Local drivers shine in Sunday races at Topeka and Ottawa
Micky Harris captured the trophy dash at Topeka with Don Myer taking the B-consolation. Ottawa action saw Red Andrews win the A-feature as Micky Harris finished second and Do Myer third in the A-feature. A notable crash involved Ron Amerine’s car slamming the retaining wall with no injuries reported.
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Lawrence Jalopy
Micky Harris
Topeka
Don Myer
Jack Lux
Red Andrews
Lawrence
Ron Amerine
Ottawa
Myer
Earl Radcliff
Snead Mealman
Andrews
Jud Larson Finishes Fourth in Vigo County Sprint Race
Jud Larson of Kansas City finished fourth in the 30 lap sprint car feature at Vigo County Fairgrounds in Terre Haute Ind A J Foyt won the race from the pole and nearly lapped the field Foyt also won this year’s Indianapolis 500 fuel.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Jud Larson
Kansas City
Vigo County Fairgrounds
A. J. Foyt
Foyt
Cleveland Draws Top Crowd For Doubleheader
Cleveland attracted a season high crowd of 30,013 for the Indians versus Kansas City doubleheader. Club promotions gave away official Little League bats to each accompanying child, exhausting a 10,000 bat supply and leaving about 2,000 boys unserved. Attending fans boosted the Indians’ season attendance to 247,396 across 27 home dates.
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Cleveland
Kansas City
Indians
Odie Wilson Tops 40-8 Links Event
Odie Wilson of Independence Missouri won the championship of the third annual 40 and 8 Golf Tournament at Baldwin Sunday. He shot 33 31 for an 18 hole total of 64. Loren Martin Emporia won the A flight with a 38 36 74. Jim Johnson Baldwin won the B flight with 37 42 79 and Roger Pringle Lawrence won the C flight with 46 42 88. Funds raised support nurses training scholarships and 104 players entered the event.
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Odie Wilson
Independence
Baldwin
Loren Martin
Emporia
Jim Johnson
Roger Pringle
Lawrence
Arizona State Star Henry Carr Out With Pulled Leg
Tempe AP Carr, world record holder for the 220 yard dash, will miss the NCAA meet in Eugene due to a pulled right leg muscle. Florida A and M rival Bob Hayes is favored to win as Carr will not compete this week.
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Tempe
Detroit
Mich
San Diego
Lenon Castillo
Carr
Three Men Cuffed After Shootout With State Police
Three Milwaukee men stopped for a radar check opened fire on two state troopers, wounding them. A large manhunt followed, ending in arrests after bloodhounds and helicopters, with the suspects charged with assault and weapons offenses.
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Ephrata
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Milwaukee
Wis
E. Wilson Purdy
Manion backs Goldwater amid GOP nomination fight
In South Bend Indiana former Notre Dame Law School Dean Clarence Manion defended Senator Barry Goldwater accusing opponents of using money and misrepresentation to block a conservative candidate. He called the anti-Goldwater push a desperate attack on growing conservatism and on Goldwater as the nominee. He accused the internationalist socialist establishment of double standards in elections since 1932.
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Ind
Notre Dame Law School
Clarence Manion
Barry Goldwater
Manion
Goldwater
Pioneering Music Therapy Seminar At Kansas University
Ten professors from across the nation gather at KU for a seminar honoring E Thayer Gaston founder of modern music therapy. The event previews two major grants including a five year music therapy study at KU with 10 graduate students yearly.
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U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Gaston
National Institute of Mental Health
Parsons State Hospital
Officers Question Death Suspect in Kansas City Drowning
Kansas City AP Police questioned Kenneth Wayne Worth 22 about the drowning of Dorothy June Braswell 24 in Lake Jacoma. Worth said he and Braswell drank at a tavern then drove to the lake where he struck her, denying he threw her into the water. autopsy ruled drowning with possible unconscious entry. He then returned Braswell's car to town and left a stolen car note under the windshield wiper.
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Worth
Miss Braswell
Dorothy Braswell
Hiawatha Street
Kansas City
Kan
Two Men Hit Negroes and Eight-Man Gang Retaliates
In New York on Broadway Sunday night two men who knocked down two African Americans for allegedly molesting their wives were mobbed by eight Black men minutes later. Bystanders watched as police were called and the victims Michael Massa and Edward Costa, both Brookyn residents, were treated for facial and body injuries at a hospital.
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Broadway
Michael Massa
Ann
Edward Costa
Wies Margaret
Brookyn
Costas
Massa
Costa
Tony Lema wins Buick Open in Grand Blanc
Tony Lema captured the Buick Open at Warwick Hills in Grand Blanc Mich finishing 11 under par 277 for a $9 000 prize. Don Finsterwald ran second with 280 and Bob Charles placed third at 283. Lema now targets the National Open in Washington D C hoping to win three in a row after the Thunderbird victory at Rye N Y.
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Mich
Tony Lema
Washington, D.C
Lema
Rye
N.Y
San Leandro
Calif
Warwick Hills
Don Finsterwald
Bob Charles
Jack Nicklaus
Seattle
Portland
Ore
Cyclone Fatal in Rajkot Kills at Least 27
A cyclone that roared in from the Arabian Sea last Thursday has killed at least 27 people in Rajkot India. Rescue teams continue to search for survivors and assess the damage.
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Rajkot
India
Arabian Sea
Asians End Obstacle to Accord Talks at Tokyo Summit
Malaysia and Indonesia reached a monitored withdrawal agreement for guerrillas from northern Borneo. Weekend clashes in Malaysian Borneo left nine dead and unspecified wounded, with Thai teams dispatched to the area as observers prepared for a foreign ministers meeting to set an agenda for a proposed summit among Sukarno Abdul Rahman and Macapagal.
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Malaysia
Indonesia
Borneo
Kuala Lumpur
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Thailand
Salvador P. Lopez
Sarawak
Sabah
North Borneo
Philippines
Sukarno
Abdul Rahman
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Macapagal
Rama
Bangkok
Jakarta
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Kansas University Theater Season Opens Tuesday Night
KU summer theater opens at 8 15 p m Tuesday with two one act plays The Exception and the Rule and Man of Destiny The co feature continues through Friday Lewin Goff KU theater director describes The Exception and the Rule as scenes showing kindness and humanity as the exception Tickets are on sale at the University Theater box office or by 24 hour telephone at UN 43982.
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Kansas University
Lewin Goff
Napoleon
University
Investigation Begun In Nuclear Sub Fire
Investigators probed a fire that heavily damaged the nuclear submarine Haddock under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula Mississippi. The $40 million sub, sister to the Thresher, was in advanced construction with no nuclear equipment installed yet.
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Pascagoula
Miss
Haddock
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp
Thresher
Lawrence KU contestant earns second in Miss Kansas Pageant
Cathy Bergstrom of Kansas City placed second among 26 entrants in Pratt as Margene Savage of Florence won Miss Kansas and will compete in the Miss America contest. Bergstrom, 20, a KU senior majoring in physical therapy and art history, plans internship training at KU Medical Center after graduation. Savage is a Kansas State University student and receives 1300 in college scholarships.
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Cathy Bergstrom
Kansas City
Pratt
Margene Savage
Marion County
Florence
Kansas
Atlantic City
Miss Savage
Kansas State University
Miss Bergstrom
Cathy
Kansas University
KU Medical Center
Arthur Bergstrom
Pi Beta Phi Social Sorority
Lawrence Jaycees
Ginger Sue Hulet
Hutchinson
Diane Hodgson
Alexandria
KSU
Negro Miss Denver crowned in city beauty contest
Ernestyne Elizabeth Toliver, a 19 year old Negro sophomore at the University of Denver, won Miss Denver over 12 rivals. She received luggage and a $300 scholarship. Toliver’s father, Ernest H Toliver, is a Houston accountant.
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Denver
Colo
Ernestyne Elizabeth Toliver
Ernest H. Toliver
Houston
Tex
Scranton Launches Six State Delegates Bid for GOP Nomination
Gov William Scranton opens a six state tour to win delegates for the Republican presidential nomination. He meets the Iowa delegation after a commencement address at Allegheny College Meadville. He plans to speak daily on routes including Des Moines Topeka Minneapolis St Louis and Denver with a Massachusetts GOP keynote on Saturday.
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Wiliam W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
U.S
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Allegheny College
Meadville
Des Moines
Iowa
Topeka
Kan
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GOP Leaders In Platform Meet Move Toward Policy Drafting
PHILADELPHIA AP Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and top Republicans convened a Party to People Forum to guide the GOP platform committee on foreign policy. The discussion gains urgency with Gov. William W Scranton entering the nomination race against Sen. Barry Goldwater for the July 13 convention in San Francisco. Joining Eisenhower were Thomas S Gates Walter H Judd Clare Boothe Luce Robert Strausz Hope and William Kitner from Penn.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Party To People Forum
William W. Scranton
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
San Francisco
Eisenhower
Defense
Thomas S. Gates
Walter H. Judd
Minnesota
Italy
Clare Boothe Luce
Robert Strausz-Hope
University of Pennsylvania
Foreign Policy Research Institute
William Kitner
Mt Etna erupts anew spewing ash into the sky
Mt. Etna in Sicily thunders on a fourth day of eruption with incandescent ash clouds reaching 3000 feet. Explosions emanate from the central cone while Acereale Observatory notes three sharp earthquakes at the volcano’s base.
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Catania
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Acereale
KU Previews Orientation Draws 200 Prospective Students
About 200 high school graduates and transfer students from across the state attend KU Previews. Participants tour campus with Carl Fahrbach and take placement tests and exams in Kansas Union, with meetings with deans and a dinner tonight.
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Kansas University
Carl Fahrbach
Kansas Union
Union
Emily Taylor
Donald K. Alderson
Hashinger Hall
Fahrbach
World War I observance opens in Sarajevo
In Sarajevo Yugoslavia a quiet memorial began the 50th anniversary of the pistol shots that sparked World War I. A two week observance ends June 28 with plaques dedicated and wreaths laid. The event notes the 1914 shooting by Gavrilo Princip and the war that followed.
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Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
Gavrilo Princip
Minuteman Lgbm Icbm Launched From Vandenberg
The Air Force announced the launching of a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5 40 am. Preliminary data showed the missile on course for a preselected target over 5000 miles away. It was the 49th launch in the series.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force Today
Pacific Missile Range
Probate notice in Vanderhoof estate sale petition
In Douglas County Kansas a petition seeks court approval to sell real property described as the north sixty feet of low fifteen in block three Day's addition Lawrence. The executor Richard H Rumsey requests sale of Vanderhoof estate assets with defenses due by June 30 1904 at 2 30 pm in Lawrence.
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Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Douglas County
Kansas
Fernie R. Vanderhoof
State of
Richard H. Rumsey
Penn R. Vanderhoof
Lawrence
Fernett
Vanderhoof
Ferne R, Vanderhoof
Hans T. Peterson
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