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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1963
Page
1
An interviewer in downtown Chanute posed a question to the inquiring reporter asking which two items they would keep if stranded on an island. The exchange centers on practical choices and local color.
Three people died and three were injured in a headon collision on highway K96 near Ness City Kansas Friday night. Victims were Marie McDonald 41 and two children Belton 15 and Verlyn . Injured were Pamela McDonald 11 Carolyn Wolfe 10 both of Ness City and Francis Teague 47 of Oakley Kansas. Cause of crash not determined.
The Kansas Senate revived a foundation plan for state school aid by passage of the measure. The House, which sent numerous bills to the governor, plans a short session today as the bill returns to the House after earlier rejections. The plan, likely raising liquor and cigarette taxes, would fund 20 percent of the full formula and cost about 2.4 million dollars, with the Senate proposing up to 1 million from the general fund. The chamber also passed a tax bill targeting banks and savings institutions to raise about 600 thousand dollars, while liquor and cigarette taxes would supply 1.3 to 1.8 million more.
An eight-year-old boy in Boston has been charged with delinquency by arson for the Sherry Biltmore Hotel fire that killed four. He was committed to Metropolitan State Hospital for mental tests after admitting to handling matches and starting the blaze on the sixth floor. Police say he retrieved matches from the night desk, lit one in a washbasin, then burned a rug before stamping it out. He and his mother, a nun in the Sound of Music, were among the evacuees. He faces publication prohibition due to age.
Liberal Leader Lester B Pearson pursues a Toronto rally as the Liberal party nears victory over Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s Conservatives. Diefenbaker tours 11 Western Ontario towns while Pearson claims a Maple Leaf Gardens rally drew 16 000 supporters.
In Moscow a Soviet Somali parliamentary group led by Jian Abdullahi Galeb denounces France for Sahara nuclear tests. Critics in Minsk and Moscow condemn Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony for Jewish question references tied to Yevtushenko poems and alleged anti Semitism.
AP report lists 24 hour period ending 9 am Saturday in Topeka with four fatalities. For April 1963, total deaths reach 101, compared with 116 in the same period of 1962.
A 1962 Mercury owned by former Neosho County sheriff Jerry Sloan of Thayer was stolen last night at Thayer and recovered in Garnett. Garnett officers arrested two youths believed to have driven the car. A 1957 Plymouth stolen at Cherryvale was left in Thayer when Sloan's car was taken.
A fragment from an intercepted letter indicates the current days will hasten the end of the legislative session. The writer signs as Dear Cha and ends with a cordial closing.
The city commission adjourned meeting last night upheld unofficial vote counts with no changes. It approved selling one acre on West 21st to Reuben Willis for 200 dollars for a trailer plant site under an industrial use covenant. Next regular meeting will include new terms for Dave Evans and Ed Caldwell.
Fire crews responded to a false alarm at 1220 North Steuben at 4 20 p m yesterday marking the second such incident at the address recently. Fire Chief Brennan said the origin is undetermined but not from the home itself and a neighbor allegedly supplied a name. False alarms carry a misdemeanor charge with a fine of 5 to 100 dollars.
Fair skies and rising temps expected across Kansas this weekend. Highs in the 70s today with 40s overnight. Sunday a bit warmer. Traces of rain noted at Garden City and Dodge City, early morning fog around noon. Friday high 71 at Manhattan. Dodge City 58. Abilene 33 to Pittsburg 49.
Yale University President A Whit ney Griswold 56 is back in Grace New Haven Hospital with undisclosed reasons for admission. Griswold did not attend the Yale Daily News banquet Thursday night following a prior cancer operation two years ago with an apparent recovery.
In Miami the hunt for anti Castro guerrillas continues as British marines search Williams Cay near Nassau for caches. Coast Guard keeps watch on small craft seen as potential raiders while the 35 foot Violynn III and its 17 crew dodge boarding near Bahamas waters. Crew members vow to keep fighting communism and Cuba’s regime.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, on a Midwest fund raising swing, told about 1800 Republicans in Topeka the Cuba communism threat endangers the Western Hemisphere and freedom. He outlined Republican fundamentals, noted U.S. problems, and declined to discuss possible 1964 candidacy.
Washington AP reports the second in a series of talks between Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet envoy Anatoly Dobrynin on East West Berlin differences. Rusk may fly to Paris for SEATO meetings with De Gaulle and Schroeder as Moscow-Washington direct hot line discussed for crisis avoidance.
Mrs. Robert Crancer, daughter of James R. Hoffa, welcomed Barbara Josephine Crancer a 7 pound 2 ounce girl Friday night. Hoffa called the birth the most important thing that ever happened to me. Mrs Crancer's husband is an executive of Valley Steel Products Co.
A young father Ewell Pittman and his two children Rhona and Ewell Pittman Jr. died in a morning house fire in Topeka. Neighbors say smoke appeared before 1 a m and the fire destroyed a two room home. Fire officials traced the blaze to a divar near the crib where the children slept. The mother was not home.
Robert Pratt was driving a farm tractor across railroad tracks near Elsberry Missouri when a train struck the tractor and sheered off the front near the steering wheel. Pratt remained in the seat and escaped with a mild shock.
The Kansas House State Affairs Committee backed a Senate bill banning Sunday sales of many items including clothing footwear home goods hardware cosmetics and motor vehicles with a harvest season grain elevator exemption. The measure heads to the House as another version to re enact most of a prior Sunday closing law. A separate bill to create a Colby northwest Kansas college center failed in the Senate Education Committee.
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