Hiring Practices Stir Race Debate Across Industries
AP survey shows more Negroes in better jobs but no rush to hire by race. Johnson says industry already offers more nonwhite opportunities. Dallas post office suit drugs the issue as white workers allege discrimination. Banks in Chicago seek Negro recruits. urban leagues note rising demand for Negro workers across sectors.
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Associated Press
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kennedy
Committee On Equal Employment Opportunity
Dallas
Postas
Post Office Department
Seattle
Dudley Cameron
California Department of Employment
San Fran
Cisco
New York City
City Commission On Human Rights
St. Louis
Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commission
Chicago
Chicago Urban League
Edwin C. Perry
League
Archie Williams
Boston Labor and Industry Committee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Ernest Cooper
The
Urban League
Cleveland
Kansas Law Proposals Tied To School Finance And Work Injury Rules
TOPEKA AP Proposals to study a foundation finance plan for common schools and to consider changes in Kansas workers compensation laws regarding agriculture were submitted to the Legislative Council as it opened its first fall meeting. House Speaker Charles Arthur of Manhattan urged school finance review focusing on farm land assessed values versus earning power, warning no foundation plan will pass without a solution. Rep Don C Smith Dodge City filed two workers compensation proposals including funding for injured workers transportation to examinations and classifying agricultural hires as hazardous when employing two or more workers for 20 weeks yearly. Sen John Glades Yates Center urged study of underground natural gas storage. Various council committees began meetings with progress reports due at week’s end and November session plans ahead of January budget work.
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Topeka
Kansas
Legislative Council
Charles Arthur
Manhattan
Arthur
Don C. Smith
Dodge ‘City
Smith
Texas
John Glades
R-Yates Center
Prairie National Park bid vetoed by Senate subcommittee
A Senate Interior subcommittee unanimously rejected a bill to authorize a Prairie National Park in Kansas. The panel recommended the secretary of the interior urge Kansas to build overlooks along a highway instead. The plan would have acquired about 57,000 acres in Pottawatomie County for preservation. Local ranchers opposed the project, arguing the federal government already owns enough suitable land.
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Washington
Senate Interior
James B. Pearson
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Department
Pottawatomie County
Prairie National Park
Dave Carlson
Manhattan
Kan
Twin Mound Ranchers Association
Carlson
Health Bill Moves In Congress
Washington AP reports a broad federal plan to ease mental health problems advances toward a House Senate compromise. The House backed a $238 million bill far below the Senate’s $850 million version, with aims to fund facilities research and community centers and to potentially restore staff funding in conference talks.
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Washington
House
Senate
Kennedy
Governor Announces Officials TOPEKA
Governor John Anderson announced nineteen appointments and reappointments to state boards and commissions. Fred R. Farr was reappointed fire marshal. Library Advisory Commission members include Joqua Churchill, Frel Young, J. C. McKinney, Ruth Gagliado, Tom Buckman, and D. C. Meuli. Several boards named term renewals and new members including A. L. Lew, Farr is Gragg, C. C. Parish, Tierle Gugler, Wiley Mitchell, Ralf Thomas, L. H. Gilles, Fran Jabara, B. D. Hixon, Dr. Charles Young, Hulda Wegener, and J. D. Smerchek.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Fred R. Farr
Kansas City
Josephine Joqua Churchill
St. Francis
Frel Young
Dodge City
J. C. McKinney
Hartford
Ruth Gagliado
Lawrence
Tom Buckman
D. C. Meuli
Herington
A. L. Lew
Farris Gragg
Wichita
C. C. Parish
Great Bend
State Board of Accountancy
Tierle E. Gugler
Manhattan
William J. Clark
Wiley S. Mitchell
John G. Blocker
Ralf J. Thomas
Pittsburg
Robert F. Olberding
State Board of Health
B. D. Hixon
WaKeeney
Earl Eddy
Colby
Charles Young
Atchison
Charles Brady
Hulda O. Wegener
J. D. Smerchek
Egg Prices Pace Food Increases This Weekend
Nationwide shoppers see steady meat values with eggs the sole item rising slightly by a cent or two per dozen. Lamb chops feature in the Midwest and Northeast while pork, beef, and poultry highlight widespread price-friendly offerings. Fresh vegetables show a bumper onion crop with corn cucumbers lettuce peppers and tomatoes among other staples. fruit lines include melons grapes apples pears and grapefruit as prices remain economical.
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Midwest
Otto Preminger Sees Freedom in Controversy and Film Craft
New York AP profile of Otto Preminger, producer of The Cardinal, who says he seeks peace not controversy yet selects stories by personal interest. He credits television with raising film quality, notes Vatican cooperation on the script, and explains his hands on approach from script to theaters. He values talent, honesty, charm, and forgiving charming people, especially women.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Otto Preminger
America
Preminger
Vatican
Max Reinhardt
Vienna
Otto
Han
Franklin Turley under go es tonsillectomy at Ransom Memorial
Franklin Turley had a four tonsillectomy at Ransom Memorial Hospital Saturday morning and was dismissed Sunday. Norma Grimm of Fairfield Oklahoma visited relatives here last week en route to Oregon to visit Calvin Grimm and a sister then to California to visit another sister. She also planned to visit daughter Mrs. Dayton Rogers and family in Utah.
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Franklin Turley
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Norma Grimm
Fairland
Okla
Oregon
Calvin Grimm
California
Dayton Rodgers
Utah
Air America Plane Downed in Laos During Refugee Supply Run
The premier's office said an Air America C46 transport plane was shot down near Tchepone, Laos, last week during a refugee drop. One unidentified body was found. the seven crew members included three Americans and four Asians. Air America, a private firm chartered by the Vietnamese government, has had two prior shoot downs on supply missions.
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Laos
Air America
Tchepone
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