Baker University group eyes Botswana campus venture
A 30 member Baker University team returned from two months in Botswana with hopes to return each summer and establish a campus offering at least two years of college. Dr James E. Doty noted Africa's educational need and led the effort joined by faculty and students conducting surveys, hospital reviews, and radio studies in Francistown and Gabarone.
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Ous
Doty
Baker
Africa
Botswana
United States
Gabarones
Duane Smith
Radio
Francistown
Don Eilenstine
Baker Economics Department
Bruce L. Brown
University of Illinois At Urbana
Rhodesia
Zambia
Ralph Dodge
Dodge
Asia
Singapore
Hong Kong
Manila
Malaysia
Finance Facts
Gleaners Guild Meets in Humboldt and Local Visitors
The Gleaners Guild of the Christian church met at Mrs. Ruth Cokendall’s home with Mrs. Norman Clover leading the devotional and lesson. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Don Walburn and Laura of Emporia, and other guests from Alice, San Fernando Valley, Chicago, Compton, and Columbus Ohio.
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Humboldt
Gleaners Guild of the Christian Church
Ruth Cokendall
Norman Clover
Don Walburn
Laura
Emporia
Lowell Anderson
Miltonvale
Anderson
Gas City
C. A. Bauer
Houston
Texas
Bill
Astrodome
C. W. Carroll
B. M. Carroll
Alice, Tex
Lee Tandy
San Fernando Valley
Jerome Carroll
Chicago
M. Frampton
Compton
Calif
Herbert Garvie
Jim
Herbie
Rebecca
Columbus
Ohio
W. T. Garvie
Carl Beagley
Mickey
Norman
Oklahoma
Jerry Beagley
Community Junior College board member attends executive meeting
ERI Ralph Watkins, Neosho County Community Junior College board member, attended a state executive board meeting of community junior college boards of trustees in El Dorado on Saturday. The report lists several local residents visiting relatives and traveling to Kansas City for family and medical reasons.
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Eri
Ralph Watkins
Community Junior College Boards of Trustees
el Dorado
Neosho County
Bob Kyle
Coffeyville
John M. Phelps
Wendell Shepard
Jack McKinney
Charles
Kansas City
Cliff Alexander
Wendy
Kansas contestant among seven finalists for Miss World USA
Miss Lesta Riley of Valley Center Kansas was one of seven finalists in Baltimore for Miss World USA a contestant to represent the United States in London in November Pamela Valari Pall of California won from 50 entrants at five foot five and twenty years old with measurements 36 23 36 and a weight of 118 pounds
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Lesta Riley
Kansas
Baltimore
United States
London
California
Pamela Valari Pall
Biosatellite 2 Launch Set for Sept 7 at Cape Kennedy
NASA announced Biosatellite 2 a second biological research satellite will launch on Sept 7 from Cape Kennedy. The craft carries 13 experiments to study life processes in space over a three day orbit.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Biosatellite 2
Temple Terrace Bathing Ban and River Dive Prohibition
Across Temple Terrace Florida bathing in public waters is illegal without a bathing permit and diving from the 56th Street Bridge into the Hillsboro River is prohibited. Reports from Boston Pittsburgh Reno Chattanooga and Reno cover related regional notes and oddities.
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Hillsboro
56Th Street
Youth Held For Murders In Canada
A 21-year-old mental patient is held on murder charges after a farm family massacre near Shell Lake Saskatchewan. Victor Ernest Hoffman was arrested four days after nine family members were shot in their home. A 4-year-old survived hidden between bodies. The motive is not established and a mental evaluation is planned. The suspect had been released from a local mental institution prior to the killings.
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North Battleford
Sask
Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Victor Ernest Hoffman
James Peterson
Shell Lake
Petersons
Hoffman
Robert Hoffman
Brian Sawyer
Former Sports Editor Clyde E. McBride Dies at 85
Clyde E. McBride Sr., 85, longtime Kansas City Star sports editor for 37 years before retiring in 1950, died in his sleep at home. He began at the Saline County Index in Marshall, Missouri, joined the Star in 1907 and became sports editor in 1915. He also officiated college football for 27 years in the Big Six and Missouri Valley conferences.
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Kansas City
Clyde E. McBride Sr
The
Kansas City Star
McBride
Saline County Index
Marshall
Star
Big Six
Big Eight
Three Parsonians Die in Texas Car Crash
In Pecos Texas three members of the Lease family formerly of Parsons Kansas were killed in a head on crash with a station wagon. Oscar William Lease 45 Marian 47 and son Dan 6 died Marta the daughter was seriously injured seven others in the station wagon were slightly injured.
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Pecos, Tex
Parsons
Kan
Oscar William Lease
Marian
Dan
Pecos
Marta
Texas
Jessie May Kelly
San Francisco
Calif
Today in History Aug 21 1967 highlight statehood and Cold War notes
Today marks the 1967 note of Hawaii becoming the 50th state in U S history. Earlier ten years ago Eisenhower warned the Soviet aim to control Syria. five years ago Portugal barred UN access to Angola and Mozambique. one year ago Pravda accused China of belittling Soviet aid to North Vietnam.
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Associated Press
Hawaii
U.S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Syria
Portugal
United Nations
Angola
Mozambique
Pravda
China
North Vietnam
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Fort Collins, Colo
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Pueblo, Colo
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Camp Pendleton
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Richardson, Tex
Frank Frambes
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Fred Ronald Mgs. Co
Pat Fulkerson
Marsha
St. Mary’s Hospital
Robert Coldwell
Carol
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Pittsburg
L. G. Rice
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Whyte Woodworks
W. Cherry
Temple Terrace, Fla
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Boston
John A. Valpe
Chattanooga, Tenn
Humane Society
Reno, Nev
Sharon A. Laughton
Pittsburgh
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Philadelphia
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Verson
Merle Kelly Ford
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