Kennedy urges quick business desegregation
President Kennedy urged 100 business leaders from 25 states and the District of Columbia to accelerate integration efforts in Southern stores theaters and restaurants. Executives favored voluntary steps, but some pressed for patience before new federal compulsory measures amid fears of potential Negro demonstrations and unrest. The closed White House meeting included Vice President Johnson and Attorney General Kennedy, with many chain-store and hotel executives present.
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Washington
Kennedy
South
White House
Congress
Willard W. Wirtz
Philadelphia
States
District of Columbia
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Milton Elsberg
Drug Fair Stores
Alexandria
Wallace barred from doorway stand at Alabama desegregation
Federal judge Seybourn Lynne enjoins Gov. George C. Wallace from blocking the court ordered desegregation at the University of Alabama. The injunction bars him from interfering with desegregation but does not ban campus access. The judge urged Alabama to uphold law and order and warned of irreparable injury if orders are obstructed. Wallace had vowed to stand alone against the students.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jay
George C. Wallace
University of Alabama
U. S. Dist
Seybourn H. Lynne
Wallace
United States
Lynne
Alabama
Jonah
Jury selection begins in Harsh murder trial at Olathe
Jury selection started Monday in Johnson County District Court for the first degree murder trial of Lloyd Lee Harsh an 18 year old Olathe high school student. Harsh is charged with slaying 17 year old Donna Dee Busby of Olathe at a camp site south of Lenexa on March 1.
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Olathe
Kan
Johnson County
Lloyd Lee Harsh
Harsh
Donna Dee Busby
Lenexa
Severe Thunderstorms Forecast Across Kansas Oklahoma Panhandle
Weather bulletin from Kansas City reports a severe storm forecast for parts of the Texas Panhandle, western and northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas. Expect a few severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening from 60 miles southwest of Gage to Chanute from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. CST.
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Kansas City
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Kansas
Gage
Okla
Chanute
Kan
Weather Outlook for Kansas Central Plains
Kansas shows a pattern of warm temperatures and scattered showers likely for several days. Southerly winds bring warm humid air and mainly late day or evening thundershowers across the central plains. Wellington stays partly cloudy with continued warmth and gusty south to southwest winds 20 to 30 mph and highs near 90 to 95.
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Topeka
Kansas
Central Plains
Wellington
Black student arrives at Ole Miss to register under court order
Cleve McDowell, a Black applicant, arrives on the University of Mississippi campus with two federal marshals to enroll in the summer session. He travels from Jackson, 200 miles away, and is already accepted by the law school while a federal court order guards against interference.
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Oxford
Miss
Cleve McDowell
University of Mississippi
McDowell
Jackson
Law School
Mercy killing ends two lives of diplomats in Denmark
In Copenhagen the wife of former Danish ambassador Henrik Kauffmann killed her husband with a bread knife and then fatally slashed her own throat with the same blade. Police called the act a mercy killing and cited the ambassador's inoperable cancer as a motive amid the tragedy.
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Denmark
United States
Henrik Kauffmann
Kauffmann
Kaufmann
Washington
Copenhagen
Free World
Greenland
United Nations
Blood drive clears supplies after storage loss and June 17 visit
Donors who gave blood last Friday at the Bloodmobile unit were told their donations were processed and sent to sub stations after a storage locker temperature spike damaged the Wichita supply. The next Bloodmobile stop in the county is Conway Springs on June 17.
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Wichita
Frances Brooner
Red Cross
Conway Springs
Ramada Inn
American Legion
City Hall
Duck Swan
City Electrical Department
Police nab driver with stolen vehicle near Arkansas City
Jerald D. Paulen age 20 of Orinto Nebraska was arrested at 2 44 a m and jailed for auto theft investigation. He was driving a 1955 Mercury reported stolen from Haines Motor Co in Arkansas City between 1230 and 1 a m today.
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Jerald D. Paulen
Orinto
Neb
Paulen
Haines Motor Co
Arkansas City
Man Adopts Four Baby Raccoons Found After Mother's Death
Jim Johnson of 1009 Edgewood Dr. rescued four baby raccoons after discovering them in an abandoned farm attic with their mother. Pepper the Labrador led the way to the scene north of the airport. The parents likely died from trapping while the four orphans were saved and now cared for in Johnson’s yard with milk and bottles. one young raccoon has drawn a $5 pet offer while Johnson plans to keep one.
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Jim Johnson
Edgewood Dr
Coon
Jim
Pepper
Riots in Tehran Kill and Injure Involving Police
In Tehran the second day of anti government demonstrations escalated into a pitched battle. Police and troops used machine guns and tear gas as rioters attacked government buildings and shops. Many injured and arrests reported amid large scale downtown fires and martial law fears.
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Tehran
Iran
Ayatullah Khomaini
Canada to extend fishing zone and bar foreign trawlers
Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced Canada will extend its exclusive fishing zone from three miles to a straight-line limit next May, bringing thousands of bays and inlets within Canadian jurisdiction. Foreign fishing may be banned within 12 miles to curb Soviet and Japanese pressure, with assurances of special U S arrangements.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Lester B. Pearson
Pearson
House of Commons
Atlantic
Great Lakes
Crowds Flock to See Pope John XXIII in Death at Vatican
Tens of thousands file through St. Peter's Square to view Pope John XXIII in state in red pontifical robes. The line forms across the square as mourners pass the catafalque, with a nine day mourning to begin Friday and a private burial Thursday. Envoys and Vatican officials prepare for funeral rites and conclave to elect a successor.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
St. Peter's Square
Pope John
Miter
Rome
Pius XI
Corpus Christi
Washington
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Catafalque
College of Cardinals
Vatican
John
L’osservatore Romano
Ecumenical Council
Former minister Frank Peyton dies in Hastings Nebraska
The Rev. Frank Peyton 95 formerly of Wellington and Great Bend died Tuesday at Mary Lanning Hospital Hastings. He served 65 years in the ministry including Hastings after 1996 retirement to Grand Island. Surviving relatives include a daughter and multiple grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday at Hastings Congregational Church with Masonic burial at Parkview Cemetery. Butler Funeral Home Hastings handling arrangements.
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Frank Peyton
Hastings
Neb
Wellington
Mary Lanning Hospital
Great Bend
Grand Island
Glen Smith
Clovis
Calif
Forbes AFB to Inactivate 338th Strategic Recon Squadron
TOPEKA AP The 338th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron at Forbes Air Force Base will be inactivated starting this month the base announced in a public release.
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Topeka
Strategic Reconnaissance
Forbes Air Force Base
101 Feared Lost In DC7 Crash Off British Columbia
The Northwest Orient Airlines DC7 with 101 aboard crashed into the North Pacific near British Columbia. Debris and bodies were found as ships reported no survivors. the passengers included 58 servicemen and 22 military dependents among other civilians. Families at McChord Air Force Base awaited news amid a tragedy affecting mothers, children, and spouses across the nation.
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Associated Press
British Columbia
North Pacific
Northwest Orient Airlines
Defense Department
McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Anchorage
Alaska
Red Cross
Haggard Named State Printer at Kansas Boys State
Dennis Haggard of Wellington was elected state printer at Kansas Boys State in Lawrence. The Wellington attendee joins 10 peers in a week long citizenship exercise run by the American Legion, as state offices are filled by Federalists and Nationalists.
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Dennis Haggard
Lawrence D. Haggard
Route 3
Wellington
Kansas Boys State
Lawrence
Haggard
American Legion
Tom Rader
Greensburg
Samuel Felt
Rader
Nationlist Party
David Carlson
Manhattan
Rex Garretts
Overland Park
Douglas Marmon
Shawnee
Tomy Berryman
Ashland
Marc Carlson
William Marbel
Prairie Village
Treasury
William Templar Jr
Topeka
Boys State
Charles Price
Perry
Richard Greenamyre
Thomas Suwalsky
Leavenworth
James Swinney
Jay Allen
Sterling May
Wichita
Craig Oursler
Kansas City
Jerry Turley
Ottawa
Thomas Rogge
Washington
Michael Cushman
Caney
Ronald Smith
Erie
Phillip Rath
Morland
Eric Austin
Cawker City
Wilbur Lee Lala
Kirwin
Larry Massey
St. John
Rick Foster
el Dorado
John Holliday
Liberal
Farm Bureau Warns Controls Threaten Family Farms
The American Farm Bureau Federation told Congress that federal farm control programs threaten the family farm, urging changes to maintain family farms as the core in agriculture. John C. Lynn cited restrictions on cotton, tobacco, rice, and peanuts, and noted declines in pure family farms as they grow larger and more mechanized. He welcomed the multi family farm trend as efficient and desirable.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
John C. Lynn
House Committee
Farm Bureau
Lynn
Kennedy Begins Western Tour Including Hawaii Stop
President Kennedy leaves Washington for a western swing with a Hawaii overnight. The trip includes a four state tour linking space age defense with politics as mayors gather in Honolulu for the first United States Conference of Mayors outside the continent. The president aims to discuss civil rights as he travels. His jet departed Andrews AFB at 8 34 a.m. EST for a three hour flight to Colorado Springs.
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Washington
Kennedy
Hawaii
White House
Honolulu
Orient
Europe
United States
Guess What Billy? Bachelor Proclaims Wedding Plans
An excited bachelor tells his lady love's kid brother that he and the sister plan to marry. The boy responds with a unimpressed, skeptical reaction as the news lands.
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Billy
Santa Fe Magazine
Wide Open Letter to Jim Johnson in Wellington Kansas
A personal letter addressed to Jim Johnson at 1009 Edgewood Drive Wellington Kansas opens with a direct greeting. The readable fragment suggests a private communication unlikely to include public events or dates. Further content is not available in the OCR snippet.
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Eddie J. Shaw
Lamar Lansden
Verna Jaggers
Leonard Branson
Opal Wayman
Maxine Sawders
Allan Felt
Carolyn Rerick
Doug Smith
Alvin Dawson
Leo Lecklider
Harold Roberts
East Lincoln
Gary White
Mike Maupin
White
Nicky Ybarra
Daily News
By Bennet M. Bolton
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montine
Milan
Nebraska
M. Sgt
Michael P. Almose
Army
J. C. Robert D. Scott
Elmendorf Afb
Q.C
Robert E. Smith
Elmendorf
Scott
Madeline
Panama City
Fla
S.sget
Joseph I. Whipkey
Army Sp5
Frank B. Mann
William G. Partington
Air Force
A. J. Messner
Boys’ State
Wellington, Kan
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