Wanderer Joseph Wight Detained Over Cash Fortune
In St Petersburg Florida police charged 74 year old Joseph Dunbar Wight with vagrancy after officers found about 187 thousand dollars hidden on him. The assets were placed in a bank vault for safekeeping while he spent the night in jail. Wight, from Baltimore, claimed kinship to the Sherwood Distilling family and said he converted his assets to cash on June 1 1961.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Joseph Dunbar Wight
Wight
Baltimore
Maryland
John H. Wight
Baltimore Savings and Loan Association
Sherwood Distilling Co
John Wight
Lawmakers Face Pay Rise Vote As Pressure Mounts
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield defends a pay increase from 30000 to 42500 for members while Congress grapples with tactics to block or delay the vote. In Kansas City a student was killed on a South Side street as witnesses watched.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Congress
Montana
John J. Williams
Del
Lyndon B. Johnson
House
St Patrick’s School Faces Teachers and Funds Shortage
St Patrick’s School in colonized St Patrick’s address 409 S Malcolm struggles with teacher shortages and rising costs. Five-three sisters and two lay teachers currently teach eight grades after dropping the ninth in 1949. Msgr Vincent Hogan cites declining women entering the religious order and limited pay relative to public schools as factors. The school receives a recommended monthly family contribution of 10 dollars for one child and 15 dollars for two or more, with no denial for inability to pay. Enrollment has fallen from 155 with ninth grade to about 120 this year amid broader declines in recent years.
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Msgr
Vincent Hogan
St. Patrick's
S. Malcolm
Msgr. Hogan
St. Patrick’s
Hogan
St. Patrick’s Church
Kansas Legislature awaits Docking budget message
The Republican—controlled Kansas Legislature enters its fourth week awaiting Democratic Gov. Robert Docking to present his annual budget message. Docking will deliver the address to a joint session at 11.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Docking
Calvin Strowig
Abilene
Kansas House
Strowig
First gift to Neosho Memorial Hospital Foundation
The residue of Jewel W. Snyder estate amounts to 7211.34 and becomes the foundation's first gift. Charles E. Henshall and Wayne Umbarger presented the check to Fred Harris, the foundation chair, at the attorney's office during a meeting with estate representatives. The foundation aims to fund medical development, equipment, and staff in the Neosho area, with safeguards against using funds for hospital operating costs.
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Jewel W. Snyder
Neosho Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc
Fred Harris
Charles E. Henshall
Wayne Umbarger
Bank of Commerce
Kenneth C. Snyder
Snyder
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Neosho County
Chanute
Gordon Barker
Dwight Wallingford
Glen Dormois
Nixon backs French plan for early Mideast talks at UN
President Nixon agrees to support a French proposal for early great power talks at the United Nations to break the Middle East deadlock. He seeks parallel Soviet involvement, with a reply to Paris due this week. A message to Gamal Abdel Nasser is planned to hint at responsiveness if he seeks resumption of U.S. relations.
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Washington
Nixon
United Nations
Middle East
Soviet Union
Paris
United States
Britain
France
U.N
Gunnar Jarring
White House
Vietnam
Charles de Gaulle
London
Bonn
Rome
Iraq and Jordan claim Israeli jets hit positions in Jordan
The Associated Press reports Iraq and Jordan said Israeli jets attacked positions on Jordanian soil and that groundfire downed several planes. An Iraqi military spokesman cited 14 Israeli jets and two planes crashing in flames near the Golan Heights, while a Jordanian spokesman said one plane went down near Tiberias and another in the Golan Heights. Tel Aviv denied the charges.
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Associated Press
Iraq
Jordan
Golan Heights
Tel Aviv
Amman
Irbed
Tiberias
Israel
Baghdad
Sea of Galilee
Groundhog Day Shadow Cast in Two States
Crowds in Sun Prairie Wisconsin and Punxsutawney Pennsylvania gathered at dawn to watch a groundhog predict six more weeks of winter. In Sun Prairie Jimmy the four year old emerged at 7 12 a m while Punxsutawney Phil appeared as the sun rose on a clear morning.
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Associated Press
Punxsutawney
Sun Prairie
Wis
Jimmy
Phil
Yates Center Bids Exceed Estimate on Water Plant
YATES CENTER Topeka firm Braymen Meinking Contractors submitted the low bid of 278 813 for water plant improvements, with three other bids ranging to 297 984. Final approval rests with city officials. Bids surpassed the engineer's 216 425 estimate as bonds totaling 250 000 fund the work.
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Yates Center
Topeka
Braymen- Meinking Contractors, Inc
Wea Constructors, Inc
Paola
Kane & Bills Construction Co., Inc
Wichita
L. Peterson Construction Co
Wilson and Co
Salina
City
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A humorous note describes a groundhog as unusually smart yet sleeping through a local stir. The animal naps away the day, unaffected by the surrounding events.
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Cha
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