Day Resigns As Postmaster General To Return To Private Life
Washington July 26 AP Postmaster General J Edward Day has resigned from the 60 000 a year post to return to private life. The White House and Day’s associates indicate he will be replaced by former Senator Benjamin A Smith II. Day will join Sidley Austin Burgess and Smith as partner in charge of the firm’s Washington office. He previously worked for the Chicago law firm and served as Illinois insurance commissioner during Adlai Stevenson’s term.
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J. Edward Day
Kennedy
Post Office Department
Day
White House
Benjamin A. Smith II
Harvard
Senate
Chicago
Sidley, Austin, Burgess and Smith
Adlai E. Stevenson
U. S
United Nations
Illinois
Insurance
Stevenson
U S Criticized Church Study Urges Fight On Racism
Montreal July 26 AP a World Conference on Faith and Order committee condemned racial discrimination urging Christians to fight it whatever the cost. Delegates criticized segregation in the United States South Africa Ceylon and Angola while calling racism a major barrier to Christian unity. The conference with 300 theologians from 50 nations and five Catholic observers offered groundwork for unity despite no major decisions and proposed studies on church society women ordination and early Christian church interpretations.
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Montreal
Fourth World Conference On Faith and Order
United States
South Africa
Ceylon
Angola
World Council of Churches
Dirksen Urges Solvency at Republican Dinner
Senator Everett Dirksen told Chicago Republicans at a $100-per-plate dinner that solvency is vital for a strong nation as he urged "communications, organization, money and energy" to meet the 1964 New Frontier challenge and liquidate Cook County GOP debt. Four likely 1964 gubernatorial aspirants attended.
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Chicago
Everett M. Dirksen
R- Jlll
Senate
GOP
Dirksen
Cook County
Washington
Russia
Syncom 2 Satellite Aims For Hovering Orbit From Cape Canaveral
The Syncom 2 communications satellite launched by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral ascended to a transfer orbit and aimed for a near stationary position 22,300 miles above Earth. A 21 second motor burn would arrest the altitude and then adjust speed to stay over the Caribbean and northern South America, enabling a low cost three-satellite global network pending successful tests.
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U. S
Cape Canaveral
America
Delta
South America
Caribbean
Attica
Honolulu Newspaper Strike Reaches 36th Day
Honolulu on July 26 AP reports the city’s newspaper strike at 36 days with no progress. Federal mediator Daniel Edwards says he remains in daily contact with six striking unions and the Star-Bulletin and Advertiser.
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Honolulu
Daniel Edwards
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Honolulu Advertiser
Convention Greeter Wears Fig Leaf For Nudist Meet
Fresno wryly notes that radio DJ Robert Morgan will read greeting messages for the Western Sunbathing Association convention, with State Sen. Hugh Burns and County Supervisor Norman Foley handing over the duties. Mayor Arthur Selden declined, citing county scope of the Calyptus Grove nudist camp site near Clovis. a fig leaf suit was humorously supplied.
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Norman Foley
Robert Morgan
KMAK
Morgan
Mexico
Fresno
Arthur Selland
Calyptus Grove
Tucker dies in Missouri gas chamber
Jefferson City Missouri July 26 AP Sammy Aire Tucker a convicted cop killer died in Missouri's gas chamber at 1210 a m. Warden E V Nash pulled the lever at 1207 a m dropping cyanide pellets into a bucket of acid under the death chair. White fumes rose as three minutes later his head fell forward and he was pronounced dead by prison physician Dr H W Maxey Witnesses included Jack Crittendon brother of Cape Girardeau officer Donald Crittendon whom Tucker was convicted of killing.
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Sammy Aire Tucker
Missouri
E. V. Nash
H. W. Maxey
Jack Crittendon
Donald Crittendon
Cape Girardeau
Tucker
Senate panel sinks $50 million Boston space center
The Senate Space Committee voted to kill an administration plan to locate a $50 million space research center in the Boston area. The project had been seen as a political prize for Senator Edward M Kennedy, D Mass, brother of President Kennedy.
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Boston Space Center
Washington
Senate Space Committee
Boston
Edward M. Ken‘nedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
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