Harriman to Visit Moscow for Nuclear Test Ban Talks
President Kennedy authorizes W Averell Harriman to listen and discuss broader issues such as a European nonaggression pact in Moscow talks beginning July 15. Harriman travels from New York to London then to Moscow with British officials joining as the third power.
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Washington
Kennedy
W. Averill Harriman
Harriman
Moscow
Dalks
New York
London
National Security Council
Young Republicans Plan First District Convention
LIBERAL Kan AP A constitutional convention of Young Republicans for the 1st District will meet in Hays on July 27. Gene Smith district chairman announced Les Penner Liberal chairs the constitution committee with John Golden Goodland and Dr Mike Ptacik Great Bend joining. The group aims to form a formal organization and elect officers next November, with county chapters expected in all 58 counties by then.
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Liberal
Kan
Hays
Gene Smith
Les Penner
Seward
Smith
Civil Rights Commission Granted Four Year Extension
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee approved a four year extension for the federal Civil Rights Commission by a 5 to 1 vote. The extension keeps the commission active through fall and forms part of the omnibus civil rights bill amid nationwide demonstrations.
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Washington
Kennedy
Federal Civil Rights Commission
Senate Judiciary
Congress
Ferguson Seeks Fast Court Action On Sunday Sales
Kansas Attorney General William Ferguson asked the state Supreme Court to expedite hearings and a ruling on the new Sunday trading law after a district judge declared it unconstitutional. Sedgwick County and other plaintiffs, including grocers, challenge the law which limits Sunday sales and defines exemptions for small shops.
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Topeka
Atty
William M. Ferguson
State Supreme Court
Dist
James Noone
Wichita
Supreme Court
Sedgwick County Atty
Keith Sanborn
Kansas
Highway Turnpike Bond Refunding Proposal Rejected
The Kansas State Highway Commission votes 4-2 against the Turnpike Authority plan to refund over 18.6 million dollars in 1957 bonds for the 18th Street Trafficway linking Kansas City Kansas with Johnson County. The plan proposed issuing 18.695 million dollars at 3.478 percent to invest in government bonds until 1967, aiming for a saving of about 2.5 million dollars but was deemed unsuitable for negotiated terms.
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State Highway Commission
Kansas Turnpike Authority
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Kan
Johnson County
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Israel's New Premier Ready to Meet Nasser
Levi Eshkol, Israel's new prime minister, said he would meet President Gamal Abdel Nasser anytime anywhere. The statement came at his first news conference since taking office on June 24 amid ongoing hostilities with Egypt.
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Israel
Levi Eshkol
Gamal Abdul Nasser
United Arab Republic
Middle East
Eshkol
Moscow to finish hot line with Washington by Sept 1
Soviet Minister of Communications Nikolai Psurtsev ordered completion of the Moscow Washington hot line by September 1 Tass reported The Tass dispatch noted technicians were already at work on the cable link and did not specify a completion date for the Tangiers radio-telegraph backup.
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Nikolai Psurtseve
Washington
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Geneva
City Commission Awards 62511 in Paving and Sewer Contracts
A routine City Commission meeting awarded 62511 in paving and sewer contracts. Penny Construction of Lawrence won two bids totaling 50313.10 for Vermont and North Park Street projects, plus 8799.75 for sanitary sewers. Kansas Construction of Lawrence bid 8799.75 for Fraternity Place and Broadview Terrace sewers. Parking changes include removing parking on Tennessee Street east side and Crescent Road north side, with Crescent signs delayed to September.
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Massachusetts
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Dr Lown Joins Kansas University Theater Staff
Dr Charles R Lown Jr longtime technical director at UCLA will join Kansas University as associate professor and technical director of the KU theater in September He has held posts at Nebraska Drake Georgia and Chicago universities and earned degrees from Iowa Stanford and an Army service background He will fill a vacant upgraded faculty position and bring expertise in lighting scene design and production.
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University of California At
Los Angeles
Kansas University
Lown
Nebraska University
Drake University
Georgia University
Chicago University
UCLA
William A. Conboy
Midwest
Meredith Desegregation Pioneer Faces Board Action
A four member Mississippi State College Board committee meets to discuss seeking federal court permission to expel James Meredith from the University of Mississippi for inflammatory remarks. Meredith sits exams amid the controversy as Gov. Barnett cites possible court action and Dean Love had reprimanded him for remarks linked to Medgar Evers’ ambush.
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West Point
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De Gaulle Sets July 29 News Conference
President Charles de Gaulle announces his first news conference since January. He will address domestic and international affairs, after previously barring Britain's entry into the Common Market and outlining reservations on North Atlantic defense policies.
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Charles de Gaulle
Britain
Driver escapes after finding dynamite in dresser drawer
In Jacksonville on the Fourth of July W J Brown driving from Oxford with furniture inherited from a relative who died, found four sticks of dynamite and four blasting caps in a dresser drawer. Patrolman H W Nicholson said light pressure could have exploded the dynamite enough to blow up a block.
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Fla
W.J. Brown
Oxford
Lone Star Search Finds No Body At Lake
Douglas County authorities halted a south end Lone Star Lake drag search after two swimmers reported feeling a body but investigators concluded the object was not a corpse. Undersheriff Rex Johnson and game protector Eddie Bond noted no body appeared on the surface and the search ended as apparently hopeless.
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Rex Johnson
Eddie Bond
Robert
Larry Whitson
Elks Point
Bond
Wescoe to Confer on WU Presidency
Wichita University regents plan ongoing interviews to name a successor to Harry F. Corbin as president. Dr. Clarke Wescoe of EU will meet Dr. Cramer Reed to discuss coordination, with Wescoe recently recovering from burns and due back tonight. The State Board of Regents will appoint after July 1 1964, and the regents seek a multi year term and mutual State agreement.
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Wichita University Board of Regents
Clarke Wescoe
Harry F. Corbin
Wescoe
Green Lake
Spicer
Minn
Wichita U
State Board of Regents
Rede
U S Says Subversives Flew From Cuba to Caribbean
The State Department reports 15 to 20 people described as potential subversive agents left Cuba on three Russian Ilyushin airliners. They landed at Grand Cayman Island and then flew to other Caribbean points including San Jose Costa Rica. Britain was informed as it backs sanctions against the Red Castro regime.
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State Department
Cuba
Caribbean
Richard I. Phillips
Grand Cayman Island
San Jose
Costa Rica
Britain
United States
Red Castro
Secrecy Shrouds Kansas City Police Case
Topeka AP report on the state inquiry into police brutality in Kansas City Kansas with witnesses kept anonymous. Assistant Attorney General Hoffman questioned five more Black police department members who left for Topeka. Ferguson requested their presence but did not subpoena them.
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Kansas City
Kan
Robert Hoffman
William M. Ferguson
Wyandotte
Robert C. Foster
J. William Mahoney
City Hall
Ferguson
Sit-In at Rockefeller and Wagner Offices Demands Jobs
New York AP. Demonstrators staged sit ins at Gov Rockefeller and Mayor Wagner offices demanding more construction jobs for Negroes and Puerto Ricans. At Rockefeller’s office four white and three Black demonstrators entered, pledging 24 hour action. Wagner’s group began Tuesday, with leaders meeting the mayor who later left for Paris to visit his sick son.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
Robert F. Wagner
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Seal Harbor
Maine
Wagner
Paris
Soviet Union completes new rocket testing program
Moscow based TASS announces that the Soviet Union has completed a new program of rocket testing in the Central Pacific. Officials say the improved carrier rockets intended for space objectives operated in exact conformity to the drawn up program.
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Tass
Soviet Union
Central Pacific
Alabama Schools Consider Action For Integration
Mobile Alabama school officials weigh next move after the 2-1 U.S. Court of Appeals decision ordering desegregation to begin with first grade this fall. The board cites a tight schedule and prior construction as reasons against immediate integration. Approximately 28 000 African American students attend the district which enrolls over 73000 overall.
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Ala
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South Carolina
Mississippi
University of Alabama
Charles E. McNeil
Sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
New York
Deep South
George C. Wallace
Wallace
U.s.dist
Daniel H. Thomas
Thomas
John Minor Wisdom
John R. Brown
Houston
Tex
Griffin Bell
Atlanta
Lawrence Girl Hits Driveway Accident Heals After Heart Surgery
Catherine Ann Hardacre four was run over in her Lawrence driveway on June 19 and underwent open heart surgery at KU Medical Center Kansas City. She is in good condition and expected to be released in about two weeks barring complications. Her parents are Mr and Mrs R C Hardacre of 1535 Lindenwood. Cathy also broke her pelvis and is recovering. The surgery had been planned before the accident and she is receiving cards in room 344 C.
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KU Medical Center
Kansas City
R. C. Hardacre
Lindenwood Sn
Cathy
Kan
Service At Home or Away Rum sey Funeral Home Adv
Notice lists Rumsey Funeral Home VI 3 5111 offering home or away service options and advertising details for arrangements.
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Rumsey Funeral Home
Jehovah's Witnesses Back From Milwaukee Assembly
About 20 Lawrence area members attended the Everlasting Good News Assembly held June 29 to July 7 at Milwaukee county stadium. The gathering baptized 905 new ministers in a 90 minute mass immersion with 50 baptizers. Delegates from 49 states and 15 foreign countries were present,Peak attendance reached 57 055 for a public address by N H Knorr of the Watchtower Society whose talk was titled When God Is King Over All the Earth.
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Lawrence Area
Good News Assembly
County Stadium
Milwaukee
Wis
N. H. Knorr
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Street Resurfacing on 9th Street Continues in Topeka
Crews from Hankamer Asphalt Co. began an asphaltic concrete overlay on 9th Street from Emery Road to Iowa, with completion expected in about three days. Traffic will be disrupted and the area blocked off section by section during the project.
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Emery Road
Iowa
Hankamer Asphalt Co., Inc
Topeka
Hankamer
Kaw River
6Th
Massachusetts
Kansas Construction Company
Lawrence
Ninth Street
George Williams
Indiana
Mississppi
Illinois
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17Th Street
Louisiana
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Vermont Street
Harold Horn
Gun-Toting Holdup Men Rob Kansas City Office
Two armed men robbed a housing development office in Kansas City, forcing Fred J. Sellers and three women clerks into a vault. They escaped with 517 dollars, one robber complained more money was not found.
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Kansas City
Kan
Fred J. Sellers
Juniper Gardens
Sellars
Thanking Nurses and Staff After Hospital Stay
A heartfelt note from Jesse W. Deay thanks nurses, aides, hospital staff, Dr. Campbell, and Dr. Holladay for care during the stay and after returning home. Appreciation to friends and relatives is also extended.
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Holladay
Jesse W. Deay
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