Cross plot near Iola stirs questions and memories
Readers ponder the purpose of a white cross marked plot west of US 169 beside the Allen County Home. Records show a 1934 burial and 1962 cleanup by an Explorer Scout group, with doubts about how many crosses mark actual burials. The home closed in 1960s, residents moved to nursing or private care.
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Harlene Kackley
Miss Rackley
Highland Cemetery
Iola
Explorer Scout Troop
Ray Hale
Miss Kackley
Thomas
Schantz
Dowald
Emory Schantz
Wilson
Tribune
Fat and Stay Cathy Shultz Hosts Weekends for Students
Mrs Cathy Shultz a former Colorado miner daughter reared 16 children and now supervises a Kansas City Kansas apartment building opposite KU Medical Center. She serves weekend sourdough pancakes to about 18 tenants and keeps a continual pot of navy beans potatoes soup and cornbread. She says she cooks to be around the young and notes thirteen of her children are still living and all married.
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Catherine Shultz
Colorado Rockies
Kansas City
Kan
KU Medical Center
Medical Center
Armed Services
Draft Changes Weighed to Equalize Lottery Call Numbers
Washington AP draft officials weigh changes to monthly manpower allocations to local boards to ensure uniform lottery number draws nationwide. Officials say no definite plan yet and will study how the new system works before deciding. The idea would allow state directors to smooth month by month differences while preserving annual proportional quotas.
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Washington
Defense Department
Pentagon
National Selective Service Headquarters
Intercepted Letter to Cha Reveals Desired Outcome
An intercepted letter shows Harman wishing for a different outcome, with a personal closing Yours. The fragment focuses on the sender Cha and Harman's wish for change, outlining an intimate motive within a historic correspondence.
Close Call at Earlton Involves Two Injured in One Car Crash
At 2:45 a.m. in Earlton a single vehicle crash left Ronnie Smith 21 Hugoton with minor injuries and Richard Smith with injuries not treated. A 1970 Mercury sustained about 2000 dollars in damage after sliding onto a railroad signal and stopping atop the fixture. The signal related to a Santa Fe freight, which continued without stopping.
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Earlton
Ronnie Smith
Hugoton
Smith
Vogel
Santa Fe
Richard Smith
ABM Expansion Being Considered
The Nixon administration, after its narrow Safeguard missile defense victory, weighs expanding the program due to suspected Soviet missile buildup. Intelligence indicates Russia continues its missile effort.
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Washington
Nixon
Gift of Sight By Traffic Victim
A 27 year old Augusta woman, Rose M Cabrales, died from head injuries after a one car crash near here Friday at 7 25 p m. Her eyes were donated to the University of Kansas Medical Center. The driver, Richard D Edwards of Pittsburg, was critically injured and hospitalized.
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Erie
Rose M. Cabrales
Augusta
Here
Richard D. Edwards
Pittsburg
Labette County Medical Center
Parsons
Edwards
US 59
East Hill Cemetery
Highway Patrol
Roland Vogel
Miss Cabrales
Neosho County
George Neely
John Harris
Vogel
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Kan
KU Medical Center
Kansas
Associated Press
Missouri Pacific
Ellsworth County
Ellsworth
Hoffa loses Court Bid in 1960s conviction review
In Chattanooga, James R. Hoffa failed to obtain a new trial as Judge Frank W. Wilson ruled the evidence used to convict him was legally obtained. The case stemmed from a 1962 conspiracy trial in Nashville ending in a mistrial. Hoffa remains imprisoned at Lewisburg for an eight year term begun in spring 1967.
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Chattanooga
Ewing Parks
Hoffa
Nashville
King
Campbell
Parks
Federal Penitentiary
Lewisburg
Wilson
Chicago
Supreme Court
District 413 Board Sets Meeting Agenda with Staffing
The District 413 board will consider hiring three teachers and a custodian to fill vacancies. Other items include renewal of administrative contracts, salary schedules for 1970 71, a vote on suspending out of district tuition, and guidelines for negotiating between administration and faculty.
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Board of Education
S. Evergreen
Liner hijacked by Brazilian rebels reaches Cuba via Panama
A hijacked airliner seized by five Brazilian revolutionaries at Lima's airport for 27 hours heads to Cuba after stopping in Panama to refuel. The crew could not restart the plane until a new battery, flown from Chile, arrived late Friday.
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Lima
Cuba
Panama
Chile
American infantry repels attack near Da Nang. 29 enemy dead
American forces on a hill south of Da Nang beat back an assault early today, killing 29 enemy troops while taking 19 casualties. Seven Americans died and 12 were wounded in the midnight strike, third major clash this week. In Chu Lai, Lt. Gen. Peers probes My Lai cover-up claims amid house to house search and village perimeter walk.
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Saigon
da Nang
Chu Lai
Vietnam
William R. Peers
My Lai
U.S
Weekend Forecast and Delivery Hotline
Partly cloudy through Sunday with a low around 15 to 20 and a high near 25 to 30. Readers are reminded to contact their Tribune carrier if delivery is missed or call 421-3400 at 5 30 p m.
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Tribune
Harman Sees Different 1970 Run for Kansas Governor
Harman, owner of a restaurant chain and former Kansas State University basketball star, says a 1970 bid would be different. He notes improved name ID, a focus on taxes, and plans to use a California campaign firm for polling and research as he studies key issues for a possible GOP gubernatorial campaign.
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Harman
John Crutcher
Robert Docking
Kansas State University
Docking
California
Spencer Roberts and Associates
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