Richmond Fair Dampened But Not Stopped By Rain
Rain slowed the Richmond Free Fair but did not halt events with the talent show resuming after a weather break and the shodeo underway until rain paused it. Rail rainfall was about a quarter inch. PeeWee baseball was canceled. Exhibitors total 341, livestock 175 animals, 42 4-H steers, 220 floral entries, 105 domestic arts entries, including 19 quilts. A boy baby contest and tractor pulling were highlighted features.
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Richmond Fair
Don Black
Richmond
Richmond PeeWees
Welda PeeWees
Counties To Vote On School Plans
June 2 1959 Kansas counties voted down district unification. A Sept 8 rematch includes Osage Douglas Miami Linn and Anderson counties with three unit plans replacing one unit. Officials caution over low turnout and prior large defeats as boards tweak plans for a second vote.
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Zeke Wigglesworth
Kansas
Osage
Douglas
Miami
Linn
Anderson
John Roman
Miami County
Roman
Osawatomie
Paul W. Crawford
Lyndon
Melvern
Quenemo
Burlingame
Scranton
Carbondale
Overbrook
Osage City
Earl Wilson
Douglas County
Barry Won’t Be At Dedication
Barry Goldwater will not speak at the Pomona dam dedication on September 5. Russell Crites of the Osage Lakes Association, with the Corps of Engineers, says the event will remain nonpartisan. Reports of invitations to Goldwater circulated through Lyndon and Kansas City media, but officials deny plans for his appearance.
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Barry Goldwater
Pomona Dam
Russell Crites
Osage Lakes Association
Corps of Engineers
Barry
GOP
Kansas City Star
Goldwater
Pomona
The
Star
Jack Miller
Peoples Herald
Lyndon
Miller
Ottawa Herald
Lyndon Boosters Club
Boosters
United Press International
UPI
Associated Press Radio
Tafter
Kansas
Sam Mellinger
Emporia
Mellinger
Richard Rogers
Manhattan
Kansas City
Lyndon Johnson
LBJ
Barry Goldwater backs Social Security boost and warns on Medicare
Washington AP Sen Barry Goldwater said he favors strengthening Social Security and will vote for a 5 percent benefit increase for about 20 million recipients. He criticized the Johnson administration plan to add health care for the elderly via Medicare, warning it could bankrupt the system. He supported extending survivor benefits for students to age 22 and lowering eligibility age for widows to 60.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Senate
Johnson
Goldwater
Keene N
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Senate Finance Committee
Demo Platform Must Back Court Ruling
Atlantic City reports May or Raymond R. Tucker urged Democratic platform writers to back the Supreme Court ruling that state legislatures apportion seats by population. He pressed for a strong platform statement supporting the decision amid debate over reapportionment and federal court jurisdiction.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Supreme Court
St. Louis
Platform Writers Today
Congress
Tucker
Platform Committee
High Court
Senate
Republican National Convention
Department of Community Development
Weather County Forecast Fair and mild through Saturday
Fair and mild with light to moderate northwest winds through Saturday. Lows near mid 50s, highs in the lower 80s Saturday. Thursday high 86, today’s low 62. Record highs and lows for this date noted. Precipitation 0.38 inch in the last 24 hours. Hourly temps listed through 8 PM today. Barometer 29.76 inches.
Viet Students Demand Civilian Government in Saigon
In Saigon and other cities students staged noisy anti government rallies demanding President Nguyen Khanh step aside for a civilian regime. They cited press freedom and end of repression while Khanh formed a new cabinet at Cape St Jacques. Police watched as boycotts and exams were disrupted amid rising U S casualties.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
Khanh
Cape St. Jacques
Hue
Tuy Hoa
Can Tho
Kien Hoa
Phu Tuc
NFO Holds Steady for Price Boost in Livestock Action
Leaders of the National Farmers Organization await effects of a nationwide holding action to raise prices. Hog shipments fell, cattle marketings dropped, and frozen pork futures rose to the daily limit as NFO uses minor teams to monitor market moves. Armour layoffs at a Minnesota plant cut daily kill. Members urged farmers to keep stock on the farm to push processors to pay minimum prices.
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Corning Iowa
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Oren Lee Staley
Rea
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago
Iowa
Minnesota
Staley
Armour and Co
South St. Paul, Minn
NFC
Minutemen
Marietta Ohio
County School Positions Filled
Franklin County superintendent Lauren Gaddis said the county has filled the last elementary teaching post. The only remaining vacancy appears to be a mathematics teacher at Princeton High School. The county operates about 115 teachers across its schools.
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Lauren Gaddis
Franklin County
Princeton High School
Teachers Institute to Unite Franklin and Miami Counties
A joint institute for Franklin and Miami County teachers will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday at the First Baptist Church in Ottawa. About 180 teachers are expected. Miami teachers attend for the first time. Sessions start at 9 a.m. with registrations at 9. Frank McIntyre, California Teacher’s Association PR director, will lead the Tuesday afternoon session. John and Mrs. Glover of Emporia will conduct Wednesday sessions on reading social studies science and physical education.
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Franklin
Miami County
First Baptist Church
Ottawa
Miami
Jack Popplewell
Bell Telephone Co
Popplewell
Frank McIntyre
California Teacher's Association
John Glover
Emporia
Lane Woman Saw Viet Nam Coup In Saigon Life
Mrs. John Rutledge recalls living in Saigon for about a year and witnessing the coup that ousted Ngo Dinh Diem, the Buddhist crisis, and martial law. She describes dangers to children, evacuation from a villa to an apartment, and hardships including tampered mail, scarce medicine, and an overcrowded orphanage with poor nutrition.
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Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
John Rutledge
Lane
Saigon
Mrs Rutledge recounts Saigon visit amid 1963 coup and turmoil
Mrs. Rutledge describes arriving in March 1963 during a plague in Saigon and leaving amidst a cholera outbreak in 1964. She recalls Madame Nhu’s regime, Buddhist burnings, and a November coup with tanks and gunfire, noting Americans advised Vietnamese troops and helicopters and special forces operated nearby.
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Saigon
Madame Nhu
England
Viet Nam
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Richmond Free Fair
Raymond R. Tucker
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Teacher’s Institute
Sue McKinley
John
Jacqueline
Seventh Day Adventist Hospital
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