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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1964
Page
1
Downtown Chanute residents discuss whether juvenile delinquents should work off penalties rather than receive warnings or fines. Responses vary from support for mandatory work to disagreement, with several residents noting teens’ reluctance to work and others arguing work assigns accountability.
A brief intercepted letter fragment addressed to Cha questions sense of being chosen by a computer and expresses futility. The text reads like a personal inquiry about control and fate in a digital age. The fragment ends with a sign-off “Yours” suggesting a casual, intimate tone.
A Las Vegas groom in Houston admitted planning to rob four suburban banks with unsuspecting aides hired through the Texas Employment Commission. John L. Burke, 27, used the alias Charles Hudson and fled after a raid found 10,684 in a brown bag and 494 in his wallet. Four young men delivered payroll-like messages to tellers under threats to their children, with one teller paying out about 12,000 before police intervened. The scheme included prior similar robberies in Las Vegas and Pensacola, with two other nearby banks targeted. Police say Burke will be charged with robbery.
President Johnson tours poverty areas in Indiana Pennsylvania Kentucky and West Virginia after a 17 hour day on the campaign trail. He meets residents including Tom Fletcher in Inez and urges education while calling for a bright highway of hope for the nation. He shakes many hands and rides in an open car, warning against neglect of the poor.
The four county area receives 184 458 40 of 5 202 964 51 allocated to Kansas high schools in the second annual state high school finance fund distribution. Adel F Throckmorton says the fund comes from sales tax receipts and is apportioned by pupil count as of Sept 15. Neosho County's share is 69 147 47. Chanute district 34 998 91. St Paul 10 669 97. Erie 9 859 27. Joint Rural Stark 6 214 85. Thayer 4 792 92. Galesburg 2 611 55.
Ernie Harms, 45, of Thayer, was admitted to Neosho Memorial Hospital after a single vehicle crash on US 169 two miles north of Chanute. A passing motorist, Roger O’Conner of Independence, transported Harms to the hospital. doctors reported cuts and bruises with no serious injuries in a preliminary exam. Police were notified at 2:15 a.m.
Kansas traffic death log reports 29 fatalities in the Topeka area over the 24 hours ending 9 am Saturday April 1, 1964, compared with 128 for the same period in 1963. Authorities note ongoing road danger and urge caution on local highways and streets.
Roy Cook, attorney for James D. Latham and George R. York, says a new appeal to the U S Supreme Court will challenge their death sentences for the Oakley rail foreman slaying. The pair, both convicts from a Ft Hood stockade breakout, seek review of alleged trial prejudice from a televised custody interview. They previously lost appeals in the Denver circuit court after admitting six other slayings in multiple states.
Fremont Ohio AP reports dog warden Albert Gschwind investigated reports of a huge boxer running loose in Lindsey at Mayor Robert Roush request. The dog overturned a rubbish burner, was caught and placed in the county kennel. The owner reclaimed the dog the next day.
The report shows 11 30 a m temperatures at 69 with today’s precipitation of .05 inch and a trace yesterday. It notes the area forecast scattered showers and thunderstorms with Sunday clearing to partly cloudy and cooler. Tonight low near 40 and Sunday high in the 70s.
Dr Jack C Heysinger of University of Wichita is named to lead the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Business and Public Administration as dean starting July 1 pending board approval. He resigned from Wichita where he had led the college of business since 1957 after earlier serving as assistant dean at the University of Kansas.
Senate leaders expect a Wednesday vote on an amendment to the civil rights bill designed to open the stalemate. The Mansfield-Dirksen plan proposes jury trials for certain contempt actions in discrimination cases and aligns with a 1957 compromise. Southerners' speeches could push reluctant senators toward limiting debate and voting. The Senate will convene for a fourth straight Saturday session with Gore and Kuchel set to speak.
Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday with clocks moved ahead one hour. The change takes effect at 2 a.m. and lasts until Oct 25, covering 21 states on a statewide basis.
A Wellington man, Curtis A. Zimmerman, 63, died when his pickup collided with another vehicle on a rural road eight miles east and a mile south of Wellington. Three others were injured, none seriously, in the Friday evening crash.
The 12th annual Community Art Fair will run May 8 9 and 10 at Murray Hill School announced by Chanute schools. Entry fee one dollar allows up to three pieces. Exhibits received at Murray Hill gym 9 11 a.m. and 2 3 30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. John Mathews Emporia State College will judge and critique at 7 p.m. May 8 in the lunch room. A public vote on exhibits is planned. Frank Nichols chairs the fair with a large local and student committees listed.
The Fischer family of Aberdeen South Dakota proud parents of quintuplets describe a calmer life after initial fear and heavy publicity. Mrs. Fischer recalls public curiosity that now fades as they move from farmhouse to a modern home and plan a new house. Father Andrew J. Fischer resumes as a $78 weekly shipping clerk, turning down a higher paid travel role to stay near family.
At the University of Connecticut a psychology department experiment used IBM 7040 computer Oswald to pair 550 students for a Friday night dance. 60 questions on questionnaires yielded three potential partners per student, with human help for hard-to-match cases.
In Cyprus the death toll rose with one Greek Cypriot killed and four wounded as clashes between Greek and Turkish Cypriots intensified. Fire spread from Ayios Theodoros to the Kyrenia Pass region, where Go maristra Peak saw additional injuries amid two weeks of fortified skirmishes.
In Roeland Park Kansas the eighth annual Kansas teen age safety meeting urged youth to push seat belt use. Miss Teen-Age America July Doll of Navarre Ohio criticized adults for not wearing belts. Connie Jarecki of Wichita was crowned Kansas teen safety queen at a 350-person coronation ball.
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