New York State Wins Miss U S World Contest Title
Miss Jeanne Quinn of East Meadow Long Island wins the Miss U S World crown after initial misannouncement by host Philip Crosby. Alaska runner up Susan Marlin, with Chicago Jana Flores third, Michigan Susan Pill fourth, Illinois Susan Bye fifth. Quinn earns a trip to London for Miss World and a $7,500 prize plus a Bob Hope TV appearance.
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Detroit
New York City
New New York State
Jeanne Quinn
Woodmere
L. I
Ohio
Sharon Hoefling
Dayton
Crosby
Ruth
London
Europe
Quinn
Paris
Bob Hope
Hofstra University
State Okays Plan On College Money
The Kansas Higher Education Facilities Commission approves a priority plan for allocating 1965 federal college construction funds totaling 3 million dollars. Public junior colleges receive 660000 dollars, with the remaining 2340000 dollars open to public and private colleges. The federal share is 40 percent for junior colleges and up to 33 1-3 percent for others. Schools must show two thirds match or assurance to qualify, with a point system guiding priorities based on enrollment, facilities, usage, and capacity.
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Topeka
State Higher Education Facilities Commission
Commission
Prince Edward Island celebrates founding landings
Canada marks its cen tennial in 1967 while Prince Edward Island begins its own 100th anniversary with a re enactment of the 1864 founders landing. Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson joins ten provincial premiers in the ceremony.
Soviet Says U.S. Tough on Reds in Pravda Article
Pravda marks 45th anniversary of the U S Communist party with an article by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn claiming FBI surveillance and widespread harassment of American Communists. Mail opened and read. party members lose jobs under scrutiny.
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Moscow
U.S
Communist Party
United States
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Pravda
Soviet Communist Party
FBI
One Percent Decline in Farm Product Prices
The Agriculture Department reports a one per cent drop in farm product prices from mid July to mid August led by lower potato cotton tomato and hog prices. August prices were four per cent below August 1963 and the month’s lowest since 1955. Goods and services rose by one third of one per cent. The farm parity ratio slid to 74 per cent of the parity price goal. Farm prices last year stood at 78 per cent parity.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Symington Seeks Extension of Interstate 29 to New Orleans
Sen. Stuart Symington proposes a bill in the next Congress to extend Interstate 29 from Kansas City south to New Orleans. He argues a third north south route is needed in the Midwest to fill a blank spot between Memphis and Oklahoma City and Dallas and Jackson. The plan would link Kansas City St. Joseph and the upper Mississippi Valley with Baton Rouge via Springfield Joplin and cover about 950 miles to New Orleans.
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Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Kansas City
New Orleans
North Dakota
Symington
Senate
Midwest
Chicago
St. Louis
Memphis
Jackson
Miss
Duluth
Minn
St. Joseph
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Springfield-Joplin
Baton Rouge
65 Million in Russia End Break from School
Moscow reports the Soviet Union’s 65 million students returned to class as the long summer vacation ended. Education lasts ten years starting at age seven, with many youngsters attending kindergarten and including university and correspondence students in the count.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Poles Germans Hold Invasion Anniversary Rallies
Warsaw and Gdansk marked the 25th anniversary of Germanys invasion of Poland with rallies and speeches. In Danzig the first shots sounded at 445 am Sept 1 1939. Guarded ceremonies recalled war deaths and Poland's defense amid Soviet and Communist camp references.
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Poland
Germany
Gdansk
Free
Danzig
Schleswig-Holstein
Westerplatte
Bay
West Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Erhard
Bytom
Upper Silesia
Edward Gierk
Polish Communist Party
Gierk
Soviet Union
Ronald L. Bump to Be Ordained at Clinton Church
Ronald L. Bump, who served Clinton United Presbyterian Church for the past year, will be ordained as minister by Topeka Highland Presbytery at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Clinton church. He will also be installed as full-time pastor. Bump earned an A.B. from Heidelberg College and a B.H. from Princeton Theological Seminary, with clinical training at Tren ton State Hospital and the Boys Industrial School in Topeka. Participants include Clinton church elders Carter Anderson and Joseph Clough, and ministers Rev. Robert Ralston and Rev. Robert Freitag.
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Ronald L. Bump
Clinton United Presbyterian Church
Topeka Highland Presbytery
Clinton Church
Bump
Heidelberg College
Tiffin
Ohio
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton
N. J
Council of Clinical Training
Trenton State Hospital
Boys Industrial School
Topeka
Carter Anderson
Joseph Clough
Robert Ralston
Rolling Hills
Clergy Names Tie to Boys Industrial School Visit
Reverend Preston Bogin chaplain at the Boys Industrial School and Reverend Richard Foster assistant minister at Rhawnhurst Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia join Reverend Al Wakefield of Highland Presbyterian Church in a community visit. Bump and Sally have a son, Bradley Todd.
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Terian Church
Lawrence
Preston Bogin
Boys Industrial School
Richard Foster
Rhawnhurst Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia
al Wakefield
Highland Presbyterian Church
Bump
Sally
Bradley Todd
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