Thousands View Annual Apple Festival Parade in La Crescent
Thousands gathered in La Crescent Minnesota for the 1963 Apple Festival Parade on a sunny brisk September afternoon. Queen Christine Haupert rode a royal float with four attendants while delegates from nearby towns and dignitaries distributed trophies and welcomed Oktoberfest events. The procession featured police and fire units, color guards, American Legion members, royalty from neighboring communities, and touring contingents including the Winona Shrine Motor Patrol.
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Christine Haupert
la Crescent
Sherry Grodevant
Linda Holthaus
LaLonne Kelley
Karen McCaffrey
Tribune
Minn
la Crescent Fruit Grower's Association
Sylvia Beiers
la Crescent Chamber of Commerce
Junior Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Apple Arrows
Winona Shrine
Wisconsin grocer accused of giving away money to locals
Mrs. Frederick W. Dresser of Dodgeville says her estranged husband, a Dodgeville grocer, sent cash gifts ranging from 80 to 100 dollars to about 40 residents in Iowa and Richland counties. envelopes bore no return address. handwriting experts confirmed some gifts were from him. She seeks court action to stop the practice which has totaled over 3,000 dollars.
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Dodgeville
Iowa
Richland
Reis
Wisconsin
Dresser
Niy
Frederick W. Dresser
Pope
State Crime Laboratory
New Storm Debra Drifts Offshore in Atlantic
Hurricane Debra, barely a hurricane, churns far from land on a northerly Atlantic track. Miami Weather Bureau chief forecaster Gordon Dunn says the storm is of no interest to the mainland United States.
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Miami. Fla
Debra
Atlantic
United States
Gordon Dunn
Miami Weather Bureau
Ladder Rescue At Cliff Ends Boy’s 20 Hour Ordeal
Two Augusta carpenters A R Bender and Charles Welsh built a 100 foot ladder in darkness to reach 10 year old Bruce Krummel stranded on a cliff ledge 1000 feet above the Sun River. Bruce was rescued after four hours of ladder extension amid rain showers.
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Augusta
Mont
A. R. Bender
Charles Welsh
Augusta Carpenters
Bruce Krummel
Sun River
Rock Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Bender
Bay
Air Force
Welsh
Bruce
McNamara and Taylor Fly to South Viet Nam on Mission
Secretary of Defense McNamara and General Taylor launched a week long fact finding trip to South Viet Nam from Andrews Air Force Base. They will assess military and political conditions and meet with Vietnamese authorities and U.S. officials in Saigon.
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Washington (Ap
Robert S. McNamara
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
South Viet Nam
Kennedy
Air Force
Andrews Air Force Base
White House
George Ball
McGeorge Bundy
McNamara
U.S
Taylor
Ngo Dinh Diem
United States
South
Viet Nam
Saigon
McNamara-Taylor
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Alaska
Ball
Washington
Diem
Paul D. Harkins
Henry Cabot Lodge
Indictment Ties Seven To Desegregation Conspiracy
A federal grand jury in Birmingham indicted seven men including Edward R. Fields for conspiring to interfere with school desegregation court orders. The panel, 19 jurors plus one alternate, was told intimidation attempts toward the jury were criminal. The case links to desegregation protests at three Birmingham whites schools and the Ne gro church bombing inquiry.
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Birmingham
Ala
Edward R. Fields
Fields
National States Rights Party
Jesse B. Stoner
James K. Warner
David A. Stanley
Barney M. Carmack Jr
Jack Cash
Ralph Lewandowski
Gerald Q. Dutton
U.S
U.S. Dist
Clarence W. Allgood
Grand Jury
Allgood
FBI
Kennedy to Meet Birmingham Leaders Over Racial Tensions
President Kennedy holds three meetings in Birmingham Alabama to address the racial crisis after a bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church and related violence. He will confer with white civic leaders, white church leaders, and his named representatives Earl Blaik and Kenneth Royall before a briefing with key religious leaders and a rabbi and a Catholic bishop.
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Washington
Kennedy
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Army
Earl ‘Red’ Blaik
the Army
Kenneth C. Royall
16Th Street Baptist Church
George Murray
Episcopal Diocese of
Nolan B. Harmon
North Alabama Conference of Methodist Churches
Joseph A. Darrick
Catholic Diocese of
Joseph C. Allen
Milton F. Grafman
Temple Emmanu el
Premier Of Nyasaland In London For Talks
Nyasaland Prime Minister Dr Hastings Banda is in London for conferences with British officials. He is reported to discuss a date for Nyasaland independence with R A Butler the British minister for central African affairs.
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London
Nyasaland
Hastings Banda
R. A. Butler
Rockefeller to Avoid Criticism on European Tour
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and his wife left New York to tour European capitals for 12 days. He will not hold press conferences or speeches and plans to meet leaders including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, aiming to gather material for a future 1964 Republican presidential bid.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Kennedy
Idlewild
Rockefeller
Rome
London
Berlin
Bonn
Brussels
Paris
Harold Macmillan
Arrest of Ole Miss student for carrying a gun
Cleve McDowell the University of Mississippi's only Black student was taken into custody by Lafayette County Sheriff Joe Ford after a pistol dropped from his coat pocket on the Oxford campus. Witnesses said McDowell was escorted to the Dean of Students office and later left the campus with the sheriff.
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Oxford. Miss
Cleve McDowell
University of Mississippi
Lafayette County
Joe Ford
McDowell
Ford
Dean of Students
L. L. Love
Southern California Rocked by Morning Earthquake
An earthquake rattled millions in Southern California at 7 41 am with limited damage reported. The only injury noted was a 16 year old Coronado boy struck by falling glass as a light fixture shattered on a breakfast table.
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Pasadena
Calif
San Diego County
Byrnes Urged to Enter Wisconsin GOP Primary
Rep. John Byrnes faced pressure from Wisconsin GOP leaders to run as a favorite son in the presidential primary. Byrnes delayed comment after the urging, noting he would study a detailed report first. The move could affect Goldwater and Rockefeller entry plans in Wisconsin.
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Byrnes
Stevens Point
John Byrnes
R-Wis
Green Bay
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Melvin Laird
Goldwater
House of Representatives
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Republican Organization
Rockefeller
Final vote Tuesday on Goldwater amendment to nuclear pact
The Senate rejected Goldwater’s proposed reservation to the nuclear test ban treaty by a 75 to 17 vote. The measure would have delayed ratification until Cuba and Soviet missiles were removed and verified by the UN. Debate meanwhile eyed a likely ratification margin well above two thirds.
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Washington
Senate
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Cuba
U.S
Goldwater
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
Associated Press
Howard W. Cannon
Navy
John J. McClellan
D-Ark
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Sen
Soviet Union
U.N
United States
Kennedy
Supreme Soviet
Rites Across Nation Honor Bomb Victims
Thousands marched, prayed, and held memorials across the country for six Birmingham Negro children killed in the bombing as the nation faced calls for nonviolent uprising. Prominent Americans formed Americas Conscience Fund to rebuild the 16th Street Church, while clashes erupted in Shreveport as police dispersed a memorial parade. Funeral services were conducted for the murdered boys as leaders urged forgiveness and restraint.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
New York City
Washington
Shreveport
Edmund G. Brown
California
Charles Taft
Cincinnati
America’s Conscience Fund
16Th Street Baptist Church
J. R. Hicks
Four Hurt in Head-On Crash on Highway 16
Four youths were hospitalized after a head-on collision on Highway 16 in Medary early Monday. Robert E. Benson, 19, Sparta, was in serious condition with multiple fractures and head injuries. Antoinette Luther, 16, also Sparta, had a broken leg and possible rib fractures. Daniel E. Bosch, 18 Greenfield, and Robert Ruminski, 21 Milwaukee, in the other car, were in fair condition with facial cuts and bruises. Police said Bosch pulled out to pass another vehicle, causing the crash around 3:45 a.m.
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Medary
Robert E. Benson
Sparta
St. Francis Hospital
Antoinette Luther
Daniel E. Bosch
Greenfield
Robert E. Ruminski
Milwaukee
St. Francis
Bosch
Ruminski
Benson
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