Dominican Republic Forms Civilian Military Junta After Bloodshed
A new civilian military junta took over the Dominican government amid siege conditions. President Balaguer resigns as rioting deafens Santo Domingo. four old council members resign or are arrested, while Gen. Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria leads the change. The United States condemns the move as a step backward and considers recognizing options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Joaquin Balaguer
U. S. State Department
Old Council
Rafael Bonnelly
Balaguer
Eduardo R. Barreras
Eliseo Perez Sanchez
Trujillos
Nicolas Pichardo
Antonio Imbert
Luis Amiamalio
Band of 12
Trujillo
Wilifredo Medina Natal
Neil Rafael Seija
Adm
Enrique Valdez Vidaurre
Armando Oscar Pacheco
Huberto Bogaert
Flu Outbreak Slows Chanute Schools With 300 Absent
Absenteeism in Chanute schools spikes as the flu bug affects both public and parochial schools. Royster Junior High leads with 130 missing, Senior High 65, while Juco remains near-normal. Officials plan makeup exams as district seeks vaccine and care measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute Mately
Flu
Royster Junior High Parochial
Juco
Murray Hill
Hutton
Lincoln
Alcott
Roosevelt
St. Patrick's Parochial School
St. Patrick's
Weather turns cold with light snow late tonight
Kansas temps plunge with subzero readings in eastern counties and single digits to near 30 in the southwest. Topeka records eighth day below zero as cloud cover and a northwest cold air mass grip the state. garden city hits 17 high, Topeka 3 below, Emporia and Lawrence at minus four.
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Topeka
API
Kansas
Emporia
Lawrence
Garden City
Substitute indictments for Byrnes hit again in Kansas City
The AP reports substitute indictments were returned against Mr. and Mrs. John F. Byrne for 1956 and 1957 income tax returns showing substantial underreporting. The couple previously pleaded guilty to 1956 counts, but later argued innocence while opposing the tax board. U. S. District Judge Duncan revoked their pleas and ordered a new trial. U. S. Attorney F. Russell Millin said new indictments were sought to avoid legal technicalities affecting a 1956 conviction.
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Kansas City
John F. Byrne
Internal Revenue Service
Byrne
Richard M. Duncan
Duncan
F. Russell Millin
U. S
Claim Against Estate Transferred For Hearing
A $10 900 claim against the estate of Marie Wheatley who died in a traffic crash April 23 1961 on K39 east of the city has moved from probate court to district court. Chanute resident June Ellen Hargrove filed the action through her father H R Hargrove seeking medical expenses and damages for injuries from the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Wheatley
K39
June Ellen Hargrove
W. Main
H. R. Hargrove
Miss Hargrove
Remodeling at Davis Paint Store Nears Completion
Howard Wilson owner of Wil son Davis Paint Store at 106 E Main reports extensive remodeling nearly finished. Ceiling lowered with new tiles and lights, updated duct work for heating and AC, fresh interior paint and planned shelving in rear storage. Work started last Thursday with completion due soon.
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Wilson
Davis
E. Main
Howard Wilson
Tulsa Judge Grants Estranged Wife Divorce in Striking Incompatibility Case
Evelyn Jones, 27, obtained a divorce from Ernest Jones in Tulsa as Judge Raymond W. Graham called the petition's basis the most amazing he had seen. He rejected incompatibility as unjust for a husband and father of 11. The couple wed when she was 13. their children range from 1 to 12 years old.
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Tulsa
Okla
Raymond W. Graham
Evelyn Jones
Ernest Jones
Graham
Teen Canteen to Reopen Under New Name in Chanute
Four suggestion boxes will be placed in Chanute schools to solicit a new name for the Teen Canteen as the City Recreation Commission plans revamping rules and a Feb. 10 reopening. The old Canteen above The Tribune will host the new city recreation program with input from students and adults.
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Chanute
City Recreation Commission
Wendell McMurray
Tony
Recreation Commission
Robert Blunk
Royster
St. Patrick's
Tribune
Truck Sliced in Two By Train Near Kansas City
A Missouri Pacific train severed a grain truck as it crossed the tracks in Kansas City, leaving the front and rear halves apart. Drivers Gene Wilson of Sterling Colorado and Cliff Radcliff of 30 uninjured, the train delaying 45 minutes on its St Louis to Omaha run while Wilson hauled 750 bushels of wheat toward an elevator at the Missouri Kansas rivers junction.
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Kansas City
Kan
Gene Wilson
Sterling
Colo
Cliff Radcliff
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Omaha
Wilson
Missouri
Kansas Rivers
Kansas House Proposes Annual 60 Day Legislative Sessions
The Kansas House introduced a constitutional amendment for annual 60 day legislature sessions and a separate measure to cut elective state offices to three. Proponents say it would save taxpayers while increasing efficiency. current plan uses budget sessions in even years and general sessions in odd years with no time limit.
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Topeka
Kansas House
Ross Zimmerman
Robbyville
Tom van Cleave
Ckansas City
Judiciary Committee
Rep
Clyde Hill
Rates Center
Zimmerman
van Cleave
Robert Harder
Prairie National Grasslands Hearing Draws Hundreds in Topeka
About 100 people packed a Senate Ways and Means committee hearing in Topeka as debate opened on the proposed Prairie National Grasslands Park in Pottawatomie County. Gov. John Anderson backs a 250000 dollar appropriation to show good faith for a 57000 acre park with federal support likely. Supporters say the park would protect vegetation and wildlife and boost tourism while opponents fear tax loss and displacement for ranchers and farmers along Interstate 70. Chairman August Lauterbach had to keep order after a rancher shouted threats during questioning of Rev. Owain Basil who supported the project.
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Topeka
Senate ‘Committee
Prairie National Grasslands Park
Pottawatomie County
John Anderson
Ways and Means Committee
Kansas
August W. Lauterbach
Colby
Owain Basil
Wamego
Basil
Lauterbach
Vandals strike Empire Theater in Kansas City
Vandals damaged the Empire Theater in Kansas City overnight slashing the curved screen and soaking eight reels of Cine rama film in varnish and oil. Wire cutters cut chunks from the screen, with damage estimated at $16,000. Union picket line and recent labor disputes cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Empire Theater
Durwood Theater
The
Hillsboro Crash Claims Second Victim
A two car crash near Hillsboro Kansas Sunday killed nine month old Robin Annette Ramirez and her father Aliseo Ramirez an airman at Schilling Air Force Base Salina. The mother was seriously injured and hospitalized at Schilling Air Force Base.
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Hillsboro
Kas
Here
Robin Annette Ramirez
Aliseo
Schilling Air Force Base
Salina
Schilling
Van Doren Pleads Guilty to Perjury in Quiz-Show Case
Ten prize winners from rigged TV quiz shows including Charles Van Doren pleaded guilty to perjury charges in New York. They received suspended sentences after admitting coaching in answering questions on programs such as Twenty-One and Tic Tac Dough. The plea change followed a grand jury probe into the quiz show fraud.
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New York
Charles Vanecon
Edward F. Breslin
Act
van Doren
Mark van Doren
Columbia University
Henry Bloomgarden
Elfrida von Nardroff
Brooklyn
Ruth Klein
Manhattan
Editor White Is Hanged In Effigy In Emporia
AP report details an effigy of William L. White, editor of The Emporia Gazette, found hanging in front of the newspaper office after coverage of a College of Emporia controversy. The incident follows a Gazette front page on Miss Marjorie Grafke’s resignation from College Life amid campus unrest and prior college disputes.
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Emporia
William L. White
Emporia Gazette
College of Emporia
Gazette
America
College Life
the Gazette
C. of E
Richard E. Hanna
Burglar Sentenced in 200-Theft Ring Case
Phillipburg Kansas Marvin Schaeffer, linked to a burglary gang blamed for about 200 thefts in northwest Kansas and nearby states, received a sentence of up to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillipsburg
Kan
Marvin Joseph Schaeffer
Kansas
How to Judge Life's Values Is U.S. Need
Mrs. Billie Davis spoke at the Talk of the Month Club about how public libraries churches and schools shape American life. She argued Americans fail to judge and appreciate intrinsic worth, urging belief in self and education to lift the underprivileged while critiquing materialism and Communism. Dr. Richard Good chaired the Tioga Hotel event.
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U.S
Public Library
Church
Free Public School
Billie Davis
Davis
Billie
The
American Education Assn
United States
Latin America
Richard Good
Ithe Tioga Hotel
Probe Boy As Arsonist
The state's attorney's office takes over the inquiry into a 13 year old boy alleged to have started the Our Lady of the Angels fire that killed 92 children and 3 nuns in 1958. He will likely be brought to Family Court for a delinquency petition though no charges have been filed and his name is not released. The boy, then in fifth grade at the Chicago school, was later an eighth grade student in Cicero. The Tribune quoted a possible confession but officials did not confirm.
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Chicago
Our Lady of the Angels
Daniel Ward
Cicero
Ward
Chicago Tribune
John E. Reid
Reid
Traffic Fatalities Log for Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death log lists 1 for 18 January 1962 and 18 for 1962 year to date with 2 fatalities in the comparable 1961 period. The report covers Topeka area incidents and notes 1 death in 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Wednesday.
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Topeka
Kansas
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Dominican
Council of State
Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria
Armed Forces
Rafael Trujillo
State Council
National Civic Union
Holland
Lowell Holland
Chanute Optimist Club
M. J. Blackston
Wayne Smith
Clyve Bailey
Supt
Buford Fisher
State Health Department
Ero
P.m
Ies
Byrnes
Richard Rogers
David Durham
Claude Crawshaw
Altoona R. 2
Larry Mathews
Teen Canteen
John Casebeer
D-Mcpherson
Turnpike Authority
Highway Department
House Ways and Means
Department of Administration
Judicial Council
House Elections Committee
Prairie National Grasslands Senate
David Mayer
Morton Harelik
Richard Klein
Neil S. Wolf
Hoboken
N.J
Terry Curtis
Paul Bain
White
China
Probe Boy
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