Sailboat wreck, coast rescue endures fog and cliff ascend
A 38-foot Sportsfisherman with 10 aboard rammed Duxbury Reef 15 miles north of San Francisco in dense fog. The crew clung to rocks as a cutter and helicopter failed to locate them. The Bolinas Bay Fire Department lowered lines and rescued all ten from a cliff rim after a fogbound, tide-driven ordeal.
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San Francisco
Duxbury Reef
Here
Sportsfisherman
Coast Guard
Bolinas Bay
Governors five point plan to aid farm economy
Kansas Governor Robert Docking presented a five point program to the Democratic Platform Committee aimed at stabilizing farm prices, expanding exports, enhancing Food for Peace pricing, boosting farmer influence in price setting, and accelerating soil conservation and watershed projects across rural areas. A Topeka update noted a separate Kansas traffic death log. A Washington dispatch reported Docking leading a 40 person delegation seeking federal funds to build an expressway linking Kansas areas to the Kansas City airport, urging use of interstate highway funds.
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Washington
Kansas
Robert Docking
Docking
Democratic National Platform Committee
Kansas City, Mo
Missouri
Kansas City
U. S. Department of Transportation
Johnson and Wyandotte
Acros
Missouri River
Platte County
Bureau of Public Roads
Traffic Control Lost in Spray Paint
Chanute officials report about one third of city traffic control signs bear spray paint markings. Two youths were caught and the city received 102 for damages. Signs vary by type and some have been cleaned or replaced while others remain vandalized.
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Keith Wright
Chanute’s
Hayes
Letters From Wife Save Kansas Soldier In Vietnam
Pfc. James D. Fletcher of Dighton Kansas was wounded July 19 near Hill 156 on the Cambodian border while shielding comrades and directing fire. His helmet with home letters buffered shrapnel and doctors say saved his brain. he is up for the Silver Star as Cheryl continues sending daily notes of affection and pride.
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Dighton
Kan
Vietnam
Pfc
James D. Fletcher
Fletcher
Cheryl
Hill 156
4Th Batalion
31St Light Infantry
196Th Infantry
Intercepted Letter about Democrats Focus on Previews
A brief intercepted letter complains that Democrats are concentrating on previews rather than the main event. The message is signed as Dear Cha with a closing Yours.
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Cha
Reds Quit Tay Ninh In Saigon Frontline Push
North Vietnamese troops vanished from Tay Ninh after heavy fighting with Allied forces that left more than 200 dead. An American armored column and South Vietnamese units swept the city with little resistance, signaling a renewed drive from the Mekong Delta toward Da Nang as peace talks loom.
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Saigon
Tay Ninh
Mekong Delta
da Nang
U.S
Ing
North Vietnam
Nhan Dan
Dien Bien Phu
Paris
Hanoi
Eisenhower in Extremely Critical Condition, Pacemaker Removed
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remains in extremely critical condition with repeated ventricular irregularities since Sunday. Doctors at Walter Reed report the implanted pacemaker failed to stop spasms and was removed. he remains alert and receives family visits as his health remains precarious.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
Gordon Moore
Col
John Eisenhower
Truck Driver Drowns as Flash Flood Sweeps Pickup
Ashland Kansas George Berryman drowned in the cab of his pickup when the truck was swept off a roadway by a flash flood in a tributary of Bear Creek Saturday night. Fire Chief Robert Baker said the water in the normally dry tributary carried the truck into the flooding creek.
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Ashland
Kan
George Berryman
Bear Creek
Robert Baker
Train Passenger Killed by Sniper
A sniper shot into a Long Island Rail Road train early Sunday killing 31 year old Vincent Maher and wounding 48 year old Gabriel Jansen. Police arrested 16 year old John Whitmore of Queens within half an hour and charged him with homicide.
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New York
Long Island
John Whitmore
Long Island City
Queens
Vincent Maher
Gabriel Jansen
Pennsylvania Station
Manhattan
Maher
Jansen
Neosho County Fair Net Sells Beef Pigs and Lambs
Stock sale totals 13874.90 with 28 beef cattle 59 hogs and 9 lambs sold. Grand champion beef Hereford Randy Heilman Savonburg Best Yet 4-H bought by Hy-Grade Construction St Paul at 53 per hundred. Reserve champion Hereford Terri Reinhardt Erie Best Yet club bought by Servie Cooper Iola Humboldt at 52 per hundred. Grand champion pig Duroe Linda Berg Thayer Meadowlark club bought by Richey Drug Erie at 65 per hundred. Reserve champion Hampshire Mike Samples Erie Future Farmers of America bought by International Harvester Parsons at 49 per hundred. Grand champion lamb Suffolk Judy Tipping Erie Lucky 18 club bought by Exchange State Bank St Paul at 3.25 per pound. Reserve lamb Shire Steve Van Leeuwan St Paul Prairie Schooners club bought by Hy-Grade at 52 cents per pound. Closing event of the three day fair.
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Erie
Neosho County
St. Paul
Hereford
Terri Sue Reinhardt
Servie Coop
Iola and
Humboldt
Linda Berg
Thayer
Meadowlark Club
Richey Drug
Hampshire
Mike Samples
Erie Future Farmers
America
International Harvester of
Parsons
Lamb — Suffolk
Judy Tipping
Lucky 18 Club
Exchange State Bank of
Plane Crash Fatal To Six at Miami
Six people were killed when a light airplane crash landed in a beanfield near Miami Oklahoma. Victims include pilot Bob McGaw and five others from Miami area and Crane Missouri. The Glenn Berry Manufacturing Co. employees were en route to Arkansas and Georgia when the pre-dawn crash occurred. Airport manager G F Maloc say witnessed the takeoff and the plane’s fatal dive.
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Miami
Miami, Okla
Bob McGaw
Kenneth Fields
Ronnie Teague
Darlene Cooper
Louise Yankowski
Charles Hayes
Crane
Glenn Berry Manufacturing Co
Oklahoma
Jonesboro
Ark
Atlanta
Airort
G. F. Malocsay
McGaw
Malocsay
County Pays 546 Bounties On Coyotes
Neosho county records show 546 bounties paid on coyotes last year at 2 dollars each with half reimbursed by the state. This year 235 bounties were paid in six months as drives and quarterly tallies show a pattern of payments.
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Erie
Neosho County
Area Forecast and Rainfall Report for Kansas
Area forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy windy and warmer weather tonight and Tuesday with lows 70 to 75 and highs in the 90s. Rain totals included Sunday .34 inch and overnight 3.20 inches near Altoona, while streams in north central Kansas rose after four to seven inches of rain in Republic and Jewell counties Sunday night. The Republican River is expected to spill out of banks below Scandia to Clifton, with the Little Blue River rising but no major flooding anticipated.
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Topeka
Kansas
Republic
Jewell
Weather Bureau
Nebraska
Bureau
Republican
Scandia
Clifton
Little Blue
State Traffic Fatal to Six
Six traffic fatalities were reported in Kansas over the weekend from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. Three deaths occurred in a one car crash near Pratt on U.S. 54 involving Juarez, Mexico residents Alicia Hicks and her children Polly and Ralph Hicks. Michael C. Evans, 16, of Pittsburg died after his car overturned on a county road near Pittsburg. Dickey Froese, 21, of Inman died in a similar crash on a Graham County road near St. Peter. Kittie Moss, 74, was struck by a truck crossing near 8th and Main in downtown Independence.
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Miami, Fla
South Carolina
Miami Seaquarium
St. Helena
S.C. Sound
William Baldwin
Colleton County
S.C
Emil Hanson
Seaquarium
Otto Island
Carolina Snowball
Hanson
Miami
Associated Press
Kansas
Pratt
U.S
Juarez
Mexico
Alicia Hicks
Polly Hicks
Ralph Hicks
Michael C. Evans
Pittsburg
Dickey Froese
Inman
Graham County
St. Peter
Kan
Kittie Moss
8Th and Main
Independence
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Calif
Mt. Whitney
Hulda Crooks
Loma Linda
Edward Hoehn
Angwin
Chris Haines
Issaquah
Wash
Polly
Seoul
South Korea
Home Ministry
Japan
Gifu
Hilda
Japan Alps
Gov. Docking
R. J. Hayes
Yours
Reds
Ike
Jones Beach
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Randy Heilman
Savonburg
Construc
Malocasay
Altoona
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