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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1963
Page
1
A Philadelphia school construction dispute over race ended when four skilled Negro workers were accepted into union membership and hired on the project. NAACP and union leaders brokered the deal amid clashes. a steamfitter’s union later dissented as construction resumed on the $6 million school.
A 17 year old Marion musician Dalles Dean Dorman died when a car missed a curve on Highway 218 just north of North Liberty. Two companions, Gary Buck and Glenn Faulkner, were injured and treated in University Hospitals Iowa City. The wreck was spotted four hours after the 1 a.m. crash by a passing motorist. Faulkner, Buck and Dorman had been returning from a dance in Coralville. Faulkner was visiting Dorman and is Buck’s friend. Dorman played the guitar in the band.
Argentina's 24 hour general strike by Peronist unions crippled rail and port traffic with factories closing and roads empty. The CGT dominated by Peronists did not halt essential services while clashes with police left several injured and prompted calls for economic and political reforms.
Two gunmen fled with a truck assembly plant payroll worth about one million francs eighty and wounded a bank messenger delivering the money. French police pursued the suspects after the daring daytime robbery in Lyon.
MOSCOW AP reports Tais News Agency says Fidel Castro and Premier Khrushchev inspected a Soviet rocket base but did not specify where. NASA will OK the sale of astronaut stories. contract looks like the men may be treated as movie actors with little time required except on weekends.
NASA aims to approve a contract allowing 16 astronauts to sell personal flight stories to Field Enterprises for 3.2 million dollars. The deal, under negotiation over four months, would grant Field exclusive rights to the narratives and select films for flights in the Gemini and Apollo programs.
In Jackson Mississippi Mayor Allen Thompson and NAACP leaders vow strict law enforcement as 1960s era civil rights protests heat up. Medgar Evers warns against a Birmingham riot style outcome while merchants pledge no surrender to integration. CORE field secretary Dave Dennis trains teens in non-violence as tensions rise on Capitol Street.
Ecuador rejected a personal appeal from Secretary of State Rusk for the quick release of two U S tuna boats seized for fishing without licenses. Quito said the vessels, held at an Ecuadorian port, would be subject to due legal procedures.
Reports from Vatican City say Pope John XXIII's condition worsened rapidly with unconsciousness returning at 8:25 p.m. Doctors cite peritonitis and a gastric growth as factors. The 81-year-old pope, once improving, faces a critical crisis as prelates and physicians monitor his status.
Premier Khrushchev sent a cable to Pope John expressing concern over the Pontiff illness and praising his efforts for world peace. Tass quoted Khrushchev hoping for the Pontiff's recovery and continued activity in strengthening peace and peaceful cooperation among peoples.
The Senate held a six second session on Friday with no speeches or prayer under a Tuesday adjournment rule. Presiding Sen. Carl Hayden spoke the only lines, matching prior quick sessions and edging closer to a record set in 1951 by Vice President Barkley. Everett Dirksen was the only other senator present.
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