Restless Souths Tense Over Civil Rights Ties
Explosions injure two civil rights workers in McComb Mississippi sparking calls for youth protection as about 500 youths from other states join. FBI sends explosives expert. two prior blasts none arrested. Also: Tennessee shooting of anti civil rights act foe Flo Fleming. Chattanooga school sees first Negro education coordinator. Danville integrates Memorial Hospital with Negro doctors. San Francisco leaders predict 50000+ march against Goldwater. Philadelphia area search for missing workers. St Augustine stores refuse service. Selma troopers bolster law enforcement amid voter drive. about 70 arrests noted in Selma.
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McComb
Miss
Mississippi
California
Johnson
Edmund G. Brown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Columbia
Tenn
Flo F. Fleming
Congress
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Claude C. Bond
Danville
Memorial Hospital
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Sen
Bay rGld
Barry Goldater
Philadelphia
St. Augustine
Fla
Weather forecast and thunderstorm spread across Kansas
AREA FORECAST Partly cloudy through Friday with scattered showers or thunderstorms mainly at night or early morning. Temperatures steady with lows around 70 to 75 and highs Friday in the mid 80s to 90. Topeka reports thunder storms across the state with overnight rain totals from .72 to .90 inches in several towns.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Hoxie
Mooreland
Goodland
Alton
Salina
Lincoln
Train Car Crash Kills 3 Children in Kansas
PARTRIDGE Kansas AP three children were killed and five injured when a Rock Island mail train collided with a car near Partridge on K61. Seven of eight in the car belonged to the Smith family traveling to Y Ranch Arlington for swimming. Victims include Jon Smith 13 and his sister Jeannette 14. two girls in serious condition. Driver Francis D Smith 40 and wife Ellen Lou 40 and daughter Jackie Lou 17 were treated and released.
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Partridge, Kan
Rock Island
Partridge
Jon Smith
Y Ranch
Arlington
Kan
Jon
Larry Smith
Dannie Fornwall
Smith
Grace Hospital
Hutchinson
Jeannette
Deborah
Francis D. Smith
Ellen Lou
Jackie Lou
Chanute Faces Youth Drain as City Plans Growth
Chanute plans to attract and retain its young as Burgwin and Martin reports to the city planning commission. The population pyramid shows 75 and older as a large group while ages 15 to 35 are low. Many young residents leave for college and work, with only nine of 1954 Chanute High School graduates remaining. Welker stresses local job opportunities to keep youth from migrating, notes population growth since 1900, and details marital status and mobility in the study.
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Chanute
City Planning Commission
John Welker
Burgwin and Martin
Welker
Tion
Chanute High School
Buford Fisher
Tribune Contact: Call Your Carrier Or HE 1-3400
Phone guidance for Tribune readers directs contacting your carrier and, if unavailable, dialing HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m. to reach the appropriate service. The notice emphasizes late-evening access and network routing for assistance.
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Tribune
Automation in Classroom Study Shows Faster Reading Gains
In Freeport Long Island a five month state tested experiment with 20 public kindergarten pupils used the Edison Responsive Environment computer typewriter. Children taught themselves to read at a second grade level after 30 hours of 30 minute sessions, outperforming a control group receiving enriched teacher led instruction.
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New York
Freeport
Long Island
John H. Martin
Edison
Registration Books Open Ahead of August Primary
City clerk Howard Parsons says registration books are open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the city clerk’s office. The books close at 5 p.m. on July 24, 2024, with the August 4 primary election upcoming. Voters who changed name or address or did not vote in the last general state election must reregister.
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Howard Parsons
Compensation Rates To Drop Next Month
TOPEKA AP Workmen's compensation insurance rates will be lowered next month in Kansas. State Insurance Commissioner Frank Sullivan announced the reduction the first statewide average drop since 1956. It applies to firms affiliated with the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Average changes by industry show manufacturing down 8.9 percent, contracting down 2.08 percent, and all others down 1.8 percent. Changes will vary within each group.
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Topeka
Kansas
Frank Sullivan
National Council On Compensation Insurance
Scranton urges GOP platform to denounce extremist groups
Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton told the Platform Committee that the Republican platform should reject extremist groups alien to the nation. He named the John Birch Society as an example and argued there is no saving grace in radical groups.
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Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Republican Platform
John Birch Society
Scranton
Platform Committee
GOP
Republican Party
America
Barry Goldwater Ahead in Republican Victory Drive
Senator Barry Goldwater blitzes the nation with confidence this will be a Republican year as he heads toward a first ballot push at the convention in San Francisco. Governor Scranton presses for delegate support and party unity while outlining policy planks on states’ rights housing mass transit and social programs.
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Barry Goldwater
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Goldwater
Arizona
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Rhodes
Associated Press
Scranton
Illinois
Kansas
Missouri
Washington
Johnson
United
Johnson Administration
Haps
John Anderson
Kansas governor tours southeast industries expansion
Gov. John Anderson and Kansas Economic Development officials toured six southeast Kansas plants making mobile homes boats and camping trailers near John Redmond Reservoir and Strawn. Firms like Molded Plastics Lola Boat Princess Homes Coons Coating and Starcraft employ over 300, with expansion plans tied to reservoir growth.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Kansas
Anderson
Kansas Economic Development Department
John Redmond
Neosho River
Strawn
Kaen
Molded Plastics Co
Lola Boat Manufacturing Firm
Princess Homes, Inc
Parsons Mobile Home Manufacturing Firm
Coons Custom Coach Manufacturing Co
Fumetec Inc
Oswego
Starcraft Boat Co
Independence Boat
Killer Removes Identifying Tag
A motorist struck and killed a pedestrian and then removed the license plate and walked away. The victim was Irving Silver, 63, of Manhattan, returning home with his wife Celia. Witnesses said the driver, a man in his late 20s, left his car abandoned in the middle of the intersection.
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New York
Irving Silverforb
Manhattan
Celia
Traffic Fatalities Log From Topeka Report
Kansas traffic death log for July 15 1964 reports 311 fatalities in the 24 hours to 9 am, compared with 279 in the same 1963 period. The AP bulletin lists Topeka area data among statewide figures.
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Topeka
Kansas
Powder Puff Derby Won by Kansan Mary Ann Noah
Mary Ann Noah of Mission Kansas won the 18th Powder Puff Derby in Atlantic City New Jersey after flying 2573 miles with copilot Marvy Atkins Wichita Kansas. She and Atkins logged about 17 hours in the air as 48 planes finished the cross country race from Fresno California to the finish. Judy Wagner and Frances Bera finished second and third in the official standings.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Mary Ann Noah
Mission
Kan
Noah
Winslow
Ariz
Fayetteville
Ark
Marvy Atkins
Wichita
Judy G. Wagner
Palos Verdes Estates
Calif
Frances
Bera
Long Beach
Fresno
Intercepted Letter Praises Local Recreation Boom
Intercepted letter notes the governor highway director and economic development officials praising the area's booming recreation industries with optimism for the future, but omits any discussion of highways and their future. The piece mentions Chanute as missing one recreation element.
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Kansas
Addison Meschke
Mark Robeson
Economic Development Commission
Chanute
Kansas Delegates Head West to San Francisco RNC
Kansas delegates to the Republican National Convention plan to depart Friday night for San Francisco. About 225 delegates officials and guests will ride a special train from Chicago via Topeka with several uncommitted members and a mix of Goldwater and Scranton supporters.
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Kansas
San Francisco
Chicago
Sam Mellinger
Emporia
Mellinger
Goldwater
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