Moonshine Growth Sparks National Concern says official
Washington discussion shows illicit liquor from lye and paint thinner to dead rats fuels a large South to Great Plains market. Louis E. Howell cites 200 deaths in a decade and 40 million gallons produced in 1961 costing $600 million in taxes while criminal syndicates expand.
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Washington
Great Plains
Louis E. Howell
National Council Against
Howell
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
May 7 History Highlights Through Time
Key events on May 7 across centuries include the 1915 Lusitania sinking with about 1 200 deaths, 128 Americans among them, the 1789 first U S presidential inaugural ball in New York, Elizabeth I’s ban on prophesying in 1577, Grant’s 1863 Vicksburg push, Eisenhower and St Laurent talks ten years ago, U S European atomic energy accord five years ago, and a 1 year ago remark from Secretary Freeman on Billy Sol Estes.
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Ireland
United States
Germany
Britain
France
Wilson
America
England
U.S
New York City
Ulysses Grant
Vicksburg
Eisenhower
Louis St. Laurent
Washington
European Atomic Energy Commission
Europe
Orville L. Freeman
Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Department of Agriculture
Wichita East Orchestra to perform at Murphy Hall
The Kansas University Fine Arts School presents Wichita High School East Orchestra at 2 30 p m Thursday in Murphy Hall University Theatre. Directed by Kenneth Thompson the 1963 Kansas high school orchestra will perform Brahms Academic Festival Overture first movement Beethoven Eroica Moussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain and selections from West Side Story by Bernstein.
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Kansas University Fine Arts School
Wichita High School East
University Theatre
Murphy Hall
Kansas High School Orchestra
Kenneth Thompson
Brahms
Bald Mountain
Moussorgsky
Bernstein
Alumni Award Given to Clifford Willis at Chicago Event
Announcement noted the presentation of the distinguished alumni award to Clifford Willis of Chicago, class of 1939, during the outgoing chapter president’s address and a geology group gathering.
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Polishei
Clifford Willis
Chicago
Willis
Freeman Accuses Opponents of Wheat Program
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman accused opponents of the 1964 wheat control plan of misrepresenting facts. Speaking at a National Conference on Outdoor Research at the University of Michigan he named the National and Michigan Farm Bureaus as turning the issue into an ideological fight. He predicted a May 21 referendum would pass by at least 90 percent if facts are presented.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
University of Michigan
National
Michigan Farm Bureaus
Strike Problem To Be Studied
Akron Ohio AP The Executive Committee of United Rubber Workers Local 2 weighs how to handle the Goodyear contract after a split vote The meeting saw 450 to 402 reject while 9 411 to 450 would have approved if all members attended Locals nationally approved the pact demanding ratification by a majority of locals and membership At Goodyear Topeka workers backed the contract 230 to 2
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Akron, Ohio
United Rubber Workers Local 2
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Clarence Adkins
Local 2
Adkins
Goodyear
Big Akron
Topeka
Kan
Executed Soldier Identified in Viet Nam War
Washington AP identifies Lt. Parker D. Cramer 26 of Wantagh New York as the American soldier executed by Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam. The Army says he died from a gunshot wound to the head inflicted by the Viet Cong, the 73rd U S casualty in the Vietnam war since 1961.
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Washington
Parker D. Cramer
Wantagh
N Y
South Viet Nam
Cramer
Viet Nam
Parochial Parents Lose Public Bus Bill Fight
Parochial school parents who sought public bus service failed to move a transportation bill in Missouri. A protest leader warned the drive to enroll Catholic children in public schools might pause. Some parents say their children will attend public schools next fall as the House tabled the bill.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Kansas City
St. Louis
Seymour Menton to Speak on Latin American Novels
Seymour Menton professor of Romance languages at Kansas University will deliver a Humanities Forum lecture at 8 p.m. Monday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. He will discuss The Novel of the Revolution in Latin America Mexico Guatemala Bolivia and Cuba. He has taught at KU since 1954 and edits Hispania.
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Seymour Menton
Kansas University
Kansas Union
Menton
Latin America
Mexico
Guatemala
Bolivia
Cuba
Geology Students Earn KU Awards and Fellowships
Eleven Kansas University geology students received awards and fellowships at a joint KU Geology Department and Sigma Gamma Epsilon ceremony. Honors went to Henry K. W. Bowers for Tarr Award, Charles Bondurant Jack W. Pierce Luciano B. Ronea for Erasmus Haworth honors, with several graduate scholarships from Shell, Phillips, Socony Mobil, Standard Oil and Garvey Drilling.
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Erasmus Haworth
Charles Bondurant
Bartlesville
Okla
Jack W. Pierce
Litchfield
Luciano B. Ronea
Trieste
Italy
David A. Morris
Marietta
Ohio
Shell Companies Foundation, Inc
von Stelljes
Phillips Petroleum Co
Eugene Frison
Batoche
Saskatchewan
Canada
Socony Mobil
Kenneth Carlson
Prairie Village
Standard Oil Co. of Texas
Gene George
Salina
California
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Washington Post News Service
Wichita
Ramsey
Great Western
Great Western Colorizer
Ramsey’ S
Mass
Sec
Loke Smith
Saladmaster
L. Loke and
Irene Smith
Belle Meade Place
Lawrence, Kansas
KU Geology Department
Alpha Chapter
Sigma Gamma Epsilon
Honorary Earth Sciences Fraternity
Henry K. W. Bowers
Kansas City, Mo
Tarr
Weaver's
Mne
Massachusetts
Jack Harris
Westinghouse
Herr Coast
Lawrence
Main—Sudora
Hillcrest Plaza
Iowa
Hillcrest and Plaza
Eno
Scott Styke
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