Days Longer Years Shorter Then Middle Age Reached
HAL BOYLE notes aging signs as days lengthen by a fraction of a second yearly while articles claim the US divorce rate tops worldwide at 2.2 per thousand. The piece blends quotes, trivia, and aphorisms from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Johnson, with cultural notes on celebrities and curiosities.
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New York
United States
Epimenides
Crete
B. C
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
John Jacob
Helen Keller 80th Birthday Celebrated In New York
Living symbol of resilience Helen Keller turned 80 with a private luncheon in New York. Relatives and staff note she has grown more active after Polly Thompson’s death, and her health remains good. The piece also surveys a North Dakota Senate race between Gov. John F. Davis and Rep. Quentin Burdick and its implications for farm policy and party strengths.
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New York
Helen Keller
Miss Keller
Easton
Evelyn Seide
Miss Thompson
Ann Sullivan Macy
Mrs Seide
Mrs. Seide
John FE. Davis
Quentin Burdick
D-Nd
Senate
William Langer
Ezra Taft ‘Benson
North Dakota
Burdick
Davis
North Dakota Senate Race Nears Finish Line
Fargo North Dakota voters watch a tight Senate race as results trickle in with national attention. Key candidates remain in a close contest as final tallies determine control amid late counting and statewide interest.
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Fargo
N.D
North Dakota
Starlight Theater Opens New Show Kismet in KC
The Arab ian nights musical Kismet opens Monday at Starlight theater in Kansas City for a one week run with Dorothy Coulter and Earle Mac Veigh in leading roles. The show last played the outdoor stage here in 1956. Rose Marie closed Sunday night drawing 37 256 attendees for the week.
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Kansas City
Kismet
Starlight Theater
Dorothy Coulter
Earle MacVeigh
Lawyers Confer On Next Step In Murder Case
Federal attorneys meet in Baltimore to decide whether to present a case against Melvin D. Rees Jr. to a federal grand jury. Rees, jailed in Memphis, faces charges in the Apple Grove Virginia family killings and is linked to four other slayings in the Washington Baltimore Annapolis corridor.
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Baltimore
Virginia
Melvin D. Rees Jr
Memphis
Tenn
U.S
Leon H. Pierson
Malcolm R. Wilkey
Justice Department
Pierson
Wilkey
FBI
Rees
Maryland
U. S
H. Allen Mezger
Carroll Jackson
Susan Ann
Hyattsville
Washington Post
Mezger
West Memphis
Ark
Margaret V. Harold
Carroll V. Jackson Jr
Apple Grove
Washington
Annapolis
Poor Direction In Spy Case
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee faulted the administration for poor direction in the U2 spy plane incident. It blamed lack of centralized control among White House State and Defense, CIA, and other agencies and warned the Paris summit may have been affected. The report urged clearer White House or State Department direction.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nikita Khrushchev
White House
State and
Defense Departments
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department
Soviet Union
Senate inquiry yields cautious conclusions on May Day flight
The Senate committee said it had not learned all it sought about the case and could not determine what information the May Day flight was to bring back. Its conclusions were qualified by many ifs and expressed with soft criticism.
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Senate
Garney Remarries and Quits Teen Romance
Kansas City AP report shows Arthur Garney a 65-year-old plumber announcing he remarried his former wife, Jo Anne Garney, 27, on June 16 in Miami Oklahoma. He had filed for divorce last March and was shot at home in April while planning a Las Vegas wedding with Sue Doyle, 18, ending that romance. Robert Fansier, 3, stands trial for shooting Garney.
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Kansas City
Arthur Garney
Jo Anne Garney
Miami
Oklo
Garney
Sue Doyle
Las Vegas
Military funds boosted for Missouri and Kansas
The Senate appropriations committee approved large increases for military facilities in Missouri and Kansas. It earmarked 1.36 million dollars for the Army Support Center in St. Louis and 3.2 million dollars for the Air Force Aero Chart and Information Center.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Missouri
Kansas
Army Support Center
St. Louis
Air Force Aero Chart and Information Cen
Probate notices and city paving resolution in Chanute files
The Chanute Tribune carries probate notices for the estate of Dan Fred Primmer in Neosho County seeking sale of a half interest in Lots 4 and 5, Block 27, Tioga Chanute, with July 20 hearing. It also runs a city resolution ordering resurfacing of South Central Avenue from 12th to 13th Streets, with protest window and approval dated June 13, 1960, plus a Luker estate descent action for Lot 6 and adjacent land in Chanute, with hearing set for July 20, 1960.
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Chanute Tribune
Neosho County
Kansas
Dan Fred Primmer
Town of
Tioga
Chanute
Erie
South Central Avenue
12Th Street
13Th Street
State OF Kansas
Ernest L. Luker
Margie B. Luker
Wimer
11Th Street
Senate Panel Boosts Military Facilities Funding
Senate committee increased funding for National Guard Armories in Springfield and Richmond and raised Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley appropriations, despite House votes of zero for several facilities. Other facility appropriations in the two states remained unchanged.
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Ter
St. Louis
House
Senate
National Guard
Springfield
Richmond
Ft. Leavenworth
Ft. Riley
City resolves street resurfacing projects on multiple avenues
The notice states that East 12th Street from South Evergreen to South Central, a section on 15th Street to 4th Street, and 13th Street to 14th Street will be improved by resurfacing with tack coat leveling coat and a coat of asphalt. The resolutions are to be filed with the city and have been passed and approved on respective dates.
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Charute, Kas
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