Local Families Attend gatherings across Kansas
Big Springs residents report a series of social visits. Arthur Holloway and Joyce Johnson descendants joined a Topeka hosts event at John Mannen’s home. California guests Wayne Chaffin and family also attended. Additional meals and visits involved H M Edmonds and Kansas City relatives, J W Logan hosting visitors from Maple Hill, and Opal Conn with another guest list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Holloway
Alice Zeeb
Robert Holloway
John Mannen
Topeka
Wayne Chaffin
California
J. W. Logan
Marion Longstaff
Robert
Maple Hill
Opal Conn
PTA Leader Urges End to Race Barriers at Convention
National PTA president Mrs. Clifford N. Jenkins spoke at the 68th annual convention in Chicago urging action against injustices and segregation. A resolution for a strong PTA stand on segregation was expected, while merger with the Negro PTA group was said to risk denying services to southern African American children. About 2,500 members from all states attended.
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Chicago
PTA
Clifford N. Jenkins
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
National Congress
National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers
Jenkins
Jerome Z. Morris
Montgomery
Ala
South
Reno Ladies Aid and Community Club Meet in Reno
Reno Ladies Aid gathered Wednesday at the parsonage with Mrs. Olive Stouppe and Essie Higginbotham. Reno Community Club elected Bill Moore as president Jack Glidewell as vice president Flo Grinter as secretary and Vernon DeHoff as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno Ladies Aid
Olive Stouppe
Essie Higginbotham
Tonganoxie
Reno
Reno Community Club
Bill Moore
Jack Glidewell
Flo Grinter
Vernon DeHoff
William Brune
Kansas City
Kan
Bill Elzeer
Vienna
Ira Higginbotham
Brinton Hemphill
Lawrence
Floyd Gilliland
Duane Torneden
Knob Noster
Gale
Mount Vernon
Wash
Bob Massey
Bobby
Eudora
Arnold Torneden
Bobby Massey
Ernest Stoner
Charles Strong
William Puckett
Lyman Frost
Ben Frost
Mirabile
Marie Allan
Mission
Mona Couey
L. R. Bilhimer
Auto driver parks on tracks halts New Haven freight train
New Britain Conn AP A New Haven Railroad freight train was delayed two hours when an automobile was left on the tracks by a motor ist who mistook the roadbed for a parking area and went shopping. Police towed the car away and identified the driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Britain, Conn
New Haven
Senate Civil Rights Debate Enters 12th Week
The Senate civil rights debate reaches week 12 as Republicans and Democrats refine a Kennedy‑influenced package. Leaders seek cloture by early June, with votes uncertain. A short work week follows Memorial Day, as Congress plans a three‑day break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Congress
House
Social Notes Mention Visits and Family Gatherings
Lena Houk called on Sophia Damm on Sunday afternoon. Mrs Raymond La Duke visited her sister in law. Mrs El mer Cooper of Lawrence on Wednesday. Charles Nuffer and Mr and Mrs Dick Nuffer and family were mentioned in the social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena Houk
Sophia Damm
Raymond la Duke
Elmer Cooper
Lawrence
Charles Nuffer
Dick Nuffer
Ancient quake belt links West Indies to Himalayas
A vast earthquake zone stretches from the West Indies across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and through the Himalayas to the East Indies, indicating a global seismic fault line network.
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West Indies
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Himalayas
East Indies
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Big Springs
Shawnee
J. W. Grinter
Clifford Moore
Bill Lindel
St. John’s Hospital
Leavenworth
Jerry Deaton
Springfield
Roy Baird
James Remick
Paula
Pauletta Deaton
Motorola
Drexel
B. F. Goodrich
10Th and
Vermont
Associated Press
Midwest
Rocky Mountain States
P. C. M.T. Box
Lawrence Journal-World
Brand M
Westinghouse
Kansas Power & Light Company
B.T.U
Westinghouse Model
Jack
James Bond
Russia
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