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rn Kansas PressTHE MORNING GREAT BEND DAILY TRIBUNESPORTS • WEATHER STATE end AREA NEWSGREAT BEND, KANSAS,WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1963—THIS ISSUE 10 PAGESSINGLE COPY PRICE 5cWichita iiii Clears Major BarrierWith Tentative Passage by HouseUnion Head Asks For More Timein Paper StrikeBy CHARLES JUSTICENEW YORK (UPT)—The leader of 320 striking photoengravers, the last holdout union in the 109-day-old New York newspaper blackout, Tuesday night asked for tnore time before deciding whether to recommend strike settling contract terms to his membership.Publishers accepted terms to end the strike earlier Tuesday. A union spokesman said that his union leaders would give their decision at the 2 p. m. EST meeting.But the meeting was not held at union headquarters as scheduled, and for hours there was no word from union leaders.At 7:30 p. m., Mayor Robert F, Wagner, who proposed the new contract terms, said he had. heard from photoengravers president Frank A. McGowan.If the executive council, of the photoengravers .approves the pact, the only hurdle still to be cleared would be ratification by rank-and-file members. This could be done Wednesday with the papers resuming publication by nightfall.The publishers accepted the terms proposed by Mayor Robert F. Wagner earlier Tuesday, but stressed they did not like them. The publishers also said theyfurther pnnpfac*KANSAS PRINCESS in the National Cherry Blossom Festival, Patricia Thiele, 5cott City senior at Fort Hays State College, is packing a few final items which she'll take to Washington, D.C., for the festival during the first week in April.(Fort Hays State Photo)Future fields PromiseBy JOSEPH GALLOWAY TOPEKA (UPI) — The Wichita University compromise bill passed the major test of this legislative session Tuesday when the House gave it tentative approval.The House, sitting as the Committee of the Whole, gave a 72-39 victory to the measure that would bring Wichita University into the state system of higher education. Todaythe House will make the formal decision on Wichita but in the light of Tuesday’s unexected m a-jority there was little doubt that the bill would be passed.II must (hen be sent to the Senate for a concurring vole on the compromise amendments tacked onto the bill by the House Ways and Means Committee.If the Senate fails to concur the bill would be thrown into a conference committee.Capsule Report |(Compiled from DPI and local dispatches)THE MARKET — Stocks scored another moderate gain Tuesday, Due to a failure in transmission wires, today’s stock report on page -1 is not complete.CANADA'S FIRST LADIES — DPI Writer Joyce Fairbaln gives an insight to the wives of the men competing for the leadership of Canada. First of a series, page 4,Supporters of the bill fought’ off several major attacks on it in Tuesday’s seven-hour debate, Leads Opposition Rep. Tom Crossan, R-Montgomery County, led the fight against the measure and was defeated in ten separate attempts to amend it.Twice the committee heal down attempts to force a statewide referendum on whether Wichita Uni-versity should be admitted to the stale system. Crossan proposed the referendum once and Rep. Odd Williams, R-Lawrence, suggested Lhe other.Williams also attempted to Insert in the bill a section that would have provided an additional $96,000 in state aid jo Washburn University of Topeka.As it Is now written, Wichita would come into lhe state system in July of 1964 as an “associate”CASEY AT THE BAT — Vince Edwards, bolter known as Dr. Ben Casey, is trying 1o pep up his new nightclub act.1 Hollywood feature, page 7.THE WEATHER — Continued generally fair and slightly war* mcr today aver Western Kansas, High temperatures will be in the 7fls with lows tonight around 10. Winds will be from the south a I 20 * 30 tnph.Coed Jokes About Ordeal In the YukonBy ALLAN EATONWHITEHORSE, Yukon (UPn-A 21-year-old coed who almost
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Western Kansas Press
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Wed, Mar 27, 1963
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