Insurance executive to head Pentagon operations study panel
Gil bert Fitzhugh, a nonmilitary insurance industry executive and 1930 Princeton graduate, is named to lead a Nixon panel to study and recommend changes to Pentagon operations after urging by the president. He says he does not know much about defense spending and cost overruns but believes someone should look into it.
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Vietnam
Nixon
Defense Establishment
Laird
Defense Department
Hoover Commission
Buffalo Woman Hurt as Rodeo Stands Fall
Mrs. Jim Price of Ecco Ranch near Buffalo was injured when rodeo stands collapsed during a Friday performance at Yates Center. She was treated at Neosho Memorial Hospital and later transferred to St. Francis in Wichita for back injuries.
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Jim Price
Ecco Ranch
Here
Yates Center
Price
Martha Byington
Fredonia
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Chanute
St. Francis Hospital
Wichita
Wilson County confers final county superintendent record
Louise Rankin turns over the county superintendent files to the register of deeds as state law ends the post on July 1. Wilson County, Kansas, has a century of district unification ending a line of 28 superintendents from 1858 to 1969, with Rankin the last.
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Fredonia
Wilson County
Louise Rankin
Register of Deeds
Fannie Butts
Fannie Lyon
Lewis A. Martin
Anna Laura Young
R. M. Somers
Beulah Mellon Cain
T. R. Holtzman
Bessie G. Odell
May Pinkston
C. E. Strecker
Lowell W. Shire
Wilson County Tax Collections Reach 97.33 Percent
Wilson County Treasurer Daisy Verink reported last week that 1968 tax collections reached 97.33 percent. Amount collected as of Thursday totaled $2,114,844.14 against a total tax abstract of $2,172,857.17, continuing a strong county record from last year.
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Fredonia
Wilson County
Daisy Verink
Church Memberships Meet New Pastors
Members from First Zion and Turkey Creek United Methodist Churches gathered at Zion Church for a general meeting with the new pastors. The Rev. Richard E. Johnson and family occupy the Zion parsonage, while Rev. David Mack and wife live at the First Church parsonage. Mack studies at St Paul School of Theology in Kansas City and both churches also serve the Toronto United Methodist Church. A devotional by Wayne Trichler preceded punch and cookies for about 150 attendees.
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Toronto
Fredonia Plans Fourth of July Fireworks Display
The Fredonia Jaycees will run the annual fireworks show at Fredonia City Park Friday evening. The display will be launched so the public may use rodeo grounds stands after the rodeo begins at 7 p.m.
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Fredonia
Fredonia Jaycees
Fredonia City Park
Parsons Urban Renewal TRO Sought in Labette County Court
A temporary restraining order to halt Parsons urban renewal work on an 8.4 million project was taken under advisement by Judge Hal Hyler. Both sides were given 20 days to file briefs on the motion and a parallel city motion to dismiss an injunction action by C. J. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson.
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Parsons
Hal Hyler
Labette County
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