JFK Wins and House Approves Foreign Aid Expansion
The House voted 250 to 164 to authorize President Kennedy to aid Communist countries if needed to tilt them away from the Kremlin. The measure would spend $4,668,500,000 for foreign aid this year, with amendments restricting UN loans and halting aid to nations seizing American property without timely fair payment. Senate action and a House Senate conference will shape final legislation amid further funding fights.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Kremlin
United Nations
Senate House Conference Committee
Senate
Thomas Feighan
Ohio
Ribicoff Resigns Cabinet to Seek Senate Nomination
Abraham Ribicoff quits as secretary of health education and welfare to run for U S Senate at Connecticut state convention. He faces challenge from Frank Kowalski while John Bailey backs his bid. Kennedy supports Ribicoff noting the need for his vote in Congress. Possible successor candidates named include Leroy Collins Edith Green John Gleason Jr and Robert Weaver.
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Conn
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Kennedy
Connecticut
U.S
John Bailey
Ribicoff
Health, Education and Welfare
Frank Kowalski
Kowalski
Thomas Dodd
Congress
Dodd
Bailey
Mike Mansfield
Dmont
Senate
Washington
White House
Leroy Collins
Florida
National Association of Broadcasters
Edith Green
D-Ore
John §. Gleason Jr
Robert Weaver
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Employment Increases At Factories in June
Washington AP reports factory employment rose to a record 16.8 million in June as a seasonal gain. Labor official Seymour Wolfbein notes average weekly factory earnings hit a record and overtime peaked in five years. He cautions the figures do not portend a recession despite two dominant industries, steel and autos, showing divergent trends.
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Washington
Labor Department
Seymour Wolfbein
Department
Stock Market Index and Local Service Advertisements
AP reports New York closing average of 60 stocks at 219.8 down 0.7 point. Advertisements note Raney Hillcrest Adv with two generations of service by the Rumsey family and the Rumsey Funeral. Journal-World carrier home 35th.
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New York
Vacation Pak
Rumsey
Rumsey Funeral
Your Journal-World
Palmer Shafters Open's Records To Grab Title
Arnold Palmer won the British Open at Troon with a 276 total, the lowest 72 hole score in the 102 year history, after rounds of 67 and 69. He beat Kel Nagle by six strokes, matching the Hagen margin record from 1929.
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Scotland
Arnold Palmer
Latrobe
Kel Nagle
Australia
Peter Thomson
Royal Lytham
St. Anne's
Nagle
Palmer
St. Andrews
Walter Hagen
Hagen
Johnny Farrell
Muirfield
West Texas Estes case pleads guilty on fraud counts
Three men and a company tied to West Texas financier Billie Sol Estes pleaded guilty to five counts in a 29 count federal indictment. Estes pleaded innocent. The defendants, Coleman McSpadden Harold E Orr and Ruel W Alexander, all officers of Superior Manufacturing Co of Amarillo, admitted to schemes involving fake mortgages worth about 22 million dollars. The case centers on inflated fertilizer storage tank assets and a broader farm aid fraud. Separately Senator John L McClellan urged a farm aid shakeup after Oklahoma officials were accused of delaying knowledge of Estes cotton deals and related transfers.
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Bulletin
EL Paso
Tex
West Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Coleman McSpadden
Lubbock
Harold E. Orr
Amarillo
Ruel W. Alexander
Superior Manufacturing Co
FBI
Health plan defeated in Senate use of Social Security funds
The Senate voted 75 to 5 to overwhelmingly defeat a Republican proposal to use Social Security financing to pay premiums for private health insurance policies for the elderly.
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Washington
Senate
Current Weather Ahead in Lawrence Likely to Bring Storms
Lawrence faces a pattern of heat then rain then more heat with heavy thunderstorms possible tonight. Overnight rainfall totaled .17 inches while downtown temps dipped to 70 before rising to 90 by 2 p.m. July has brought 2.06 inches of rain and humid heat, recalling July 1954 when 22 straight days topped 100 degrees.
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Lawrence
Mercury
Arn Sets Torrid Campaign Pace
Republican senatorial candidate Ed Arn of Wichita toured Lawrence and nearby towns in a brisk daylong swing. The former attorney general and two term governor spoke at a Hotel Eldridge coffee reception and chatted with voters en route to Baldwin and Eudora, visiting 94 counties so far. Arn defended a long career in GOP leadership and emphasized a passion for government and campaigning.
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Ed Arn
U.S
W. L. Douglas
Oskaloosa
Lawrence
Arn
Massachusetts Street
Massachusetts
Wichita
Baldwin
Eudora
Eldridge
State Supreme Court
James Pearson
U. S. Senate
Andy Schoeppel
Pearson
John Anderson
Ara
Supreme Court
Navy
South Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kansas
Demo Candidates Rally in Lawrence Monday Night
Four Democratic candidates seeking national and state offices will attend a rally at the Hotel Eldridge in Lawrence on Monday night. Joe Poizner runs for U S Senate Dale Saffels for governor Jules Doty for attorney general.
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Lawrence
Lithe Hotel
Eldridge
Joe Poizner
U. S. Senate
Dale Saffels
Jules Doty
Attor
Davis accuses write-in Gray bid of seeking governor’s race
Wichita oilman Gough W. Davis charges the state Democratic write‑in candidacy for Andrew Gray of Richland as an effort to advance Gray toward the 1964 Kansas governor’s race. Gray defends his role, saying his goal is to preserve the two party system and public service, not personal ambition.
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Tom Black
Black Tom
24Th St
Tom
Maynard
Black
Wichita
Gough W. Davis
State Committee
Andrew Gray
Richland
Gray
Davis
Sedgwor County
Kansas
Gray write in campaign to be reviewed by Douglas County Democrats
Douglas County Democrats hold 8 p.m. meeting in Crystal Room to review Gray write in campaign for secretary of state after he was drafted when no candidate filed by the June 20 deadline. Chairman Frank McDonald notes key issue is securing enough primary votes to participate in the next election. Gray attacks George Hart campaign financing while opening a Topeka bank account with nine cents and a mustard seed to fund expenditures.
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McDonald
Gray
George Hart
Hart
Saffels
Topeka
City Mulls Four Corners Annexation Plan in Lawrence
Lawrence city commissioners study a report by City Manager Harold Horn on annexing up to 2315 acres surrounding the city. Areas span northeast southeast southwest and northwest, with valuations totaling about 1.0 million dollars and potential tax gains of 26 to 27 thousand annually.
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Lawrence
Kaw River
Louisiana Street
Kaw
Harvard Road
Horn
Haskell
Haskell Institute
Kansas University Endowment Assn
Iowa
15Th
Faskell
Pioneer Ridge and Country Club North Additions
Weather outlook with storms for Northeast Kansas
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday. Locally heavy storms possible tonight with a low around 70 and a high near 90. Temperatures recorded: midnight 2 a.m. yesterday high 94, low 67. today high 92, low 63. Rainfall 0.17 inch. record high 117 in Wad, low 57 in 1940.
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Wad
Hillcrest Bow
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