Echo of Baker Probe Looms in Campaign Narrative
The Senate closed its seven month investigation into Bobby Baker with a majority finding many gross improprieties but leaving criminal prosecutions to the Justice Department. Republicans fault the report for not calling all witnesses and fear a broader cover up while Baker, once Lyndon Johnson's aide, invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Bobby Baker
Senate Rules Committee
Justice Department
Baker
B. Everett Jordan
D-N.c
White House
Walter Jenkins
Jenkins
Don B. Reynolds
Johnson
GOP
Lyndon B. Johnson
Scranton Pushes Platform Weighing Civil Rights and Extremism
Governor Scranton urges the Republican platform to condemn radical groups like the John Birch Society and to affirm a strong civil rights stance. He seeks a plank on compulsory Social Security, expanded state roles in housing and transport, targeted antipoverty measures, and federal medical aid for the aged without Social Security financing. Scranton presses for timely platform drafting and hints at potential floor fights if the committee diverges from his positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Scranton
John Birch Society
America
GOP
Johnson
Platform Committee
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Goldwater
Orientation programs open at KU for foreign students
A bus tour of the Kansas University campus marked the start of the 14th Annual Orientation Center for Foreign Students. The weeklong program brings about 350 visitors to KU with events from State Department institutes to clergy and insurance management sessions. Participants include Elmer Beth, E. C. Buehler, William Conboy, and others from KU and across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas University
Credit Bureau and Collection Service Management Institute
Kansas Clergy Economic Education
Management Institute
Elmer Beth
E. C. Buehler
William Conboy
Kim Giffin
L. Martin Jones
Carl Seashore
Donald Blauert
Merced
Calif
Becky Cameron
Pueblo
Colo
Joseph Garber
Cincinnati
Ohio
Carl Roeve
St. Louis
Fahrbach to Leave KU for Wichita State University
Carl Fahrbach, assistant director of admissions at Kansas University since January 1955, will leave KU August 15 to become assistant registrar at Wichita State University. He will assume Wichita State’s director of admissions in July 1965 after Dr. Worth Fletcher retires. Fahrbach, his wife, and their children David and Patricia are arranging the move to Wichita. the family home is 1934 Emerald Drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Fahrbach
Kansas University
Wichita State University
Worth Fletcher
Fahrbach
David
Patricia
Wichita
Emerald
Local remodeling brings McGrew Realty to 9th and La
A former service station at the southeast corner of 9th and La streets is being converted into office space for the McGrew realty agency now at 806 Mass. St. The project reflects Lawrence area growth and resident care with power mower safety noted in emergency reports.
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9Th and
la. Sts
McGrew Realty Agency
Mass, St
Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kansas City
Topea
New Orleans Cotton Exchange Closes After 93 Years
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange ends operations shutting a 93 year chapter in futures trading. President C Layton Merritt blames price fixing by the government and cooperative financing as the final blows. Edwin G Pinac will rap the gavel at 12 01 PM EST marking the end in the three room suite of the building. The move leaves New York as the remaining active cotton futures market worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Secretary of Agriculture
Merritt
Edwin G. Pinac
Exchange
New York
Liverpool
Bombay
Hoover to Miss First Parley in Years
Herbert Hoover, oldest living ex president, will miss the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. He will be 90 next month and will send a 600 word statement to the convention opening Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
San Francisco
Fire officials destroy dangerous X-33 mixture
Chief Sanders reports Assistant Fire Chief Sam Brubaker and firefighters Burns and Kendrick burned the dangerous X-33 mixture by fire. Judge Arthur Stanley signed the order to confiscate and destroy it under U.S. Pure Food and Drug Dept. oversight as Deputy Marshal Mangrum plans further destruction in Manhattan.
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F. C. Sanders
Journal-World Photo
Sanders
Sam Brubaker
Lee Burns
Ralph Kendrick
United States
Arthur Stanley
U.S. Pure Food and Drug Dept
Mangrum
Manhattan
Lawrence
Scranton Possibility Teases Vice Presidential Run
An unnamed official says Goldwater may offer second place to Scranton but Scranton has refused. He could accept to gain a path to the presidency in 1968 if Goldwater loses, since the VP role would shield him from blame and keep his political options open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldwater
Arizona
Scranton
Driver Kills a Walker Then Removes a Plate
New York police report a driver struck and killed Irving Silver, 63, in Manhattan. The driver, a man in his late 20s, left the scene after unscrewing the license plate and abandoning the car at the intersection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Irving Silverforb
Manhattan
Celia
Antarctic Elevation Facts and Vinson Massif Peak
Antarctica, the world's highest continent, averages more than a mile above sea level. Its highest point is Vinson Massif at 16 860 feet in the Ellsworth Mountains about 600 miles from the South Pole.
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Antarctica
Vinson Wassif
Ellsworth Mountains
South Pole
Mt Oread grads fill teaching posts across colleges
Kansas University reports 51 members of the class of 1964 have taken collegiate faculty appointments and 35 graduates new to teaching, with ten of 83 appointments at junior colleges. Dr. Harold Regier notes many others may have positions without bureau reporting.
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Kansas University
Kansas
Harold Regier
Regier
Charles W. Bassett
Pennsylvania University
Sidney L. Berger
Michigan State University
Marlon J.allison
Tampa University
Jess Feist
McNeese State College
Lake Charles
Iun
Kenneth D. George
Kur
Roy Johnson
Western New Mexico University
Silver City
Robert LaForte
East Texas State College
Commerce
Duane Nichols
Kansas State University
Katherine F. Nutt
Arizona State College
Flagstaff
Wiliam Ogden
St. Michael's College
Santa Fe
N. M
Elbert Overholt
Eleanor Davia
Fort Hays Kansas
David Higdon
Southwest Missouri State College
Springfield
James Hinkhouse
Northwest Missouri State College
Maryville
Robert Kieffer
Ball State Teachers College
Muncie
Ind
Richard Loosbrock
Saint Mary College
Xavier
Virginia McCready
Pasadena College
Pasadena
Calif
James Maag
Dodge City Junior College
Diane Morey
Omaha University
Lucille Perkins
Kansas State Teachers College
Emporia
Richard Scharine
Muscatine Junior College
Muscatine
Harold Sylvester
Concordia College
Seward
Neb
Harth Wollin
Moorhead
Minn
Michael K. Bucsek
la Salle College
Philadelphia
Kenneth Rothrock
Wisconsin State College
Sall Claire
Annette Ruder
St. Louis County Junior College
James Salsberry
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces
Maria Hefty
James Tanner
Mary Ann Warburton
Illinois University
James Peter Coulson
Arizona Western College
Yuma
Cecil B. Currey
Nebraska Wesleyan College
Lincoln
Patricia Duncan
Fort Hays
Kansas State College
Harold Edgar
Louisiana State Univrsity
Earl S. Billiott
Pennsylvania State University
Mont Alto
Solomon Flores
Chicago Teachers College
Edwin Gorsky
Bethany College
James Hawes
Gerrot Homan
Pittsburg
Robert Lee Ince
Kenneth Innis
Whitman College
Walla Walle
Wash
Sugwon Kang
Brooklyn College
Frank Kensnowski
Trinity University
San Antonio
Tex
Louise Leonard
Wisconsin University
Michael Allen Miller
Kansas City
Robert ‘Ohlsen
Arkansas State College
Manouchehr Pedram
Washburn University
Harold Plett
Fullerton Junior College
James Polsin
Gonzaga University
Spokane
Erwin Schmidt
Elmhurst College
Lesson by Ike in finance at IBM Day
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the World's Fair and gave a finance lesson to about 12 000 IBM employees. He noted that IBM stock given to Columbia University in 1948 has grown from 15 000 to about 575 000 and quipped that he wished he had known more about it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
IBM
Columbia
IMB
Eisenhower
Building Total Greater After Mistake Found
The first half 1964 building total rose to 4 180 276 after city inspector Louis Stone added 500 000 to the 3 680 276 reported. A clerical error last month caused the half million overstatement. June permits totaled 449 236 across multiple dwelling and business projects in Elmhurst Illinois and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Louis Stone
Stone
Card of Thanks from the Ames and Clough Families
The Ames and Clough families express gratitude to friends in Lawrence for sympathy and aid after the loss of a husband and father and for prayers, visits, and gifts during Alma Ruth Clough’s illness and death. They thank doctors and Lawrence Memorial Hospital staff for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Daisy Williams Ames
Alfred Ames
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Lawrence American Legion
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W. 25Th St
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Learnard Ave
John Woodbury
Pioneer Rd
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Ark, St
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Lawrence Ready Mix
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Ruth Solis
Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland
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Tal Streeter
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Millbrook
N. Y
Ralph Stutzman
Benton Harbor Community, College
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