Cooper Ready for Hawaii Stop After Space Flight
Astronaut L Gordon Cooper finishes shipboard medical checks aboard the USS Kearsarge before a Hawaii homecoming. He will be greeted in Honolulu by wife Trudy and two daughters and departs for Cape Canaveral with a news conference planned after his return.
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Kennedy in Plea For Racial Peace at Vanderbilt
President Kennedy toured the racially tense South on a nine hour trip marking the Tennessee Valley Authority anniversary. He urged educated citizens to reject prejudice and violence and uphold the law, saying rights for all Americans rest on freedom and order. He planned TVA events at Muscle Shoals Alabama and a Vanderbilt ceremony honoring the university and dam projects.
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Iowa Weekend Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy tonight with a warm low in the 40s. Sunday brings widely scattered showers across most of the state, with highs from the upper 60s to around 70s. Monday looks partly cloudy with little temperature change.
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Milk Drivers Strike in Chicago Area
Local 754 of the Teamsters halted home milk deliveries at five big Chicago dairies Dean Milk Co. Borden's Hawthorn-Melody Coun try's Delight and Bowman Dairy. The strike affects six other plants and aims to stop six day delivery, forcing stores and homes to rely on longer storage.
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City Crews Paint Parking Lines In Business District
City crews start painting parking stall lines at 4 a.m. Monday in the business district. Orville Long the street commissioner urged motorists to keep cars off targeted areas and cooperate with workers as signs will mark daytime work zones. Cooperation will speed the job.
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Continue Planning For Ridiculous Day
Signs calling attention to Washington's Ridiculous Day have been placed at the city edges. Harold Jarvis, general chairman, says preliminary planning for the June 6 event is under way with merchants urged to participate in zany antics. Merchants and employees will wear ridiculous costumes and offer ridiculous bargains as the parade features the usual entries.
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Seek Tax Agreement Legislature May Adjourn Today
Iowa lawmakers labored on hope of finalizing the 125 day session as tax and spending items loom. A conference panel signals a 3 percent sales tax may stay while income tax withholding is dropped. Funds earmarked for local relief likely shrink, with total package around 170 million dollars. The House and Senate push to adjourn sine die, with some members kept on for follow up.
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Kennedy Plans Visit to Pope Prompt Health Speculation
President Kennedy plans to meet Pope John XXIII next month fueling speculation about the pontiff's health. Reports claim a stomach ailment and possible cancer have resurfaced, though Vatican officials offered no comment. The visit would mark Kennedy as the first Roman Catholic U.S. president to meet a pope, with broader implications for Vatican relations.
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U S Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Haiti Over Duvalier Rule
Washington reports the United States cut diplomatic contact with Haiti as a disapproval gesture toward President Francois Duvalier. Officials said the step was not a formal suspension, aiming to keep options open while avoiding retaliation. Duvalier asserts reelection in 1961. U S says his six year term ended.
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New Threat of Birmingham Violence Sparks City Patrols
Tense Birmingham sees armed Negro volunteers guard churches and leaders homes after a bomb threat linked to Martin Luther King Jr. The federal response includes troops and intensified police patrols as NAACP and officials plan meetings and actions.
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Presbyterians Invite Dr King to Speak at Assembly
Delegates of the United Presbyterian Church in the U S A invite Negro leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr to address the 175th general assembly in Des Moines. King may not attend while active in racial matters in Birmingham. The church's top officer says a plan to unite major Protestant bodies could be drafted within two years.
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Tiny 24-Ounce Baby Defies Odds In Rhode Island Hospital
A 24 ounce premature boy at Osteopathic General Hospital of Rhode Island fights for life with an electronic incubator and whisky on his tongue for stimulation. Born Monday to a mother reported 62 months pregnant, the infant is described as very active and is the smallest survivor to date.
Ottumwa Residents Injured In Two Car Crash On Highway 92
Three Ottumwa residents were injured in a two car crash on highway 92 about 40 miles east of Washington Friday at 3 40 p m. Gene Arnold Williams of Ottumwa drove west then swerved into the path of Fred Louis Robertson. Williams was on a Navy weekend pass. Williams car was demolished and Robertson car sustained about 700 dollars damage. Fred L Robertson his wife and Gene Arnold Williams were treated at Washington County Hospital for chest laceration and back injuries.
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Emil C Fink 73 Dies In Iowa City Veterans Hospital
Emil Carl Fink 73 retired farmer of 802 South Iowa Avenue Washington died Friday at the Veterans Hospital Iowa City after a nine month stay. He lived in Keota from 1956 to 1962. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. Keota Federated Church with Rev Harold F DeVries. military honors Keota Cemetery. Powell Funeral Home Keota in charge. Fink born August 12 1889 Alma Kansas son of Frederick and Augusta Gnnet Fink. He married Gertrude Reighard in 1919. she died 1952. He later married Nelle Stutsman who survives. He was a Presbyterian, WWI veteran, and member of VFW and American Legion. Survivors include wife two sons Ernest Packwood Harold Keota four grandchildren three stepchildren Mrs Ford Skola Howard Spreacker of Kalona Thelma Michum of Santa Rosa California one brother and two sisters Fred Mrs Carl Neff and Mrs Emma Boetcher all of Alma Kansas.
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GOP Women to Hear State Rep David Stanley in Washington County
State Representative David Stanley of Muscatine will address the Republican Women's Club of Washington County next Thursday May 23 at 2 p.m. The meeting at Keith Vetter's West Washington Street home is open to all interested. Stanley will discuss the Shaff reapportionment plan and other topics. He is serving his third term and has been lauded for his informed, energetic debates.
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