Chain of Battles With Viet Cong Across Vietnam
U S and South Vietnamese troops pressed a chain of clashes from northern provinces to the Mekong Delta. In three major engagements, 47 Viet Cong killed in a 10 hour Mekong Delta fight. 18 Americans killed and 50 wounded. In Binh Dinh Province 14 soldiers and 10 bearers killed, 30 wounded. 23 Viet Cong killed and 2 captured. In Que Son Valley 28 North Vietnamese regulars killed as 14 American wounded, three evacuated. Allied losses: 184 Americans killed, 1,132 wounded. 263 South Vietnamese killed, 657 wounded, 83 missing.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong
Mekong Delta
Binh Dinh
Americal
Que Son
U.S. Com
Mand
No Actions By Planners At City Meeting
Absence of Chairman Harold Williams and several members meant the city planning commission made no official actions at its monthly meeting. W. G. Bodley reported Kansas City Kansas has a minimum structures ordinance and study will consider similar rules for rundown buildings. Roy Ensminger discussed mobile home placement limits, was advised to seek more information and present it to the planning board if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Williams
City Planning Commission
W. G. Bodley
Williams Place
Kansas City
Kan
Bodley
Roy Ensminger
Planning Board
Car Insurance Rates Rise for Kansas Drivers
Kansas insurance commissioner Frank Sullivan announced higher rates effective immediately. Liability coverage climbs about 10.3 percent and comprehensive about 22.6 percent as underwriters across 193 of 316 companies file the adjustments citing higher accident costs.
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Topeka
Kansas
Frank Sullivan
Sullivan
Stolen hay reported southeast of Thayer
Erie reports a theft of 40 bales of alfalfa hay from a barn southeast of Thayer. George Neely Neosho County sheriff said the hay owned by Joe Kephart was taken on Monday.
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Erie
Thayer
George Neely
Neosho County
Joe Kephart
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Chronicle Insight
The 1968 legislative session opened yesterday but appears not to move quickly, only picking up momentum a few days before adjournment. The note reflects distant expectation and slow start of official business.
Fourth heart transplant patient shows early recovery
Stanford AP reports Mike Kasperak, once near death, received a transplant and showed heart function improving. Doctors warn rejection remains a major challenge as the world's fourth recipient faces potential complications while a fifth patient died in New York. In Cape Town, Blaiberg's transplanted heart had fluid around it but doctors downplay the issue amid a mixed bulletin on his condition.
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Stanford
Calif
Mike Kasperak
Ferne
New York
Louis Block
Cape Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Restrictions On Visitors At Neo sho Memorial Hospital
Visiting of patients at Neo sho Memorial Hospital is limited to immediate family until further notice. Dr. Ed Ashley, Mrs. Helen Hagen, and Glen Dormois cite heavy patient load and bed shortages to justify the rule and to curb virus spread. Current counts show 80 patients, five maternity beds, five pediatrics beds, and six adult medical or surgical beds.
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Ed Ashley
Helen Hagen
Glen Dormois
Weather Update Forecast For Southeast Drizzle To Snow
Warmer tonight with light rain or drizzle then colder Friday with mixed precipitation. Low temperatures around the 30s tonight and middle 20s Friday afternoon. Cloudy statewide with chances of sleet and snow in northern areas and light drizzle at Dodge City and Russell. Highs in the 40s south and 30s north.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Dodge City
Russell
Government budget plan allocates funds by sector
AP reports Gov. Docking's proposed budget would send funds to education, research and libraries at 298.5 million, highways 153.8 million, public welfare 98.7 million, general government 48.4 million, health and hospitals 41.4 million, public safety 12.2 million, conservation and agriculture 8.5 million, and recreational and historic 1.9 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PEKA
Robert Docking
Cunningham Elected To Bank Board
Oscar Cunningham president of Mid-America Refining Co was elected to the board of directors of the First National Bank at its annual stockholders meeting Tuesday He succeeds Emil Lofgren who retired Officers of the bank and its other directors were re elected
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Cunningham
Mid-America Refining Co
First National Bank
Emil Lofgren
Docking Seeks Record 663 Million Budget For Kansas
Gov. Robert Docking urged a 663.2 million state budget emphasizing highways and higher education in a joint session with the Kansas Legislature. He described the plan as austere yet adequate, with general revenue expenditures of 278.8 million for 1969, about 3.9 percent above the current year. Education would account for nearly two thirds of the general fund.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Kansas
Senate
House
Docking
Butte
Dock
Tures
State Highway Commission
Turing
State Board of Regents
Pittsburg
Emporia
Hays
University of Kansas
Kansas State
Wichita State
56 Are Called to Testify On Plans to Halt Trains
The Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on Santa Fe's bid to end passenger service between Kansas City and Tulsa adjourned after a five hour session. Fifty six witnesses testified or submitted statements with many noting use of trains for business and travel. The hearing resumes in Bartlesville after brief adjournment.
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Commission
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Tulsa
Charles Escola
Kansas Corporation Commission
J. B. Reeves
Topeka
E. J
Pete) New
Chanute
Kansas Legislative Board
Brotherhood of Railroad
Walnut
Bernard Feuer
Bartlesville
18 Aboard Crashed Plane In Nevada Wreck
A sheriff’s party found the 10 000 foot Mount Tobin wreck of a Marine C34 aircraft missing since a blizzard. No survivors seen. Crew numbers cited vary from 18 to 27 crew and 13 passengers. Winging west of the Rockies, the craft took off from Buckley Field before vanishing.
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Battle Mountain
Nev
Mount Tobin
George Schwinn
Nevada
Wally Swanson
Gene Corbridge
James A. Beydler
Bureau of Land Management
Buckley Field
Rocky Mountains
Surveyor 7 Probes Moon Surface Delay Analyzing Chemistry
In Pasadena scientists report Surveyor 7 could claw into the moon but an alpha scattering instrument remained two feet above the crust. Remote control attempts with the scoop failed to lower the device near Tybo Crater where the lander touched down, delaying chemical analysis of the surface.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Lunar
Crater
Tybo
Board to inspect Royster Junior High gym for formal acceptance
Unified School District 413 board and officials tour the Royster Junior High School gymnasium and little gymnasium planning formal acceptance after completing inspections. Supt. Buford Fisher notes final approval will depend on minor conditions and chief architect Jack Bradley's recommendation. The facility is nearly finished with exterior landscaping and bleacher work outstanding.
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Royster
Board of Education of
Unified School District 413
Buford Fisher
Jack Bradley
Royster Junior High School
Main Street
Little Gym
Royster Junior High
Jeft
Edwin Rideau
Supt
Kauffman Named Owner of Kansas City 1969 Club
Kansas City club owner selection in the American League appoints Ewing M. Kauffman 51 president of Marion Laboratories to lead the expansion franchise for 1969.
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Kansas City
Ewing M. Kauffman
Marion Laboratories
American League
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Vietnam
Cha
Cunningham
the Interstate Commerce
Henry Watkins
Federal Aviation Agency
Salt Lake City
Robert Hodges
Lander County
Surveyor
Moon
Fisher
Glenn Neely
Dwight Blackwood
Dale Stienman
Don Abbuehl
Bradley
Jim Blessing
Bob Cousins
N. F. English Construction Co
Paul Parsons
Tribune
Kauffman
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