Storms and Floods Trigger Food Crisis in South Korea
Storms in June and July wrecked barley crops across the country, with about 65 percent of barley lost nationwide and 90 percent in Kimhai County. Rice seeds were ruined, prices surged, and 57,393 people joined work relief, many paid in grain. Government bailouts and relief efforts face strain as shortages affect city workers and farmers alike.
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Kimhai
Korea
South Korea
Kim Myung-Ki
Pusan
Kim
Korean Peninsula
West Germany fears Ulbricht could seek conference to gain prestige
Bonn reports that West Germany fears East German leader Walter Ulbricht may use the nuclear test ban treaty to win international respectability. The pact allows any three signers to call a conference. East Germany could trigger this move with allied nations, risking prestige for West Germany and triggering questions about attendance and counting signers. Germany weighs US UK positions as de Gaulle signals stance.
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West Germany
Ulbricht
Bonn
Germany
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
East Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Nize
Gerhard Schroeder
Charles de Gaulle
Kennedy says civil rights push costs him prestige
President Kennedy acknowledges the civil rights drive damages political prestige but says he will press on. He calls the race issue a national crisis requiring joint effort by black and white Americans and warns against relying on street demonstrations as a quick fix.
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Washington
Kennedy
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
7000 Guardsmen Set for Camp at Ft Chaffee Arkansas
Almost 7000 members of the 45th Thunderbird National Guard division depart for a two week summer encampment at Ft Chaffee Ark Major Gen Fred A Daughterty says the weeks will be spent in the field Guards from across Oklahoma join in drills including live fire courses and infantry tank attack practice this year’s camp will be named Camp Donnell in honor of late Col Phillip S Donnell Gov Henry Bellmon will review the troops.
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United Press International
45Th Thunderbird National Guard
Ft. Chaffee
Ark
Fred A. Daughterty
Oklahoma
Thunderbird
Bond approvals for Independant School District 3
Oklahoma City AP reports the attorney general approved two bond issues for Independent School District No. 3 in Johnson County. The measures total $86,000 for a building project and transportation equipment.
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Oklahoma City
Attorney General
Independent
Johnson County
Rusk Heads to Moscow for Limited Test Ban Signing
Secretary of State Dean Rusk travels to Moscow with six U.S. senators to sign the limited nuclear test ban pact and discuss East West disarmament. Khrushchev likely to press for a nonaggression pact as Berlin tensions loom.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Andrei A. Gromyko
Rusk
Lord Home
Gromyko
Kremlin
St. Catherine Hall
Khrushchev
Black Sea
J. W. Fulbright
Arkansas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
John C. Pastore
Rhode Island
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Armed Services Committee
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Foreign Relations
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.S
United Nations
William C. Foster
Disarmament and Arms Control Agency
Atlantic Alliance
Kennedy
Berlin
East Germany
Parade Opens 45th American Legion State Convention in Tulsa
The American Legion's 45th annual state convention begins in Tulsa with a downtown parade. Sen. Howard Edmondson speaks at Sundays session and installation follows Edmondson's speech. Speakers include Tulsa Mayor James L. Maxwell Preston J. Moore Paschal C. Reese and Marshall Miller. Chauncy Witcraft presides.
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Tulsa
UPI
American Legion
Howard Edmondson
Edmondson
James L. Maxwell
Preston J. Moore
Paschal C. Reese
Marshall Miller
U. S. Labor Department
State Legion
Chauncy Witcraft
Kennedy Visits Naval Academy Plebes Amnesty Amid Ceremony
President Kennedy, a former PT boat skipper, visited the U S Naval Academy to welcome the 1 245 plebes and grant amnesty for first five week demerits. He praised service members and noted the country owes much to our servicemen while sharing a naval anecdote.
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Annapolis
Kennedy
U.S. Naval Academy
Naval Museum
Harvard University
New Wheat Grading Plan Gains Support From Growers
Otis Tossett of Lansford North Dakota chairman of Great Plains Wheat Inc said the proposed U S grading standards would help win new cash markets and improve the nations trade balance The plan backed by North Dakota South Dakota Kansas Colorado and Nebraska wheat growers aims to describe product quality more clearly enabling foreign buyers to judge value and compete with other exporting nations Former Rep Clifford Hope now a consultant noted the changes align with long standing recommendations and would boost U S wheat shipments
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Otis Tossett
Lansford
N.D
Great Plains Wheat Inc
Congress
Plains States
Tossett
North Dakota
South Dakota
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
U.S
Clifford Hope
Brian
Better Dairy Herds Urged By Bellmon
Oklahoma Governor Henry Bellmon urged dairy producers to boost efficiency in a four point program during a Holstein field day at George Yeoman farm near Dover in Kingfisher County. He noted dairying adds about 60 million dollars annually to the state economy as the third largest agricultural industry.
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Dover
Oklahoma
Henry Bellmon
Bellmon
George Yeoman
Kingfisher County
Bellman
Crash Kills Woman Injures Oklahoma Family Of Four
A two car crash about five miles south of Wichita Falls Texas killed Fredda Gresham 35 a Wichita Falls waitress and seriously injured four members of an Oklahoma family from Enid Oklahoma. Kenneth Don Jones the driver was treated and released. his wife Mary and two sons remain hospitalized with severe injuries.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Fredda Gresham
Kenneth Don Jones
Enid
Okla
Jones
Wichita Falls General Hospital
Mary
Donald Raymond
Bryan
Texas 79
Friend Questioned In Fatal Shooting
A 17 year old Tulsa boy, Alvin James Allen, was fatally shot near his home around midnight. A friend was questioned by police after the incident. The friend said the pistol discharged accidentally when handed to Allen. The friend was taken into custody hours later.
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Tulsa
Alvin James Allen
Allen
Rainmaker Receives Pro Offer After Tulsa Rain Claim
A Tulsa man claiming nine inches of rain from last Saturday has received professional offers. The secretive rainmaker has had four publicized attempts, including the flood, and offers arrive from across the country. Some requests diverge from weather tempering, such as a western ski resort seeking feet of snow by Thanksgiving and a Tulsa woman asking for a White Christmas.
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TULSA
Steed Belcher To Engage In Oil Report Discussion
Oklahoma representatives Tom Steed and Page Belcher will join Texas Rep. Ed Foreman and others in a Tuesday briefing on a special Kennedy oil industry report. Foreman urged two hours for the discussion and criticized proposals to widen crude and residual oil imports as a key point.
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Washington
UPT
Oklahoma
Tom Steed
Page Belcher
Kennedy
Texas
Ed Foreman
Foreman
Texan
Yardman Hides Under Widow’s House in Secret Lair
In Miami a 41 year old yardman named Kennedy lived secretly under a widow’s house for three years. Neighbors noticed digging at the siding and police found a pallet five suitcases of clothing and water bottles. He was charged with vagrancy and remained jailed.
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Miami, Fla
Ender
Salicd Thant
Court actions target Jordan High expansion and Torrance picketing
In Los Angeles two integration disputes go to court. A suit seeks an injunction against a proposed 1 million expansion at Jordan High School arguing it would worsen racial imbalance. Separately, suits seek injunctions to stop pro and anti integration picketing at the Southwood Riviera Royale housing tract in Torrance alleging discriminatory housing practices.
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Los Angeles
Jordan High School
Jordan
Mary Ellen Crawford
Inita Watkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
United Civil Rights Committee
Southwood Riviera Royale
Torrance
Congress of Racial Equality
Don Wilson
Canada moves to trusteeship five ship unions
Canada plans to place five maritime unions under government trusteeship to curb corruption and violence on Great Lakes fronts. Labor Minister Allan MacEachen said legislation will be introduced when Parliament resumes, with four unions agreeing to the trusteeship and the Seafarers Union of Canada resisting. Norris labeled Hal Banks of SIU as a tyrant and urged deportation.
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Ottawa
Canada
Liberal
Great Lakes
Allan MacEachen
House of Commons
Justice T. G. Norris
Vancouver
MacEachen
House
Seafarers’ International Union of Canada
Norris Re
Canadian Maritime Union
Canadian Merchant Service Guild
National Association of Marine Engineers
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers
SIU
Norris
Hal C. Banks
Hungary
Banks
Skills Bank To Be Set Up In Civil Rights Drive
The National Urban League plans a nationwide skills bank to place qualified Negro workers in skilled jobs by September. Henry Steeger said a $100,000 Rockefeller Brothers Fund grant will finance the effort, which will recruit and verify credentials in six league cities as delegates closed the 33rd annual conference by adopting civil rights resolutions and re-electing officers for 1963-64.
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Los Angeles
National Urban League
Henry Steeger
League
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Publisher
and White
World's greatest rainfall record from Cherrapunji
In July 1861 Cherrapunji India registered about 366 inches of rain in one month. The extreme measure stands as the world's record for a single month of rainfall.
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Cherrapunji
India
Crosby Sinatra Martin Team On Reprise Album
Bing Crosby Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin joined for a cut from Guys and Dolls for Reprise Records on Sunset Boulevard. The trio rehearsed with a 39 piece orchestra and plan a four album Broadway musical hits series featuring Dinah Shore Rosemary Clooney Lou Monte and others. The album arrives next month with Sinatra promising more Bing projects.
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Bing
Frank
Dean
Vernon Scott
UPI
Hollywood Correspondent
Hollywood
Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Sinatra
Martin
Guys and Dolls
Reprise Records
Reprise Repertory Singers
Dinah Shore
Rosemary Clooney
Lou Monte
Sammy Davis Jr
Debbie Reynolds
Keely Smith
Jo Stafford
Mary Kaye
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Chelsea
James Weaver
Academy
Steed
Belcher
Crosby
Reprise
Frankie
der Bingle
Sunset Boulevard
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