Committee Assignments Made for State Senate
TOPEKA AP The Kansas Legislature opens the second day with no calendar items. Four new senators receive committee slots while some holdovers shift positions. House committees to be set next week. A pay bill for legislators to replace the $5 day pay is expected. Senate reshuffles include Hodge as Assessment and Taxation chair with new members Harder and Kuppinger. Ball moves to Municipalities. Hope replaced on Public Welfare by Kuppinger. Sebelius named Welfare vice chairman among others.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Ryan
John V. Glades
R-Yates Center
Steadman Ball
R-Atchison
Ball
Hodge
Kuppinger
Public Welfare
Cliff Hope
Garden City
Charles Arthur
Bill Fribley
Crestline
Ralph Skog
Thomas VanCleave
Kansas City
Joseph Mikesic
Arthur
J. W. Wallace
Mound City
Raymond Carlson
Morrowville
William Painter
R-Meade
Hollace Newell
Bill Would Reduce Kansas House Membership
A bill to cut the Kansas House of Representatives from 125 to 105 members is under discussion. Attorney General William M. Ferguson, involved in a reapportionment suit, says he has not seen a draft or spoken with sponsors. Rep. Ross Doyen favors apportionment by area. the Senate plans a population-based review. Ferguson plans a February 1 final draft and will seek county attorney input before the January 28 meeting. He also pushes bills on stricter gambling laws and multi county juvenile detention financing.
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Bership
Kansas House of Representatives
Ferguson
Ross Doyen
R-Rice
Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
Pacemaker Installed For Savenburg Man’s Heart
Savenburg resident Earnest Swanson in his 70s recovers in Trinity Lutheran Hospital Kansas City after a pacemaker is implanted to steady his heart rate at about 62 beats per minute following a heart attack last year. He underwent two procedures including neck access to send impulses to the heart and remains conscious. A family spokesman said the device will stay in place until arrival at the hospital. Swanson is a former Olson Food Store manager. In Topeka, Henry Watkins and his brother Frank Watkins were sworn in simultaneously for state and Oklahoma legislative terms, drawing applause for their mother Effie McBee of Erie in the gallery.
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Savenburg
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Kansas City
Earnest Swanson
Swanson
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Olson
Trinity Hospital
Weather forecast and temperatures for the date
Continued fair and mild tonight with increasing cloudiness late to night and Thursday, turning colder Thursday. Low tonight 30 to 35, high Thursday around 50. Highest this date earlier years 1917 and 1913, humidity at 1 p.m., barometer 18 inches and falling.
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BRS Cssccess
Socific Contesunaescuss
Mild Kansas Weather To Continue With Cloudiness Thursday
Topeka AP reports unseasonably mild weather will persist tonight with cooler temperatures and considerable cloudiness expected Thursday across Kansas. Today's highs near 60 with overnight lows from 25 to 30 in the northeast and near 40 in the southeast. Thursday highs around the 50s, still above average, with no precipitation. Tuesday highs ranged 58 at Olathe to 71 at Russell. early lows between 24 at Abilene and Topeka and 43 at Pittsburg.
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Olathe
Concordia
Russell
Abilene
Topeka
Pittsburg
Swearing In Of Officials Is Monday At Erie Courthouse
Erie Neosho county officials elected in November will be sworn in at the courthouse Monday noon with four office changes taking effect immediately. George Neely becomes sheriff replacing Jerry Sloan, Virgil Lowe is county clerk, Robert Pennington becomes county attorney, and L. W. Thurman replaces Charlies Norris as first district commissioner. A fifth change starts in October for county treasurer per state law. Showalter will assume clerk duties then, while other re-elected officials begin new terms Monday. Neely also appoints John VanVickle as undersheriff.
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Erie
Neosho County
George Neely
Jerry Sloan
Virgil Lowe
Marion Showalter
Robert Pennington
Richard L. Ashley
L. W. Thurman
Charlies Norris
Showalter
Freda Locke
Hazel Meeker
John Young
Merle Estes
Ava Jeffrey
Register of Deeds
Dwight Diver
Frank Vaughn
Neely
John VanVickle
Chanute
Lester Marts
Driver Fined $25 In Police Court
Jim Joy 18 of Benedict was fined $25 for driving during suspension of his license and given conditional release. He had been in city jail since Sunday after a car rammed the Wilbur Mace garage at 603 N Forest and fled. He may pay the fine by Saturday or serve 20 days in county jail and must arrange garage repairs.
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Jim Joy
Benedict
Wilbur Mace
N. Forest
Joy
Empire State Building Fire Closes Upper Floors
A troublesome fire raced through a pipe shaft inside the 102 story Empire State Building, shooting flames up to offices a eighth of a mile above ground. Firemen shut two floors and battled smoldering blazes on 64th to 66th floors as 60,000 daily workers were affected. no injuries reported. The tower houses antennae for NYC television stations. The building was evacuated twice before reopening by 9 am.
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Empire State Building
New York City
JayCees plan two events in Chanute this month
Chanute Jay Cee s discuss two January projects, a Representative Young Teacher banquet at the Masonic Temple honoring five nominees and a Radio Day fundraiser awarding three 50 scholarship grants to Chanute Junior College. Local lawyer Joe Balch to speak.
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Chanute Junior College
Chanute JayCees
Masonic Temple
Buford Fisher
Chanute
Joe Balch
Harold Tarpley
Bob Cox
Ray Zumalt
Royster Junior High
Raymond Bell
Murray Hill School
Nancy Jones
Unified Studies
Royster
JayCees
Chanute Jaco
Ray Christiansen
Bob Holder
Coffeyville JayCees
Penelope the cautious cockatiel in UM Lab
In Ann Arbor Penelope the canny cockatiel at the University of Michigan Medical School laboratory refuses to eat or drink until a human preparator, Wendell P. Drouger, has taken a first bite. The Australian parrot lives among hazardous chemicals and shows unusual caution.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
Penelope
University of Michigan Medical School
Wendell P. Drouger
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Sparks Session Windup
Legislators placidly mark time at the start of the session, but as it ends the process becomes a wild-rush operation. Nute signs the note, sending a cautionary tone about political pressure and urgency.
Unpredictable 88th Congress Begins Action in 1963
Washington AP reports the 88th Congress opening with ceremony as new and returning members take seats. Kennedy allies aim to expand the rules to ease passing major proposals, while Republicans vow to challenge. Senate leaders and House officers prepare to organize and elect Speaker John W. McCormack. Edward McCormack, nephew of the speaker, attends as a visitor.
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Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
House
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
Senate Democrats
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
George A. Smathers
Florida
Smathers
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Edward McCormack
U.S. Senate
Edward
Massachusetts
Chamber of Commerce Backs City 701 Funds Plan
Chamber of Commerce directors endorsed the city’s application for federal 701 funds to finance master planning studies for community development. The endorsement will go to the city planning commission at its 8 pm meeting in the Memorial Building, the panel’s first since organization.
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Chamber of Commerce
City Planning Commission
Memorial Building
Planning Commission
Cedar Creek Watershed Forms Board in Altoona W Iowa County
Altoona W C Fair was elected president of the Cedar Creek Watershed board of directors at an organizational meeting in the high school. Officers include George Hyde as vice president John Uhren as secretary and Claude Carter as treasurer. The board picks two year and one year terms for members and plans a district election to decide if voters want to continue the watershed district. Next meeting is set for Monday at the Thornburg Grange Hall. Paul Stephens seeks a corporate seal while soil conservation speakers are slated for Neodesha on January 16.
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W. C. Fair
Cedar Creek Watershed Board of Directors
George Hyde
John Uhren
Claude Carter
Fail
Carter
Hyde
Ahren
Irving Gibson
Ivan Fail
Walter Bradford
Cedar Creek
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Division of Water Resources
Thornburg
Paul Stephens
Wilson County Soil Conservation District
Soil Conservation District
Neodesha
L. L. Males
Sandstone Creek
Prisoners Returned To Neosho County
Sheriff Jerry Sloan and Police Chief Lige Matlock brought back two inmates from Sacramento and Denver. Odis Eatherly, facing a 1960 rape charge, and Doran Small, charged with a felony check violation, were held at the Erie county jail. Unofficially accompanying them was Probate Judge John Young.
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Jerry Sloan
Lige Matlock
Sacramento
Calif
Denver
Odis Eatherly
Doran Small
Chanute
Erie
Eatherly
Small
John Young
Tulsa woman held for reckless driving near Chanute
Police arrested Mrs. Dorothy Harbert, 28, of Tulsa yesterday on a reckless driving charge as her car entered Chanute after a complaint from Humboldt. She was en route to Tulsa from Kansas City with six children, not intoxicated but deemed unsafe to drive. she was held until early today and her children placed in private homes until relatives arrived to take them to Tulsa.
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Dorothy Harbert
Tulsa
Chanute
Humboldt
Kansas City
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka For January 1963
AP reports Kansas traffic data from 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday showing 8 fatalities for January 1963, compared with 9 fatalities in the same 1962 period. This reflects early monthly totals in Topeka traffic.
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Topeka
Kansas
Talk of the Month Club hears Ray Monsalvatge on security
Ray Monsalvatge, psychologistimagician, outlined four steps to a fruitful life at Tioga Hotel before seventy club members. He urged hard work generosity learning and peace of mind while denouncing federal security trends as moral erosion. He warned of a price for security and cited rising mental health treatment needs, noting his Savannah Georgia roots and Birmingham Southern psychology degree.
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Ray Monsalvatge
Monsalvatge
Monsalvaige
United States
Savannah
Birmingham Southern College
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