Closing law challenge rattles Kansas Sunday law case
In Topeka AP report, Attorneys challenge a Sunday sales law enacted by the 1963 legislature arguing it is unconstitutional because signed after final adjournment. A court fight in Sedgwick County could threaten more than 100 bills passed that session including the Sunday trading and reapportionment measures.
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Topeka
William Ferguson Sand
John Anderson
Ferguson
Anderson
Sedgwick
Supreme Court
Wichita Eagle Today
R. W. Reid
Court sets hanging date for Hickock and Smith
The Kansas Supreme Court fixed August 8 for the executions of Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock for the 1959 Clutter family murders near Garden City. The hour will be between 12:01 and 4:00 a m. after their 1960 convictions and death sentences were upheld.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
Perry Edward Smith
Richard Eugene Hickock
Herbert Clutter
Garden City
Smith
Hickock
Finney County
U. S. Supreme Court
Weather Briefs From Topeka and Wellington Areas
Scattered thunderstorms dropped an inch or more of rain in some north central Kansas towns Tuesday night. Wellington area remains partly cloudy with minimal temperature change through Thursday and isolated nighttime thundershowers possible. Tonight low 70 to 75, high Thursday 90 to 95, Tuesday high 94 and low 71 with overnight 70.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wellington
Kennedy urges Congress to pass civil rights bill
General Robert F Kennedy appeals to Congress to approve President Kennedy's civil rights program. He argues discrimination harms the nation’s economy and that public accommodations must be integrated. He stresses the administration’s actions and urges passage to end racial prejudice.
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Robert Kennedy
Appeals For Rights Bill
Robert F. Kennedy
Congress
Kennedy
House Judiciary
Sweden faces crisis as spy scandal hits Khrushchev visit
Sweden announces the arrest of Col Stig Wennerstrom a long time Soviet spy with 15 years in the trade including five years as air attache in Washington. The government orders expulsion of his two contacts Maj Gen Vitaly Nikolsky and George Baranovsky and warns of further disclosures possibly forcing Khrushchev to cancel his planned visit. The case unsettles NATO and Sweden as the premier’s trip nears next spring.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Washington
Stig Erik Wennerstrom
United, States
France
Sweden
Kremlin
United States
Wennerstrom
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Stockholm
Paris
State Department
Moscow
Dagens Nyheter
Torsten Nilsson
Vitaly Nikolsky
George Baranovsky
Negroes Plan August March on Washington
The planned integration march on Washington will be held August 28, says Rev. George Lawrence of Brooklyn, co chair of the event. He expects more than 300000 demonstrators, triple earlier estimates, with groups from 28 cities including New York Boston Cleveland Chicago Detroit Los Angeles San Francisco Atlanta Birmingham Miami and Washington.
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New York
Washington
George Lawrence
Brooklyn
Boston
Cleveland
Chicago
Detroit
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Atlanta
Birmingham
Miami
Mississippi con wins pardon after historic lung transplant
John Richard Russell, 58, convicted murderer serving life for a 1957 Attala County murder, to receive a full pardon from Gov. Ross Barnett after agreeing to participate in a pioneering lung transplant. Russell’s transplanted lung functions well with an artificial kidney aiding his recovery. Surgeons studied over 500 animals in seven years before the operation.
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Jackson
Miss
Ross Barnett
John Richard Russell
Barnett
Russell
Attala
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Medical Center
Kennedy tours the Wall as West Berlin crowds cheer
President Kennedy visits the West Berlin Wall area amid jubilant crowds, viewing the concrete barrier from Checkpoint Charlie to the Brandenburg Gate. He observes East Berlin from an 18 foot platform as West Berlin officials and Allied guards document the scene.
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Berlin
Kennedy
Red Wall
Charlie
Brandenburg Gate
Hitler
East Berlin
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Konrad Adenauer
Unter den Linden
Khrushchev
Checkpoint Charlie
Three-in-one polio vaccine wins government approval
The government approves a new short cut oral polio vaccine designed to provide rapid simultaneous immunity against all three types, marking a potential shortcut in polio immunization efforts.
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Washington
Lederle Laboratories
U.S
Lederle
Wellington Fall Festival Planned by Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis Club members plan Wellington Fall Festival for October 9 to 12 aiming to be one of the city's biggest events. Festival chairman Bob Johnson and Ed Johnson are visiting downtown businesses to organize, while other local happenings include a new club house project, craft and Christmas Idea Days, theatre screening, and polio vaccine news.
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Kiwanis Club
Wellington
Bob Johnson
Ed Johnson
Kiwanians
Corbin
Ruth Rinehart
American Legion
Legion
VFW
Velda Rankin
Arch Wallace
Severy
Arch
Daily News
A. G. Wallace
Topeka
Walcott & Lincoln
Tomorran
Jack Warkentine, Jr
Dana Lee Parker
Bruce Currier
Harlan Straits
Seven Year Old’s Plan for Fly Swatter Stirs Household
Gerry asks to borrow a fly swatter amid a flyless room His mother questions the motive The boy denies intending to hit his sister and claims he did not mean to tell
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Gerry
Plowing Bee Mobilizes 29 Tractors for Keith Ramey Farm
Neighbors and 29 tractors from Mayfield area plowed about 220 acres in just over four hours to ease farmer Keith Ramey after arthritis slowed him. The event, organized by the Mayfield Federation Church Men's Club, involved roughly $200,000 worth of diesel and LP tractors with multiple drivers listed, and drew many onlookers along Highway 160. The Ramey family, four in all, resides four miles west, one mile north and a half mile west of Wellington.
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Keith Ramey
Mayffield
Ramey
Federated Church of Mayfield
Wellington
Rameys
Robert Wade
Larry Foster
Gary Edwards
Dean Miller
Miler
Bruce Edwards
Roy Slayton
Bob Slayton
Tom Price
Everett Heasty
Everette
Johnny Heasty
Edgar Goodrum
Edgar
Dick Goodrum
Clifford Shore
Fred
Ronnie Shore
Dennis Ramey
Harlan Tarr
Paul Cantrell
Paul
Bobby Cantrell
Charner Johnson
C. J. Metzen
Dennis Metzen
Lester Cranmer
Clifton Cranmer
Dick Cranmer
Clarence Oldridge
Bill Busch
Harry Gerberding
Bill Cathout
Harlan Barry
Merlyn Barry
Howard Humbert
Hank Hill
Kenneth Wright
Daily News
Work crews clear Frisco derailment near Andover
A Frisco freight wreck two miles west of Andover injured 24 cars loaded with wheat wallboard and household goods bound for Wichita after a broken wheel flange. Crews from Santa Fe Wichita and Frisco Springfield Mo re pair the track hoping for night reopen.
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Andover
Kan
Wichita
Santa Fe
Springfield
Young Republicans rally behind Goldwater at San Francisco convention
About 1,000 delegates attend the 13th biennial Young Republican convention in San Francisco as the crowd leans toward Barry Goldwater for president. Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield opens with a speech. a civil rights statement is anticipated to spark controversy.
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San Francisco
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Oregon
Mark Hatfield
Andrew Hunter
Massachusetts
Resolutions Committee
Cuba
Laos
Bob Cohen
New Hampshire
Charles McDevitt
Idaho
Donald Lukens
House of Representatives Rules Committee
Congress
Lukens
McDevitt
Goldwater
John Tower
R-Tex
Washington
Bie
Wellington commissioners meet briefly on several items
City commissioners held a short session Monday night action included approving a warranty deed for Mary E. and T. R. Carter, considering a right of way easement from John Wartick for electric and water sewer lines, and accepting the Wellington Archery Club agreement and insurance. They denied concession rights at Lake Wellington due to exclusive Wellington Jaycees rights and discussed delinquent utility accounts and airport runway paving timing. Accounts payable was scheduled for Friday at 4 p.m.
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Mary E
T. R. Carter
John Wartick
Wellington
Wellington Jaycees
Bus Strike Looms in Kansas City Confronts Transit
Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas face a possible city transit strike as union delegates vote to back a walkout within 48 hours. Loren Hargus says talks have stalled on wages and working conditions while Donald Eyer reports no formal notice yet. The 1961 strike ended under a state seizure later ruled unconstitutional.
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Kansas City
Kan
Transit Workers Union
Loren Hargus
Greater Kansas City Central Labor Council
Hargus
Donald B. Eyer
Kansas City Transit Co
John N. Dalton
U. S. Supreme Court
Former Wellington resident dies in Hutchinson
Albert Lawrence Maley aged 56 of 1122 West 15th Hutchinson died Monday in Hutchinson after living in Wellington years ago. He worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Friday at Elliotte Chapel Hutchinson with Rev. E W Freeman officiating. Reno Masonic Lodge 140 to conduct graveside rites at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Albert Lawrence Maley
West 15Th
Hutchinson
Wellington
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Elliote Chapel
E. W Freeman
Reno Masonic Lodge
Memorial Park Cemetery
Blackwell widow Mary Wollam dies after brief illness
Mrs Mary Olive Wollam 82 and1 of 515 North Third Blackwell died at 9 25 am Monday in Blackwell General Hospital after a brief illness She was sister of Mrs Delia Eckert of Wellington Survived by husband Alfred W a son Waldo of Salina Funeral services set for 2 pm Thursday at Blackwell with Roberts and Son Mortuary in charge Burial in Blackwell.
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Blackwell
Okla
Mary Olive Wollam
Blackwell General Hospital
Delia Eckert
Wellington
Alfred W
Waldo
Salina
Roberts and Son
U.S. call girl probe ridiculed in U N diplomats racket tale
London AP reports Maria Novotny, a 21 year old convicted prostitute and relative of Czech leader Antonin Novotny, ridicules U S efforts as a smokescreen over a 2 year old prostitution case. Former BBC executive Harry Towers is linked to her entry to the U S.
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London
Maria Novotny
U.S
United Nations
New York
Antonin No»votny
Czechosloakia
Maria
Harry Alan Towers
British Broadcasting Corp
United States
Towers
Christine Keeler
Britain
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University of Cincinnati
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Pearl River
N.Y
Tampa
Fla
Sen. Goldwater
Young Republicans
Young Republican National Federation
K.C
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