Parochial Parents Lose Push for Public School Bus Service
In Jefferson City Missouri a push to extend public school bus transportation to private parochial students failed in a House committee and was tabled by a close voice vote. Leaders called off enrollments and urged families to return children to parochial schools though some plan to switch next fall. Central Missouri saw the largest transfers with 400 high school transfers at Westphalia and hundreds more in Tipton and Jefferson City.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
House
Kansas City
St. Louis
Clarence J. Blume
Cole County Catholic Parents Committee
Blume
Westphalia
Tipton High School
Mississippi editor wins Pulitzer for integration editorials
Ira B. Harkey Jr. of the Pasagoula Chronicle Star was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for forthright editorials on Mississippi integration and the University of Mississippi riot. The 46 year old publisher expressed astonishment and said the award marks a high achievement for those in the trade.
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Ira B. Harkey Jr
Pascagoula, Miss
Chronicle Star
Pascagoula
Miss
Mississippi
James Meredith
Harkey
Ross Barnett
Ole Miss
Meredith
Barnett
Nigeria
Sidney Hillman Foundation
New York
Time 40th birthday party gowns and social calamities
At Time magazine’s 40th birthday party Mrs Henry Wallace and Mrs Everett Dirksen joked about a dress mishap as others like Mrs George Romney Mrs Douglas MacArthur and Hedda Hopper attended in striking gowns. Margaret Truman Daniel wore a bronze embroidered white gown and others showcased notable fashion.
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Time Magazine
Illinois
Manfred Gottfried
Time
George Romney
Michigan
Douglas MacArthur
Mrs. Wallace
Gina Lollobrigida
G. Mennen Williams
Hedda Hopper
Margaret Truman Daniel
Mrs. Dale Carnegie
Ex-Serviceman Gets Year For Threatening JFK
Wirdell Willingham a 33 year old Winnsboro South Carolina former serviceman pleaded guilty to threatening President Kennedy in a letter to the White House and was sentenced to one year in prison He had served in the Navy Army Marines and Air Force and warned he would see the President through the scope of a high powered rifle unless reinstated in the armed forces.
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Spartanburg
S.C
Kennedy
Wirdell Willingham
Winnsboro
White House
Willingham
Navy
Army
Marines
Air Force
Khrushchev Sends Troika Horse to Cyrus Eaton
Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent a replacement troika horse to financier Cyrus S. Eaton. The gray stallion arrived Monday at Eaton's Acadia farms in Northfield, Ohio, with Russian veterinarian Gene Chachirin. The troika, a light open sleigh, was a gift after a 1958 Moscow visit. one original horse was retired and Khrushchev selected the replacement.
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Akron, Ohio
Cyrus S. Eaton
Khrushchev
Zagar
Eaton’s
Acadia Farms
Northfield
Gene Chachirin
Troika
Moscow
Chachirin
Slain Officer Identified As Lt. Parker Cramer
Wantagh New York AP Lt Parker D Cramer 26 an American Army officer killed in a Communist guerrilla ambush in Viet Nam identified by family He is the 73rd American killed in the war since 1961 Cramer father William H Cramer FAA official at Idlewild said he received a telegram Lt Cramer and two South Vietnamese were slain near Saigon after guerrillas blew their jeep and ordered them out and shot them Cramer a native of Pittsburgh attended Minneapolis high school and Rhode Island 1959 commission He was single.
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Wantagh
N.Y
Viet Nam
Parker D. Cramer
Cramer
William H. Cramer
Idlewild
Saigon
Pittsburgh
Minneapolis
University of Rhode Island
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