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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1964
Page
5
Mrs. Dorothy Barnes of Atlanta sued zoo owners after a buffalo charged a fence, bending it and knocking her down. She claimed injuries resulted from the incident near Lexington. The suit was settled out of court.
An AP radio broadcast described a gun battle on Louisville outskirts. The announcer said two men were shot, with one wounded. The event details remain sparse but indicate a violent incident with multiple victims.
Kiriaki Tsopeoi of Greece was crowned Miss Universe and celebrated with a coronation ball that drew about 1,000 dancers at the hotel in Miami Beach. The 20 year old Athens native, escorted by Miami’s Ted Kays, faced a bustling week of travel, photo sessions, and public appearances amid crowds of thousands.
AP reports Kansas traffic death log for the 48 hours to 9 a.m. Monday shows August total 14 and year figures 1964 361 compared with 1963 325. The tally adds two earlier fatalities to July totals.
A deeper Black Sea zone, below 600 feet, holds a thick hydrogen sulfide layer that makes the water highly hostile to most life. Only a few hardy bacteria endure this extreme chemical environment.
In Champagne, France, a 23 inch vertical drill advances toward nine miners trapped for over a week in a limestone mine. Rescue teams from France, the United States, Switzerland and Germany report the shaft at 138 feet with 110 feet remaining and aim to reach the men by Wednesday. Two other miners remain missing in another part of the mine under Mt. River, with three presumed dead.
The Southern Regional Council reports 1,937,982 Negroes registered to vote in 11 Southern states, an increase of 551,828 over two years. White registration totals 15,600,000. The council estimates 38.6 percent of qualified southern Negro voters are on the polls.
The bodies of country singer Jim Reeves and his pianist Dean Manuel were found near Nashville in the wreckage of Reeves’s rented single engine plane that crashed while returning from a Batesville Ark business trip. The site in Brentwood hid for about 48 hours and authorities cited a radi0ed message about heavy rain as the last transmission.
A member of the House Banking Committee rejected an offer of $14,000 in bank stock as a gift. Chairman Wright Patman, speaking in the House, cited the incident and condemned banker lobby pressure. Patman, a Texas Democrat, argued for Treasury control of the Federal Reserve System.
In Reserve Kansas Mrs Edward Rodgers reports raccoons raided her corn patch until she laid newspapers between the rows. She says the pests vanished, likely attracted by human scent from the papers.
Mrs Bert Dawson, station postmaster at Clements Kansas, saw two men crawl through a window into the Art Ballard filling station early today and alerted Ballard. He went to the station, and authorities investigated the incident as a reported shooting at the service site.
Sheriff Francis Towle reported two gunshots were fired at him during an attack on the Chanute station. The assailants fled in a car. Ballard was uninjured and nothing appeared to be stolen. The note also recalls Arco Idaho's 1955 milestone as the first U.S. town lit entirely by atomic electricity.
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