Deaths Probe after exhumations in Gibbs family case
Authorities exhumed the bodies of Charles Gibbs and two sons in Cordele area as part of a Georgia arsenic probe. Janie Gibbs faces murder charges over son Roger Ludean Gibbs death from arsenic poisoning, with four family deaths linked to the investigation.
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Cordele, Ga
Janie H. Gibbs
Georgia
Gibbs
Roger Ludean Gibbs
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Roger Gibbs
Columbus
Charles Clayton Gibbs
Crisp County Hospital
Melvin Gibbs
Americus
Frederick H. Thompson
Weather notes and Kansas forecast for Friday
Area forecast calls for considerable cloudiness through Friday with occasional snow flurries and little temperature change. High Friday 28 to 32, low tonight 20 to 25, southerly winds 15 to 20 mph west, 5 to 15 mph east. Temperatures rising in some areas after dawn from Beloit 7 to Pittsburg 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Beloit
Pittsburg
Car Collides With Two Steers Near Urbana
A 1958 Chevrolet driven by William G. Neely collided with two steers on a county road east of Urbana about 6 10 p m. Neely, 46, of Chanute R 4 sustained hip injury and was treated after the crash. The steers owned by R E Heilman of Erie. one steer injured and butchered, the other unhurt. The car belonged to Neely’s son James. George Neely, Neosho county sheriff, reported the incident.
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Urbana
William G. Neely
Chanute R. 4
Here
George Neely
Neosho County
R. E. Heilman
Erie
Neely
James
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
An intercepted note questions requiring life expectancy data on commodities. It imagines TV ads claiming a clock’s 25 year life and describes a fictitious ticker transplant team extending longevity.
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Cha
Beauty tops Kansas 1967 AP poll with Miss America honor
The Associated Press poll names Kansas top story of 1967 led by Debra Dene Barnes and Mrs. John R. Cochran. Other leading items include Robert Docking’s governor win, and pivotal legislative actions.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Debra Dene Barnes
Moran
John R. Cochran
Mission
America
Robert Docking
Lawrence
Docking Avery
Beauty Capital
Atlantic City
Deborah Bryant
Overland Park
Kandee Kae Klien
Tribune
Garden City
Miss Barnes
Pratt
San Diego
Docking-Avery
William H. Avery
Docking
Protest Meeting Plans Jan 10 Hearing On Santa Fe Passenger Service
Twenty representatives opposed to Santa Fe railroad discontinuing passenger trains gathered at the Memorial building to organize for the January 10 hearing. City officials and business leaders joined the effort as protests were filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and ICC hearings were set for Bartlesville January 11 and Tulsa January 12.
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Santa Fe Railroad
Chanute
Memorial Building
E. J. New
City Commission
John Sherman
Jack Groves
Chanute Area
Tulsa
New
Ray Zumalt
Zumalt
City Planning Board
Paul Leslie
Santa Fe Park
Leslie
Commission
R. J. Hayes
Woman Killed in Holton Crash on U S 75
Patricia Luckeroth 21 of Marysville died after her car collided with a gasoline transport truck on U S 75 about 17 miles north of Holton. Passenger Joyce Melcher 22 of Seneca was injured and taken to Holton hospital. Luckeroth later died at Topeka hospital.
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Holton, Kan
Patricia Luckeroth
Marysville
Kan
U.S. 75
Holton
Joyce Melcher
Seneca
Docking abandons appointments push for livestock posts
Gov Robert Docking says he will seek legislative power to appoint a livestock sanitary and a branch commissioner instead of naming them himself. He favors a representative board to select both posts and may pursue legislation to consolidate the offices.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Docking
Kansas Livestock Association
A. G. Pickett
Ralph Warren
Wichita
Warren
Marines Repel Heavy Attack Near Da Nang
U S Marines battled a large Communist force about 20 miles south of Da Nang as a helicopter detachment landed in a muddy paddy. Fire from the enemy hamlet and surrounding fields continued as Marines consolidated positions behind dikes. In a separate coastal campaign, the 173rd Airborne Brigade assaulted jungle positions 250 miles north of Saigon, killing 31 Viet Cong and losing 12 paratroopers with 34 wounded.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
5Th Marine Regiment
Kim Ki Sam
Sam
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Norways King Olav V to Visit Washington in April
President Johnson announced King Olav V of Norway will visit Washington April 24-25 with further U S stops to follow. The Texas White House said details were not released and the president plans a Texas stay of two to three weeks while pursuing budget and legislative work.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
Olav V
Norway
Washington
United States
Texas White House
Texas
George Christian
District of Columbia
White House
Congress
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka And State Log
Traffic death log lists 49 fatalities for December and 650 for all of 1967. For the comparable 1966 period, 727 deaths were recorded.
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Topeka
Kansas
Woman Steals Cash From Dry Cleaner in Philadelphia
Veronica Pomponi, a dry cleaning clerk, found a pants pocket overflowing with bills including hundreds and fifties. The money total reached at least four thousand dollars before a woman who had dropped off the trousers fled the scene toward a nearby supermarket.
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Philadelphia
Veronica Pomponi
Harry Weiner
City Dads Approve 1967 Yearend Actions and Appointments
The city commission approved beer license applications and filled planning commission and zoning appeals board vacancies. John Hutchison and Ira Barber were named to the planning commission and zoning appeals board respectively, with several incumbents reappointed to three year terms. Twenty three 1968 beer licenses were approved and a plan for FAA flight service station discussed.
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City Commission
Planning Commission and
Zoning Appeal Board
John Hutchison
S. Wilson
Planning Commission
Ira Barber
N. Lafayette
Zoning Appeals Board
Hutchison
Barber
Ash Grove
Carl Pate
Zoning Board
P. A. Swan
Buford Fisher
Robert C. Reynolds
Oscar Cunningham
Fred Harris
Appeals Board
Reynolds
Cunningham
M. J. Blackston
Wilbur Thompson
Hutchinson Girl’s Body Found Near Downtown
Hutchinson Kansas police say they will file a murder complaint against 23 year old Larry David Thrift in the Rene Talbot case. The 3 year old girl who disappeared Aug 20 was found decomposed near downtown in a laundry bag behind a warehouse. Thrift is jailed on another assault charge involving a 10 year old girl.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Bob Adams
Larry David Thrift
Rene Talbot
Adams
Thrift
Savonburg Man Killed In One Car Crash Near Iola
Savonburg resident Vestal Bundy, 72, died at the scene of a one car crash on US 54 about 1.5 miles east of Savonburg at 11 10 a.m. A witness says the car veered to avoid a collision. Bundy died of a crushed chest. His wife, injured, was taken to Allen County Hospital in Iola. Autopsy planned.
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Iola
Savonburg
Vestal Bundy
Here
Highway Patrol
Bundy
Allen County Hospital
Man Leaves Trash at Mayor's House After Pickup Delays
John Baldwin, 26, a drug salesman in Philadelphia, says two weeks without trash pickup forced him to place four cartons on Mayor James H. Tate's block. Police visited and warned against the act. the mayor's office had no comment.
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Philadelphia
John Baldwin
James H. J. Tate
Baldwin
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South Vietnam
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The
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Rendezvous
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American GI Forum
Forest
J. P. Lambert
Top Hat
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Norma Layman
S. Santa Fe
Hazel Tyson Tyson
W. Main
Eric Anderson
Anderson
American Legion
John Grady
Empire Billiards
E. Main
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Danny's
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Erma's
Ruby Marhasin
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