Montana Governor Dies In Plane Crash Near Wolf Creek
Gov. Donald G. Nutter of Montana and four others perished when a Twin Engine C47 crashed in turbulent weather near Wolf Creek 35 miles south of the town. Also killed were his executive secretary Dennis B. Gordon Agriculture Commissioner Edward C. Wren and two Great Falls crew members. Tim M. Babcock set to assume acting duties as lieutenant governor.
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Wolf Creek
Mont
Donald G. Nutter
Montana
Nutter
GOP
Tim M. Babcock
Billings
Babcock
Maxine
Cliff Hanson
Joseph Devine
Ed Wirth
National Guard
Air Force
Weather Bureau
Dennis B. Gordon
Edward C. Wren
Federal Aviation Agency
Cascade
Helena
Senate Debates Literacy Test Ban In Civil Rights Fight
Senate's election year clash over voting rights begins with Mansfield proposing an administration bill to bar literacy tests. Javits promises riders for school desegregation federal aid and broader civil rights action. The plan links to six grade schooling as voter qualification. Southern Democrats vow to resist as federal overreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Alabama
Arkansas
Mississippi
Texas
Virginia
Civil Rights Commission
Kennedy
Senate Judiciary Committee
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Counterfeit Bills Passed in Taverns in Missouri Ozarks
Kansas City AP reports counterfeit twenty dollar bills traced to the Missouri Ozarks two years ago resurfaced in Kansas City on Thursday and were passed at two taverns. Police are investigating the spread and origin of the notes.
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Ierns
Secret Service
Vincent H. Bruno
Irish Wilderness Gang
Ozarks
Kansas City
Missouri Ozarks
Hilton Plans 10 Million Kansas City Hotel and Convention Center
Conrad H. Hilton announced a joint 10 million project in Quality Hill Kansas City with Lewis Kitchen. The plan calls for a 16 story 400 room hotel plus a 3 900 din ner and 5 000 meeting capable convention center and 222 additional rooms in two story guest buildings. Construction would start in 1963 with a 24 to 30 month completion window.
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Kansas City
Conrad H. Hilton
Quality Hill
Kaw Valley
Missouri
Kansas Rivers
Hilton
Sixth Street
Los Angeles
Hilton Hotels Corp
Lewis Kitchen
Kitchen’s Associates
City Planning Commission
Variety of meetings held by Walnut organizations
Walnut reports show several meetings. The Walnut Farmerettes Home Demonstration Unit voted to affiliate with Crawford County and elected officers. The Past Presidents Parley of Gard Lee Unit 292 met with officers elected for 1962-63. The Twentieth Century Club and Wide Awake Club held programs and luncheons. A former Walnut resident, Mary C. Cockayne, 78, died in Long Beach. Local residents returned from area hospitals and visits.
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Walnut
Walnut Farmerettes Home Demonstration Unit
Harry Little
Crawford County
Neosho County
Juanita Johnson
H.D.A
Girard
Raymond Shively
Don Dyson
Eneas Murray
Gard Lee
American Legion Auxiliary
Caroline Bailey
Bertha Smith
Margaret Foster
Gladys Sands
Winters General Hospital
Twentieth Century Club
Grace Elpers
Teresa Stephlan
Marie Murray
Marilyn Cole‘grove
Frances and
Violet Grove
Evelyn Sewart
Loretta
David
Josephine Shively
Pat Kanute
Wayne
Donnie
Mary C. Cockayne
Long Beach
Calif
Past Commanders Club Dinner At Erie Legions
The Erie Past Commanders club held its monthly dinner at the Legion clubrooms with twelve of thirteen past commanders present. Mrs Bertha Smith of Chanute visits and Mrs Delano Foxworthy hosts. Charles McKinnie leaves Olson food store to enroll at Baker University. Congress set Feb 16 for water resources hearing.
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Erie
American Legion
McKinnie
Legion
Hollis
Ralph Mahar
Dunham
Bill Snyder
Lloyal Lowe
Lewis
Lowe
Bertha Smith
Chanute
Delano Foxworthy
Charles McKinnie
Olson
Baldwin
Baker University Washington
Don Jansate
Sen
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Interstate Commission On Water Resources of the
Council of State Governments
Kennedy
Anderson
Federal
Water Resources Council
Cows More Valuable Than Botany Expert
In Circleville Ohio a field botanist, 74 year old Floyd Bartley, sank to his waist in quicksand at a farm while examining rare moss. He reached a grass patch and then a lifesaving shrub with help from a farm woman who said two cows had recently vanished in the same area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circleville
Ohio
Here
Floyd Bartley
Bartley
Nashville Patrolman Charged in Moonshine Conspiracy
Patrolman Taylor Harding Cooper, 40, was arrested in Nashville on federal charges alleging he conspired to operate a moonshine whiskey still. The indictment says he agreed to serve as lookout while on duty in his patrol car. Cooper denied the charges.
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Nashville
Taylor Harding Cooper
Cooper
Crown Drug to Expand by Merging with American Discount Stores
Crown Drug Co of Kansas City will absorb American Discount Stores Inc of Mobile, Alabama, creating a combined chain with 44 Missouri Kansas Oklahoma outlets and 175 South stores. Crown will issue common stock for all American Discount shares and add drug departments to existing stores while opening new Crown Drug Departments in Midwest states.
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Kansas City
Crown Drug Co
American Discount Stores Inc
Mobile
Ala
Crown Drug
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
American Discount
Crown
Curt R. Banks
Midwest
Tom L. Evans
C. C. Payne
John S. and
C. M. Watkins
Maurice Olen fined for securities violation in Mobile
Maurice Olen, former head of a New York chain of more than 400 stores, was fined 2500 in U S District Court Mobile in June 1961 after pleading no contest to charges of violating securities regulations. He allegedly exaggerated the financial condition of a company bearing his name in selling its stock to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Stores
Maurice Olen
New York
Olen
U.S. District Court
Mobile
Doubt on Value of Kovacs Estate
Hollywood AP reports Ernie Kovacs' widow Edie Adams says the comedian's estate valued at 2.1 million dollars is not a true picture as Kovacs was deeply in debt. She notes a tax lien on the house and contents and that government review of the books is ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Ernie Kovacs
Edie Adams
Ernie
Child Dead After Swallowing Camphor Balls
In Monroe New York a 19 months old girl Margaret Aplan died after swallowing camphor balls found in a can at home. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Aplan.
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Joe Modica
Labette County Medical Center
Parsons
Iome
Derby
Forrest Dowling
Elmo Marcy
Augusta
R. JC. Leritz Sr
Monroe
N.Y
Margaret Aplan
Frank Aplan
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Jayhawk Pipeline Co
Plains
Kan
Sunflower
University of Wichita
David J. Hanks
Student Publications Board
E. E. Hanks
E. Elm
Wichita
Walnut High School
Hanks
The
Curtiss Terflinger
Student Publications
Helen Lyness
Carrie Briley
Faye Shireman
Bernice Foster
Viola ‘Carson
Grace Elledge
Fern Bohlander
Nelle Shireman
Yarnell
Reeves
Pittsburg
VFW
Sonie Corum
Olive Swaney
Orval
Thomas Hudson
William Shellhorn
Veterans Hospital
Pierce
Richard Wood
Topeka
Fred Newell
Emery Wilson
Pearl Redmond
Ralph Cottey
James Pierce
Cleo I. Dalton
Neosho Publishing Co
Italy
Latium
Charles Gambril
Moran
Margaret Edwards
District Court
Merle Estes
John Young
Ronald Yockey
Bill Yockey
John Harris
Faye Reeves
Perry Yarnell
Lassman Electric
Wilson's Davis Paint Store
Televisions
General Electric
Iola
Crown Co
Roger W. Babson and
H. J
Doc) Witschner
Babson
George E. Allen
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Harry S. Truman
William L. Less
American Dis
E. Main
Kovacs
Investors Mutual, Inc
Invertors Mutual
Ine
Stete
First National Bank
Diebold
Chanute, Kansas
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