Molly Brown Spaceflight Heroes Impress Together
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. AP Two astronauts John W. Young and Virgil I. Grissom praised their Molly Brown spacecraft and shared witty, calm recollections from a five hour spaceflight They noted the feat rivaled Soviet spacewalks and discussed retro-rocket braking and attitude control with measured humor
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Tax Increases Advance in Kansas Legislature
In Topeka the Republican Senate approved a 57 million tax package including a 1 cent sales tax hike to 3 percent and higher personal and corporate rates. A Democratic vote backed the package after lengthy debate. The House meanwhile approved a June Presidential Primary bill and advanced numerous measures on trailer fees licenses state land sales and court enhancements.
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President Johnson Bestows Space Medals on Gemini Aces
President Johnson decorates Virgil Grissom and John Young with the Exceptional Service Medal for the Gemini flight. Grissom also receives a cluster for his 1961 DST Medal. NASA leaders Seamans and Schurmeier honored, as crowds greet the space heroes along Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Johnson
United States
Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Young
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Grissom
Robert C. Seamans
NASA
Harris M. Schurmeier
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Congress
Seamans
Schurmeier
James E. Webb
The
Space Agen
Virgil Grissom
White House
House to Pass Landmark School Aid Bill for All Schools
House leaders push Johnson's school bill granting $1.06 billion in federal aid for low income children amid Democratic control. Debate centers on how funds reach districts with impoverished students, with New York and Mississippi showing wide per pupil disparities.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Mississippi
New York
Lawrence High Pupils Top Kansas Math Contest
Lawrence High School sophomore Walter Stromquist named top high school math student in Kansas. LHS students as a group place first in statewide contest run by the Mathematics Association of America and the Society of Actuaries. 70 Lawrence participants. Stromquist, 15, bikes to KU for honors calculus, with a $100 scholarship and regional contest next. He plans to teach math and returns to KU after high school.
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Kansas University
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Pittsburg
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Stroquist
Ann
Centennial School
Lowell Bailey
Margaret McReynolds
Darrell Falen
Jack Hennington
John Racy
Reds Protest Viet Nam Demands From Moscow Hanoi
Britain rejects two Communist messages from the Soviet Union and North Viet Nam calling for international action to stop American military action in Viet Nam. A Foreign Office spokesman said the demands are unacceptable to the British government.
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North Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Foreign Office
Moscow
Hanoi
Johnson backs Medicare bill poised for White House signature
President Johnson convened 10 House and Senate leaders and key committees to press for swift action on a Ways and Means approved Medicare bill. He secured pledges for prompt hearings and signaled the measure would reach the White House within weeks. Rep. Carl Albert commented on Johnsons public pressure tactics.
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Senate
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Senate Finance Committee
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D-Va
Carl Albert
D-Okla
Portrait Artist William Steene Dies at 77
William Steene, a nationally known portrait artist who painted figures such as Franklin D Roosevelt, died Wednesday at Howard Memorial Hospital in Ocean Springs Mississippi. He was 77. Rumsey Funeral Home, owners.
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Ocean Springs
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Howard Memorial Hospital
Local Vote Check Brings No Change For Candidacies
The canvass of Tuesday's city commission and school board primary ballots found only slight changes in totals but no final outcomes altered. Incumbent lists and holdovers remain, with Mi lan Gillahan Raney Getto Jost Emick among city commission winners and Althaus Six Paddock Frink Nelson Brahler among school board candidates.
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R. D. Gillahan
Richard H. Raney
Mike Getto
Martin Jost
John Emick
Carl Althaus
Deal
James
Bill) Paddock
Russell Frink
Richard Nelson
George Brahler
Fred Cooper
Rusty Springer
Jim Owens
Jim
Harold Fisher
Weekend Warmer Outlook In Lawrence Area
The Lawrence forecast shows gradual warming with a partly cloudy night and rising temperatures. Saturday brings increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions with a high in the mid forties and a low around 20. Monday may bring colder air and a lower forecast following the weekend.
Four Klansmen Arrested in Liuzzo Slaying Case
FBI agents arrested four Ku Klux Klan members from the Birmingham area on conspiracy charges in the ambush slaying of Viola Liuzzo near Selma Alabama after a civil rights march. The arrests followed a national TV briefing by President Johnson who called for anti Klan legislation and said the case echoed past racially motivated killings.
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Ala
Birmingham
FBI
Detroit
Johnson
Washington
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Montgomery
Selma-Montgomery
Eugene Thomas
William Orville Eaton
Bessemer
Gary Thomas Rowe
Collie LeRoy Wilkins Jr
Fairfield
Liuzzo
Wayne State University
United States of America
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Robert M. Shelton Jr
Tuscaloosa
United Klans
Nicholas Katzenbach
Charles L. Weltner
D-Ga
House UN- American Activities Committee
Ku Klux Klan
Selma
Lemuel Penn
Washington, D.C
North Georgia
Made
McNown Named KU Learned Professorship Recipient
Dr. John S. McNown will assume the Albert P. Learned distinguished professorship in engineering at Kansas University. He will relinquish administrative duties June 30 and begin the post July 1 after a sabbatical to Europe and Africa.
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Kansas University School of Engineering and Architecture
Albert P. Learned
W. Clarke Wescoe
Dean McNown
Europe
Africa
William P. Smith
Stanley Learned
Bartlesville
Okla
Albert Learned
Learneds
Edmund P. Learned
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Charles E. Wilson
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Phillips Petroleum Company
Black and Veatch
Kansas City
Chan
Dr. Russell Frink Seeks Board of Education Seat
Political advertisement notes Dr. Russell Frink running for a position on the Board of Education with a March or April notation for the campaign. details unspecified in the brief notice.
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Board of Education
Vole
Pol
Weather Outlook Northeast Kansas This Weekend
Partly cloudy with northwest winds and rising temperatures tonight. Increasing clouds and warmer Saturday with a low around 20 tonight and a high in the mid 40s. Also notes record highs and lows for the date and a political ad for Emick for Commissioner.
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