Atheists' Colony Planned Near Stockton Faces Local Reactions
Mrs. Madalyn J. Murray announced Other Americans Inc will establish a university information center radio station printing press and home for aged on 80 acres donated by Carl Brown a 77 year old former Kansas legislator. Stockton leaders react with surprise and concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockton
Kan
Madalyn J. Murray
Baltimore
Supreme Court
Other Americans Inc
Carl Brown
Brown
Kansas
L. B. Waller
Community rally keeps Eureka quarter horse races alive
Eureka Kansas hopes to run four days of quarter horse racing despite a Monday grandstand fire. Volunteers repair steel, wiring and bleachers at no cost while renting 2000 seats from Strong City. A future grandstand costs are being raised for August har dess racing with $20000 purses and an $8500 futurity, aiming to draw 12000 spectators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka
Kan
Greenwood County Fair Association
Kansas
American Quarter Horse Association
Strong City Rodeo Association
Cecil Leslie
Jim Cassin
Elwin Hawthorne
Lynn Braden
al Slagle
Phil Evans Jr
Local Visitors And Guests Share Weekend at Big Springs
Mrs. Oliver Wingfield and son Dick returned from Fair Oaks California to visit Everett Bair and Howard Bair. R B LaDuke entertained guests including M Wright Devol Oklahoma and Arthur LaDuke family. Numerous Topeka And Texarkana visitors joined Sunday meals and camp activities at Forest Park with Schwanke Endsley assisting. Other locals hosted or visited relatives in Strong City Lecompton Portland San Diego Alaska and Topeka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Wingfield
Fair Oaks
Calif
R. C. Traxler
Randy Kahle
Mike Jones
Kathy Norwood
Darla Jones
Donna Lavin
Shirley Lister
Forest Park
A. W. Schwanke
Lybian Endsley
George Simmons
Gilbert Greenburg
Steve
Kenneth
Marc
Richard
Texarkana
Tex
Lester Traxler
Lecompton
Arthur LaDuke
Minnus Wright
Devol
Okla
Max Reeves
Bill
San Diego
Elmer Trowbridge
Connie
Charles Garrison
Strong City
Kan
Paul Tool
Alaska
Beverly Down
Portland
Ore
Tool
Ray Cr
Israel's Levi Eshkol pledges tough policy to secure state
In Jerusalem Israel's 67 year old prime minister designate Levi Eshkol told the Knesset that strengthening security is his top goal. He vowed to continue Ben-Gurion era defense measures and to keep a united cabinet while facing Arab unity efforts. A previous 10 million pound defense boost was approved by the outgoing cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Israel
Levi Eshkol
Eshkol
Knesset
David Ben-Gurion
Ben-Gurion
Middle East
35 Communists Killed In Vietnamese Skirmish
Saigon reports government troops killed 35 communist guerrillas 30 miles northeast of Saigon in an operation. Government losses were 7 dead and 25 wounded. In Saigon, bicycle parking near American installations was banned after two explosive devices killed seven Vietnamese last Friday.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Rainstorm Kills 34 in Southern Japan Amid Floods
A four day rain storm in southern Japan killed 34 people and left six missing while injuring 42. Police say about 43 000 homes flooded and 216 destroyed.
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Tokyo
Japan
Less Red Ink and Trade Talks Dominate Capitol Briefs
AP reports deficit forecasts for the last fiscal year may shrink by about 1.5 billion as revenues rise in early 1963. West Coast businessmen seek talks with Red China in Hong Kong with mixed signals from a presidential adviser and State Department. The House outpaces the Senate in six-month activity with 55 public laws enacted and 742 total bills and resolutions passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Hong Kong
State Department
House
Senate
Jolly Stitchers meet for quilting and social notices
The Stull group met on Wednesday June 19 at Mrs. Dee Cox's home for quilting. next gathering is July 17 with Mrs. Ruby Carothers. Numerous local residents and families are listed visiting, hosting, or attending events in Stull including showers, dinners, and church activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jolly Stitchers
Dee Cox
Ruby Carothers
W. C. Wulfkuhle
George Moss
Amy Bowlin
Sharon Curran
Lori
Carol Groothoff
Wilma Schwemmer
Joyce
Carolyn Curran
David, Noe
Norway Names Ex-UN Chief Trygve Lie Minister
Oslo reports that Norway's Labor minority government appointed former U N Secretary General Trygve Lie as minister of industries to blunt a move to topple the government. The cabinet shift follows a fatal coal mine disaster last November and a scathing safety report that led to the resignation of the prior industries minister.
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Oslo
Norway
U.N
Trygve Lie
Laborites
Kansas Wheat Leaders Converge On Prices And Conservation
Leaders of four Kansas farm groups met in Salina and reached two points: raise minimum price for grain release to 115 percent of the support price and pursue options to renew conservation contracts. They split on the Anfuso amendment’s 1964 status and broader land conservation, with Farm Bureau opposing the wheat program while the others favored it.
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Salina, Kan
Kansas
Commodity Credit Corp
Association of Kansas Wheat Growers
Anson Horning
Larned
Kansas State Grange
James Ingwersen
le Roy
Kansas Farm Bureau
Walter Peirce
Hutchinson
Kansas Farmers Union
Martin Byrne
Topeka
Hornung
Kennedy
Byrne
Pierce
Farm Bureau
Lecompton Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Farewells
Mr and Mrs C Mathews hosted a Sunday dinner for extended family including George Mathews Sr and Jr Mamie Fowler of Kansas City and the Mathews children. A Progressive Class farewell honored Edward Cook who is moving to Philadelphia for a year. An upcoming Lecompton picnic is set for August 3 on the high school grounds.
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Janice Combs
Blythe Brown
Cynda Schwemmer
Virginia Nichols
Shirley Worthington
Brenda O'Connor
Dorothy Anne
Harold Houk
George Houk
Russel
Clifford Houk
O.F.A
Kansas City
Wesley Wulfkuhle
Noel Wulfkuhle
Karen Tidwell
Glen O’connor
Brenda
Raymond Nichols
Virginia
Hallman
Mary Kay
Allen
Hayden Wood
Stewart
Amy Bowlin
Mina Bidinger
Topeka
Redmond
Mathews
George Mathews Sr
Mamie Fowler
George Mathews
Guy Mathews
George Mathews Jr
Rusty
Edward Cook
Beverly
Sharon
Karen
Cook
Philadelphia
Lillian Hill
Lawrence
Herman Banks
Gertrude McCarty
Colorado
W.S.W.S
Harve Glenn
Clarence Glenn
Kansas State Hospital
Lecompton
National banks asked to report condition as of June 29
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks as of Saturday June 29.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
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Atheist Colony
Bernard H. Dickman
St. Thomas Catholic Church
Oscar T. Meador
First Congregational Church
Karl Schuster
First Methodist Church
Kansas Wheat Belt
Rooks County
Kansas House of Representatives
Murray
Big Springs
Hal McClure
Typewriters
Lawrence Typewriter
THE
Associated Press
Ernest T. Nash
Woodland
Cochairman
Committee
San Francisco World Trade Association
McGeorge Bundy
STULL
Clayton Plumlee
Mrs
Willis Bowlin
Salina
Montgomery Ward
Maeseechusetts
New York
San Francisco
Edmund Burke
Uncle Sam
Lawrence Sertoma Club
E. J. Allison
Homer Allison
Ralph Altic
Richard Anderson Kent Balyeat Reno Bruns
Sheldon Care
Maurice Clarkson
Art Colburn
Bills Collinson
John Colyer
George Corn
John Cox Erwin Craig Harry Craig Norman Danielson
Warren Decker Liste
E By
Kenny Edmonds
Leo Eller Norman Endacott
Phil Ernst
Phil Falkenstein Merle Finfrock
Robert Freitag Homer Frank Paul Gibbs
Jonn Golden
Don Groh Harold Hamilton Truman Harding J. T. Harris Irwin Hartley
Richard Haun
Art Heck
Walter Heck Louis Heinrich Thornton
Hemaphist
John Hu Forrest
Frenn
Herb Kampschroeder
Jim Koch Howard Lindley
Walter Love Frank Marcellus
Ed Martin
Tom Mason
Bob Masters
Paul Meseraull Myron Metz
Clarence Miller
GH. “Dinty
Moore
Claude Norris
Phil Olmstead
Lawrence Osmond
M. J. Patterson
Pane Bene
Penny R. Reynolds
Fin Rissman
John Rosenbaum
Fred Rumsey
Ed Salsbury
Bob Schoen
Carl Schroeder
Jim Schubert
John Selig
Body Skinner
Carlyle Smith
Russ Steen
F. Stinson
Charles Taylor, Jr
Jay. Todd Jack Tuggle
June Underwood
Gerald Wente
Walt Wiechman
G. A. Wiley
Ernie Willman
Earl Wilson
Allan Woolard
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