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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1963
Page
1
Neosho plans a 35.21 mill levy outside high school districts unchanged at 6.17 mills. Proposed expenditures total 2,136,766 with welfare funding about 816,130, driven by Kerr-Mills medical aid and need for extra case workers. County officials cite federal, state, and county shares and state rules raising caseload handling.
JFKs civil rights program has passed the first turn in the long road to enactment with hearings by two congressional committees. The House may not take up floor action until after Labor Day while the Senate outlook remains cloudy. The House Judiciary Committee wrapped up three months of hearings on the seven point program as the Senate Commerce Committee concluded five weeks on a public accommodations bill.
United Nations Command warned North Korea to curb its bloodthirsty raiders or face destruction amid new clashes on the Korean truce line. Maj. Gen. George H. Cloud cited three American deaths and one wound since July 29 in U N controlled territory, while North Korea called the charges fabrications.
By turning the air conditioner down to 68 degrees and wearing a light jacket, we watched the All-Stars beat the Pros 20-17 on TV last night.
Pittsburg resident Neil Earl Nelson 33 died in a fiery collision when his frozen foods truck struck a Santa Fe freight train at a grade crossing west of Walnut. The 1960 International truck burst into flames after the impact. train crew said they tried to stop. Nelson, driving eastbound, was reportedly at 53 mph per a truck tach card while the train was 35 mph. Loss valued at 4000 for the truck and load. two children and a widow survive.
Up and Up Chanute property owners will pay $10.65 more per $1,000 valuation under proposed tax rates of the 1964 county, school district and city budgets than they did for 1963. The levies line up this way: County $35.21 per $1,000, up $1.94. Chanute school district $45,421, up $6,334. Chanute city $8 per $1,000, up $2,379. Overall increase, $10,653. Total of the three levies, $88,631 per $1,000.
About 150 people are expected for the 59th annual session of the Neosho Valley District Assn and Auxiliaries to be held at New Hope Baptist church at 4th and Chestnut. Delegations from nine eastern Kansas churches will attend, with towns including Olathe Ottawa Osawatomie Paola Garnett LaCygne Iola Fort Scott Humboldt Chanute. Mayor W J Althaber will give the welcome. Rev S E Hopkins of Ottawa is moderator and Mrs Fthyle H Robinson of Olathe is general secretary.
Fire near Paxico Kansas destroyed a hay barn and all structures on a farm west of Paxico including a two story farmhouse and five outbuildings. Mr and Mrs Claire L McGinnis and their six children were the tenants. Eddie Mainhardt of Paxico owned the farm. The blaze began about 315 pm and the family escaped unharmed. Neighbors saved a tractor and some first floor furniture.
In Kansas City three youths robbed a man and his friend after a $25 debt payment. Leonard Rowland had just settled the account with Richard DeVault when the trio approached with a knife and took the money, then took another $25 from Rowland. He remarked that things could have been worse.
A head on collision on U.S. 6 in a rain slick canyon killed six of seven people aboard a station wagon and a pickup. Paul A Graziade, 21, of Boulder, lost control while passing three cars. his truck overturned. Surviving passenger Gene Dain Fraley, 16, was pulled from the wreckage after rescuers worked three hours. The dead included William G Felix, 46, and his wife Margaret, 44, their son William G Felix Jr., 6, Margaret’s father Floyd T Blankenship, 72, and visitor Marty Merritt, 24, from Decatur, Illinois.
Two separate fatal crashes on busy curves left five dead and a sixth man in critical condition at St. Francis hospital in Cape Girardeau Missouri. In Illinois the victims include Thaddeus A. Swierczek 41 East St. Louis Rosie G. Yasenko also of East St. Louis and a passenger in the other car plus a young Bringle in the Swierczek car. In Georgia five perished when a deputy sheriff chased a speeding car causing a head on crash near Glennville naming Larry Donald Williams 19 a Cecil Field sailor and Robert L. Collison 31 of Florence South Carolina among the dead and James W Byrd 28 Earl Powell 28 Ruskin Florida also killed.
Police Sgt. C J Record interrupted a burglary at Smitty's Cafe on US 169. A youth fled with a ripped telephone, a pursuit ensued involving Sheriff Neely and Trooper White, a northbound car fled at high speed, and Harold Leon Dickerson was identified as the driver. Dickerson faced multiple charges after capture or release on bond.
A Kansas traffic death log shows 24 hours ending 9 am Saturday August 1 1963 with 1 fatality. It compares to 336 deaths in the comparable 1962 period and 313 in 1963.
Dr Stephen Ward died at St Stephen's Hospital at 50 after a drug overdose. He had just been convicted on two counts for living off the earnings of Mandy Rice Davies and Christine Keeler in Britain's high society sex scandal. Sentencing was deferred. Ward had collapsed during the trial. An inquest was planned.
Area forecast indicates generally fair and hot weather through Sunday with lows around 75 and highs in the mid 90s. Slight relief expected today in Kansas with 90s after Friday’s 100-plus heat. isolated overnight storms possible southeast, not widespread. Highs Friday ranged 93 to 104 across Goodland Manhattan and Wamego. lows 64 to 78 in Goodland Emporia and Lawrence. Most relief in the northeast where heat was strongest Friday.
Hurricane Arlene, first of the season, lashed the tropical Atlantic with 100 mph winds but caused little damage. It was 925 miles east-southeast of San Juan and far from major shipping lanes. A Coast Guard escort aided a distressed small craft north of Puerto Rico as forecasters noted little change expected in the storm's size or intensity over the next day.
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