Decade After Ruling Negro Still Waiting
AP News analysis reflecting 1954 Supreme Court ruling ending school segregation and challenging lingering Jim Crow barriers. It traces the long fight against discrimination across North and South, noting ongoing protests, violence, and the slow, incremental strategy culminating in 1954 and the continued push for broader civil rights protections.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Thomas Jefferson
America
Louisville
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Congress
Oscar And Emmy Get Together For Laughs At TV Awards
Hollywood AP reports Oscar and Emmy will join for a humorous skit during the Television Academy Awards telecast on May 25. The bit mocks the Academy's seriousness with a mantle holding both awards as Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore banter about mutual problems.
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Hollywood
Dick van Dyke
Mary Tyler Moore
Williamsburg Trustees Accept Gift for New Church Site
The Methodist Church trustees in Williamsburg accept a property gift from Mrs. Daisy Van Valkenburg for the building site of a new church, with additional adjoining lots purchased. The site is north of the football field. A separate note mentions Mr. and Mrs. Clare Sowers displaying cattle at the East Central Kansas Jersey Parish show in Garnett on Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Stansbury visited Capt. and Mrs. William Stansbury and family at Clinton Sherman Air Force Base in Oklahoma. Jimmy Stansbury, born May 4, weighed 7 pounds 1 ounce.
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Methodist Church
Daisy van Valkenburg
Clare Sowers
Kansas Jersey
Garnett
Frank Stansbury
William Stansbury
Lisa
Jimmy
Clinton Sherman Air Force Base
Oklahoma
Worth While Club Anniversary Observed at Richland Hall
The Worth While Club marked its 13th anniversary at Richland Township Hall with a day long meeting and dinner. Organizers traced the club to February 1929 with nine charter members and noted living originals Mrs. Counselman Mrs. Shields and Mrs. Quellhorst. Members described decades of quilting, comforts, showers, charity drives for the Salvation Army Red Cross and Polio Fund, plus Red Cross garments and cancer bandages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worth While Club
Richland Township
William Duff
Fred Bell
A. L. Lingle
E. Letchworth
H. L. Bivins
Charles Penny
O. D. Quellhorst
Eldon Shields
Gale Counselman
Quellhorst
Bivins
Counselman
Shields
West Windy
North Windy
Salvation Army
Red Cross
United Drive
Polio Fund
Richmond family moves to Fort Lewis Washington
Richmond couple Mr and Mrs Gene O Mara along with Robin and Mark relocate to Fort Lewis Washington as part of a household move noted in local notices.
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Gene O’mara
Robin and
Mark
Fort Lewis, Wash
Carrolls to host Wellsville family reunion in May
Wellsville residents Mr. and Mrs. Oren Carroll host a Carroll family reunion on Sunday May 17 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bitts in Pomona honoring Eugene Ore retired lieutenant colonel B. C. Kirkham brother-in-law of the Carrolls. Attendees include participants from Kansas City Missouri Kansas City Kansas Shawnee and Ottawa.
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Wellsville
Oren Carroll
Carroll
W. E. Bitts
Pomona
B. C. Kirkham
Eugene
Ore
Carroll's
Kansas City
Kan
Shawnee
Ottawa
Ralph Lidikay
Rose Junior Garden Club
Wellsville Baptist Church
E. E. Turner
Carl Warnock
W. S.C.S
Hays Hall
Robert Alexander
Zion Methodist Church
McGuffy
Missionary Service Organization
World Vision Inc
Mother And Son Finish School In Neosho
NEOSHO Mo AP Eight years after dropping out to marry Bruce Jeffers Maxine Mapes Jeffers will finish her senior year at Neosho High School alongside her son Richard 17 She recalls wartime choices and now plans college work with Richard while her younger sons Lloyd Tommy and Pat cheerful.
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Neosho, Mo
Maxine Mapes
Joplin High School
Bruce Jeffers
Neosho High School
Richard
Bruce
Jeffers
Lloyd
Tommy
Pat
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Eighth Street Baptist Choir of
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Oscar
Emmy
Academy
Motion Pic
Ture Academy
CBS News
ABC
Williamsburg
Hillcrest Drive-In
Baldwin-Ward Manufacturing Co
J, B
Mickey
Richmond
Schlitz
Saffron Glass Co
Anant
Ivan Ft
America’s Light Beer
Old
Milwaukee
Schlit America
Schlitz Brewing Company
Milwau? EE
Wisc
Tampa, Fla
U.S.A
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