Weather prospects for Glenn orbital flight eyed as 50-50
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP weather prospects for astronaut John Glenn Jr.'s pioneer orbital flight Wednesday are about 50-50. Officials said the mission might be postponed if conditions do not improve with Navy ships and a reconnaissance plane assessing recovery areas near Bermuda and Atlantic zones.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Space Agency
John H. Glenn Jr
John 8. Powers
Project Chiefs
Powers
Walter Williams
Project Mercury
Glenn
Navy
Graf 145
Bermuda
Most Wanted Man Held At Salina
Watson Young Jr. 29, added to the FBI ten most wanted list a week earlier, was arrested in Salina after speeding in a stolen ambulance. He faces murder charges in Indianapolis for the December 13 1961 killings of Hamnsel Gupton and Mary Alice Gupton and a later rape case. He surrendered after a pursuing police car closed in.
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Salina, Kan
FBI
Salina
Watson Young, Jr
Washington
Young
Indianapolis
Hamnsel E. Gupton
Mary Alice
Rush Smith Funeral Home
Kenneth Brown
Delbert Henry Linaweaver
Saline
Saline County
Benedict Man Found Dead In Accidental Rifle Incident
Benedict Ray Milligan was accidentally killed about 7 a.m. Monday when a 22 caliber rifle discharged as he reached for it in a car outside his brother Earl Milligan’s Benedict home. Deputy Ray Standiford noted the death was instantaneous with Milligan surviving a son Gayle of El Dorado. Carson's Funeral Home in Fredonia will handle arrangements.
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Benedict
Ray Milligan
Wilson County Sheriff's Office
Ray Standiford
Milligan
Earl
Earl Milligans
California
Collie Chambers
G. C. Brown
Gayle
el Dorado
Carson
Fredonia
Three Car Theft Suspects Nabbed After Chase
Four law officers cornered three 18 year old Topeka youths after they allegedly stole a 1959 Buick from Don McCune of Chanute. A 1950 Mercury and a gun were found. the trio admitted plotting to siphon gasoline and drive to Topeka, then were jailed.
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Fourjlice
Topeka
McCune
Sgge
Jay Selbach
Mies
Don McCune
Mercury
Erie
Faunton
Radford
Cummings
Kirby
Selbach
Chanute
Miss Barrett Protests Removal as Librarian
Marguerite Barrett urged the city commission to dissolve the public library board and appoint new members after she was removed as head librarian. The library board says Barrett was discharged after failing to resign. she claims lack of due process and access to papers. A board letter dated Jan 8 demanded resignation by Feb 1, and two letters were read at the meeting including one from the board.
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Public Library Board
City Commission
Marguerite Barrett
Miss Barrett
Dave Evans
Commission
Library Board
Nora Knight
Evans
John N. Sherman Jr
Burns and McDonnell
Kansas City
Kansas Municipal Power Pool
Chanute
Lincoln Day dinner draws GOP figures from Kansas
About 900 people attended the Independence Lincoln Day dinner with U S senators Frank Carlson and James B Pearson Gov John Anderson and congressmen Walter McVey and William H Avery. Delegates from Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson counties joined a campaign meeting amid state party talk of GOP gains in 1962.
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Southeast
Kansas
U. S
Frank Carlson
James B. Pearson
John Anderson
Walter McVey
William H. Avery
Independence
United
World Opinion
John G. Tower
Belgrade
Tower
House
Senate
Marion Richey
Erie
Richard Good
Chanute
Neosho County
Lincoln Day Club
Sun District
Robert Allen
Werom Sherman
Jones
Bob Pennington
Wendell Bowyer
Carl Weiner II
Edna Peterson
P. B. Darlington
Bill Walters
Jim Blessing
Ed Parr
Frank Vaughn
John Young
Charles Bohlander
William Sailors
Virgil Mix
Carl Olson
Stark
Charles Forsyth
Pershing Brady
Allen County
Aller County
Robert Finney
Humboldt
Finney
Storms Across Europe Cause Multiple Deaths and Injuries
High winds across Europe and the British Isles killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 in West Germany. Britain reported five deaths as coastal gusts reached 60 mph. Rescue ships saved 20 crew from the burning freighter Fountains Abbey. two crewmen remain missing and unaccounted for.
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London
Europe
British Isles
West Germany
Britain
North Sea
Fountains Abbey
Traffic Fatalities In Kansas Log For February 18
Kansas traffic death log reports fatalities within the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Tuesday. Data covers February 18 with entries for Topeka and nearby areas.
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Topeka
Kansas
Chanute Student Wins UN Testing Contest Top Prize
Lynda Hutchinson, 15, Chanute Senior High School sophomore, is Neosho County’s top winner in the 1962 United Nations testing contest. She earns a week in Washington and New York sponsored by UNESCO. Two Chanute runners up share second prize. 67 students competed across five towns. Hutchinson will also enter the state contest with $200 and $100 scholarships as possible prizes.
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Chanute
United Nations
Neosho County
Unesco
Hazel Meeker
Erie
Lynda Hutchison
Chanute Senior High School
Ray Hutchinson
N. Forest
Washington, D.C
New York
Juliana Carlos
J. F. Carlos
S. ‘Highland
Lynda Lassman
Royster Junior High School
Irvin Lassman
N. Allen
Chanute Junior College
Miss Hutchison
Europe
Mexico
Washington, D
Meeker
Clayton M. Crosier
Lawrence
Kansas Unesco
Thayer
St. Paul
Galesburg
Hutchinson
Center
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Highway Patrol
Morton
Ray Radford
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Spencer
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Edward Kirby
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Paul T. Brennecke
Knight
Betty Gottlieb
Vesta Lightfoot
Kenneth Mitchell
Dale Painter
Boyd C. Latimer
Lightfoot
C. W. Brennan
Charles Ogle
Fire Department
Memphis
Chamber of Commerce
City Industrial Fund
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W. Main
Orley Barker
Orley’s Cafe
Barker
Roy Ensminger
Santa Fe
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