Troops disperse Gadsden protesters under tight security
In Gadsden Alabama about 300 to 350 Negroes gathered on the courthouse lawn for a protest vigil when about 100 state troopers under Col Albert Lin go moved in using night sticks and electric prods to disperse the crowd. About 200 white spectators watched as the riot trained troopers secured the city and more peace officers joined in patrolling Etowah County. DeWay Colvard said 396 demonstrators arrested Tuesday remain in jail until the judge acts.
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Gadsden
Ala
Albert Lingo
Lingo
Alabama
South
Lesley Gilliland
Congress
Marvin Robinson
Congress of Racial Equality
Gilliland
Dewey Colvard
Alabama Highway Patrol
Church and State Split Echoes Across Nation
Religious leaders react to a Supreme Court ruling on Bible readings and prayer in schools. Statements emphasize support for separation of church and state, with leaders noting impacts on congregations and broader society amid ongoing desegregation tensions and court actions.
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Daniel Deblock
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Supreme Court
H. C. McMillan
St. Luke A.M.E
Harvard Wilbur
Trinity Episcopal
Kenneth Meredith
Church of the Nazarene
God
Harold M. Mallett
First Presbyterian
M. C. Allen
First Baptist
Lodge Notice Admits First Degree on June 20
Acadia Lodge No. 9 AF and AM calls a special communication Thursday June 20 at 7 p.m. Work in the First Degree. Sojourners welcome. Cc. S Edmonds W M J K Gorbuit Secy.
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Acadia Lodge NO
AF & AM
Cc. S. Edmonds
Gorbuit
Secy
Kansas Body May Purchase a Part of the Turnpike
The Kansas Turnpike Authority seeks to sell or toll a lower road segment from 18th to 38th streets in Kansas City Kansas. An alternative plan with a KTA and Kansas Highway Department interchange at K 32 57th Street would set a 10 cent toll at 38th to 57th.
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Kansas
Kansas Turnpike Authority
38Th Streets
Kansas City
Kan
KTA
L. D. Newcomer
Kansas Highway Department
57Th Street
38Th
57Th
Wyandotte County
Turnpike Authority
Bonner Springs
State Highway Commission
Topeka
57Th St
Kaw Valley
Josef Sorkin
Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendorf
The
Highway Commission
Kennedy urges bold civil rights package in 1963 push
President Kennedy outlines a comprehensive civil rights program aimed at ending racial discrimination in private public facilities and education. He calls for a yearlong Congress session, warns against street violence, and seeks federal action to guarantee equal access and enforce desegregation with broad funding for jobs training and education.
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Congress
Kennedy
Capitol
Alabama
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Tax bills and odd notes mix in Lawrence report
Heard in Lawrence Kansas Power and Light Co pays second half real estate taxes to Douglas County. Manager Austin Stedham presents a 236 162 check for a total tax of 472 324. city franchise taxes push local bill above 500 000. Farms near K 10 report bumper wheat crop averaging 52 bushels per acre from nine acres with 26 bushels per acre per partner.
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Kansas Power and Light Co
Douglas County
Austin Stedham
KPL
H. C. Dunmire
Herb Brown
Here
Hoover Recovery Near Miraculous
Former President Herbert Hoover, 88, shows almost miraculous improvement from illness. Family spokesman Neil MacNeil said Hoover’s vitality astonishes friends and physicians. No medical bullets will be issued if improvement continues. No link found to cancer removed from his intestine last August. He had a comfortable night and blood loss has largely been replaced by transfusions. Further testing postponed until he is stronger. No bleeding for three days.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Neil MacNeil
MacNeil
Hoover
Kansas hospital officials to attend two day workshop
Kansas hospital officials will attend a two day workshop for hospital administrators Thursday and Friday at Kansas University. The program, sponsored by the Kansas Hospital Association and KU Extension, opens with registration at 9 a.m. Thursday in the first floor lobby of Joseph R Pearson Residence Hall.
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Kansas Hospital
Kansas University
Kansas Hospital Association
KU Extension
Joseph R.pearson
Soviet Prez Khrushchev Blocks Publication of Chinese Letter
Moscow declines to publish a June 14 Chinese Communist Party letter accusing the Soviet Union of censoring China and threatening peaceful coexistence with the West. The Central Committee cites prompting aggravation and cites a July 5 CPSU China party meeting as a reason to withhold the document. Some observers suggest fear of internal dissent over de Stalinization.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Central Committee of
The
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Peking
Central Committee
Leonid Ilyichev
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPSU
Communist Party of China
Chinese Communist Party
Eudora ZIP Code Listed at 66025
Postmaster Lenahan announces the Eudora ZIP code will be 66025 starting July 1, aligning with Lawrence 66044 and Kansas University 66045. If mail is picked up at a post office, all three stations including Eudora use 660. The new code speeds delivery and reduces missent mail by clarifying national area, state, and post office.
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Eudora
John P. Lenahan
Lawrence
Kansas University
Lenahan
John Doe
Main St
Kansas
Two Car Crash Causes $325 Damage South of Lawrence
A Tuesday accident seven miles south of Lawrence on U.S. 59 caused $325 damage with no injuries. Mrs. Evelyn Wray of Baldwin started to turn when hit from behind by a vehicle driven by William Brigden of Altamont. Brigden said he did not see the turn signals until after braking and skidding into the Wray car.
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Lawrence
U.S. 59
Evelyn Wray
Route 2
Baldwin
William P. Brigden
Altamont
Kan
Highway Patrol
Eric Degraffenried
Wray
Questions on sugar prices and Social Security in 1960s letters
A reader asks Representative Ellsworth about sugar price increases after the Kennedy administration altered the sugar quota system. The reply notes potential production boosts for domestic beet farmers to stabilize supply and incomes. Another reader asks if Social Security tax rates will rise, and the answer discusses possible wage-base increases from 4800 to 5400 annually. A third reader asks about the 1963 Yearbook of Agriculture. the response says no date yet but a Yearbook will be published and requests will be kept on file.
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Ellsworth
Kennedy
Congressman
O. R
Nedy
Congress
K. S
K. M
Department of Agriculture
Washington Dispatch: House Backs UN Aid Amid Foreign Aid Debate
In Washington, lawmakers moved to shield a $81.3 million UN contribution from cuts as part of a $4.5 billion foreign aid program. Speaker McCormack argued reductions aid Soviet aims, and the vote ended 121 to 114 against deep foreign spending cuts. Soviet troop numbers in Cuba remain around 11,000 to 12,000 with no major reductions reported. The USSR also wins permission to build a $2 million embassy in Chevy Chase, Washington.
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House
State Department
U. S
United Nations
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
Soviet Union
Cuba
United States
Chevy Chase
Washington
County Signs Contract For Highway Grading To State Lake
Douglas County Commission approves a $28 497 50 contract with Martin and Ade Inc for one mile of road grading from the Baldwin blacktops to Douglas County State Lake. Minor bridge work and a major cut through a hill included. Completion in 60 working days, paving and blacktopping likely in 1964. Lake could open by fall 1964 per Fish and Game.
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Douglas County Commission
Martin & Ade Inc
Gypsum
Kan
Baldwin Blacktops
Douglas County State Lake
Lawrence-Baldwin Blacktop
Baldwin
Elmer Quidahl
Fish & Game Commission
Two Generations of Service by the Rumsey Family
Rumsey Funeral Home highlights long standing family service spanning two generations. Phone VI 3-5111 listed for contact and arrangements.
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Rumsey
Rumsey Funeral Home
ROTC Leader Col Pitney to Command KU Unit in August
Col. Max L. Pitney, a Missouri native, will take over as commander of the Kansas University Army ROTC unit in August, succeeding Col. Clyde L. Jones who retires July 31. Pitney now serves with the U S Army Mission in Paraguay and holds degrees from Missouri University including a master's, with Bronze Star, Air Medal and Commendation Ribbon among his decorations. Jones, a 1933 West Point graduate, began at KU in 1960 after duty with Eighth Army in Korea and has led artillery units in the Pacific and Europe. his future plans are not yet set.
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Max L. Pitney
Missouri
Kansas University Army Reserve Officers Training Corps
Clyde L. Jones
Army
Col. Pitney
U. S. Army
Parsaguay
Missouri University
Army War College
Command and General Staff College
Ft. Leavenworth
Col. Jones
Eighth Army Headquarters
Korea
West Point
Field Artillery
Pacific
Ft. Sill
Okla
Seventh Army
Germany
Mrs. Jones
Route 4
Five day Kansas forecast shows warm spell and scattered rain
Western Kansas will average 2 to 4 degrees above normal from Thursday to Monday with mid to upper 60s at night and 80s by day. Rainfall totals range from .30 to .75 inch with occasional showers or thundershowers and little day to day change.
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Kansas
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