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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1967
Page
1
Robert Ward was elected president of the Chanute board of education for the 1967 68 term at the monthly meeting. Ward will serve his third consecutive term and was nominated unanimously by fellow board members. Dr Don Abbueh was elected to a third consecutive term as
Mobutu reported two unidentified planes landed a group of foreign commandos at Kisangani airport as tensions rise in eastern Congo. The Congo radio cited attacks near Bukavu and a Belgian mercenary plot to free Tshombe who faces death if extradited from Algiers. Tshombe was sentenced in absentia for treason and has lived in exile since 1965.
Adventure Line Manufacturing Co of Parsons, Kansas, wins a 2.5 million dollar Air Force contract for about five months of antipersonnel fragmentation bomb casing production. Production starts in November with an option for more. The firm will hire 250 workers, adding to roughly 100 already employed. Gun rack output continues while motor home production will be phased out.
The Kansas Highway Commission listed highways closed due to high water: U.S. 160 west of Plains, K101 north of Edna, K146 three miles northeast of Erie, and K7 north of Columbus with a detour provided.
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Markham Illinois AP reports policeman James Casper gave his 22 year old wife Barbara a motorcycle on their third wedding anniversary. On duty he answered a traffic call and found Barbara dead beside the crumpled bike after a car struck her from the rear and fled.
Thieves stole rockets mortar-type aerial bombs and ground displays from a storage area in the city park delaying a Parsons Kansas Jaycees fireworks show. The theft was found about four hours before the scheduled display.
Madelyn Waits aged 35 of Wichita died when her car climbed a guardrail and struck a bridge abutment on Interstate 235 north of the city. The vehicle rolled 128 feet atop the rail before tipping over and wedging between the guardrail and abutment. Wreckers and workers spent over two hours to remove the body.
A mobile art gallery valued over 35000 tours 19 southeast Kansas towns with paintings and sculptures from Wichita State University. The Neosho county Extension Homemaker Units sponsor the exhibit in Chanute beside the Memorial Building, open 11 a.m. to 8 30 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Bill McMillan, driver-curator with KU art education master, will answer questions.
Intercepted letter to Cha predicts water-propelled vehicles gain acceptance with ongoing rain. Nute signs off.
Area reports show Chanute and nearby towns drenched with 2.02 inches since midnight and large totals across Altoona, Erie, Humboldt, Thayer. Wet fields slow wheat harvest with delays up to a month and rank weed growth amid widespread showers and storms.
Traffic deaths rose to 694 during the four day Fourth of July holiday surpassing last year’s 576. Memorial Day fatalities reached 608 in a separate four day observance. John B. Lawlor urged states to speed adoption of safer traffic programs as highway police worked extra shifts nationwide.
The Associated Press reports 11 traffic fatalities and five drownings in Kansas over the Fourth of July holiday from 6 a.m. Friday to midnight Tuesday. Names include Donald T. Yarrow 21 Wakefield Kan Cindy Ann Huffman 11 Kansas City Kan Michael Crawford 9 Salina and Lawrence C Schmitt 57 Liberal with Yarrow found in a wrecked car on a Clay County road.
Kansas Turnpike officials report 126,714 motorists drove 7.2 million miles during the July 4 holiday. Four minor accidents, none with injuries, occurred from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight July 4. Troopers made 37 speeding arrests and 286 service calls. Last year about 106,000 vehicles logged over six million miles with eight accidents.
At the United Nations the 122 nation General Assembly failed to pass Israel withdrawal resolutions from Egypt Syria and Jordan. Delegates debated a vague face-saving draft while critical votes on Jerusalem annexation and Arab refugee aid moved forward. Israel Egyptian claims over air clashes sparked tension as the issue returns to the Security Council for possible action.
Police logged a hit and run at Lincoln and Elm at 11 15 p.m. involving Richard D. McCune home Lincoln McCune’s 1961 Pontiac damaged. Oscar D. Mosier of Winfield arrested 12 30 a.m. on leaving scene charge posting $50 bond.
Gordon Lambert, a noted Shreveport business and civic figure, met President and Mrs. Johnson at Barksdale Air Force Base. He removed his shoes after they were soaked by a four inch rain just before the First Couple's arrival.
North Korean regulars killed a South Korean soldier and wounded 12 near the DMZ while South Korean police killed a North Korean guerrilla and captured another 150 miles south of Seoul. Riot police used tear gas against 2000 students in Pusan protesting election irregularities. Seven South Koreans and 10 North Koreans died in weekend clashes as police pursued about 15 North Koreans near Changsong.
AP reports heavy communist rocket and artillery fire pounding U S Marine outposts below the DMZ as four days of ground fighting continue. Casualties rise to 106 killed, 321 wounded, 6 missing. 168 North Vietnamese reported killed, with higher total likely.
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