Evers Assassination Rocks Mississippi Activists
Mississippi police intensify hunt for Meigar Evers killer with a reward exceeding 22000 dollars. A fingerprint tied to the crime scene prompts round the clock detective work amid mass protests and sporadic violence in Jackson where NAACP official Meigar Evers was shot near his home after a civil rights rally. His widow appeals for meaning, saying she would rather his death stand for their people than be in vain.
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Jackson
Miss
Kennedy
Eversfield
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Mississippi
Evers
Deep South
Kennedy Aid Bill Defeated in House
In Washington the House rejected President Kennedy’s plan to authorize 450 million dollars in grants and loans for job creation in high unemployment areas. The vetoed bill halts new ARA loans if not revived, with House leaders saying the program would run out of funds within a year unless Senate action yields a new measure.
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Kennedy
House
Senate
Area Redevelopment Administration
Wright Patman
D-Tex
House Bank Committee
ARA
Patman
Tragic drowning finds toddler in Nicolet Forest
Little Douglas Cedarblade, 2, son of Dewey Cedarblade and resident at a YMCA camp near Mountain, is found dead face down in a swampy area of Nicolet National Forest after a search by more than 160 people. Coroner rules accidental drowning. The boy was reported missing Tuesday afternoon and found Wednesday by 16-year-old Guy Erb Jr. about a mile from the camp.
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Little Douglas
Cedarblade
Green Bay
Nicolet National Forest
Oconto County
Clarence McMahon
Dewey
Guy Erb Jr
Suring
Douglas
Mountain
Kennedy invites party chiefs to White House talks
President Kennedy invites about 250 national and state union leaders and key lawmakers to formal discussions at the White House on civil rights and job discrimination. He plans to deliver civil rights messages to Congress next week and meets with former presidents Truman Eisenhower. Attendees include business and labor figures, with Johnson Mansfield McCormack Albert Humphrey Smathers Hickenlooper Ford and others attending.
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UPI
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Repub
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White House
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Senate
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House
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Unies
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Teamsters Union
James L. Hoffa
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Afl-Cio
Ethae Netlate
Canthara Datac
Janina
Hubert Humphrey
D-Mins
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
R-Ind
Ford
R-Mich
Bald man wins raffle prize in England incident
In Wrotham, England, James Cripps who is bald won a raffle for a free shampoo and curlers and planned to collect the prize on Wednesday. He refused to hand the prize to his wife, quipping about seeing the pretty girls at the hairdresser.
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England
UPD
James Cripps
Peterson Wins Republican State Chair in Wisconsin
Talbot Peterson 41 of Appleton was elected Wednesday to a two year term as Wisconsin Republican state chairman. He unseated Claude Jasper to heal intraparty rifts led by Philip Koehn, with Knowles and Renk as prominent rivals. Peterson previously led Outagamie County GOP and praised McCarthy era ties while promising unity and party rebuilding.
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UPI
Talbot Peterson
Appleton
Republican Party Executive Committee
Peterson
Claude Jasper Madison
Philip Kuehn
Milwaukee
Warren Knowles
Wilbur Renk
Sun Prairie
Koehn
Outagamie County
Republican Party
Joseph McCarthy
US Senate
McCarthy
Carl Rashive
NEW State Gop
Evelyn
Norris Krohn
Oshkosh
Three Felons Caught In Wisconsin Prison Break
BEAVER DAM UP I Three of four convicts who escaped from the Waupun State Prison are in custody after two were spotted by Officer Jerome Kreuziger in Beaver Dam and arrested near Wis 11. Earl Jackson and Robert Albasini were returned to the prison with no struggle. Pete Decorah, serving a 15 year term for murder and burglary, was captured nearby by farmers, still leaving Aubrey Nichols at large. The escapees had fled from a warehouse on the outskirts of Waupun.
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UPI
Waupun State Prison
Here
Waupun
Jerome Kreuziger
Robert Albasini
Earl Jackson
Wis
Kreuziger
Jackson
Albasisi
Pete Decorah
Decorah
Aubrey Nichols
Madison
Betancourt Cracks Down After Venezuela Plot
President Betancourt ordered the arrest of about 400000 Communists and MIR extremists after a thwarted assassination attempt at the archbishop’s palace in Ciudad Bolivar. Police seized two assailants with dynamite and a timing device, while a third escaped, triggering a nationwide roundup and a push for a terrorism bill with strict penalties.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Betancourt
Ciudad Bolivar
Carlos Andres Perez
MIR
Revolutionary Left
Proxmire Calls for Open Government by Agencies
Senator William Proxmire urged Congress to require departments and agencies to operate openly, citing the taxpayer's right to scrutiny. He praised Wisconsin's 1959 open meetings law as a model, noting it guarantees public access to governmental information and actions.
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Washington
API
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Congress
Proxmire
Wisconsin
Meeting May Reopen Steel Labor Accord
Washington AP reports the Wage Policy Committee of United Steelworkers Union may call to reopen the contract if swift talks do not yield progress. An informed source says unofficial talks show impatience, with management and union far apart on extension and major disagreements lingering.
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United Steelworkers Union
Ths
Unwn
Joint Union-Management Home Relations Committee
Young Girl Found Drowned in River Near Spring Green
The body of three year old Julia Maybee was discovered in the Wisconsin River near the Wis. 23 bridge at Spring Green. Her father Leslie Maybee, 27, and brother Brian, 4, were killed in the same drowning incident and funeral services were held Wednesday.
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Wisconsin River
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Brian
Murder at Enco Station on Highway 41
Wayne Clarence Pratt 24 was stabbed 53 times and murdered in the back room of his Enco station near the Highway 45 interchange between 8 43 and 9 Wednesday night. Robbery suspected with only about $2 found in the till. two cars seen at the scene. Coroner noted 12 chest wounds. autopsy released details and continued on page 10 column 4.
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Winnebago County
Arthur C. Miller
Enco Station
Wayne Pratt
Pratt
Wayne Clarence Pratt
Enco
Highway 4
Highway 45
Maria
Miller
Denial on Jewish U.S. servicemen in Saudi territory
Beirut AP reports Saudi Arabia denied barring Jews from entering its territory. The Defense Ministry broadcast the denial while the U.S. Defense Department released a letter stating some American Jewish servicemen had been assigned to data in Saudi Arabia for the first time in years.
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American Jewish Committee
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Dat
State Fiscal Fees Set to Adjust
Wisconsin’s evenly split government moves toward a second tax compromise in under two years amid talks of fiscal crisis. Democratic Senator Reynolds and GOP leaders indicate willingness to bridge differences to avoid chaos. No terms settled yet as lawmakers weigh revisions following a 1961 model of revenue reform. Continued on Page 1b, Col.
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Wisconsin
John W. Reynolds
GOP
Reynolds
Inspectors Visit Cape Cod Hospital and Otis Base Hospital
Mrs Jonet Renepkesi Gat Mate leads inspection at Cape Cod Hospital and Otis Base Hospital. Dr Joan Welsh travels with Dr Janet Travel, the president's personal physician. Mrs Kennedy is expecting her third child.
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Otister Force Base Hospital
Joan Welsh
Janet Travel
Kennedy
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