Kansas Jucos Meeting Seeks Improvement Steps
Kansas superintendents from Coffeyville Fort Scott Highland Parsons Independence Arkansas City Iola El Dorado Dodge City Kansas City Pratt Chanute and Colby Concordia met with the Legislative Council Advisory Committee on Junior Colleges to present views on financing administration and possible solutions. Dr J C Wattenberger Florida system director will speak at upcoming sessions as the panel prepares a report for the 1965 legislature.
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Topeka
Legislative Council Advisory Committee
Rees Hughes
Pittsburg
Council
Education Committee
Kansas
Hughes
U. S. Department of Education
J. C. Wattenberger
Florida
Coffeyville
Fort Scott
Highland
Parsons
Independence
Arkansas City
Iola
el Dorado
Dodge City
Kansas City
Pratt and Chanute
Colby
Concordia
Left Hand Pitch Left Hand Pitch
Four baby rabbits abandoned by their mother find care from neighborhood children on the town's west side. Jo Beth Heaton retrieved one from a dog, then two children from the Cloke family joined to nurture the quartet with eyedropper feedings. They plan to release the rabbits when strong enough.
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Jo Beth
Ralph Heaton Jr
S. Plummer
Heatons
Richard Cloke
the Cloke
David
Weather Outlook and City Notice Across Kansas
AREA FORECAST expects partly cloudy skies tonight and Saturday with scattered showers or thunderstorms late tonight into Saturday. Temperatures fall tonight to 45 to 50. Saturday high near 70. Topeka area notes showers returning tonight with seasonal cooling, western clouds spreading east. Highs today 75 to 80, tonight 40s northwest to 50s southeast, Saturday 60s. Early lows ranged 29 at Goodland to 50 at Emporia. City ordinances prohibit dogs running at large. violators face a $5 to $100 fine. Chanute Police Department adv.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Pittsburg
Hutchinson
Salina
Emporia
Chanute
Traffic Fatalities Report For Topeka In 1964
Kansas traffic death log shows 1 fatality in 24 hours to 9 am Friday. For April 7, 1964 total 148 fatalities, up from 115 in the comparable 1963 period. Previously unreported fatality noted.
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Topeka
Kansas
Right Back On the Job After Scare
Kansas City AP report: Robert Wortman fell ten floors when his safety rope failed while washing windows at the Commerce Trust building. He burned through both ropes with acid solution, but rescuers pulled him inside from the 11th floor. Wortman returned to work after the scare, recalling he yelled for help and a passerby offered assistance.
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Kansas City
Robert Wortman
Wortman
Commerce Trust
Robot Roams the Halls Calmly Giving Jitters
Baltimore AP report on Johns Hopkins Universitys Beasts roaming auto maton in the applied physics laboratory. The 100 pound robot named the Beast navigates a maze of corridors using a computer brain and touch sensors to recharge at outlets. Engineers plan echo ranging and wall spotting upgrades for future space and underwater use.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
George Carlton
Hopkins
Mrs. Schuman of Neodesha Named 64 Kansas Mother
Esther Adamson Schuman of Neodesha, a 69 year old widow who supported six children through college and into professional careers, was named Kansas Mother of 1964 by the Kansas Mothers Committee. She will compete for American Mother of the Year in New York and was sponsored by the Wesleyan Service Guild. Her children include Lavern Schuman Riley, Glenard Schuman, Norvin Dean Schuman, Kermit Schuman, Elvera Schuman, and Merlin Dale Schuman with varied careers in ministry, engineering, medicine, education, and academia.
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Adamson Schuman of
Neodesha
Kansas
Wesleyan Service Guild
Neodesha Methodist Church
Lavern Schuman Riley
Baker University
Valley Falls
Kan
Glenard Schuman
Kansas State University
Independence
Norvin Dean Schuman
University of Kansas Medical School
Malaysia
Kermit Schuman
Kansas State College
Pittsburg
University of Michigan
Elvera Schuman
Wichita
Merlin Dale Schuman
University of Arizona
Man Uses Bermuda Grass Killer by Mistake
Pratt resident Bob Farmer vacuumed his front lawn thinking he was applying crab grass killer. After finishing, he read the sack and found Bermuda grass killer, which promises to kill all vegetation within seven days. He waits with fingers crossed.
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Pratt
Kan
Bob Farmer
Farmer
Madalyn Murray Denied Pledge Change By Baltimore Board
Baltimore Board of Education refused Madalyn Murray's request to remove the words under God from the pledge of allegiance in city schools. Murray, an atheist whose Supreme Court case struck down school prayers, vowed to pursue the issue to the high court. Superintendent Dr. George Brain cited lack of board authority and noted under God was inserted in 1954 by Congress and is mandatory under Maryland law.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Board of Education
Madalyn Murray
Supreme Court
Murray
Baltimore Public
God
George Brain
Station Wagons Damaged in Crash
Station wagons driven by Guy O Rush and Orval M Marler collided at llth and Washington at about 8 am. No injuries. Police estimate 200 damage to Rush's 1957 Chevrolet and 350 damage to Marler's 1959 Chevrolet. Also a report of a minor bumper touch between Iona Crabtree and Barbara Jacobs near Senior High with no damage.
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Guy O. Rush
505
W. Ist
Orval M. Marler
Thayer R
Llth
Washington
Iona Crabtree
S. Malcolm
Barbara Jacobs
N. Garfield
Senior High
Copper theft at old packing plant near Village Creek
Sutcliffe Pipe & Supply reported the theft of about 75 pounds of copper from the old packing plant building on highway US 169 at the edge of Village Creek north of town. Police noted the metal was in wire and sheets.
Relief To Know He's Safe In Moscow Spy Case
Alma Kansas AP reports Cmdr Stuart Savage II, naval attache and one of four embassy staff members in Moscow accused of espionage related activities, is safe. His sister-in-law Mrs John Savage recounts a dream of his death and notes his family in Moscow and Switzerland.
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Alma, Kan
John Savage
Stuart Savage II
15 Day Rail Truce Urged by Johnson in Talks
President Johnson pressed for a peaceful settlement of the nationwide rail strike by inviting labor and management reps to negotiate at the White House. He met with Wirtz and other officials, then appealed in the rose garden for an honorable solution within 15 days.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Secretary of
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Rose Garden
Isaiah
Four Americans Accused by Reds Espionage Charge
MOSCOW AP The Soviet government accused four members of the U S Embassy of improper activities smacking of espionage but did not expel them. They were barred from traveling outside Moscow for 9 days. The U S Embassy said Air Commodore A N Davis was involved in one incident. The four are two naval attaches Cmdr Stuart Savage and Lt Leonard Bracken and two air attaches Lt Col Edgar Smith and Capt Edmund Svetina. The Soviets claimed Savage and Bracken made illegal photographs while Smith and Svetina penetrated military territory.
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Moscow
Sidney
Suzanne
Stuart
Stephanie
Switzerland
Kansas
Cmdr
Savage
Kansas University
University of New Mexico
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
U.S
Soviet Union
A. N. Davis
Stoessel
Stuart Savage
Alma
Kan
Leonard Bracken
Philadelphia
Edgar Smith
Edmund Svetina
Dayton
Ohio
Bracken
Smith
Svetina
Tar Paper Rolls Block Street Near Senior High
Spring shenanigans by boys led to a police call after a householder reported two youths placing tar paper rolls in the street at 5th and Evergreen. Fourteen rolls lay in the street from roof repairs at Senior High Junior College. a janitor moved them back to the school yard.
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5Th
Evergreen
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Tribune
Little Girl's Death Ruled Accidental in New Mexico
Kenneth Dorothy and his wife woke to a breaking glass sound and Dorothy shot into darkness believing a burglar had entered. A coroner's jury ruled the death of 5 year old Kennita Kay Dorothy accidental.
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Fort Sumner
N.M
Kenneth Dorothy
Dorothy
Kennita Kay Dorothy
Farm Land Values Rise Nationwide and by State
Washington AP reports farm land values rose six percent nationally for the year ending Nav. Missouri farms matched the national gain of six percent while Kansas land values rose three percent according to Agriculture Department figures.
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Washington
Missouri
Agriculture Department
Kansas
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Reveals Rose Garden Bond
A witty note suggests President Johnson often finds optimal deals, noting past successful negotiations in rose gardens. The letter imagines management and labor uniting in a fragrant, peaceful setting as a metaphor for harmony in talks.
Johnson urges leaders to make emancipation a fact
President Johnson told businessmen at the White House East Room that emancipation remains a proclamation not a fact. He pressed for leadership to pass the civil rights bill and urged the private sector to do unto others as they would be done by, stressing education and employment equality as keys to a just society.
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Washington
Johnson
Senate
White House
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wisconsin
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