Jackson Faces Possible Racial Confrontation in Coming Challenge
In Jackson Mississippi tensions rise as a planned push for desegregation leads to a tense meeting between Mayor Allen Thompson, 17 Negro leaders, and NAACP backing. Negro demands include hiring Black policemen and desegregating public facilities while white leaders resist ceding any rights. Observers see little room for compromise given fundamental disagreements.
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Percy Greene
Greene
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Thompson
Jackson
Pope John XXIII Faces Severe Hemorrhage and Gastric Growth
Vatican reports persistent bleeding from a gastric heteroplasia possibly a tumor. Three doctors battled the crisis at the Pope’s bedside as the 81 year old pontiff remains ill for about a year with the illness dating to last November.
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Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano
L’osservatore
Holy Father
Piero Mazzoni
Rome
Mild weather trend for Lawrence continues through Wednesday
Mild conditions dominate Lawrence with cool nights and a warm daytime rise. Highs on Wednesday reach 80 to 85 while overcast skies give way to fair weather. Overnight temps dip to the lower 50s as scattered storms drop rainfall in Northeast Kansas counties.
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Lawrence
Cost of Living Stays at Peak in April
The consumer price index held at 106.2 for April, 1% above a year earlier, meaning $10.62 buys what $10 did in 1957-59. Meat prices fell 2.4% while fruit and vegetables rose due to bad weather. sugar prices rise expected to gradually affect CPI. About 950,000 workers will get 1 cent an hour wage bumps tied to the cost index. Memorial Day store hours listed at Raney Hillcrest and Plaza Drugs.
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Ewan Clague
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Clague
Florida
California
President Kennedy faces little interest in escort proposal
White House gives no official comment as Rev. Martin Luther King and segregation opponents push for JFK to escort two Negro students to the University of Alabama. The president says such matters should run through courts and local officials, while federal orders may enforce desegregation. Judge Grooms orders two Negroes admitted on June 10 amid Alabama Governor Wallace vows to bar them.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
University of Alabama
U.S. Dist
H. Hobart Grooms
Tuscaloosa
Huntsville
Alabama
George C. Wallace
21st Boys State Opens at KU With Record Enrollment
The 27th annual American Legion Boys State begins Sunday at Kansas University with a record 777 Kansas high school juniors, the largest turnout ever. The program moves to Lawrence after Wichita, expands enrollment, and includes practical government training with elections, officer installations, and a mock trial.
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American Legion
Kansas University
Kansas
Wichita
Lawrence
Miss Bishop Receives Famous Date for Commencement Events
Topeka alums and Adm. Howard A Yeager arrange a Sunday dinner buffet at Washburn University before attending the 98th commencement at Moore Bowl where Miss Maude Bishop will be awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters. Yeager, a former Topekan and notable visitor to KU in 1962, was once her student.
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Topeka
Maude Bishop
Howard A
Red) Yeager
Ninth Naval District
Washburn University
Moore Bowl
Bishop
Adm. Yeager
Lawrence Seeks Replies on Plan
About 40 of more than 100 planning committee members have sent preferences as the city studies a comprehensive plan. Subcommittees will study topics from economic base to parks as the plan proceeds through year.
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Comprehensive Planning Committee
Committee of 100
Harold Horn
City Commission and
Planning’ Commission
Soviet launches improve carrier rockets in May tests
Tass reports improved carrier rocket tests on May 18 and May 25, sending space object missiles into the central Pacific on eight thousand mile flights. The agency said the previously restricted area of the Pacific is now open to shipping and aircraft.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Central Pacific
Pacific
New York Stocks End Higher Amid Close
AP report shows the closing average of 60 stocks at 273.4, up 0.1 point on the session. Investors watched brief gains across blue chip issues as market activity tapered.
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New York
Close Call For Carolyn Parkinson in Wichita Flood
Miss Carolyn Parkinson Kansas University senior and Miss Kansas 1962 had a near drowning in Wichita during a five inch rain. Her car stalled in high water near a drainage canal after leaving a hotel reception. Two men warned her as she walked to safety. She returned to finish exams and plans to teach in Kansas City next fall after marrying KU medical student David Gough.
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Kansas
Kansas University
Wichita
Carolyn Parkinson
Hank Parkinson
Miss Parkinson
Kansas City
David Gough
Chanute
Scott City
KU Grad Becomes Technical Director of Guthrie Theater
Lawrence graduate student Dick Borgen has become technical director of the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis a $2.2 million project. He leads construction and operation of sets and lighting for four classics Hamlet The Miser The Three Sisters and Death of a Salesman while pursuing a Minnesota University theater Ph D and planning a teaching stint in lighting this summer.
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Tyrone Guthrie
Minneapolis
Minn
Dick Borgen
Roy G. Borgen
W. 22Nd St
Borgen
Kansas University
Guthrie Theater
New Bergen
Minnesota University
Minnesota Theatre Co
Guthrie Theatre
Bergen
Hamlet
Moliere
Arthur Miller
Minnesota U
Guthrie
Sally
Eudora Span Project Moves Ahead Over Kaw River
Engineers start drawing plans for a new all concrete bridge across the Kaw River at Eudora six miles east of Lawrence. Douglas County will fund 62 percent of an estimated 650000 to 700000 cost, Leavenworth 38 percent, with financing via a two mill levy over two years.
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Eudora
Lawrence
Douglas
Leavenworth
Leavenworth County
Don Hults
Douglas County
Elmer Ousdahl
Finney and Turnipseed
Topeka
Ousdah
DeSoto
Linwood
Tonganoxie
Bonner Springs
Zionist Leader Lipsky Dies in New York
Louis Lipsky 86 longtime head of the Zionist Organization of America and founder of the American Jewish Congress died Monday after an illness of several weeks in New York City.
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New York
Louis Lipsky
Zionist Organization of America
American Jewish Congress
Court Won’t Issue Desegregation Order in Birmingham Case
U S District Judge Seybourn Lynne refused to grant an injunction to desegregate Birmingham schools, saying the good faith of officials must be tested under Alabama’s pupil placement law. He noted no Negro child had sought transfer and warned the officials to apply the law without discrimination. An appeal to the 5th Circuit is expected.
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Birmingham
Ala
Dist
Seybourn H. Lynne
Lynne
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court
Peter A. Hall
James Armstrong
Rev
T. N. Nelson
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
North Carolina
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
5Th Circuit
Albert Boutwell
Wright
Birmingham Board of Education
Sunday Sales Version Okayed in Missouri
The Missouri Senate approved a Sunday sales bill 29 to 3 sending the compromise version to the governor. The measure allows groceries and drug stores to stay open while closing discount houses department stores hardware stores and similar outlets on Sundays.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Senate
Senate
House
Chancellor Wescoe to Deliver LHS Commencement Address
Kansas University Chancellor W Clarke Wescoe plans to fulfill a vow by delivering the main address at Lawrence High School’s 1963 commencement in Hoch Auditorium tonight at 8. He has faced illness but will appear in person, with his daughter Barbara among the top seniors in the class of 319.
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W. Clarke Wescoe
Kansas University
Lawrence High School
Hoch
Wescoe
LHS
Barbara
Kansas City
Weather Brief Northeast Kansas Sees Warm Week Ahead
Fair and mild conditions persist through Wednesday in the Northeast Kansas region. Lows tonight around 50 to 55 degrees with highs near 85 to 98 degrees. Temperature readings taken at 4 PM show readings in the mid to upper 60s in some locales, with variations across the area.
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Pam
Cscmes
Midnisbad Seeseemag
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