Kansas Highway Setup Aims to Merge Ten Departments
A reorganized department would absorb ten of the Kansas Highway Commission's functions, including information, purchasing, personnel, accounting, and more. The plan seeks to create an administrative state highway engineer and streamline operations, the Roads and Highways Committee reports.
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Highway Commission
Legislative Council
Traffic and Safety Department
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Needy Families On Adoption List For Christmas
A county effort lists 52 families and individuals in need for Christmas adoptions. The Chamoe County office acts as clearing house with food clothing and gifts from volunteers, including veterans and single parents, to supply 38 remaining cases.
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County Welfare
Episcopal Churen
Chanute School
Vwrn
Chamor Ae
Food Ber of Commerce Office
Titan 3A launches test satellite from ocean platform
A Titan 3A rocket lifted from its launch pad at 11 52 am for a test flight to place a dummy satellite into orbit about 115 miles above the earth. The transtage would release a 3750 pound cylinder satellite above the Gulf of Mexico after one orbit, with future missions expected to rely on this payload concept.
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PE Kennedy
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Cuba
Dwight Blackwood
Titan 3A
Charles Win-mented
Frey
Chanute
Winfrey
Chestnut Grant
Dean Sutcliffe
Read
Bruce Burris
U.S. Jun’ of
Chamber of Commerce
Opiff
Cates
Lucy Gades
Grace Stipp
Bill Duhon
Danny Weaver
Howard
Eldon Doane
Stipp
Ly Will
Sutcliffe
Tax Revenue Shares by County in Kansas Distribution
The $850 206 cigarette tax revenue distribution for the quarter ending Nov 30 allocates 7594 10 to Neosho county 6733 66 to Allen 5619 88 to Wilson and 2046 99 to Woodson County. State treasurer Walter H Peery released the summary by mail.
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Kansas
Neosho County
Allen
Wilson
Woodson County
Walter H. Peery
Kiwanis Fund Helps Chanute School System Purchase Autometer
The Chanute Kiwanis Club, led by Cliff Erickson, donated funds for an Autometer hearing device for area schools. Mrs. Margaret Wood, nurse, noted the new instrument replaces an older model and has screened over 12,000 students in second, fourth, and sixth grades, detecting several severed auditory nerves and enabling earlier intervention.
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Iwanis
Chanute
Tem
Kiwanis
Cliff Erick
Kiwanis Club
Margaret Wood
Buford Fisher
Nute
Central Park Ice Rink Planned for January
Cha nute Recreation Commission outlines plans to build a 50 by 100 foot ice rink in the Central Park pavilion with plastic base and three inches of ice, weather permitting, starting January 4 and ready by January 6. Water from the fire department will form the ice overnight, with the pavilion roof helping preserve it when temperatures rise.
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Central Park
New York
Chac’ Nute
Chanute
Board of Education
Chanute Recreation Commission
Park Pavilion
Robot Cracks Holdup Case Through Punch Card Note
Los Angeles AP report details a robbery case where a punch card served as a stool pigeon in a theft at a telephone company office. Flor ia Ferguson identified suspect Arthur C. Moore from photos after receiving a threatening note and handing over $76 in cash last month.
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Los Angeles
Mar
Floria Ferguson
Arthur C. Moore
Ferguson
Moore
Telephone bill leads detectives to Moore’s door
Detectives traced a torn name from punch-card holes in a telephone bill found at the scene. The bill, run through the company computer, revealed the name and address of Moore. Moore denied robbing Miss Jamnioan cryupun and blamed his wife for leaving with the phone while he kept the bill.
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Moore
Jamnioan
Three Youths Sentenced to Reformatory Terms at Hutchinson
In district court at Hutchinson three youths received reformatory sentences. Mark Kent Johnson of Chanute, Glen Winston Hyatt of Perry Oklahoma, and Kenneth Larry Young of Kansas City Kansas were found guilty on theft and related charges. Johnson faced 5 to 10 years for burglary, up to 5 years for larceny, up to 5 years for grand larceny, and up to 2 years for jail escape, all to run concurrently. Hyatt and Young received up to 5 years each for grand larceny in a tire theft case. Suspended sentence options were denied.
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Mark Kent Johnson
Chanute
Glen Winston Hyatt
Perry
Okla
Kenneth Larrry Young
Kansas City
Kan
Johnson
Erie
Severe Weather Forecast For Central Mid America
AP reports a severe weather forecast covering southeast Kansas southwest Missouri northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Forecasters expect a few severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and one or two tornadoes Thursday from 2 p m to 8 p m CST within about 60 miles of a line from 60 miles southwest of McAlester Oklahoma to Joplin Missouri.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
McAlester
Okla
Joplin
Percy the gentle bulldog at Kansas City shelter
Percy, a long time resident at the Kansas City Municipal Animal Shelter, is described as a gentle, well treated dog despite his history as a prisoner and fugitive from an assault. Shelter workers praise his calm nature and note he shares his bunk with two cats.
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Kansas City
Percy
Ruth Coft
Boeing Wichita to lay off 3000 workers in 90 days
Boeing plant in Wichita announced plans to lay off about 3,000 employees within the next 90 days. The move comes amid corporate belt tightening and economic slowdown affecting the region.
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Wichita, Kan
Boeing
Wichita
War on poverty hit by base closures and layoffs
Intercepted letter cites Salina air base closing and Boeing plans to lay off 3000 workers in Wichita as signs that the war on poverty is faltering.
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Salina
Wichita
Boeing
Debate on Birch Ends in an Argument at Kansas City
A four person Birch Society debate at Ruskin High School drew 400 to 500 attendees as Father Hingston and Rev Bruce Rahjen argued that the group is extremist yet patriotic while Robert D. Love and Robert J. Hatch defended it as a national movement.
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Kansas City
St. Paul School of
Allen Hing
John Birch Society
All Saints
Episcopal Church
Kansas
City
Ruskin High School
Society
Soci
Bruce Rahijen
Council
Father Hingston
Rahjen
Robert Welch
Welch
National Council of Churches
Hatch
Love
Birch Society
Pa Rahtjen
America
Rahtjen
Hitler
Kansas urges area districts for new community junior colleges
Kansas Legislative Council backs a state wide plan to create a community junior college system on an area district basis. It proposes 22 post high school education areas with one unit per area and allows existing junior colleges to reorganize or terminate within five years. The plan, stemming from an advisory group, now moves to the 1965 legislative session for action.
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Topeka
Kansas Legislative Council
Council
Weather Area Forecast For Topeka and Kansas
Slow soaking rains spread across eastern and southern Kansas with western areas clear. Cloudy tonight with light rain and a little colder Friday, high around 40, lows near 30s. Temperatures Wednesday ranged 39 in Garden City to 58 in Pittsburg, early lows 20 to 42.
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Topeka
Kansas
Texas
Garden City
Hutchinson
Pittsburg
Goodland
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