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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1965
Page
10
The House Education and Labor Committee approved a 50 cent minimum wage increase and extended coverage to 7.2 million more workers. The bill would cover farm workers for the first time and raise the present $1.25 rate through a series of annual steps.
Midway High and Grade School will open the fall term at 8 42 a m August 26 enrollment for both levels will last two hours that day with Friday’s session a morning only The first full day is Monday August 30 New textbooks priced 250 for early grades 3 for upper grades Expendable workbooks to be purchased by students Lunch remains 25 cents for grades 1 6 and 30 cents for grades 7 12 New courses include creative writing advanced algebra and theory of music and harmony Staff from last year returns except Don Walburn who leaves to coach at Humboldt High School Don Krause named to teach driver education science biology and coach duties Superintendent Milo E Peterson resumes duties Extensive teacher list and staff assignments follow along with new bus routes and playground work.
In Franklinton Louisiana a preliminary hearing for Ernest R. McElveen 41 postponed. He faces charges in the ambush slaying of Deputy Oneal Moore and attempted murder of Deputy Creed Rogers near Bogalusa. Hearing reset for the first week of September.
William Ferguson 64 of Ebensburg operator of a mining machine was trapped 900 feet underground for about 12 hours after a roof fall at a mine near Ebensburg Pennsylvania. Two other miners escaped unharmed when the roof collapsed four miles from the entrance.
Gov. Avery names Sister Mary Jerome of Halstead Hospital to a three year term on the State Board of Nursing replacing a departing member. The appointment is announced in Topeka.
On Oak Island off Nova Scotia six years and $200000 spent on a pirate treasure hunt ended with the deaths of Robert Restall and three others. Gas or fumes filled a 27 foot shaft as two survivors escaped and two others reached safety. Restall his son Robert Jr Cyril Hiltz and Karl Graeser died. Restall had believed he found a key to tunnels where Captain Kidd hid treasure valued up to 200 million.
Sister Louise Marie has been appointed academic dean of Marymount College in Salina but was unable to accept an appointment to the college board.
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