Passenger Train Halt Faces Local Protest In Hearings
About 100 residents and officials from Chanute Coffeyville Independence Cherryvale Iola Humboldt Erie gathered at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing to protest Santa Fe plans to discontinue two Tulsa bound passenger trains serving Chanute and surrounding towns. Local leaders urged careful review of broader impacts on growth and transportation needs.
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Santa Fe
Kansas City
Tul$a
Interstate Commerce Commission
Coffeyville
Independence
Cherryvale
Iola
Humboldt
Erie
Chanute
Chamber of Commerce
Joe Skubitz
Dan Skubitz
Wichita
5Th District
Kansas
Burl Schaberg
Chanute Area
Olathe
Gaylord Plummer
Plummer
Tulsan
Oil Flyer
Tulsa
City of
Bartlesville
Bernard Feuer
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Sparks Public Interest
Dr. Christian Barnard, the South African heart transplant pioneer, appears to have triggered broad public curiosity with references to the intercepted letter. The remark suggests mounting attention to his groundbreaking work and its implications.
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Christian H. Barnard
Job Rate Climbs as 1967 Ends with High Employment
December showed a record high 74.4 million Americans employed and unemployment at 3.7 percent. The deceleration to 3.8 percent for the year matched a 13 year low, with wages up 4.7 percent overall despite higher living costs. The rise follows pay raises for federal workers and a minimum wage increase to 1.60 by February 1.
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Washington
Asst
Harold Goldstein
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Goldstein
Kansas Legislature Begins Even Year Session
The 1968 Kansas Legislature opened with 63 bills in the hopper, 22 House and 12 Senate education measures. Proposals include funding for education amendment implementation, high school student minimums, and a moratorium on new community junior colleges. A House eye protection repeal shifts regulatory control to the Board of Education. The session marks the first even year gathering since 1876. The Senate Education Committee backs nonpartisan board elections. A kennel ownership registration bill and animal poisoning penalties were introduced, along with wage equality for women and lobbyist access changes. One new member, Robert A. Welsh, was sworn in.
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Kansas
House
Senate
Board of Education
Harriet Graham
Wichita
Robert A. Welsh
University of Kansas
W. Lee Cain
Independence
Kansas Weather Forecast Warmer Into Thursday
Area forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and warmer conditions through Thursday. Lows tonight mainly in the mid 20s, highs Thursday in the low 40s. Kansas to remain dry through today with light precipitation possible Thursday evening. Highs Tuesday ranged from 31 in Pittsburg to 37 in Garden City.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Pittsburg
Concordia
Garden City
Bids February 1 On Area Highway Projects
The State Highway Commission will accept bids February 1 in Norton for Kansas highway construction including four miles of grading and three bridges in Neosho county near Thayer and multiple grading and bridge tasks in Woodson county. Projects start about 3 1 3 to 3% miles south and 5% to 6 miles east of Yates Center.
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Norton
State Highway Commission
Kansas
John Montgomery
Neosho County
Thayer
Woodson County
Yates Center
Traffic Fatalities Reported In Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death logs show 3 fatalities in 24 hours ending 9 am Wednesday, with 19 in January, 19 in 1968, and 14 in the comparable 1967 period. One previously unreported fatality is included.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tribune Phone Contact for Carrier Reachability
Instructions urge contacting the Tribune via phone or, if unavailable, dialing HE 1340 after 6 p.m. The note emphasizes alternative contact timing for the carrier and ensures reachability.
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Tribune
North Vietnamese Attacks Hit Kontum and Saigon Area
North Vietnamese troops pressed fatalities and raids around Kontum airfield and near Saigon as U S forces reported seven dead and twenty five wounded at the airstrip. Helicopters suffered moderate damage with many possibly destroyed. Viet Cong and NVA attacks extended to the Mekong Delta and central highlands, while 105mm howitzers repelled a major assault on a U.S. infantry bivouac northwest of Saigon.
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Saigon
Gis
Uni
Kontum Airfield
Highlands
Kontum
Mekong Delta
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Surveyor 7 Lands Gently on Moon Below Tycho Crater
In a bold mission amid lunar science, Surveyor 7 touched down near Tycho crater despite a 43 percent chance of success. The unmanned craft endured a rugged, rock strewn plateau as scientists sought geological contrasts between highlands and plains for future manned landings.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.S
Tycho
Lunar Disc
Tycho’s
Kasperak Sits Up After Heart Transplant Frontier
At Stanford Medical Center Mike Kasperak, the fourth heart transplant patient, sat up and dangled his legs as doctors urged leg circulation exercises. His condition remained critical but improving on the fourth post op day after complications. Louis Block, the fifth heart transplant recipient, died 10 hours after a smaller donor heart was implanted at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
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Stanford
Calif
Mike Kasperak
Stanford Medical Center
Kasperak
New York
Louis Block
Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn
Judy Montague Serves On Heart Transplant Team At Stanford
Judy Montague 23 daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Montague Jr assists on the inhalation therapy unit for Mike Kasparek who received a heart transplant at Stanford Medical Center California. She shifts 3 pm to 11 pm and helped during the first post operative night. Montague trained at Hillcrest Tulsa and St Josephs Albuquerque after nurse aide work at Neo sho Memorial. She joined Stanford six months ago and was promoted to senior inhalation therapist in December. Doctors from many places attended the operation and a large medical team worked in the OR.
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Judy Montague
Fred Montague Jr
Mike Kasperak
Stanford Medical Center
Stanford
Calif
Miss Montague
Montague
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Chanute Senior High School
Hillcrest Hospital
Tulsa
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Albuquerque
N. M
Johnson polishes State of the Union plan as Congress nears
President Johnson concentrates on finalizing the State of the Union message before Congress reconvenes on January 15. He plans a prime time address and has not set the exact date. At the LBJ Ranch in rainy cold weather he sent a relief to industrialists praising a $3.5 billion savings bond drive reaching 2,606,640 workers.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
Congress
Washington
LBJ
Texas
U.S
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
U.S. Industrial Payroll Savings Committee
Senate
Fowler Pleads Guilty in Thayer Bank Burglary Case
Gary L. Fowler age 24 of Thayer Kansas pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to burglary of the First State Bank of Thayer on October 10, 1962. Sentencing postponed pending a pre sentence report. One co defendant Tommy Wayne Lackey 22 of Little Rock Arkansas pleaded innocent and will be tried later.
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Wichita
Gary L. Fowler
Thayer
Kan
First State Bank of
Fowler
U.S
Wesley R. Brown
Tommy Wayne Lackey
Little Rock
Ark
Lackey
Flu Bug Busy in Chanute Area Absent Rate Soars
In Chanute area schools and firms, flu like illness spikes absenteeism. Senior High had 55 missed today and 80 yesterday. Murray Hill 82 absent today with 450 enrollment. Hutton 65 out, Royster 79 today and 98 yesterday. Alcott 20 out today, Lincoln 20 percent home Monday. Roosevelt eight absent. Continued on Page 2.
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Chanute
Murray Hill
Hutton
Harold Anderson
Anderson
Royster
Alcott
Lincoln
Roosevelt
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Murray Hill School
Paul
Babe
David Murrill
Tom Murrill
S. Tennessee
Cathy Mih
Alex Mih
Rick Mitchell
Jean Mitchell
By Keith Wright
State School For the Deaf
Cha
Senate Education Committee
State Board of Education
Senate Judiciary Committee
57Th Army Aviation Company
Reds
Surveyor
Copernicus
Lee Shearer
U.S. Space Agency
Block
Kasparek
State of the Union
Gary Fowler
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