Hundreds gather for mass Birmingham desegregation demo
In Birmingham Alabama hundreds of Negro youths gathered at integration headquarters amid plans for further demonstrations. An initial survey showed light attendance in public schools due to a boycott. Police allowed a peaceful march from a church to a park and back, part of a major Southern desegregation push. More than 1,400 arrests in four days. around 1,000 still jailed, including 500 under 16. Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker pledged continued demonstrations on Monday.
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Birmingham
Ala
Wyatt Tee Walker
Burke Marshall
U.S. Justice Department
Dick Gregory
Greenwood
Miss
New Pilgrim Baptist Church
City
Traffic Crashes Kill 12 In Kansas Over Weekend
Twelve people died in Kansas traffic accidents over the weekend the heaviest toll in nearly six years. The list includes deaths near Weskan Tonganoxie and El Dorado plus fatalities from Osceola Parsons and Salina with drivers and passengers named, illustrating the weekend's deadly toll across multiple highways.
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Kansas
Associated Press
Rachel E. Hamilton
Kansas City
Kan
Cheyenne Wells
Colo
J.S. 40
Weskan
Kensett Metal Sculptor Wins at Community Arts Fair
Jim Kensett of Kensett won the grand award for a welded metal sculpture titled Monument to the Life of a Wheel at the 11th annual Community Arts and Crafts Fair held at Murray Hill school. Second place went to Pat Riley for a decorative area rug. Tom Brazil from Chanute earned third for an oil landscape.
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Jim Kensett
Evergreen
Tribune
Larry Mathews
Murray Hill School
S. Evergreen
Kensett
Pat Riley
Tom Brazil
Chanute
Parochial Pupils Parents Protest Missouri Action
Parents of Catholic students protest a Missouri move to enroll their children in public schools via bus transport to parochial districts. In St Louis, Jefferson City and Kansas City areas mothers gathered to complete enrollments. 447 from Hickman Mills near Kansas City. Tipton reported 100 new pupils. Westphalia 400 pupils from nearby Catholic schools. Governor Dalton defended parents rights, urging rapid, safe classroom access without disrupting education.
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Kansas City
Missouri
A- Louis
St. Louis
Jefferson City
Hickman Mills
Tipton
Westphalia
Loose Creek
Freeburg
John M. Dalton
Dalton
Mark Martin Injured Water Skiing at Santa Fe Lake
Mark Martin, 13, son of Mr and Mrs Fred Martin, suffered scratches and bruises but no serious injuries after hitting a dock end while water skiing behind the family boat at Santa Fe Lake. He was treated then released at Neosho Memorial Hospital. In a separate incident, a 1960 Mercury station wagon owned by Walter Wimsett rolled into the lake during a trailer hookup, was pulled out with minor transmission drainage. The events capped a day of seasonal opening activities attracting hundreds to the park.
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Mark Martin
Fred Martin
W. Std
Santa Fe Lake
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Martin
Walter Wimsett
Humboldt
Glenn Wrestler
Elmer Pruitt
Chanute
Mercury
Wimsett
Bob Proctor
Weather Summary From Topeka Kansas Temperatures and Rain
Rain cooled western Kansas but eastern areas saw relief as showers and higher temps dominated. Kalvesta led rainfall at 2.54 inches with Jetmore Great Bend and Maple Hill recording notable totals. Highs reached 80s to mid 80s, lows upper 50s to near 60, forecast fair skies through Tuesday with a chance of early fog.
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Topeka
Kangas
Kansas
Kalvesta
Dodge City
Jetmore
Great Bend
Kirwin Reservoir
Maple Ill
Hill City
Concordia
Pittsburg
Traffic Light Work Starts at Lincoln and Elm
City crews began preliminary work on installing traffic control signals at Lincoln and Elm. City Manager R. J. Hayes said weather and other factors will determine the project duration. Three departments electric, street, and maintenance will handle the installation.
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Lincoln and
Elm
R. J. Hayes
Busy Week Passes Congress With Debt and Pay Bills
Washington AP says Congress will be busier with debt ceiling measures, military pay hikes, postal funding, and travel expense ceilings. House and Senate dispute sums, Senate to restore portions cut by House. A feed grains bill may move later in the week.
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Congress
House
Senate
Treasury
Post Office
Kennedy
Post Office Department
Senate Appropriations Committee
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka May 1963 Log Update
AP reports Kansas traffic death log shows 145 deaths in the observed period up to 9 a.m. Monday May 12, 1963, compared with 172 in the similar 1962 period. Data highlights include the 48 hour window to 9 a.m. Monday May 12.
Nicholsons Dies In Pittsburg Shrine Leader Was 67
George Nicholson 67 former Internal Revenue Service official in Wichita and past potentate of the Mirza Shrine in Pittsburg died Saturday night.
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Pittsburg
Kan
George Nicholson
Internal Revenue Service
Wichita
Housewife Lands Plane On Tiny Canton Island
Betty Miller, 37, Santa Monica flying instructor, arrives Canton Island on the second leg of a solo Pacific flight to Australia. She left Honolulu Sunday, reaching Canton 13 hours six minutes later, delivering a plane to its Brisbane owner. The journey mirrors Earhart’s route in reverse, as she plans the next leg to Fiji.
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Canton Island
Betty Miller
Santa Monica
Calif
Wide Pacific
Australia
Honolulu
Brisbane
Oakland
Miller
Fiji Island
Canton
Amelia Earhart
Fred Noonan
Two Boys Die In Separate Gun Accidents In Kansas
In Clay Center twelve year old James Fife died from a heart wound when a pistol he was playing with discharged while visiting grandparents Ernest Mellies. In Hutchinson seventeen year old Barry Cox died when a revolver discharged while he cleaned it at home. Both incidents labeled accidental by local authorities.
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Clay Center
Kan
Kansas
James Fife
Rex Fife
G. B. Mellvain
Riley County
Young Fife
Ernest Mellies
Fife
Barry Cox
E. E. Cox
Hutchinson
Speeding Ticket For Gov. Anderson
Gov John Anderson faces a speeding charge in Eudora after being stopped by radar. He was cited for 53 mph in a 30 mph zone and has until Tuesday to respond. City officials noted a fine of 1 dollar for each mile over the limit and outside pickups by mail were allowed. Police Judge John O B erg was unavailable for comment. Seven people were arrested at a radar trap on K 10 Thursday night.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Eudora
Anderson
John O'Berg
K-10
Safety Award For Refinery Recognition by US Fidelity
Mid-America Refining Co. received a certificate of merit from United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. for safety achievement. President C. H. Cunningham announced the refinery operated 1,366 days without a disabling injury, totaling 583,680 man hours.
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Mid-America Refining Co
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co
C. H. Cunningham
Cunningham
No News Tip For Last Week
The Tribune reports no tips were received last week for the weekly $3 news tip award. Residents of Chanute and the four-county area are invited to call or deliver tips about fires, serious or freak happenings, traffic incidents, or human interest events.
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Tribune
The
Chanute
Missing merchandise after Whitworth filling station break-in
Three cartons of cigarettes and 30 quarts of oil were reported missing after a Saturday night break-in at the Whitworth filling station east of the river bridge on highway K39. The sheriff's office investigated. entry occurred by breaking the door glass.
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Whitworth
River Bridge
K39
Sheriff's Office
Car Crash Injures Three Near Erie
An 18 year old Mulberry girl drove a 1956 Oldsmobile that ran off the highway near Erie and overturned injuring three occupants. Barbara Ratliff 18 and Pat Turner 16 of Pittsburg were hospitalized at Labette County Medical Center and Mt. Carmel Hospital Pittsburg after the crash six miles southwest of Erie about 1 20 p.m. James Dohle 22 of Mulberry was treated by an Erie doctor. Other occupants were Sarah Dohle the driver Charles Everitt 35 of Girard and Alfred Wheeler 39 of Pittsburg. Damage to the car was estimated at 500 dollars.
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ERIE
Here
Highway Patrol
Barbara Ratliff
Pat Turner
Pittsburg
Labette County
Parsons
Mt. Carmel Hospital
James Dohle
Mulberry
Sarah Dohle
Charles Everitt
Girard
Alfred Wheeler
Ten Marchers Still in Jail in Alabama
Ten Freedom Marchers, five white and five Negro, remain jailed in Fort Payne Alabama refusing bond amid a planned pilgrimage tracing William L. Moore from Chattanooga to Jackson Mississippi. They were arrested after crossing from Georgia on breach of peace charges with bonds set at 300 dollars each. Bob Zellner, 24, Mobile, Alabama, said they have committed no crime and are being held unjustly. The five Negroes are in one cell. the five whites in separate cells.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Mississippi
William L. Moore
Baltimore
Attalla
Chattanooga
Tenn
Jackson
Miss
Alabama
Georgia
Bob Zellner
Mobile
Rockefeller wedlock honeymoon draws US political gaze
Gov Nelson Rockefeller and bride Margaretta Murphy honeymoon atop Monte Sacro ranch Venezuela after New York ceremony. US political circles weigh impact on 1964 bid while the couple, recently divorced, begin a life together amid questions of fate for Rockefeller’s presidential prospects.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Margaretta Fitler Murphy
Monte Sacro
New York
Idlewild
Junction City Clubs Raided. 35 Arrested in Geary County
Geary County officers raided six Junction City private clubs early Sunday seizing liquor and gambling gear. 35 arrested including seven operators or managers and 11 for drinking in public, 15 on gambling charges, two for drunkenness. About 2000 bottles of liquor and gambling equipment were seized. operators named with bonds $500 to $2,000.
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Junction City
Kan
Geary County
Salina
Ft. Riley
Atty
W. D. Clement
Harvey Schmedemann
Elvin D. Warner
Clement
Sam Coleman
Flame Club
Anita Bates
Uptown Club
Kenneth Davis
Swing Club
Sloan Williams
Alice Fern Bryant
Bison Club
Alice Woodward
Galway Club
Donald F. Gilman
Skyroom Club
Pleasanton Man Killed in Crash Near State Line
A head on collision between a car and a panel truck on US 54 near the Kansas Missouri line left one dead and three injured. The deceased was 51 year old Richard Dwight Smith of Pleasanton, a passenger in a car driven by his son Leonard Dwight Smith, 22, also of Pleasanton. the crash occurred late Sunday.
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Ernest D. Pence
Oskaloosa
U.S. 40
Topeka
Leroy Boucher
Lawrence
Salina
Janes Lundgren Aker
U.S. 81
Paulette Hoye
William H. File
Kansas City
Kan
Janet P. Scholz
Fort Scott
Kansas-Missouri Line
Richard Dwight Smith
Pleasanton
Leonard Dwight Smith
Intercepted Letter to Cha Details Weather and Lawn
Intercepted note to Cha reports farmers needing rain while the writer notes the lawn grass grows rapidly. The brief letter mentions concern for crops and ends with a casual sign off Yours.
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Pbr Gawe
Peotena
Kenneth Oakson
Linwood
Tonganoxie
Oakson
Martha Sue
Charles Levi James
Springdale
Ark
Chetopa
U.S
el Dorado
Harold Leonard Keith Jr
Bruce B. Mack
Keith
Clifford Leon Dawson
U.S. 160
Lawson
Gerald Mullins
John A. Wagner
Donald E. Phalp
James E. Gibson
Schilling Air Force Base
Connor
Rex Hall
Emporia State College
Tish Niver
Larry Ellison
Dean Hilton
Paschal ‘Grimes
Ellison
Miss Niver
Hall
Jo Payne
W. 5Th
Washington
Nicholson
Housewife
Tiny Isle
Rocky, Bride
United States
Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller
Philadelphia
Michael
New Guinea
Murphy
Idaho
James S$. Murphy
Rockefeller Institute
Rockefellers
Rockefel Hills
Westchester County
Cha
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