Court Restores Negro Sufferage in Washington Parish
U S District Court ordered voting rights restored to 1 377 Black residents purged from the Washington Parish rolls by technicalities. Judge J Skelly Wright issued the decree in a suit filed June 29 under the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
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U. S. District Court
Washington Parish
J. Skelly Wright
Civil Rights Division
White Citizens Council of
Curtis M. Thomas
Register of Voters
Louisiana Parish
Citizens Council
Diaz D. McElveen
E. Ray McElveen
Saxon Farmer
Eugene Farmer
Wright
Thomas
Washington
Asst
M. F. Ryan Jr
Board approves approx. 944000 public school building plan
Lawrence school board tentatively approves a 944000 building program funded by 715000 in bonds and 229000 in local levies. Projects include Woodlawn Lincoln renovations, Schweigler additions, Southeast Elementary construction, and a new maintenance building with site acquisitions.
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Lawrence High School
Woodlawn School
Woodlawn
Lincoln
Schwegler School
Lawrence
Nineteenth Street
Harper Ave
Central Junior High School
Don Robertson
Nate Ericson
Robertson
Southeast Elementary School
Brubeck Skips Southern Tour Over Racial Policy
Dave Brubeck is canceling about 15 bookings worth roughly 40 000 dollars to keep his jazz group integrated. He says dropping a Negro bassist would misrepresent student sentiment, noting the University of Jacksonville Vanderbilt University and the University of the South welcomed the quartet. Several schools including Ole Miss Millsaps Jackson Miss Memphis State Southwestern Louisiana Southeastern Louisiana Georgia Tech canceled. Eugene Wright, the bassist, is African American.
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San Francisco
Dave Brubeck
San Francisco Chronicle
Eugene Wright
Brubeck
University of Jacksonville
Fla
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
University of the South
Sewanee
Castro regime rejects US protest over Cuban expropriation
In Havana Fidel Castro's government dismissed a US State Department note criticizing seizures of American property. It pledged to accelerate land reform and expropriation measures against both Cubans and foreigners, sending complainants to Cuban courts.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
U.S
Cuba
Philip Bonsal
State Department
Marcelo Fernandez
Fernandez
Bonsal
Shoddy Literature Hit in PTA Study
Lawrence PTA report finds 10 to 30 percent of magazines and paperbacks at Lawrence racks are objectionable for youth. Committee chairman Don Welling cites criteria including defamatory, sensational, violent, vulgar, pornographic content. Survey covered 20 points with 828 titles in groceries, 1147 in drugstores, 380 at other outlets. Three outlets contained no objectionable material. The group weighs standards and deferred further action pending a national/state PTA survey.
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Lawrence
Lawrence Council of Parents and Teachers
Central Junior High School
Council
Juvenile Protection Committee
Don Welling
Welling
PTA
Lawrence Magazine
John Estes
Claude Norris
Hillcrest
Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers
Lawrence Pta
Oklahoma President Links Nebraska Coach to Recruiting Fund
OU President Dr. George Cross said Nebraska coach Bill Jennings informed the NCAA of a recruiting fund that put Oklahoma in NCAA hot water. Cross described a 1958 letter from Bud Wilkinson to Jennings and copies to Nebraska’s Chancellor Hardin and NCAA official Walter Byers, noting Wood funded the operation with about $6,000 and that Jennings knew of it.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
Nebraska
Bill Jennings
NCAA
Sooners
George Cross
Jennings
Oklahoma
Arthur Wood
Oklahoma City
Wood
Cross
Sooner
Bud Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Hardin
Walter
Local Money Order Scam Reported in Area
Sheriff Dale Chappell confirms counterfeit personal money orders from 1074 to 1087 digits tied to Manufacturers and Mechanics Bank Kansas City. The KBI investigates the Dec 1959 dated $50 orders misused with names Dorothy Berger James Berger Ruthie Porter Cecil Porter. suspect described as a light complexioned Negro woman 20 to 32 years old.
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Manufacturers and Mechanics Bank of
Kansas City
Dale Chappel
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Chappell
Dorothy Berger
James Berger
Ruthie M. Porter
Cecil Porter
Tax Cut Plans In Docking Budget For Kansas 1961
Gov George Docking proposes trimming the sales tax by one point for a year and reducing gasoline to four cents a gallon to fund a $3 14 million budget for the 1961 year beginning July 1 1960 He also suggests a ten mile heavy truck levy and merging revenue funds to boost cash reserves.
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George Docking
Kansas
Docking
Docking Budget Near Halfway on KU
Governor Docking’s budget plan for Kansas University falls short of the Regents’ asks for a 7 percent salary rise and funding for a new Engineering School building. KU President Nichols warns the reduced pay plan could weaken faculty competitiveness and slows campus growth as the governor trims initial building funds and scales operating totals.
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George Docking
Kansas University
Dockingp
Board of Regents
Regents
Raymond Nichols
Docking
Nichols
KU Medical Center
Kansas City
Topeka
Warm January Breaks Records with Midwinter Heat
A warm spell surged through the area Monday pushing temperatures to 68 by mid afternoon and 64 overnight setting new January records. The heat spurred early budding on roses and lilacs raising concerns of damage if a sharp cold snap follows with lingering drizzle and a 0.07 inch rainfall recorded.
Tag Sales Grow At Office Here
Douglas County car license tag totals rose to 3308 through Monday with 588 truck tags, said County Treasurer Besse Bennett. She noted unopened mail remains and final totals should exceed 15000 for current tags. Bennett discussed withholding final approval of a new purchasing system and the filing mess from dual methods.
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Douglas County
Besse Bennett
Docking Proposes Tax Cuts and Salary Increases in Brief
Gov George Docking outlines major budget ideas including cutting the sales tax from 24 to 14 percent for one year and then to 2 percent, reducing the gasoline tax by one cent per gallon, a ten mile per hour tax on heavy trucks to offset gasoline loss, a three percent raise for non administrative college staff, and modest agency increases for the next fiscal year starting June 30.
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Docking
Board of Regents
Kansas State University
Topeka
George Docking
Death of British Author Nevil Shute in Melbourne
Best selling author Nevil Shute age 60 died in a Melbourne hospital after suffering a stroke earlier in the day. The novelist of On the Beach saw his work adapted into a film and his book noted for its tale of humanity facing nuclear war.
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Melbourne
Nevil Shute
Shute
America
Weather brief for Northeast Kansas reports cloudy days
Mostly cloudy through Wednesday with occasional drizzle or light rain tonight and Wednesday. Cooler conditions expected northeast tonight and across the area Wednesday. Tonight's lows around 40 to 50 with Wednesday highs near 45 to 55.
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Kansas
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