Cooper Receives Medal and Adulation in Washington
Astronaut Gordon Cooper, 22 orbit veteran, arrives in Washington with his wife and two daughters to receive the NASA Distinguished Service Medal from President Kennedy in a White House ceremony. Malcolm Carpenter joins the gathering as crowds line Pennsylvania Avenue before Cooper’s Capitol visit.
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Cooper
Kennedy
NASA
America
Newton Andrews
Newton Andrews Air Force Base From Cage Canaveral
Fla
Beevearrold
Air Force
Wwife
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cooper's
White Mouse Rose Garden
U. S
John Glenn
Japan
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Skennedy
Ue Moon
National Agronautics and Space Agency
Mattie Cooper
Carbondale
Cale
Une White House
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Houston
Tex
Canaveral
Andrews
Body found in Muscatine pit identified as Clarence Lincoln
Sheriff Dick Oppelt announced the body recovered from a Muscatine island gravel pit was identified as Clarence Lincoln, 61, a former Muscatine county home resident. Identification was made by home steward Harry Banta after viewing the body at a funeral home. Lincoln, found Monday afternoon, had on bib overalls and a jacket and carried minor personal items. Death appeared natural per Dr. Ve W Swayze. Lincoln left the county home on April 28 for work and had recently been visiting Anna Biggs of Muscatine who reported him as a Sunday dinner guest until three weeks ago. He is survived by siblings in Iowa and Missouri.
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Hahn Brothers
Muscatine
Clarence Lincoln
Muscatine County
Harry Banta
Stewart
George M. Wiltich
Lincoln
Banta
Harold Pay Reed
Anna Biggs
Muscaline
Sha
Clarly
Reed
Bobby G. Borden
Spring Street
Davenport
Muscatine Island
Ve W Swayze
Rock Island
Des Moines
Raymond Fost
Roy's Circle Tap
Barten‘dey
Gimpoint
Post
Windsor Heights
Revolution Crushed In Turkey Amid Coup Attempt
Istanbul and Ankara martial law declared after ex colonel Talat Aydemir leads a short revolt. Cadets at the War College opposed the uprising, seven killed and 23 wounded in the capital. Gen Cevdet Sunay says the treacherous power grab is crushed. insurgents arrested and to be tried.
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Turkey
Tukey
Radio Ankara
Ankara
Tamir
Talat Aydemir
War College
West Point
Aydemir
Cevdet Sunray
Turkish Armed Forces
Revolutionary Committee
Jamih
Legion to Move 1963 National Convention Site
The American Legion cancels plans for the 1963 national convention in New Orleans due to segregation issues. The executive committee must locate a new site, after Louisiana Legionnaires withdrew their invitation over unsegregated facilities for delegates.
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Indianapolis
American Legion
New Orleans
Legion
Louisiana
Weigh Puzzle Of Those Who Shun Religion
An analysis by church experts classifies a wary type as a puzzled outsider with varied motives from hostility to faith to indifference. The report for the United Presbyterian General Assembly urges expanding ministry beyond the parish to reach outsiders. A special task force with a $500000 budget was set up to turn racial justice pronouncements into action.
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Es Moines
Iowa
Lierepart
United Presbyterian General Assembly
Robert Beach Cunningham
New York
Stanford's 150 Foot Dish Readies for Skyward Science
The new 150 foot Stanford radio telescope, part of the Stanford Center for Radar Astronomy, will begin operation in weeks. Three years in construction, the dish sits on a campus building and offers a nearly half-acre aluminum mesh surface to probe the solar system and interplanetary gases.
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Stanford
Stanford Center For Radar
Stanford University
Close Vote Anticipated On Wheat Plan
Washington reports say decision day arrives as farmers expect a tight referendum on the administration plan to halt overproduction in wheat. The vote could shape government farm programs costs and the future of federal involvement. Two factions contest rigid controls and high price supports versus no controls and low supports.
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Washington
Repor
Plin
Polips
Cold Weather Spreads Across Iowa Statewide
The Associated Press reports a fierce cold snap sweeping Iowa as winter clamps down. Thermometer readings plunged to 34 degrees at Spencer and rose to 45 at Davenport with lows near 37 in Council Bluffs and Mason City, signaling more frigid nights ahead.
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Associated Press
Arctic
Iowa
Davenport
Council Bluffs Jada
Mason City
Sioux City
Quarry Slide Kills Centerville Workman
Centerville resident Jonn A Weide man, 22, was killed at the Farnsworth stone quarry south of town when an 18 foot trench he dug with an excavating tractor collapsed his side and buried him. Authorities said the accident occurred as dirt covered him and the tractor.
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Centerville
Jonn A Weideman
Farnsworth Stone
Here
Weideman
Social Welfare Parley Reviews New Legislation in Muscatine
Social welfare officials from 20 counties met with the Iowa state board of public welfare in Muscatine to study local problems and the impact of new welfare legislation. The session at Pack Lane Country Club discussed foster family care funding, state aid for foster care, child protection, and agency policy interpretation. Local boards outlined issues in welfare programs while state representatives explained effects of recent appropriations and new medical legislation.
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Social Welfare
County Board of Supervisors
Muscatine
Iowa State Board of Public Welfare
Pack Lane Country Club
Lawrence Putney
Gladbrook
Marshall C. Jewell
Irene M. Smith
Roscow Whitlatch
Grace Bryant
Ingal Board of Supervisors
County Board of Social Welfare
Joseph Beckey
Mildred Mosher
C. J. Rosenberger
Rone
Kaufman
Fritz Beltey
Betty Masterson
Muscatine County Social Welfare Department
Wherr-Mills
Des Moines
Welfare Board
Tractor Mishap Claims 15-Year-Old Farm Death at South Farm
Dar yell South, 15, son of Mr and Mrs Leland South, was killed late Monday when the tractor he operated overturned in a field on the Souths farm six miles north of Decatur. The accident occurred on a rural farm setting with a single casualty reported.
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Decature
Daryell South
Leland South
Here
Picture Star Is Gravely III London
Bebe Daniels, 32, Hollywood queen of silent films and early talkies, regained consciousness today after suffering a stroke. She was reported better but still gravely ill.
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London
Bebe Daniels
Hollywood
Flight Marks Are Claimed For JFK Plane
Washington reports that President Kennedy’s jet airliner completed a nonstop Moscow to Washington flight setting 20 speed records. The Air Force Boeing 707 covered 3,004 miles in 9 hours 53 minutes 32 seconds landing at Andrews Air Force Base in rain. The return Moscow leg took 8 hours 38 minutes 42 seconds, fastest US Russia crossing, average speeds 303.8 mph outward and 58 mph return, with officials from National Aeronautics Association aboard.
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Washington
Kennedy
Moscow
Air Force
Andrews Air Force Base
United States
Russia
James 1B
Swindal
National Aeronautics Association
Robert B. Dallaway
Woodland +TIfills
Clyde. Barnett
Los Angeles
California
State, Aeronautics
Birmingham School Ban Sparks Court Challenge
In Birmingham Alabama Federal Judge H Hobart Grooms refused to delay the admission of two Black students to the University of Alabama amid warnings of potential campus unrest. Negro leaders pledge to seek federal court action to void a school board order expelling or suspending over 1000 Black pupils who protested segregation. King warns against hasty acts while urging legal remedies.
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Martin Luther King, Jr
Birmingham
Ala
AP Photofax
H. Hobart Grooms
University of Alabama
Grooms
Rumor of Setback for Pope John XXII Amid Illness
Vatican sources in Rome report no relapse after rumors of a setback in Pope John XXII's illness. The Vatican said the pope, aged years, was still scheduled for his regular Wednesday general audience despite circulating reports.
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Vatican City
Rome
John XXII
Vatican
Court Ruling Seen To Boost Negro Sit-ins Nationwide
NAACP attorney Constance Baker Motley says Supreme Court ruling will increase sit-ins as Negroes seek equal service. She predicts hundreds more demonstrations and cites Birmingham store owners being freed to serve Blacks. Court voided convictions of many demonstrators and held states cannot enforce segregation in public places.
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Avanta
Supreme Court
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Constance
Baker Motley
NAACP
Legal Defense Fund
New York
Alabama
North Carolina
South
Carolina
Arthur Hanes
Birmingham
Ivan Allen Jr
Atlanta
George C. Wale Jace
Georgia
Carl Sanders
Unrest grows in Greensboro amid boycotts and arrests
In Greensboro North Carolina unrest intensified as Negro shoppers boycotted white merchant establishments amid demonstrations and mass arrests. Police detained over 900 at the Central Carolina Rehabilitation Hospital protests as crowds swelled. more than 1,300 arrests have occurred in recent days with about 1,000 still jailed.
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N.C
Whit
Durban
Nillen
Central Carolina Rehabilitation Hospital
Ahd J
Jal
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