Thayer's 3 Day Picnic and Fair Opens Thursday
The 61st Thayer Homecoming Picnic and Fair will be held in McLachen Park Thayer Thursday through Saturday with free entertainment. Exhibits in baked foods floriculture clothing and textiles grains fruits and vegetables offer prizes. Gov Robert Docking expected to attend and crown the Homecoming Queen.
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Child Stowaway On London Flight Surfaces In LA Saga
The 3 year old Mark Desmond Woo sam stowed away on a Los Angeles to London jumbo jet and rode back with his family by air. A spokesman said he likely tagged along with other families as a crowd of children boarded. The mother said she will not bring him to the airport again to prevent a repeat. The tale ends with the boy smiling on arrival and a possible bill for the trip. A separate report from Olath e Kansas notes a Garnett woman found dead in her car five miles south of town.
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Intercepted Letter Debunking Darkhorse Term at GOP Meet
A fragment notes that one word absent from the Republican convention discourse is darkhorse. The line suggestively frames a leaked or intercepted letter as contrasting with party rhetoric. No further names or events are specified.
Convention Starts as Nixon Renomination Looms
Republicans begin their convention in Miami Beach to renominate President Nixon while leaders attempt to avert a floor fight over 1976 convention rules. An afternoon program features welcoming speeches and a filmed tribute to the late Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Landon to Receive Distinguished Statesman Award in Miami
Alf M. Landon, former Kansas governor and 1936 GOP presidential nominee, will receive a distinguished Senior Statesman award at the Republican national convention in Miami Beach. He departs Topeka with wife and son to attend the event and will be presented the award by Sen. Hugh Scott. Landon reflects on his long involvement and notes attendance at conventions since 1928.
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John C
Jack” Landon
U.S
Hugh Scott
Area Forecast Signals Warm Humid Tuesday With Showers
Scatter ed thundershowers develop this afternoon and continue tonight ending Tuesday forenoon. Partly sunny and warm this afternoon with variable winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight turns cooler with northwesterly winds 10 to 15 mph. Tuesday partly cloudy not as warm with highs 85 to 90 and a 30 to 40 percent precipitation chance.
Kansas lawmaker’s room mixup at GOP convention
State Rep. Fred Harris of Chanute Kansas, a Harris newspaper group representative, was checked into an eighth floor room at a Miami Beach hotel. Two Kansas State University assistant professors, Cornelia Flora and Naomi Lynn, were already in the room, and Harris apologized and moved to another room.
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Cornelia Flora
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Chalmers Resigns as KU Chancellor
Lawrence Kansas AP reports E Laurence Chalmers Jr resigns as chancellor of the University of Kansas eight days after divorce proceedings. Regent Raymond Nichols named acting chancellor until a new leader is chosen. Chalmers said KU's interests were primary and he had no immediate plans after resignation.
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Topeka
Jess Stewart
Wamego
Jobless Rate Dips in Kansas July 1972
The Kansas governor's office reports unemployment at 4.9 percent in July, down from 6.2 percent in July 1971 and 5.0 percent in June this year. Employed persons total 873,600 while the labor force slightly declined, with 44,600 unemployed in July and 46,100 in June.
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Governor’s Office
Kansas
Robert Docking
Heart beats in Indianapolis celebrates transplant milestone
Louis B. Russell Jr., 47, opened his home in Indianapolis for an open house after his heart transplant, marking four extra years of life. Guests included Mrs. John Annick, Milwaukee, the longest living woman transplant recipient, and Mrs. Edward Rigden of Milwaukee whose brother's heart went to Annick. Washington L. Brown of Providence Forge, Va. also offered congratulations. Russell’s new heart replaced a diseased heart on August 24, 1968, at the Medical College of Virginia.
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Louis B. Russell Jr
Russell
John Annick
Milwaukee
Edward Rigden
Annick
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Providence Forge
Medical College of Virginia
Mc Govern criticizes Nixon on elderly neglect in campaign paper
Senator George S. Mc Govern accuses the Nixon administration of neglecting the elderly except to win election votes. He unveils a campaign white paper as he begins a four day national tour after touring flood devastation in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He plans a Texas meeting with Lyndon B. Johnson and a Chicago stop with Mayor Richard J. Daley.
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George S. McGovern
Nixon
Protests Quiet as GOP Gala Draws Crowd in Miami Beach
Police and protesters faced off along a line of night sticks after a day of street action tied to the Republican National Convention. About 4,000 demonstrators gathered in Flamingo Park while 1,000 National Guard troops and 2,500 Army paratroopers stood by, unused.
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National Guard
South Vietnamese Drive Aims to Block North Vietnamese Reinforcement
Three thousand South Vietnamese troops push to stop a North Vietnamese division from exiting the Que Son Valley toward the coastal lowlands south of Da Nang. U S Air Force reports spotting 130 mm guns and tanks near Que Son. F4 Phantoms destroyed three guns and two tanks, the closest heavy weapons sighted to Da Nang.
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Toll Rains Meat 368 Deaths In South Korea Floods
Seoul reports 368 dead and 66 missing as record rains trigger landslides in the central north. Officials say the storm dumped more than 17 inches of rain, the heaviest in 47 years, with Seoul hardest hit and fears rising toward past tragedies.
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