Kennedy links education gaps to civil rights in San Diego speech
President Kennedy tied educational backwardness to the civil rights issue in a commencement address at San Diego State College. He cited statistics showing insufficient schooling among adults and urged broad support for a federal education program, noting de facto and de jure segregation harm. He outlined a nationwide tour and planned stops, including Hawaii, before addressing the National Conference of Mayors in Honolulu.
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San Diego
Calif
Kennedy
San Diego State College
Congress
el Paso
Tex
State College
Pacific
Hawaii
Washington
North
Navy
White Sands
N.M
North Carolina
Texas
Honolulu
National Conference of Mayors
Colorado
Air Force Academy
Humphrey offers Great River Road aid bill
Sen. Hubert Humphrey introduces a bill to fund a Great River Road along the Mississippi. The plan would let 10 states buy rights of way and upgrade roads to parkway standards with a $2 million annual appropriation for two fiscal years.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Mississippi
U.S. Enters Race to Build Supersonic Jet Airliner
President Kennedy declares U S commitment to supersonic transport as Pan Am orders six Concorde jets from France and Britain. U S plans aim for Mach 3 speeds and service by 1969 71 with costs potentially over 1 billion dollars, while British French Concorde aims for about 1500 mph and 1968 deliveries.
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U.S
Colorado
Pan American World Airways
France
Great Britain
Paris
London
Trans World Airlines
Pan Am
United States
Kennedy
Douglas Aircraft Co
American Airlines
TWA
Charles C. Tillinghast Jr
C. R. Smith
American
Conservatives Jolted By Profumo Scandal
London AP reports the Conservative party faced a severe setback as War Minister John Profumo resigned from his cabinet and Parliament after admitting a improper association with model Christine Keeler, delivering a political bombshell to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the party.
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London
John Profumo
Harold Macmillan
Christine Keeler
Profumo
Macmillan
Conservative
Commons
Valerie Hobson
Harrow
Oxford
Three Appointments Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
Wisconsin Senate Judiciary Committee voted 40 to 0 to confirm three Gov. John W. Reynolds appointees to the state crime laboratory board. The nominees are Chippewa County Sheriff Lee Arntz, Outagamie County Sheriff Calvin Spice, and Manitowoc County Dist Atty Robert Koutnik. The GOP had earlier stalled Reynolds' other 20 appointments.
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Madison
Senate Judiciary Committee
John W. Reynolds
Senate
Allen Busby
Milwaukee
Judiciary Group
Busby
State Crime Laboratory Board
Chippewa County
Lee Arntz
Chippewa Falls
Outagamie
Calvin Spice
Appleton
Manitowoc County
Robert Koutnik
Two Rivers
GOP Reynolds Meet To Mull Budget Problems
GOP leaders in Madison held five secret sessions with Democratic Gov. John Reynolds and tax advisers to explore tax and budget issues. Participants included Sen. Walter Hollander and Sens. Jerris Leonard and Robert Knowles, with Assembly members Glenn Pommerening and Robert Haase, and a sixth meeting planned.
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Madison
John Reynolds
GOP
Walter Hollander
Rosendale
Joint Finance Committee
Reynolds
John Gronouski
Howard Koop
Department of Administration
Hollander
Jerris Leonard
Robert Knowles
Glenn Pommerening
Robert Haase
Interior Department Officials Promoted to New Posts
Charles H. Stoddard of Minong Wisconsin becomes director of the Bureau of Land Management after leading the resources programs staff since 1961. Edward Weinberg of Whitewater Wisconsin is sworn as deputy solicitor succeeding the late Edward W. Fisher who died March 1, 1964. Weinberg served as associate solicitor since 1961 and on the department's legal staff since 1944.
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Washington
Interior Department
Stewart L. Udall
Charles H
Chuck) Stoddard
Minong
Wis
Bureau of Land Management Blm
Interior
Edward Weinberg
Whitewater
Edward W. Fisher
Weinberg
McCoy Mishap Kills Soldier at Camp McCoy
A road grader overturned on a construction project at Camp McCoy Wisconsin killing one soldier and seriously injuring another. Both belonged to Headquarters Company Fifth Engineers from Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. The injured man was hospitalized.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Fifth Engineers
Ft. Leonard Wood
County's Eighth and Ninth Traffic Deaths in 1962
La Crosse County reports its eighth and ninth traffic fatalities of 1962. A 29 year old Rochester Minnesota salesman died when his car left County Trunk F in the Town of Shelby and plunged down a bank at 2 15 a m Thursday. A Holmen woman injured on Highway 16 on May 10 died in a La Crosse hospital Wednesday evening June 5.
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la Crosse County
Rochester
Reds Burn U.S. Mission Headquarters In Caracas
Gunmen seize the Caracas headquarters of the U S Military Mission overrun guards force 12 employees to strip and flee light the building with gasoline destroying records and damaging the Spanish era structure in a country club district.
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Reds
U.S
Caracas
Mission
Country Club
City leaders fail to unite at McDowell case amid campus row
McDowell a Jackson State College graduate enrolled in seven summer hours as officials and church leaders escort him through the law school. Sheriff Ford and Tom Hines help manage about 25 loiterers while a court fight earned McDowell admission after a Board rejection over potential unrest. The report then shifts to political violence in Venezuela and a fatal traffic crash near Holmen with Mourning services planned for Mrs. Lulu Evenson.
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McDowell
Jackson State ‘Negro’ College
Justice Department
U.S. Marshal
State Highway Patrol
Tom Hines
Law School
Hines
Joseph Ford
Ford
Citizens Council
State Board of Institutions of Higher Learning
Second Negro Enrolls At U. of Mississippi Oxford Campus
James H Meredith arrived to register for the summer session as the first known Negro at Ole Miss. Cleve McDowell, the second admitted student, faced registration with no incidents and shared a dorm. Governor Barnett opposed Meredith but acknowledged McDowell’s entry. McDowell paid fees of 179 dollars with a 500 dollar check from the Utility Club of New York. Federal orders and court actions tied to Alabama and other southern cities marked ongoing integration tensions.
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Oxford
Miss
University of Mississippi
James H. Meredith
McDowell
Ole Miss
Meredith
Ross R. Barnett
Mississippi
U.S. Army
Cleve McDowell
University Law School
Barnett
Board of Trustees
Institutions of Higher Learning
Utility Club, Inc
New York City
George C. Wallace
Alabama
University of Alabama
Wallace
U.S
Seybourn H. Lynne
Carolinas
Winston-Salem
Raleigh
N.C
Spartanburg
S.C
South Carolina
Los Angeles
Hood Of Car Kills Child At Retreat
Wesley Myles Bohland, about 2, son of Mr and Mrs Myles Bohland, was killed in a freak accident on the family farm at Retreat Wisconsin when a car hood dropped on his neck after he wandered from his parents. Services are set for Friday at De Soto Lutheran Church with burial in Retreat Cemetery. He is survived by both parents, grandparents and other relatives.
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Evenson
Lewis Valley Lutheran Church
Lewis Valley Church
O. Rolf Olson
Jostad
West Salem
Byron
Holmen
Idius Fonstad
la Crosse
DE Soto
Wis
Wesley Myles Bohland
Myles Bohland
Retreat
de Soto Lutheran Church
Carmen Thronson
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Jack L. Modahl
Duluth
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Lulu) Evenson
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General Foods, Inc
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