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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1966
Page
1
In Montreal a bank robbery at the CIBC Place Versailles center ended with both robbers dead after a glass mishap and a car crash. A third man, a driver, died from a shotgun wound. A constable injured himself during the scene. More than $10,000 was recovered.
Police seized Clarence Burrus after a downtown Baltimore Bank drive in robbery that netted about $1700. A tear gas bomb in the currency exploded in a bank restroom minutes after the note demanding money. Burrus, 24, was arrested within 15 minutes and held on criminal charges.
The quarterly cigarette tax distribution for the quarter ended November 30 totaled 1,093,778.57 dollars. Allen County received 8,194.59, Neosho 9,603.05, Wilson 7,106.94, and Woodson 2,565.57 dollars.
A missive notes the urgency of paying property taxes before a penalty applies, calling tomorrow the shortest day and emphasizing the looming deadline. The sender signs off with a personal closing.
Danny Escobedo, 29, central figure in a landmark Supreme Court case on the right to counsel, was acquitted by a Chicago Circuit Court jury of unlawful weapon possession. The defense labeled police harassment as a motive for targeting Escobedo.
Mrs. Tom Slater’s class at Murray Hill School studied pioneer days and made three old fashioned candles per student. Wax melted in a bucket, wicks dipped in wax, dried, and repeated to form candles for parents at Christmas.
The Kansas Board of Regents and state colleges urge restoring $5.6 million in cuts for the 1968 fiscal year. Total requests reach $135.7 million, trimmed to $130 million by the budget director, with operating needs of $125 million and capital requests of $10.7 million reduced to $9.6 million. General fund asks drop to $55.3 million for operations and $630,850 for capital improvements. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe advocates restoring faculty positions and salaries.
Area forecast shows mostly fair unseasonably warm weather with night lows 35 to 40 and highs in the upper 60s. Topeka reports continued warm days and cool nights with near maximum sunshine through tomorrow as temperatures rise into the 60s and low temperatures dip to 25 to 35 in parts.
Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce adopts a 1967 budget of 14808 dollars a drop of 375 from 1966 and approves an Ambassadors incentive program granting gratis memberships for new members. The office rearrangement to enlarge meeting rooms is planned with a study due in January. A neighborhood goodwill breakfast is set for January 17 at Humboldt. twelve members attended.
Kansas traffic death log shows 24 hours ending 9 am Tuesday listing 34 fatalities in December 1966 and 703 for comparable 1965. Two deaths occurred in November and were not previously reported.
The Atomic Energy Commission said a desert blast near Beatty, Nevada, could be the largest in U.S. history, yet residents felt only light tremors from Las Vegas to Reno. Beatty observed a minor sway and avoided damage to the Exchange Club Building, while officials noted energy between 200,000 and 1 million tons of TNT.
U S bombers strike infiltrating troops in the buffer zone as the sixth raid in three days targets North Vietnamese troop concentrations. North Vietnam is also hit with oil dumps and air strikes while a 48 hour Christmas truce nears. The destroyer Maddox continues Operation Traffic Cop destroying watercraft near the DMZ.
An American youth, Buel Ray Wortham of North Little Rock Arkansas, pleaded in a trembling voice for freedom from a Lenin grad court. Prosecutors seek five years in a Russian labor camp for theft of a bear statue and currency violations.
A Christmas card mailed by Mrs. Lelia Massey to neighbor Mrs. Alva Marshall traveled about 3000 miles due to a misaddress. The card went to New Jersey and back, then to Partridge and Hutchinson before Massey finally delivered it herself when Marshall walked over to visit.
Dr. James A. McCain announced at a budget hearing that Kansas State University has developed a hybrid wheat with 30 to 40 percent higher yields and that commercial distribution could begin in two years. He said the university expects about $825,000 in research grants soon, including a federal $600,000 grain crop grant and a $225,000 animal disease grant.
Independence officials approve a 1,318,176 contract with Walters-Morgan for a comprehensive city water works improvement. A 674,000 grant from HUD funds part of the financing for this first major upgrade in over five decades.
Two young men died in a one car accident in Kansas City early today. Robert L Rosenwald 21 of Kansas City and Brian William Milne 23 from New Zealand were killed, marking the 103rd and 104th traffic fatalities in the city this year.
Thirty inmates in the Wyandotte County jail refused to return to cells after dinner. Lt. Levi Huggins ordered coffee or no dinner. The prisoners dumped coffee on the bull pen floor and smashed trays. Two tear gas shells forced compliance.
A Topeka budget hearing heard a delegation of civic business and education leaders urging increased state and federal support for Kansas vocational education. Gov elect Docking acknowledged limits but said the legislature should consider restoring cuts from 10 million to 6.3 million and support openings of new schools in Arkansas City and Liberal to ensure operation and growth.
The wife of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr failed to appear at a closed hearing on Powell travel and payroll costs. Subpoenaed aides, including 17 staffers, face contempt if they do not testify. Mrs Powell, living in Puerto Rico, sent a telegram stating she would not testify in public. The hearing runs through Wednesday.
Wallace H. Guthridge longtime Parsons public schools superintendent since 1941 announced his resignation effective July 1. He, age 63, cited ill health and is hospitalized at Labette County Medical Center after months of sickness. Guthridge began in 1926 as a junior high math teacher and remained with Parsons schools except for a year of graduate study at the University of Kansas.
Six year old James Langford was rescued by a neighbor after a gasoline line explosion ignited his clothing at the south edge of Kansas City. He suffered burns to the face chest arms and legs and was listed in satisfactory condition at Research Hospital.
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