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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1963
Page
4
On July 1 1863 Union and Confederate forces clashed near Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Federal troops were driven back to defensive positions south of town as Major General George G Meade prepared to deploy 88 000 men for a forecast major battle the next day.
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr a former secretary of commerce and New York congressman states on a radio TV program in Washington that he is not a candidate for the U.S Senate from New York next year or for any other office He says he is happy in his present post The remark followed questions from Sen Kenneth Keating who is expected to run for re election in 1964 Also included are items about film stars footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater engagement of Bette Davis daughter Barbara and Civil War battle details from Gettysburg with casualty figures and vivid battlefield descriptions.
AP dispatch reports Vietnamese forces say weekend ground and air operations in the Mekong Delta killed 172 Communist guerrillas. In Kien Phong Province 110 Reds fell Sunday during an armored assault on a guerrilla position. Saturday air strikes killed 62.
In Palermo Sicily nine people were killed over the weekend by TNT loaded car booby traps. Victims include two garage workers and seven policemen. The attacks occurred in a Palermo suburb known as a Mafia prowling ground.
A weekend spate of rains and landslides across southern Japan left 18 dead, 28 injured, and 14 missing as floods swamped 31 870 homes in two southern states. Police reported 233 landslides and widespread crop destruction with property damage in the tens of millions of dollars.
Janice K. Zimmerman, 15, of Oxford, died in a one car crash on a county road near Oxford Sunday. The weekend saw several traffic accidents across the state, with authorities continuing to investigate.
In the Gettysburg campaign, Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock arrives to assume field command after Reynolds’s death. The Union line forms a fishhook from Cemetery Ridge to Cemetery Hill as Howard’s shattered corps awaits reinforcements. Lee’s army concentrates on Seminary Ridge for a critical assault as night falls.
Galen Forest, 17, of Wichita, died when an old model car struck a pole on the outskirts of Wichita and another teenager was injured. Francis L. Lassiter, 29, of Denver, died late Saturday when his car collided with a truck on U S 24 west of Wamego. There was one fatality in Kansas Saturday with two more deaths Friday night.
In Moscow the AP reports women in the Soviet Union outnumber men by about 20 million, but a new book advises young girls not to worry about marriage. The book Women and Children in the USSR notes men under 38 outnumber women, reducing competition for husbands.
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