Bandit robs Wichita supermarket. $5,000 taken
A lone gunman robbed Mammel's Supermarket in southeast Wichita, fleeing with about $5,000 as police tracked a Norwich, Kansas car linked to the suspect. A mayor was briefly abducted for his car before being released unharmed.
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Wichita
Bob Holder
Norwich
Kan
Manchester
Okla
Kansas
Kansas Highway
Harper
Edgar F. Whiteaker
Wynnewood
Oklo
Mammel's
Holder
Space Vets Sad as Mercury Ends and Gemini to Begin
Houston engineers and NASA officials announced Mercury will not resume. James Webb said the next flight will be the two man Gemini about 18 months out. Experts question whether artificial gravity is needed for long space trips.
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Houston
Tex
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James E. Webb
Washington
Manned Space Flight Center
U.S
Max Faget
Earth
Valley Rate Hike Plan to Be Heard
An application by Greeley Gas Co of Denver to raise natural gas rates in the Kaw Valley region will be heard by the Kansas Corporation Commission on July 22. The request covers Douglas, Wyandotte and Johnson counties including Bonner Springs and Eudora. The total increase would be 37,944 dollars annually. residential customers would pay about 12 dollars more per year on 31,756 dollars total, while commercial users would add roughly 6,188 dollars, about the same per-year average.
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Kaw Valley
Kansas Corporation Commission
Greeley Gas, Co
Denver
Colo
Douglas
Wyandotte
Johnson Counties
Bonner Springs
Eudora
DeSoto
Basehor
Piper
Greeley
Hong Kong to Import Red China's Water
Hong Kong will import water from Communist China to ease the city’s drought. Tankers are chartered to bring water from the Pearl River about 40 miles away as the seven month drought leaves Hong Kong on four hours of water every four days.
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Hong Kong
China
Pearl River
Wallace faces possible contempt in Alabama standoff
Governor George Wallace may dodge jail again as the Justice Department signals no current intention to prosecute. Wallace defied a federal injunction by blocking two Negro students at the University of Alabama as National Guard troops escorted them inside.
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Tuscaloosa, Ala
George Wallace
Justice Department
Wallace
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Katzenbach
National Guard
Neeroes
Vivian Malone
James A. Hood
Miss Malone
Hood
Edwin O. Guthman
Lawrence High sophomores earn state merit certificates
Seventy one Lawrence High School juniors and sophomores scored in the top quarter of state tests in March to win education development certificates and place in the National Merit Scholarship program. Richard Whitley led all with the top score, and a 2:30 p.m. Friday ceremony at the high school will honor the students and present profile booklets and certificates.
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Lawrence High School
Richard Whitley
Stuart Brune
Timothy Gilles
Mickey Allen
Kathy Binns
Marsha Blair
Ruth Ann Browne
Marilyn Buller
Mary Busse
Warren Cawley
James Collinson
Joyce Crady
Lonnie Dayton
Carol Edwardson
Mark Einhellig
Evelyn Elliott
Constance Fabac
Bob Fambrough
Doug Flessing
Judith Fowler
Jeff Gardner
Richard Gorman
Jay Hamilton
Warren Harrell
Robert Harris
Margie Henry
Timothy Horn
Cindy Horn
Tom Hornbaker
Martha Hudson
Steven Kesler
Barbara Lauter
Elwyn Luber
Anita Markley
Robert Marvin
Kent Marshall
Fred Mersmann
Thomas Mersmann
Roger Mignot
David Miller
Gayle Miller
Mary Milleret
Doug Milroy
Jack Murphy
Stephen Nelson
Rebecca Owen
Cassie Pangle
Steve Pendleton
Ronald Philo
Sheila Reardon
Kathryn Reed
Christopher Saricks
Linda Schaumburg
Joyce Schulte
Connie Sickles
Sarah Smith
Tom Smith
Mary Sonneborn
William Spray
Sally Stark
Donald Stogsdill
Richard Surface
Nancy Taylor
Inge Turner
Klasina Vander- Werf
Shari Vick
Brenda Warkentine
Bruce Warkentine
Tacy Weidman
Woodring Wright
Virginia Wulfkuhle
Two Killed in Private Plane Crash Near Kingfisher Oklahoma
Two oil company flyers died when their Sohio Aircraft crashed on a farm between Dover and Hennessey in north central Oklahoma. John W. Avery 33 was the pilot and Donald Eugene Geis 31 also perished.
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Kingfisher, Okla
Oklahoma City
Oil Company
Dover
Hennessey
Oklahoma
John W. Avery
Donald Eugene Geis
Sohio Oil Co
Avery
Gambling Czar Elmer Remmer Dies in Alameda
Elmer Bones Remmer once top Bay Area gambling czar died Tuesday night at Alameda Hospital after glandular ailment surgery. The 65 year old had been paroled two years earlier from Terminal Island federal prison where he served 244 years of a 5 year term for income tax evasion.
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Alameda
Calif
Elmer
Bones) Remmer
San Francisco Bay Area
Remmer
Alameda Hospital
Terminal Island
Polish Cardinal Arrives in Rome for Papal Conclave
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Poland’s primate, arrived in Rome today for the conclave to elect a new Pope. Hundreds welcomed the 61 year old church leader as his train pulled in, and he reminded the crowd of the death of Pope John XXIII.
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Rome
Stefan Cardinal
Wyszynski
Poland
John XXIII
Earhart Commemorative Stamp Ceremony in Atchison
A ceremony on July 24 marks the first day of issue for the Amelia Earhart commemorative air mail stamp in Atchison Kansas. Postmaster General J Edward Day will speak along with Senators Frank Carlson and James B Pearson and Representative William H Avery all from Kansas.
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Atchison, Kan
Atchison
Amelia Earhart
J. Edward Day
Frank Carlson
James B. Pearson
William H. Avery
Kansas
Nursing School Earns Full Accreditation at KU Medical Center
The National League for Nursing awarded continuing full accreditation to the Nursing Education Department of the Kansas University School of Medicine. Jean Hill, school director, announced initial accreditation for the general nursing program designed for diploma graduates seeking a bachelor of science in nursing. The collegiate program had temporary status in 1952 and provisional status in 1957, achieving full accreditation in 1959 as a step toward ongoing recognition.
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National League For Nursing
Kansas University School of Medicine
Jean Hill
League For Nursing
Protest Clash Delays Harlem Hospital Work Start
In New York a protest by about 150 demonstrators near the Harlem Hospital site led to clashes with police injuring three men, two of whom are Black. Pickets blocked Lenox Avenue and 136th Street until police cleared the entrance with barricades, delaying work by 30 minutes. NAACP official Herbert Hill plans a City Hall visit to protest police actions and what he calls ongoing discrimination in construction hiring.
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Harlem
Lenox Avenue
136Th Street
Herbert Hill
Naacp National
Paul R. Screvane
City Hall
Hill
New York City
JFK Civil Rights Plan Faces Slow Senate Path
President Kennedy outlines a civil rights bill with aims to end discrimination in public accommodations and boost desegregation efforts. Leaders from both parties pledge support, but Sen. Humphrey warns final action likely by late summer amid anticipated Southern opposition and a broad reform agenda including education and tax cuts.
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Kennedy
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Minnesota
Congress
Humphrey
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