Mixed Reactions to Court Ban on School Bible Reading
Clergy and lay leaders varied in response to the Supreme Court ruling banning compulsory Bible reading and the Lord's Prayer in schools. Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic voices split. ACLU plans to challenge the pledge, while others defend religious teaching as a community responsibility.
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America
Supreme Court
Los Angeles
American Civil Liberties Union
National Council of Churches
Onida
S.D
Curtis Johnson
Johnson
Billy Graham
West Germany
Plymouth Rock
Graham
William J. Kenealy
S.J
Loyola University
Chicago
Carson
Indianapolis
Ind
Robert A. Cook
National Association of Evangelicals
Ella Ross Begins 104th Birthday Fundraising Knit Drive
Goodwin Mills Maine United Press International reports Mrs Ella Ross who will turn 104 next birthday is knitting baby booties to raise funds for her church and selling them to parishioners.
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Goodwin Mills
Maine
UPI
Ella Ross
Costly TOSSING Boston
To replace windows in passenger cars shattered by stone throwing bays the New Haven railroad faces about 150000 dollars in annual costs.
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Boston
UPI
New Haven Railroad
Mexico drives literacy with mobile schools in 12 states
Ten mobile units deploy in Chiapas to Jalisco drawing 476,525 pupils annually. Each unit includes directors teachers social workers and specialists. Mobile libraries bring newspapers magazines and films while programs cover health sanitation economy and current events. The goal is to reduce illiteracy to under 35 percent among 37 million Mexicans.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Chiapas
Guerrero
Oaxaca
Tamaulipas
Guanajuato
Yucatan
Puebla
Morelos
Jalisco
Education Department
Brown Commutes Child Slayer's Death Sentence
Governor Edmund G. Brown commuted Clarence E. Ashley's death sentence to life without parole, calling him a deranged human being. Ashley, scheduled for execution in San Quentin, abducted 6-year-old Angie Mae Stewart in Merced County in 1960, a crime cited in the clemency decision influenced by Associate Justice Raymond E. Peters who questioned Ashley's present sanity and self representation at trial.
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Edmund G. Brown
Clarence E. Ashley
Ashley
San Quentin
Angie Mae Stewart
Merced County
Peters
TWA Sets Office Hours
Trans World Airlines announced that its main ticket office at 3079 Paradise Road will be open daily Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The office will be closed on Sundays and holidays effective immediately per Ray F. Culley, district sales manager. The Sahara City ticket office will also be open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. including Sundays except holidays.
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Trans World Airlines
Paradise Road
Ray F. Culley
TWA
Sahara City
Trade Barriers Removal Asked By State Department
Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged the House Foreign Affairs Committee to remove trade barriers on Poland and Yugoslavia as Congress works on Kennedy’s foreign aid bill. The push hinges on allowing most favored nation status or lower tariffs to these Communist nations to counter Russian influence.
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Washington
UPI
Dean Rusk
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
U.S
Poland
Yugoslavia
House
Kennedy
Rusk
Solons Seek Fair Housing Act Compromise in California
In Sacramento lawmakers debate a proposed compromise on the Fair Housing Act. Assemblyman William Byron Rumford of Berkeley, whose bill stalled in the Senate, reviews the plan as Lt. Gov. Glenn M. Anderson weighs in.
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Solons
Sacramento
UPI
William Byron Rumford
Berkeley
Senate
Glenn M. Anderson
Rumford
Gibson
Assembly
Jesse M. Unruh
D-Inglewood
Legislative
State Fair Employment Practices Commission
Five Killed After Setting Dad's Funeral
A California couple and three of their four children were killed in a head on collision on U S Highway 99 near Chico as they returned from arranging funeral services for Emma White's father Herrie O Connor. A fourth daughter was critically injured and a Chico man was hospitalized with serious injuries. The crash occurred about 10 p m Monday when the White station wagon collided with another driven by James R Smith of Chico.
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Chico, Calif
UPI
California
California Highway Patrol
Chico
Norman Virgil White
Citrus Heights
Emma Elizabeth
Butte Hospital
James R. Smith
White
Herrie O'Connor
Thirteen Indicted Over Knit At Home Mail Fraud Scheme
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted 13 Californians on mail fraud counts in a case centered on a home knitting machine racket. U S Attorney Francis C Whelan said the scheme marketed a machine to housewives promising earnings in spare time and a guaranteed buyback of garments. The firms claimed the device would pay for itself and match the output of 50 knitters.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Summer art class registration opens in Southern Nevada
Registration for summer art classes at Nevada Southern begins tomorrow and ends Friday June 21 with hours 12 30 p m to 3 30 p m tomorrow and 8 a m to 11 a m Friday. Instructors include Prof Peter Myer and Mr Walter Jacobson for teachers. classes start Monday June 24. Penwomen meet at Vivian Woods home 1206 South 10th Street tomorrow at noon for a pot luck luncheon.
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Nevada Southern
Peter Myer
Walter Jacobson
Vivian Woods
South 10Th St
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Tony Azzi
Paul Derval
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