Johnson to sign voting rights bill at noon Friday
President Johnson will sign the voting rights bill in a noon ceremony at the Capitol with Cabinet present. The 104th anniversary of Lincoln’s emancipation act is marked as the bill, passed 79 to 18 in the Senate, aims to suspend literacy tests and allows federal registration oversight in the South. Civil rights leaders offered mixed views while praising progress toward broader enfranchisement.
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Washington
Johnson
Capitol
White House
Bill D. Moyers
Abraham Lincoln
Moyers
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
South
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Virginia
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Dirksen Plans Fresh Push on Reapportionment Amendment
Senator Everett Dirksen vows another Senate bid to approve his constitutional amendment on legislative reapportionment after a 57 to 39 defeat. He may replace the administration bill with a plan allowing geo political subdivisions to guide one house by referendum. Opponents Douglas Tydings and Proxmire predicted a stiffer, more decisive defeat.
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Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Supreme Court
Dirksen
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
Joseph D. Tydings
D-Md
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Osawatomie State Hospital patient panel discussed life there
A Rotary club panel at the Tioga hotel heard Osawatomie state hospital patients describe daily life, duties, meals, recreation, and care. Moderated by Frank and Mrs Bowker, the talk highlighted patient happiness with supervision and treatments and noted 790 patients, the facility’s lowest total.
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Osawatomie
Rotary Club
Tioga Hotel
Frank Bowker
Rotary
Bowker
Osawatomie Hospital
Happy Day Ahead For City Taxpayer
Chanute taxpayers face lower levies in 1966 with an estimated $21 decrease per $1000 value. City nine mills and county 35.16 mills drop from 1965 levels, while School Unified district 413 Chanute totals 29.73 mills plus state and building levies. Projected total next year about 75.64 mills, pending sales tax residue adjustments.
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Chanute
Tribune
Humboldt Band to Play Concert Tonight at Central Park
The Humboldt city band directed by Joe Rovito performs at 7:30 p.m. in the Central Park pavilion. It mirrors the Chanute recreation summer band and is sponsored by the Humboldt recreation department. The program closes an exchange with Chanute. The Humboldt group uses about 40 to 50 instruments.
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Humboldt City Band
Joe Rovito
Central Park Pavillion
Humboldt
Chanute Recreation
Humboldt Recreation Department
Chanute
Central Park
Tribune Phone Contact Guidance
Instructions urge contacting the Tribune by phone or, if unavailable, dialing HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m. The terse notice emphasizes alternative reachability and timing for calls.
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Tribune
Intercepted Letter Teases Civilization Signs
A fragment shows an intercepted note reading Dear Cha with a jab about Indians being pikers for leaving signs of a civilization, concluding with Yours.
Cadette Scouts Survive Three Day Home Emergency Drill
Fifteen ninth grade Cadettes endured a three day survival exercise storing a six month food supply at Berthoz farm west of Chanute. They hiked there with packs. water from Village Creek had to be strained and purified. Mrs. Albert Kihm observed the event as a judge. Survivors were rescued Wednesday afternoon and returned home grateful.
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Berthoz
Chanute
Village Creek
Albert Kihm
Warm weather continues across Kansas with scattered storms
Area forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and little temperature change through Friday. Highs in the 90s, lows near 60 to 70. Night showers possible, mainly in the east. heavy rains reported in northern Kansas with Ulysses at 3.50 inches and Hugoton unofficially at four inches.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Kansassas
Ulysses
Hugoton
Norton
Logan
Phillipsburg
Kirwin Dam
Hill City
Ellsworth
Garden City
Women prefer cancer cure news in national poll
In Washington AP report, twelve hundred career women at the National Federation of Business and Professional Clubs convention were asked to choose among eighteen story topics. They ranked a cure for cancer as their top interest, with results released Wednesday.
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Washington
National Federation of Business and Professional Clubs
Gas Cost Savings Seen in Ruling
The Power Commission adopted a two price system in the Permian Basin area to reduce consumer gas costs by millions and spur new gas supplies. It sets a 16.5 cent ceiling for new well gas and 14.5 cents for all other gas, with refunds of about 30 to 35 million to be passed to consumers via pipelines El Paso Natural Gas Co Northern Natural Gas Co and Transwestern Pipeline Co.
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The
Power Commission
New Mexico-Texas
Permain Basin
Permian Basin
Commission
New Mexico
Texas Railroad Commission
el Paso Natural Gas Co
el Paso
Tex
Northern Natural Gas Co
Omaha
Neb
Transwestern Pipeline Co
Houston
Psychiatrist Brannon Named Director at Allen-Neosho Woodson Center
Dr Loyd C Brannon a Hampden Sydney and Virginia trained psychiatrist will serve as full time director Monday through Friday at the Allen Neosho Woodson Counties Mental Health Center He comes from Raleigh NC where he aided in community mental health development and He and his wife and three sons will reside at 805 Cherokee in Humboldt
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Humboldt
Eugene Myers
Allen-Neosho-Woodson Counties
Loyd C. Brannon
Brannon
Hampden Sydney College
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Duke University
Durham
N.C
Raleigh
Smithfield
Goldsboro
Air Force
Maxwell Afb
Cherokee
Five State Hunt For Police Slayer
Police in five states were asked to search for two brothers suspected in the robbery slaying of a Chicago sergeant. Detectives with drawn guns scoured city hideouts as Gary Indiana and Harvey Illinois police joined Chicago officers after reports the men were seen there. Authorities in Michigan Wisconsin Missouri and southern Illinois were alerted to watch for the suspects.
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Chicago
Gary
Ind
Harvey, Ill
Michigan
Wisconsin
Missouri
Illinois
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka In Early August 1965
The Topeka dispatch reports Kansas traffic fatalities over a 24 hour period ending 9 am Thursday August 6 1965. The log lists 24 hour totals with a comparison showing 364 deaths for the year 1965 against 368 for 1964.
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Topeka
Kansas
Neosho County Fair Opens With Booth Setups and Judging
The Neosho County Fair began its three day run with booths and displays being set up this morning. 4H horsemanship and halter classes were judged, with open class home economics and 4H foods judged at 1 p.m. A free shade event closes the first day at 8 p.m. The schedule continues tomorrow with judging across divisions and a free Shetland pulling contest at 8 p.m. The fat stock sale caps the fair on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
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Charles Gambrill
Eric
Roy Johnson
R. 2
Chanute
E. W. Maxwell
Neosho County
Four Held In Missouri In Slayings Probe
Sheriff George Hickam said three Austin Texas law officers questioned four Texans held in the Jasper County jail in Carthage. He would not confirm ties to the deaths of coeds Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby whose bodies were found near Austin. The Texas officers, a Ranger and two deputies, were not available for comment. Names of those questioned were not released.
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Carthage
George Hickam
Austin
Tex
Jasper County
Shirley Ann Stark
Susan Rigsby
Hickam
Vandals obliterate canyon petroglyphs near Salina
In Horse Thief Canyon near Salina Kansas vandals carved names and initials into ancient petroglyphs and chipped and cut away rock. Experts including J Mott Shippee and J Frederck Dickstader condemn the destruction and pressure lawmakers to protect the surviving rock art.
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Salina, Kan
Horse Thief Canyon
Salina
Kanapolis Lake
Smoky Hill River
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Dima Edwards
Bill Jenkins
Stein
Congress
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
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Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
O.S.H
Ralph Wilcott
Chanute School District
Humboldt Band
Cha
Yours
Cure For Cancer News Preference
Middle West
J. Mott Shippee
University of Missouri
Smithsonian Institute
Washington D.C
J. Frederck Dickstader
Museum of the American Indian
Heye Foundation
New York
George Jelinek
Ellsworth County
Inscription Rock
Jelinek
Wichita Heights
Kansas Park Authority
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