Weston Illinois chosen for 375 million atom smasher
The Atomic Energy Commission selected Weston Illinois near Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory as the site for a 200 billion electron volt proton accelerator. The project aims to be the world’s most powerful instrument for fundamental research with a planned one mile main ring and eight year construction timeline.
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Washington
Weston
Ill
Atomic Energy Commission
National Academy of Sciences
Commission
AEC
Glenn T. Seaborg
Chicago
Argonne National Laboratory
Congress
Weather notes and Kansas forecast highs for Saturday
An area forecast says general fair weather will persist through Saturday with a warmer spell. Low tonight 20 to 25 with highs in the mid 50s and light variable winds. fog should lift by noon as a dry high pressure system moves across Kansas.
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Topeka
Gulf Coast
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Garden City
Russell
Salina
Abilene
Pittsburg
Fire kills 3 year old in Horton bedroom blaze
A Horton fire killed Karen Richling, 3, trapped in an upstairs bedroom. Her mother and eight siblings were home. the others escaped unharmed while Mrs. Richling suffered minor burns. Fire officials could not determine the blaze cause.
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Horton, Kan
Karen Richling
Herold Richling
Traffic Fatalities Log Report For Kansas
Kansas traffic death log covers 24 hours to 9 a.m. Friday December 29 1966 with 2 fatalities, compares to 29 fatalities in the same period of 1966 and 25 in 1965 per AP tally for Topeka.
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Topeka
Kansas
Finlands World War I debts Paid Off
An intercepted letter shows a message from someone to Cha. It notes Uncle Sam’s other debtors likely mock Finland for settling its World War I obligations. The tone implies relief and pride in debt repayment.
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Uncle Sam
Little
Finland
Escapee Lamb Sought After Fort Scott Chase
Police stake out the Lamb home in Fort Scott Kansas as 25 year old escapee Thomas Lamb remains at large after a high speed chase ends with a wreck. Bloodhounds track him to an alley behind his parents house while officers from eight counties and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation assist the manhunt. Lamb had escaped from Lansing penitentiary by threatening a clerk and forced his way into a car in Kansas City before fleeing toward Columbia Missouri.
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Charles Lamb
Thomas Lamb
Lamb
Fort Scott
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Springfield
Nevada
Lansing
Kansas City
Jessie Bowyer
Bowyer
Columbia
Pullman Dining Car Service Restored on Oil Flyer Trains
Santa Fe Railway announces experimental restoration of Pullman and dining-car service on Oil Flyer trains Nos. 47 and 48 between Tulsa and Chicago. Service starts Chicago Sunday and Tulsa Monday, following requests from Tulsa and other towns. Tulsa to Kansas City leg runs 7 10 p.m. north and 3 20 a.m. south. A Pullman car with roomettes and bedrooms will be added. a lounge diner will operate between Tulsa and Kansas City.
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Tulsa
Chicago
Santa Fe Railway
The
Tribune
James Hegley
Kansas City
Post Office to Skip Sunday Service on Holidays
Buffalo postmaster George E. Cox said the office will have no Sunday service December 18 or on Christmas Day. Sundays and all holidays will have special delivery service.
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Buffalo
George E. Cox
IRS Shifts Focus From Hounds To Helpful Service
The IRS plans a banner change stressing service and courtesy. Commissioner Sheldon Cohen says, after criticizing past emphasis on chasing delinquents, the agency will target both compliant taxpayers and volunteers who pay over 100 billion annually.
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Cohen
IRS
Helicopter Lands At Local Motel Atop Lawn
Two Tulsa pilots Kenneth Turner and Charles Crowley of Southwestern Bell Telephone inspected long distance wires in the Parsons Chanute area and landed the helicopter on the La Rosa motel lawn on north Santa Fe yesterday around 4 p.m. They said aerial checks occur twice yearly as they traveled to Iola and Garnett.
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Tulsa
North Santa Fe
Tribune
Doy Hampton
Charles Crowley
Kenneth Turner
la Rosa
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Parsons-Chanute
Iola
Garnett
U.S. Denies Bombing Inside Hanoi Amid Claims
In Saigon the U.S. says it did not strike Hanoi on Tuesday or Wednesday. Weather limited missions over the North to 58, with Haiphong raids and several strikes near Dien Bien Phu. The U.S. Command reports all ordnance fell in military targets near Hanoi, while noting a Soviet antiaircraft missile strike incident near the city.
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South Vietnam
Hanoi
North
Haiphong
North Vietnam
U.S
Dien Bien Phu
Churches Plan Christmas Programs Across the Week
Local and area churches present Christmas services and nativity dramas this week. First Presbyterian and First Christian host early evening events, with Evangelical United Brethren and several Baptist churches at 7 30. The Nazarene and Assembly of God offer morning programs and evening worships, while Zion Lutheran stages an outdoor living nativity Wednesday and Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. Further Christmas Eve and Day plans will be announced next week.
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Christ
First Presbyterian
First Christian Church
Evangelical United Brethren
Grant Avenue Baptist
Westview Baptist
New Hope Baptist
First Baptist
First Assembly of God
First Methodist
Zion Lutheran
Injuries Fatal To Yates Center Man
Edwin Runyan 70 of Yates Center died in an Iola hospital from injuries suffered in a two car accidents on a county road northeast of Yates Center December 9.
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Yates Center
Iola
Kan
Edwin Runyan
Tribune Phone Contact Details
If you cannot reach your Tribune contact, try calling your carrier. If unavailable, dial HE 1-3400 after 4 p.m.
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Tribune
World War I Debt Owed to U S Near 40 Billion
The World War I debt owed to the United States by the rest of the world rose by 337 million in interest in the last fiscal year, totaling about 21.03 billion as of June 30. Only Finland has kept current on payments. three countries have paid off some principal, with Britain owing the most but having repaid about two billion of an original four point eight billion loan.
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Washington
United States
Finland
Cuba
Liberia
Nicaragua
Germany
Great Britain
Mail Flood From Ads Sparks Senate Hearing on Pornography
A Senate subcommittee heard that a crime investigator’s reply to two girlie magazine ads led to seven years of mailed solicitations mainly for sex oriented ads. 419 pieces of mail were received between 1959 and 1966, implicating profiteers who sell lists of names, harming youth and the nation.
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Washington
Senate
Alvin J. T. Zumbrun
Maryland Crime Investigating Commission
Hawking
Wichita Woman Shot to Death at Liquor Store
In Wichita AP report Verna Lewis a 59 year old woman was shot in the back of the head during an apparent robbery at her liquor store. Her body was found in the back room with bottles toppled and money on the floor.
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Wichita
Verna Lewis
Couple Found Dead In Russell Home
Russell County coroner Dr. Gerald Starkey said a man and his wife, both about 43, were found shot in their Russell home Thursday night. Mrs Nahon reportedly killed her husband with a 16 gauge shotgun then killed herself in what authorities call murder and death by own action.
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Russell, Kan
Russell
Gerald Starkey
Russell County
Coll Nahon
FAA funds assign $143 582 to Tri City Airport Parsons
Five Kansas cities share a total of $307 757 for airport construction. The largest grant goes to Tri City Airport Parsons for improvements, with Concordia Blesser Municipal receiving 23 000, Emporia Municipal 32 021, Oswego Municipal 30 313, and Wichita Municipal 78 840.
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Washington
Kansas
Federal Aviation Agency
Parsons
Concordia
Blesser Municipal
Emporia Municipal
Oswego Municipal
Wichita Municipal
Kansas Names Pepper Rodgers Football Coach
Lawrence Pepper Rodgers was named head football coach at the University of Kansas. Rodgers, 35, comes from UCLA where he was backfield coach, with prior stops at Florida Air Force Academy and Virginia. Wade Stinson announced the appointment at a news conference.
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Franklin C
Pepper
Rodgers
University of Kansas
UCLA
Florida
Air Force Academy
University of Virginia
Wade Stinson
Jack Mitchell
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