Closely Timed Farm Search Linked to Murders Probe
Meridian AP report details FBI testimony on the Aug. 4 search of Olen Burrage’s farm where three civil rights workers were buried. Agents described a rapid, coordinated operation with a bulldozer and dragline locating bodies about 16 feet down in a 400-foot earthen watershed. Defense motions seek to suppress evidence and challenge arrest procedures as 16 defendants face federal conspiracy charges in a Ku Klux Klan killing case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meridian
Miss
FBI
U.S. District Court
Justice Department
John Proctor Jr
Burrage
Proctor
Earthern
Earth
Turnpike Meets Costs Banner Year in 1964
WICHITA AP The Kansas Turnpike reported 1964 operating net of 6,807,709 and interest coverage 1.2 times surpassing the trust agreement minimum. Gross income 8,617,590 with peak toll revenue 7,591,167 and operating costs 1,809,881. Newcomer noted prior deficits in bond amortization remain. Duncan called 1964 a banner year in eight-year history.
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Wichita
Kansas Turnpike
L. W. Newcomer
The
Turnpike Authority
Pike
Newcomer
Turnpike
Robert F. Duncan
William Avery
Phone numbers to reach Tribune after hours
Instructions tell readers to contact the Tribune via the carrier and, if unavailable, dial HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m. The item gives specific contact steps and a time anchor for after hours communication.
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Tribune
South Valley Chapel Builds a New Church
South Valley Chapel plans a new church four miles west of Shaw with services hoped for in May. Pastor Mark T. Stringer leads the project on a two acre site five miles south and three east of Chanute where a concrete floor was poured last fall. Progress slowed by shorter daylight hours and member availability.
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Shaw
South Valley Chapel
Mark T. Stringer
Chanute
Unification Hearing Here Tomorrow
A public hearing on Chanute's school unification petition will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Senior High School auditorium with Harry Dean directing for the state department of public instruction. The plan would unify Chanute with Earlton Union Valley Neosho Valley Rural Hillcrest and Fairfield districts.
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Chanute
Harry Dean
State Department of Public Instruction
Earlton
Union Valley
Neosho Valley
Rural
Hillcrest
Fairfield
Neosho County
Erie
Stark
Galesburg
Howard Woodworth
Woodworth
Morehead
South Mound
Hawaii Site Named For Six Mile Ocean Hole Drill
The National Science Foundation tentatively selects an area near Hawaii as the site for Project Mohole to drill a six mile deep hole into the ocean floor. Drilling could start in 1968 with preliminary shallow work in 1967 at six Pacific sites. The project may cost about 70 million dollars in the first three years, then eight million annually until completion. The Hawaii location is roughly 100 miles north-northeast of Maui.
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Ocean
Hawaii
National Science Foundation
Foundation
Pacific
Leland Haworth
Founda
Hawaii Site
Maui
The
Hawaiian Islands
Concordia approves Jaco junior college plan
Concordia district four patrons approve a two year junior college to be run in Cloud County with classes at the Concordia high school. The levy will not exceed five mills, funding the operation. Start date is anticipated Feb 8 with about 70 students initial enrollment.
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Concordia
Second Theft Charge Against Girard Man
Fort Scott Kansas AP reports cattle theft charges have been filed again against 76 year old Girard farmer W S Milton. The case marks a second theft charge against the same defendant. Bond and court dates were not provided in the dispatch.
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Girard
Fort Scott
Kan
Girard, Kan
W. S. Milton
Newton Dam to Be Blown Up
Newton Kansas AP reports the first of its kind fabric dam across Sand Creek underwent an initial inflation test and was then deflated for earth moving work before final use. A later flood control plan includes dredging and cleaning the creek bed by Army engineers while a higher concrete dam upstream was demolished earlier. The fabric dam from California holds 70000 gallons and inflates with water or air, deflating automatically when water reaches a set height. It stands nine feet above the base and will impound water for recreation at Newton’s Athletic Park.
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South Valley Chapel
Barbara
Joplin College
South Valley
Stringer
Jim Dye
Chanute
Newton
Kan
Sand Creek
Army
California
Athletic Park
Intercepted Letter to Cha on Wheat Prices
An intercepted note questions U S policy on wheat prices, arguing Uncle Sam cannot sustain high prices in foreign markets as in the domestic market. The brief suggests frustration with price manipulation and market strategy without naming officials or events.
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Sam
Ike to Attend Churchill Rites in London Pipeline
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower flies from Palm Springs by military jet toward London to attend the Churchill rites. Mrs. Eisenhower stays at the Palm Desert home while Ike stops overnight at Gettysburg then proceeds to Washington.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Dwight D. Eisenhower
London
Winston Churchil
Eisenhower
Palm Desert
Gettysburg
Washington, D.C
Weather forecast and temperatures across Topeka area
Area forecast calls for fair and warmer tonight and partly cloudy cooler Thursday with lows near 30 and highs 40 to 45. Topeka had a 4 degree early low with NE counties dropping below 10, while Pittsburg reached 27 to 41 today and lows tonight range 15 to 25.
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Topeka
Pittsburg
Khanh Returns to Power in Saigon Coup
South Viet Nam generals toppled Premier Tran Van Huong in a bloodless coup, restoring Lt. Gen Nguyen Khanh. The move sparks jubilant Buddhist protests, as Khanh blames the government for city chaos hindering the Viet Cong war effort. The United States weighs its response while Ambassador Taylor rushes back from Southeast Asia.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
Khanh
Tran van Huong
United States
U.S
Military Council
Maxwell D. Taylor
Laos
Thailand
Taylor
Bangkok
Two KSU students bound over on arson charges
Kansas State University music education majors Larry D. Sayler and William F. Shaw, both 19 or 22, were bound over to district court on second degree arson charges for the January 15 fire at the campus auditorium known as The Barn. Their bonds were set at $5,000 each as preliminary hearings proceeded with witnesses detailing Sayler’s admissions and alibis.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State University
Liberty
Larry D. Sayler
William F. Shaw
Kansas City
William James Wilson
Wilson
Sayler
Don Everett
Wendell Cowan
Topeka
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
John E. Cardwell
Sonja Lane
Pauline Davis
U S and Canada Enter Foreign Wheat Price War
Washington AP reports the United States and Canada moving toward a price war for foreign wheat markets. Argentina and Australia also cut prices, but less threat to U S markets. U S and Canada cut prices this week while seeking to stabilize export prices near 1.35 dollars per bushel. subsidies on wheat exports were raised to offset farm price support.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Argentina
Australia
U. S
Department of Agriculture
Department
Nat King Cole May Sing Again After Lung Loss
Nat King Cole, in Santa Monica hospital, has lost a lung to cancer but his doctor says he remains hopeful about a return to singing. The physician called his condition "very, very good" and offered no timeline for recovery while requesting anonymity. Cole remains confined at St. John's Hospital with no firm prognosis given.
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Nat King Cole
Cole
St. John’s Hospital
Area Votes In Congress
Washington AP reports the House passed a 204 to 177 roll call to cut off funds for shipping surplus foods to Egypt. Democrats Ichord Missouri Jarman Oklahoma and Republicans Curtis Hall Missouri Dole Ellsworth Mize Shriver Shubitz Kansas Belcher Oklahoma voted for the cut. Against the cut Democrats Bolling Hull Hungate Jones Karsten Randall Missouri Albert Johnson Steed Oklahoma voted no.
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Washington
House
Egypt
Ichord
Missouri
Jarman
Oklahoma
Curtis
Hall
Dole
Ellsworth
Mize
Shriver
Shubitz
Kansas
Belcher
Bolling, Hull
Hungate
Jones
Karsten
Randall
Albert, Johnson and Steed
Not Guilty Is Verdict For Cloke
Erie District court jurors found Richard D. Cloke not guilty after a 30 minute deliberation on a rape charge involving a Chanute minor girl at the Chanute Country Club. Foreman J. Thornton led the panel. a separate jail break case from the September escape is set for the March term. Cloke remains free on bond.
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Erie — District Court
Richard D. Cloke
Chanute
Frank Stover
Earl Oliver
Burl Record
Merrill Brock
Grace Fuller
W. H. Henderson
Rural
Parsons
Albert Smedley
Carl Coles
Thayer
Harry Hunt
Marie Culbertson
Eric
William B. Kramer
Galesburg
J. C. Thornton
Earlton
Traffic Fatalities Report For Topeka Area
AP tally shows Kansas traffic deaths over a 24 hour period ending 9 am Wednesday with 37 fatalities in January this year and 37 for 1965, compared to 56 in the comparable 1964 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas House backs plan to force federal amendment
The Kansas House approved a resolution 103 to 15 to require submission of a federal constitutional amendment enabling states with bicameral legislatures to apportion one house by nonpopulation basis. Senate had already adopted it. The action followed signing a first bill of the session into law, with emergency funding measures for Kansas State University and a university land swap proposal also moving forward.
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Peka
Kansas House
House
Senate
Topeka
Kansas
State Reformatory
Hutchinson
U. S. Supreme Court
Thomas van Cleave
Kansas City
Jerry Grif
State Board of Regents
Urban Renewal Agency
Kan
Regents
University of Kansas Medical Center
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Oklahoma City
Olen Burrage
Bill Jenkins
South Valley School
Ozark Bible College
Joplin
Nebraska
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Newton Dam
Bill Kirton
Newton Kansas
Cha
Ike
Churchill
Jerry Mershon
Donn Everett
Charles D. Green
Gree. Wilson
Ft. Leavenworth
Holiday Inn
Santa Monica, Calif
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Fith
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