Crash of Third F111 in Southeast Asia Report
U S Air Force official says a Fill fighter bomber crashed Monday night while en route to or from a bombing mission against North Vietnam, likely in Thailand. This marked the third Fill crash in Vietnam since mid March as crews and wreckage recovery efforts continued.
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Saigon
U.S. Air Force
North Vietnam
U.S
Thailand
America
Vietnam
Nevada
Panhandle
16th Annual Art Fair Here On Weekend
The Cha nute city schools sponsor the 16th annual Community Art Fair at the Central Park community building. Exhibits run Friday 7 to 9 p m Saturday 2 to 8 p m and Sunday 2 to 4 p m with no admission. Awards for first second third and honorable mention in sculpture abstract and realist categories. Grand Prize Trophy to best overall entry. Tea at 7 15 p m Friday. Arthur Bowles will critique winning entries and present the grand trophy.
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Chanute City
Central Park
Tom Thorne
Thorne
Artists Anonymous
High School Art Club
Arthur Bowles
Missouri Southern College
Full of Falsehoods Charged of Report
Topeka Kansas director of penal institutions Charles McAtee accused a three man board of inquiry report of falsehoods and said the board grossly misrepresented expenditures from the inmates welfare fund at the Hutchinson State Industrial Reformatory. He cited purchases of furnishings for the superintendent’s residence in 1965 and 1966 and said the board failed to verify invoices.
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Topeka
Charles McAtee
Board of
Robert Docking
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Hutchinson
McAtee
Recreation Department
Stucker
Tax Boost and Spending Cut Near Agreement in Congress
Senate House conferees report a preliminary accord on a proposed income tax increase paired with spending cuts. Details await mid May finalization as Johnson urges passage after returning from vacation. both chambers seek a compromise acceptable to all.
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Washington
Senate House
Johnson
Congress
Senate
House
Conference Committee
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows April 1968 Toll
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic death log through 9 am Tuesday lists 38 fatalities for April 1968 and 178 for all of 1968, compared with 153 for the comparable 1967 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Bond Set for 18-year-old Clarenson on Forgery Counts
Robert Clarenson, 18, of 1311 S Evergreen waived a preliminary hearing in city court on two forgery counts and was bound over to district court. Bond set $1,500 on each count. He was arrested April 11 and held in city jail. Charges allege checks passed at two Chanute groceries from stolen checks belonging to Bill Quinn. Offenses occurred while he was on military leave.
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Robert Clarenson
S. Evergreen
Neosho County
Chanute
Bill Quinn
Quinn
Clarenson
United Methodist Church Formed After Merger
In Dallas a historic merger unites the 10.3 million member Methodists with the Evangelical United Brethren Church creating the United Methodist Church. Delegates and thousands attend as bishops declare a single church with roots to the 1700s and ongoing interdenominational talks.
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Dallas
Tex
United Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Corps of Bishops
Doctors Edge Computer in Cardiology Contest
Six heart specialists and a computer tested on three patients at the Inter American Congress of Cardiology in Lima. The doctors won the first test and tied the next two, with the computer offering faster, but less detailed, diagnoses.
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Lima
Peru
Eliot Corday
American College of Cardiology
Penel
Corday
Georgetown
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Nute
A brief note titled Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Nute references a personal missive intercepted in transit. The fragment hints at a correspondence with Cha Nute, though no further details or context are provided in the legible text.
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Cha
Weather notes and Kansas forecast with past storm reports
Area forecast calls for fair and cool conditions with diminishing winds tonight and Wednesday. Frost or freezing temps were forecast for much of Kansas. Monday brought severe weather with unconfirmed tornado sightings near Carbondale and Gardner, hail up to 3 to 4 inches in southeastern Shawnee County, and heavy rainfall with flash flooding, especially central and eastern Kansas.
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Topeka
Kansas
Carbondale
Gardner
Shawnee County
Lawrence
Lecompton
A Glance At Politics
The Republican outlook centers on Nixon facing Kennedy for the presidency with a Rockefeller backer dismissing a poll. Democrats split on strategy as Humphrey predicts securing the nomination while McCarthy warns of military influence. Pennsylvania shows McCarthy on the ballot with observers watching write-in totals for Humphrey Kennedy Nixon and Rockefeller.
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Associated Press
Richard Nixon
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
U.S
Pennsylvania
McCarthy
Humphrey
Kennedy
Rockefeller
Drainage Plan For Northeast Area A City Project
A cooperative drainage plan near US 169 on Chanute's east side gets preliminary city commission approval. The project would divert water from a 527 acre area, largely within the city, to Village Creek with a 12 foot ditch width and a pipe outlet. Cost shares hinge on a legal opinion from City Attorney John Sherman due May 13.
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Soil Conservation Service Office
Erie
Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Co
Mid-America Refining Co
Kenneth Casper
Ing
Santa Fe
Old Village Creek
SCS
McKinnie
Fire-Inspected Properties Face Higher Insurance Rates in Chanute
The Kansas Inspection Bureau revised Chanute fire insurance classification affecting commercial and industrial fire inspected properties. Premiums are set to rise three to seven and a half percent with policy anniversaries. The shift cites a deteriorating supplementary volunteer fireman program and reduced firefighting personnel. Jaycee volunteers previously assisted, but participation has declined due to membership changes and other commitments.
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Chanute
Kansas Inspection Bureau
Jaycee
Allen W. Dulles to Speak at Kansas State University
Allen W. Dulles former CIA director will address Kansas State University on Wednesday in the history department War and Peace seminar. He will discuss intelligence role in national security and historical context.
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Manhattan
Kan
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agnecy
Kansas State University
History Department
Dulles
CIA
Law Day May 1 Proclaimed by Johnson and Docking
May 1 will be celebrated as Law Day under proclamations by President Lyndon B. Johnson and Kansas Governor Robert B. Docking. The Kansas Bar Association backs Law Day USA with the 1964 theme Only a lawful society can build a better society.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Kansas
Robert B. Docking
Kansas Bar Assn
Thant Hopes Peace Talks To Be Soon
U N Secretary General Thant said he hopes preliminary talks between Washington and Hanoi will begin soon perhaps this week. He listed possible venues Phnom Penh Warsaw Geneva or Paris as sites for such talks amid mixed signals from Washington Hanoi and Paris diplomats.
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Paris
U.N
U Thant
Washington
Hanoi
Thant
Phnom Penh
Warsaw
Geneva
New York
State Department
Chanute Lumber Co expands facilities with warehouse and forklift
Chanute Lumber Co owners Pack St. Clair and Dick Ahring announced expansion including a 120 by 80 foot steel warehouse with 9,600 square feet of storage, a forklift, and an additional truck. The new site along the Santa Fe tracks features a railroad spur and concrete ramp for efficient unloading, reducing times from days to hours.
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Chanute Lumber Co
Pack St. Clair
Dick Ahring
14Th Street
Santa Fe
St. Clair
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Porterfield Addition
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