Row Over Seating Mississippi Group at 1964 Democratic Convention
Democrats open their 1964 convention pledging fair enforcement of the Civil Rights Act as the Credentials Committee seeks a compromise over seating the Mississippi delegation. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party demands seating parity with a loyalty pledge, while regular Mississippi delegates seek recognition. Johnson's running mate selection remains unresolved as Humphrey tops speculation.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Platform Committee
Mississippi
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Johnson
Washington
Freedom Democratic Party
Joseph Raul Jr
Rauh
Democratic Platform Backs Fair Civil Rights Enforcement
ATLANTIC CITY AP The Democratic Platform Committee approved a plank pledging fair effective enforcement of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The item signals party emphasis on civil rights as part of its platform.
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Atlantic City
Democratic Platform Committee
Communist Party
Ku Klux Klan
John Birch Society
Kansas Delegation Prepares for Democratic National Convention
Kansas delegates arrive in Atlantic City for opening sessions. Most favor Hub Humphrey for vice president but expect President Johnson's choice to prevail. The civil rights plank condemns extremism and calls for equal opportunity laws and immigration reform.
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Johnson
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
President Johnson
South
Atlantic City
Kansas
Georgia Neese Gray
Hurricane Cleo Heads for Jamaica
Hurricane Cleo moved through the Caribbean and aimed toward Jamaica with Haiti reporting no damage or injuries on its southwest Barahona peninsula as the center passed offshore. The Dominican Republic noted no injuries or damage on the southern coast as the storm stayed at sea.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Cleo
Caribbean
Jamaica
Cuba
Haiti
Radio
Tribune Phone Contact Guidance
Instructions urge readers to contact their Tribune by phone if their carrier is unavailable. If the number is unreachable, readers are advised to dial HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Chanute Senior High Sophomores hold orientation assembly
About 190 sophomore students attended the Chanute Senior High School orientation in the auditorium. Wendell McMurray, dean of the Junior College and SHS principal, led a program with Jerry Steele Tom Gerken Harold Tarpley and other sponsors and staff guiding home room organization counselor introductions and guidance explanations. Students were served watermelon during a midmorning break.
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Chanute High School
Chanute Senior High
Wendell McMurray
McMurray
Jerry Steele
Tom Gerken
Harold Tarpley
Charles Carter
Tarpley
Homer Moody
David McCune
Janalee Davis
Reward Raised for Information on Joe the Mynah Bird
Fire Chief Bill Brennan announced a reward for information in the death of Joe the talking Mynah bird. The reward grew to 120 dollars after an initial pledge of 10 dollars, following an incident where a cat entered Joe’s cage at the fire station, a popular pet there for years.
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Joe
Mynah Bird
Bill Brennan
Brennan
Area Forecast and Topeka Weather Update for Kansas
Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight. Tuesday showers ending in the morning with partial clearing. Low tonight 60 to 65. High Tuesday in the 70s. A cold front moving into northwest Kansas brings cooler temperatures and variable precipitation. Highs today 80s, near 90 in the extreme southwest. Lows tonight 50s northwest to 60s southeast. Top temps 78 at Olathe to 93 at Garden City. Lows this morning 60 at Emporia to 71 at Hutchinson.
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Topeka
Kansas
Olathe
Garden City
Emporia
Hutchinson
Four Car Crashes Kill Total of 43
Weekend auto accidents across four states left 43 dead, including 11 children. Victims included New York residents en route to a funeral in Minnesota and a family from North Carolina. Ohio and New Hampshire also reported multiple fatalities. Indiana logged two to four deaths from weekend crashes involving a teenage driver.
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Aurora
Minn
New York State
Max Kochevar Jr
Robert
Judith
White Plains
N.Y
Jacqueline
Tony Kochevar
Gilbert, Minn
Min
Scotland Neck
N.C
Thomas Lee Craughan
Hobgood
Elyria
Ohio
Ronald Pandy
Lorain
Debbie
Danny
David
Dennis
Pandy
Gorham
N.H
Sanford
U.S
Avery Plan Backed by Kansas Republican Platform Pledge
Topeka AP Rep William Avery Republican governor candidate backs a platform plank for an effective and equitable foundation plan for state support of elementary and secondary schools. He proposes no new tax sources but favors adjusting rates to ease property tax burden and opposes an earnings tax. He urges vocational education growth, opposes compulsory district unification, supports farm parity, improves Kerr Mills aged care, creates a cultural resources commission, and seeks a new medium security prison.
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Topeka
William Avery
Avery
Kansas
Washington
Kerr-Mills
Democratic Congress
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A short note jokes that if a scientist removes sneeze properties from pollen he would have a superior mouse trap, implying a clever invention idea in playful terms.
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Cha
Higher prices test farmers boycott impact at stockyards
In Corning Iowa producers and buyers weigh whether higher prices from the National Farmers Organization boycott will draw more non members or NFC members to hold livestock off markets. Over first days, hog prices rose by 2 to 3 dollars per hundredweight while some plants planned layoffs. Police reported isolated violence not linked to the action.
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Corning
Iowa
National Farmers Organization
NFC
Rocky Mountains
Oren Lee Staley
NFO
Midwest
Sioux City
Staley
Dynamite Blast Kills Four Workers in Colorado
Four men from Vernal Utah died when twenty two sticks of dynamite exploded while they prepared a flatbed truck for use in casing an oil well near Piccanse Creek, fifty miles southwest of Meeker. The victims were Charles McConkie 35 Duane 16 Robert Hatch 27 and Houtz Ross 44. The blast likely occurred Friday or Saturday. An oil company representative found the bodies Sunday.
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Meeker
Colo
Colorado
Bob Kracht
Oil Company
Kracht
Piccance Creek
City Dads Plan Evening Meeting on Main Street Study
A joint City Commission and City Planning Commission session is set for 7 30 tonight in the Memorial Building. Attendees will review an engineering report on the Main Street traffic study and hear comments from interested residents.
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City Commission
City Planning Commission
Memorial Building
Pollen research may tame pollen for agriculture
Kansas State University assistant professor Dr. James A. Goss reported at a biologists convention that pollen exposed to radioactive carbon dioxide alters chemical production, revealing mechanics of hormone effects on plants. The study aims to design better weed killers and to boost germination and crop yields through hormone optimization.
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Boulder
Colo
Poklen
James A. Goss
Kansas State University
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Kansas State
Goss
Y.C. Panchal
India
Tip Winner Is Carter
Warren Carter of 223 S. Lafayette won The Tribune weekly news tip award for informing about a fatal tractor accident near Benedict. The story appeared in Thursday's Tribune, with a $3 prize offered for tips on unusual happenings.
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Warren Carter
S. Lafayette
The
Tribune
Benedict
Chanute
First Woman Enrolls in Chicago Police Training Class
Virginia Rakocinski 24 of Evanston is the only woman in a 13 week Chicago police training course alongside 300 men. She says she is here to study and challenge herself while male classmates, mostly married, pursue the program. She previously topped 42 applicants to join Skokie police.
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Virginia Rakocinski
Rakocinski
Evanston
Chicago Police Training Division
Miss Rakocinski
Skokie Police
Skokie
Chicago Police Training School
Mundelein College
Chicago
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Sen
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