TB Hospital Here Serves 24 Counties
Dr James Brown reports the TB hospital in Chanute serves 24 counties including Sedgwick Wyandotte and Cherokee with about 2981 examined and 1273 admissions in fiscal year 1962. The program uses Isoniazid to prevent active tuberculosis and notes rising drug resistant cases nationwide. Total operating costs for 1962 reached 452683 with salaries 331863 and 60 beds occupied by June 1962.
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James Brown
Kansas
Brown
Losis
Chamber of Commerce
Chanute
Hos
City of
Pirates Strike Central Cuba Castros Claims Aimed at US
Havana reports two attacks this week by counterrevolutionaries in central Cuba. A militiaman was killed near Jaguey Grande in Matanzas Province and a political official with him was wounded in a jeep ambush. A seaborne raid near Caibarien wounded no one. Castro ties incidents to U S backed groups and presses five points demand.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Jaguey Grande
Matanzas
Caibarien
Las Villas
San Francisco Beach
United Nations
Fidel Castro
Caribbean
Castro
U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base
Revolution
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Lazaro Gonzalez
Bay of Pigs
Happier Christmas By Santa's Helpers
Santa's Helpers, active for 20 years, will aid baskets and needy families at Christmas by supplying shoes clothing eyeglasses and other necessities. Funds are raised by contributions and administered with aid from The Tribune and First National Bank.
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Santa’s Helpers
Ralph Willcott
Willcott
Santa
The
Tribune
Larry Wilson
First National Bank
Columbus Officer At Memorial Event
Columbus police chief Carl Christiansen will visit Pearl Harbor to attend memorial services at the USS Arizona sinking site. His brother Eddie also was aboard the Arizona and did not escape. community funding covered travel expenses.
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Columbus
Kan
Carl Christiansen
Pearl Harbor
Arizona
Eddie
Eddie Christiansen
Christiansen
Traffic Fatalities Intercepted Letter Dear ChaHeadline
Kansas traffic figures show deaths during the holidays and yearend period. The AP report notes counts for December 4 and 1962 with prior year comparisons, reflecting the impact of the season on fatal accidents.
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Topeka
Kansas
Two Escapees Recaptured Near Hutchinson
Two convicts escaped from the Reno County jail atop the courthouse, stunning a jailer, then were recaptured southwest of Hutchinson. Benny McGinnis of Fort Worth Texas surrendered after being flushed from a ditch. Harold Griffin of Topeka was spotted in a stubble field and ordered to surrender. Both were jailed awaiting trial on charges tied to a reformatory incident. Griffin had escaped and McGinnis is accused of assaulting a guard.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Reno County
Benny McGinnis
Fort Worth
Tex
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Dick Peckenschneider
Kansas Highway Patrol
Embezzlement Charged in Pittsburg Case
Raymond L. Brooks aged 44 of Pittsburg Kansas was arrested in Johnson County on a warrant charging embezzlement for failing to return a rented air hammer. He posted a 1000 dollar bond.
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Clathe
Kan
Raymond L. Brooks
Pittsburg
Johnson County
2 500 Students Receive Oral Polio Vaccine
A district drive immunized more than 2,500 students and staff across Chanute junior college Hutton Roosevelt and St Patrick's complexes. Centers reported high participation with most schools reaching or near 100 percent enrollment given the rapid administration and completion within minutes.
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Chanute Star Junior College
Hutton School
St. of Sugar
Patrick's
Hutton
Roosevelt
St. Pat- High
Royster
Lincoln
Murray Hill
Alcott
St. Patrick's
Christmas adoption list aids 50 needy families
The Chamber of Commerce acts as a clearing house for Christmas adoptions with a verified 50 name list. Some families already adopted. welfare and school nurse Margaret Wood verified needs and may add names with proper welfare approval.
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Fice
Fare Department
Margaret Wood
Device Saves Government Thousands
Walton Missouri AP Bill Jack Harmon an Atchison County ASCS supervisor received a 765 award from the U S Department of Agriculture for a plastic funnel 20 cent that redirects vent exhaust to prevent moisture in stored grain The measure saves about 20 000 yearly in Atchison County by stopping grain rot and top bin stirring costs The award is the largest ASCS Missouri grant of this kind reported up to now.
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Walton
Bill Jack Harmon
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Harmon
Atchison County
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Commodity Credit Corp
CCC
ASCS
Missouri
Missouri Couple Killed Crossing Highway at Meade
Oliver N. May 69 and Olive May 68 were struck by a car while crossing U S 54 at the west edge of Meade Kansas. The driver Hugh W. Ford 57 Amarillo Texas was not held. Both victims died instantly and were en route to Phoenix Arizona after stopping for the night.
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Amarillo
Tex
Ford
Kansas State Gets $1,514,000 Dormitory Loan
The Community Facilities Administration announces a $1,514,000 loan to Kansas State University to fund a six story dormitory for 600 students and cafeteria additions, with $650,000 of university funds contrib
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Washington
Community Facilities Administration
Kansas State University
Navy Fails To Rid Midway Of Gooney Birds After Forty Years
At Midway Island the U S Navy battles a stubborn albatross population blamed for aircraft damage and runway chaos. Despite help from wildlife services and universities, efforts from mothballs to mortars failed as gooney birds persist, return yearly, and cost the Navy about 150 000 in aircraft parts annually.
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Pearl Harbor
U.S. Navy
Midway Island
Navy
Brass
Pacific Atoll
Way
North Pacific
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
University of Hawaii
Audubon Society
Midway
Island Service
Aleutians
Big Crea
Green Island
Temperatures Moderate After Freeze Across Kansas
Topeka reports a moderating temperature trend after a hard freeze left teens and twenties across Kansas. Morning lows ranged from 18 at Abilene and Lawrence to 25 in Dodge City Wichita and Pittsburg. Daytime highs were expected to reach the 40s in the east and 50s in the west with a warmer Thursday before a late Friday cold snap.
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Topeka
Kansas
Abilene
Lawrence
Dodge City
Wichita
Pittsburg
Olathe
Hill City
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Igirls
Giis
Mr. Pleasant Church
Winnon Pam
Erie
Neosho County
Hutton, Alcott
City Hall
Sabin
Salk
Meade
Kansas State
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