Communists eye Nixon as Khrushchev’s pick for president
UPI reports in Milwaukee that DNC Chair Paul Butler said Khrushchev favored Vice President Nixon. The Worker journal in New York attacks Kennedy and Rockefeller as imperialist figures and backs Adlai Stevenson for president.
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Washington
UPI
United Press International
Milwaukee
Democratic National Committee
Paul Butler
Nikita S. Khrushchev
United States
Butler
Richard M. Nixon
Wisconsin
The
Worker
New York
Khrushchev
China
Soviet Union
Adlai E. Stevenson
Twenty five years of AA saves 250000 from ruin
Long Beach hosts AA’s 25th anniversary as ex-drunks from around the world celebrate a fellowship that has rescued at least 250000 people from the scrap heap. AA rejects church dogma, stresses a personal spiritual experience, and seeks only the desire to stop drinking.
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Louis Cassels
United Press International
Long Beach
Calif
Alcoholics Anonymous
Akron
Ohio
Deb No Longer Seeks Titled Husband in Europe Debut
UPI reports author Walter Lord traces early 20th century debutantes and society in The Good Years. He notes American fame shifted from socialites to film and sports stars and recalls Mrs Astor and Mrs Potter Palmer as era icons in lavish events and crowded schedules.
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Gay Pauley
New York
UPI
Europe
Walter Lord
Lord
Laura Swann
Sherry’s
Lord's
John Jacob Astor
Rudolf Guggenheimer
Cornelius Vanderbilts
Newport
Social Register
Funds Sought to Keep Cemetery Clean Beautiful
The Gates Hill Cemetery Association led by L. P. Bennett seeks funds to maintain a clean and beautiful cemetery. Solicitors begin rounds around July first. team includes Eddie Hunter Douglas Barr Charlie Phillips and E B Whiteside with Charlie Phillips as league president.
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Gates Hill
Jake Shipley
Luther Phea
Cemetery Association Board
Charlie Phillips
Negro Men's Civic League
Turks Arrest 61 Istanbul
Turkish police and military authorities have arrested 61 persons in Izmir within the past 24 hours for attempted underground activities against the provisional government of Gen Cemal Gursel. Authorities say the detainees were members of the ousted Premier Adnan Menderes Democratic Party.
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Istanbul
UPI
Izmir
Cemal Gursel
Adnan Menderes
June rainfall lifts 1960 to third-wettest year in five
Through June 1960 total rainfall reached 5.55 inches and the six‑month sum 19.73 inches, ranking 1960 as the third wettest in five years behind 1957 with 42.58 and 1958 with 25.13. Temperatures ranged 72 to 97 with 22 days in the 90s and one day in the 70s.
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Oceeme Eee
Baylor senior Robert D. Reece named to Dean's Distinguished List
Robert D. Reece, a Baylor University senior from Waco, earns a place on the 1960 spring Dean's Distinguished List for a 3.8 GPA. The listing honors 77 with 3.8 or higher and 90 with 3.6 or 3.7. Reece majors in history and spends summer in Dallas before visiting his parents at 808 West 5th St.
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Robert D. Reece
Baylor University
Waco
Reece
Clovis D. Reece
West 5Th St
Baylor
Dallas
Arguments Stated On Extradition
In Mexico City UPI judge in First Federal Criminal District Court will hear arguments on extraditing Alfredo Cervantes Martinez to Texas for the murder case tied to Jacob Floyd Jr. New evidence may be submitted before July 19 with summaries due by July 14. Floyd was shot in the driveway of his father in Alice Texas nearly seven years ago. authorities contend the bullets targeted the father.
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Mexico City
UPI
Alfredo Cervantes Martinez
Texas
Jacob Floyd Jr
First
Federal Criminal District Court
Enrique Canudas Flores
Alice
Tex
Floyd
Senate Leaders to Decide Vote Time On Sugar Measure
The House passed 394 to 0 a bill granting the President power to cut Cuban sugar imports. Senate leaders faced a choice to rush the measure before the recess or wait until August. Warned Castro could ship 50 tons or more before action, potentially exhausting the 1960 quota of 3.2 million tons. The President would determine how much of the remainder Cuba may export.
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Senate
Washington
UPI
House
Eisenhower
Fidel Castro
Congress
Castro
United States
Charles B. Hoeven
Iowa
Agriculture Committee
Cuba
Idlewild Airport Hit by Strike Delays Flights
New York Idlewild International Airport faced fuel service walkouts as 400 members of Local 553 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters left their posts after a two year contract expired with Allied New York Services Inc. Supervisors were expected to maintain near normal operations while some flights were diverted to other fields for refueling.
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New York
UPI
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Allied New York Services, Inc
Allied
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