Deaths O Rourke Funeral Held After Lake Drowning
Funeral services for Michael O Rourke, a drowning victim, were held Thursday in Columbia G C. Grand mother Mrs Blaine LaRue said the body was recovered Tuesday after a boating accident on a lake near Columbia. Mother Mrs Mary O Rourke expected to return to Topeka this weekend.
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Michael O'Rourke
Columbia, G. C
Blaine LaRue
Highland
O'Rourke
Columbia
O’rourke
Mary O'Rourke
Potomac Drive
Topeka
Death take Mrs Forrest Buckman prompts local obituary note
Mrs Ima Bowers 21 N Plummer reports the death Thursday of her sister Mrs Forrest Buckman in San Diego California with burial at Forest Lawn Cemetery also surviving are sisters Mrs Agnes Fritz Tulsa and Mrs Garlie Pumphrey Salinas A public church event and a series of local notices follow including a birth and a film at Chanute Public Library and a travel postcard incident involving Mike Jones Chanute student A July 4 visit roundup concludes the column.
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Ima Bowers
N. Plummer
Forrest Buckman
San Diego
Calif
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Agnes Fritz
Tulsa
Okla
Garlie Pumphrey
Salinas
Barn Fire Destroys Baled Straw on Claibourn Farm
Fire at the Bud Claibourn hay barn near the Fredonia Sales Barn destroyed baled straw and several hogs. Claibourn saved the hogs and three pigs before heat halted efforts. Fire began at the top of the barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredonia
Bud Claibourn
Fredonia Sales
Claibourn
Diggers Find Four Lodges (Whyte)
State archeologist Tom Witty and southeast Kansas volunteers dig before the Big Hill Reservoir flood. They uncover four lodge foundations up to 47 by 25 feet, boat shaped with thatched roofs near streams, revealing life 1,200 years ago at four sites amid many Indian grounds nearby.
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Coffeyville
Tom Witty
Southeast Kansas
Big Hill Reservoir
Cherryvale
Witty
Neosho Memorial Hospital Visiting Hours And Census Updates
Daily Transcript reports Neosho Memorial Hospital visiting hours from 2 to 4 PM and 6 30 to 8 PM. The patient census lists 56 adults and pediatrics with five babies. Dismissals and births are noted for several local residents including Wickster and Embry families.
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Neosho Memorial Hospital
Suspects Arrested In Home Burglaries In Kansas
Two men stopped near the highway patrol Burlington for a traffic violation were returned to Wilson County in connection with two Neodesha area burglaries. William L. Starks 23 and Michael Patrick Asher are named as suspects. A portable color TV a .22 rifle a .22 pistol a water pump and stereo were stolen from the Mike Powers trailer home northwest of Neodesha. At the Donald Ryan home nearby four stereo portable typewriter and a 30 M-11 carbine were reported stolen.
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Fredonia
Highway Patrol
Burlington
Wilson County
William L. Starks
Michael Patrick Asher
Neodesha
Mike Powers
Donald Ryan
Powers
Motel Sold in Fredonia as Coxs Retire
The Cox Motel is sold to Ray and Mary Beard who also run Ray's Grill and will continue operating the business. George Cox and his wife retire from ownership. In Iola Hubert J. Cleaver was arrested for selling alcohol without a license. Police and sheriff report a cache of liquor and beer at his rural residence.
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Fredonia
Cox
George Cox
Ray Beard
Beards
Ray
Mrs. Cox
Iola
Hubert J
Wendy” Cleaver
Allen County Sheriff's Department
Cleaver
Local Stocks Board Snapshot With Bid and Asked Prices
The page shows bid and asked prices for Kustom Electronics Manley Industries Slaughter Bros. listed with 4ids and 3's a. Furnished by Spencer W. Finney. 7 74.
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Spencer W. Finney
Church Panel on Troubled Children At First Presbyterian
A public meeting at 2 p m Sunday in the parlor of the First Presbyterian Church will discuss aid for troubled children. Dr Herman M Gross of the Presbyterian Home for Children Farmington Missouri will explain the home s operation and services and will visit with parents social workers teachers and youth. He will also deliver the Sunday worship message.
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First Presbyterian Church
Herman M. Gross
Presbyterian Home For Children
Farmington
Theological Seminary
Louisville
Gross
University of
Texas
Oklahoma
General Council of
The
United Presbyterian Church
Jail Uprising Suppressed After Jackson County Disturbance
About 20 guards with tear gas masks and firearms ended a disturbance at Jackson County Jail after a shakedown. Prisoner spokesman Edward Mitts said inmates protested damage to personal property, especially food from the commissary, and objected to prosecutors’ involvement during the raid. Lloyd DeGraffenreidh Sr. said correction officers will conduct future shakedowns under prosecutor supervision.
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Kansas City
Jackson County
Edward Mitts
Mitts
Lloyd DeGraffenreidh — Sr
Theft from tent reported in yard
Police report theft of a tape recorder and a billfold from Jeff Coots’s back yard while his children slept in a tent. A car owned by Theresa Sifford on 417 S Western was vandalized overnight and a billfold was stolen from it.
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Jeff Coots
S. Kansas
Coots
Theresa Sifford
Western
Altoona Days Fourth Of July Crowned Queen Patricia Russell
Patricia Russell, daughter of Floyd and Mrs. Russell of Altoona, reigned as queen of the Altoona Days Fourth of July celebration with Linda Pratt as princess. Floats and contests highlighted the event, including Altoona Junior High band mascots winning parade floats and the new 4H Club taking second in competition.
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Altoona
Patricia Russell
Floyd Russell
Linda Pratt
Art Pratt
Altoona 4H
Lockhart
Milk Maids
Humboldt United School District picks leaders and seats new members
Steve Weilert was elected president and Fred Lassman vice president of the Humboldt United School District 258 Board. New members Paul Setter and Tom Wood joined the board. The district retained treasurer R. W. Blattner at $200 a month and attorney James J. Smith at $35 a month. The board approved using district buses for Shrine Circus transportation to Pittsburg and discussed new school legislation.
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Humboldt
Steve Weilert
Humboldt United School District 258 Board of Education
Fred Lassman
Pittsburg
Paul Setter
Tom Wood
R. W. Blattner
James J. Smith
Blattner
Smith
Yates Center Girl Heads to Miss Kansas Pageant
Brenda Rae Hatch of Yates Center will compete in Pratt for Miss Kansas Pageant. She will perform original interpretative movements to Candy Man as her talent. Hatch is daughter of Bud and Mrs Hatch of Yates Center. Public competition runs Thursday through Saturday.
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Yates Center
Brenda Rae Hatch
Woodson County
Pratt
Miss Hatch
Bud Hatch
Grant of $635 000 Approved for Iola
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a 635000 grant to the city of Iola for expanding waste treatment facilities as part of a nearly 15 million sewer and water project set to begin soon.
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Iola
Environmental Protection Agency
Parsons Police to Move to Five Day Week
Parsons city manager Richard A. Williams says police will begin a five day work week as soon as possible. Current schedule has officers working twelve days straight followed by three days off. Interviews to hire a new chief of police will begin soon to fill the vacant post.
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Parsons
Richard A. Williams
Parsons Police Department
Williams
Przewalski's Horses Free at San Diego Wild Animal Park
Six Przewalski's horses, a rare wild breed once believed extinct in Mongolia, roam freely in a 15 acre habitat at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. The animals, about the size of a small horse with a stocky build and erect mane, are among about 200 in captivity. four more remain at the adjacent San Diego Zoo.
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San Pasaqual
Calif
Przewalski
Mongolia
San Diego Wild Animal Park
The
San Diego
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