Kennedy to visit Western Europe to bolster NATO
President Kennedy plans a 10 day tour of West Germany Ireland Britain and Italy to strengthen US ties with key allies amid European political shifts. He will stress US commitment to defend Western Europe and West Berlin and seek to ease Cold War tensions after the University address.
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Washington
Kennedy
Europe
United States
U.S
Western Europe
West Berlin
Charles de Gaulle
American University
Soviet Union
Italy
Britain
West Germany
Ireland
Andrews Air Force Base
Bonn-Cologne
Racial strife hits economies of cities like Little Rock and Birmingham
AP reports that racial unrest and boycotts have slowed growth in cities including Little Rock Arkansas where industry stalled from 1957 to 1961 and Birmingham Alabama where a biracial pact aimed to save sales. The piece notes store declines from March to May and later improvement after desegregation talks.
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Atlanta
United States
Little Rock
Ark
Alabama
Birmingham
Hoover Improves Significantly as Former President Recovers
Former President Herbert Hoover, age 88, shows marked improvement in illness reports from New York. A family spokesman said Hoover and his physicians are astonished by vital signs and that no medical bulletins will be issued if improvement continues. The bulletin noted no evidence linking current illness to last August’s large intestine cancer removal and reported a comfortable night with transfusions stabilizing blood loss.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Neil MacNeil
MacNeil
Hoover
Weather outlook moves east as rain shifts across Kansas
The AP reports a broad rain system moved east from Kansas and out of the state today, with more showers possible behind it. In Wellington the forecast calls for fair skies tonight and Thursday, little temperature change, lows around the mid 60s and highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Temperatures for Tuesday show a max of 86, a min of 53, and an overnight low near 68.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wellington
Dr M W Marks Dies in Wichita Former Wellington Dentist
Dr M W Marks 55 of 4420 East Orme Wichita died Monday night in Wesley Hospital. WWII Dental Corps major veteran. born Valley Falls 1908. Survived by Stella widow, mother Mabel Marks, daughter Karen Naylor, granddaughter. Funeral Thursday 10:30 at Gordon Mortuary with Caldwell Cemetery burial.
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M. W. Marks
East Orme
Wichita
Wesley Hospital
Wellington
Navy
Valley Falls
South Pacific
Kansas City School of Deniistry
South Grove
Presbyterian Church
Wichita Dental Society
Wichita Amateur Radio Operators Club
Masonic Lodge
Wichita Consistory
Stella
Mabel Marks
Frank W
Karen) Naylor
Portsmouth
R.L
Gordon Mortuary
Caldwell Cemetery
Mamie Butler, Wellington Resident, Dies at 72
Mrs Mamie P Butler 72 longtime Wellington resident died at 9 30 p m in a local hospital after a brief illness She was born Aug 12 1890 in Nevada Missouri and lived in Wellington since 1897 She was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church Survivors include two sons five daughters a brother and a late husband J O Butler Funeral services set for 10 30 a m Saturday at Frank Funeral Home with burial in Prairie Lawn Cemetery Friends may call Friday night
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Mamie P. Butler
Wellington
Nevada
First Southern Baptist Church
Frank Butler
Dale Butler
Baltimore
Melvin Botkin
Leamon Ineram
Jim Evans
Klamath Falls
Ore
Wade Young
Dallas
Tex
Peggy Butler
Lewis Moser
J. O. Butler
Frank
Robert Burkey
Prairie Lawn Cemetery
U.S. launches Tiros 7 weather satellite from Cape Canaveral
The Tiros 7 weather observations satellite rode a Delta rocket into a 400 mile orbit from Cape Canaveral. NASA reported successful orbit after a predawn launch and early cloud cover images. The mission pairs with Tiros 6 to study hurricanes and typhoons in the 1963 season.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Tiros 7 Weather Observatory
Tiros 6
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Wallops Island
Delta Space
Killers await word on appeal
Two confessed killers, James Latham and George York, face execution after midnight for the 1961 killing of Otto Ziegler in Kansas. They had pursued a federal writ of habeas corpus. a Denver hearing was set as the U.S. Circuit Court reviews the case. The warden planned alphabetical order if the pair could not choose who dies first.
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Lansing
Kan
U.S
Denver
James Douglas Latham
George Ronald York
Otto Ziegler
Oakely
Ziegler
Ft. Hood
Tex
Florida
Tennessee
Illinois
Colorado
U.S. Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Crouse
Latham
Barley Exhibit Tops County Record and Local Updates
A Sedgwick county farmer reported three heads of barley on one straw, now George Wolke from Conway Springs tops with five heads on one straw. The public can get federal gas tax refund forms at the Agriculture Extension Council office. Rural Wellington mail carriers shift departure to 9:15 a.m. beginning next week. American Legion meets Thursday night with Dutch lunch beforehand. L. B. Geiger mailed a Kansas Travel guide to Roy Kinderick in New York City and received a courteous reply. WHS Class of 1943 holds a 20th reunion this Saturday at the American Legion building with dinner and dance. 153 graduates. An 8 to 8:30 p.m. TV program “Speaking of the Speechless” airs Saturdays on KARD channel 3 from June 1 to July 20. Continued on Page 2.
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Sedwick County
George Wolke
Conway Springs
Wolke
Raymond Frye
Agriculture Extension Council
Wellington
American Legion
L. B. Geiger
Kansas
Chamber of Commerce
Roy Kinderick
Montgomery - Ward Co
New York City
Geiger
Kinderick
WHS
Mar Lee
KARD
The
Pape
Cardinals meet to elect successor to Pope John XXIII
Eighty cardinals gather in Vatican for the conclave to choose the 262nd pope. Voting begins Thursday with four ballots daily until a two thirds majority is reached. Early names include Montini Urbani Lercaro and Confalonieri Marella as potential candidates amid conservative and progressive blocs.
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John
Vatican City
John XXIII
St. Peter's Basilica
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
Apostolic Palaces
Sistine Chapel
Vatican Curia
Giovanni Battista Montini
Milan
Carlo Confalonieri
Curia
Giovanni Urbani
Venice
Paolo Marella
Giacomo Lercaro
Bologna
Montini
Urbani
Lercaro
Confalonieri
Marella
Alfonso Cardinal
Castaldo
Naples
Francesco Cardinal
Roberti
Troopers Break Up Negro Demonstration In Gadsden
In Gadsden Alabama about 300 to 350 demonstrators gathered on the courthouse lawn before dawn when around 100 state troopers under Col Albert Lingold dispersed them with night sticks and electric prods. The crowd of about 200 white spectators also dispersed. Officers ranged the city with deputies and local police. Arrests were made with defendants to appear before Circuit Judge A B Cunningham for alleged violation of anti demonstration orders.
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Gadsden
Ala
Albert Lingo
Lingo
Alabama
Colvard
A.B. Cunningham
Jackson racial peace nearer after Medgar Evers slaying
In Jackson Mississippi a tentative Negro accord to end demonstrations emerged at a mass meeting one week after Medgar Evers was killed. Leaders said main effort would shift to voting registration with negotiations on desegregation continuing despite reports of ongoing protests by CORE SCLC and SNCC. Mayor Thompson, urged by Kennedy officials, set dates and numbers for Negro policemen and school crossing guards.
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South
Lesley Gilliland
Congress
Jackson, Miss
Jackson
Medgar W. Evers
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student
Coordinating Committee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Evers
G.R. Haughton
Allen Thompson
Haughton
Thompson
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Wheat weight tests above average in Kansas crop report
Quality tests of the 1963 Kansas wheat crop show test weight per bushel well above average with protein slightly above last year but below average. Sedimentation value is moderately higher than a year ago. Tests from 912 cars show average 11.9% protein, 62.8 lb test weight, 56 sedimentation on 835 cars. Sumner County harvest finished except for minor mopping up. agent reports.
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Kansas
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Sumner County
Raymond Frye
State mansion auction fails in Topeka
Kansas will re appraise the old governor s mansion and retry an auction after no bids were received. Atty Gen Ferguson advised repeating the sale, with four weeks for advertising and a likely September auction possible. Previous appraisals ranged 30 000 to 35 000 and could not go below 30 000.
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Topeka
Kansas
Paul Shanahan
Atty
William M. Ferguson
Shanahan
State Executive Council
Soviet pair complete space flights with record orbits
The Soviet Union's Valery Bykovsky and Valentina Tereshkova landed in Kazakh soil after 82 and 49 orbits respectively. Tass said Bykovsky landed 330 miles northwest of Karaganda and Tereshkova 380 miles northeast, both feeling well and greeted by crews, officials, and journalists.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Earth
Virgin Lands
Tass
Valery Bykovsky
Valentina Tereshkova
Bykovsky
Miss Tereshkova
Valentina
Karaganda
Central Asian Republic
Kazakhstan
Andrian Nikolayev
Air Force
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
U.S
Adam Returns to Paradise Sparks Eve’s Suspicion
After a week away Adam returns to Paradise finding Eve sulky and jealous over his faithfulness. He insists he is the first and only man while Eve claims to know that. Later, Eve awakens and quietly counts Adam’s ribs while he sleeps.
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Adam
Paradise
Eve
Sumner County Mental Health Assn launches guidance center drive
The Sumner County Mental Health Association promotes a future guidance center for outpatient treatment. They cite a one in ten national figure with 2,500 local residents needing emotional help at some point. Volunteers distribute materials. donations support research and fundraising in June.
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U.S
Sumner County Mental Health Assn
Sumner County
The
Association For
Kennedy proposes five point civil rights program to Congress
President Kennedy sent Congress a five point civil rights program described as urgent and responsible. The plan aims to end racial segregation in public facilities, speed school desegregation, promote fair employment, establish a federal community relations service, and bar federal aid to programs with racial discrimination. It signals a lengthy congressional battle over private facilities and federal funding.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
IGA petitions to halt Sunday closing law in Wichita
Stores from the Independent Grocers Association in Wichita filed a petition to stop enforcement of the new Sunday closing law set to take effect July 1. A hearing was scheduled for July 2 before Dist. Judge B Mack Bryant. The suit seeks a temporary restraining order and an injunction against Atty. Gen. William Ferguson and Sedgwick County Attorney Keith Sanborn, arguing the law deprives markets of property rights without due process and impairs contracts with their employer. Under the law markets may not stay open after 10 am on Sundays. The article also ends with a quote from Abraham Kaplan on philosophy.
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Wichita
Independent Grocers Association
Dist
B. Mack Bryant
IGA
Atty
William Ferguson
Sedgwick County
Keith Sanborn
Wide Open Letter to Mrs Beth on a Needed Project
A brief letter extends best wishes to Mrs Beth for support of a much needed project. The note expresses optimism and goodwill toward the effort and its community impact.
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Everett Tucker
Tucker
Wyatt Tee Walker
Edward L. Schempp
Roslyn
Philadelphia
Roger
Donna
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Mark Twain
Mamie Butler
Christine Keeler
John Profumo
London
Profumo
House of Commons
Eddie J. Shaw
Gadsden, Ala
Etowah County
Dewey Colvard
Mental Health Assn
Don Sharpsteen
S. Washington
Wellington City
Bell Ringer
Mildred Beth
North C
Jack Higgins
South C
Sumner County Bell Ringer
Abraham Kaplan
Mildred Beth Wellington
County Mental Health Assn
Mrs. Beth
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