United States Bans South African Arms Sale by End of 1963
U S Ambassador Adlai Stevenson tells the U N Security Council Washington plans a complete embargo on weapons to South Africa by year end 1963 while noting existing commitments delay full effect. He condemns apartheid as evil and urges peaceful change with UN support including a possible special representative.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
South Africa
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.N. Security Council
Ghana
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Council
Stevenson
South Afria
Ward in coma as doctor fights overdose death
Dr Stephen Ward remained unconscious in St Stephen's Hospital with bronchial pneumonia after an overdose and a Wednesday conviction for living off prostitutes earnings. A hospital spokesman said Ward showed no improvement in 12 hours, and a crowd prayed for his death while threats of retribution emerged from his supporters.
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London
Stephen Ward
St. Stephen's Hospital
Ward
Society
Osteopath
Stephen
Hundreds Pay Gen Hurley Final Tribute
Hundreds of New Mexicans gathered in Santa Fe to honor Maj. Gen. Patrick Jay Hurley diplomat statesman and soldier. He was laid to rest at Santa Fe National Cemetery after a memorial mass at St Francis Cathedral. The service included a flag draped casket pallbearers from Sandia Base and a jet flyover, marking the first interment in a new cemetery circle.
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Santa FE
N. M
Patrick Jay Hurley
Oklahoma
Hurley
Santa Fe National Cemetery
China
New Mexico
St. Francis Cathedral
Pax Schicker
Memorial Chapel
Sandia
Albuquerque
Father Schicker
Pace
Ex-Kennedy Aide Landis Pleads Guilty To Tax Charges
James M. Landis former Harvard Law School dean and Kennedy adviser pleads guilty to five counts for late filing and payment of income taxes totaling over 310 000 for 1996 through 2000 He explains inherited securities sale to meet a family need and cooperates with the investigation sentencing set for Aug 30 before Judge Edward McLean.
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New York
API
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Kennedy
U.S
Manhattan
Landis
Kenne
Edward McLean
Range Fire Out of Control North of Refuge
A blistering 5000 acre range blaze roared again near the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge threatening private property along the north boundary. Fort Sill troops firefighting from Medicine Creek to Meers Road battled the flames as H-37 helicopters stood by for airlift support.
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Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Medicine Creek
Wayne Rowe
Rowe
Meers Road
Jumps Creek
Fort Sill
Wildlife Refuge
At & Am
Elmer Thomas Lake
Jed Johnson Lake
Mt. Scott
Elmer Thomas
Senate Row Overshadows Civil Rights Hearing Chairs Dispute
A heated Senate Commerce Committee session on Kennedy civil rights legislation saw Sen Hugh Scott challenge Minnesota Governor Karl Rolvaag over voting at a Governors Conference. Rolvaag asserted free discussion occurred with no gag on civil rights, while Scott implied Republican leaders moved to shield positions. Colleague Sen John Pastore condemned Scotts questioning as unfair and unfounded.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Kennedy
Hugh Scott
Rolvaag
Resolutions Committee
Scott States
Scott
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
John O. Pastore
D-R.i
Pastore
Republi
Senate Row
Colt
New Director Selected For Children's Shelter
Mrs. Reba Jo Ferris named superintendent of the J Roy Dunning Children's Shelter by the Comanche County Child and Youth Advisory Board. The appointment follows the resignation of Mrs. Charles High in July and will take effect later this month. Ferris and her husband CWO George Ferris will move into the shelter with daughters Catherine and Rosemary. Ferris, born in Arkansas and educated in Texas, will oversee care of all resident children.
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Reba Jo Ferris
N. 46Th Place
J. Roy Dunning
Gilbert C. Gibson
Comanche County Child and Youth Advisory Board
Charles High
Ferris
CWO
George Ferris
Catherine
Rosemary
Lay-Down Demonstration Sparks Chicago Civil Rights Turmoil
Negroes staged a rain soaked lay down in Chicago as CORE members faced arrest and bricks flew near a South Side neighborhood. Police reported 133 total arrests in the city amid widening demonstrations while New York police contained a related protest at a hospital site with dozens detained.
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Chicago
South Side
New York
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Englewood
Brooklyn
Downstate Medical Center
No Rain Seen For Next Week In Oklahoma
Weather in southwest Oklahoma remains hot and dry with no rain forecast through next Wednesday. Highs around 102 degrees, lows near 73, and cooler readings possible in western areas from Guymon to Ponca.
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Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Guymon
Ponca
Former GI Turncoat Describes Life in China as Disillusioning
Lowell D. Skinner of Akron Ohio a former Army corporal who chose communism and lived nine years in Red China described life there as improved since the great leap forward failed but still far from good He said people cannot change jobs study or travel and recalled his backyard steel forge during the Leap forward era noting the plan began in 1958 and led to disorganization in agriculture He left Red China after being captured in the Korean War and refusing repatriation now returning home after ten years away.
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Ink Kong
UPI
Red China
Lowell D. Skinner
Akron
Ohio
Skinner
Reds
China
Peking
Lawton Brothers Face Felony Counts After Wild Hunt
Two Lawton men Doyne Jackson 23 and Willard Jackson 18 were charged with attempted rape after a four hour man hunt west of Lawton. They fled a farmer's home with a .22 pistol and a 410 shotgun after threatening the resident and her three children. Sheriff Forest McClung and deputies aided by aerial search crews and Lawton police captured them near a reported sighting. Arraignment set for later today.
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Lawton
Doyne Jackson
Willard Jackson
Pennsylvania
Comanche County
Forest McClung
William T. Gray
Lee Blvd
McClung
Southern Aviation Agency
Lawton Police Department
4Weber
Tex Thixrainerny
Odell Eng
World Champ Enters Rodeo at Lawton Ranch
Tom Nesmith, 1962 all around world champion, enters the Lawton Rangers Rodeo opening Saturday at LO Ranch. Nesmith, 28, born in McAlester and raised near Bethel, will compete in calf roping and steer wrestling as 41 contestants enter this four day event part of Lawton's birthday celebration.
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Tom Nesmith
LO Ranch
McAlester
Okla
Bethel
Carl Bergman
Neal Love
Levington
N. M
Cheyenne
Wyo
Sherry Combs
Checotah
Ohio
Benny Combs
Lawton
Lawtonian
Bellmon Requests Crime Bureau Review in Pate Case
Oklahoma Governor Henry Bellmon ordered the state crime bureau to continue examining the case of Gerald Pate who faces electrocution on August 17. He has seen a preliminary report but awaits a final conclusion. Pate was convicted of murdering a Seminole high school girl.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Henry Bellmon
State Crime Bureau
Gerald Pate
Crime Bureau
Pate
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U.N
Barnett
Elizabeth Taylor
William Mayne Butcher
Hospital Management Committee
Jul Gulliver
Gen. Hurley
American Mercantile Exchange
U.S. Department of Labor
Civil Aeronautics Board
Supreme Court
Louis Brandeis
William Warren
Columbia University Law School
James Landis
Big Ranch
Trol Om
Bill Dixon
Children’s Shelter
Mrs
Reba Ferris
United Press International
Arthur L. Dommen
Roward
Mao Tze-tung
Tsiwan
Peking Communist Party
Bellmon
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