Brando Escorted Off Flight Then Allowed Back Aboard
A man in beard and pigtail caused a stir on National Airlines Flight 64 to Miami when a stewardess feared the Cuba question he posed. He was escorted off but Marlon Brando reboarded after an agent recognized him. Brando refused to fly again, his attorney saying the Cuba remark was a offhand joke.
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Los Angeles
National Airlines
Miami
Fla
Barbara Self
Cuba
Miss Self
Gerald White
Marlon Brando
Brando
Norman Garey
Explosion Wrecks Wichita School Furnace Room
A gas fired furnace room blast at a Seventh Day Adventist grade school in southwest Wichita injures one person, tears down a wall, and blows off the roof as about 100 pupils await dismissal. Official cause unknown and gas boiler did not explode.
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Wichita
Seventh Day Adventist
Dalton Athey
Surprises for Agents Under New Firearms Law
In Kansas City ATU agents faced a new federal law effective Dec 1 that makes it a felony to possess unregistered sawed off shotguns machine guns and certain destructive devices. In one Kansas City case a man dumped hand grenades and began dismantling them to prove they were harmless and unregistered. In Joplin Missouri a caller sent a large envelope with a note claiming to refuse registration and offering the weapon for disposal referencing David and Goliath.
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Kansas City
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit
ATTU
Joplin
David
Goliath
Little Change Forecast Ahead
A brief weather note reports little change in conditions with steady temperatures and light winds. No significant storms or rainfall expected, keeping outdoor plans largely unchanged for the forecast period.
Neosho County Junior College 1936 origins and growth
The Chanute based junior college began in 1936 after a fire destroyed the initial building. Enrollment grew from 192 in 1937 to 291 in 1939 with a football team and a black panther mascot, expanding countywide by 1965 under a state system of community colleges.
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Martha Allen
Neosho County
Chanute Board of Education
Kansas
Chanute Junior College
Elim
Memorial
Black Panther
JuCo Players
Ymca Ywca
Weather forecast for Kansas turns cold into weekend
Clear to partly cloudy conditions with small temperature changes into tonight and Saturday. Highs Saturday about 40 to 45 with lows tonight around 20. Fair and cold weather forecast statewide as high pressure builds and Arctic air remains over Kansas. Lows tonight about 15 to 20 in the north and 20 to 25 in the south.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Plains
Clark calls Tribune report on violence reformulation false
Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark denounces a Chicago Tribune claim that the President's Commission on Violence report was rewritten by the Justice Department. He confirms advance copies were reviewed but says changes were only to delete comments on cases under investigation.
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Washington (Ap
Ramsey Clark
Justice Department
Clark
Chicago Tribune
Daniel Walker
Washington
The
Tribune
Army to Demobilize 20,000 Guardsmen and Reservists
The Army will release about 20,000 National Guardsmen and reservists from active duty about five months early. Draft calls will be increased to replace them, with boosts of around 3,000 men a month. Some releases may occur sooner if Vietnam conditions permit, and training leave will ensure replacements are ready.
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Washington
Army
Vietnam
Army Reserve
Shelling Outbreak Strikes 37 Bases and Towns
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese gunners fired 300 to 400 mortars and rockets at 37 allied bases and South Vietnamese towns in the heaviest shelling since the halt in bombing. 27 South Vietnamese killed, 104 wounded. attacks centered northwest to north of Saigon. A hamlet near An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon, saw 11 killed, 22 wounded, 25 houses burned as reinforcements moved two miles to aid defenders. Casualties on other targets undisclosed.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
An Loc
U.S
Pork Production Complex reshapes hog farming methods
The article outlines how hog production in Kansas is modernizing with technology, grading systems, and marketing strategies. It covers expert views on bargaining power, farmer organization, need for laws, and ongoing education programs as swine production grows in southeast Kansas.
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Robert Coppersmith
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Kansas
National Guard Armory
Wendell Moyer
Animal Science
Moyer
Leo Wendling
Coppersmith
Wenching
Jim Strong
Moran
District 8
Swine Producers Association
Alfred Link
Yates Center
Lloyd Helwig
Columbus
Don Sailors
Stark
Sailors
Wichita
National Pork Producers Council
Omaha
Vernon Lohmann
Erie
Neosho County
Table Shape Sore Spot In Vietnam Peace Talks
Paris AP reports the United States and North Vietnam reached at least six procedural points but expanded peace talks are delayed over table shape. The US and South Vietnam want a rectangular table with two sides for the allied and North Viet Cong delegations, while North Vietnam insists on a square table to signal Viet Cong independence.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
North
U S to Send 15 500 Troops and Four Squadrons to West Germany
Pentagon announced that about 15 500 troops and four F 4 Phantom squadrons will be sent to West Germany for January and February maneuvers. Army and Air Force units are to return after exercises, with airlift moved up to bolster NATO readiness amid tensions from Soviet actions in Europe.
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Washington
U.S
West Germany
Pentagon
Air Force
Germany
United States
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Czechoslovakia
24Th Infantry Division
Intercepted Letter Notes Hog Parlor Changes
An intercepted letter mentions that some hogs now have better parlors than the farmer did in past years. The remark reflects evolving farm conditions and modernization in hog housing.
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Ozarks
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Martin
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Kansas Reception and Diagnostic Center
Charles D. McAtee
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Joseph B. Noble
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Hutchinson
Boys Industrial School
University of Kansas
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Fairmont
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Mountaineer Coal Co
Walter Slovekosky
Slovekosky
No. 9
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