Geologist Urges Crash Program For Oil Reserves
Michel T Halbouty urged a crash program to explore for new oil and gas reserves. He called for halting offshore leases, tripling onshore exploration, and unitization of fields to boost production. He warned of a looming shortage absent rapid action by states and industry leaders.
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Associated Press
Phoenix, Ariz
Michel T. Halbouty
Houston
Tex
Halbouty
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
The
Ameri
Halboury
Adm
Onnie P. Lattu
Interior Department
Office of Oil and Gas
Eisenhower Exercises Comfort After Gallbladder Operation
Washington AP reports former President Dwight D. Eisenhower has risen from bed and sat in a chair for 25 minutes at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Brig. Gen. Mallory said Ike remains in satisfactory condition, with IV feeding and no visitors except family. Doctors cited potential gallbladder involvement and noted gradual convalescence with hopes to leave before Christmas.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Philip W. Mallory
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Gen. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Mallory
Walter Reed
Johnson
Ruby Cancer Too Advanced For Surgery In Dallas
Dr. Jack Barnett said Jack Ruby's cancer has progressed beyond surgical cure. Chemotherapy offers the only potential treatment, with radiology ruled out due to widespread disease. A new tumor was found in the chest pleura, same cancer type as a neck lymph node.
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Dallas, Tex
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Jack Barnett
Barnett
Southwestern Medical School
Parkland Hospital
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
President Kennedy
City Planners Schedule December Planning Commission Meeting
The City Planning Commission will meet tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Memorial building to discuss a public hearing on the proposed rezoning of the shopping center area on South Plummer.
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City Planning Commission
Memorial Building
South Plummer
City approves street work and 120000 industrial bond
City commission moves ahead with street improvement near the new junior college and authorizes 120000 industrial revenue bonds for Screw Conveyor Manufacturing plant south of highway K39. Bonds issued Dec 1 will be repaid by rental payments. 28 percent local share. remaining cost borne by county and private owners. Also appointed Mrs Lillard Parks to recreation commission and revoked Orley Barker’s malt beverage license after a minor sales conviction. Invocation by Rev. E M Pearson.
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Wichita
Don Cartter
Lawrence
City of Chanute
Lillard Parks
Gretchen
City Recreation Commission
Orley Barker
Orley
N. Grant
Traffic Fatalities Log Released for December 1966
Kansas traffic death log shows 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Tuesday with 24 fatalities for December 1966, compared to 69 in 1965. One death was previously unreported, bringing the total to 24 for the period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Reveals Medicare Forms Query
The intercepted note asks if Ike is having trouble filling out his Medicare forms. It quotes a brief greeting and signs off with Yours.
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Cha
Ike
Bombing Mishap Kills Two Civilians Near Hue
A U S warplane dropping a bomb short of its target killed two Vietnamese civilians and injured one in Thon-Phu Gin village 30 miles southwest of Hue. The incident came amid heavy air activity with 99 missions launched in North Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Thon-Phu Gin
Hue
North Vietnam
Navy
Haiphong
Bomber Crash Fatal To Three Crewmen
An Air Force B58 bomber returning from a seven hour practice run crashed into a hillside east of Hustonville Kentucky. All three crewmen were killed including Maj. Richard F. Blakeslee Capt. Floyd E. Acker and Capt. Clarence D. Lunt. The crash produced a screaming popping sound as wreckage flew 400 feet. Investigators recovered one body in an ejection seat and found personal effects of the others.
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Hustonville
Air Force
Here
Bunker Hill Air Force Base
Ind
Richard F. Blakeslee
Mentor-on-the-Lake
Ohio
Floyd E. Acker
Dixon, Ill
Clarence D. Lunt
Williamsport
Weather: Mild, dry with 50s to 20s across Kansas
The Topeka forecast calls for clear dry weather statewide with highs of 50 to 55 degrees and overnight lows in the 20s. A high pressure area west of Kansas will keep mild conditions with southwest winds 10 to 20 mph through Wednesday.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Baxter Springs Crash Claims Galena Woman
Mrs. Nell E. Rohrbaugh, 75, of Galena, Kansas, died Monday night when her car collided with a station wagon on U.S. 66 a mile north of Baxter Springs. The other driver, Morris L. Cooper, 35, of Miami Oklahoma, was seriously injured and hospitalized.
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Baxter Springs
Kan
Nell E. Rohrbaugh
Galena
U.S. 66
Morris L. Cooper
Miami
Okla
Feasibility Study Outlines 3 Kansas Turnpikes
Engineers and traffic experts presented feasibility reports for three Kansas turnpike segments from Kansas City to Galena, Baxter Springs to Wichita, and Wichita to Hays. Costs range from 81 to 91 million dollars per segment with bond needs up to 102 million. total project cost about 256 million with 297 million bonds. Early years would see deficits, while overall results show eventual surpluses to repay initial losses, contingent on state financial backing and tolls around 1.9 to 2.1 cents per mile.
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Topeka
Kansas
William H. Avery
Kansas City
Galena
Kansas-Missouri State Line
Baxter Springs
Wichita
Hays
Howard, Needles, Tammen and
Bergendorf
Easter Springs
Wichita-Hays
Robert Duncan
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Kansas City-Galena
Wichita- Hays
Wichita-Baxter Springs
Wilburn Smith and Associates
Duncan
New York
Turnpike Authority
Highway Meeting Tomorrow in Parsons Southeast Kansas
Chanute plans to send at least one carload of representatives to the Southeast Kansas Highway Association annual meeting at the Parsonian Hotel in Parsons. State legislators and area highway officials will attend the 7 30 dinner. The Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors hold a semi monthly breakfast at Hart's Cafe at 7 00 a.m.
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Chanute
Parsons
Southeast Kansas Highway Association
Parsonian Hotel
Chamber of Commerce Office
Chamber of Commerce
Hart’s Cafe
Salem man killed in second crash at same corner
Samual Davis, 67, who had been released from the hospital a month earlier after a car strike, was fatally hit by a second vehicle at the same Salem intersection on Monday night.
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Salem
Ore
Samual Davis
Davis
Helicopter Crashes Off California Navy Destroyer
One body was recovered and nine Navy men were missing after a jet powered Sea Knight helicopter crashed four miles from its destination near the assault ship Tripoli, 34 miles offshore. Lt. Lawrence P. Beam, 25, of Imperial Beach, was found. expansive air sea search ongoing.
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San Diego
Calif
Navy
Tripoli
J.g
Lawrence P. Beam
Imperial Beach
New Realities Call for Foreign Policy Changes
Former Gov. Alf M. Landon argues world shifts require the United States, the Soviet Union and China to reshape policy. He cites Sino-Soviet split, rising Chinese power, nonalignment, welfare-state ideas, and new nationalism as challenges and urges freer trade and a reassessment of Asia policy plus Manila conference fallout.
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Manhattan
Kan
Alf M. Landon
United States
Soviet Union
China
Landon
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas State University
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
White House
John F. Kennedy
George W. Romney
Michigan
Ronald W. Reagan
California
Ralph E. McGill
Atlanta, Ga
Congress
Johnson
Manila
Vietnam
Asia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
America
Europe
Africa
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