Negro woman elected top Baptist post in New York meeting
Ruth McKinney of Cleveland named second vice president of the American Baptist convention, becoming the first Black officer at the top level. C Stanton Gallup of Plainfield New Jersey was chosen president and Rev Roger Frederickson of Sioux Falls first vice president. Gallup, 49, lives on a 100 acre Plainfield farm and has served on the General Executive Council. The convention urged separation of church and state and backed nonviolent student protests against segregation while addressing questions about religion in politics.
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Rochester
N. Y
American Baptist Convention
Ruth McKinney
Cleveland
C. Stanton Gallup
Plainfield
Te. Wass. Gallup
McKinney
Wade H. McKinney
Antioch Baptist Church
Christian Service
National Council of American Baptist Women
United Church Women
Frederickson
Sioux Falls
Quinton Ivy
Warren
B.I
Richard Curtis
Bloomfield
Ind
Postman Recovers Mail After Town Flood
In Tulsa Oklahoma a car knocked over a mailbox and a fireplug creating a flood of mail. Postman C W Barnett waded through the water to retrieve soggy letters and delivered them to the post office.
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Tulsa
Okla
C. W. Barnett
800 Airmen Donate Blood for Teenager's Heart Surgery
Eight hundred airmen volunteered to donate blood for 13 year old Allen Coffman of Kansas City who needs heart surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The operation requires 13 units and a rare A RH positive type with matching antibodies. Twenty two donors were found among the 800 airmen after appeals to Forbes Air Force Base. Allen's father served as an Air Force sergeant in World War II, and doctors say the operation is life saving, with a critical 60 day window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
University of Kansas Medical Center
Allen Coffman
Clifford Coffman
Forbes Air Force Base
Topeka
Allen
Air Force
Cattle Running For State Job Primary In Kansas
Kansas Sunflower Boys State in Wichita held primary elections listing nominees for governor lieutenant governor secretary of state state auditor state treasurer attorney general superintendent of public instruction state printer commissioner of insurance and more. The general election will be held today.
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Wichita
Kansas Sunflower Boys
Ed Brady
Eric
Fred Smoot
Coffeyville
Don Sponenberg
Derby
John Atkinson
Topeka
Ronnie Taylor
Overland Park
Frank White
Cedar Vale
Fred Bolick
Hoisington
Rodney Bowman
Phillipsburg
Jim Garner
Satanta
Robert Stewart
Minneapolis
Jerry Kohler
McPherson
Bill Cottle
Lawrence
Public Instruction
John Webb
Leavenworth
John W. Mikow
Blue Rapids
Paul Crider
Duane Lyon
Newton
Jim Flemming
Erie
Roy D. Clark
National parties back drive to spur votes and contributions
Democratic and Republican national chairmen joined in endorsing a 1960 get-out-the-vote effort. More than 150 national organizations launched the drive with the American Heritage Foundation and Advertising Council soliciting free advertising for dollars and votes. Butler and Morton backed the effort, noting the 1956 campaign cost nearly 200 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Republican National Party
John C. Cornelius
American Heritage Foundation
Advertising Council
Cornelius
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Paul M. Butler
Butler
Fish stranded on German shore as Elbe meets North Sea
Fishermen use dog pulled sleds to haul baskets of fish from the beach where the Elbe River meets the North Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Elbe
North Sea
Dr Babs Aims for St Louis During Cross Country Hike
Dr Barbara Moore plans to reach St. Louis today while hiking from San Francisco to New York. She covered 35 miles Monday over hilly terrain as Mineola, Missouri lies 84 miles west of St. Louis on Highway 40.
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Dr. Babs
St. Louis
Mineola, Mo
Barbara Moore
Mineola
U. S. Highway 40
San Francisco
New York
Vegetarian guest honored with Warvertown banquet meal remark
A vegetarian guest was welcomed in Warver ton Monday night with a hotel banquet. Hotel owner H. L. Heflin noted Dr. Moore ate a large vegetables and milk meal while other guests mostly ate meat and potatoes.
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Warverton
H. L. Heflin
Dr. Moore
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