Memorial Day cleanup at Prairie Lawn Cemetery underway
Memorial Day has passed and volunteers begin graveside cleaning at Prairie Lawn Cemetery. Cemetery sexton Galdino Ybarra asks those who left containers to retrieve them to prevent loss. Golfers from Wichita and the Kansas Press Association visit for a greens event.
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Prairie Lawn Cemetery
Galdino Ybarra
Kansas Press Association
Wichita
Lynn Burris
The
Elks and
Legion
Elks and Park
Evelyne Reusser
Jack Pittman
Marla Daigneault
John Crum
John Stewart
Weather Outlook For Topeka And Wellington Areas
Prospects for scattered showers or thunderstorms continue through Tuesday. Temperatures stay mostly in the 80s with lows in the 60s to 70s. Wellington remains warm and humid with highs in the mid 80s and nightly lows in the 60s. Rain totals include 2.23 inches on Saturday and .08 inch on Sunday.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Wellington
Unusual CORE School Teaches Nonviolence in Jackson
In Jackson Mississippi about 25 Negro students attended a CORE led class on non violence. The session used a mock white lunch counter to train teens to endure provocation and avoid violence. CORE workers Dennis Raymond and Betty Poole reported 100 to 150 youths trained last week, with strict non-violence criteria for participation.
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Congress of Racial Equality
Jackson
Miss
Jackson, Miss
David Dennis
CORE
James
Robinson
Dennis
James Wooten
Young Wooten
Raymond
Tougaloo
Betty Poole
Supreme Court rules on shop contracts
The Supreme Court rules Taft Hartley does not ban agency shop agreements while upholding Florida’s prohibition. Both decisions were 8 0 with Justice Goldberg not taking part. Indiana and Florida cases involve UAW General Motors and Food Fair in Miami. The court calls for argument next term on whether Florida’s ban can be enforced through state courts or NLRB authority.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Florida
Justice Goldberg
Secretary of
Indiana
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Afl-Cio
Food Fair, Inc
Miami
Justice White
National Labor Relations Board
High Court
NLRB
Indian Airlines DC3 crashes killing 29 in India
An Indian Airlines DC3 Dakota crashed on a flight from Amritsar to Srinagar killing all 29 aboard. Among the victims is University of Illinois professor James Clarence Laverty and his family, identified by passports and passenger lists provided by the U.S. Embassy.
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New Delhi
India
Indian Airlines
University of Illinois
Amritsar
North Indian Plains
Srinagar
Kashmir
U.S
James Clarence Laverty
Champaign
Ill
Caldwell Service Station Fire Damages Local Station
The Port Service station south of Caldwell on Highway 81 was heavily damaged when a car driven by James B. Long of Caldwell struck the building and knocked down three pumps, igniting a blaze. Fire crews sourced from Caldwell extinguished the flames as Long was jailed for investigation.
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Caldwell
U.S. 81
Frank Willard
Wellington
Jerry Wiley
Jim Thornton
Kansas Highway Patrol
Maurice Cox
Belle Plaine
Wiley
James B. Long
N. Market
Caldwell Fire Department
Long
Wallace case delays ruling on Alabama university enrollment
Federal Judge Seybourn Lynne postponed an immediate injunction ruling in a case seeking to bar Gov. George Wallace from blocking enrollment of two Negro students at the University of Alabama next week. Testimony focused on a Wallace news conference tape and his public vow to stand in the doors to prevent integration.
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Birmingham
Ala
Seybourne Lynne
Justice Department
George Wallace
University of Alabama
Lynne
Chambers
Wallace
Sfort
Walter Ray Butts
Montgomery
Charles Cox
U.S. Dist
Seybourn H. Lynne
Albania
Pope John XXIII Dies After Dramatic Seven-Year Pontificate
Vatican City AP reports Pope John XXIII, aged 81, died at 7:49 p.m. EST after a yearlong battle with a stomach tumor and final peritonitis. The pope, known as the pope of unity and peace, led the Second Vatican Council, whose fate lies in question after his death.
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Vatican City
Vatican
John XXIII
Unity and Peace
Vatican Radio
Hungary
Poland
Kennedy
United States
Pope John
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
House Faces Busy Week With Civil Rights Legislation
The House plans a $6 billion appropriation bill funding the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the coming year to vote on Tuesday. A bill to extend the President’s authority to reorganize executive agencies is also on the schedule. Twenty Republicans will introduce two civil rights bills including an end to segregation in public accommodations and broad attorney general authority.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Post Office
Rockefeller Begins Political Testing for 1964 GOP Bid
Nelson Rockefeller returns to public life and tests his course for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. He seeks voter reaction to his remarriage to Margaretta Murphy while touring New York and considering fund raising appearances in West Virginia Utah and Michigan. Governors in Idaho Kansas Maine Pennsylvania Rhode Island and Oregon lean toward him, with 144 convention votes involved.
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Ioo
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
New York
Margaretta Fitler Murphy
West Virginia
Utah
Michigan
Albany
Citizens’ Planning Committee
Rockefellers
State Republican Committee
Waldorf-Astoria
Associated Press
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Oregon
Proclamation Declares Vehicle Safety-Check Week
Mayor O H Sanner proclaims June 10 1963 as Vehicle Safety-Check Week urging citizens to join the circle of safety check driving and car conditioning. Agencies media schools churches and associations are called to participate in Safety in The Sixties.
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I. O. H. Lanner
UN set to approve funding for peacekeeping operations
U Thant received a progress report on finance talks led by S. O. Adebo of Nigeria as four resolutions draft to fund Congo and Middle East peacekeeping for the second half of 1963. The plan splits costs between regular budget scales and a special reduced scale for underdeveloped countries, covered by voluntary contributions from industrialized nations.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
World Organization
Assembly
U Thant
S. O. Adebo
Nigeria
Adebo
Congo
Middle East
U.N
Police arrest eight in Quebec Liberation Front bomb probe
Montreal police announce eight men detained for questioning amid seizure of dynamite fuses and timing devices. A Belgian national, reportedly trained in Cuba, is described as a leader in the Communist led group, with more arrests expected as authorities press the campaign for Quebec separation.
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Ing
Quebec Liberation Front
Montreal
J. Adrien Robert
Josaphat Brunet
Cuba
Montreal Gazette
The
Front
Quebec
Canada
Skinnay Ennis Dies After Restaurant Attack in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills California AP reports band leader Skinnay Ennis 56 died after an attack in a restaurant. He rose to fame as a singer with Bob Hope and led a Los Angeles orchestra for five years at the Statler Hilton. Ennis real name Edgar C Ennis, nickname Skinny later changed to Skinnay after a misprint.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Skinnay Ennis
Bob Hope
First Aid Station
Ennis
Edgar C. Ennis
T. M. McCarthy
Statler Hilton
Los Angeles
Four flight winners to meet state titleholders in Missouri
The four flight winners from the EPA state golf tournament held at Wellington will face the four flight champions of the Missouri State Press Association in an upcoming tournament. Arden Hale Earl Knauss LeRoy Allman Huck Boyd are named as winners from the Atwood Citizen Patriot Garnett Review Dighton Herald Phillipsburg County Review.
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Orville Roberts JR
Independence
Ramada Inn
Stan Stauffer
The
Topeka Capital Journal
Kansas Press Association
Daily News
EPA
Wellington
Missouri State Press Association
Arden K. Hale
Atwood Citizen-Patriot
Earl Knauss
Garnett Review
LeRoy Allman
Dighton Herald
Huck Boyd
Phillipsburg
Phillips County Review
Wellington youths attend first non Wichita Boys State in Lawrence
Ten Wellington high school juniors join 800 Kansas youths at Kansas University for a week long Boys State opening Sunday in Lawrence. American Legion arranged talks by Gov John Anderson U S Rep Robert Ellsworth and Sen James Pearson as the event marks the first time since 193? in Wichita. Johnnie Schultz coordinates Wellington delegation with specific room assignments listed for Templin and Lewis Halls.
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Wellington
Lawrence
Kansas
Kansas University
American Legion
John Anderson
U.S
Robert Ellsworth
James Pearson
Wichita
Johnnie Schultz
Steve Feaster
Steve Schaefer
Dennis Haggard
Danny Cole
Wayne Webber
Templin Hall
David Dickensheets
Edgar Young
Steve Livengood
Sammy Felt
Nevin Waters
Lewis Hall
Wide Open Letter to Governor Nelson Rockefeller
A brief open letter from a citizen to Governor Nelson Rockefeller at the Capitol in Albany New York, noting a rocky course ahead and signed with “Yours.”
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Nelson Rockefeller
Capitol Building
Albany, N.Y
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