Evans and Caldwell win City Commission posts in Caldwell
Dave Evans and Ed Caldwell topped city commission candidates with 1 736 and 1 531 votes respectively, securing four and two year terms. School board winners include Mrs Edw in Rideau Mrs John Nation and Dean Foster. Total votes 2 744.
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Dave Evans
Ed Caldwell
City Commission
Edwin Rideau
John Nation
Dean Foster
Evans
Commission
Caldwell
Rideau
Nation
Foster
E. C. Cathers
Board of Education
Third Ward
Fourth Ward
Bideaux
West
Leverent
Frank Fewins
Fred Tippie
Irvin Headley
Kenneth Roedell
Arthur Myers
Voters approve FAA building and industrial levy renewals
Voters endorsed continued financing for a Federal Aviation Agency facility and a city industrial levy with a $65 000 bond for a new service station. Industrial levy history dates to 1947, funding site purchases and cleanup on South Katy, with strong margins in unofficial results.
Unwelcome Tenant Evicted as Neighborhood Sees Snake Incident
An unlawful occupant in a S Grant home was evicted after a fatal incident involving a rattling snake. City linemen spotted a long black snake in a dog pen at 807 S Grant, neighbors gathered, the snake fled into a two-story doghouse above a sleeping dog, it was killed and residents returned to normal. A separate item notes a 65 000 bond issue to finance a new flight service station at Martin Johnson airport with FAA rental revenue expected to repay in about 15 years. Bonds issued when needed after budgeting. Precinct results show broad support for both proposals across all wards with large margins.
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Albert Bowman
S. Grant
Bowman
Martin Johnson Airport
FAA
Kansan Woman Named Finalist in Mrs America Pageant
A 37-year-old Kansas mother of 10 children was named a finalist in the Mrs. America pageant. Statewide voting figures showed her advancing from multiple wards and precincts, with officials noting 45 of 51 finalists announced and six to be named locally.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Maria Manning
Kansas
First City
Kan
Cally
Tornado Report Tops Kansas Weather News In Topeka Bulletin
The AP dispatch from Topeka reports a tornado near Fort Scott in the early hours with unroofed buildings and broken plate glass but no injuries. Elsewhere Kansas records cooler, clear weather with thunderstorms fading. highs range from the 40s to near 60 in the southeast and lows in the 30s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Fort Scott
Weather Bureau
Dodge City
Hill City
Mankato
Salina
Concordia
Cedar Creek Watershed District Wins Narrow Victory
In a special election the Cedar Creek Watershed District was approved 124 for and 50 against with a 71 percent turnout. The district, mainly in Wilson County near Altoona, moves toward planning approval in Topeka and a future landowner vote on cost benefits and feasibility.
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Cedar Creek Watershed
Cedar Creek
Wilson County
Altoona
Neosho County
John Uhren
W. O. Fail
Topeka
Wilson County Soil Conservation Service
Explorer 17 Collects Data From Orbit
Cape Canaveral Fla AP Explorer 17 satellite weighing 410 pounds orbited Earth in an egg shaped path 150 to 570 miles high after a Delta rocket launch. It completes a circuit every 96 minutes and NASA reports good quality signals as instruments gather atmospheric data unseen in centuries within two days of launch.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Delta
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Flying
Soviet Moon Probe Lunik 4 Advances Toward Moon
Moscow reports Lunik 4 covered 134 215 miles in the first 24 hours on its 238 850 mile voyage. The craft, launched from an orbiting multistage rocket, is speeding toward the moon with an expected 242 day transit. Exact mission details remain secret.
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Moscow
Two Inmates Recaptured at Lyons After Escape
Two inmates from Larned State Hospital escaped Tuesday night and were recaptured in Lyons about three hours later in a stolen car. The men, Eugene Belcher 39 and William Risley 27, were inmates of a security ward and slipped out a restroom window during a supervised activity in the auditorium around 9 10 p.m.
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Larned, Kan
Larned State Hospital
Lyons
Eugene Belcher
William Risley
Traffic Fatalities Reported In Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death log shows three fatalities in the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Wednesday, with April totals and 1963 figures noted. Police report the fatalities across the Topeka region, reflecting ongoing road danger.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Governor Fights To Revive School Finance Plan
Gov. John Anderson pressed his foundation finance plan for Kansas schools despite a second House defeat in two days. The Education Committee killed the bill 98 to 0 after earlier Republican opposition. Anderson hinted at talks to revive the measure or seek Senate action as adjournment nears. Affected tax proposals could raise about 4.5 million yearly, while the plan itself would add roughly 2.5 million in new costs.
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Derson
Kansas
Anderson
House Education Committee
House Republican
House
Education Committee
Senate
Frank Hodge
R-Hutchinson
Kennedy to appoint 60 day emergency board on rail strike
President Kennedy is expected to halt a nationwide rail strike for 60 days by naming a blue ribbon emergency board to study the dispute over job cuts. The move follows a Chicago judge lifting an injunction, railroads signaling new work rules, and unions warning of a strike if rules take effect.
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Dent Kennedy
Chicago
National (Railway) Mediation Service
White House
Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Shouts at Voters
An intercepted message quotes Cha nute voters shouting Lets Get Going yesterday. The fragmentary note ends with Yours.
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Cha
Chanute
Erie Elects Demo As Humboldt Drops Recreation Program
Democratic candidates won the Erie mayoralty and council seats in a ten year return of party competition. Humboldt rejected a half mill recreation levy by 257 to 244, while incumbents generally retained posts in local contests.
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Erie
Humboldt
Jone
Homer Ellsworth
Virgil Moody
Merle Smith
George Richard
Paul Beard
John Bass
Obed Harmonson
Morris Howard
Beard
Richard
Herman Simmons
George Lockwood Jr
Emery Wilson
A. C. Lassman
Gene Miller
John Mueller
Kenneth Miller
Roy Wittich
Florentine Flores
John Billings
Glen Michael
Gerald McCall
Robert Leimenstell
J. W. Morelan
Thomas Woods
Russell Runnels
Buffalo
Homer May
Orville Millikan
Dean Krepps
Jake Cutler
Bill Landrith
Merle Summerville
Galesburg
C. C. Dulecy
K. D. Smith
Harold Lambertson
R. H. Newmaster
Buford ‘Meeker
M. L. Willis
W. E. Winkler
L. J. Chansler
L. F.gibson
Chansler
Meeker
Willis
L. G. Shrum
John Westhoff
The
Peoples Party
Citizens Party
Gerald Carroll
Richard Poe
Don Jones
Lewis Griffin
Carroll
Morris Steiphens
H. G. Foster
Public Whippings Ruled Not Cruel in Delaware
Delaware Supreme Court reverses on public whipping as not cruel or inhuman. The decision comes on an appeal by Franklin W. Cannon Jr. from a 20 lash sentence for probation violation. Delaware remains unique in allowing such chastisement though no such sentence has been carried out recently.
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Dover
Del
Delaware Supreme Court
Franklin W. Cannon Jr
Delaware
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Dorothy Dillon
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Red Moon
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E. F. Krueger
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Jack) Lukens
Robert Morton
Dorothy Starkebaum
Elmer Corkery
M. W. Rhea
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Royal Stafford
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O. E. Lance
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Jack Noah
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