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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1963
Page
1
Downtown Chanute residents share dream getaways when time and money pose no limits. Respondents name destinations from the Bahamas to Europe, California, Hawaii, Superior Wisconsin, and home fronts, telling of beaches, culture, recreation, and leisure.
OTTAWA Kan AP Every Sunday morning Sam the dog heads for church after services he rides back with the preacher. On Thursday the bell rang for Let Freedom Ring but there were no services and Sam trotted to the church then had to walk back home.
AP reports Judge James J. Noone in Sedgwick County issued an injunction halting enforcement of Kansas 1963 Sunday shopping restrictions as vague and unconstitutional. The ruling cites vague exemptions like mom and pop shops and health relief exceptions, while attackers seek broader state action through appeals and similar suits in Atchison and Reno counties.
In Moscow the ongoing Sino Soviet ideological talks continue as Red China derides peaceful coexistence and disarmament rhetoric. Mao's faction presses for a tougher line led by Teng Hsiao-ping while Suslov hosts talks with smiles but no Soviet press presence.
Bodies of two newborn girls were found in a shallow mountainside grave near Highway 64 Ozark Arkansas. The infants about three months old died while their traveling parents with a station wagon full of people were passing through Arkansas on March 18. The case spans Albuquerque Santa Ana Russellville and Ozark as investigators pursue unclear leads. Autopsies will be performed in Little Rock. Prosecutor awaiting a full police report before filing charges.
Ike the wounded cardinal living in Cologne with caretaker Margaret Harkrath retires from Kansas City life after 14 years since being found shot. Miss Harkrath, a St Margaret Hospital housemother, moves to Germany. friends escorted them to New York for travel. A Fish and Wildlife permit was needed to exit the United States, but no red tape awaited in Germany.
Sgt. 1 c Delbert S. Buress, part of the post ROTC encampment group from DePaul University, Chicago, died when his car collided with a truck on K58 inside Fort Riley gates. Beverly K. McBee of Salina, driver of the truck, was not injured.
Larry Dwayne Hannah 42 of Kansas City died in a two car collision on US 71 near Nevada Missouri. His wife Alma Ruth Hannah 24 was in critical condition and daughter Janelle Ruth Hannah 2 suffered a fractured right leg.
HYANNIS PORT Mass AP President Kennedy issued a proclamation supporting the just aspirations of captive nations to be free, following a Soviet American exchange on world peace. He voiced deep conviction in the freedom of man and unity of the West, aligning with Captive Nations Week authorized by Congress to press for freedom from Soviet influence.
The nation faces hot weather with widespread sunshine on the coasts and central plains under cloudy skies. Heavy rain centers from the central plains to the middle Mississippi valley while shower activity is scattered elsewhere. Early temps range from the 50s in the north Atlantic states and Pacific coast to 60s and 70s elsewhere, with isolated 70s and 80s in the South. A broad thunderstorm belt runs from Missouri into Iowa and Western Illinois.
Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours to 9 a.m. Saturday records 0 fatalities. July 4, 1963, compares with 269 deaths in 1962 and 257 in the current year.
The 10th Federal Reserve District reports an 8 percent week over week gain in department store sales from the previous year with Omaha up 11 percent and Denver, Wichita, Kansas City, and Oklahoma City each at 10 percent. Joplin 8, Albuquerque and Tulsa 7. Lincoln down 6, downtown Kansas City 5, St. Joseph 3, and Topeka unchanged.
In New York a retired police officer joins a 100-strong search for 19-year-old Gregory Egan wanted after two robberies. The fugitive, aided by his uncle James Egan Sr and others, fled from a Bronx courthouse window, while another officer searches dim hallways for the suspect amid a tangle of arrests and bail.
Washington AP Secretary of Labor Wirtz urges a two year truce and study groups to settle the four year rail work rules dispute. Unions and railroads will study the proposal and respond by Sunday. If rejected, Kennedy may seek emergency arbitration to avert a nationwide strike.
Premier Ahmed Ben Bella proposes dissolving the National Liberation Front as Algeria's single party and forming a new popular front. Observers see the move as a bid to outflank rivals hoping to use the FLN to topple him.
Premier Giovanni Leone secured a 133 to 110 confidence vote in the Senate for his Christian Democrat minority government after pledging support for the general principle of President Kennedy's plan to create a multilateral NATO nuclear force. Seventy-six senators abstained.
Moscow AP report notes Valentina Tereshkova, 26, questions Jerrie Cobb combining supersonic piloting with prayer after leafing through Cobb's book Woman Into Space. Tereshkova grins at a photo of Cobb kneeling before a home altar.
An intercepted note mentions a cookout season with steaks cooked on sun heated bricks. It ends with a casual sign off Yours.
Registration for Red Cross instructed swimming classes in Chanute runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Launching Pad until July 17. Classes July 22 through August 2 cover beginner to swimmer levels with 10 hours of supervision. Ten children per session, 11:15 slot reserved for reading course and Bible school participants. Last year Chanute and county enrollment reached 1,200. this year expected higher as city recreation programs resume after the Fourth of July.
Cooler air moving down from the north reaches Kansas with only slight relief from the extreme heat. The Weather Bureau expects scattered showers and thunderstorms statewide, with locally heavy downpours in some areas and temperatures mostly in the 90s to 100s, overnight lows mid 70s.
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