Floods and winds pummel Deep South as rains rise
Floodwaters climbed in central Alabama and Mississippi with evacuations across four states. Tornadoes and damaging winds hit Alabama Georgia and South Carolina. 2000 Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Georgia families affected. No serious injuries reported.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
Montgomery
Atlanta
Mike
Red Cross
Washington
Louisiana
Georgia
National Guard
Civil Defense
Hattiesburg
Miss
South Carolina
Ala
Tallapoosa
Martin Dam
Flooded Hattiesburg Faces Major Displacement Crisis
In Hattiesburg Mississippi about 400 white and 4200 Black residents were flooded from their homes as Bouie and Leaf rivers overflowed. Refugees crowded centers and churches while medical teams treated typhoid and provided care. Relief crews including Red Cross Salvation Army Scouts and volunteers organized shelters diapers and evacuations.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
J. B. Walters
Walters
VFW
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
New Orleans
Mobile
Ala
Jackson and McComb
Congressmen Payrolls Listed for Kansas January Salaries
Records show January salaries for Kansas House members and listed staff. Names include Rep. William Avery James Breeding Robert Dole Ellsworth Shriver and others with salaries ranging from 70.04 to 1,188.13 dollars, reflecting payroll details for lawmakers and aides.
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Washington
Kansas House
William H. Avery
Robert D. Buehler
Cassandra O'Dell
Maria B. Raedy
Mary Alice Passman
J. Floyd Breeding
Rose-Bel Thompson
Lawrence G. Brennan
Katherine B. McMullen
Olivia J. Jeffries
Elizabeth R. Carlin
Wilma Solander
Doris M. Ketchum
Robert Dole
William A. Kats
Agnes Amilian
Bonnie S. Langdon
Margaret Cox
Ward H. White
Robert F. Ellsworth
R.R.M. Converse
Venita R. Clair
Richard L. Bond
Lou Ann Rowe
N. William Emerson
Sharon W. Thierry
Walter L. McVey
William H. Halsey
Alice E. Lilje
Christine Reynolds
Leila M. Copp
Bennett L. Lilje
Garner E. Shriver
Elizabeth T. Haycock
Carl F. Harder
Jean Winkley
SPA Power Considered for Chanute and Six Kansas Cities
The Southwestern Power Authority could supply up to 50 000 kilowatts for an intercity link among Chanute and five other Kansas towns and cities. A feasibility study is underway by a Kansas City firm to secure cheaper power than local plants. The Kansas Municipal Power Pool is coordinating interconnection studies with Erie Iola Coffeyville Ottawa and Kansas City Kaw plus Wellington and McPherson attending the meeting in Tulsa.
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Chanute
Kansas Cities
Southwestern Power Authority
R. J. Hayes
SPA
Tulsa
Federal
Hayes
Harold W Llams
John Lofthouse
Table Rock
Missouri
Kansas City
Kansas Municipal Power Pool
Erie
Iola
Coffeyville
Ottawa
Kaw
Wellington
McPherson
Jail sentence and fine for Kansas City drug dealer Hancks
Kansas City AP reports 21 year old Thomas Dean Hancks was fined 100 dollars and received an 18 month jail term for selling drugs. A girl and a boy testified Hancks had given them stimulant drugs hypodermically.
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Kansas City
Thomas Dean Hancks
Hancks
Halemaumau Eruption Ends After Lava Fountains
Halemaumau crater on Kilauea stopped erupting after eight hours of lava fountains reaching 100 feet. No injuries or damages were reported in the area near Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The eruption was Kilauea’s 20th since 1918 and posed no threat to nearby residents.
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Honolulu
Halemaumau
Kilauea
Hawaii Island
Hawaii National Park
Mauna Loa
Kapoho
Oldest East African human bones found by Leakey team
In Nairobi the Museum reported bones of an adult and an 11 year old from Olduvai Gorge area, over 600000 years old, possibly nearer to modern man than Nutcracker man. The find suggests a child murder with a blunt instrument and expands the known timeline of Homo ancestors in East Africa.
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East Africa
Washington
Nairobi
Kenya
Olduvai Gorge
Tanganyika
L. S. B. Leakey
Leakey
Coryndon
National Geographic Society
Ia Society
Lumumba Forces Seize Luluabourg In Congo Crisis
Pro Lumumba forces seized Luluabourg in Kasai Province as the Congolese government gave the UN six hours to remove them. The intruders merged with a Mobutu loyal garrison, while UN protection prevented violence and linked forces peacefully at the town and airport.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
C AP
Luluabourg
United Nations
Oriental Province
U. N
Joseph Mobutu
Jean Bolikango
Kasai
Antoine Gizenga
Congo
Lumumbist
Stanleyville
Oriental
Bukavu
Kivu
Patrice Lumumba
Mobutu
Joseph Kasavubu
Mijoko
Lumumbists
Mioko
Lusambo
UN Cash Deadline Looms in Congo as Hammarskjold Struggles
United Nations chief Dag Hammarskjold seeks fresh funds to sustain the Congo mission amid looming financial collapse. He has three months of special borrowing power as General Assembly must cover last year’s 48.5 million Congo bill and the 12 million excess borrowed. The US has provided about 44.96 million, while the Soviet bloc and others have not paid their shares, leaving total Congo costs for 1960 through early 1961 estimated at 72.5 million.
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United Nations
N.Y
Dag Hammarskjold
Congo
U.N
Lmen
U. N
Hammarskjold
United States
U.S
Britain
Sooviet Union
Soviet Bloc
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Albania
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Moscow
Lenten Guideposts God stands behind promises in Bible
Catherine Marshall reflects on personal Bible promises that guide life. Key verses from Proverbs Hebrews 10 36 1 John 1 9 Revelation 3 20 Romans 9 32 33 and James 1 5 illustrate guidance forgiveness faith wisdom and triumph amid trouble. (Continued on Page 2)
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God
Catherine Marshall
Sion
Kansas Woman Killed in Texas Home Shooting
Ruth Decker, 61, of Baxter Springs Kansas, was shot to death Friday night in a Dallas Texas home. Police questioned a relative of the Kansas woman as part of the investigation.
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Dallas
Tex
Ruth Decker
Baxter Sipings
Kan
Kansas
Traffic Fatalities Log for Topeka Area
AP reports Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours to 9 am shows February totals and comparisons: 1961 62 period and 1960 period both cited with figures around 53. No specific names or incidents listed.
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Topeka
Kansas
Train Falls Through Trestle In Milstead Rescue Delays
The Piedmont Limited engine and baggage car plunged through a weakened trestle into a 40 foot ravine near Milstead Alabama. Engineer J M Smith age about 60 of Montgomery was pinned in the submerged cab for four hours before rescue at 4 30 a m. Eight cars stopped at the edge of the ravine preventing a disaster. about 50 passengers were shaken but unharmed.
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Milstead
Ala
Piedmont Limited
New York
New Orleans
J. M. Smith
Montgomery
Injury death claims after December crash in Hill City
Mrs. May Chipman aged 70 of Hill City died in a hospital last Friday after an automobile accident in December. The report notes Lee Wasser for Insurance was unconscious following the crash. The incident occurred in 1959 with details provided by AP from Hill City Kansas reporting.
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Hill City
Kas
May Chipman
Lee Wasser
Banker Embezzlement Case Ends in Suicide in Knoxville Iowa
Eldon L. Job 59 president of Community National Bank and Trust Co. of Knoxville hanged himself after a half million dollar embezzlement was uncovered. He left a deathbed confession describing forged notes to cover bad investments and to fund local donations. The bank had a $1 million fidelity bond covering the shortage.
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Eldon L. Job
Community National Bank and Trust Co
Knoxville
Iowa
Job
Sheldon
Sheldon National Bank
Fidelity
Community National
Sheldon Bank
Burnice Geiger
Malvern
John E. Willard
Malvern Trust & Savings Bank
Iowa State Savings
Weather Outlook Warm Today Across Kansas
Topeka AP reports a warming trend across Kansas with temperatures likely in the 50s and 60s. Highs today near 60s, lows tonight lower, and a mild cold front expected to move into northwest Kansas overnight. Skies mostly clear with some high clouds.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Blunk Wins Art Exhibit in Neosho County Show
Ro bert Blunk Jr. wins with an abstract oil in Neosho County art show. Gloria Redfield takes second with a water color of a house and Edna Rollow earns third with a pastel portrait. Sixty paintings by 26 exhibitors shown at Home Appliance showroom. top ten advance to Garnett regional May 8 to 12 for Kansas Centennial exhibit.
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Robert Blunk Jr
Neosho County
Gloria Redfield
S. Evergreen
Edna Rollow
Don Abbuehl
Tom Bergfald
Carter Brookhart
Garnett
Kansas
James A. Butin
Fred Robertson
W. Oak
Raymond Justice
S. Highland
Blunk
Russell Brown
Erie
Cars Damaged In Collision In Chanute
Two 16 year old Chanute boys drove cars that were extensively damaged in a collision at Main and Tennessee about 1130 last night. Thomas H Tweddell 211 S Steuben and Randall E Marsh Jr 1015 N Steuben were the drivers. Tweddell was cited for reckless driving. No one was hurt.
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Chanute
Main
Tennessee
Thomas H. Tweddell
S. Steuben
Randal E. Marsh Jr
N. Steuben
Tweddell
Marsh
Nash
Ford
4Th and
Highland
Robert L. Looney
Iola
Harold L
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Buford
A. R. Long
Cahaba River
Jim Clark
Selma
Gadsden
Coosa River
West
Demopolis
John Patterson
Columbus
Chattahoochee River
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Tribune
Jonathan
Christ
Texas
Self
Town
Bernice
Ned
Louis
Judith
Drake University
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