Santa Fe Plan To Drop Trains Faces Local Opposition
In Chanute residents including Mrs. Ralph Kepley, Humboldt, Mrs. Wes Dewey, Mrs. Burt Campbell, Mrs. M. W. Shultz, Mrs. Harold Kimble, and Mrs. Venus Beaty voice strong opposition to Santa Fe Railroad plans to discontinue passenger train service. They cite inconvenience and the need for ongoing service to Chanute and nearby Humboldt.
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Santa Fe
Santa Fe Railroad
Chanute
Ralph Kepley
Humboldt
Wes Dewey
S. Malcolm
Burt Campbell
W. Oak
M. W. Shultz
Harold Kimble
S. Allen
Venus Beaty
N. Evergreen
Tulsa
Weather summary for Kansas with mild weekend forecast
Area forecast calls for early fog then partly cloudy skies and mild conditions through Sunday. Highs around 50 in most areas with chances of low 60s in the west, overnight lows in the upper 20s to low 30s. Kansas statewide temps in the 50s today, highs Friday ranged 45 to 59, overnight lows 24 to 40.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wichita
Goodland
Hill City
Chanute
First Full Week of 1968 Session Brings 22 Bills
The Kansas Legislature completed its first full week of the 1968 session with 22 bills introduced. Highlights include consumer fraud protection measures, social welfare licensing for mental health centers, vocational rehabilitation under the State Board of Social Welfare, and a new interagency council on children and youth. Senate actions included a 15 member advisory council for vocational technical schools and junior colleges, adding Veterans Day to liquor sale holidays, and a county consolidation bill. The House killed a wheat tax diversion proposal setting annual general fund limits.
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Topeka
Kansas
Robert Docking
Public Welfare Committee
Legislative Council
Docking
State Department of Social Welfare
State Board of Social Welfare
State Interagency Council On Children and Youth
House Agriculture Committee
Cooperative Marketing Association
Governor’s Committee On Criminal Administration
Judiciary Committee
Hubert Fatzer
Fellsburg
Wyandotte
Kansas City
Senate
Vocational Area
Youth Curfew Violations Prompt Police Detainees
Police arrested several teenagers for curfew violations during the early morning hours. Installments include 12 35 a.m. a 17 year old, 1 10 a.m. two 16 and 17 year olds, 1 55 a.m. two 17 and 16 year olds with parents called, and 2 35 a.m. two 17 year olds with one kept at city jail until morning and released at 6 10 a.m. Other incidents logged include graffiti on Chanute Grain and Seed Co tanks and a breakage at Purity Dairy, plus a porch dump of student materials found later tied to a Chanute boy.
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Chanute Grain and Seed Co
Purity Dairy
East Main
North Lafayette
Chanute
Seed Catalogues Attract Growing Interest From Readers
Seed catalogs draw attention as gardeners plan for spring. Readers note variety selections and planting timelines, with hopes to start seedlings soon and compare prices and varieties offered by nurseries.
Vandals Strike at The Tribune Office
Vandals damaged the Tribune office door and outside media entrance overnight. Coin receivers were untouched, but a thermometer was torn from the doorway and a rack was damaged forcing customers to buy newspapers inside.
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Mediamente 7
Tribune Ofice
Kansan Killed in Vietnam Identified by Defense Dept
Washington AP report lists S. Sgt. John Ortiz of Topeka Kansas among servicemen killed in action in Vietnam, as announced by the Defense Department on Friday.
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Washington
Defense Department
John Ortiz
Topeka
Kan
Vietnam
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows Sharp Rise in 1968
Kansas traffic death log reports 0 deaths in the 24 hours to 9 a.m. Saturday. For January note 29 fatalities and for 1968 29 deaths. Comparable period in 1967 logged 22 deaths.
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Topeka
Kansas
Dole Visits Southeast Kansas For Senate Campaign
Republican congressman Robert Dole pitched his U S Senate bid at a luncheon in the Orchid Buffet, asserting President Johnson’s fiscal policy will fail. He noted he will focus his drive in eastern and central Kansas and faulted tax increases while praising Senator Carlson’s 18 year record.
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Neosho County
Robert Dole
Russell
U.S. Senate
Dole
Johnson
Yates Center
Tom Blancett
Republican Committee
Carlson
Kansas
Congress
Reb. Dole
Fredonia
Neodesha
Rockets Hit Marines in Mekong Delta Assault
Viet Cong battalion fired 600 rockets and mortars at South Vietnamese Marines in Dinh Tuong Province, killing 20 Marines and wounding 62, as U S forces launched counter offensives near the demilitarized zone. A CH53 helicopter crash elsewhere reported 41 aboard.
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Saigon
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
Dinh Tuong
U.S
Kansas Trooper Killed By Gunman
Kansas state highway patrolman Sgt. Eldon Miller 48 was killed by a carbine bullet during a gun battle in Overland Park. Authorities charged Henry Floyd Brown and James W. Bouska with murder and bank robbery as investigators hunted a second gunman, with $13,100 recovered. Miller, born in Yates Center, served 15 years at patrol stations including Lawrence and Topeka.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Eldon Miller
Henry Floyd Brown
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Metcalf State Bank
Overland Park
Kaw
Brown
James W. Bouska
Johnson County
Bud Jackson
Jackson
Topeka
Eldon K. Miller
Kansas State Highway
Yates Center
Lawrence
Mankato
Arkansas City
Columbus
Kan
Shawnee
Milstate
Bernard Hill
Hill
Kansas Turnpike
el Dorado
Miller
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Gordon Miley
Mrs. Maude Krider
Maude Krider
N. Lafayette
Orpha Henley
Parie Carlson
Buffalo
House
Cha
Yours
Kansan
Tribune
Russell Page
Kimball
Marines
Defense Perimter
U.S. 9Th Division
Ameri
Donald Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Young’s
McCune
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