Downtown Chanute Citizens Dream of a Million
In Chanute residents are asked how they would use a million dollars. Answers vary from charity and helping the poor to buying a car, paying debts, and building a house or investing profits. Local residents including Mrs Whitney Galen Smith and Miss Heilman Kirkpatrick share thoughtful plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Galen Smith
Fred Whitney
Buffalo
Martin Raida
Thayer
David Kaufman
S. Garfield
Humboldt Stores Lose Cash in Series of Break-Ins
Humboldt store Garvie Drug Store was robbed of about 150 dollars in currency and checks between 3 and 3:30 pm as two unidentified Negro men distracted clerks. The suspects fled after leaving no purchases. one man was 40 to 45, the other described as a little older. Other Burglaries reported at Iola and Aliceville with Bud White Motor Co and post office targeted.
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Love's Cleaners
E. Main
Seth Gray
Foster Clothing Store
Foster's
Iola
Aliceville
LeRoy
Bud White Motor Co
Humboldt
Garvie Drug Store
George Garvie
Garvie
K State math teacher Miss Hyde dies at 83
Emma Hyde, 83, emeritus associate professor of mathematics at Kansas State University, died Friday. She taught high school math in Iola, Emporia, and Kansas City before joining K State in 1920 and retiring in 1951. She led the Kansas Council of Women and state math teacher associations. Funeral set for Monday morning.
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Manhattan
Kan
Emma Hyde
Kansas State University
Kansas Council of Women
Kansas Association of Mathematics Teachers
Kansas
American Association of University Women
Navy plane spots hijacked freighter Anzoategui near Surinam
A Navy search plane located the Venezuelan freighter Anzoategui about 180 miles north of Surinam, circling and readable by blinker and radio. The vessel, hijacked by Communist group, was traveling south southeast at 12 knots, away from Cuba and toward Brazil, with Brazil eyed as the eventual destination.
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Washington
Navy
Anzoategui
Surinam
Dutch Guiana
Defense Department
Jacksonville
Fla
Department
Cuba
Brazil
Henrique Galvao
Santa Maria
Galvao
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Father's Car Kills Son on Driveway
In Rose Hill Kansas AP two year old John Gash was killed when his father Leonard Gash 45 backed the car into the garage after stopping to let his wife and children out of the driveway. Investigators reported the child was in the path of the vehicle at the home.
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Rose Hill
Kan
John Gash
Leonard
Gash
Five Mills Tax OK for Topeka Olathe Lawrence Schools
Gov John Anderson signed a bill allowing the Topeka Olathe and Lawrence school districts to levy up to five mills for two years to fund educational purposes.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Olathe
Lawrence
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Log Record
Kansas highway traffic log shows 24 hours to 9 am Saturday 1 February 15 1963 and 38 for the comparable 1962 period with 57 fatalities in total.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather and temperature outlook for today and weekend
AP forecast notes cloudy conditions with light snow this afternoon and tonight. Temperatures rise to near 40 this afternoon and fall to around 30 tonight, with Sunday seeing decreasing clouds and little change. Across the state a cold front brings light precipitation with highs in the 40s to 50s and overnight lows in the 20s to 30s.
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Topeka
Liberal
Dodge City
Wichita
Woman Guilty Of Grand Larceny In Tele coin Looting
Charlene Fuqua aged 32 pleaded guilty to grand larceny in a hoarding of telephone coin boxes. Judge Fontron deferred sentencing and considered parole. Her husband George Fuqua aged 36 of Dallas was convicted on the same charge and his sentencing was deferred. he remained free on a $10,000 bond.
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Hutchinson, Kan
Charlene Fuqua
John Fontron
George Fuqua
Dallas
Fuqua
Mrs. Kent Seeks Mrs America Crown Despite 90
DORSET VI AP Mrs. Rose L Kent at age 90 aims for the Mrs America title in Miami Beach April 22 26. She cites lifelong homemaker achievements including baking bread cooking cookies and raising two sons while contributing writings and poems. Contest director Bert Nevins supports her as a qualified entrant noting the event honors American homemakers.
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Bert Nevins
Glenn Space Suit For Smithsonian
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. will present his space suit to the Smithsonian next Wednesday on the first anniversary of his orbital flight. He will also donate the tiny American flag carried on his mission to the National Air Museum.
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Washington
John H. Glenn Jr
Smithsonian Institution
Glenn
Earth
Institution
National Air Museum
Ira Barber Files Nominating Petition for City Commission
Ira Barber former superintendent of the Ash Grove cement plant filed as the fourth candidate for city commission. He retired at year start after 40 years with Ash Grove. Other filed candidates include incumbent Dave Evans Jim Taylor and Edward L Caldwell with two more petitions for the commission and two for the school board.
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Ira Barber
Ash Grove
City Commission
Barber
Dave Evans
Jim Taylor
Edward L. Caldwell
Ad Pays Off for MSU Tall Sophomore in Dating Ads
East Lansing report says 6-foot-7 Michigan State University sophomore Dave Steiner of Grand Blanc drew many responses after placing a two line ad in the State News seeking a date with a tall woman. He said he averages about 10 calls daily and had a date with a 6-2 coed on Friday.
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East Lansing
Mich
Michigan State University
Dave Steiner
Grand Blanc
State News
College Daily
Chet
David
Heritage Room Opens at Library as Meeting Place
The City Library unveiled a Heritage Room in its basement funded by the Fieldline charitable trust. It serves as a quiet reading space and meeting room for clubs, open during library hours and by special permission after hours. The room honors the late Mr and Mrs Fieldline and hosts art prints, with plans to add a record player and music programs.
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Claude E. Freid
The
Art and Literature Club
Shakespeare Club
Claude Fieidline
Blind WWI veteran dies knowing someone cared
Wilmer A. Summerville, 73, a blind World War I veteran, died in a private nursing home after 46 days in Floyd County Jail unable to get government hospital care. Sheriff Adams aided him, then Christine Perry offered free care. VA initially refused admission, later apologizing and arranging support. Funeral set for 4 p.m. with burial nearby.
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Rome, Ga
Wilmer A. Summerville
Summerville
Floyd County
Joe
Adams
Christine Perry
Cedartown
Joseph L. Erwin
Medical Administration
Atlanta
Africans Flee Bulgaria After Racial Discrimination Claims
Ethiopian and Ghanaian students left Communist Bulgaria amid charges of racial abuse. About 400 Africans reportedly seek funds or transport to depart, with some arrested and beaten during protests. Others from Nigeria Guinea Mali and Kenya planned departures via Prague and Amsterdam.
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Vienna
Austria
Bulgaria
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Amsterdam
Petras Sahlon
Radio Ghana
Sofia
J. L. Appah Sampong
Robert Kotey
Kotey
Nigeria
Guinea
Mali
Togo
Kenya
Prague
Training Program For Cuban Veterans
The Defense Department announces a special U S military training program for Cuban veterans of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Enlistments begin next week in Miami with training set to start in March at army navy and air force bases.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S
Miami
Jose Miro Cardona
Cuban Revolutionary Council
Army
Navy
Air Force
Plan League of Women Voters Meeting in Chanute
Mrs. Paul V. Smith, Wichita state organizer for the League of Women Voters, will speak at a Wednesday 7:30 pm meeting in the Home Savings Lounge. The open gathering aims to inform area women about forming a Chanute League and emphasizes factual government information without personalities or politics.
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Paul V. Smith
Wichita
League of Women Voters
Home Savings Lounge
50 Mile Hike Planned by Wichita Postmen
Three Wichita postal workers Willard D. Packard Fred Berry and Percy Douglas plan a 50 mile hike on Washington's Birthday their day off The trio will carry one letter from Layne S. Larimore postmaster at Newton to Ernest C Balay postmaster at Wichita on the outbound leg and deliver it back on return
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Wichita
Washington
Willard D. Packard
Fred Berry
Percy Douglas
Layne S. Larimore
Newton
Larimore
Ernest C. Balay
Dedication Planned for Buffalo Nazarene Church Building
The Buffalo Church of the Nazarene will dedicate its new building tomorrow at 2 30 pm with Rev Melvin Duncan pastor as announce by Rev Dean Baldwin district Superintendent. A tour of the enlarged sanctuary and new Sunday School unit will follow. Public invited. Contributions to the fund may be made to Rev Duncan or Mrs Mary Robertson treasurer. The existing building is valued at 15000.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Church of the Nazarene
Melvin Duncan
Dean Baldwin
Joplin
Duncan
Mary Robertson
Topekan Is Killed In Turnpike Crash
Kenneth L. Mc Donald of Topeka, 55, was killed when his car struck a bridge pillar on the Kansas Turnpike. Witnesses said the vehicle was moving about 70 mph as it veered off the turnpike after entering at the South Topeka interchange, five miles east.
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Topeka
Kenneth L. McDonald
Kansas Turnpike
Turnpike
McDonald
South Topeka
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Kirkpatrick
Betty Heilman
F. M. Kirkpatrick
S. Lafayette
Mrs. Kaufman
Miss Perez Flack
Teresa Perez
Henry Flack
Lola
Churchill Miss Bowman
Alvis Churchill
Lois Bowman
Galesburg
Miss Hyde
Caribbean
Cscseese
Glenn Space Suit
Smithsonian
Fieidlines
Dwight McCreight
Fieidline
Wilson County
Art & Literature Club
Heritage Room
Joe Balch
Rosa Stauffer
Mae Wilkins
Wil
Kins
Claude Freidline
Tribune
Larry Mathews
Plan League of Women Voters
Topekan
Cha
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