Mud and machines bog down in Parsons mud tale
Parsons farm center manager Ray S. Smith pulls a stuck foreign car from a muddy field near the Parsons State Hospital. His pickup gets stuck, a tractor fails, and a team of horses also sinks before a week of sun hopes to free them all. Meanwhile other AP items cover Virginia Knauer’s consumer affairs role, Westmoreland at Eisenhower Center, and a Missouri River border hearing in Omaha.
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Parsons, Kan
Ray S. Smith
Parsons Farm Center
Parsons State Hospital and Training Center
Smith
Philadelphia
Virginia H. Knauer
Nixon
Knauer
Betty Furness
Abilene
Kan
U.S. Army
Eisenhower Center
William C. Westmoreland
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Westmoreland
John Wickman
Vietnam
Eisenhower
Kansas State University
Manhattan
London
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska-Iowa
Missouri
Joseph P. Willson
Pittsburg
Nebraska
Iowa
Willson
NATO Ministers Meet Despite Cold War Tensions
NATO ministers opened a two day conference marking the alliance’s 20th anniversary and considered a secret report on improving ties with the Soviet bloc. The document outlines contact guidelines but warns against hoping detente is imminent after the Czechoslovak invasion.
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Washington
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Czechoslovakia
Global tensions and regional unrest thread through multiple events
AP reports the Soviet Union rejects a U S cutoff plan for fissionable material and pushes for early talks on a global nuclear weapons ban. Viet Cong denies private peace talks as U S pressure for mutual force withdrawal intensifies. In Italy, Battipaglia sees a nationwide labor strike after deadly riots. Weather outlook across Kansas forecasts mild spring conditions with highs 70s to 80s and cool nights.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Alexei Roschin
Roschin
International Atomic Energy Agency
Vienna
United States
Paris
Viet Cong
Vietnam
Than Buu Kiem
National Liberation Front
Nixon
North Vietnam
Henry Cabot Lodge
Battipaglia
Italy
Salerno
Thayer Sewer Project Advances Amid Tight Schedule
Thayer digs trenches for sewer mains as MPH Construction works toward mid summer completion of the sewer system and treatment plant. A 200000 dollar revenue bond and about 16000 dollar federal grant fund the project, with homeowners paying hookup charges and monthly fees for maintenance and bond retirement.
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Thayer
Marion Showalter
Showalter
MPH Construction Co
Pittsburg
Erie Project Gets Funds for Rural Elderly Apartments
Erie and Neosho Villages Inc. won a $97,830 Farmers Home Administration loan to build 12 apartments for rural retired people in Erie. Land in the Main Street block is secured and two buildings will house eight and four units with a recreation area.
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Erie — Neosho Villages, Inc
Joe Shubitz
Washington
Farmers Home Administration
James A. Rowland
Neosho Villages
Main
Erie
Rowland
Intercepted Letter Lessons from the Russians
A short note claims the governor appears to have learned from the Russians. The message is unsigned and addressed to someone named Nute, suggesting a political jab or speculation about strategy and influence.
Police Sweep Out Harvard Protesters
More than 400 police moved 200 Harvard protesters from University Hall in a bloody clash leaving 30 injured and about 200 arrested. The confrontation disrupted Harvard Yard with helmeted officers, clubs, and tossed objects as students rallied over ROTC.
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Harvard
Cambridgge
Mass
University Hall
Reserve Officer Training Corps Progra
Harvard Yard
Colin Leinster
Life Magazine
Leinster
David Geddes
Students For A Democratic Society
Franklin L. Ford
Vetoes by Docking on Two Kansas Measures
Gov. Robert Docking announced vetoes of a right to work bill and a measure to strip him of appointment power over election commissioners in Kansas’s four largest counties. He called the right to work bill negative and the elections measure partisan. He signaled opposition to higher interest rates in a truth in lending bill and warned against increasing state school aid without conditions.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Docking
Kansas
House
Sedgwick
Johnson
Shawnee
Wyandotte
Road Bid Rejected Near Chanute by State Highway Commission
The low bid for grading and concrete paving a mile along US 169 west to Plummer road near the Ash Grove cement plant was rejected for exceeding the engineer's estimate. Three bids were received. M. W. Watson Inc. of Topeka submitted the apparent low of 232280.26. The county will rebid the project using federal state and county matching funds.
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Erie
Chanute
State Highway Commission
Neosho County
Monarch Cement names Walter Wulf chairman and chief executive
Walter H. Wulf, president since 1945, was named chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Monarch Cement Co. Charles L. Fussman becomes president, succeeding Wulf. The article details Wulf and Fussman careers, education, family, and community roles in Humboldt Kansas.
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Humboldt
Walter H. Wulf
Monarch Cement Co
Wulf
Charles L. Fussman
Fussman
Monarch
Walter Wulf
Portland Cement Association
Kansas
National Association of Manufacturers
Kansas State Chamber of Com
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Kansas University School of Business
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Goodland
Gregory Wheeler
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L. Wheeler
Eddie Smedley
Erie Project
Allgeier, Martin and Associates
Joplin
Cha
Yours
Memorial Church
Pusey
Nathan M. Pusey
Joe Anderson
N. Forest
Henry F
G. Wulf
Fred H. Rhodes
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St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
St. John’s College
Winfield
May Kreitzer
Wulfs
Robert M
Eileen) Klimes
van Nuys
Calif
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Dolores
Humboldt High School
Aleutians
Europe
University of Oklahoma
Norman
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