Bird Proofing Parade Route Keeps Starlings Away
Joe Fink and eight workers sprayed 100 trees along Pennsylvania Avenue with 2000 gallons of a nonpoisonous repellent he invented to deter birds. The contract guarantees four months of starling-free conditions for the Nixon inauguration route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmette
Ill
Joe Fink
Nixon
Fink
White House
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
National Bird Control Laboratory
Snow Depth Reaches Fourteen Inches Across Kansas
A Kansas storm left up to 14 inches of snow in north central areas and drifts four to five feet, closing many roads. Heaviest totals were Jewell and Mitchell counties, with significant icing and stranded motorists in McPherson. Norman Thomas, longtime Socialist candidate, dies at 84 in Huntington New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Northwestern
North Central
Jewell
Mitchell
Mankato
Hunter
McPherson
McPherson Convention Hall
Red Cross
U.S. 81
Lindsborg
MecePherson
Highway Patrol
K18
Minneapolis
Jetmore
Beloit
Osborne
Smith Center
Concordia
Belleville
Glasco
Huntington
N.Y
Norman Thomas
Hilaire Farm
Margaret Gottsegen
Visiting Ban at Neosho Memorial Hospital
Neosho Memorial Hospital will restrict visiting starting tomorrow to one immediate family member per patient. Visits should be short. Hospital administrator Glen Dormois cited spread of viruses and respiratory infections as the reason and noted no known Hong Kong flu cases in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Glen Dormois
VFEW Awards $100000 Contract for New Post Home
Cecil J. Meeker Post 1654 VFW announces a $100000 construction contract to LaForge and Budd for a 14000 square foot post home on West Main. Groundbreaking in January with completion planned for spring. building includes a 52 by 120 foot ballroom, air conditioning, staging, a bar area, kitchen, and off street parking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil J. Meeker
Veterans of Foreign Wars
LaForge and Budd
Parsons
Post
West Main
Robert E. Blackman
N. Plummer
Charute
Robert W. Reynolds Jr
Warren Fitch
Quartermaster Blackman
Paul LaForge
Payoff of Ransom Ends in Mixup
In Miami two men fled with a suitcase of about 500000 from Biscayne Bay as police intercepted a ransom plot. Officers fired at one gunman. Barbara Mackle remained missing and authorities denied any recovery. Mackle later said his daughter had not been released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Board of Police Commissioners
Kansas City
Mike Kreitler
Peggy Thurston
Merriam
Kan
Carlinville, Ill
Welfare Agency
Sherman Kline
Illinois Department of Child and Family Services
Lorraine
Frank Wildgrube
Bonnie Albracht
Carlinville
Ann Keppler
Bend, Il
Miami, Fla
Barbara Jane Mackle
Biscayne Bay
Robert Mackle
Dade County
Miami
Mackle
Key Biscayne
Barbara
Charles Price
Mackie
Florida
Atlanta
U.S. warns Viet Cong attack could derail peace talks
U.S. envoy Cyrus Vance warned that a Viet Cong assault on Saigon might block expanded peace talks and trigger renewed bombing of North Vietnam. Hanoi reporters said the secret session with Ha Van Lau produced no progress on conference procedures, leaving a November deadline in doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United States
North Vietnam
Saigon
U.S
America
Cyrus R. Vance
Hanoi
Ha van Lau
Johnson
Vance
Planners Approve Rezoning for Ardyn Heights Housing
The city planning commission approved rezoning the Ardyn Heights tract to residential use with a later hearing. Architect James Blessing reported on drainage and utility plans. Neighbor George Lightfoot, adjacent property owner, expressed no objections except restricting multi family homes in a single family zone. A preliminary five acre plat by Wayne Burghart for twelve homes was also accepted, bounded by Twelfth Lar son Allen and Fourteenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
Ardyn Heights
City Planning Commission
James Blessing
George Lightfoot
S. Plummer
Seventh & Fourteenth
Plummer
Blessing
Lightfoot
Planning Board
Wayne Burghart
Twelfth
Larson
Allen
Fourteenth
Deadline Tomorrow for Paying Taxes in Erie
Tomorrow is the deadline for at least half payment of 1968 property and personal taxes without penalty. Neosho County Treasurer Don Harding said tax collections reached 1,358,192 dollars, still less than half the total tax roll. Planning commission member Buford Fisher urged plat acceptance to protect land near the college. A NCCJC west campus border runs along Allen Street. Jerry Phillips sought approval to convert land at 6th and Forest into a mobile home park, but must bring scaled plans next meeting. he already runs a park at Beech and Kansas avenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Don Harding
Neosho County
Harding
Buford E. Fisher
The
Planning Commission
NCCJC
Allen
Jerry Phillips
W. Beech
6Th and Forest
Phillips
Beech and
Kan Sas
Apollo 8 countdown hits minor snag before moon orbit
NASA reports a valve in the liquid hydrogen fueling system failed to respond, delaying fueling by about four hours but not threatening Saturday's Apollo 8 launch. The countdown holds were designed to absorb such contingencies and time is expected to be made up before the terminal count. The three astronauts continued final training and consultations with officials as launch nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Kennedy, Fla
Moon
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U S Steel to Hike Prices Early Next Month
U S Steel Corp plans a 4 percent price rise on the basic product early next month. Semifinished carbon steel will cost $5 more per ton and semifinished alloy steel $7 more per ton, with steel pilings up $7. The hikes affect a small but major tonnage segment and aim to raise revenue by less than one tenth of one percent, effective Jan 2, 1969.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
Intercepted Letter Describes Floating a Loan Term
A deciphered note from Nute hints at a half million dollar loan floated in the bay as a financial arrangement. The wording suggests covert funding or collateral tied to maritime activity and potential recovery plans.
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Manhattan, Kan
Kansas State University
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Nichols Gymnasium
I. A. Long
Ape
Washington
Federal Commission
National Commission On the
Norman Isaacs
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Isaacs
Pueblo Progress Reported
New York
Pueblo
North Korea
Panmunjom
New York Times
Seoul
Kyunghwang Shinmoon
Times
Shelly Wheeler
Tribune
Johnny Wheeler
Shelly
Chanute
Thomas
VFEW
South Vietnamese National Liberation Front
Apollo
Cha
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