Congress Ends Honeymoon With McNamara War Plan Fails
Congress rejects the Army Reserve merger aimed at consolidating units and boosting readiness. The House subcommittee blocks the plan citing immediate losses in combat readiness while the Senate approves a $1 billion military pay bill. A Defense Department statement says army leaders prefer preserving nonessential units but will continue talks. McNamara hopes to revive the idea next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Robert S. McNamara
House
Armed Services
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
McNamara
Capitol Hill
Senate
Defense Department
Army
Stanley R. Resor
Harold K. Johnson
Subcommittee
Department
National Guard
Heatwave Grips Kansas with Highs Near 100
Weather brief shows hot temperatures across Kansas with highs around 90 to 100 degrees and lows 65 to 75. Topeka reports 90s in the east and 100 in the west as the area forecast calls for generally fair conditions through Friday and a warmer night. No rainfall reported in the past day.
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Topeka
Kansas
Hill City
Chanute
Concordia
Intercepted Letter Repeats Opinion on Gender Roles
A fragment notes a letter addressed to Cha commenting on astronauts and gender, claiming women cannot rendezvous with husbands on the corner of Main, reflecting dated attitudes about gender and space exploration.
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Main
State Highway Commission issues six mile base and surface work order
The State Highway Commission issues a six mile AB base and double asphalt surface project on FAS route 499 from a junction with K201 four miles west of Stark, via county roads to K146. Nelson Bros. of LaHarpe holds the $72,937.02 contract with Phillip Stallard as resident engineer and William S. Hill as county engineer.
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State Highway Commission
Stark
Neosho County
Nelson Bros
LaHarpe
Highway Commission
Phillip Stallard
Pittsburg
William S. Hill
Eric
Project Approved for Lakin Kansas Watershed Plan
The Mouse Agriculture Committee approved a watershed project at Lakin in Kearney County. It spans 10 806 acres and has a total cost of 689 000 with a federal share of 567 900.
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Washington
Lakin
Kan
Mouse Agriculture Committee
Kearney County
State Distributes Gas Tax Funds to Counties and Cities
Neosho county receives 13 671 62 from the quarterly special county road and city street fund after the one cent gas tax distribution. Allen, Wilson, Woodson counties receive 12 836 11 12 086 77 and 8 785 78 respectively with total county disbursements statewide at 1 415 744 89. City shares include Altoona Buffalo Chanute Erie Humboldt Thayer Walnut and Yates Center with amounts ranging from 345 52 to 9 236 10 and 1 761 80.
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Neosho County
Walter H. Peery
Allen County
Wilson
Woodson
Altoona
Buffalo
Chanute
Erie
Humboldt
Thayer
Walnut
Yates Center
Car Totals After Single Vehicle Accident Near Stark
A 1952 Ford was a total loss after a one car crash on a county road two miles south of Stark at 7 40 a m. Driver L D Hodgden 15 lost control while moving a box of vegetables and the car struck a bridge. Sheriff George Neely reported also two pay telephones found near Earlton missing about two months were turned in to the local telephone office.
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Neosho County
Sheriff's Office
Stark
L. D. Hodgden
Clyde Hodgden
Erie
George Neely
Earlton
Bill Kepley
Bud Williams
Neely
Santa Fe Park
Chanute
California Highway Patrol
Lee Minikus
122Nd Street
Avalon Boulevard
Minikus
Marquette Frye
Frye
Rena Frye
Escapee McCarther to be sent to Kansas State Prison
Richard Lee McCarther a Wichita two time escapee from Sedgwick County jail will be moved to the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing today after Nebraska authorities recaptured him in Omaha on June 28 and the Nebraska governor signed extradition papers. His life plus 119 year sentences stem from three robberies firearm possession by a felon and a December jailbreak.
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Wichita
Richard Lee McCarther
Sedgwick County
Nebraska
Omaha
Kansas
Lansing
Vern Miller
McCarther
Air Force Major Declared Dead In Vietnam Action
Washington AP reports Defense Department confirms Air Force Major Joseph E. Bower of Wichita Kansas has been moved from missing to dead due to hostile action in Vietnam. He is husband of Patricia A. Bower of 8425 Travis.
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Washington
Defense Department
Air Force
Joseph E. Drive
Wichita
Kan
Bower
Patricia A. Bower
Travis Drive
Viet Nam
Humboldt Forms Company To Produce New Vehicle
Humboldt, by Earl Miner and local investors, forms Humboldt Industries to produce a front wheel drive motor vehicle named Transcruiser. The two or three wheel amphibious cycle carries cargo or passengers, reaches over 35 mph on land and 6 mph on water, and costs under three cents a mile to operate.
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Humboldt Forms Company
Humboldt
Earl Miner
Elsmere
Miner
Transcruiser
Briggs and Stratton
Gemini 5 rendezvous mission aims for early flight rendezvous
Cape Kennedy set for the Gemini 5 launch with Lt. Col. L Gordon Cooper Jr and Lt. Cmdr. Charles Conrad Jr. The pair will attempt the first space rendezvous using the Radar Evaluation Pod satellite named REP. If successful the mission would approach eight days in orbit and set a new US duration record.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Air Force
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Navy
Cmdr
Charles Conrad Jr
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The
Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
U.S
Atlantic
Bermuda
Cooper
Conrad
Globe
Valery Bykovsky
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
REP
Chanute JayCees Hear Pageant Guests and Festival Plans
Miss Chanute Nicki McGuire and Mrs. Robert Wells spoke at the Chanute JayCees meeting at the Orchid Buffet about the Miss Kansas Pageant in Pratt. Alan Collins announced Oct 7 to 9 as Fall Festival dates and work is underway. State Director George McCune reviewed the Summer Board Meeting resolutions and Dean Sutcliffe outlined Project Cause to fund an airplane for Dr. Jim Turpin in South Vietnam.
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Chanute
Nicki McGuire
Robert Wells
Chanute JayCees
JayCees
Alan Collins
George McCune
JayCee
Great Bend
Dean Sutcliffe
Kansas JayCees
Jim Turpin
South Viet Nam
Turpin
Traffic Fatalities Log For Kansas 1965 Eight Month Figures
Teport lists 24 hour period ending 9 a.m. Thursday with August 17 data. Includes traffic death tallies for Topeka and statewide comparable figures for 1965 and 1964 periods.
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Topeka
Kansas
Test arrival at Forbes AFB for new techniques evaluation
At Forbes Air Force Base a detachment from the 1st Air Command Wing in Florida arrived to test undisclosed new techniques. An operational evaluation will use C47 and U10 aircraft during the tests in Topeka Kansas.
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Topeka
Kan
Forbes Air Force Base
1St Air Command Wing
Florida
Riot In Los Angeles Negro Neighborhood After Arrest
An estimated 1,500 rioters ranged through a Los Angeles Negro neighborhood for eight hours after a white policeman arrested a Negro man for drunken driving. Stones bottles and bricks were hurled at police cars by youths said to be rebelling against authority.
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Los Angeles
Watts
Delay In Zoning Decision For Lacey Home Carpeting Business
Glen Lacey of 227 Elith seeks rezoning to operate a home carpeting business using a garage for storage. Planning commission, short of a quorum, tabled the issue to September while they review regulations. Five of 11 members attended. previous July delay noted. The meeting also briefly discussed a traffic study by Burgwin and Martin.
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City Planning Commission
Glen Lacey
Elith
Lacey
Planning Commission
Burgwin and Martin
Chanute
Dale Painter
Clara Graham
Carl Pate
Marlin Blackston
Helen Wilson
Betty Butcher
Avery on Tour of State Aircraft Plants
Gov William Avery arrived in McPherson at 8 55 a m to inaugurate a daylong tour of the state's aircraft industry He toured Alon Inc and viewed a distributor wing spray plane by Aerial Distributors Inc The governor planned to fly to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita for more plant tours and attend a reception and dinner downtown Wichita before returning to Topeka that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mcpherson
Kan
William Avery
Alon, Inc
Aerial Distributors, Inc
Avery
McConnell Air Force Base
Wichita
Topeka
Tribune Phone Contact for Carrier Reachability
Instructions advise contacting the Tribune via phone for carrier issues. If unavailable, call HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Committee Okays Commemorative Bill for Fort Scott
The Senate Interior Committee approved a bill to commemorate historical events in Kansas. It resembles a House-passed measure and authorizes federal funding for land purchase and Fort Scott development as a historical site at about $805,700.
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Washington
Kansas
Senate Interior Committee
House
Fort Scott
Draft Rules Tighten on Students
AP survey shows 13 of 20 states planning to review college student draft deferments as Vietnam calls rise. Officials cite grades and full load rules. Virginia and Amarillo boards resist action. Quotas reach post Korean War highs, with October call at 33 600 and Navy draft at 4600.
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New York
Associated Press
Wayne Rhodes
Indiana Selective Service System
Johnson
Pentagon
Navy
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service System
Col
Harry O. Smith
Selective Service
Georgia
Virginia
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Indiana
Kansas
Maryland
Michigan
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Washington
West Virginia
Illcois
Louisiana
Wisconsin
Wyoming
California
Texas
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