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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1966
Page
1
Ralph Blumberg owner of WBOX Bogalusa Arkansas said Ku Klux Klan members threatened violence after he invited former Rep. Brooks Hays to speak on community relations. He described boycotts, threats to sponsors, and repeated calls to his home along with vandalism and gunfire aimed at his transmitter.
The Ambassadors Club of the Chamber of Commerce stages a daylong drive beginning with a kickoff breakfast at Tioga Hotel. Ten workers report back to the chamber office at 4 30 p.m. Ron Poor chairs ambassadors. Noble Drake to advise.
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A federal grand jury indicted Bobby Baker former Senate secretary on nine counts including tax evasion and conspiracy for understating income by 54558.91 in 1961 1962 and evading over 23000 in taxes. The case ties in Wayne Bromley and Clifford Jones with further charges of fraud and perjury.
Mayor Lindsay asks Transit Authority and two striking unions to resume service amid ongoing contract talks. Union negotiators reject immediate revival while courts consider fines for jailed officers. Officials note lighter morning traffic and suggest staggered hours to ease peaks.
Five applicants seek the opening on the Montgomery County sheriff’s force. One candidate is an inmate from the State Industrial Reformatory Hutchinson serving time for burglary and larceny and eligible for parole possibly by April. Sheriff Lessman did not identify the applicant and aims to fill the vacancy before release.
The letter from Marine Jack Swender to his mother Mrs Mabel Swender was read at his Pleasanton funeral after he died at 22 from shell fragments near Que Son Vietnam on December 18. He argued Americans must fight communism abroad to defend freedom at home.
Derby Kansas city officials vote 4 to 2 to seek 41 thousand more for a new city building. Bond election set for February 1 after bids reached 101 thousand while 92 thousand approved previously left 68 thousand for the structure.
Twenty city employees in Coffeyville Kansas failed to report for work for a third day. City Manager Earl Keaton said no plan to contact Local 417 Business Agent Joseph Frederick, who is out of the city. The commission had approved a four cent raise to $3.24 an hour, while the union seeks ten cents more. action on the hike was tabled at today’s meeting.
Area forecast calls for generally fair tonight and Thursday with a little warmth. Highs today near 50 in eastern Kansas and 55 to 60 in the west, lows 20s to 30s. Tuesday’s highs ranged from 44 at Pittsburg to 58 at Goodland with lows 17 to 30. Skies mostly sunny. no moisture expected from the advancing cold front.
Four East Germans including two 13 year old girls escaped across minefields into West Germany during the night police reported. In Berlin an East Berlin woman aged 23 fled across the Communist built wall.
United States diplomat Arthur J. Goldberg urged U N Security Council members to back peace talks on Vietnam. He delivered a letter to Secretary General Thant outlining U S aims including talks without conditions, a possible cease fire, withdrawal of forces, and South Vietnamese self determination leading to reunification.
South Korean Marines and Vietnamese paratroopers cleared a large Viet Cong base near Tuy Hoa in Phu Yen Province after five days of fighting. The operation Jefferson netted 278 Viet Cong killed, with air and artillery support and nonlethal tear gas used. A U.S. 1st Cavalry helicopter crane crashed near Mang Yang Pass, killing all aboard. US aid to South Vietnam will double to 400 million dollars in 1966 to fund food relief and shipments of rice.
Federal regulatory agencies issued a year end banking condition call for reports as of December 31 covering most banks. State banks not covered by federal deposit insurance were included in a parallel call by State Bank Commissioner J O Wilson.
Topeka reports a Kansas traffic death log covering 24 hours to 9 a m Wednesday for January 1966 with comparisons to the 1964 period showing a total of six fatalities and a 9 in the earlier year.
In private talks at Tashkent India’s Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistan’s Ayub Khan made progress but failed to reach an agenda for their summit. The Kashmir dispute, a war cause between the two, hindered a full agreement while Soviet host Kosygin urged discussion. Kosygin met Shastri privately facing resistance from Pakistan.
A Cessna Aircraft Co. test flight near Mayfield Kansas ended in death for pilot Donald G. Martin 46 and radio technician James Earl Standridge 47 both of Wichita. The crash occurred when the new plane plunged into a wheat field a quarter mile from a house, black smoke rising from the engine as Lawrence Kolarik Caldwell reported the plane passed low over U S 160.
A terse intercepted note questions page boys in Congress aiming for Bobby Baker’s fate. The writer signs off with a personal hint, implying political scrutiny and intrigue around Capitol affairs.
A 1965 GMC truck and 300 bales of prairie hay burned northwest of Earlton yesterday afternoon. Ross Leatherman of Woodward owned the truck, which was en route from Bill Kepley farm when it exploded after catching fire. Firemen believed a short in clearance lights may have sparked the blaze. a trailing hay trailer was uncoupled and escaped damage.
United States Steel Corp announces a 2.75 per ton rise for structural steel in Pittsburgh while cutting cold rolled steel sheets prices in California by 9 per ton. Bethlehem and Inland respond, the White House endorses, and the five day power struggle ends with Ackley praising the move.
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