Cooper Takes Houston Parade Route After Space Flight
Gordon Cooper returns home to Houston as a ticker tape parade welcomes America's space hero. His wife Trudy and daughters join him at the airport while Gov. Hughes honors Cooper with a plaque. Johnson invites but cannot attend the celebration.
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Sugar Prices Rise Rapidly Against Market Panic
New York reports show sugar prices climbing amid market panic. Lawrence Myers from the Agriculture Department notes fear of continued high costs as raw foreign sugar markets surge to about 12 cents per pound at the docks. The American Sugar Refining Co raises wholesale refined sugar by 1.75 dollars to 16.80 per 100 pounds in the Northeast, with five pound supermarket bags at 69 cents or higher.
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Dooley Foundation Expanding Services in Laos
The Thomas Dooley Foundation will expand medical operations to southern Laos with a 60 bed hospital to open at Thakek 180 miles southeast of Vientiane. Miss Zola Z. Wason of Portland Oregon director of nurses announced the Laotian government granted permission. Censorship ordered in Laos as Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma imposes controls on outgoing dispatches.
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Firm to Fight Cleveland Case Over Merger Allegations
The Diamond Alkali Co. states it will contest federal claims that the anti merger law was violated in its 1961 acquisition of Bessemer Limestone and Cement Co. The dispute centers on the legality of the deal and the agency’s accusations.
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Americans Conquer Mt. Everest Meeting at the Peak
Two American teams scaled Mt. Everest from different sides and met at the summit Wednesday. It marked the first such encounter and the first time four Americans stood atop the peak at once. Five Americans reached the summit in the past month, a record. They bivouacked without tents or sleeping bags.
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Birmingham Negro Pupils Reinstate Ordered by Court
A federal court order restored 1081 Negro pupils suspended for integration activities in Birmingham. Judge Elbert P. Tuttle ruled the students were illegally arrested and must be reinstated immediately, leaving seven days in the term.
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Khrushchev Warns of Caribbean Crisis Threat to World
Soviet Premier Khrushchev,addressing a farewell meeting for Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, warned that Caribbean tensions could worsen than last October if the United States takes a dangerous path. He pledged Soviet defense of Cuba if attacked as Castro thanked the Soviet people amid roaring applause.
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Greensboro Protests Continue Amid Secret Committee Meeting
In Greensboro a biracial 16 member committee met in secret as about 4000 Negroes staged the 12th antisegregation demonstration. Demonstrators marched in light rain past segregated venues with no arrests and 50 state troopers stood by.
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NATO Ministers Seeks Unity on Communist World Challenges
NATO foreign ministers in Ottawa agreed on a framework for nuclear forces under Supreme Commander General Lemnitzer and planned to discuss Cuba East West relations and Sino Soviet tensions. U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk will present Cuba and test ban issues, with Angola potential topics from Portugal.
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Presbyterians Pray For Pope and Rally Toward Unity
United Presbyterians at the 175th General Assembly in Des Moines call for racial integration efforts and closer Protestant Catholic and Orthodox cooperation. In its final hour the body offered prayers for Pope John XXIII and praised his influence on Christian unity.
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Ohio League of Women Voters Convention Sets Agenda
Delegates to the biennial Ohio League of Women Voters convention in Dayton face a busy agenda with resolutions on government finance evaluation traffic problems and potential fair housing legislation. Bowling Green State University professors urge opposition to a state campus speaker regulation bill.
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JFK Forecasts Bigger Surplus and Shifting Farm Policy
President Kennedy says wheat farmers who rejected his crop control plan face smaller incomes and bigger surpluses. He urges reversal and predicts voters may approve controls next year as the nation faces agricultural shifts.
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Kennedy Warns U S Will Use Troops to Enforce Alabama Desegregation
President Kennedy signaled readiness to deploy troops and marshals next month to enforce desegregation at the University of Alabama, hoping Gov Wallace would back down and heed federal court orders to admit two Negro students on June 10.
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Seated quarrel over Lake Erie sesquicentennial plans
The Lake Erie 1813 celebration panel, chaired by Mrs. Prudence H. Lamb, debated ideas including a nuclear warhead stunt and asked Congress for funds only from donations after posturing by Sen. Stephen Young and Rep. Delbert Latta. Potential remarks from Kennedy or Eisenhower were floated.
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Cold snap breaks regional low temperature records
The Associated Press reports a cold last night across the northeast and Midwest. Temperatures dipped into the 20s and 30s with the harshest freezes in northern Michigan orchards and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Record lows reached 30 degrees at Pandora Ohio and Grand Rapids Michigan.
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U. S. Folk Festival Opens In Covington
Covington hosts a three day national folk festival with about 1000 performers from 25 states. The event features traditional singing dancing and folk tale telling at no pay. The festival signals a revival of colonial era town crier culture.
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