Southeast Region Hit Hard by Deadly Tornadoes
A widespread outbreak of tornadoes across the Southeast and Midwest left at least 10 dead and more than 50 injured. Fatalities occurred in Moon Lake Mississippi Shannon Mississippi Maury City Tennessee Hamilton Alabama Randles Missouri and other towns with extensive property damage reported.
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Tunica, Miss
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Arkansas
Moon Lake
Shannon
Miss
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Maury City
Memphis
Hamilton
Ala
Mississippi Line
Randles
Indiana
Kentucky
Tunica
Ansley Buckhanan
Melinda Foster
Tiny Evans
E. L. Culp
A. C. Pounds
Beatrice Hodges
Tenn
Sissie Starks
Friendship
Frank Branch
Jackson
Rich
Highway Patrol
Talladega
Alabama
Weather Bureau
Fort Payne
Oxford
University of Mississippi
Kaintuck
Russellville
Wabash River
Louisiana
Tulles-Olla
Georgia
Atlanta Weather Bureau
Atlanta
President Seeks Pay Hike For Governmental Workers
President Kennedy requests a 6 to 20 percent pay raise for 1.6 million federal and postal workers starting Jan. 1 to align with the 1962 Salary Reform Act. The proposal adds about 500 million annually and follows a prior approved increase.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
British expert links strict policing to juvenile delinquency
Leslie Wilkins of Britain argues Americans are harsher on youth and drugs, increasing delinquencies. He notes Britain imprisons far fewer juveniles and addicts, contrasts jail leaders, and visits the U S on a Ford Foundation fellowship. He will lecture at the University of Kansas.
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Kansas City
Britain
United States
Leslie Wilkins
Home Office
London
Wilkins
Ford Foundation
Boston
Chicago
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Ours
University of Kansas
Strike Blocking Order Extended in Santa Fe Rail Fight
Federal Judge Julius J. Hoffman extended the injunction blocking a strike by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen on the Santa Fe line from Chicago to Albuquerque. The order remains in place until a presidential emergency board rules on a work rules dispute affecting 13,000 miles of railroad operation and 40,000 workers at risk of furlough.
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Santa Fe
Chicago
Brotherhood of Railway
Albuquerque
Julius J. Hoffman
Walter L. Moore
Chicago - To
Bootheel Tornado Kills Missouri Woman and Destroys Town
A Missouri Bootheel tornado killed 75 year old Pearl McCallister of Randles and injured three others. It damaged Inland Shoe Co. facilities in Advance, then struck Randles destroying seven homes and battering a store. Fire and police reported no immediate damage estimate.
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Randles
Missouri
Bootheel
Advance
Highway Patrol
Pearl McCallister
Cape Girardeau
Oscar
Inland Shoe Co
New Prisoner Dies After Brief Stay in Kansas City Jail
Collins Riley 56 from Prairie Village Kan died in a cell at the Country Club police station about two hours after a two car collision Sunday night He refused treatment at the scene and at the station A blood test showed .19 alcohol Autopsy cited shock and abdominal crushing injury Coroner says not linked to the crash Riley was arrested for careless and drunken driving while waiting for bond in the station precinct.
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Kansas City
Collins Riley
Prairie Village
Kan
Country Club
Riley
Getz Magady
John Kiester
Currents of Gulf Stream Form Gigantic North Atlantic Orbit
Currents create a vast elliptical flow looping around the western North Atlantic and encircling the Sargasso Sea, shaping regional water movement and sea conditions.
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North Atlantic
Sargasso Sea
Applications Due On Tax Protests For Local County
Douglas County residents planning to protest tax increases must file to appear with the County Clerk. Applications are available at the clerk’s office in the courthouse through May 6, while the Board of Equalization convenes May 1 and sessions run for 10 days with field inspections, plus sessions May 29 and May 31.
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Douglas County
Board of Equalization
Equalization Board
State
Delbert Mathia
Gary White Featured in KU Graduate Recital
The Kansas University Fine Arts School presents original Gary White compositions in a graduate recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall Murphy Hall. White, a KU alumnus with a 1959 bachelor of music education and a 1961 degree in composition, studied under Laurel E. Anderson and Dr. John Pozdro. The program includes Three Songs from The Beloved Stranger and Dramatic Overture plus String Quartet and Two Movements for Brass Ensemble. Sharon Sooter mezzo soprano sings, KU String Quartet performs, KU Brass Choir conducts. The event is free and open to the public.
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Kansas University Fine Arts School
Gary White
Murphy Hall
Salinan
Hoxie
Laurel E. Anderson
John Pozdro
Wyoming University
University String Quartet
Sharon Sooter
KU Brass Choir
Kenneth Bloomquist
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Vanderbilt Stadium
Percy Priest
Cumberland River
Muscle Shoals
Tennessee Valley Authority
Huntsville
Telstar
Cape Canaveral
Fla
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Harriman
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Laos
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Khrushchev
TFX
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GAO
General Dynamics Corp
Fort Worth
Tex
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Seattle
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Robert S. McNamara
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Autornet
Montgomery Ward
Crane & Co., Inc
Clinton
Grant
Kanwaka
Lecompton
Marion
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Eudora Township
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Palmyra Township
Baldwin City
Wakarusa
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Hell
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