Byers Sons and Portobase Firm Highlighted by C of C Tour
Harry Byers and Leslie Byers led a Chamber of Commerce tour of Byers operations on North Plummer. The firm, including Byers Portobase Corp, makes portable concrete bases for oil field pump jacks and other concrete products. Employment varies with demand, from 45 to 100, and gross sales span five years from $525,000 to $880,000.
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Indus
Harry Byers
Sons, Inc
North Plummer
Chamber of Commerce
Leslie Byers
Chamber
Chamber OF Commerce Group
Harry Byers & Sons
Byers
AeroDuct, Inc
Break-in at Thayer drug store nets $41 missing
Forty one dollars in currency was stolen from the Eldridge drug store in Thayer during a break in reported by the Erie sheriff. Entry was made through a back door and a full inventory will confirm any missing merchandise. The incident occurred early yesterday alongside another break at a nearby Wilcdt filling station.
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Thayer
Eldridge
Erie
Jerry Sloan
Lester _Marks
Wilcdt
Leslie Byers
Plummer
Weak Spots Found in Agencies Highlighted by House Speaker
TOPEKA AP The budget session ends with Governor Anderson near completion of signing bills including a 2.3 million emergency aid boost for schools. House Speaker William Mitchell cites weak spots in the Board of Health, Institutional Management, hospitals under its care, and Alcoholic Beverage Control, urging immediate reorganization and closer study by the 1963 session and Legislative Council.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Anderson
State Printing Office
House
William Mitchell
Hutchinson
State Board of Health
Division of Institutional Management and Hospitals
Office of
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Mitchell
Legislative Council
Weather slows to mild cloudiness across Kansas
Today mild temperatures with abundant clouds prevail across Kansas with no drastic changes in the next 24 hours. Highs 35 to 45, tonight down to the 20s to low 30s, and Wednesday highs from 31 to 36 across cities like Pittsburg and Hill City. Rain possible east and south of a Wichita to Kansas City line. Cloud cover breaks by Friday and temperatures hold steady.
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Topeka
Kansas
Hill City
Pittsburg
Wichita
Kansas City
Weather Bureau
Poet Frost Hospitalized in Miami With Lung Congestion
Poet Robert Frost, 87, is hospitalized in Miami due to lung congestion after several days illness at his winter home. He is in satisfactory condition with fever around 102 degrees noted by his physician.
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Miami
Fla
Robert Frost
Frost
Doomday Payment Sparks Funny Last Day Belief
Independence Kansas residents faced doomsday fears as a hospital received a two year old debt payment. A letter claimed it was the world’s end and enclosed a check for 180 dollars to settle the bill.
Orley Barker Fined in Beer Sale Case
Orley Barker operator of Or ley's Cafe at 20 W Main pleaded guilty in police court yesterday to selling beer to a minor and was fined $100. Police said a report will be made to the city commission asking revocation of the cafe's beer license. The sale charge followed a statement from a 16 year old Chanute boy that he bought two six pack cartons of beer from Barker last Saturday.
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Orley Barker
Orley
W. Main
City Commission
Barker
Lucky Luciano Buried in Queens Mausoleum
New York vice lord Charles Lucky Luciano has been buried in his family mausoleum at St. John’s Cemetery in Queens. The ceremony marked the end of a notorious era as authorities note his influence stretched back to a generation ago.
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New York
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
St. John’s Cemetery
Onasene
Mine Toll Climbs to 279 in Saarland Mine Disaster
Saar State Mining Office cites 279 killed with about 81 still hospitalized or unaccounted after a catastrophic coal mine explosion and cave-in at the Luisenthal mine. Authorities say 480 men were in the pit. 100 escaped unhurt and 20 remain missing as rescue work continues amid burned and buried bodies.
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Saarbruecken
Germany
Saar State Mining Office
Luisenthal
TMB
Nneblesen Dd Wannn Shan
Radio Signals Aid Arthritis Treatment Study
A device emitting ultra short pulsed radio waves aimed into the body showed promising results in arthritis and other conditions. Doctors from Arkansas Baylor Harlem Chicago Hot Springs presented findings at a private conference with congressmen and Public Health Service workers in Washington.
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Washington
Moon
Euclid M. Smith
Hot Springs
Ark
Dana Street
University of Arkansas
Bruce Camera
Baylor University
Waco
Tex
Marshall Lobell
Harlem Hospital
I Y
Solon N. Blackberg
Chicago
Public Health Service
Traffic Fatalities Rise In Topeka Area Report
Kansas traffic death log records 2 fatalities in 24 hours ending 9 am Thursday for February 1962, with 41 deaths for the year so far. The 1961 comparison shows 50 deaths in the same period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Mansfield and party survive harrowing sea ordeal at Rose Island
Actress Jayne Mansfield and husband Mickey Hargitay with a companion were rescued after a night on a coral atoll near Rose Island Nassau. They described an overturned boat, a long drift and a perilous swim to safety with a 65 foot yacht rescue and hospital treatment for shock and cuts.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Jayne Mansfield
Mickey Hargitay
Wink Pilacu
Miss Mansfield
Hargitay
Rose Island
Florida
Rose
Jayne
Mickey
Ikis Island
Drury
Jack Drury
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Coral Rock
Har‘gitay
Nassau Yacht Club
Coral Island
Atoll
Nassau Development Board
County Offices to Close Monday for Lincoln Day Holiday
County offices in the area and at Erie will be closed Monday in observance of Lincoln's birthday. County Clerk Marion Showalter advised. Some officials will attend the GOP Lincoln Day rally in Independence while Chanute banks remain open at regular hours.
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Erie
Lincoln
Marion Showalter
Independence
Chanute
Farm Plan Described as Horrifying by Dole
Rep. Robert Dole denounces the Kennedy administration farm program as horrifying with harsh production controls and severe penalties. He notes wheat and dairy penalties could reach up to 10 years in prison and fines up to 10,000 dollars, arguing the bill singles these farmers out and threatens all federal price-support aid.
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Washington
Robert Dole
Rlas
Dole
Congressional Record
Vandals Break Water Pipes at Santa Fe Park Restroom
Police found broken water pipes in the Santa Fe Park men's restroom during a 4 a.m. routine patrol. No injuries reported and investigations underway.
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Santa Fe Park
Shaw Enters St. John's Hospital Tulsa For Surgery
W. W. Shaw of 219 South Kansas checked into St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa on Monday for an unspecified surgical procedure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Shaw
S. Kansas
St. John’s Hospital, Tulsa
Weather Satellite Tiros IV Goes Into Orbit
The United States launched Tiros IV from Cape Canaveral on a Thor Delta rocket at 7:44 a.m. The 285 pound satellite sent back earth cloud pictures within its first orbit, with NASA confirming early good indications and various stations reporting reception. Officials noted initial images may be imperfect due to the first orbit tilt and equipment startup.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The
Space Agency
Wallops Island
Radio Corp. of America
Salina Announces Evening Center for Local Students
AP report notes the center will open Tuesday and Thursday nights and Friday nights for Junior College age students in downtown Salina. A window display shows a Model A coupe on Saturday nights for Junior High to Senior High youths. 1931 compact.
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Jaco
Dall Nceciace OC Nbesw Sd
Nesta
Runnawig
Salina
Hospital Cancels Visiting Hours Over Flu Outbreak
Dr J D Gough and Dr Don Abbuehl urge Neosho Memorial Hospital visiting hours halted until further notice due to influenza spread. Administrator Glen Dormis cites 72 work days lost last month as staff and patients are protected. limited immediate family visits allowed on written approval.
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J. D. Gough
Don Abbuehl
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Boy Changes Story On Wound In Hutchinson
Ten year old Larry Ashens of Hutchinson told police his stomach wound came from accidentally firing his father s gun rather than being struck by an unexplained 22 caliber bullet. The boy allegedly feared his parents would learn he was playing with the gun and his condition was reported good.
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Hutchinson
Larry Ashens
Duane Goering
Frank G. Ashens
Driver Arrested After Car Upsets Near Chanute
Howard G. Anderson of Wichita was arrested by highway patrol on charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving after his 1953 Buick overturned around 12:45 a.m. on US 169 north of Chanute. He was uninjured, treated at Neosho Memorial Hospital, jailed then released on a $150 bond. Damage estimated at $250. undersheriff Lester Marts assisted in the investigation.
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Howard G. Anderson
Wichita
Highway Patrol
Chanute
Anderson
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Lester Marts
Kennedy invokes executive privilege over censor names
President Kennedy used executive privilege to bar Pentagon personnel from naming censors who altered anti-Communist speeches. Chairman John Stennis upheld the privilege as applicable and binding, restricting further Senate inquiries. The move marks a first in a probe into censorship.
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Washington
Kennedy
Pentagon
Senate
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Clash near Bastille as protesters clash with riot police
Several hundred demonstrators clashed with riot police near Place de la Bastille over recent plastic bombings in Paris. The crowd tore up paving blocks and hurled them at officers as helmeted police advanced and dispersed the crowd.
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Tom Durkin
John Gorton
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Floyd Byers
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Keith Wright
City Industrial Fund
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Gorton
Joe Melnyk
Tioga Hotel
William Yerkes
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Yerkes
Chamber of
U. S. Chamber
Independence, Kas
Independence Hospital
Lucky’ Luciano
Queens
Wes
Italy
Valoris Comumucu Miure
George Kneip
Bartolo
Joseph
Ing. Kock
Kneip
No. 4 Gallery
Red Cross
Princeton
N.J
NASA
Robert Gray
Winkfield
England
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Midwest
Dormois
Britain
Christmas Island
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U.S
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