Garden project in Wichita ends in failure
Jack Sheets proposed a community garden at the West Community Action Center in April to help poverty-stricken residents grow vegetables. He secured half an acre, persuaded businessmen to fund plowing and discing, bought 100 pounds of fertilizer, and lined up several families to plant. No one showed up, some cited distance or change of plans, and the half acre is now overgrown with weeds and an abandoned car remains there. Sheets still has the fertilizer.
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Wichita
Jack Sheets
West Community Action Center
Sheets
Racial Peace Bargain Talks In Fort Myers Schoolroom
In a muggy Fort Myers schoolroom near a Negro slum, over 60 youths learn of Operation Summer, a NAACP program to place idle Black youths in jobs and push city leaders to improve housing, recreation, and minority representation. The plan calls for clinics to register unemployed youths, white employers to offer opportunities, and broader city integration, with a July 5 meeting set to discuss NAACP demands.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Florida National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Florida
Isadore Edwards
NAACP
Anderson Street
Tampa
Cleveland
Watts
Marvin Davies
Davies
National Naacp
Clyde Washington
Washington
West Side
Edwards
Myers
Truck Kills 3-Year-Old in Wichita Driveway
In Wichita a truck fatally struck 3-year-old Mark Allen Johnston as he played near a driveway. Driver Robert L. Carnell, 33, of Valley Center, Kan., says he did not see the child when he began to move the vehicle. Carnell and the boy's parents, Mr and Mrs James Johnston, were treated for shock at a local hospital.
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Wichita
Mark Allen Johnston
Robert L. Carnell
Valley Center
Kan
Carnell
James Johnston
Man Charged After Coffeyville Slaying
Mau rice Melton, 33, faces murder and rape charges in the February killing of Lila lie Mae Colbert, 31, mother of six. He is jailed in Tulsa on Oklahoma counts of rape kidnapping robbery and burglary. Colbert’s body was found Feb 25 in a dry creek bed southwest of Coffeyville after she disappeared Feb 20. Melton formerly worked at dry cleaning firms in Coffeyville and Independence. County Attorney Monte Heasty noted unlikely immediate return to Montgomery County.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Maurice Melton
Melton
Coffeysville
Independence
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Monte
Heasty
Meleton
Montegomery County
Lilalie Mae Colbert
Lawsuit filed over claimed life policy payments
Mrs. Lawrence Crouse of Great Bend Kansas sues National Life and Accident Insurance for 48500 alleging denial of payout after her husband Delmar Doyle was murdered. Doyle 36, convicted of second degree murder in March and sentenced to 10 years. suit filed in federal court cites double indemnity clauses in four policies.
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Wichita
Lawerence Crouse
Great Bend
Kan
National Life and Accident Insurance Co
Crouse
Delmar G. Doyle
Kanesas Supreme Court
Regents Officers: HUD Grants Wichita $701000 Transit Aid
The Housing and Urban Development Department announced a 701000 dollar mass transit grant for Wichita Kansas. City plans include buying 32 new eighty six passenger air conditioned buses and building garage facilities.
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Washington
Housing and Urban Development Department
Wichita
Kan
Wichita Grant Eberhardt Elected Kansas Board of Regents Chairman
John F. Eberhardt of Wichita was elected chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents. Under a new policy, the outgoing chairman Dwight Klinger of Ashland was named vice chairman.
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Ing
Harold A. Letchworth
Alfred Harrison
Ralph Crawford
John F. Ward
Harold Shomber
Don Sellers
Don Humphrey
Charles Toumberlin
Ted Clark
Topeka
John F. Eberhardt
Wichita
Kansas Board of Regents
Dwight Klinger
Ashland
Glassboro summit groundwork hints at more talks
Washington AP reports congressional leaders, briefed by President Johnson, see possibility of followup Johnson Kosygin talks after Glassboro meetings. White House stressed no fixed date or place was set, but leaders sensed momentum for future direct contacts. Maurer of Romania said Glassboro could lead to clarity on world issues.
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Washington
Johnson
Glassboro
White House
Kosygin
George Christian
Christian
J.W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Reelations Committee
Kosyagin
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Fulbright-Mansfield
Congress
Ional
Mansfield
Fulbright
Sures
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
Romania
Maurer
Soviet Union
Middle East
Nugent’s Newborn Lyn Makes Public Debut In Texas Heat
President’s daughter Luci Johnson Nugent and husband Patrick Nugent left Seton Hospital with their six day old son Lyn Lyndon Nugent. The baby weighed 8 pounds 1 1/2 ounces, was 21 inches long, and wore white knit booties. Luci said she wants Lyn to grow up in a peaceful world and be the best he can be.
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Patrick J. Nugent
Seton Hospital
Texas
Patrick Lyndon Nugent
Lyn
Luci
Nugents
Little Lyndon
Pat
Luci Nugent
White House
GOP Governors Slow In 68 Commitments
WEST YELLOWSTONE Montana AP Western governors pace commitment talk ahead of the 1968 GOP nominating convention. Moderates fear Reagan’s conservatism but may back him if he gains broad support while Romney or Nixon supporters push for a winner against Johnson. Nelson Rockefeller and Reagan loom large as Evans and Hathaway note. Goldwater backs Reagan if Nixon blocked.
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West Yellowstone
Mont
Johnson
Jackson
Wyo
George Romney
Michigan
Ronald Reagan
California
Tom McCall
Oregon
Reasgan
Barry Goldwater
GOP
Reagan
Richard M. Nixon
Daniel J. Evans
Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Evans
Stan Hathaway
Wyoming
Hathaway
Nixon
Garrison Helper Quits In Disgust
New Orleans, AP reports William Gurvich resigns as chief investigator for District Attorney Jim Garrison. He claims the Kennedy case was solved by the Warren Commission and accuses Garrison of rights violations against Clay Shaw. Gurvich says he will testify and provide evidence to the grand jury.
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New Orleans
John F. Kennedy
Warren Come
William Gurevich
Jim Garrison
Gurvich
Albert Labiche
Orleans Parish
Grand Jury
Garrison
Labiche
Clay L. Shaw
Shaw
Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
Oswald
Evi
District Attorney’s Office
Parker Leaves Estate to King and NAACP in Will
Dorothy Parker died June 7 at 73 in New York. Her will names Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the NAACP as beneficiaries, with Lillian Hellman as executrix and trustee. Estate valued at more than $10,000, described as modest by her lawyer.
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New York
Marstin Luther King Jr
Dorothy Parker
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Atlanta
Ameri Ica
Miss Parker
King
Lillian Hellman
Paul O’dwyer
X Ray Proof In JFKs Shooting
New York AP reports chief pathologist James J. Humes re examined Kennedy autopsy photos and says X rays prove the president was shot from behind CBS also says its probe aligns with the Warren Commission that Oswald acted alone though CBS findings note conflicting evidence about a second gunman.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Bhind
James J. Humes
Navy Medical Center
Bethesda
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
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