Who is your hero downtown interview reveals favorites
Reporter asks residents to name a hero. Mrs Bowes Mitchell cites her husband John Bowes, Timmy Mitchell praises John C. Jones, social living teacher now in Topeka, Miss Collins names Ronnie Nicholson, Shirley Tucker says she has no hero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowes Mitchell
John Bowes
S. Lafayette
Timmy Mitchell
N. Garfield
John C. Jones
Topeka
Miss Collins
Miss Tucker
Helen Collin
S. Evergreen
Ronnie Nicholson
Shirley Tucker
Snow-Slick Streets Spark Two City Accidents
Two traffic collisions occurred on snow slick streets. At 3rd and Santa Fe a Rambler driven by Mrs. Glora Richardson struck a parked Oldsmobile of Rev. Boyd Latimer, damaging the right front of Richardson and left front of Latimer. Earlier, Ceasar Godinez and Bob Dilli collided at 7th and Highland with damage to Godinez's fender. The third incident involved Mrs. Adeline Fortney’s car scraping a fender belonging to Mrs. Emmett Bower outside the Memorial building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glora Richardson
S. Larson
Boyd Latimer
3Rd
Santa Fe
Richardson
Latimer
Ceasar Godinez
S Forest
Winter Cold Wave Descends On Chanute Area
Unseasonal warmth ends as a winter blast hits Kansas with heavy snow and record low temperatures. One inch of snow falls and temperatures plunge from the 30s to single digits, with winds 30 to 40 mph and a cold wave warning in effect across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porecast
Teday
Chanute
Yesternday
Kansas
Goodland
Weather Bureau
Associated Press
Topeka
Concordia
Manhattan
Salina
Dodge City
Pittsburg
Wichita
Hill City
Garden City
Russell
Parsons
90 More From Cuba Reach Safety In Miami Flight
Ninety Cuban refugees arrived in Miami aboard a Pan American World Airways plane. The group includes 38 U.S. citizens and 52 dependents. Unclear if more departures will be allowed by air or freighter Shirley Sykes carrying Cuban ransom cargo from Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Cuba
United States
Shirley Sykes
Havana
U.S
Pan American World Airways
Couple Is Fined For Taking 3 Dogs
Joe and Andrea Parks of Gas City paid fines and costs totaling 22 in justice court for taking three German shepherd pups from Earl Long’s Erie home. A tip from a former litter recipient led to their arrest by the Allen county sheriff. The pups were returned to the Longs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Joe
Andrea Parks
Gas City
Justice of the Peace Court
Earl Long
Neosho County
Longs
Clifford Schnedler Waives Extradition in Nebraska Arrest
Clifford Schnedler, formerly of Chanute, arrested in Lincoln, Nebraska on a felony warrant for concealment of mortgaged property. He waived extradition and will be returned by the Erie sheriff's office next week. Property is a 1953 Dodge bought from Shurtleff Motor Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Schnedler
Chanute
Lincoln
Neb
Erie Sheriff's Office
Shurtleff Motor Co
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka Log For Jan 1963
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours to 9 am Friday with 0 fatalities in the Topeka area. The January total stands at 15 for 1963, compared with 26 for the comparable 1962 period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
East German Party Congress Strains Moscow Beijing Rift
At the East German Communist Party Congress delegates drowned Wu Shiao Chuan’s critique of Soviet capitalism in a roar of heckling. Khrushchev attended a factory visit as Moscow press largely ignored the Chinese delegate’s anti capitalism thesis amid the Berlin Wall backdrop. Wu’s speech circulated in Hong Kong without noting the reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow-Peking
Communist Party
Congress
Wu Shio- Chuan
Soviet Union
Moscow
International Communist Movement
Khrushchev
East Berlin
Berlin Wall
Hong Kong
Jet Crashes Near House During Birthday Party
An Illinois Air National Guard F84 jet crashed into a Todd farm yard during a surprise 49th birthday party for Mrs. James Todd in Springfield. Maj. Robert Gasper, 40, was missing. wreckage spread over 15 acres and a piece hit the barn, affecting four cows. The house residents escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
James Todd
Todd
Todd Farm
Illinois Air National Guard
Robert Gasper
Pekin
Life Underwriters Discuss Keogh Bill at Chanute Luncheon
A Chanute Life Underwriters luncheon at the Tioga Hotel covered HR 10 the Keogh Bill for self employed retirement tax. Art Krone led the discussion and members voted to sponsor monthly newspaper ads detailing the ethics code of national and local associations in insurance business with the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keogh
Chanute Assn. of
Life Underwriters
Tioga Hotel
Art Krone
Life Underwriters Associations
Births Exceed Deaths During 1962 Here
City clerk records show 350 births and 204 deaths in 1962, with 1961 totals at 373 births and 227 deaths. In both years births exceeded deaths by 146, and the ratio remained the same as 1961.
Toes Wiggle Near Severed Leg Sewed Back
Ex marine William Hunt, 37, father of seven, remains at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after a six hour operation to repair a nearly severed left leg. Surgeons stitched arteries nerves and muscles and inserted an 18 inch rod into the femur, with a cautious but hopeful prognosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
William Hunt
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Francis B. Moore
Hunt
Brookline Public Works Department
Thomas B. Quigley
Henry Wilde
Moore
Everett Knowles
Somerville
Knowles
Massachusetts General Hospital
66 Galleys of Type Stolen From Printer
Sixty six galleys of type representing 198 pages of a book for the University of Missouri Press were stolen from Smith Grieves Printing Co in Kansas City AP reports the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
University of Missouri Press
Smith- Grieves Printing Co
Grant Ave Parsonage Remodel Completed at 415 W Walnut
Interior remodeling of the Grant Avenue Baptist parsonage at 415 West Walnut is done. L. E. Henry says 800 hours of church volunteer labor supported the project. The 3 bedroom home features built in electric range birch cabinets central heating two baths utility room and attached garage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Cox
S. Garfield
E. M. Pearson
Grant Avenue Baptist Church
Grant Avenue
Walnut
L. E. Henry
N. Grant
Grant
Intercepted Letter About Parking Meter Fund
A brief intercepted letter argues that coins from pennies to dimes can add up for a parking meter fund, ending with a closing line from the sender.
Iola Baptist church hub draws migrants amid financial clash
A Kansas town of 7300, led by Madison Avenue Baptist Church pastor Don Kindhart, attracts a dozen migrant families from four states seeking missionary work. The Kansas Convention of Southern Baptists plans to withdraw fellowship and funding over a loan default near $65,000. Also noted is a burglary at Princeton, Missouri, tied to a local maintenance worker and his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iola
Kan
Christ
Don Kindhart
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Illinois
Madison Avenue Baptist Church
Kindhart
KALN
Bethel Baptist Church
Hutchinson
Fred Kenison
is _ Kindhart
Kansas Convention of Southern Baptists
Wichita
Madison
Church Loan Association
N. J. Westmoreland
First Baptist Church
Madison Avenue
Southern Baptist Conven
City parking meter revenue totals $14 641.67 for last year
City Clerk Howard Parsons reports parking meters yielded 14641.67 in the prior year, with higher December receipts and a year end meter fund balance of 15999.39. The program funds traffic control, parking lots, meter maintenance, and enforcement salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Parsons
Santa Fe
Lincoln and
Elm
Island Evergreen
Lincoln
1St
Grant and Elm
Parsons
Topeka Girl Held Captive Cut by Knife
Linda Light a 19 year old Washburn University student and former Miss Kansas was held captive in her home by a burglar after school Friday. A man 30 to 35 in construction attire threatened her with a butcher knife demanding money. She was knocked unconscious and remains under a physician care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Bankruptcy Sale At Fort Scott Fort Scott Fort Scott Kan
An 80 acre farm owned by Mrs. Max ine Hereford and four city lots owned by her brother Henry Blown Miller will be sold at public auction Feb 2 under bankruptcy. Hereford and Miller were partners in Banner Dairy Co now in bankruptcy court. They are serving jail terms for issuing bad checks totaling over 21500. Other partners Charlotte Hackney and Joan Chapman are named with Chapman discharged and Hackney pending discharge.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Maxine Hereford
Henry Blown Miller
Hereford and Miller
Banner Dairy Co
Charlotte Hackney
Joan Chapman
Hereford and
Miller
Chapman
J. J. Dawes
Hackney
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Grant Avenue Baptist Church Parsonage
W. Walnut
W. Main
Reynold Huffman
W. 7Th
Youngberg
Paul Whitworth
Evergreen
Tribune
Lois Erickson
Berlin
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Life
Keogh Bill
Grant Ave. Parsonage
Cha
Yours
Iola Church ‘World Missionary’ Hub
Tion
Trenton
Kenison
Bobby McReynolds
Princeton
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Missouri Highway
Mercer Knife
County Agricultural Extension
Lola
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