08 Aug 1970
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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1970
Page
1
Community brief by Dwight Wallingford covers four counties with local updates, notes on notable residents, small-economy developments, and upcoming events across the region. Highlights include civic meetings, school activities, and public service announcements from area leaders.
The piece recalls July and August 1936 with 100 plus degree days and a 110 degree peak on August 15. Basements became living spaces with fans and damp sheets, while families and four pregnant women endured the heat as nights offered cooler air.
The Suez Canal area reported quiet for the first time since the 1967 war as a U S proposed cease fire prompted talks. Israeli, Egyptian and Jordanian diplomats discussed mechanics at the United Nations with potential sites for negotiations in New York Geneva or Nicosia Cyprus.
The excerpt recalls old Kansas place names and people along Pumpkin Creek in Labette County. It mentions Mrs. Eric Williams of Iola and a tax matter, deputy director Robert R Revenew, plus memories of Mound Valley Angola Coffeyville and the Verdigris River. It also notes Loma Leverenz and Edna Rockafeller sharing a wading memory by the creek.
President Nixon appoints retired astronaut Frank Borman to visit 13 countries to urge humane treatment and release of U S prisoners in Vietnam. He says the effort is non political and grounded in the Geneva Convention.
In Cambodia, strike forces backed by fighter-bombers seized Skoun as a weeklong Communist push on the northern front showed signs of waning. The high command reported progress and disposal of rockets at sea amid ongoing operations.
Neosho County plans a delinquent tax auction in October for about 90 land tracts. County Attorney John White says petitions for judicial foreclosure on taxes through 1968 must be filed by around August 17 at the Erie courthouse. The sale, with no minimum bid, follows petition filing by about two months after owners may protest or redeem.
Today 88 high 78 at 10 am with yesterday 103 and 76. Forecast calls for partly cloudy weather through Sunday, cooler conditions, low tonight in the 70s and high Sunday in the upper 90s.
In Marin County California a judge and three escapee convicts were killed in a gun battle outside the Hall of Justice after a courtroom hostage attempt. Deputy District Attorney and a convict were wounded. two jurors suffered minor injuries in the midmorning incident.
Gov. Robert Docking praised Thayer Kansas for expanding watermelon production and farm profitability at the Thayer Watermelon Festival in City Park. The event begins at 3:30 with a festival queen crowning and a free watermelon feed at 4:30. The governor noted the Farm Products Association cooperative formed since last year to boost growing and selling produce and cited federal attention on Thayer’s farming efforts.
Lawrence AP report notes Gary Jackson, a dis charged KU dean of men's assistant, seeks details on charges a hearing and board review. His attorney says the regents' reply is not responsive to their requests as an assistant AG handles the matter. Jackson’s firing followed police say he helped buy 27 boxes of ammunition after a policeman killed Rick Dowdell in July.
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