Army Setup Revamp Sparks Postings and Protests
Washington AP A new Army reorganization plans to abolish several technical service heads and reduce powers at multiple posts. President Kennedy reportedly approved the plan aiming to streamline Pentagon management, with hearings expected on Capitol Hill. General Decker says officers registered objections earlier and now are urged to support the proposal. Lt. Gen. Hinrichs, chief of ordnance, likely to be eliminated. The move would also trim the Chemical Corps and other technical chiefs, while Army Engineers and the surgeon general remain unscathed for river, harbor, and nonmilitary construction reasons.
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Washington
Army
Kennedy
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Army Navy Air Force Journal
George H. Decker
Army Chief of Staff
The
Journal
Capitol Hill
John H. Hinrichs
Ordnance
Chief of Chemical Corps
Chief of Army Engineers
Army Surgeon General
Defense Department
Kennedy attacked as too soft in world affairs
Oklahoma City AP report quotes Rep. Robert Wilson criticizing President Kennedy for a soft stance toward unfriendly nations and for backing off from air cover for Cuba and Laos. Wilson says Kennedy uses a bag of goodies to win votes, urging Republicans to seize 1964 chances with aggressive domestic and foreign policy critiques.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Kennedy
Republican National Committee
Robert Wilson
California
GOP
William E. Miller
Wilson
Cuba
Laos
Republican Congressional Committee
America
Berlin
Miller
Weather warms across Kansas with rising daytime highs
Topeka AP reports a warming trend boosts Kansas temperatures 15 to 25 degrees above Thursday. Forecast calls for fair today then partly cloudy and warmer Saturday with a low near 20 and high around 40. Snow remains in southwest and northeast. melting expected as temperatures rise.
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Topeka
Kansas
Garden City
Concordia
Lawrence
Hill City
Salina
Goodland
Home Fire Fatal to 11 Year Old Boy in Missouri
Fire destroyed a two story home in St. Joseph Missouri killing 11 year old Ronnie Steltepohl and injuring his 9 year old half brother Richard Mauzer. Fire started in a first floor clothes closet and spread rapidly. cause not yet determined. Mr and Mrs Sollars and six other children escaped.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
Barney Sellars
Ronnie Steltepohl
Richard Mauzer
Explosion Damages Wellington School
A gas explosion at Washington Elementary School damaged the heating plant after classes began. Two boiler room doors were blown out, the boiler damaged, ceilings and walls cracked, but no injuries occurred. Janitor Clarence Knox, 62, had checked the plant minutes earlier. He rechecked thermostats, pressed the starter, and the blast followed as teachers evacuated the 175 pupils. Fire trucks responded. there was no fire.
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Wellington
Washington
Clarence Knox
Knox
Kansas U and Washington U Awarded Research Grants
The University of Kansas medical school in Kansas City Kansas and Washington University medical school in St Louis received Public Health Service grants for clinical medical and biological studies. Kansas U will receive 400000 for the first year and Washington U 204281 for establishing general clinical research centers.
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Washington
University of Kansas Medical School
Kansas City
Kan
Washington University Medical School
St. Louis
University of Kansas
Washington University
Public Health Service
Super Saturn Space Rocket to Carry 110-Ton Load
Huntsville Alabama AP NASA and Marshall Space Flight Center announce a plan for a new advanced Saturn rocket. Five engine first stage will deliver 1.7 million pounds of thrust, with a payload capacity around 110 tons. The three stage design features five F-1 and J-2 engines, capable of earth escape and lunar missions. The C5 concept aims for readiness in 1965, enabling a manned lunar orbit and eventual lunar landing missions.
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Super Saturn Space
Huntsville
Ala
Space Agency
Free World
Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Marshall Space Flight Center
Moon
Earth
NASA
Earthquake Strikes Makarska in Yugoslavia Resort
In Makarska, the summer resort, only about 200 of 4,000 residents remained as a series of earthquakes battered the area from the Riviera inland. Eight tremors were recorded overnight, with one death reported and thousands fleeing, seeking shelter as rain and wind hampered rescue ships entering the port.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Makarska
Riviera
Tanjug
Tribune Phone Contact Reminder
If you cannot reach your Tribune contact, call your carrier. When unavailable, dial HE 1 3400 after p.m.
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Tribune
Erie Tribune Feature Highlights City and Ads
Erie featured pictures stories and advertisements spotlight Neosho county seat on pages 4 and 5.
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Erie
Neosho County
Tribune
Two Elderly Sisters Found Dead at Farm
NEVADA Missouri AP report says Jessie Viola Ross 66 and Leona Ethel Ross 73 were found dead at their farm two miles east of Walker. Coroner Ingles Ferry says both died of natural causes about three weeks earlier, one in the house and the other in a nearby field after possible heart events. Neighbor John Hartline noted uncollected mail dated December 18.
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Nevada
Walker
Ingles Ferry
Jessie Viola Ross
Leona Ethel Ross
Ferry
John Hartline
Burns Fatal to Hill City Woman
A 76-year-old Stockton woman Mrs Sophia Odle died in a Hill City hospital from burns suffered when her daughter Hazel Miller found her mother with clothes on fire. The cause of the fire is not yet determined.
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Hill City
Stockton
Sophia Odle
Hazel Miller
Qodle
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka January 1962 Log
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours to 9 am Friday with 10 deaths for January 1962. Comparable period in 1961 shows 17 deaths. Data covers Topeka and statewide figures.
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Topeka
Kansas
Tragic Andean Avalanche Devastates Peru Settlements
Rescue teams scramble as 3,000 to 4,000 feared dead after a massive ice rock and mud avalanche in the Andes valley near Caraz. Two villages wiped out, 14 settlements destroyed, 50 bodies recovered, officials warn of more slides. 2,000 to 4,000 missing.
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Lima
Peru
Andes
Huaylas
Roberto Thorndike
Red Cross
Loeb
Huaraz
Fomento
Pumahuain
Lianguanuco
Santa River
Llanama
Huarascanca
Politician Sparks Probe of Fedell in Highway Case
TOPEKA AP Highways Director Addison Meschke testified that information from a Republican politician started the investigation leading to the dismissal of district highway supervisor Charles J Fedell. Fedell, a Democrat, claimed political revenge but Meschke said the probe showed use of equipment on state time for Fedell's personal benefit.
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Topeka
Addison Meschke
Charles J. Fe
Meschke
Hagman
Pittsburg
Fedell
Paul Aylward
Aylward
Crawford County
Tom Blancett
Columbus
Blancett
Fedell Farm
Tim Thornburg
Olin W. Morris
Labette County
John White
Morris
Civil Service
Mail Will Get Through Table Rock Lake Flood
Washington reports postal officials will pass mail to Table Rock Lake Missouri despite flooding. A spokesman notes the Post Office uses horses on rural routes and even mule-back and dog sled deliveries in remote areas, dismissing Pony Express as routine. Rep Durward Hall highlighted the issue in Congress.
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Washington
Table Rock Lake
Congressional Record
Durward G. Hall
R-Mo
Missouri Chamber of Commerce
Post Office
Pony Express
Ozarks
Post Office Department
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arizona
New Mexico
Grand Canyon
Alaska
Two Columbus Escapees Captured in Miami Okla
In Miami Oklahoma two Columbus Kansas jail escapees Kenneth Lee Delmont and Richard Woods both 24 were captured without resistance after attempting to buy breakfast in a cafe where two officers were eating. Delmont faced a Kansas bad check charge and Woods petty larceny with 42 days left to serve.
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Miami
Okla
Columbus
Kas
Kenneth Lee Delmont
Richard Woods
Cherokee County
Delmont
Kansas
Woods
Train Crash Kills Man In Melvern Kansas
Raymond Lindburg a 60 year old Osage County employer was killed when a road grader collided with a Santa Fe freight train at the edge of Melvern while he was plowing snow. The accident occurred Thursday.
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Melvern
Kas
Raymond Lindburg
Osage County
Santa Fe
Lindburg
Weir Firms Robbed in Cherokee County Kansas
AP reports two groceries and the post office in Weir Kansas were broken into Thursday night. Robbers took a little over $200 in cash. Local authorities investigate the theft as a combined burglary of multiple town facilities.
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Weir, Kas. (Ap
Cherokee County
Tuberculin Skin Tests Planned for Neosho County Students
Neosho County schools will host a four-site tuberculin skin testing program for about 5500 students from kindergarten through junior college and school personnel. Tests run March 5 12 with results checked two days later by Mrs. Jeannine Grubbs of the state Tuberculosis and Health Association. Chest X rays provided for positive cases.
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Erie
St. Paul
Thayer
Stark
Neosho County
County Medical Society
Hutton
Murray
Kansas
J. D. Gough
Hill and Royster Junior High
Chanute
Grubbs
Dr. Gough
Marilyn Overstreet
Margaret Wood
Shelby Wells
Neva Beeler
Charlotte Greer
Wayne C. Cooper
Chanute Pta Council
Nora Knight
Cattle Drive Brings Check of $353,549
Eldon Daughters of Winner Livestock Auction called the payout the biggest yet as rancher Don Hight received a 353 549 dollar payment for 1 833 cattle and 18 horses. Five day drive ended in Win ner South Dakota amid subzero weather. Hight planned to return to his 16 000 acre Westover ranch but doubted another drive soon.
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S.D
Eldon
Don Hight
Hight
Highton
Westover
U.S. and Soviet Envoys Meet Over Berlin Talks
U S Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson met three hours with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow to discuss Berlin. Thompson refused to disclose details and signaled potential additional talks without a set date. He noted no judgment on the talks and planned to brief British French and West German colleagues on Saturday.
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Moscow
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Washington
Andrei A. Gromyko
Berlin
Thompson
West Germany
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Royster Rockets
Parsons West Junior High
Janis Manley
Vicky Dunaway
Billie Whitworth
Nancy Colvin
Betty McGrath
June Winder
Vicky
Betty
Larry Mathews
Caraz
Development Ministry
James Loeb
Death Valley
Ramahirca
Huarascucho
Sparks Probe
Dell
Table Rock
Jeannine Grubbs
State Association
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Earlton
Fairview
South Mound
Lakeview
Riveriview
Hillcrest
Fairfield
Chanute ‘Senior High
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