For Space Flight
Astronaut Gordon Cooper, born 1927 in Shawnee, grew up around aviation with a military family. He soloed at 16 and trained through the Marine Corps and Air Force, later serving in Munich and advancing toward manned spaceflight with his wife Trudy and two daughters in Houston.
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Gordon
Carbondale
Colo
Shawnee
Oklo
Air Force
Pacific
Marine Corps
Naval Academy Preparatory School
University of Hawaii
Trudy Olson
Seattle
Wash
Trudy
Hawaiian Islands
Coopers
Camala
Janita
Houston
Tex
Manned Spacecraft Center
86Th Fighter Bomber Group
Munich
Germany
Ohio House to vote on Golden Age Villages bill
The Ohio House plans a vote on a measure to authorize construction of Golden Age Villages for thousands of non-psychotic elderly, financed by revenue bonds, with a building commission to oversee the project. Also, a Senate-approved bill requiring work for relief recipients passed the House.
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Columbus
Ohio House
Etata Hnenitale
House
Senate
Ohio Savings & Loan League
Morgan County
FCC Head Sees Merit In Television
President Kennedy selects E. William Henry to head the FCC replacing Newton Minow who resigns to join Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. Henry is a 34 year old former Memphis lawyer and former commissioner since last August. In Cleveland, church leaders back a merger of Evangelical and Reformed Church groups with Congregational Christian churches to form the Western Reserve Association of the United Church of Christ.
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Newton N. Minow
Federal Communications Commission
Kennedy
Minow
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc
E. William Henry
Memphis, Tenn
FCC
Cleveland
Ohio
New Western Reserve Association
The
United Church of Christ
Red China and Russia Set Discussion Date
Tokyo reports that Red China and the Soviet Union agreed to meet July 5 in Moscow to begin talks on ideological differences. Moscow observers note a delay while the Soviet Central Committee likely factors into scheduling. In Cleveland the Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted John Robert Gentle on charges of passing three worthless checks totaling 872 dollars after his release from Cuba’s Isle of Pines prison.
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Tokyo
Red China
Soviet Union
Moscow
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
John Robert Gentile
Cuba
Isle of Pines
Dominican Dictator May Flee To Europe
Rumors swirled that Haitian leader Francois Duvalier would flee to Europe as his term ended and opposition intensified. Reports linked a Curacao to New York to Europe exit with Pan American reservations noted. officials in Washington and Curacao offered cautious comment while Khrushchev said the USSR would not concede further on nuclear tests.
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Dominican Republic
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Curacao
Venezuela
New York
Europe
Pan American World Airways
Paris
State Department
Washington
Louis Dejoie
Puerto Rico
Daniel Fignole
Senate Approves Payroll Tax Cut For Employers
By voice vote the Senate approved Tuesday legislation to cut employers payroll tax payments under the extended unemployment compensation act. The bill lowers the payroll tax rate from 4 percent to 0.25 percent, under the 1961 law for extended jobless benefits, and returns to the House for action.
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Washington
Senate
House
Orbit Described As Ideal Path For Cooper Flight
Astronaut Gordon Cooper began Americas longest planned space flight reporting a thrill as he completed the first orbit. Cape Canaveral approved at least seven of the planned 22 orbits with further go no go calls for passes 7 and 17.
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Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Howard Benedict
Fila
Buck Rogers
Gordon Cooper
America
Mercury Control Center
Atlantic
Pacific
Cooper
Virgil I. Grissom
Guaymas
Mexico
Grissom
Roger
Faith 7
Florida - Georgia
Atlas
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Schirra
Cooper Makes Fourth American Orbital Flight Mission
Pilot Gordon Cooper, 36, Air Force major, married with two daughters, launches at 8 04 a m East Standard Time. The plan calls for 22 orbits over more than 34 hours with landing near Midway Island in the Pacific Thursday. The goal is space medicine data on human response to prolonged weightlessness and restricted movement.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla. Ws
Gordon Cooper
Air Force
Earth
Midway Island
Pacific
Brownies Visit Fire Station in Kansas City Tale
A troop of Brownies visits a fire station where trucks speed off to a fire. Half an hour later they return to St. Elizabeth's Church and learn the firemen had just finished battling a ventilating fan blaze, leaving the girls amused by the scene.
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Kansas City
William R. Delay
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
LSU Officials Warn Students About Campus Necking
Baton Rouge officials report LSU campus guidance warning couples that necking on campus could lead to expulsion. A state general assembly meeting cited rules restricting romantic intimacy among students.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Southeastern Ohio farmers register light for wheat referendum
A Messenger survey shows 1405 of 3218 eligible small wheat farmers in seven southeastern Ohio counties registered by the May 21 deadline, enabling them to vote on the government wheat control plan. Over 15 acres voters in each county listed, with Vinton County reporting the highest turnout.
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Eldon Banta
Ohio State University
Ralph Ladd
Ladd
Fisher Station
Messenger Newsphoto
Ohio
The
Messenger
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Offices
Irvin Wolfe
Athens Asc
Vinton County
Athens
Hocking
Meigs
Perry
Gallia
Morgan
More Flood Control Money Is Authorized
The House Public Works Committee approved a bill to raise funding by 684 million dollars for flood control navigation and related works in 10 river basins over the next two years. Ohio is listed with 150 million in the added authorizations subject to later congressional appropriations.
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House Public Works Committee
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Ohio
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