Kids Were Right Missouri School Really a Stinker
Harrisonville Missouri prosecutors sue to stop Freeman Elementary from opening citing a vented septic tank releasing sewer gas and methane into the building, repeated floods, leaks, and poor facilities. The 1907 brick school serves Freeman Cleveland and Westline with 440 students. board seeks bond approval for a new 12 to 14 room school.
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Harrisonville
Don F. Whitcraft
Freeman
Ralph Garrett
Whitcraft
Cass County
Cleveland
Westline
Freeman School
Troy Brown
Bill McGuire
Truck Overturns injuring driver on Stull road west of Lawrence
Arlis Watkins of Baldwin suffered cuts and bruises when his Kuhn Truck and Tractor Co. vehicle overturned on Stull road about two miles west of Kanwaka corner and eight miles west of Lawrence. The tractor on the bed was demolished and Watkins was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for head and hand injuries. The loss of the tractor was estimated at 1200 dollars.
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Arlis Watkins
Baldwin
Stull
Kanwaka
Lawrence
Kuhn Truck and Tractor Co
Watkins
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Louis Kuhn
Kuhn Truck and Tractor
Mississippi Negroes Vote Protests Amid Registration Law
About 500 unregistered Black voters attempted protest votes in Mississippi's Democratic primary. They filed affidavits claiming discriminatory removal from poll lists under an old law. Attorney General Joe Patterson ruled the law applied only to clerical errors excluding names, not to Tuesday’s cases. No incidents were reported.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Atty
Joe Patterson
Crocodile Killers Next to Man and Mosquito in Africa
Johannesburg reporter James Clarke cites his study showing crocodiles kill about 20,000 people yearly in Africa, outpacing snakes, spiders, and other animals. He notes crocodiles live long, can replace teeth in cycles, resist bullets, and prey on buffalo, rhino, and even elephants, with hippos as rare enemies.
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Johannesburg
Africa
James Clarke
The
Hollywood marriage storms greet Nicky Hilton and Liz Taylor
Attorney for Nicky Hilton confirms talks to end his five year marriage to Trish Hilton. Journal-World recalls their 1950s Oak Lodge interview as Liz Taylor’s high profile life links to scandal. Also notes five year old Karen Cramer of 1820 Indiana Street grows a sunflower 12 to 15 feet tall.
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Nicky Hilton
Conrad Hilton
Elizabeth Taylor
Young Hilton
Trish Hilton
Journal-World
Nicky
Liz
Oak Lodge
Lawrence
Highway 59
Hollywood
Michael Wilding
Mike Todd
Eddie Fisher
Richard Burton
Miss Taylor
Journal- World
Karen Cramer
Karen
Clyde Cramer
Ind. St
Cordley School
Strike Bound Gould National Battery Factory Hit by Intruders
Three masked intruders bound the guard at the Gould National battery plant in Leavenworth. They smashed batteries and damaged compressors, with losses in the hundreds to thousands. A temporary injunction against workplace intimidation and property damage was issued against Local 1056 of the IBEW, which has been striking Gould-National plants in eight states since May 22. The Leavenworth plant employs about EW workers of a 4,500 nationwide total. The union seeks uniform expiration dates, a 35 hour week with no pay cut, and other gains.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Gould National Battery
C. K. Burton
North Kansas City
Burton
John Nelson
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
Gould-National
Oil Report Sparks GOP Clash Over Domestic Industry
Kansas congressmen Bob Dole and Garner Shriver led Republicans from oil states in criticizing a petroleum study committee report to President Kennedy. They warned the plan would push foreign oil and hurt domestic producers, stressing national security needs to maintain excess capacity and expand output.
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Shriver
Washington
Garner E. Shriver
Bob Dole
Kansas
Petroleum Study Committee
Kennedy
Reprimand for Liberal's Chief Police Chief Senate
The City Commission in Liberal Kansas ordered a probation and public reprimand for Ralph M. Smith the police chief who has led the force for 11 years. The action was taken after reports that Smiths personal affairs affected his effectiveness and a closed meeting last week. The commission retains him as chief with a six month review and requires a police department procedure manual within 90 days.
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Liberal
Kan
City Commission
Ralph M. Smith
Fireman Commission
Charles Brisendine
Smith
Brisendine
Commission
Police Department
New Deposit System At Ist National Site
Warren Rhodes, president of First National Bank, announced a new deposit system at the bank’s Std and Tenn Sts drive in. The envelope receiver has a mechanical arrangement of baffles that seals off the chute through the deposit cycle.
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Warren Rhodes
First National Bank
Std
Tenn Sts
Anderson Heads to Minnesota Fishing Trip
Governor John Anderson planned to leave for a three to four day fishing trip in Minnesota from Peoria. He had not taken a vacation this summer and was expected to depart today.
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Peka
Kan
John Anderson
Minnesota
Body of Clubb Boy Recovered After Canyon Flood
The 8 year old Roger Clubb Jr. was found by Grand Canyon Park Rangers after a flash flood swept away his father Roger Clubb Sr. a 35 year old professor at British Columbia University. The father was recovered earlier while survivors include the wife and another son.
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Roger Clubb Jr
Grand Canyon Park Rangers
Roger Clubb Sr
British Columbia University
Italian Garden Creek
Merrell Clubb
Kansas University
Europe
Lawrence
St. Roger Sr
Clubb
Grand Canyon Village
Picketing Ends at Downstate Medical Center Site in Brooklyn
Civil rights leaders announced they have called off further picketing at the Downstate Medical Center construction site in Brooklyn, hoping the action is permanent. CORE expressed disappointment with the decision while pledging to observe it for now. a Brooklyn CORE meeting was set to decide on continuing demos, with leaders noting a Tuesday night ministers' committee meeting led to the move.
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New York
Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn
Congress of Racial Equality
Oliver Leeds
Leeds
William A. Jones Jr
Committee of Job Opportunities For
Ten Foreign Guests to Study Kansas Grain Stores Markets
Ten persons from seven foreign countries will study grain storage and marketing facilities in Kansas this month. They arrive in Kansas City Friday and spend five days in Manhattan starting Sept. 12 as guests of Kansas State University. Stops include Emporia and Garden City with Great Plains Wheat Inc. hosting.
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Washington
Kansas
William H. Avery
Kan
Kansas City
Manhattan
Kansas State University
Emporia
Garden City
Great Plains Wheat Inc
Latin Institute Set for Dread Latin Institute Set for Dread
The 16th annual Latin Institute of the American Classical League arrives at Kansas University Thursday through Saturday with the theme Classics Teachers and Classics Teaching. Up to 125 Latin teachers are expected, led by acting KU classics chair Dr. Austin M. Lashbrook. Agnes Kirsopp Michels and Mary A. Grant will give evening talks, Luke White will speak on Laymen for Latin, and the event links with KU’s Latin workshop and the Junior Classical League meeting. Participants stay in Pearson Hall with programs and meals at the Kansas Union.
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Latin Institute of the American Classical League
Kansas University
Austin M. Lashbrook
Agnes Kirsopp Michels
Bryn Mawr College
Mary A. Grant
University of Kansas
Luke White
Covington
Ind
American Classical League
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Joseph R. Pearson
Kansas Union
Antique Displays to Be in Downtown Lawrence
Lawrence will host antique displays on Massachusetts Street as a Civil War Memorial. A letter contest with cash prizes will be judged by a panel including Dr A R Kennedy and Dolph Simons with prizes awarded at a dinner on August 2 at the Eldridge Hotel commemorating Quantrill’s Raid anniversary.
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Lawrence
Massachusetts Street
Kansas University
A. R. Kennedy
C. E. Birch
Opal Jayne Kennedy
Susan Todd
Alice Dicker
Dolph Simons
Mrs Bidault En Route to Rio Follow Exiled French Premier
Mrs Georges Bidault traveled through Lisbon en route to Rio de Janeiro to join her husband, the exiled former French prime minister. She said she would meet him but did not know where.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Georges Bidault
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
Rusk Plans Bonn Stopover on West Germany Visit
Secretary of State Dean Rusk will fly to Bonn on Saturday August 10 on his way back from Moscow and explain the East West relations to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He signed the nuclear test ban treaty in Moscow and will return to Washington the following day.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
West Germany
Moscow
Konrad Adenauer
State Department
Rusk
Bonn
Adenauer
Leningrad
Vnukovo
U.S
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Heavy Rains Forcibly Displace Hundreds In Buffalo Area
Heavy rain drenched Buffalo and Niagra Falls forcing evacuation of more than 300 people in an eastern suburb. Buses stopped, hospitals pumped water, electricity cut, and telephone service failed. Police reported over 15 boats aiding families to a high school firehouse and church.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Niagara Falls
Cheektowapa
Coast Guard
Rockefeller Biography to Include Two Wives in Official Directories
Albany AP states that Nelson Rockefeller will have in his official biographies the facts of his two marriages. The updated entries will note his 1930 marriage to Mary Todhunter Clark and the later marriage to Margaret Murphy. The changes apply to the Official Directory of State Government and the New York Red Book, with October publication planned.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
New York
Legislative Manual
New York Red Book
Mary Todhunter Clark
Pocantico Hills
Tarrytown
Margareta Fitler Murphy
National Convention Opens Today at Nudist Camp
The American Sunbathing Association holds its national convention at Sycamore Hollow near Lawrence with up to 800 sunbathers. Meetings run today through Thursday with contests and a nude play Friday. About 250 invitations were issued for non members to view the production.
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The
American Sunbathing Association
Sycamore Hollow
Lawrence
Albert
Doc) Adams
Midwest Sunbathing Association
Paul Arnold
Mays Landing
N. J
Ward's Last Girl Claims Sensational New Evidence
London AP Jean Ward's last girlfriend Julie Gulliver 22 says she will present sensational new evidence to Lord Denning in the Britain sex and security scandal. Ward died of a drug overdose after a conviction on vice charges.
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London
Stephen Ward
Lord Denning
Britain
Stephen
Julie Gulliver
Denning
Ward
Christine Keeler
John D. Profumo
Eugene Ivanov
Profumo
Ivanov
Moscow
Macmillan
Trade politics and Common Market tensions hinder farm talks
The passage notes a shift to trade rather than aid to revive ravaged nations, a rise in low-priced imports pleasing U S shoppers, and France vetoing Britain’s Common Market entry. It reports complaints about American investments in Europe and France seeking to sell farm surpluses to market neighbors, stalling farm industrial trade links.
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France
Europe
Mu's Housing Gets a Boost in Columbia
U of Missouri adds nearly 600 beds with completion of one dormitory and plans two more housing 932 students before 1964. A Chicago firm, Columbia Associates, builds a 4 million dollar high rise near the university center to house 300 students the privately run dorm will serve men and women and mark private capital entry into local housing.
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Columbia
Missouri University
Columbia Associates
Chicago
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Conley Avenue
Stewart Road
Town Opposes A Post Office In Wilson Kansas
Opposition from Kansas senators and a representative blocks planned Wilson Kansas post office construction. The project, awarded to Richard and Marceline Proffitt for 4410 dollars annually for 10 years, may be renewed after a decade.
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Wichita
Post Office Department
Wilson
Kan
Ellsworth
Kansas
Kingfisher
Okla
A. B. Heiligman
Rep. Dole
R-Kan
Dole
Heiligman
Richard and Marceline Proffitt
Post Office
Jayhawk Rodeo Dates Set For August Weekend Events
The 4th annual Jayhawk Rodeo runs August 15 to 17 with more than 60 cowboys expected from local and national ranks. Events include bareback bronc riding calf roping bulldogging bull riding and cowgirl barrel racing. The stock is provided by Vern Bushbomb and the three night crowd is projected at 7 000 to 9 000.
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Vern Bushbomb
Topeka Rodeo Impressario
Douglas County
Modern Facilities at Rumsey Funeral Home
Advertisement notes modern facilities available at Rumsey Funeral Home with contact number VI 3-5111.
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Rumsey Funeral Home
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