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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1963
Page
9
Kansas City reports mixed grain prices with Wheat 1.82 to 2.00 and Corn 1.20 to 1.31 while Soybeans run 2.40 to 2.56. Livestock slabs show cattle, hogs, and sheep varied with steers near 24.25 and hogs slipping to 18.00 to 18.50. Institutional notes reference IBM Xerox and Texaco moving modestly in early Wall Street trading.
Memorial Hospital records show multiple births and dismissals including a baby girl for Betty Jo Mock at 633 Ohio and a baby girl for Christina Jones at 529 Ohio. Births include a daughter for Paul DeGroot and a daughter for Allan Willits, both noted in local notices. Dismissals list residents across Lecompton Topeka and surrounding areas returning home after hospital stays.
A University of Alabama official said available information does not substantiate charges that James A. Hood made controversial statements about the university and Gov. George C. Wallace. The university had been considering Hood's expulsion based on reports of a 9 Negro rally in Gadsden.
In Greenwood Mississippi about 50 Black residents staged a vote in at City Hall as a protest against registration practices. They presented affidavits and ballots already marked in groups of five, with poll workers placing papers in a box and no incidents reported. Attorney General Joe Patterson later said the law does not allow vote ins and only covers voters mislisted or errors in registration.
In Washington AP Backers of President Kennedy civil rights program gather for a three day strategy conference to push Congress to resist watering down the bill Roy Wilkins NAACP executive secretary warns of compromise and urges a stronger measure Speakers vow to relay grassroots views to lawmakers.
Deaths reported include Mrs. William Baldwin Brownell 91 of Riverside California former Lawrence resident with roots in Concordia Kansas. Funeral rites and cremation planned in Riverside with family plot burial in Oakhill Cemetery. Also Willie B Kelley 82 of Lawrence with long farming life and many survivors. services Thursday in Rumsey Funeral Home. And Perry teen Larry Worthington 19 killed in tractor accident near Perry with services Friday at Perry Methodist Church.
The Organization of American States scheduled an emergency council meeting at 3 pm to address the exile invasion of Haiti. Haiti ambassador Fern D Baguidy requested the session.
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