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The Memphis Press-Scimitar from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

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p-i Memphis Press-Scimitar if FINAL EDITION MARKETS TRICE TEX CENTS WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy mild thru Friday with chance of shower High today R5 low tonight 70 ') 83RD NO 202 MEMPHIS TENN THURSDAY JUNE 27 1061 PHONE JA 6-2141 Ml t) He's 'Glad to Be Back Home' By MERRIMAX SMITH VPl White Hanna Reporter DUBLIN The Irish made John Kennedy their own today The President left behind the affairs of state in Dublin and hedgehopped by helicopter and car on a sentimental journey across southeastern Ireland home of his ancestors He went to New Ross from where his great-grandfather sailed for America 113 years ago sipped tea with his cousins and other relations at the old family homestead in Dun-ganstown laid a wreath in Wexford on a statue of Commodore John Barry father of the American Navy and then hopped back to Dublin Crowds Everywhere The President was in a relaxed and happy mood following grim Berlin visit He won hysterical applause and was mobbed by throngs everywhere he went jin this misty green island I I Breaking thru all protocol barriers at Dunganstown the i President pushed into the crowd to shake hands and expressed his pleasure at seeing the people cl the area of his' forebears I He was nearly mobbed byj the huge quayside crowd at: Read The Preen Scimitar's tap editorial of the day The Soy Who Made Good and Many More of Them Page (I I'Mrd Pith lntrrMtimial TrirpMW JFK'S TEA AND TOAST President Kennedy receives a cup of tee from his distent cousin Mery Ann Ryen es her mother Mrs Mery Ryan looks on outside Kennedy homestead in Dunganstown Ireland The President said 'We want to drink a cup of tea to all the Kennedys who went (to the S) and all the Kennedys who s'ayed Russians Pester I) Vessel Come Close To Search Area PiCH-SdalUr SUIT Photo bp Km Kona ELVIS PRESLEY'S LATEST interest Priscilla Beaulieu was among the 350 attending the premiere of Cleopatra at the Crosstown Theater They met in Germany while Elvis was in the Army Miss Beaulieu is now living with Elvis' father and step-mother Mr and Mrs Vernon Presley 3650 Hermitage and recently graduated from Immaculate Conception high school Review- by Edwin Howard Press-Scimitar Amusements Editor and other pictures of the Cleopatra premiere are on Page 19 Br IMW Pm SHnnUnW ABOARD THE USS FORT I SNELLING AT SEA The1 Russians renewed their harass-( jment of Navy search New Ross after his missing nu--speech in which he introduced dear submarine Thresher to- some of his traveling com pan-! day when the fourth Soviet: ions and then said that vessel in five days headed di- Claridge May Escape Attack By Bulldozers my great grandfather left here 113 years ago he carried with him only two faith and cal purposes it serves well as with another plan one that's strong desire to live in Owners of Hotel asked $25 million for the hotel and National Land Development Co Philadelphia Claridge a new hotel today Their Views I afford to tee that would not entail razing of the Claridge 'City Stores owns the building which is expected to be condemned soon Its lease on the building at Main and Monroe will expire in 1965 National Land is seeking to develop a store building for City Stores rectly into the search zone The latest incident occurred while the deep-diving bathyscaph Trieste was on the bottom at 8400 feet with two men aboard The auxiliary vessel Fort Snelling traveling at high speed intercepted the Soviet them he was indeed giadjf trawler support ship to 'Kuprin out of Murmansk fly-1 If his ancestors had re- jng the Russian national flag mained there he said he'as the Kuprin headed on might today be working in thejeourae which the Navy said1 fertilizer factory or for Auc-i would have carried her to: tioneer John Kelly whose wjthin 1500 yards of the Tri-I establishment fronts on the dive position tiny town square Kelly himself who also runs a local with a grin As the Fort Snelling came nl 808ide-the N8VY repeatedly: EH- to contact the Kuprin by a grin and a twinkle flashing signal lights but Late Bulletins White Sox Blank Yanks 6-0 Bv IMM Pirn hmnil'w! Ray Herbert blanked the New York Yankees on five tingles today to pitch the Chicago White Sox back into a virtual tie for first place in the American League race with a 6-0 triumph Military Pay Into Hearings Hr Ameiurt Pm Chairman Richard Russell (D-Gal today appointed an armed services subcommittee to hold hearings on the House-approved increase of about (12 billion a year in military pay Sen Howard Cannon (D-Nev) will head the subgroup which will include Sens Sam Ervin Jr (D-N C) Clair Engle (D-Cal) Stephen Young (D-Ohio) Leverett Saltonatall (11-Mass) and Glenn Beall (R-Md) Reserves Are Desegregated IrAmdiMPm The Pentagon quietly has eliminated racial segregation from the Armed Forces Reserves it was disclosed today At the same time Pentagon officials have been using persuasion in an effort to bring about integration of National Guard units in Southern states Integration of the reserves culminates a 15-year effort which got its final impetus from a stiff order to the services more than a year ago South Korea to Get Food Mr IMM Pm MmalMMl SEOUL Korea Military junta chairman Park Chung Hee said today the United States has promised to fill the gap in South Korea's food crisis by providing entire amount of food that we are Wants More Great Debates' IMM Pm laiMkHl Republican National Chairman William Miller said today he hoped there would be another aeries of electronic between candidates in the 1964 presidential campaign He was one of several witnesses who testified before the Senate communications subcommittee in support of a bill to suspend the provision of the broadcasting act for 1964 Indians End Losing Streak tv IMM Press latsraatiaaal BOSTON The Cleveland Indians broke a four-game losing streak today in a 6-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox Flies His X15 54 Miles Up! Rushworth Is Now Winged Astronaut Ihr IMM Pm iMfnuikaial EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Air Force Maj Bob Rushworth today became America's second winged astronaut and the second highest flying airplane pilot in the world by soaring the X-15 rocket ship a little over 54 'miles into space His flight came within an 'estimated 5 miles of' the world airplane altitude record of 5S6 miles (314750 feet) set in the X-15 last year by Air Force Maj Bob White the first astronaut of winged aircraft White has since returned to flying combat fighters America's military spacemen an'd aircraft pilots win coveted astronaut wings when they surpass the 50-miie point in space i Preliminary figures released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration indicated Rushworth flew to an altitude of 286000 feet at a speed of 3545 miles per hour 'Mild He Says'll Could Rain i Mild weather will prevail over the Memphis area the rest of the week says the Weatherman And the gray clouds dogging us just might cut loose with some scattered showers Rather heavy showers fell in some sections of Memphis late yesterday afternoon i Official forecast for Memphis and vicinity: cloudiness and mild thru Friday with chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers High this afternoon 85 Winds southeasterly at 6 to 12 mph Low tonight 70 Light rain likely tonight and early Friday High Friday 85 Outlook for Saturday: partly cloudy and mild with chance 'of afternoon or evening thun- re-j JFK's Plan Appears Republicans Scrippe-Howard Staff Writer proposal for desegregation of restaurants accommodations'' is doomed (representing City Stores) hotel tom down end still live agreed to this price Simmons said Simmons executive director at 8 c'os? t0 of MHA said today jtl0" LoeJad A It was indicated that City However there seemed Storcs wiI1 have to come up doubt of City Commission approval of the plan for City Stores to build a new on the block between Jefferson and Adams and Main and Front The Proposal Under the proposed City Stores plan Urban Renewal would buy the Claridge (1-3 city funds and 2-3 federal funds) raze the building then resell the property to City Stores The plan also included a 600-room motor hotel which would be operated by Claridge It was discussed at a City Commission meeting with the MHA board today and got mixed up in a discussion on procedures between Mayor Henry Loeb and Simmons Commissioner William Far- GOP Rejects 'Open to AH' Rights Legislation Doomed by By JACK STEELE WASHINGTON President federal law to force hotels and other The death knell of this pro- rights was signaled today by these developments: Atty Gen Robert Kennedy virtually abandoning hope for the of the administration's civil JT Senate GOP Leader Everett ceived no reply Then the Fort Snelling ran' up signal flags which asked the Kuprin to identify itself When no reply was received signal in international code meaning "You are standing in( was run up At this the Soviet vessel! suddenly turned away to star- board and started heading north acknowledging the Fortj Snelling signal with two shorts and one long blast on its whistle How to Divide If Any City and county officials! agree this morning on a plan for dividing a local one! Safe Boating Laws Urged November public-accommo-ris on vacation was the onlyjdations proposal agreed to City Commission member not work out a watered- Turn to Page A HAPPY JFK at Convent Sees the One 1 Forgotten tv IMM Pm Mtnalinal WEXFORD Ireland -President Kennedy today made an unexpected stop at a convent near here to meet his third cousin Mother Superior Clement who describes herself as relation nobody knows The mother superior a Fitzgerald is related to the President on his mother's side A nun of the Loreto order she has been in charge of the Loreto Convent outside Wexford for about a year Mother Clement said the President hands with me and the rest of the community" of 27 nuns Dirksen formally offered a public-accommodations law as a and indicated this was the most that could be passed Without support no civil rights measure can clear the Senate Strong and rising Republican opposition to any law that would force private business establishments to desegregate present Simmons said the Claridge down version which would exempt smaller establishments is 37 years old built in 1926 did after House Judici-and has been one of the very -ary Committee Chairman few hotels kept up to date HeEmanuel Celler (D-N Y) an has killed the said a lot of work has been all-out civil rights advocate done on it and for all practi- told him the President's plan chances in Congress Without substantial GOP Following a 45-minute meet-' Tennessee needs a safe boat- by the Coast Guard Maximum tern-ing in Mayor Loeb's office theng law Tennison ram- Furthermore 550000 a year humidity index fot issue was referred to a joint mander of the Memphis Fotilla for registration is going to the today seven-man committee for fur-' of the Coast Guard Auxiliary federal government instead of thur study TEMPER ATL ES YESTERDAY TODAY 1 pa 14 I a I a I a Spa a Ipa aa IS pa ii a II pa Him 2 Miami ht 7S Naoa 2 I i I a II HuhfM 10: Mwtt the Optimist Club today at the state" he said Hotel Peabody Tennison appealed for new New Yoh Reow are 48300 boats in boating laws and strict stste Sr united press INTERNATIONAL Tennessee today and there enforcement Since 1951 emigration from isn't one single law regulating is perhaps the Ireland has averaged about he said Hast state to have such legis- 40000 persons a year Regulations are handled now iation" he said OK ia Israel fairiPw I snel'i Parliament approved the new coalition cabinet of Premier Levi Eshkol by a vote of 64-43 A Shoo-Fly-Don't-Bother-Me War Is Launched support the administration cannot muster enough votes to cut off a certain filibuster by Southern Democrats in the Senate against it And without Republican help on a broad scale it is even doubtful that a likely blockade by the House Rules Committee against the public-accommodations plan could be broken The demise of this section of the civil rights measure appears sure to have wide repercussions This Is the only provision of the bill in which militant negro groups have real interest Its death will increase the chances of a threatened negro on now scheduled for late August Such a mass demonstration bound to stir great resentment Turn to Page DIRKSEN The River Stage Mississippi River Is 47 feet at Memphis today a fall of 01 foot Where to Find It Around the Town 19 Radio 10 Business 31 Weather Map 7 Classified 4247 Comics 39 a Crossword 39 Dear Abby 10 Deaths I i 48 1 Editorial 6 Gardening 30 5vTT TT Good Evening 33 Letters to the Editor 6 (fCT AUr Aj Markets 39X 39Y LJ Movies 1011 People in the News 2 CVdl Society 7f Women's News 18 19 Aj Sports 34-38 Strolling 33 Ticker Bite 32 TRUMPETS BURE Have Ycv Heard? About to explain the buddy system to a group of beginners the swimming instructor asked: body know what a buddy one boy broke in someone who drowns with bage sources where breeding occurs said Chaney junior sanitary engineer with the department The department recommends 100 per cent paradichlorobenzene (moth flakes or balls) or 100 per cent orthodichlorobenzene to kill fly larvae In garbage Two ounces or more of the flakes or nuggets inside the garbage can creates a miniature gas chamber if the lid is closed properly Chaney said Killing the pests in the larval stage keeps them from becoming adults But adulte do i abound For them the health department does not By MALLORY CHAMBERUX JR Preu-Scimitar Staff Writer The Memphis and Shelby County Health Department declared war today on the Memphis fly population Handorf director of the bureau of sanitation reported The department is always fighting the pesky things but reinforcements are needed to win These reinforcements must be Memphis home-owners What can they do? They should wrap their garbage and place it in approved galvanized garbage cans with tight-fitting lids Handorf laid This is where the fight must at gar recommend fly traps The department says they harvest the excess fly population and give no long-range For adult flies Memphis health officials recommend poison containing 5 per cent mala-thion or 1 per cent dimethoate This should be used around garbage cans as well as in the home The Memphis Sanitation Department says the new twice-a-week garbage pickups keep flies from completing their breeding cycles Garbage going to city dumps is churned under and covered with dirt by bulldozers The Sani- tation Department said dumps are sprayed three times a week I.

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