Crackdown Cuts Subway Crimes In New York City
New York AP reports Operation Crackdown placed a police unit on every subway and train from 8 pm to 4 am, cutting major nighttime subway crime by 62.3 percent in the first year. Transit authorities note strain on a 2 722 officer force and ongoing staffing boosts, including 612 new officers on March 15. The program followed the March 1965 murder of 17 year old Andrew Mormile on a Brooklyn subway train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Transit Authority
Andrew Mormile
Brooklyn
Mormile
WMS Officers Installed at First Baptist Humboldt
Humboldt WMS members gathered Friday at the church for installation of new officers led by Mrs. Lyndell Mosley as president. The service included candle lighting, hymns, and remarks on being the light of the world. Attendees included seventeen members, three officers absent, and a guest, Mr Mec Guire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humboldt
WMS
First Baptist Church
Lawrence Rinehart
Herman Crawford
Carl Pohlman
Eugene Bennett
Joe Peters
Jim Broyles
Rinehart
Grace Hill Assn
Wayne Gillham
Bennett
Bob McGuire
Lyndell Mosley
Mr. McGuire
Herbert Tidd
Christian Service
Ralph Kepley
Charles Clements
Albert Middendorf
White Cross
George Beaman
Ruby Wright Circle
Frank Johnson
Virginia Circle
Carl Pullman
Mary- Martha Circle
E. J. Lombard
Fellowship
Guild
Rosebud Guild
Cruz Flores
Bluestem Pastures Bring Record Leasing Prices In Kansas
Leasing of bluestem pastures in the Flint Hills reports record prices as 95 percent of acreage is leased by April 1. Average cow rates reach 36.30 per head with young cattle at 22.40 and aged steers at 27.70, while per acre pasture averages 5.60. Pastures sit at 92 percent normal with moisture short and spring rains needed. Prospects look favorable due to subsoil moisture and water. The World’s largest man made lakes note Lake Mead formation after Hoover Dam’s 1936 completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Flint Hills
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Safe Driving Demo At Area High Schools
Students at Thayer Galesburg St Paul and Stark high schools participated in a two part safety program led by Leland Anderson Kansas Farm Bureau Safety Department. The demonstration combined classroom lectures with on street testing to show reaction and braking distances and the dangers of speeding and improper driving habits. Assisting were Sheriff George E Neely and Under sheriff Don Harding as part of a Neosho County Farm Bureau program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thayer
Galesburg
St. Paul
Stark
Leland Anderson
Kansas Farm Bureau Safety Department
Neosho County Farm Bureau
Anderson
George E. Neely
Don Harding
Erie Club Plans Pancakes Night
Eastern Star chapter honored past matrons and patrons at a Tuesday meeting in Erie. Mrs. Richard Lock read names of officers since 1930 as 16 past matrons and four past patrons stood for a brief ceremony. Three visiting past matrons attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Eastern Star Chapter
Richard Lock
Obed Harmonson
Dorothy Mills
Harmonson
McCune
Sunflower
Chanute
Pear
Thayer
Kiwanis
Homer Ellsworth
E. C. Bryan
Alberta Gough
Byron Taylor
Girard
Allen Harrison
Pittsburg State College
Gary Jones
Kansas City
Sam Wood
Margie Simmons
Jesse Simmons
Phi Theta
Today in History highlights and local society notes
The Chanute Tribune for Thursday April 7 1966 presents a history snapshot echoing events from 1788 Marietta Ohio to 1965 Viet Nam talks. It also reports local community happenings from Kiwanis Pancake Day preparations Easter season rituals and club meetings in Chanute and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta
Ohio
Northwest
Senate
Francis Case
South Dakota
Superior Dil Co
California
Harold Macmillan
Washington
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Mass
Johnson
United States
Viet Nam
Amazing age reversal claim sells no-diet program
An advertisement by Personal Products Co. promises a secret method to look and feel half age without diet or exercise. It asserts guaranteed results or money back and directs readers to send $1 postpaid to a box in Chanute Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Air Force
Personal Products Co. Dept
Chanute
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Robert F. Wagner
Humboldt Wms
Ed Sinclair
John Chaffee
Bob Middendorf
Kansas University
Lawrence
Mrs
Ray Middendorf
David
Lake Mead
Hoover Dam
Colorado River
America
Federated Church
S. Main
Erie, Kansas
OR Wilson
Oleo
Royal
IGA
Shank
HAM
Beltsville
Turkeys
Rozen
Fleming's
Folger's
NORTH
Erie Club
OFS
THE
Associated Press
Christian Church Chapel
Cleftones
Robert Stahl
Lynda Campbell
Carole LaRue
Gene Wheeles
Twyla Hines
Paul Casady
Ava Ferguson
Henry Watkins
Norma Lee Jacobs
June Peterson
District of Columbia
Sam Ricketts
John Mitchell
Chanute Tribune
Lily
Truitt
Steuben
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