Steam car backer in CHP tests to curb smog
Sacramento officials plan a 12 month trial of steam powered autos with California Highway Patrol in response to a new smog control law. New York fire kills nine on Fifth Avenue. Garden City teens arraigned after a shooting spree. Dallas union to strike over worker suspensions. General Motors issues the largest recall to date for quadra jet carburetors. Pennsylvania donates a buffalo to Penn State after Orange Bowl result. Cape Kennedy launches Esa 9 weather satellite amid a busy launch week.
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Pennsylvania
Raymond P. Shefer
Robert Docking
Kansas
Penn State
Docking
Pennsylvania State University
School of Animal Husbandry
Shafer
Kansas Jayhawks
Death of Premier Eshkol shocks Israel as Syria strikes
Israel mourns prime minister Levi Eshkol whose death unsettles the government and delays retaliation plans after Israeli planes hit guerrilla bases in Syria. Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon leads the nation as a state funeral is scheduled for Mt. Herzl with elections due in November.
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Abba Eban
Eban
Yigal Allon
Dayan
Allon
Eshkol
Levi
Dvorah Eshkol
Israel
Mt. Herzl
Jerusalem
Israel Prime Minister Eshkol Dies Amid Tense Gaza Conflict
AP reports Prime Minister Levi Eshkol dies of a heart attack as Israel faces its gravest Arab confrontation since 1967. In the past week Arab guerrillas hit an El Al flight at Zurich and saboteurs exploded a Jerusalem supermarket, killing two and injuring nine. Rain forecast.
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Levi Eshkol
Israel
Middle East
el al
Zurich
Chanu te Tribune item from February 26 1969
Dail y Chanute Tribune report dated February 26 1969 highlights local news from Chanute Kansas involving community events and civic notices. Readers are informed of ongoing activities and forthcoming meetings with brief notes on participants and locations.
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Chanute
Kansas
Viet Cong Push Near Saigon as Offensive Intensifies
More than 1,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese pressed within 15 miles of Saigon seizing refugee villages in Bien Hoa and pressing toward Bien Hoa Long Binh Cu Chi. Allied reports say over 3,000 enemy troops were killed with U.S. casualties exceeding 200 dead and hundreds wounded as fighting spreads across South Vietnam. Civilian losses include at least 78 killed and 100 wounded in a refugee village attack in the Central Highlands.
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Saigon
Bien Hoa
South Vietnam
Bien Hoa Long Binh
3Rd Military Corps
Cu Chi
Namese
Central Highlands
Passage of criminal code revision dominates Kansas Senate
In Topeka a packed Senate session saw four new bills and a concurrent resolution, but the criminal code revision bill stole the show by advancing to the House. Other measures include tax exemption eliminations on intangible property and guard personnel classifications. A welfare study on illegitimate births drew sharp comments from Sen. Reynolds Shultz. In the House, a pay-raise bill was introduced.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
Steadman Ball
R-Atchison
House
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Kansas Air National Guard
Kansas Legislative Council
Reynolds Shultz
Lawence
Weather and local notices from Topeka and Coffeyville
Weather area forecast calls for variable clouds with a chance of showers or thundershowers tonight and Thursday with lows in the 40s and highs in the 50s to 60s. The Weather Bureau also notes light wind and rain across the state with increasing southeast winds up to 30 mph and scattered showers in the northeast. In Coffeyville the Wing Derringer program at Olin-Dix is ending due to contract issues, with substantial layoffs announced. county official pay raises are proposed and a House vote aims at setting liability limits for parents for injuries caused by their children.
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Weather Bureau
Kansas
Hill City
Liberal
Coffeyville
Olin-Dixon
W. C. Dixon
Dixon
House
Senate
Red Cross Drive Kickoff Planned in Neosho County
Neosho county Red Cross opens its annual fund drive with a 2:30 p.m. kickoff Friday at the Country Kitchen Cafe south of Erie. Executive secretary Mrs. Nedra Olin notes a $4500 goal. Campaign chairman Harold Shaw leads a list of workers across Erie, Chanute, Galesburg, Thayer, and surrounding townships.
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Neosho County
Red Cross
Erie
Nedra Olin
Chanute
United Fund
Country Kitchen
Harold Shaw
Galesburg
Marion Showalter
Thayer
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Relates to Grants and Crime
With federal grants now on the scene, there is growing doubt that crime pays. The intercepted letter appears to reference funding and its impact on criminal activity.
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Cha
Nixon Promises West Germany Berlin Support
President Nixon won Berlin approval from Bonn for talks with Moscow and assured Chancellor Kiesinger the United States will back Berlin in its disputed presidential election. A German spokesman said Nixon will visit West Berlin to show U S support, while Bonn seeks a united Europe with Bonn and Washington sharing a common aim despite tensions in Paris London and NATO.
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Germany
Nixon
Moscow
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
United States
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Kiesinger
West Berlin
Charles de Gaulle
France
Harold Wilson
Britain
Europe
Thayer Melon Meeting for Growers in Thayer Area
A 1969 meeting for growers land owners and interested persons to discuss a melon growing project in the Thayer area. Organized by Earl Polk Farm Products Management Inc and Earl Shell Ozark Regional Commission the session aims to gauge interest acreage and support for the Ozark Regional Commission horticultural redevelopment program in southeast Kansas.
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Thayer
Anti-Thief Association
Earl Polk
Farm Products Management, Inc
Earl Shell
Ozark Regional Commission
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Record Storm Rages Across Nation Killing 27
A Northeastern blizzard and West Coast floods left 27 dead as winter storms hit New England and California. Snow measured 5 to 8 inches in Maine and New Hampshire, with Wolfeboro totaling 66 inches. Travel warnings covered Colorado mountains and southern Wyoming.
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Associated Press
New England
California
Wolfeboro
N.H
Augusta
Maine
Portland
Rumford
Virginia
Ohio
New Hampshire
Utah
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Wyoming
State Hearing Set On Crime Control Grants In Kansas
Public hearings in Girard and Fredonia will explore Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act grants for local governments in Neosho Crawford Cherokee Allen Greenwood Wilson Woodson counties. Regions and officials named. mid April submission deadlines. initial grants issued by June 17 amid a $100 million state program funding over five years.
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Neosho
Crawford
Cherokee
Allen
Greenwood
Wilson
Woodson
Fredonia
Kansas
Don Armstrong
B. L. Mahar
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Centerville
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