Kansas Centennial Observances At Two Major Galas
The Associated Press reports Kansas marks its centennial with two big events, in Junction City and Topeka. Junction City hosts a four day parade with Ft Riley units, antique farm gear, and horses followed by a concert and an old west play. Topeka opens with a 244 hour historical pageant The Kansas Story and a World Food Fair running through June 25 featuring 15 foreign nations and a ribbon cutting by Gov. John Anderson and officials. Vice Admiral Yeager attends ceremonies Tuesday and Meredith Willson conducts the 58 piece orchestra.
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Topeka
Ft.' Riley
1St Infantry
Mid America Fairgrounds
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Yeager
Pacific
Meredith Willson
Back Brings Questions Is Kennedy Too Active?
President Kennedy’s back troubles prompt reflection on whether he does too much himself. He reads four papers daily, studies reports, conferences, and travels, while Eisenhower relied more on staff. Kennedy promises action with major domestic and foreign initiatives, yet critics ask if he overextends himself.
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James Marlow
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Eisenhower
White House
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Charles de Gaulle
Khrushchev
John Foster Dutles
Dulles
Great Books Session On Freud Eliot And Huxley
Discussions of works by Sigmund Freud T S Eliot and Aldous Huxley will highlight the Great Books Institute this weekend at Kansas University. The event, Friday through Sunday, is sponsored by Wichita Great Books Discussion Program and the American Institute of Discussion of Oklahoma City, in cooperation with the Great Books Foundation of Chicago. Fri evening open house at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall precedes registration. Saturday features two leaders conferences and a clinic refresher, with small groups debating Freud Civilization and Its Discontents and Eliot Ash Wednesday. Huxley Brave New World discussed Sunday, with banquet speakers Walter Gray I Jr and Dean George R Waggoner.
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T. S. Eliot
Aldous Huxley
Great Books Institute
Kansas University
Wichita Great Books Discussion Program
American Institute of Discussion of
Oklahoma City
Great Books Foundation of
Chicago
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Eliot
Huxley
Walter Gray I Jr
Oklahoma City Community Workshop
George R. Waggoner
KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Residents Visit Relatives Across Kansas City Area
Sun day evening visitors from Villa Eden join Mrs. Anna Torneden and relatives. Residents from Manhattan, Lawrence, Edwardsville, Eu dora, Baldwin, Horton, Linwood, and Warsaw drop by for visits with Torneden family members and other local households.
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Frank Henik
Kansas City
Anna Torneden
Ervin
Manhattan
Horton
Kan
Frank Reed
Alan Burchard
LaVerne Reed
David
Dale Kurtz
Eudora
Alfred Torneden
Howard Quinlan
Edwardsville
Mickey Jamison
Lawrence
Fern Flory
Pearl Henik
Linwood
Af Herbert Torneden
Famiy
D. S. Wilson
Dorothy Wilson
William Torneden
M. Walters
Warsaw
of Torneden
Louis
Two Men Are Arrested Admit Robberies Spree
SPRINGFIELD MO AP Two young men were arrested after a $200 cafe robbery and police said they admitted armed holdups in Missouri Oklahoma Texas and Colorado Myron Mathews 19 of Derby Colorado and James Richard Jones Jr 21 AWOL from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Denver were held without charge They were seen at a drive in shortly after the cafe robbery and admitted a $150 service station holdup at Joplin Missouri Sunday night They also confessed to robberies in Anadarko Oklahoma Amarillo Texas and Colorado
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Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Myron Mathews
Derby
Colo
James Richard Jones Jr
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Denver
British Reds in Search for Venus Rocket Signals
British and Soviet scientists open full scale joint effort to locate signals from the Soviet Venusnik rocket lost after a Feb 12 launch. The craft aimed to approach within 60,000 miles of Venus before entering orbit, three weeks overdue.
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Jodrell Bank — England
Soviet Union
USAF Ends Search For Missing C133 Cargo Plane
The U S Air Force discontinued its search for a C133 Cargo Master freight plane with eight crew members that disappeared Friday night in the Pacific. Wreckage was recovered Sunday but no bodies were found. The plane was bound for Travis Air Force Base in California.
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Pacific
Travis Air Force Base
California
Wichita Fire Fatal. House Fire Kills 60-Year-Old John Cole
In Wichita AP report John A. Cole, 60, died Sunday in a house fire that caused about 5000 dollars in damage. Officials have not determined the fire's cause.
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