Giant Year Lies Ahead For Beauty
NEW YORK AP Donna Axum Miss America 1964 arrives in New York after winning the Atlantic City pageant. The Arkansas 21 year old says she can shed weight with activity but enjoys regular meals. She plans to finish her University of Arkansas education and pursue graduate work in radio and television entertainment.
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New York
Donna Axum
Donna
Atlantic City
N.J
el Dorado
Ark
University of Arkansas
Truman Opposes Tax Cut Until Budget Balanced
Former President Harry S. Truman opposed a proposed $11 billion tax reduction, arguing you should pay in more than you spend as Congress weighs the measure this week. He reiterated he is old fashioned about balancing the budget before cutting taxes.
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New York
Harry S. Truman
Congress
Truman
Horoscope roundup from the Lawrence Journal-World
A dated page offers astrological predictions for Scorpio through Pisces. It advises meeting obligations, coordinating with associates and friends, completing projects, and preserving harmony while tending personal matters and gratitude. The content reflects a 1968 decorative horoscope feature.
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Rence
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Lawrence
Kansas
Malli
Ulantary
Tore Tier
Jolla
Carefres
Pisces
Impromptu Strip Jolts Edinburgh Festival Gathering
The austere Edinburgh Festival in Scotland was shaken when Anna Kesselar, a 19 year old art student, began a spontaneous striptease during a conference on The Theater of the Future attended by dignitaries including Earl of Harewood. Attendants removed her as the audience reacted with both cheers and shock. The earl, described as a calm opera authority, called the event exceptionally dull beforehand.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Edinburgh Festival of Music and
Anna
Earl
Quads Pop Is Glad He Runs Store
In Jackson Mississippi a couple welcomed fraternal quadruplets after a single birth night. The quads named A B C and D arrived between 8 53 PM and 9 02 PM weighing 3 3 to 4 1. The Harkins family expands to nine children with the eldest six as doctors note the babies are fraternal not identical.
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Quads
Thomas N. Harkins
Jackson
Harkins
St. Dominic's Hospital
Harkins Quads
Monument to Gen George Patton unveiled in Belgium
Lt John Waters of the 4th U S Armored Division unveiled a 6.5 foot monument in Bastogne honoring his grandfather General George Patton who led the U S Third Army in breaking the siege during World War II.
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Bastogne
Belgium
John Waters
U.S. Armored Division
Goeppingen
Germany
George Patton
U.S
3Rd Army
Miss Kansas Receives $1000 Education Scholarship
Karen Raye Schwartz of Pratt Kansas winner of the Miss America talent award received a $1000 scholarship to use at any school of her choice. Schwartz, a junior at Friends University in Wichita, was named most proficient in classical singing during the contest in Atlantic City New Jersey.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Karen Raye Schwartz
Pratt
Kansas
Club-Swinging Troops Arrest 750 Viet Nam Schoolboys
Saigon officials report club swinging troops seized 750 high school pupils who blocked their school and went on strike. Brig Gen Ton That Dinh warned male demonstrators over 2 would be drafted and students under 20 sent to reeducation centers. Parents may be charged for confinement costs and repeat offenders could face military court and death sentences.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ton
Dinh
Turkish Koran Translation Published After Four Decades
A Turkish translation of the Koran reached publication in 1961 after almost four decades in progress.
Lawrence LHS Farm Boys Win Noted Ribbons At Mid America Fair
Lawrence High School farm mechanics display placed third at the Mid America Fair in Topeka. Lyle Hoover earned fifth best individual project, Kenneth O Connor seventh among about 90. The exhibit includes a self unloading wagon, a large horse trailer, a posthole digger, a cattle dehorning head cake, and a tractor weed sprayer. The FFA educational booth placed eighth among 13. All entries were built by LHS students under Roy Cropp and Walter Gehrbach.
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Lawrence High School Farm Mechanics
Topeka
Lyle Hoover
LHS
Kenneth O'Connor
Gary
Ron Brink
Richard Ice
Guy Shultz
FFA
Lawrence
Roy Cropp
Walter Gehrbach
Ninth Strangling Hits Boston Area
Salem reports the ninth unsolved strangling in Greater Boston over 15 months, shaking fear after a lull since December 1962. Victim Evelyn Corbin, 51, a blonde divorcee living alone, was found in her apartment strangled with nylon stockings. Medical examiner notes the stockings wrapped around her neck and leg, with two stockings cut on the bed.
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Salem, Mass
Greater
Boston
Evelyn Corbin
Corbin
Star Promotes Morgan to Kansas City Star Role
Kansas City Star appoints Ray Morgan as Kansas correspondent succeeding Alvin S. McCoy now the science editor. Morgan joined the Star in 1951 after five years with the Topeka Daily Capital and the Kansas Press Association.
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Kansas City
Ray Morgan
Kansas
The
Kansas City Star
Alvin S. McCoy
Morgan
Star
Topeka Daily Capital
Kansas Press Association
Teachers Halt Planned Strike Ends in New York Contract
Public school teachers in New York City called off a threatened strike and approved a new two year contract raising pay. About 8,500 teachers voted for the settlement which increases salaries by about 580 dollars during the period and tightens class size limits while adding improved grievance procedures and a continuing committee for school conditions.
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New York
New York City
United Federation — of Teachers
AFL - Cio
Board of Education
Charles Cogen
Supreme Court
Horoscope snips for Aries to Libra with scattered hints
A fragmented horoscope listing zodiac signs Aries through Libra with garbled dates and stray advisories. It urges studying trade journals for Aries, business growth for Taurus, charm and health for Gemini, humanitarian notes for Moon Children, socializing for Leo, strong career moves for Virgo, and broad activity for Libra.
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ARIES
Taurus
Makins
Gemini
Leo Wluly
VIRGO
LIBRA
Castro wary of Goldwater in 1964 race
Fidel Castro, speaking at a Brazilian Embassy reception, said a Kennedy Goldwater contest would pit two “cheap and crooked politicians.” He warned Goldwater’s tough policies would be faced by Cuba and expressed no expectation of a U S policy change with a new president.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Goldwater
Castro
Cuba
U.S
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