Two Riders Drown After Fall Into Farm Pond
Donnie Lee Mathis and Sean D Casteel ride horses into a farm pond near Williamsburg Kansas on Sunday. Mathis, stepson of Calvin Bostic, Williamsburg, and Casteel, formerly of Lawrence and an Ottawa service station worker, died in the incident. The event occurred during a horseback ride at the farm.
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Williamsburg
Kan
Donnie Lee Mathis
Sean D. Casteehia
Mathis
Calvin Bostic
Casteel
Lawrence
Ottawa
U S Opens New Era of Rocketry
In Sacramento U S scientists test fired a 30 foot long segmented rocket with about 500000 pounds of thrust, surpassing Atlas and Titan. They envision taller rockets with clustered segments and thrusts of 2 million to 21 million pounds, aiming to outpace Soviet payloads in space.
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Sacramento
Calif
U. S
Titan
Cape Canaveral
Vandenberg Air Force
Atlas
Soviet Union
Local Option Vote On School Issues To Be Challenged
The Justice Department will argue that states must provide public schools and cannot close them to dodge integration. The NAACP sues over Louisiana local option voting on whether to desegregate or shutter schools. A three judge court seeks briefs on due process and equal protection questions.
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Washington
Justice Department
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Louisiana
NAACP
St. Helena Parish
Atty
Jack Gremillion
New Orleans
J.L. Meadows
McDonough No. 19
Capsule-Catcher Speaks at Ottawa Alumni Banquet
Marine Lt. Wayne Koons of Lyons told about rescuing astronaut Cmdr. Alan Shepard from the Atlantic after Shepard's space flight. Koons, a 1956 Ottawa University graduate, spoke to about 1,000 attendees and received a distinguished service award. He described dummy lifts, takeoff timing from Lake Champlain, and the recovery as parachute opened at 7000 feet.
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Ottawa
Kan
Wayne Koons
Lyons
Ottawa University
Koons
Cmdr
Jalan Shepard
Atlantic Ocean
Shepard
Salinger to Head Team In TV Debate On Freedom of Press
NBC will stage a nationally televised debate on freedom of the press on June 24 featuring White House press secretary Pierre Salinger leading the American team against Soviet debaters Aleksei Adjubei and Mikhail Kharlamov. The broadcast airs 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. CST.
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Salinger
Reds
New York
White House
Pierre Salinger
Khrushchev
National Broadcasting Co
Nbc-Tv
Central Standard Time
Harrison Salisbury
New York Times
Aleksei Adjubey
Izvestia
Mikhail A. Kharlamov
Soviet Foreign Ministry
NBC
Bostonian Mary Lee Gough Nay elected First Church president
Mary Lee Gough Nay of Boston was elected president of the Mother Church First Church of Christ Scientist today. She succeeds Arthur W. Eckman, the Mother Church's general counsel.
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Boston
Mary Lee Gough Nay
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Arthur W. Eckman
Mother Church
Red Delegates Ignore Report on Violations
At the East-West talks in Geneva on Laos the Communist delegates dismissed talk of cease-fire violations following Kennedy and Khrushchev’s Vienna summit. J Michalowski urged focus on a political settlement while Pushkin called cease-fire issues minor, and Malcom MacDonald supported Vienna’s aid to Laos’ unity and neutrality.
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Laos
Kennedy
Khruschev
J. Michalowski
Poland
Vienna
Michalowski
International Truce Commission
Georgi Pushkin
Pushkin
Malcom MacDonald
Britain
Andrei A. Gromyko
Chen Yi
Gro
Saturn booster transport plans hit TVA dam delay
A damaged lock at Wheeler Dam halts barge movement of the Saturn space booster from Redstone Arsenal toward Cape Canaveral. NASA weighs land transport options with routes blocked by the damaged lock, lengthening a planned year end Florida launch.
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Huntsville
Ala
Tva
Naional Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Florida
Redstone Arsenal
Wheeler Dam
Cease-fire talks stall as Laos violations mount
Myko and Khrushchev attend a Moscow meeting while conference officials call the cease-fire useful yet not new. Western delegates press for on-the-ground control group instructions in Laos, but the Soviets refuse. Communists claim a cease-fire exists and push for a long-term Laotian neutrality accord.
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Myko
Moscow
Khrushchev
United States
International Control Commission
Laos
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