Dominican Dictator Trujillo Assassination Shocks Island
News of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s assassination shocks the Dominican Republic and triggers a power struggle. Government officials pledge continuity while mourning the 69 year old dictator. Reports say gunmen ambushed him near Ciudad Trujillo with several suspects reported killed or fled.
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San Juan
P.R
Strongujillo Jr
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Paris
Specialian Republic
Hispaniola
Rafael Leonidas Tru
Trujillo
Hector
Ciudad Trujillo
Best Man Sought for Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Director
TOPEKA AP The Forestry Fish and Game Commission seeks the best man to lead the agency as director. Chairman G. G. Boling said there are several applications and more may be welcomed, with pay up to 12000 annually. The new five member panel aims to appoint a biologist under 60 who can lead and work well with others. The commission plans meetings in Pratt and other cities and intends to reopen ties with resources statewide to boost local fishing and wildlife programs.
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Topeka
Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
G. G. Boling
Leavenworth
Pratt
Dave Leahy
John Anderson
Columbus
Russell
Flint Hills
Kansas
Youth Dies in Tractor Accident Near La Cygne
A 16 year old youth, Sammy Brooks, died after a tractor he was driving overturned on a hillside county road four miles south of La Cygne Kansas. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Louis Brooks who lived on a nearby farm.
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LA Cygne
Kan
Sammy Brooks
Louis Brooks
Little Boy Drowns After Falling Into Water Bucket
Jackson Tennessee AP reports James Anthony Eaton aged one fell head first into a five gallon bucket of water on his parents’ back porch and drowned. The accident occurred Wednesday.
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Jackson, Tenn
James Anthony Eaton
Weather and flood threats in Kansas with hail reports
Rains continue in Kansas pushing the Solomon River over its banks at Osborne and menacing downstream areas. Baseball sized hail reported near Goodland with damaging hail and strong winds in Sherman County. Forecaster says partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers this evening then clearing, cooler Friday with low 60s and high 70s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Solomon River
Osborne
Goodland
Sherman County
Wasser For
Eleven Killed In Two Crashes In Michigan And Texas
In Michigan near Port Huron five graduates and friends died when their car hit a bridge at 90 mph after leaving a party. In Texas a car carrying a fisherman's family and a friend collided with a freight train, killing six and injuring Linda Rose, 8, as a seventh occupant endured critical injuries.
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Port Huron
Mich
Here
Sherif Robert Baker
James R. McLean
Alvin H. Meddaugh
Barbara A. Waterwolf
Nancy E. Blake
Launce Hill
Stella Samczyk
Allan Virgin
Angleton
Tex
Georgia
Linda Rose
James F. Klasel
William James Rose
Freeport
Gypsy Linville Rose
Eunice Rose
Ellen Rose
William Rose Jr
Manuel Oliver
Rose
Missouri Pacific
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka Kansas
Kansas traffic log shows 24 hours to 9 am Thursday with May totaling 52 fatalities and June at 0. For 1960 the total was 213, compared with a 1975 reference period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Burglars Break Into Cha nute Farmers Co op Building
Break-in at the Cha nute Farmers Cooperative Assn. at 707 N Highland was interrupted by the manager during a feed transaction. Police reported at 5 30 a m that intruders fled leaving a small black bag with a punch hammer and pry bar. Entry was gained by a window in an overhead door on the west side near Santa Fe tracks.
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Chanute Farmers Cooperative Assn
N. Highland
Santa Fe
Demonstration Reveals Trouble in Long Distance Dialing
In Memphis a telephone company official showed direct long distance dialing to a civic club. John Ryan dialed four times with four wrong numbers before reaching the Montreal Weather Bureau, where the forecaster spoke in French.
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Memphis, Tenn
John Ryan
San Francisco
NATO urged to focus on southern globe amid Berlin talks
President Kennedy urged NATO to address the southern half of the globe alongside the North Atlantic area. He and De Gaulle discussed Berlin firmness and a broadened Western posture while Vienna talks with Khrushchev loomed. Kennedy met cheering crowds at Paris City Hall as Mrs. Kennedy greeted admirers.
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Paris
Ken
Globe
Asia
Latin America
al. Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO Council
North Atlantic
France
Charles de Gaulle
West Berlin
NATO
Kennedy
de Gaulle
Berlin
Britain
United States
Elysee ‘Palace
U.S
Khrushchev
Vienna
Austria
Hotel de Ville
Roger Frey
Julien Tardieu
VFW District Meet Set with Out-of-Town Delegates
About 150 out of town members join Junction City official Schmedeman for the 3rd district convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary at the Memorial junior department building starting at 1 p.m. C. D. Grant Arkansas City depart ment commander and Mrs. Grant head sessions with support from Albert J. Uhren Chanute 3rd district commander and Mrs. Grant Wilson Chanute auxiliary president.
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Schmedeman
Junction City
Jare
Department
Veter
Lee R. Hettick
Topeka
Elans
C. D. Grant
Arkansas City
Grant
Albert J
John Uhren
Chanute
Grant Wilson
Wilson
Ed Lesher
Chanute Barracks
462 Traffic Deaths Over Memorial Day Weekend
The four day Memorial Day holiday period recorded 462 highway deaths, the worst toll for a Memorial period in U S history. The 102 hour weekend saw 683 violent accident deaths including 40 boating deaths and 63 drownings.
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Chicago
Motorcycle Tractor Crash Statess Fatality
A 26 year old Pittsburg State College student, Charles A. Barnhart of Liberty, Kansas, was killed in a Wednesday motorcycle collision with a farm tractor on a county road just north of Coffeyville. The tractor driver, Frank Walterscheid, 74, from near Coffeyville, was uninjured as the tractor turned onto a field.
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Coffeyville, Kan
Pittsburgh State College
Coffeyville
Charles A. Barnhart
Liberty
Kan
Frank Walterscheid
Paper Carrier Killed in Kansas City Collision
Virgil LaFollete a 14 year old newspaper carrier died when his motor scooter collided with a car in the 8500 block of Kansas Avenue in Kansas City Kansas. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Vernon La Follete of Kansas City Kansas. The father is a contract carrier for the Kansas City Star.
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Kansas City
Kansas Avenue
Virgil LaFollete
Vernon LaFollete
Kan
The
Kansas City Star
Congress extends taxes on tickets and goods for one year
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a one year extension of 3.6 billion dollars in existing excise taxes on passenger tickets, telephone service, alcohol, tobacco and other goods. The plan moves to the House for quick action. Taxes would expire or drop on July 1 without action by Congress. The core 52 percent income tax is included. The vote was 22 to 3 in closed session with a party line fight over the 10 percent passenger transportation tax.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Treasury
Miss Centennial Queen Race Top Nine Revealed
Linda Campbell leads the Miss Centennial queen contest for the third consecutive week as Jane Evans and Jackie Churchill follow. Evans wins the weekly transistor radio prize. final turn in is due by 8 p.m. next Wednesday. The pageant runs June 11–17 at City Park with a Nassau trip prize, patrons boxes, and Old Fashioned Bargain Days promotional events.
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Linda Campbell
Jane Evans
Jackie Churchill
Emily Lee
Nancy Johns
Kay Blair
Kathy Thompson
Sherrolyn Leavitt
Dinah Morris
Mary Lee John
Miss Evans
Nassau
Hugh T. Jones Jr
City Park
John Capehart Wins 1961 National Spelling Bee
John Capehart, 12, of Tulsa Oklahoma, captured the 1961 National Spelling Bee title in a 25th round victory over Mary Lukes of Oxnard California. He spelled distichous and then smaragdine for the championship amid 73 initial entrants, with 49 girls and 24 boys in finals.
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Washington
John Capehart
Tulsa
Okla
Mary Lukes
Oxnard
Calif
John
Short Causes Fire Damage To Home
A fire damaged the roof of a residence at 409 N. Grant owned by Claude Wanamaker and rented to Mr and Mrs K L Trumbull. Fire Chief Brennan estimated a loss of $300 or more and noted the fire started from a short caused by a slack television antenna guy wire contacting an electrical line. Firemen responded at 3 45 p m and stayed about an hour. There was no interior damage. May brought the last of 11 departmental runs, with total May loss around $1 150 and year to date about $10 500.
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N. Grant
Claude Wanamaker
K. L. Trumbull
C. W. Brennan
Brennan
Danville Township
Four-Year-Old Boy Bitten by Rattler Near Rushville
Four-year-old Darrell Dean Hughes was bitten by a 20-inch rattlesnake Wednesday. After swelling left him unable to stand, police escorted him 19 miles to Methodist Hospital in St. Joseph where doctors found fang marks and treated him with serum. His condition was reported as good. The Hughes family lives on a farm near Rushville. the father killed the snake.
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ST. Joseph
Darrell Dean Hughes
Darrell
Methodist Hospital
Darrell I. Hughes
Rushville
Nebraskan Captured After Police Chase
An Indianola Nebraska youth identified as Donald Ridpath about 20 was chased by Kansas and Nebraska officers before he ran into a police car and was captured. He was held in jail in Oberlin Kansas for speeding. Ridpath suffered scratches and bruises as his car collided near McCook Nebraska, about 27 miles north of Oberlin.
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Oberlin
Kas
Indianola
Neb
Kansas
Nebraska
Dale Brunk
Donald Ridpath
Ridpath
McCook
Topeka Youth Wins United Nations Contest
David Griesedieck of Topeka won the Kansas high school United Nations contest with Frank S Bangs Jr of Wichita finishing second. Griesedieck, a Hayden High School senior, received a $250 college scholarship under Kansas UNESCO and the national UN project.
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Lawrence
David Griesedieck
Topeka
Frank S. Bangs Jr
Wichita
United Nations
Kansas
Unesco
American Association For the United Nations
Griesedieck
A. E. Griesedieck
Hayden High School
Bangs
Southeast High School
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Jouce
NBC
John Hlavacek
Juan Tomas Diaz
Mexico City
Diaz
Brazil
Deveerees
Loweo
Eer Otis el
Charles Tripp
VFW
Scripps-Howard
Phyllis Krusenc
Bremen
Phyllis
Delight Ousley
Rockford
Tenn
Karen Grimm
Reisterstown
New York
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Ventura County Calif
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Baltimore Sunpapers
Gayle Fehr
Covington
Steven Palmer
Vernon, Tex
Joel Montgomery
Colorado
Henry Feldman
Tennessee
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