Crops Are Boosted By April Showers
Area forecast notes partly cloudy conditions tonight and Friday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Low tonight 55 to 60, high Friday in the middle 70s. Rain varied across Chanute area yesterday and today, with .61 inch official yesterday and .15 after midnight. heavier totals reported elsewhere. Hail accompanied rain yesterday evening in Chanute and east with no damage reported. Motorists on highway K39 east of town.
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Agreement Ends Threat of Strike On Railroads
A negotiated settlement ended the threat of a nationwide railroad strike, with President Johnson declaring victory after 13 days of White House talks. The deal grants wage gains in exchange for reduced railroad employment, with key issues like 30,000 firemen’s jobs and crew size still tied up in court. Weather and localized storms followed, bringing heavy rains, tornadoes, and hail across western and central Kansas, with rainfall totals varying by location.
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Power Line Funds Sought for Regional Transmission Network
Washington AP The Southwestern Power Administration asked a Senate appropriations subcommittee for 8.95 million dollars for the year starting July 1 with 2.77 million for construction. Plans include a Dardanelle Dam to Greers Ferry Dam interconnection in Arkansas, the Carthage Missouri to Coffeyville Kansas line, substation work at Paragould Kennett Comanche Bentonville Water Valley Springfield, and Southeast Missouri interconnections. Reservoirs are below normal though recent inflows rose.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Paragould
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Kennett
Comanche
Oklo
Bentonville
Water Valley
Springfield
Missouri
Three Illinois Men Die in Plane Crash Near Colby
Three Illinois men were killed Wednesday when a plane crashed in a wheat field near Colby Kansas. The victims were pilot Donald W. Thurman 40 from Elgin Ralph O. Schumacher 43 of Cary and John H Abbott 44 from near Elgin. Schumacher and Abbott were salesmen for Mathews Co. of Crystal Lake Illinois.
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Donald W. Thurman
Elgin, II
Ralph O. Schumacher
Cary, Ill
John H. Abbott
Near
Elgin
Schumacher
Abbott
Mathews Co
Crystal Lake
Phone contact instruction in Tribune notice
Instructions urge readers to call Tribune via carrier. if unanswered, dial HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m. This terse directive appears as a late evening escalation for contact.
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Intercepted Letter Shows Helpers for Clean-Up Week
A local message notes that intercepted correspondence reveals community volunteers are stepping up to assist during Clean-Up Week. Residents are urged to join organized efforts and support municipal cleanup goals through coordinated actions and neighborhood projects.
Talkington of Iola Files for Senate Post
Iola attorney Robert V. Talkington announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination as state senator from the 3rd District. The district includes Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Linn and Woodson counties. Talkington, KU education graduate 1951 and KU Law 1954, lettered in football and baseball, served three terms as Allen County attorney.
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K.U
Allen County
Yates Center Students Promote Driving Safety Week
Yates Center teens stage mock crash demonstrations at two grade schools to illustrate accident details. The program, led by Yates Center High School Kays and Kayettes, aims for a national safety award and previously earned a 1962 distinction shared with Coffeyville.
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National Safety Council
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Coffeyville
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Kayette
Car Mishaps Reported From Local Collisions and Safety Week
Police logged several minor vehicle incidents including a 7th and Santa Fe collision at 5:20 p.m. involving Norman L. Thompson and Rollow, plus earlier backing-up damage to Evelyn Ellis’s car and an unidentifed hit on a parked bread truck. The city hosts a Safety Week with demonstrations, poster prizes, and an all-day program led by Powers and Kansas officials to promote road safety in Wichita.
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Cooper Rollow
Elmhurst
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S. Grant
Grace Clemons
Baxter Springs
Archie Armstrong
N. Steuben
Allen County
Main South
Evergreen
Kansas State Highway Department
Kansas
Brown
Wichita Police
Safer Air Travel Is Aim In Phoenix Demonstration
A four engine DC7 mock crash will be staged on a Phoenix airstrip to study survivable crashes. Fifteen dummies will be used as cameras record 20 viewpoints and 82 test channels track stresses. The FAA funds the test to reduce airline fatality rates from .23 per 100 million passenger miles to improve safety.
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Rothe
Johnson offers policy briefings to GOP aspirants
President Johnson announced personal policy briefings would be provided to seven presidential hopefuls including Wallace Rockefeller Goldwater Stassen Nixon Scranton and Smith to help chart a constructive foreign policy. He also planned a tour of depressions in Indiana Kentucky West Virginia and Pennsylvania and said defense savings of 68 million dollars a year would be announced later by McNamara.
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Richard M. Nixon
William Scranton
Pennsylvania
Margaret Chase Smith
Indiana
Kentucky
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Neodesha shooting labeled accident injures teen
Investigators in Neodesha labeled Sunday night’s shooting of 17 year old Barbara Miller an accident. The bullet likely passed through a rusted tin pump house before entering the pickup window and striking Miss Miller. She remains conscious and in satisfactory condition at Wilson County Hospital. Terry Steele, 19, her escort, was with her when the incident occurred near the oil lease pump house.
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Barbara Miller
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Miss Miller
Terry Steele
Miller
Wilson County Hospital
Traffic Formalities TOPEKA APR 1964 Traffic Death Log
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours to 9 am Thursday April 4, 1964. The comparable 1963 period shows 124 deaths versus 165 in 1964.
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Topeka
Kansas
Fifty Million Suit Against Liz Burton
Twentieth Century Fox sues Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton for 50 million dollars in US District Court over the film Cleopatra. Fox alleges their conduct during and after filming reduced the picture’s commercial value. A Taylor-Burton spokesman calls the move ludicrous as the couple, then married, carry on with their projects in New York and Hamlet respectively.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
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Burton
Fox
Miss Taylor
Eddie Fisher
Sybil Burton
Kinney Family Delayed Home By Three Tornado Funnels
Mr and Mrs John Kinney of 1407 West Main were delayed four and a half hours driving from Kansas City as three tornado funnels forced shelter under an overpass on Route 135 four miles east of Ottawa. About 20 people and 14 cars sought refuge. they huddled for 45 minutes through rain and hail while the funnels passed.
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John Kinney
W. Main
Kansas City
Kinneys
Ottawa
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