Clay County clerk seeks court order for back pay
Clay County circuit clerk Donald G. Hall asks the courts to require the county to pay his 1000 dollars a month salary along with county recorder William Eldridge. The 1969 salary scale covers only first class counties. Clay and Greene exceed that limit. Hall says representatives said correction would take until October with no retroactive pay.
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Kansas City
Clay County
Donald G. Hall
William Eldridge
Clay
Greene
Hall
DeBakey urges more federal funding for heart disease research
Dr. Michael DeBakey, pioneer of heart surgery at Baylor University, urged Congress to boost federal spending on heart disease research at a University of Missouri talk in Columbia. He argued enhanced funding would improve treatments and outweigh the focus on heart transplants.
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Columbia, Mo
Michael DeBakey
DeBakey
Baylor University
Houston
Tex
University of Missouri At Columbia
Kidnap Escape Shocks Kansas City Girl Vows Safe Return
A 7 year old girl was reportedly kidnapped near her midtown Kansas City home on Thursday afternoon and escaped unharmed in Cass County about 90 minutes later. She described a white male grabbing her and forcing her into a car before taking her to a vacant house and a separate residence until she ran to a nearby home for help.
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Kansas City
Cass County
Masters Johnson Start Joint Marriage Research Partnership
Dr William H Masters and Virginia Johnson announced their marriage on January 7 in Fayetteville Arkansas. The couple, co authors of Human Sexual Response 1966 and Human Sexual Inadequacy 1970, launch a new joint effort at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation.
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ST. Louis
William H. Masters
Virginia Johnson
Lon Nol to be flown to Tripler for stroke treatment
Cambodian Premier Lon Nol is reported to relapse and will be transported to the U S Army hospital at Tripler in Honolulu for treatment. He has partly paralyzed from a stroke and handed over powers to Deputy Prime Minister Sisowath Sirik Matak as military spokesmen confirmed.
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Saigon
Lon Nol
Cambodia
U.S. Army
Honolulu
Phnom Penh
U.S
Sisowatch Sirik Matak
Am Rong
Docking appoints two to Kansas Civil Rights Commission
Gov. Robert Docking named Terry O'Keefe and Daniel Oropesa to the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, restoring the panel to seven members after a low period. O'Keefe is a lawyer and Oropesa an employee of Boeing, with the commission previously reduced to three members and lacking an executive director.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Kansas Commission On Civil Rights
Terry O’keefe
Daniel Oropesa
Boeing Company
Lawyer Awarded One Dollar in Show Horse Death Case
Drew Hartnett of Salina Kansas won one dollar in damages after his five gaited gelding Admiral died. Hartnett sought fifteen thousand dollars alleging negligence by handler W E Gault near Lenexa Kansas following a sixteen hour transport from Fort Worth Texas to Sedalia Missouri in 1965. Johnson County jury awarded one dollar, Hartnett’s attorney Eugene Hackler of Olathe said the ruling implies negligence but vows to seek a new trial.
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Clathe
Kan
Drew Hartnett
Salina
Hartnett
Admiral
Fort Worth
Tex
Sedalia
W. E. Gault
Lenexa
Johnson County
Eugene Hackler
Olathe
Cattle rustlers sentenced in Norton Kansas case
Two women Doris Henry fifty five and Fanny Post fifty eight pleaded guilty to cattle rustling and hay theft in Norton Kansas. They received probation three years and 1 to 10 years with parole and were fined 100 dollars each. The pair formerly ran a Logan Kansas restaurant and lived on a farm.
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Norton, Kan
Doris Henry
Fanny Post
Logan
Kan
Strong January rise in personal income aided by GM rebound
The Commerce Department reports January personal income rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 825.5 billion dollars, driven by higher wages and longer work hours. Wage disbursements climbed 6.75 billion, with broad gains across major industries but offset by Social Security tax increases and declines in construction and mining payrolls. Government payrolls also rose due to new federal pay raises.
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Washington
Commerce Department
General Motors
Heavy Air Losses In Troop Support In Indo China
Twenty U.S. aircraft were shot down or crashed in Indo China. Nineteen supported South Vietnamese campaigns in Laos and Cambodia. At least 16 Americans were killed and 7 wounded. Over five days, losses included 12 aircraft reported by the U.S. Command and 10 helicopters plus a fighter and a transport lost fighting malaria mosquitoes.
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Saigon
U.S
Indochina
Laos
Cambodia
A Shan
U.S. Command
Quang Tri
Associated Press
Michael Putzel
South Vietnam
Penney Dies At Age 95 In New York
New York AP reports J C Penney 95 died at 11 30 am in Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after a severe heart attack. The Missouri farmer built a retail empire from 1895 growing to about 1700 stores and remained active at his desk in the 45 story Penney building on Sixth Avenue. In Erie the Chanute special election canvass affirmed the city manager commission form by 1 991 votes to 1 073 for mayor commission.
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New York
Penney
Sixth Avenue
Erie
Chanute
Virgil Lowe
City Manager Commission
Board of County Commissioners
Nixon to unveil state of the world message February
President Nixon plans a conference with Secretary Rogers and others during a long holiday weekend to discuss the state of the world message for Congress. The book-length document is slated for unveiling February 25.
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Nixon
William P. Rogers
Congress
Trapped Dietician Survives 58 Hours After Earthquake
Frank Carbonara, 68, survived 58 hours under rubble of a Veterans Administration Hospital collapse in Los Angeles. A metal tub shielded his head as rescuers freed him, leaving him weak but alive and grateful to reunite with family. Doctors cited luck and chest and hand injuries but good overall condition for his age.
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Los Angeles
Frank Carbonara
Veterans Administration
Bris
Carbonara
Harbor General Hospital
Joe di Nicolo
Justin Ban
Weather report with temperatures and forecast
Today's 1 pm high 39 and low 28 with recent 55 and 35. Yesterday 0.03 inch precipitation. Relative humidity 538 percent. Barometer 30.25. Sunrise 7 15 Sunset 5 58. Area forecast calls for fair and colder tonight and a warmer Saturday with low in the 20s and high in the 40s.
Intercepted Letter to Cha Reveals City Commission Strains
A brief intercepted note to Cha hints that holding a seat on the city commission is more delicate than expected. The fragment suggests mounting pressures and unclear implications for local governance.
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City Commission
Commission Race Forces Primary in Local Elections
City to hold a March 9 primary for unexpired city commissioner term. Incumbent Dale McCoy and candidates Ray Sloan Charles Wilmot vie with others including Robert Martin Clyde Kile. District 413 school board and Neosho Junior College also see filings. registration closes February 16.
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Bonnie Moffatt
Dale McCoy
Ray E. Sloan
Charles P. Wilmot
W. H. McMurray
Yates Center
McCoy
McMurray
KKOY
Sloan
S. Denman
Wilmot
N. Garfield
Robert W. Martin
Clyde H. Kile
Martin
W. 4Th
Martin Tractor Co
Kile
N. Washington
Neosho Junior College Board of Trustees
Virgil Lowe
Lynn Kirkman
S. Lafayette
John Congdon
S. Steuben
Neosho Junior College
Dwight Blackwood
Homer Cook
Dale Fairchild
Junior College Board
James A. Rowland
Eric
Richard Good
Gerald Pryor
Chanute
Moffatt
Road Work Up for Bid in Wilson Neosho Woodson Counties
Kansas Highway Commission invites bids in Salina on Feb 25 for three projects including 3.6 miles of grading and surface treatment on a Wilson County road from Monroe to 15th in Fredonia, plus bridge painting in Neosho County on K39 over Big Creek and in Woodson County on US75 over South Owl Creek near Yates Center.
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Wilson County
Neosho
Woodson
Kansas Highway Commission
Salina
John D. Montgomery
Monroe
15Th Streets
Fredonia
Neosho County
Big Creek
Chanute
Woodson County
South Owl Creek
Yates Center
Three injured in Neosho Memorial Hospital car truck crash
Three youths including James Strauch 18 Bill George 16 and Marsha Record 16 were treated and released from Neosho Memorial Hospital after Strauch's 1957 Volkswagen was rear ended by Kenneth Good 30 in a 1963 Ford truck at Main and Highland. Police cited rain and poor visibility with $250 truck damage.
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Main
Highland
James Strauch
W. 12Th
Bill George
W. Main
Marsha Record
Strauch
Strauch Volkswagen
Kenneth Good
S. Kansas
Good
Two-Vehicle Crash Injures Two Near Buffalo
A two vehicle collision at the county road and US 75 intersection in Buffalo area caused minor injuries. Vernon C. Brannaman and Mrs Raymond McDaniel suffered injuries. both were taken to St Margaret's Hospital in Fredonia for treatment.
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Buffalo
Kenneth Hersh
Kansas Highway Patrol
Fredonia
Vernon C. Brannaman
Raymond McDaniel
Atchison
Brannaman
Accident Involves Carbondale Man on US 39
Donald J. Mattox Benedict, 38, of Carbondale injured in a one car crash on US 39 one mile north of here at 1 30 am. He was taken by ambulance to Fredonia for treatment. Condition not believed to be critical. Car left the highway and hit a concrete culvert. Vehicle listed as total loss.
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Benedict — Donald J. Mattox
Carbondale
Here
St. Margaret's Hospital
Fredonia
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