Students Share Plans for Summer Vacations
The inquiring reporter asks each student about summer plans. Randy Williams will work, Ricky Good plans a Boy Scout camp, Jimmy Stevenson wants swimming baseball and camping, Kathy Umbarger will swim read and play, Robert Cole aims for Wichita, Mark Batesel reads and plays, Tammy Logsdon will visit grandparents in Elkhart, Mike New will canoe a week in Missouri with Boy Scouts, Rod Montgomery will trip to Wyoming, Rosemary Romine will goof off.
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Randy Williams
Melvin Williams
S. Highland
Ricky Good
R. W. Good
E. 9Th
Jimmy Stevenson
Harrison Stevenson
Kathy Umbarger
Myrle Umbarger
Robert Cole
Loise Cole
N. Garfield
Wichita
Tammy Logsdon
Edgar Logsdon
N. Grant
Charles Parker
Elkhart
Mike New
Pete New
N. Lafayette
Missouri
Rod Montgomery
Robert Montgomery
Wyoming
Rosemary Romine
Robert Romine
S. Western
Easter Sunday Kansas forecast highs by region
The forecast calls for clearing on Easter Sunday with highs from 45 to 50 in the northwest and in the 60s in the southeast. Today will be mostly cloudy with highs 65 northwest to 80 southeast, and tonight lows 30 northwest to upper 50s southeast.
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Topeka
Kansas
the Weather Bureau
Santa Fe crossing to get automatic signals and gates
Trainmaster Lester Lawrence announced near completion of automatic crossing signals and two gate sets at the Main Street crossing. The system activates bells and lights, gates lower in nine seconds after activation, rise seven seconds after clearance, and counterbalance if struck.
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Santa Fe Railway
Lester Lawrence
Lawrence
Snipers Disrupt Curfew in Kansas City Unrest
Law enforcement reports say sniper fire disrupted a strict dusk to dawn curfew as racial unrest in Kansas City eased after three violent nights. Police and National Guardsmen maintained order with about 460 officers and 1,000 guardsmen. six Negroes were killed earlier, with 133 arrests for curfew violations and numerous injuries.
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Kansas City
Death Takes Erie Banker Linscott at 84
Erie banker Sidney S. Linscott 84 died at Labette County Medical Center Parsons. He owned Home State Bank in Erie since 1934 after a long career including Kansas Bank examiner. Survived by daughter Mary Miller Erie three grandchildren one great grandchild and a son killed in World War II. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Monday at Erie Federated Church with burial in Holton Cemetery. Carson Funeral Home Parsons in charge.
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Erie
Sidney S. Linscott
Labette County Medical Center
Parsons
Home State Bank
Holton
Laura Tribble
Kansas University Law School
Kansas Bar Association
Linscott
Kansas Bank Examiner
Galesburg Bank
Galesburg
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Phi Kappa Psi
Mary Miller
Erie Federated Church
Dale Eflin
Carson Funeral Home
Lunar Eclipse Dazzles Skygazers Across Regions
Millions watched a coppery red total lunar eclipse as the moon moved through Earth's shadow. Viewing varied due to clouds, with clear sightlines along the Eastern Seaboard and parts of the Far West. The eclipse began at 10:10 p.m. EST and ended with the moon clearing the umbra around 2:25 a.m. Astronomers cited atmospheric refraction as the cause of the reddened globe.
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New York
Seaboard
Mississipi
Far West
Earth
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka Log
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours to 9 am Saturday for April 27 1968 and compares to 134 deaths in the same period in 1967 and 167 in 1968.
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Topeka
Kansas
Massive B52 strike in Me Kong Delta yields 200 Viet Cong dead
U S military reports five B52 missions across South Vietnam with the Me Kong Delta raid yielding 200 Viet Cong bodies, the largest single-mission toll in the Stratofortress campaign. Other raids targeted Kontum highlands Khe Sanh and near Hue as U S and allied forces press offensive operations.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
U.S
Dian
Khe Sanh
Hue
Vinh Binh
Vietnam
Woman Marine Convicted Restriction and Demotion
A 21-year-old Marine corporal Mary Elizabeth Burns from Grand Junction Colorado was convicted in a summary court martial in Arlington Virginia for disobeying orders and refusing military service. She faced 45 days confinement and a $20 fine but sentences were stayed pending review. Burns said she opposed war and killing after three years in the Corps and has applied for discharge.
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Washington (Ap
Mary Elizabeth Burns
Arlington
Miss Burns
Grand Junction
Colo
FBI Finds Substantial Evidence in King Assassination Hunt
Federal investigators continue round the clock work in Memphis and Birmingham seeking King assassination clues. Attorney General Ramsey Clark says evidence is substantial while officials decline further comment. Witnesses describe two Mustang sightings and a man named Eric Starvo Galt connected to the probe.
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Memphis
Tenn
FBI
Martin Luther King Jr
Ramsey Clark
Clark
Justice Department
Washington
Birmingham
Charles Q. Stevens
Stevens
King
Eric Starvo Galt
Florida
Galt
Alabama
Fire Extinguishers Reported Stolen at Construction Site
Police report theft of two fire extinguishers from Walter Poor Chanute contractor at the new junior college site during the night. A broken extinguisher from another source was left behind, and knobs on a maintainer control lever were broken.
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Walter Poor
Chanute
Junior Colege
Phone contact for Tribune inquiries provided
The notice provides a contact path via Tribune phone and an after hours number HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m. to reach the carrier when the main contact is unavailable.
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Tribune
Parson’s woman dies from injuries after car strike
Mrs. Charlotte Louer, 70, of Parson’s, Kansas, died Friday from injuries suffered when she was struck by a car Thursday night.
Fire Destroys Wichita Center
A wind swept blaze Friday night gutted a large part of the Eastridge shopping center in southeast Wichita. Firefighters saw flames consume Walls supermarket bakery area and within an hour the store area and roof collapsed, devastating the center.
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Wichita
Eastridge
Unusual Easter Scenes Across Cities Reflect Faith and Protest
The world Easter scene features Pope Paul VI at Rome with Benedictine abbots during the vigil and a cross through ancient Rome. In Jerusalem Christians walk the Via Dolorosa while Israelis watch, and in Starved Rock a Judeo Christian Mass recalls Marquette. Colgate holds a sit in against fraternity discrimination. In Central Park a Yippie plan involves canned goods for a Poor People's March, tied to King’s legacy and continued civil rights mourning.
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Associated Press
Rome
St. Paul’s Basilica
Paul VI
Starved Rock State Park
Ottawa
Ill
Chicago
Joseph Donnelly
Jacques Marquette
Illinois
Marquette
Father Donnelly
Colgate University
Donald Berry
Berry
New York City
Central Park
Yippies
Youth International Party
Washington
Martin Luther King Jr
Black Congress
Los Angeles
Will Rogers Park
Walter Bremond
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Robert Jensen
Charles W. Whalen Jr
Ohio
Whalen
Graf
Wichita Center
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Holy
Jerusalem
United States
Via Dolorosa
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