City Dads Review Four Project Cost Estimates
The city commission examined informational estimates for four potential projects including widening Main Street, drainage upgrades, a shell building for industrial development, and a new FAA building. Costs discussed include about 50 000 for widening and 16 800 for a 60 by 100 foot shell building, with meetings planned to gauge merchant and owner reactions.
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Katy
City Park
Federal Aviation Agency
Paschal Grimes
Grimes
Comain
Forest
Central
R. J. Hayes
Charles Newton
Harry Byers and Sons
Hayes
Blessing
Tshombe Ready to End Katanga Secession and Cooperate with UN
Katanga President Moise Tshombe declared readiness to end Katanga’s secession and aid UN operations. He appealed for amnesty for himself and followers as U.N. troops move freely. Riot by about 1,000 Africans, including 200 university students, attacked the British Embassy in Leopoldville in protest of alleged British support for Tshombe.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
U.N
Kolwezi
Tshombe
Cyrille Adoula
Central
Leopoldville
Robert K. A. Gardiner
Ghana
L.N
Congo
Derek Riches
Riches
South African Press Association
Rene Thierry
Neosho County Reorganizes. Vaughn Named Chairman
The Neosho County Commission reorganized yesterday electing Frank Vaughn of Chanute as chairman. He succeeds Dwight Diver who led the board the past two years. Vaughn represents the 2nd district and Diver the 3rd. L. W. Thurman of Erie is the 1st district commissioner, elected in November to succeed Charles Norris now living in St. Paul.
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John Lapham
Kansas Gas & Electric Co
Wellington
Kg&e
Lapham
Dave Evans
W. J. Althaber
Ranson & Co
Wichita
Chanute
Coffeyville
Neodesha
Erie
Girard
Hayes
Neosho County
Frank Vaughn
Dwight Diver
Vaughn
Diver
L. W. Thurman
Charles Norris
St. Paul
Dean Gough
the Tribune
Kennedy to propose 13.5 billion tax cut and 3.5 billion reforms
President Kennedy plans a special message to Congress on January 24 detailing a 13.5 billion cut in tax rates and 3.5 billion in tax law reforms. House Speaker McCormack confirmed the timing after White House discussions. The Ways and Means Committee will move quickly to consider the proposals as tax legislation tops the congressional agenda.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
White House
McCormack
Ways and Means
Delphos Couple Found Dead In Carbon Monoxide Tragedy
James Griffin 77 and his wife Inez 61 were found dead in their Delphos Kansas home. Coroner Dr Dean Bray ruled carbon monoxide poisoning. Mrs Griffin worked at a rest home and notified authorities after she called in sick at 3 am. A neighbor checked the Griffin residence when she did not report for work.
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Delphos
Kan
James Griffin
Inez
Dean Bray
Minneapolis
Ottawa County
Griffin
Robert Mortimer
Intercepted Letter Mentions Communist Probing Abroad
A fragment shows an intercepted letter to Cha mocking the refrain Eng Meny Miny Mo with country names Cuba Viet Nam Togo Congo and asking who’s next. The snippet hints at wartime era paranoia and censorship.
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Eng
Meny
Miny
Cuba
Viet Nam
Togo
Congo
Bandits Grab $105000 at Tropical Park Race Track
Detectives search for two men who held up a cashier and guard during Tropical Park race track nine race program on Monday. They discharged the guard and cashier to a closet and escaped with two bags containing 80 000 in cash and 25 000 in checks. A heavy bag of silver was left behind.
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Miami
Fla
Tropical Park Race Track
John A. Murphy
F. Volney Waite
Murphy
Waite
Fire damages bait shop near four thousand dollars
Fire gutted the sheet metal bait shop operated by C. M. Greenlee at 1019 S. Forest. Loss estimated at 1500 for the building and 2500 for contents. no insurance reported. Items include fishing gear, a deep freeze, appliances, camping stoves. Cause likely a wood burning stove pipe joint loosening. Greenlee detected flickering lights and called 7 05. Fire department received a second call. an engineer for the Santa Fe train witnessed the blaze and notified via the depot.
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C. M.greenlee
S. Forest
Greenlee
Brennan
The
Santa Fe
Anderson Proposes Broad Action Plan for Kansas
Gov. John Anderson urged the 1963 Kansas Legislature to adopt a broad action program spanning education social welfare penal administration economic development and legislative reapportionment He proposed a property tax relief program and new state agencies including Wichita University in the state system and a state economic development department The plan emphasizes school district consolidation equitable funding per pupil aid and a gradual move toward educational television.
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Topeka
Kansas
John Anderson
Anderson
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Wichita U
Board of Regents
Eurich
Ulbricht predicts expansion of communism in Americas
East German leader Walter Ulbricht told the sixth party congress that communism will flourish in Cuba and spread in the Western Hemisphere. He credited Khrushchev with preventing nuclear war over the Cuban crisis and urged settlement of the China India border dispute while criticizing China and Albania as sectarian opponents. Khrushchev praised by Ulbricht and not ruling out future global communist victory.
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Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
Cuba
Khrushchev
Red China
Kennedy
East Germany
Communist Party Congress
Ulbricht
United Nations
NATO
West Berlin
Peking
India
Party Congress
Communist Party
Demos Propose Bill On Legislative Pay
Three Democratic senators introduced a bill in Topeka to raise legislators pay to 2400 dollars per year with 12 dollars daily expenses. It sets 90 days regular session 30 days budget session 10 days special session and weekly round trips between home and Topeka. The measure also raises Legislative Council daily pay and updates journal mailing rates.
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Topeka
Senate
Wade Myers
Emporia
Theo D. Sarr, Jr
Pittsburg
Wade M. Ferguson
Parsons
Myers
Paul R. Wunsch
R-Kingman
Dem
Legislative Council
House- Senate
Kansas
House members rush to file bills in 88th Congress list
The AP reports in Topeka that about 2,000 bills have been introduced since the 88th Congress began. Proposals range from using Social Security records to locate runaway parents to creating new holidays and a national recognition for the Circus World Museum in Baraboo Wisconsin.
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Washington
Department of Arciculture
House of Representatives
Topeka
Kansas
Congress
Abraham J. Multer
D-N.y
Samuel
Stratton
Washington's
Lindley Beckworth
R-Tex
United States
United Nations
Vernon W. Thomson
R-Wis
Baraboo
Wis
Sheep and Lambs Decline in Kansas Feed
The Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes a drop in Kansas sheep and lambs on feed for market. As of January 1 there were 229000 head, 27 percent below a year earlier and 3 percent under the 1952 61 average. Wheat pasture totals fell sharply and central and eastern feedlots showed a small decrease.
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Topeka
L AP
Kansas
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Extreme cold grips Kansas as temperatures dip statewide
Forecasters warn of continuing frigid air with highs 15 to 25 degrees and subfreezing nights. Topeka records five below zero at dawn while Dodge City and others see near 1 to 5 above. Monday featured a run of zero or below for Topeka, ending a 23 year stretch.
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Topeka
Kansas
Dodge City
Hill City
Pittsburg
Wamego
Ottawa Votes Today Bond Issue On High School Plan
Ottawa School District No 30 residents vote on a 1.69 million dollar high school bond. The plan would fund a new high school and improvements to the president building after a prior defeat on November 6.
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Ottawa
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