Orbiting Spaceship Planned by Defense Department
The Defense Department backs research toward a piloted spaceplane that could take off from a airfield, reach orbit, and land. The Air Force project Advanced Hypersonic Manned Aircraft aims for a craft by late 1960s or early 1970s, with initial orbits 300 to 500 miles out.
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Washington
The
Defense Department
Air Force
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
House
Armed Services Committee
McNamara
Defense Secretary
Earth
State Department weighs release of Cuba testimony
Washington report says the State Department weighs publishing long secret 1961 Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony on the Cuban invasion. Witnesses claimed no U.S. air cover was promised to refugees, though non U.S. air strike plans and cancellations are debated by Dirksen Hickenlooper Aiken and other senators.
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Washington
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Administration
U.S
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Senate Republican Policy Committee
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
County welfare notes high caseload and adoption activity
Douglas County welfare reports 95 residents in Valleyview and other rest homes and 394 persons in 98 cases. The department handled 10 adoptions, five waiting lists, and 14 social histories while medical expenses rose and a 40000 dollar carryover from 1962 remains.
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Douglas County
Valleyview
Leckron
Welfare Department
Iventosch to Speak At Humanities Forum
Dr. Herman Iventosch assistant professor at Kansas University will lecture at 7 30 p m today in the Dread Room Kansas Union on Principal Elements in the Elaboration of Don Quijote Research Old and New He holds a B A from California University at Berkely M A and Ph D from Harvard and has taught at Harvard Amherst and Lafayette before joining KU in 1962 He is the author of numerous articles on prose writers of the Golden Age.
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Herman Iventosch
Kansas University
Humanities Forum
Kansas Union
Iventosch
Don Quijote
Sventosch
California University
Berkely
Harvard
Amherst
Lafayette
Church reports theft of small office safe
A small safe was taken from the office of the First Methodist Church at 10th and Vt. Streets. Police said it contained only records. Detective Dick Stanwix said it is unclear whether the safe was stolen at night or during Wednesday, and the loss was found about mid afternoon.
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First Methodist Church
10Th and
Vt. Sts
Dick Stanwix
Meredith Signs For New Term At Ole Miss
Meredith, an African American student, registered for a second term at the University of Mississippi amid campus security. A second applicant, Dewey Roosevelt Greene of Greenwood, was denied admission for not meeting qualifications and left after being advised of possible appeal to the admissions committee.
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Oxford, Miss
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Dewey Roosevelt Greene
Greenwood
Miss
Robert Ellis
Greene
Ellis
Hodge Freed From Prison in Illinois Corruption Case
Former Illinois state official Orville Hodge walked from Menard Prison with 81.67 in his pocket after pleading guilty to looting the treasury. Governor Kerner paroled the 38 year old Republican auditor who plans to live with his sister in Granite City and work in the family hardware business while facing public backlash.
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Chester, Ill
Orville Hodge
Illinois
Menard
Hodge
Mississippi River
Otto Kerner
Associated Press
Granite City
Ill
Bessie Henley
William
Kerner
Agriculture program reforms and loan fund proposal
The document discusses extending soil bank contracts as they expire and returning land to crops. It proposes broadening the agriculture housing loan program to include nonfarm rural homes and using repayments from rural power and telephone loans to create a permanent revolving fund for these purposes. Congress currently votes loan funds each year.
Icelandic smokers taxed to fund cancer education study
In Iceland a half cent per pack cigarette tax funds the Icelandic Cancer Society with expected annual revenue around $ fifty thousand. The money supports teen anti smoking campaigns and cervical cancer screening for women aged 25 to 60, while researchers seek stomach cancer causes. Dr Niels Dungal notes rising lung cancer linked to increased cigarette imports.
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Icelandic Cancer Society
Niels Dungal
Farmers in the House Near Majority in Kansas
The 1963 Kansas directory shows 53 of 125 House members list farming as primary work while the Senate has 18 of 40 lawyers. The House includes 20 lawyers and the Senate six farmers. Beatrice L. Jacquart is the lone woman among 165 legislators. The youngest is Sen. Tom R. Van Sickle at 25. the oldest is Rep. Robert Cram at 75.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate
House
Beatrice L. Jacquart
R-Satanta
Tom R. van Sickle
Fort Scott
Robert Cram
St. Francis
Concealed Weapon Is Small Cannon in Car
St. Louis painter Thomas J. Koehler, 25, was jailed for carrying a concealed weapon after police found a home made cannon in his car trunk. The two foot high device had a 33 inch barrel and was mounted on wheels along with ten one pound cans of black powder. Koehler called it a hobby and said he had test fired it recently.
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ST. Louis
Thomas J. Koehler
Koehler
Alfred Miller
Traffic Safety Records Claimed by Four Cities
The National Safety Council ranked St. Louis Topeka St. Joseph and Salina for best 1962 traffic safety. St. Louis second in 750000 to 1 million population with 2.3 deaths per 10000 vehicles. Topeka led 100000 to 209000 with 0.7 rate. St. Joseph tied for second in 50000 to 100000 bracket and the 22 cities with no fatalities had the most registered vehicles.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
St. Louis
Topeka
St. Joseph
Salina
Cleveland
Sioux Falls
S. D
Mount Vernon
N.Y
Kansas University Students Tour Topeka With People-to-People
Thirty four KU foreign students visited Topeka on a People-to-People sponsored tour. They viewed the Capitol Building and the legislature and toured the Kansas Historical Museum before returning. Meanwhile Miss Mary Ann Stewart was killed in a Kansas City Kansas airplane crash Tuesday night. Her roommates Doris Evans and Kay Bradley, both Lawrence connections, met at the airport and later drove to Wichita Falls to attend Stewart’s funeral.
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Kansas University
Topeka
Capitol
Kansas Historical Museum
Mary Ann Stewart
Kansas City
Lawrence
Doris Evans
David Evans
University Dr
Kay Bradley
Vesta Kane
Crescent Rd
Roe Garden Apartments
Soilth Place
Kan
Evans
Miss Bradley
Wichita Falls
Tex
Stewart
Stockpile Lug 4 Billion Taxpayer Burden Revealed
Sen. Stu Symington recessed the Senate inquiry into the eight to nine billion stockpile surplus. He estimated taxpayers face about four billion dollars and urged legislation to end the businesslike mismanagement. Arthur S. Flemming testified for a third day defending wartime material buildup under Eisenhower.
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Washington
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Senate
Symington
Special Senate Armed Services
Arthur S. Flemming
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Flemming
University of Oregon
Defense Mobilization
Winter Storms Slam Europe Killing Sheep and Driving Crippling Ice
Winter storms batter Europe with heavy snow and ice halting traffic. Rome endures its heaviest snow in seven years while Ancona reports roof collapses killing livestock. The frost spikes school closures and a rising death toll nears 440 with 114 in Italy.
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London
Europe
Rome
Italy
Ancona
Adriatic
Broadway Actress Praises KU Theater Cast For Cherry Orchard
New York actress Jacqueline Brookes will lead Madam Ranevsky in the KU Theatre production of The Cherry Orchard next month in Murphy Hall. She commends the student cast as well trained and challenges them with a demanding classic, while noting Broadway credits and a Fulbright London study.
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New York
Jacqueline Brookes
Kansas University Theatre
Kansas University
Miss Brookes
Madam Ranevsky
Anton Chekhov
Murphy Hall
Mt. Dread
Broadway
Michael Redgrave
Katherine Cornell
Paris
Judith Anderson
Charlton Heston
Ann Arbor
Mich
Iowa University
Royal Academy
London
Academy
Boston University
University Theatre
Tentative Backing For Levy Raises School Building Funds
The Kansas Senate tentatively approved a bill to allow boards in Lawrence Topeka and Kansas City to raise building fund levies by up to three mills, enabling a five mill limit if enacted by both houses. The measure, covering two years, awaits a full Senate vote.
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Kansas Senate
Boards of Education
Lawrence
Topeka
Kansas City
Senate
Don Hults
R-Lawrence
No Parties Today For Rush at KU
No parties were scheduled to day in the annual spring rush for Kansas University women. Open houses occurred Tuesday evening, Wednesday sessions, and the first invitationals run from 6 p.m. to 9 50 p.m. Friday. Second and third invitationals follow Saturday and Sunday. Preference cards and lists are matched Monday with bids set for 5 p.m. Tuesday. This year 383 freshmen and 105 upperclass women are being rushed.
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Kansas University
Taggart Purchases Sledd Stock in Lawrence News Group
William A. Taggart president of Newspaper Management Inc. buys stock in M. Charles Sledd owned company that runs the Lawrence Outlook. Sledd has been publisher for a year and Taggart has served as editor since November 1961.
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William A. Taggart
Newspaper Management Inc
Lawrence Outlook
M. Charles Sledd
Sledd
Taggart
Negro student Harv y Gantt attends Clemson amid calm dining hall scene
Clemson College officials report no incidents as Harvey B. Gantt, the first black student to enroll with white peers in South Carolina since Reconstruction, had dinner and prepared for classes. Dean Walter Cox noted no problems in the cafeteria and said a foreign student joined Gantt. Authorities expect him to spend the weekend on campus after arriving Monday. a federal court had ordered his admission pending appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Clemson
S.C
Clemson College
Harvey B. Gantt
Walter Cox
Gantt
Cox
South Carolina
U.S. Supreme Court
Von Paulus and Stalingrad in Memory and Legacy
The text recalls Field Marshal Von Paulus after surrender at Stalingrad, noting German losses and Soviet memorials. It charts his postwar path to East Germany, his later death in 1957, and how Khrushchev reshaped the city’s memory by renaming Stalingrad Volgograd.
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von Paulus
Volga
Stalingrad
Mystery B52 Explodes Over New Mexico Killing Two Crewmen
An early dawn blast tore through a B52 bomber from Walker Air Force Base over northern New Mexico during a training flight. Two crewmen are dead, including M Sgt Harvey Dean and Maj George Szabo presumed dead. Four others survived after bailing out and being rescued from rugged terrain.
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George Szabo
Szabo
Air Force
Col
Donald Hayes
Alta
Iowa
Thomas J. McBride
Panama City
Fla
Emil Goldbeck
Roswell
N.M
Nichol Horangic
Horangic
Goldbeck
Mora
Body Found on Farm Near Bonner Springs
A search party found Donald H. Laughrey, 32, shot dead in a pasture on his brother Floyd R. Laughrey’s farm near Bonner Springs. He was wearing a hunting jacket, a 410 gauge shotgun lay nearby, and Wyandotte County coroner Dr. Ralph J. Rettenmaier said the death is under investigation.
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Bonner Springs
Donald H. Laughrey
Floyd R. Laughrey
Laughrey
Ralph J. Rettenmaier
Wyandotte
U S Captain Killed By Viet Guerrillas
An American Army captain serving as an adviser to a Vietnamese unit was shot and killed by communist guerrillas in coastal mountains about 300 miles north of Saigon. He was the only government casualty and his identity was not released.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
In Memoriam for Clarrisa Clark Mother
In loving memory of my Mother Clarrisa Clark who passed away 40 years ago on January 28. Deep within my heart is a picture more precious than silver and gold. It's a picture of my Mother whose memory will never grow old. Sadly missed by her daughter Mrs. M Canaday.
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Clarrisa Clark
M. Canaday
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