Carriers Ordered To Pickup Positions Ahead Of Glenn Flight
Three aircraft carriers were ordered out to sea to standby for John H. Glenn Jr.’s planned spaceflight around the earth. Countdown was near T minus 48 hours as NASA issued a long range weather forecast to confirm or delay the Thursday date. Glenn and his crew prepared with life support checks and trainer sessions while carrier movements shifted to recovery areas near Bermuda and Grand Turk.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
John H. Glenn Jr
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Glenn
M. Scott Carpenter
Navy
Enterprise
Norfolk
Bermuda
Wasp
Randolph
Puerto Rico
Bahama
Grand Turk
Kansas City Livestock Prices Slip Across Hogs Cattle and Lambs
Livestock market notes from Kansas City show cattle 5,000 head with steady to weak demand across steer and heifer classes, hogs down 18 to 50 cents in lighter weights, sows softer, and lambs easing. Parson's price quotes include U.S. No. 1 and 2 hogs 190-240 pounds at 16.75 to 17.00 with lighter ranges, cattle grain fed heifers and steers at 22.00 to 24.50 for 600-700 pounds, and stock calves and veal prices varying by weight and quality. Overall, cattle and hogs show softer calves and mixed shifts in price across commodities.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Parsons
U.S
Wall Street rallies as industrials lead market gain
New York stocks rebounded with industrials in front, volume around 3.5 million shares. Bonds and government securities moved mixed while several key names such as Boeing, Dow Chemical, General Motors and Penney traded higher amid broad appetite for shares.
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New York
U.S
Atchison
Aaa
Beech Aire
Beth Stee
Oes
Boeing Air
Chi RI & Pac
Dow Chem
Ccd
Pere Mir
Cha' \Mansan Ch
Ottawa
Mont Ward
Neosho Memorial
Penney JC
Sears Roeb
COU
Sinclair
Spen Chem
Sperry Rd
Three Bills Signed by Gov Anderson in Kansas Session
AP reports Gov. John Anderson signed three bills from the budget session. One appropriates 1,398,245 dollars for retirement system costs and social security increases. Another provides for payment of motor fuel tax refunds. The third raises fees for boiler inspections.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Deaths and Funerals Chaney Service and Rausch Burial
Funeral services for Clar ence Chaney of Stark will be at 1 30 p m Wednesday at Pierce Funeral Home Erie with Rev Wayne Newlin officiating. Burial at Easthill Cemetery Erie. Lucy E Rausch 84 of 715 S Garfield died at Neo sho Memorial Hospital after several weeks illness. Born May 23 1877 in Soenflils County Luxemburg she came to the U S at eleven with family settling in Atchison later Chanute in 1901. Married Michael Rausch in 1902. survivors include daughter Mrs Kenneth Shultz 715 S Garfield two sons George Rausch 920 N Santa Fe Pete Rausch R 1 and three grandchildren. Rosary at Johnson Mortuary Wednesday 8 p m Requiem Mass Thursday 9 a m at St Patrick Catholic Church with Rev Peter J Finnegan officiating. Burial at St Patrick Cemetery.
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Lucey Elizabeth Rausch
Lucy E. Rausch
S. Garfield
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Soenflils County
Luxemburg
United States
Atchison
Chanute
Michael Rausch
Peter J. Finnegan
St. Patrick Cemetery
Daily admissions and dismissals at Neosho Memorial Hospital
Yesterday admissions include Phillip Richardson R 2 medical Mary Alice Clines 11 s N Evergreen medical and Mrs Earl Elliott 513 N Forest medical Dismissals include Mrs Robert Kauffman and daughter 417 E 12th Mrs Otto Meek 721 N Forest Mrs Roland Hutton 214 S Kansas Joe Slyker 602 S Evergreen Myrtle Olson Eric Mrs Fred Geffert Humboldt Mrs Earl Johnson R 3 Arthur Simon Humboldt Mrs Eugene Gier R 1 Mrs D N Hargis Humboldt Linda Guenther Benedict W T Weis 1114 W 5th Ted Massey Yates Center Admissions today include Ronald Sandberg 8 W Walnut medical Mrs Curtis Van Gundy 811 W Walnut medical Mrs William Roberts Humboldt medical Wilberta Hudspeth 809 S Allen medical Dismissals today include Bertha Wall 209 N Plummer Mrs James Read and son 314 N Wilson Funeral services for Cleo Hoffman Eric Mrs Richard Garza Requiem mass Monday for Jesse H Garza officiated by Rev Peter J Finnegan Burial at St Patrick's cemetery Johnson Mortuary in charge
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Phillip Richardson
Mary Alice Clines
N. Evergreen
Earl Elliott
N. Forest
Robert Kauffman
Otto Meek
Roland Hutton
S. Kansas
Joe Slyker
S. Evergreen
Myrtle Olson
Eric
Fred Geffert
Humboldt
Earl Johnson
Arthur Simon
Eugene Gier
D. N. Hargis
Linda Guenther
Benedict
W. T. Weis
W. 5Th
Ted Massey
Yates Center
Ronald Sandberg
W. Walnut
Curtis van Gundy
William Roberts
Wilberta Hudspeth
S. Allen
Bertha Wall
N. Plummer
James Read
Four Airmen Found Alive on Iranian Mountain Crash
A U S medical team found four airmen alive on Zardkyh Mountain after their single engine plane crashed on a flight from Tehran to Dizful. The five aboard had included Maj. Donald A. Carder pilot and four others named by U S Defense Department. details on the survivors were withheld. Bad weather delayed rescue efforts but supplies were air-dropped to the wreck site at about 12 000 feet.
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Tehran
Iran
U.S
Zardkyh
U.S. Defense Department
Dizful
Donald A. Carder
Rayville
Walter M. Vann
Monroe
N.C
Walter R. Johnson
Baldwin
N.Y
Daniel L. Knotts
Atlanta
John E. Porter
Springfield
Dog Jumps on Bed Wounds Woman in Accident
Mrs. Jane Greenwell 40 was hit in the hip by a stray .22 bullet when her dog jumped onto a bed as she set a rifle down after hearing ducks. She was treated and released. Husband Guy Greenwell, a local sportsman, was away on his television show.
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Joplin
Jane Greenwell
Two Doctors Named topeka advisory panel
(AP) Gov. John Anderson appoints two doctors to the advisory commission on institutional management and community mental health. They are Dr. Richard L. Merkel of Topeka and Dr. Robert H. Riedel, executive secretary of the state Board of Health.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Advisory Commission On
Richard L. Mer‘kel
Robert H.riedel
State Board of Health
Young Woman Testifies in Abduction Case Near Kansas City
23 year old Miss Wandra Smalley described being hauled 80 miles by two men who tried to rape her twice. She identified Richard Banish and Robert Runge, both California parole violators, as abductors and testified at a federal hearing in which Runge faces extradition and Banish awaits grand jury action.
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Kansas City
Wandra Edith Smalley
I. M. Smalley
Deming
N.M
Richard C. Banish
Cupertini
Calif
Robert Henry Runge
Des Moines
Iowa
FBI
Runge
Bloomfield
Angelina Miller
Farmington
Banish
California
Range
Miss Smalley
Radcliffe College
Cambridge
Mass
Albuquerque
Kan
Western Union
Tucumcari
Kansas
Bob
Mrs. Maude Thompson Dies Widow of Editor
Mrs. Maude C. Thompson, 98, widow of Tom E. Thompson longtime editor of the Howard East Courant, died Monday in a Winfield hospital.
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Winfield (Ap
Maude C. Thompson
Tom E. Thompson
Howard East Courant
Winfield Hospital
Tourists Find Ideal Climate At Cuernavaca In Old Mexico
Mrs Henry Watkins recounts a UNESCO sponsored Mexico tour from Mexico City to Taxco visiting Cuernavaca Palace of Cortez mural stories by Revera gifted by Dwight Morrow painted in 1943 and Taxco silver mines Santa Prisca church and House of Figueroa later used as a reformatorio mint and priest home.
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Cuernavaca
Old Mexico
Henry Watkins
Erie
Mexico
Mexico City
Taxco
University City
Palace of
Cortez
Sanchez
Santa Prisca
Jose de la Borda
Anthony
Figueroa
Jesse
Henry
Amelia Gomez
Chanute Junior College
Neosho
Unesco
Chapultepec Castle
Church of Guadalupe
Stoneciphers
Henry and I
Independence
Southeast Kansas Faces Water Strains and Gov ernment Overload
In Southeast Kansas the water supply is tight with cities pressed to secure municipal water. The region has a shrinking labor pool and a brain drain, prompting calls for higher level trades training. Government units per population are high, with 980 units serving 279,567 people across 15 counties.
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Kansas
Plains States
U.S
Local government units face consolidation questions in Kansas
The Chanute Tribune notes concerns over townships in southeast Kansas with 98 of 195 townships under 400 population. A K State survey finds 60 percent support school consolidation while only 21 percent oppose. A Neosho County committee will study reforms at a March meeting led by Bill Dixon.
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Kansas
Neosho County
Bill Dickson
Wall Heads Kansas Day Wall Heads Kansas Day
John Wall of Sedan is new president of the Kansas Day Club succeeding Rep. Garner E. Shriver of Wichita. Officers elected include Mrs. Glenn Cogswell as vice president and Clyde N. Christey as secretary treasurer with a slate of new directors from Topeka, Hugoton, Norton, Sabetha, Lawrence, Ottawa, Cottonwood Falls, Council Grove, Wellington, and Burlington.
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Topeka
John Wall
Sedan
Kansas Day Club
Republican Party Organization
Garner E. Shriver
Wichita
Glenn Cogswell
Clyde N. Christey
Paul Lundgren
R-Hugoton
J. C. Tillotson
Norton
John Hope
Nannie Bingham
Sabetha
Ralph King
Lawrence
Jeannette Stephenson
Ottawa
Clyde Littler
Cottonwood Falls
John Norozo
Council Grove
Robert Cobean
Wellington
H. Fern Curtis
Burlington
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Ington
John Erickson
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Lowell Harp
Thayer
John Lofthouse
Floyd Moody
Fredonia
National Council of Catholic Women
St. Francis Hospital
PTA
Hutton School
Lee Embry
Wayne Cooper
Santa Fe
Jim Stone
Altoona
Tammy Lynn
Neodesha
Pamela Lea
Carroll Folger
Carl Stone
Buffalo
American Cancer Society
Peoples Theater
Senior High
Donald L. McMillen
Samuel L. McMillen
U.S. Air Force
University of Kansas
McMillen
Jim Just
S. Highland
Just
William J. Bell
Weer
Leon H. Franklin
Franklin
S. Lafayette
Devo Rumble
Tribune
Bills
Daily Transcript
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Johnson Mortuary
Allen Monument Company
S. Central
Lassman
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