Boy Dials Zero by Mistake Finds Mother on Line
In Port Huron Michigan a two year old boy dialed zero while trying to reach his mother and spoke to Mrs Arthur Cooper on a switchboard where she was one of twenty operators. The child was at home with his grandmother when the call connected. The incident shows how a simple mistaken dial can bridge a family moment.
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Michael Cooper
Arthur Cooper
Rogerses
Malcolm
Chestnut
Mrs. Rogers
City Commission
Engin Artemes
Pack
Brennan
E. J. New
Nude Phantom in Coffeyville Surrenders After Sheriff Shootout
In Coffeyville Kansas a 29 year old oil company employee Harlan Winters surrendered after Sheriff Art Schenk exchanged shots with the nude phantom he had pursued for weeks. Winters faced assault with intent to kill and lewd conduct charges after a confrontation on a road northwest of town.
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Coffeyville, Kan
Oil Company
Art Schenk
Coffeyville
Harlan Winters
Kansas State Fair sets record prize money this year
Hutchinson Kansas record prize fund of 96378 dollars and 33 cents announced for nine day fair opening September 13. Livestock premiums rise to sixty nine thousand dollars from fifty four thousand four hundred fourteen. Horticulture premiums total one thousand two hundred twenty dollars and twenty five cents, up from one thousand seventy nine last year.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Arkansas City High Band Invited to Tournament of Roses
Arkansas City High School band received permission to march in the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena on New Year’s Day. Director Jerry Cross said the band will represent Kansas and aims to raise $30,000 for travel by air with band members, parents, and officials seeking funding.
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Arkansas City, Ken
Board of Education
Arkansas City
Pasadena
Calif
Jerry Cross
State of
Kansas
Auto Production Dips as Plants Shut Down for Changeover
Detroit AP reports U.S. auto plants produced 21,240 cars this week, down from 27,993 last week and 15,296 a year earlier, while calendar year output rose to 4,992,776. Truck production totaled 26,469, up from 24,855 last week and 9,600 a year ago, with year-to-date output at 1,164,186.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.S
Alcohol Study Aims at Kansas Liquor Law Revisions
Representatives from wholesale and retail liquor industries pledged cooperation with a study on revising Kansas liquor laws from 3.2 beer to hard liquor. Rep. Kenneth Winters announced the proposal to the Legislative Council. The study will report to the 1971 Kansas Legislature and review interstate liquor laws and the proposed 1970 amendment on sale of liquor by the drink.
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Topeka
Kenneth Winters
Prairie Village
Legislative Council
Kansas
Winters
Soviet Zond 7 launched to photograph moon and test systems
Tass reports the unmanned Zond 7 spacecraft has lifted off to photograph the moon and evaluate improved rocket space equipment. The agency notes new equipment on board but offers no further details on the mission's purpose.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Nixon Kiesinger agree to establish Bonn hot line
President Nixon and West German Chancellor Kiesinger agreed to install a hot line for instant contact between the White House and Bonn after two days of talks. They stressed close communication to manage emergencies and discussed arms talks and European security.
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Washington
Richard Nixon
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
White House
Bonn
United States
Soviet Union
Nixon
Kiesinger
Europe
U.S
Weather forecast fires up Kansas heat with near 100
The Area Forecast calls for generally fair and hot weather tonight and Saturday. High Saturday around 100, low tonight about 70s. Topeka reports similar readings with highs near 90 in the northeast and 100 in the southwest and overnight lows in the upper 60s to low 70s.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
An intercepted letter to Cha questions insulation on hot lines and ponders keeping them from overheating. The brief notes concerns heat and safety in electrical lines.
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Cha
Residents Press Paving Plan for North Malcolm Area
Martha Allen reports residents at the end of North Malcolm petitioned the city for paving three blocks to curb dust in dry weather and runoff in rain. Gravel streets currently hinder mobility and worsen conditions for nearby homes.
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East Chestnut
Malcolm
Ashby
Martha Allen
North
Mal
Kennedy column denial and drowning car case tied to Edgartown
Washington columnist Jack Anderson says Senator Edward M Kennedy asked cousin Joseph Gargan to take the rap for the car crash that killed secretary Mary Jo Kopechne. Gargan disputes the account, while Kennedy faced the aftermath with a terse police statement.
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Washington
Jack Anderson
Edward M. Kennedy
Joseph Gargan
Anderson
Gargan
Kennedy
Edgartown Police
Drew Pearson
Washington Post
Hyannis Port
Mass
Mary Jo Kopechne
Martha’s Vineyard
Mary Jo
Tribune
Soviet Expels U.S. Embassy Aide After U.N. Spy Charge
The United States expelled a Soviet diplomat from the Moscow embassy in retaliation for the ouster of Igor L. Andreyev of the Soviet United Nations mission for alleged espionage. Milton Kovner, U.S. embassy counselor, is set to depart Moscow next Tuesday.
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Washington
Russia
U.S
Moscow
United Nations
State Department
Milton Kovner
U.N
Igor L. Andreyev
New York
Barth
Andreyev
Barthh
Kovner
Nixon to offer welfare overhaul in nationwide address
Nixon plans a televised nine o clock speech proposing a new welfare framework with guaranteed income and job incentives. He is expected to shift federal antipoverty policy from community action to creating new employment opportunities.
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Washington
Nixon
Nation
U.S
D.T
Alcorn Corp Purchases Land North of Plant in Neosho County
Alcorn Corp bought about 30 lots north of its plant, just north of the Santa Fe branch to Fredonia, between Washington and Garfield, south of the Kansas State Highway Commission complex on Fourteenth. The firm seeks to vacate parts of West Sixteenth and an alley in Crestwood to the city of Chanute, with a hearing at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Neosho County courthouse in Erie. Deeds for the property are filed with the Neosho County register of deeds.
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Alcorn Corp
Santa Fe
Fredonia
Washington
Garfield
Kansas State Highway Commission
Fourteenth
Alcorn
Neosho County
West Sixteenth
Crestwood Addition
Chanute
County Commission
Erie
The
Tribune
Neosho County Register of Deeds
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Dean Sutcliffe
Joe Rogers
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Kansas City
Jess Denions
Dodge City
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University of Kansas Medical Center
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