Civil Rights Workers Start Summer Drives
New York AP reports volunteers begin summer campaigns in the South for three months of voter registration and civic work. NAACP efforts target South Carolina Louisiana Mississippi Alabama while SNCC backs union activity. About 100 volunteers gather at Frogmore for three days.
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Arkansas
Georgia
FDR Jr Backed To Replace Wagner In New York City
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr says he is available to run for mayor of New York City if asked, after Mayor Wagner announced he would not seek a fourth term. Prominent figures such as Robert F Kennedy and Adam Clayton Powell praise him, while Roosevelt notes he is not a candidate now and would consider a nomination only if offered. He will leave the Commerce Department to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission at President Johnson's request.
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UPI
Frank Sin DR. Roosevelt Jr
New York City
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
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John V. Lindsay
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
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Adam Clayton Paowell
Harlem
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John F. Kennedy
Neighbors alert as snapping turtle causes concern
Shirley Russo reported children playing near 98 Cromwell Ave with a large snapping turtle. Officer Eugene Catalano moved the 26-pound animal to the Wahconah Park riverbank to prevent bites.
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Cromwell Ave
Eugene Catalano
Wahconah Park
Cushing Says No More Shrines Save St Stephen's
Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing declares he will never again attempt to save a historical shrine. He cites the St Stephen's Church restoration costing about 700000 dollars and few donors, noting Bulfinch designed the North End church with a centuries long site history since 1714.
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UPS
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Pilot
St. Stephen’s
North End
New England
Charles Bulfinch
Spelling Champ Is Oklahoma Boy
A 12-year-old Oklahoma boy won the national spelling bee in a tense 30 minute contest. Michael Kerpan Jr. of Tulsa spelled Jarghetto to defeat runner up Judy Marie Gaurr of Topeka, Kansas, in the 38th annual Scripps Howard Bee.
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Judy Marie Gaurr
Michael
Gunman Terrorizes N H Town in Random Shooting
In Lisbon New Hampshire a 48 year old rifleman fired from a second floor apartment killing a woman and wounding a man during about an hour of terror. He then killed himself as police stormed the apartment. The dead woman is Mrs Ivan Knighton 43, a mother of three. Police offered no motive and said the shooter Charles Morrison may have been unstable. The wounded man is identified as a local passerby. Two teen girls alerted stores with cries of a woman's shot.
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