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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1967
Page
1
U S officials report a record 20 242 Viet Cong defected in 1966 with the final two months driving the surge. December alone saw 2 516 defections, surpassing November's 2 505. Air action included B52 strikes and dogfights near Hanoi as Col Robin Olds led multiple Phantom maneuvers.
The House Administration Committee ordered Rep Adam Clayton Powell’s wife removed from a $20,500 payroll position. Findings of widespread irregularities in official travel were sent to the Justice Department. The action, described as unprecedented by Subcommittee Chair Wayne L. Hays, came after hearings on Powell’s Education and Labor Committee practices.
Mrs. Minne E. Prowell a 100 year old Coffeyville resident died in a house fire on the outskirts of the city while cooking at a stove her clothing caught fire. The fire damaged only plastic curtains and the house remained undamaged. Her son Common O Webster who lived with her found her chair with most of her clothing burned away.
A brief intercepted note sketches a man awakening to the labors of 1967 with the look of a quarterback facing a critical third down. The tone hints at pressure and upcoming hard plays in the year ahead.
Law enforcement reported a quiet New Year holiday with several nonfatal traffic crashes in southeast Kansas. Troopers logged two crashes near Chanute on US 169 and additional fender benders in the Erie and Chanute areas. No fatalities occurred and one arrest for driving while intoxicated was recorded.
The Kansas City Kansas Tulsa Freeway Association will meet at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce office to review work and approve dummy copy for a booklet supporting a direct limited access highway between Kansas City and Tulsa. Representatives from towns along the route are invited. A Friday 3 p m public relations committee meeting will plan a goodwill breakfast visit to Humboldt on January 17.
If you cannot reach your Tribune carrier try HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m. The notice directs readers to an after hours dialing option for service inquiries.
A vest-pocket Haiti invasion plan led by Rolando Masferrer was halted after a raid in the Florida Keys netted heavily armed Latin exiles and Americans. Commander Aton Constanzo Palau claimed about 75 Cuban exiles, 30 Haitian exiles, and 28 Americans planned to attack Cap Haitian airport, bomb the Port-au-Prince garrison, and install Jean Baptiste Georges before challenging Fidel Castro within 30 days.
Four people died when a light plane crashed at Ardmore Downtown Airpark on Monday. The victims include Star Sgt. Gordon A. Hunter 32 of Wichita Falls Texas pilot of the aircraft his wife Johnnie Bell Rodgers Hunter 29 infant daughter two-month-old Michelle Rene Hunter and Mrs Ella Rodgers Dunn 19 sister of Hunters wife. Hunter had leased a single engine Mooney Mark 21 from a Wichita Falls firm and filed a flight plan from Malvern Arkansas to Wichita Falls.
The Burlington Free Press offered to pay funeral expenses for people who said they would drink and drive during the holidays. For the sixth year in a row no one collected. Fifteen signed up for the period from 10 p.m. Christmas Eve to 6 a.m. New Year’s Day, bringing the six year total to 141.
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI will grant an unprecedented audience to Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny on January 29. The meeting marks a historic high level exchange between the Vatican and the USSR.
North Vietnam denounced Britain for proposing peace talks with the United States and South Vietnam as an attempt to force Hanoi’s terms. Nhan Dan called the move an insult and urged Britain to honor its Geneva Conference duties. Pravda and Quan Doi Nhan Dan echoed the stance, arguing the plan excludes the Viet Cong and ignores South Vietnam’s pivotal role.
Area forecast calls for generally fair skies and moderating temperatures across Kansas. Tonight remains cold with lows 15 to 20, Wednesday high 35 to 40, while precipitation totals include yesterday’s 0.02 inch with a trace of snow and December’s FAA total of 1.10 inch.
The 78 hour New Year weekend saw 446 traffic fatalities, down from last year's 564 and below NSC safety-peak estimates. Authorities cited safer driving and minimal weather impact. In Kansas, eight people died on streets and highways during the four-day holiday, including Marion A. Henning, 56, near Herington.
Jack Ruby, who shot Oswald in the Dallas County Jail basement, died at Parkland Hospital in Dallas after a cancer diagnosis. He had been treated for illness since December 9 and was 55. He left behind siblings Earl Ruby, Eva Grant, and Eileen Kaminsky.
Police arrested Charles W. Marler 35 of Iola at 8 50 a m on charges of driving while intoxicated transporting an open bottle and illegal tag use. His brother James R. Marler of Iola was charged with intoxication. Both held at the city jail awaiting bond or court tomorrow after a report from a resident in the 700 block on North Steuben.
A light plane test flight near Dighton Kansas ended in tragedy killing pilot Dr Charles Venable and passenger Burl E McKinney Jr both of Colorado Springs Colorado Five other prospective passengers waited at the airport including Venables wife and 11 year old daughter Ruthie Reverend Don Beale his wife and three month old baby The wreckage was found after a five hour search following frost warnings at the field.
Area residents will hear explosion like sonic booms for about three months as SAC B58 Hustler aircraft train at high altitude from Hermitage Arkansas near the Arkansas Louisiana border northwest to Iola Kansas. Nike radar checks accompany the flights with two runs daily at Mach 1.65 to test accuracy without dropping bombs.
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