Neosho Memorial Hospital Opens Three New Wings Open House
Neosho Memorial Hospital in Neosho invites area residents to an open house Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. to view three new wings including obstetrics with two delivery rooms a labor room and patient wing with 22 beds and an administration wing. Guides led by doctors nurses and trustees will describe facilities and a booklet History of Medicine will be available along with visitor identification cards. Children under 16 are not permitted to visit hospitals.
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Walter Poor
Neosho County
Thearea
Te Boi
J. D. Gough
Glen Dormois
Itor
Dormois
Hugh T. Jones
Milo T. Jones
Frank C. Dixon
Deadline Missed by Communist Party Leaders in US
Washington AP reports officers of the Communist party failed to meet the Internal Security Act registration deadline. Attorney General Kennedy said the Justice Department will enforce the law, with penalties of up to 10,000 dollars per day for the party and for officers who defy the provisions.
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Washington
Communist Party
United States
Justice Department
Party
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
School Units In Parades In Chanute Area Towns
Three Chanute area school marching units are set for Christmas parades tomorrow. The Royster Junior High band and drum and bugle corps will join Coffeyville's parade, while the Royster Senior High drum corps will march in Columbus. Coffeyville and Columbus parades start at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
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Chanute School
Royster Junior High
Royster
Coffeyville
Columbus
Joplin
Left Hand Pitch Bill Hunt Designs Churchill Birthday Card
Bill Hunt son of the Rev and Mrs William T Hunt 110 S Tennessee designed a birthday card for Sir Winston Churchill marking his 87th birthday in England. Hunt an artist for Hallmark was commissioned by Joyce Hall Kansas City to create five watercolor panels for the greeting. Hunt attended Chanute schools and college in Memphis.
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Bill Hunt
William T. Hunt
Tennessee
Sir Winston Churchill
England
Sir Winston
Joyce Hall
Hallmark Greeting Card Company of
Kansas City
Hunt
Hallmark
Hall
Chanute
Memphis
His
Mr. Hunt
The
Presbyterian Church
Soviets Press to Seat Peiping at United Nations
The Soviet Union demanded immediate seating of Red China at the UN replacing Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. Valerian Zorin blamed the United States for the impasse and urged action to end what he called the American occupation of Taiwan, promising Communist support from allied nations.
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United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
China
Valerian A. Zorin
United States
Peiping
Chiang Kai-shek
Zorin
General Assembly
Taiwan
Tingfu F. Tsiang
Pleasant weekend forecast for Kansas and Topeka region
Dry and warm weather returned to Kansas with a pleasant weekend outlook. Northeastern and western sections cleared. central and southeast may see lingering clouds and fog. Highs today mid 50s to 60s, lows 30s to 40s. Thursday highs 42 Topeka, 57 Goodland, 59 Garden City. overnight lows 25 Goodland to 46 Pittsburg.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Garden City
Pittsburg
Traffic Fatalities Log Reveals 1961 Toll At 489
The Topeka AP dispatch reports daily traffic death tallies with 489 fatalities for 1961 through the year to date. It compares 1960’s figure at 466 and notes a 24 hour window ending Friday 9 am showing two deaths.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wakefield Faces Major Changes From Milford Reservoir Plan
Wakefield in Clay County will be affected as Milford Reservoir on the Republican River is built, relocating about two thirds of the town to higher ground. A crossing over the reservoir will be built at Ft Riley with possible rerouting of K82 and K15. progress depends on Army and state approvals and future extension decisions.
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Topeka
Wakefield
Clay County
U. S. 77
William H. Avery
Corps of Engineers
Army At
Ft. Riley
The
Highway Commission
Milford
Republican River
Avery
Violence erupts as troops fire on demonstrators in Santo Domingo
In Santo Domingo Dominican Republic troops opened fire on protesters calling for President Balaguer’s ouster wounding three women and a boy with reports of a killed man. The National Civic Union urged continuing the four day general strike while a military proposal to place Balaguer in a ruling junta faced rejection.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Joaquin Balaguer
National Civic Union
Santo
Balaguer
Civic Union
Viriato A. Fiallo
Santiago
National Palace
Congress
Trujillo
Soviets halt nine U S Army vehicles on Berlin autobahn
Soviet forces on the Berlin autobahn stopped nine U S Army vehicles for 1 hour 14 minutes during a convoy move from Berlin to West Germany. A paperwork error in the order caused the delay. Capt. Harry Daniels corrected the documents and the convoy proceeded without further incident.
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Berlin
Soviet Union
West Berlin
East Germany
West Germany
U.S
Tass
U.S. Army
November fire losses cited in Chanute report
Fire chief Bill Brennan reported November losses of 100 dollars with eleven fire runs in the month. Through November the total fire runs reached 148, while year to date losses stood at 46,489 dollars.
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Chanute
Bill Brennan
Big Creek
Coolidge Man Dies In Truck Crash
Bert McCabe aged 39 of Coolidge was killed when a pickup hit a concrete bridge on U S 50 west of Coolidge. Passenger William Howard Thompson 19 of Lamar Colorado suffered a fractured leg while Richard Barlow 29 of Coolidge was not hurt.
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Coolidge, Kas
Bert McCabe
Coolidge
U.S. 50
William Howard Thompson
Lamar
Colo
Richard Barlow
Senator Requests Inquiry Into State Mental Institutions
State Senator Joe Warren urged Gov. John Anderson to launch an investigation into the Department of Institutional Management amid controversy over Winfield Hospital and Training Center. He accused officials of neglect and mismanagement, called for a qualified leader, and cited the Menninger Foundation as a benchmark.
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Maple City
Kas
Joe Warren
John Anderson
Department of Institutional Management
Winfield
Warren
Board of Social Welfare
Christian Kole
Legislative Committee
Anderson
Menningers
Menninger Foundation of
Topeka
Electric Bill Paid For Christmas Cheer in Kenyon
In Kenyon Minnesota the Municipal Utilities Commission has stamped the November electric bill as paid giving residents a Christmas present. Officials say lower total costs this year allow the commission to pass along more than 10000 dollars in savings to customers.
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Kenyon, Minn
Minnesota
Municipal Utilities Commission
Patent Suit Filed Asking $11 Million
Gerald H. Oppenheimer of Kansas City sues International Business Machines for up to $11 million in damages alleging infringement of his automatic stock inventory invention for automobile dealers. The petition filed in U.S. District Court says IBM tested the system in 1959 canceled the agreement and began selling a variation.
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Kansas City
Kan
Gerald H. Oppenheimer
International Business Machines Corp
Oppenheimer
U.S
IBM
Steel Box Burial To End Centennial
A steel time capsule of 18 inches will be buried at the Kansas State Capitol Rotunda with a bronze plaque. Sealed for 100 years, it holds a centennial medal coins programs seal song poem events calendar the Statehood Day address script and the governor proclamation pen. Opening in 2061, the box marks the end of Kansas centennial activities as the Centennial Commission closes.
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Topeka
Kansas State Sion
Roger D. Kirkwood
The
Centennial Commission
Capitol Rotunda
John Cameron Swaze
Kirkwood
Louis Thompson
Pittsburg
Fort Scott
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Earl Miller
Erie
Dwight H. Wallingford
Hugh T. Jones, Jr
Virgil Mix
Stark
Donald Ray
Neosho
Cecessadenne
M. Oveseawedwaten
Corps
5Th Army
Army
Patti Arnold
Patti
W. C. Arnold
S. Kansas
Chanute High School
Future Farmers of America
Island Republic
the Civic Union
Centennial Project
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