Hasty's Duke Becomes U S Air Force Dog Recruit
The Hasty family donated Duke a 2 year old German Shepherd to the U S Air Force as a trained watchdog recruit. Duke met the weight and age requirements and was accepted six weeks after the initial step. He is to be trained at Lackland AFB Texas with crate prepared and Joe helping acclimate him before the train voyage.
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Lois Erickson
U.S. Air Force
Duke
Kenneth Hasty
R. 3
Hasty
Bill
John
Joe
Air Force
Lackland Afb
Texas
Mellinger of Emporia Dies at 52
Samuel Mellinger 52 of Emporia and longtime Republican committee man for Kansas died today after months of illness from a brain tumor. He opened a law office in 1939 and served from precinct committeeman to national committeeman, and was a former Lyon County attorney and state representative. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church Emporia with Maplewood Cemetery burial.
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Emporia
Kan
Samuel Mellinger
Kansas
Newman Memorial Hospital
Lyon County
First Presbyterian Church
Maplewood Cemetery
Woman Pilot Finds a Haven At Airport Here
Ruth Decker a nurse from Leavenworth became stranded during a solo cross country flight from Emporia to Fort Leavenworth. After storms forced a course deflection, FAA and air traffic control guided a safe landing at Chanute airport with local police and lighting assistance.
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Martin Johnson Airport
Emporia
Fort Leavenworth
Federal Aviation Agency
Air Traffic Control
Olathe
Ruth Decker
Wadsworth Hospital
Leavenworth
Topeka
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A fragmentary note reveals a summer task left undone describing a roof leak and a brief closing from the writer. The lines suggest an intimate domestic exchange in a casual tone.
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Cha
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows Daily Toll For August 18 1966
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday shows 1966 totals at 405 comparable 1965 period 397. Data outlines daily fatalities across the state for the August 18 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tribune Phone Contact Guidance
Instructions urge calling Tribune at the listed number if the carrier contact fails after 6 p.m. and provide the alternative HE 1 3400 dial option.
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Tribune
Rainy Kansas Drenches Erie Area With Hail and Crop Damage
A heavy rain and hail storm swept southeast Kansas with 2.47 inches in less than 24 hours, including 1.37 inches today and 1.10 yesterday. Near Erie farmers faced damaged soybeans and split watermelons as hail pelted fields, trees, and vegetables while forecasts called for lingering clouds and cooler temperatures.
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Tion Agency Weather Bureau
Neosho County
Fred DeLane
Erie
DeLano
Provisions of the 1966 Civil Rights Bill
The House sent to the Senate a civil rights bill with Title I creating a uniform juror system and cross section juries, Title II authorizing action to end state court discrimination, Title III allowing civil injunctions for rights violations, Title IV banning housing discrimination with limited exemptions, and Title V making racially motivated intimidation a federal crime and criminalizing crossing state lines to incite riots.
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Washington
House
Senate
Marines Strike VC Heavy Enemy Loss Near Tam Ky
U S Marines report heavy fighting west of Tam Ky with 140 enemy killed as Colo rado operation enters its fifth day. Reports from Mekong Delta say two US jets bombed a village after a spotter plane was fired on, killing 15 Vietnamese and wounding 182. An allied Korean Tiger Division action in the Central Highlands yielded 78 Communist weapons captured. A B 52 raid is noted near Qui Nhon while Maj Kasler is listed missing after a downed F105 near Hanoi.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Tam Ky
da Nang
Colorado
Air Force
Mekong Delta
Can Tho
Korean Tiger Division
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
South
Viet Nam
Qui Nhon
James H. Kasler
Indianapolis
Hanoi
Kasler
Dressen Dies Former Dodgers and Tigers Manager
Detroit Henry Ford Hospital reported Charlie Dressen died of a cardiac arrest in Detroit. He would have turned 68 next Monday and previously led pennant winning Brooklyn teams in the early 1950s and the Detroit Tigers.
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Detroit
Charlie Dressen
Brooklyn
Detroit Tigers
Henry Ford Hospital
Tiger
Dressen
Moon Orbit Mission Opens with Lunar Orbiter Launch
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP United States rockets Lunar Orbiter toward an intended lunar orbit to photograph the hidden backside Surveyor 1 and nine potential landing sites The Atlas Agena rocket lifted off at 3 26 p m EDT for a 235446 mile flight The goal is to narrow landing options for the first U S man to the moon expedition planned in two to three years Tracking will take several hours to verify course and speed of 24400 mph.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
United States Today
Space Agency
U.S
Flight Control Center
Arbitration Plan For Ending Strike Target of Talks
Washington AP reports airline management and striking machinists agreed to seek an arbitration plan to end the air travel tie up. IAM president P L Siemiller doubts union members will vote to submit unresolved issues to arbitration. He warned the public may face congressional legislation if arbitration fails.
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Washington
P.L. Siemiller
Siemiller
Congress
Training school for church teachers set at Southwestern College
The Central Kansas Conference of the Methodist Church sponsors a pioneer resident training school for church school teachers to be held August 13 to 18 at Southwestern College in Winfield.
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Wichita
Southwestern College
Winfield
Central Kansas
the Methodist Church
Two Kansas GOP posts open after deaths and resignations
Sam Mellinger national committeeman from Kansas died in Emporia after months with a brain tumor. Oliver H. Hughes, state GOP chairman since 1964, will resign by August amid business pressures. Governor Avery considers successors Don Everett, Odd Williams, and William Ferguson as potential choices.
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Topeka
Sam Mellinger
Oliver H. Hughes
Mellinger
Kansas
Emporia
Hughes
Associated Press
GOP
Citizens National Bank of Emporia
William H. Avery
Don J. Everett
Manhattan
Odd Williams
Lawrence
William M. Ferguson
Wind storm damages farms between Pleasanton and Mound City
A wind, rain and hail storm swept an area two miles wide and five miles long between Pleasanton and Mound City near the Missouri border Tuesday night. Five of seven damaged houses were unroofed. a Wilber Smith farm barn collapsed and a Hill Im plement Co building toppled. A Smith farm truck was hurled 70 feet. No injuries were reported.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Associated Press
Topeka
Missouri Line
Trading Post
la Cygne
Yates Center
Eureka
Matfield Green
Easton
Lawrence
Manhattan
Concordia
Salina
Russell
Hays
Hill City
Dodge City
Great Bend
Wichita
Goodland
Pittsburg
Wright
Garden City
Chanute
Pleasanton
Mound City
Wilber Smith
Metal Hill Implement Company
U.S. 69
Smith Farm
Missouri
Weird disease hits area in Texas
A so called weird neurological disease has sent 17 people to Parkland Hospital in Dallas over several days. One 21 year old man died while others range from good to critical. Ages span 21 to 87. Doctors seek help from the U S Public Health Service center in Atlanta as symptoms include twitching, stiff neck, fever, headaches, rapid eye movement and unconsciousness. Most patients are moderately sick according to Dr. Hal J. Dewlett.
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Dallas, Tex
Parkland Hospital
Parkland
Hal J. Dewlett
Dewlett
U.S. Public Health Service
Communicable Disease Center
Atlanta
Dr. Dewlett
Mother of Four Found Beaten to Death in Jersey
Dorothy Louise McKenzie, 45, of Toms River, was found beaten to death in a car behind a Howell Township diner. Police say she was the fifth woman murdered along the Jersey Shore in the past year. Her body lay wedged between the front seat and dashboard of a 1957 model car, bloodstained and covered by a blanket.
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Asbury Park
Howell Township
Jersey Shore
Dorothy Louise McKenzie
Toms River
McKenzie
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Rcolp
New York
George Kleinman
New York Union
Oliver
Avery
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