Kennedy Plans Berlin Crisis Decisions Today
President Kennedy said final decisions on U S military measures and policy toward Berlin would be made after consultations with NATO allies. He outlined steps including a national address next Tuesday and a report to Congress, and urged Moscow to reconsider its Berlin course.
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Washington
Presidy
Willcent Kennedy
National Security Council
U.S
Dialanatin
Berlin
Congress
Britain
France
NATO
Puscu Vist Vhbicl Alpiviliaute Aim
Kennedy
Germany
Khrushchev
East Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
Deadlock Over Laos Is Broken
In Geneva the 14 nation Laos conference ends a week long deadlock by accepting a British Soviet compromise on procedure. Daily sessions suspend Thursday as chiefs work out a program for Laotian neutrality in closed talks. The plan links neutrality with ceasefire guarantees and long term controls.
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Geneva
Laos
U.S
International Control Commission
Moon Man Plans Advance in Space Funding Battle
Senate House compromise committee approved a bill authorizing 1.78 billion dollars for space efforts aligning with Kennedy’s request. The measure includes a 423 million dollar Senate increase over prior House approval and steers 1.29 billion to research projects as a second moon mission looms.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
U.S
Kennedy
Weather summary shows wide Kansas heat then cooling
Today cooler in Kansas after a record hot day in the northeast with readings from 100 to 105 in several cities. Tonight's lows 60s to 70s, highs Thursday near 90s, with scattered late thunderstorms and a falling barometer.
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Topeka
Kansas
Manhattan
Salina
Abilene
Concordia
Lawrence
Emporia
Wichita
Olathe
Pittsburg
Garden City
Goodland
Weather Bureau
Kansas Traffic Deaths Log For July 1961 Compare 1960
AP report lists Topeka figures showing 20 traffic deaths in July 1961 and 262 for the comparable 1960 period, with 286 total deaths for 1961 up to July 9.
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Topeka
Kansas
Argentine DC6 Crash Kills 67 Near Azul
A Argentinian Airlines DC6 bound for Comodoro Rivadiva crashed near Azul 30 miles from the city after taking off from Ezeiza. Police report 67 killed with two foreign names listed among passengers. The disaster follows a June 30 airliner crash near Buenos Aires and involves oil industry workers traveling to Patagonia.
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Buenos Aires
Patagonia
Vall
Wilbur Taylor
Hilda M. Anderson
Chachari
Azul
Curtiss
Esso Oil Co
U.S
Comodoro Rivadiva
Amerisaid
YPF
Crash, Fire Injure Three In Station Service Explosion
A grain truck lost a wheel and crashed into a station wagon, then struck a gas pump at a service station on Highway 37 near Reeds, causing an explosion and fire that destroyed the station. Three people were injured, one seriously. attendant Raymond Allenbaugh was badly burned and hospitalized in Carthage.
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Carthage
Reeds
George Pippin
Melvin Eugene Ellis
Ellis
Raymond Allenbaugh
Allenbaugh
Ellick Garren
Stella
Highway Patrol
Garren
Ellis Hull
Lloyd Hull
Hulls
Hull
1 500 Mile Raft Trip Planned by Two Youths
Two 18 year olds from Boonville and Topeka plan a 1500 mile raft journey down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Eddie Howell and Richard Sallman will travel 14 to 15 hours daily in an 18 by 8 foot cabin raft. Howell aims to fulfill a family dream while Sallman recently relocated to Boonville. Kenneth Esser will ride with them to Rocheport bridge. Lions Club provides an introduction letter for assistance.
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Boonville
Missouri
Mississippi
New Orleans
Eddie Howell
Richard Sallman
Topeka
Kan
Howell
Randall
David
Sallman
Kenneth Esser
Boonville Lions Club
Rocheport Bridge
Windstorm Knocks Out Rural Phone Service Near Hays
A windstorm with gusts up to 80 mph snapped 10 telephone poles eight miles south of Hays Tuesday night, knocking out rural telephone service.
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Hays
Kan
Kansas S and L assets reach 892.5 million
Assets of 105 savings and loan associations in Kansas total 892.5 million as of June 30, up 58.5 million from a year earlier. Kansas Savings and Loan League executive vice president Thomas J L Wilson announced the figures today.
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Topeka
Savings and Loan Associations
Kansas
Thomas JL. Wilson
Kansas Savings and Loan League
Kennedy's Highlights From News Conference
Kennedy outlines plan for military buildup to counter the Soviet threat to Berlin. He pledges U S resolve to keep Berlin free and reports NSC decisions due today. He notes rising production and income but urges steps to reduce unemployment. He supports reviving shelved school aid bills. He defends freedom of travel as a constitutional right.
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Washington
Kennedy
Berlin
National Security Council
U.S
Khrushchev
Congress
Freedom Riders
Woman Is Killed On Kansas Turnpike
Mrs. Alice K. Arnold 53 of Junction City Kansas died in a turnpike crash five miles west of Wyandotte County. Her brother Paul E O Malley 17 was critically injured after being thrown from the car and landing in a creek bed while en route to visit Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Kan
Alice K. Arnold
Junction City
Kansas Turnpike
Wyandotte
Paul E. O'Malley
O'Malley
Woman Plunges To Her Death In Topeka Hotel
TOPEKA AP Mrs. Bonnie Conrad 35 of McPherson Kansas a patient at Topeka State Hospital died Tuesday after plunging from a downtown hotel building. She was the wife of John J. Conrad and had been a patient since November following prior hospitalization elsewhere.
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Topeka
Bonnie Conrad
Topeka State Hospital
McPherson
Kan
Conrad
John J. Conrad
Kennedy urges daily 15 minutes of school exercise
President Kennedy called on every school to provide 15 minutes of vigorous daily exercise for all students. He expressed concern about widespread physical unfitness and urged schools to identify underperforming pupils and assign special workouts while using valid tests to track progress. He spoke after a news conference at the State Department Auditorium.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
State Department
No Planes Missing After Crash Report
Maryland State Police checked an unconfirmed report of a large plane crash between Frederick and Hagerstown. Troopers found no evidence of a crash after checking airlines FAA and area airports. no missing flights reported by Air Force or Navy.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Frederick
Hagerstown
J. R. Collister
State Police Field Office
Federal Aviation Agency
Air Force
Navy
Washington
Space Trip Delayed Again for Grissom Suborbital Flight
Thick cloud banks forced a second postponement of Virgil I. Gus Grissom's suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral. Officials set a new 6 a.m. Friday launch target after a three hour 57 minute hold. Grissom, 35, prepared in his capsule Liberty Bell 7 and remained optimistic despite the delay.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Virgil I
Gus Grissom
Space
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Mercury Project
Five to ten years for Bockover in burglary case
Cary Bockover Jr., 17, was sentenced to five to ten years at hard labor in the Hutchinson state reformatory after pleading guilty in district court to second degree burglary and larceny. He received five years for larceny and five to ten for burglary, to run concurrently. He admitted breaking into Donaldson's IGA Grocery on May 11 and taking $150 in cash and four cartons of cigarettes. He had escaped jail June 19 with Robert St. Clair, who faced a no fund check charge and was later recaptured. St. Clair and Bockover were jailed in Erie and later given court-appointed counsel plus additional charges pending.
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Grissom
Shepard
John Powers
Cary Bockover Jr
State Reformatory
Hutchinson
Bockover
Donaldson
IGA
Robert St. Clair
Erie
Amarillo
Tex
St. Clair
Garden City
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Fourth National Bank and Trust
Tulsa
Two Cave Explorers Drowned In Indiana Cave
Two Indiana University graduate students, Ralph Moreland Jr. and Tom Arnold, both 25, were found dead in a cave near Orleans Indiana after a flash flood trapped them Sunday. Their bodies were recovered Monday after being submerged hours. Agent Robert Armstrong led the rescue and noted water had reached the ceiling in parts of the cave.
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Orleans
Ind
Ralph
Moreland Jr
Knox
Tom Arnold
Peru
Indiana University
Robert Armstrong
Indianapolis
Armstrong
Indiana
Ohio River
Moreland
Karen
Arnold
Body Found Near Electrical Outlet at Army Post Home
Robert Reed Smith Ill, 18, was found dead Tuesday in a Fort Leavenworth house where he had been removing plaster from a wall. The body lay near an electrical outlet as officers opened an investigation into the death. Smith worked for a contractor remodeling several houses on the Army post.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Robert Reed Smith
Smith
Ft. Leavenworth
Kennedy urges House action on aid to education bill
Senator Kennedy urged congressional action on his aid to education proposal describing it as the most important legislation she has sought. The House Rules Committee voted 8-7 to table the general school aid bill and two related measures offering loans to schools and college scholarships. Kennedy cited limited support among the tablers and pressed for favorable action.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Congress
More Net Income Claimed for Farmers
Washington AP says farmers realized net income rose 12 percent in the first half of the year compared with 1960. Higher marketings, higher prices and large government payments drive the upturn, with full year income likely the highest since 1953 at $13.9 billion.
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Washington
Kennedy
Agriculture Department
Pickets Arrested as Southern Governors Meet in Jackson
Police in Jackson arrest two African American pickets Richard Haley and Helen O Neal at the Heidelberg Hotel during a Southern governors meeting. They refused orders to move while a small crowd gathered outside. Haley, a Field Secretary for CORE, led signs urging freedom and unity as governors discussed cooperative economic development for the region.
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Jackson, Miss
Jackson
Richard Haley
Helen O'Neal
Heidelberg Hotel
Haley
Miss O'Neal
U.S
The
Congress of Racial Equality
South
Wheat Farmers Hopeful On New Farm Bill Pact
Kansas wheat growers greet tentative approval of a farm bill by the House Agriculture Committee. The plan calls for a mandatory 10 percent wheat acreage cut for benefits with voluntary reductions in corn sorghum and barley. Farmers anticipate planting in September and consider the program a necessary easing of government control despite limited enthusiasm.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas
House Agriculture Committee
Harold Cooler
D-Nc
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
G. E. Egbert
Kansas Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Egbert
Salina
Abilene
Ken Farrell
Niles
No Blockade For Refugees In East Berlin Rise
East German refugees flow to West Berlin intensified as Neues Deutschland denounced them as double traitors. Police took no overt move to seal routes though fears of a city blockade persisted amid a large German Protestant church rally opening in West Berlin.
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East Germany
Berlin
West Berlin
Sewage Treatment Warning for Topeka
The State Board of Health warned Topeka that its sewage plant is underperforming and raw sewage has reached the Kansas River as far as Lawrence. City official Charles Wright cited rising use of home garbage units and recommended hiring an engineering firm to draft a long-range improvement plan.
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Topeka
State Board of Health
Charles Wright
Kansas River
Lawrence
Wright
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Becky
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Clark Chandler
Rural Rose
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