Dominican Troops Rally at Haiti Border Amid Tense Crisis
Thousands of Dominican soldiers moved to the Haiti border amid reports of possible invasion as air and naval forces patrolled the area. President Bosch faces pressure from the OAS mission while tensions rise over refugees and diplomatic warnings.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Negro Republic
U.S
Caribbean
Haiti
Juan Bosch
Bosch
Alberto Zuleta Angel
Organization of American States
Washington
OAS Council
Zuleta
Hispaniola
Gonzalo Facio
Costa Rica
Nour-Nation Mission
Jimani
Juan’ Bosch
Francois Duvalier
Port Au Prince
Duvalier
Frank Bobadilla
Raymond Thurston
Touton Macoute
No Letup in Birmingham Desegregation Demonstrations
Negro leaders vow no letup after a Sunday march in Birmingham with 1 400 arrests reported and 1 000 still jailed. Police reversed tactics allowing a peaceful church to park to church march as Justice Department officials sought settlement and Dick Gregory joined voter registration efforts.
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Birmingham
Ala
Eugene Connor
Wyatt Tee Walker
Burke Marshall
U.S. Justice Department
Dick Gregory
Greenwood
Miss
New Pilgrim Baptist Church
Rockefeller Honeymoon Amid National Debate Over Political Future
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his bride Margaretta Murphy honeymoon at Monte Sacro ranch in Venezuela as debates back home assess the impact on his 1964 GOP presidential prospects. Rockefeller, 54, says the marriage will be blissful and cites love of Venezuela.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Margaretta Fitler Murphy
Monte Sacro
New York
Idlewild
United States
Wherry Reception for Retiring Principal Planned
A community reception for Neal Wherry, retiring after 25 years in the school system, is set for next Sunday in the Crystal Room at the Eldridge Hotel from 3 30 to 6. Refreshments will be served as friends donate to the Wherry Travel Fund to fund a vacation trip after July 1.
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Neal Wherry
Eldridge
Weather Brief: Warmer Northeast Kansas Through Tuesday
Fair and warmer conditions spread across northeast Kansas with nightly lows 60 to 65 and Tuesday highs in the 00s. Temperature readings note yesterday reaching 68, with Saturday’s 78/60 and a year ago 17/61. Rainfall totals 0.78 inches by Sunday morning. records include 89 in 1955 and 30 in 1944.
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Kansas
Kennedy Nominates LeMay for Air Force Chief and McDonald for Navy
President Kennedy named Gen Curtis LeMay to a one year term as Air Force chief of staff and Adm David L McDonald to succeed Adm George W Anderson as chief of naval operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Washington
Kennedy
Gen
Curtis LeMay
Air Force
Adm
David L. McDonald
George W. Anderson
Naval Operations
Joint Chiefs of Staff
New York Stocks End Lower on Monday Trading Session
Closing averages show the Dow Jones industrial average at 269.9, down 1.4 points, with broader market action mixed as traders weigh early gains against energy and financial sector shifts.
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New York
Four die in weekend traffic toll rises to four
Two people killed Sunday raise weekend toll to four and weekly total to five. Ernest Pence, 19, of Oskaloosa died on U S 40 west of Lawrence. Kenneth Oakson, 24, of Linwood died when his car hit a bridge on a county road. Earlier, Gerald Mullins, 20, and John Wagner, 17, both of Kansas City Kansas, died in a two car crash northeast of Lawrence on U S 24 40.
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U.S. 40
Lawrence
Ernest D. Pence
Oskaloosa
Kenneth Oakson
Linwood
Tonganoxie
Gerald Mullins
John A. Wagner
Kansas City
Kan
U.S
Kansas University
Graydon Ford
TeePee
Leroy A. Boucher
Miller Dr
Doyle Murphree
21St St
Stormont Vail Hospital
Topeka
Duane Moon
R. I
Charles Miller
E. Glenn Jr
Boucher
Murphree
Moon
Miller
Tecumseh
DuPont
Pence
Kansas Highway Patrol
Oakson
Martha Sue
Weekend Rainfall Lifts Lawrence Dry Spell
The Lawrence area recorded 1.26 inches of rain over the weekend, while Topeka measured 2.5 inches and many parts of the county saw 1.5 to 2 inches. A Saturday night storm added 0.78 inch, frost damaged crops may recover with more moisture, and hail caused scattered damage including a baseball-sized hail event at Tonganoxie State Lake. Local agriculture official Deal Six praised the rain for crops, noting strawberries were largely ruined.
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Lawrence
Topeka
Kansas
Deal Six
Tureland
Eudora
Robert Jones
W. 22Nd St. Terr
Tonganoxie State Lake
Faulkner Pulitzer Victory Highlights 1963 Awards
The Reivers by William Faulkner wins the 1963 Pulitzer for fiction, while drama prize remains unawarded. Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August takes general non fiction, and the Chicago Daily News is named for public service.
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New York
the Reivers
William Faulkner
Columbia University
Barbara W. Tuckman
Chicago Daily News
Faithful Soldier Remembers Fall of Corregidor
Army Col. Burton R. Brown recalls the 1942 surrender talks with Japanese forces on Corregidor and the long siege that left the island stripped of trees and buildings. He notes dwindling rations, no air opposition, and his belief the United States would prevail despite doom-laden years. Brown, then a coast artillery major, later served at the Pentagon and endured Japanese captivity.
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Army
Burton R. Brown
Jonathan Wainwright
Corregidor
U.S
Philippines
Pacific
West Pointer Brown
Erie
Pentagon
Manila
Brown
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Kansas State Conference on Aging Opens at KU Theme Retirement Is Opportunity
About 100 attendees join the 13th annual Kansas State Conference on Aging at the University of Kansas. The event, sponsored by the Kansas Citizens' Council on Aging, features panels on Marion County Ford Foundation research and demonstrations, with speakers from KU, the State Board of Health, and Washburn University. A Douglas County Farm Bureau group performs a play at the 5:30 dinner in the Kansas Union.
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Kansas State
Kansas University
Kansas Citizens’ Council On Aging
Ralph L. Colman
Lawrence Council
E. A. McFarland
KU Extension
William J. Moore
KU School of Religion
James R. Surface
Colman
Esther E. Twente
Marion County
Ford Foundation
William DuVall
Selma Maybelle
Marion
Wesley Loewen
J. W. Friesen
Hillsboro
Norman W. Anderson
State Board of Heath
Loudell Frazier
Division of Services For the
State Social Welfare Department
Jim Young
Washburn University
Richard G. Vogel
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Kansas Union
Russel Houk
Harley Lyon
John B. Metsker
Views on Lawrence race relations and civic duty
Opinion by James F B Vitus KU associate professor and Lawrence Human Relations Commission member. He argues equality requires active education and legal safeguards while warning that prejudice slows progress. He cites discrimination in employment housing and public facilities and calls for continued effort to dismantle barriers.
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James FB. Vitus
Kansas University
Lawrence Fluiman Relations Commission
Wisconsin University
Virginia
Wyeth St
Lawrence
Human Relations Commission
William Lloyd Garrison
United States
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Wife
Stover
Key
Rexall
Charles Ise
East 19Th Street
Douglas County Humane Society Agency
Animal Brotherhood
Journal-World
Faulkner
Pulitzer
Virginia Woolf
Edward Albee
Coast Artillery
George F. Moore
Bataan
Rumsey Funeral Home
James Baldwin
Prof
James E, Titus
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