Plane Crashes Building Killing Four in Kansas City
A light plane crashed into the 30 story Southwestern Bell Telephone building in Kansas City on a Saturday night, killing four from a Buffalo Missouri trip. Pilot Jack Gorham age 29 and Lawrence G. Trapp age 32 their wife Helen and their son William 2% died. FAA official Al Reed cited possible windshield ice and no de icing gear amid light snow fog and two mile visibility while runway alignment near Mun icipal or Fairfax airports. Buildings roofs held the crash, minor damage to the telephone building. Investigation will take about three weeks.
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Kansas City
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Federal Aviation Agency
Kansas
Gorham
Trapp
Buffalo
al Reed
FAA and
Civil Aeronautics Board
Municipal
Fairfax
Reed
CAB
FAA
Humboldt Hosts Argentine Scout Visitor at Local Meeting
Humboldt welcomed Ana Inez Cano sa Riera from Argentina as honor guest at a joint Girl Scouts and Brownies meeting at Humboldt Elementary School Monday night. Riera, a Girl Scout Guide, shared experiences while local Troop 71 hosted a dinner with leaders and guests. She later joined Scouts for a meeting in Thayer.
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Humboldt
Ana Inez Canosa Riera
Argentina
Miss Riera
Humboldt Girl Scouts
Dudley Henderson
Caroline Copening
Nancy Flottman
Barbara Rinehart
Iola
Ann
Thayer
Salina merchants rent meters to boost Christmas shoppers
In Salina Kansas merchants rented all downtown parking meters for two Saturdays to offer free parking. The City Commission set the rental fee at the meters’ average daily take. Merchants contributed nearly $600 toward the meter rent.
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Salina
Kan
City Commission
Memorable 1861 Ohio River low water year noted
In Cairo Illinois the river depth reached three feet and across the Ohio at Madison Indiana near Louisville horses pulled buggies through the shallow water as the era’s record low drought affected river traffic.
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Louisville
Ohio River
Cairo
Ill
Madison
Ind
Erie News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Events
Erie residents and relatives visited family in Parsons Coffeyville Parsons and Chanute attended church meetings and social gatherings. Swansons and Weisbergs join activities while Craig Craig celebrates his ninth birthday. Local officials and state figures attended events in Topeka and Buffalo with family visits across Kansas.
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Erie
Frederick Swan
University of Kansas Medical Center
Daisy Walker
Parsons
John Bass
Ethel Yockey
Gene Berger
George Wright
First Christian Church Cwf
Chanute
Harry Hanson
Sublette
Henry Buscher
Robert Sayre
Hansons
John Gearhart
George Hyatt
Craig
Coffeyville
Albert White
Oswego
Clarence White
Henry Watkins
Eastern Star
Buffalo
R. C. Steele
Springfield
Harvey Steele
Helen Pierce
Kansas City
Bill
Virginia
Docking in Fair Condition After Colon Surgery
George Docking, former Kansas governor and Export-Import Bank director, is reported in fairly good condition at Bethany Hospital after surgery to remove a benign polyp from the colon. Forty ships from about twenty nations take part in the International Indian Ocean Expedition, prioritizing marine biology studies amid high fish mortality in the ocean.
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Kansas City, Kan
George Docking
The
Export-Import Bank
Kansas
Bethany Hospital
Docking
Home Fire Fatal to 9 in New Jersey
PORT NORRIS New Jersey AP Flames destroyed a two room frame house killing Mrs Virginia Johnson and her eight children Sunday Bodies of Mrs Johnson 26 and four children were found near a door the inward opening door blocked by a bed The dead children were David 11 Roxanne 10 Alice Jean 9 Daniel 7 Margaret 6 Virginia 4 Tracy Lee 2 and Nicky 10 months Their father David D Johnson was on an oyster boat at sea State trooper Robert Warner said the fire was started by a wood burner with no insulation under it and heat set the floor on fire
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Port Norris
N.J
Virginia Johnson
Atlantic Ocean
Robert Warner
Warner
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Ray Howard
Bethany Group
United Presbyterian Women
C. W. McCluskey
Robert Townsend
Tot Manion
R. C. Wright
Henry Geffert
Lillian Leabo
A. J. Hixon
W. J. Casper
Sherry Whitley
Fredonia
Una van Nice
G. C. van Nice
Una
Mrs. Clark Works
Wichita
Mrs
Paul Works
Paul Jr
Presbyterian Church
C. G. Puckett
Pat
Tommy
Diana
Lawrence
J. A. van Nice
G. C. van Nices
Minnie Towles
William Towles
A. L. Googins
Circle J
Women's Service Guild
Humboldt Golf Club, Inc
Helen Lacy
Elmer Harwood
Robert B. Kendall
Kathy and
Brooke
State Board of Agriculture
Topeka
Harry Little
Independence
Archie Berger
James Hickey
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
Minnesota
Lancaster
Contemporary
Louis XIV
Hanute Discount Company
Chanute Discount Co
S. Evergreen
F Corres
West Main
Plummer Road
Prinl
Heinz
Rom Olson
Green Giants
Tastemark
Sealtest
Limas
VICK
Arizona
Holmes
Hilton
Swift
Crerers
Kraft
Bil
Dale Steinman
Chanute Discount CO. Auto Loan
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