Grain Handlers Strike Costs Kansas City Wheat Prices
Grain millers in Kan sas City walkout hits Franklin County farmers with 5 to 6 cents per bushel extra freight when wheat cannot be unloaded at terminal elevators operated by 14 companies. Local 18 handlers unloaded trucks and boxcars, forcing growers to bear higher trucking costs while rail rates remain around 12 cents a bushel. Some shipments still move by truck to other markets but losses grow as boxcars sit idle on sidings amid the strike.
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Kansas City
Franklin County
Lyle Grier
Ottawa Co-Op
Taylor
Grier
Fort Scott
Missouri
Mississippi
New Orleans
Fidel Castro betrayed by sister Juanita Castro Ruz
MEXICO CITY AP Fidel Castro’s sister Juanita Castro Ruz defected charging that the Cuban premier betrayed the revolution and sold out Cuba to the Soviet Union She read a six page denunciation on Mexican TV saying 75 000 political prisoners show Cuba’s oppression and questioning the 63 million in medicines exchanged for Bay of Pigs prisoners, then fled Cuba
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Mexico City
Fidel Castro
Juanita
Cuba
Soviet Union
Juanita Castro Ruz
Guillermo Vela
Fidel
Raul
Miss Castro
Castro
Mexico
Emma
Fulgencio Batista
Key Illinois Votes Sought
Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania seeks to block Barry Goldwater's first ballot nomination as both travel to address the Illinois Republican delegation and Harold Stassen. AP poll shows 693 delegates tentatively backing Goldwater and 138 for Scranton. Illinois has 39 Goldwater pledged delegates, 1 Nixon, and 18 uncommitted. Scranton calls for a face-to-face debate before the Illinois group.
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Chicago
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Illinois
San Francisco
Harold Stassen
Associated Press
Goldwater
Scranton
Richard M. Nixon
South
Weather Wilts Show Plans
The Ottawa summer theater group Community Theater Players Inc. voted to disband after failing to cast the first production A Carnival of Thurber. Director Jane Feuer cited vacation conflicts and hot weather as reasons for the low turnout. The planned August performances are canceled. Board members elected were Mrs Cree Roberts Jack Kille and Frank Shull.
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Ottawa Summer Theater
Community Theater Players Inc
Jane Feuer
Cree Roberts
S. Locust
Jack Kille
Ash
Frank Shull
S. Mulberry
Community Theater Board
Dance Recital Showcases 52 Young Dancers Tonight
Fifty two young students of Marjorie Bernhardt perform ballet tap and modern pieces this evening at 7 45 p m in Memorial Auditorium. The fifth annual recital features costumes handmade by mothers, with most outfits costing between two and ten dollars. Margaret Henning, 17, wins a university camp scholarship and appears in three groups plus two solos.
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Marjorie Bernhardt
Memorial Auditorium
Miss Bernhardt
Mommie
Daddy
400 Sailors Join In Search For Workers
In Mississippi, 400 Navy sailors and a dozen officers joined the search for three civil rights workers missing for nine days, expanding from 100 sailors as White House orders intensified the manhunt into Newton County alongside Neshoba. Rita Schwerner urged the President to deploy 5,000 rescuers, but was told the number could not be provided. The missing trio were Michael Schwerner’s wife and colleagues Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, last seen after being freed from jail on June 2.
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Philadelphia
Miss
Navy
Mississippi
Naval Auxiliary Air
Rita Schwerner
Michael Schwerner
Brooklyn
Schwerner
White House
Johnson
Andrew Goodman
James Chaney
Meridian
Weather COUNTY FORECAST for thunderstorms and mild heat
Widely scattered thunder showers tonight and early Wednesday then partly cloudy Wednesday. Highs near 85 and upper 80s, lows in the upper 60s. Today’s high 85, low 65. year ago high 95, low 69. Record high 108 in 1952, record low 49 in 1923. Trace precipitation in the last 24 hours. Hourly temps listed from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and barometer 30.09.
Lodge Warns Against Colonialism in Vietnam War Policy
Washington AP report notes Henry Cabot Lodge argues full command of South Vietnam forces would amount to colonialism and fuel anti American sentiment. He criticizes a House Republican task force proposal while signaling cautious optimism on the war's progress new Senate committees and nominations.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
Viet Nam
Lodge
Saigon
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
House
Melvin R. Laird
Wisconsin
South Viet Nam
Senate Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Taylor
U. Alexis Johnson
Scranton
Far East
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Orbit Failure Briefly Halts Atlas Centaur Mission
Cape Kennedy Florida AP report states premature shutdown of the Atlas Centaur second stage prevented orbit, delaying development of the rocket intended to launch unmanned Surveyor spacecraft to the moon. Despite the loss, NASA noted success in insulation panel deployment and Centaur boost pump restart. capsule reached milestones before the stage sank in the Atlantic.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
National Aeronautics and Space _ Administration
Cape Kennedy
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Verdi Islands
West African
RFK Refutes Kennedy Conspiracy Theories in Poland
Robert F. Kennedy said in Krakow that his brother was not the victim of a conspiracy or communism. He defended Lee Harvey Oswald as acting alone, noting ideology did not motivate the murder and calling Oswald a societal misfit. He answered questions amid European speculation about a broader plot surrounding the Kennedy and Oswald slayings.
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Warsaw
Poland
Robert F. Kennedy
U.S
Krakow
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Oswald
Kennedy
Europe
Dallas
Jack Ruby
Rig Explodes In Gulf Killing Four
A pre-dawn explosion and fire on a floating oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico sank the C P Baker 78 miles southwest of Morgan City. At least four men were killed and 13 or more reported missing, with 25 survivors hospitalized in Lakewood. The rig, owned by Reading and Bates of Morgan City, cost about six million dollars and had moved to the site just days earlier.
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Morgan City
Gulf of Mexico
Lakewood Hospital
Block 273
Eugene Island
Reading & Bates
C. P. Baker
Delta Service
Gulf
Louisiana
C, P
Baker
Spring Hill Engineer Enters 5th District Senate Race
Spring Hill resident Clifford Skinner, 44, a Delco Remy plant operator and farmer, seeks the Republican nomination in Kansas 5th District Senate race challenging incumbent William Bowers and A Scott Anderson with a platform calling for smaller government, tax reform, and district-based school control. He criticizes highway hiring and supports tax equalization between homes and farms, while stressing local representation.
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Senate
Clifford O. Skinner
William Bowers
Ottawa
A. Scott Anderson
Spring Hill
Skinner
Johnson County
Delco-Remy
Olathe
Merchant Marine
Chapel Fund Nears Goal at Ransom Memorial Hospital
The hospital chapel fund has raised 2239 of a 2500 goal in an all day Ottawa radio drive. Requesting gifts to banks in Ottawa or to Ransom Memorial Hospital with checks payable to the chapel fund. Work will start once the goal is reached.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital Chapel
Charles P. Knight
Knight
Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
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