Atlas E rocket makes longest US military flight to far shores
The Atlas E missile, 85 feet tall and over 100 tons, launched from Cape Canaveral and flew 9,030 miles to the Indian Ocean before nose cone separation. The test marked a long-range milestone and addressed prior failures as officials anticipate operational capability within months.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Indian Ocean
Air Force
Brazil
Union of South Africa
Cape Town
South Africa
General Dynamics Astronautics
United States
Cattle and Hog Prices Fall in Kansas City Reports
Kansas City livestock quotes show cattle with light demand and hogs easing. Calves were not tested. hogs 2,600 head mostly lower, sows down to 28, lambs steady in prime range, eggs and butter across produce sections mostly unchanged.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Wall Street dips on profit taking after four day rise
Wall Street fell back as profit taking cooled a four day rally. Volume was about 3.1 million shares as losses were small and most gains similar, with corporate bonds edging up and government bonds down slightly. Many notable issues traded fractionally lower or higher amid a mixed close.
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New York
U.S
Family reunion at Santa Fe Park starts this week
The Nantz family reunion drew 32 attendees at Santa Fe Park on Sunday. Local notes report transfers for Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Smith and children Jacque Ann and Steven to Chanute from Joplin while Smith works for Western Casualty and Surety.
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Nantz
Santa Fe Park
Robert E. Smith
Jacque Ann
Steven
Chanute
Joplin
Smith
Western Casualty and Surety Company
E. 3Rd
Deaths and Funerals Eppers Rites
Obituaries note the funeral for William Eppers set for Saturday at 2 p.m. in Altoona at Fire Baptist Holiness Church. Milo Clyde Hazen, 64, of Thayer, died at Neosho Memorial Hospital from a heart attack after a long life in Kansas and Nebraska with WWI service and local club memberships. Theodore W. Leavitt, 85, of Chanute, died after illness. survivors include two sons and three grandchildren. Mrs Clyde Bicknell, 70, died at Everest Home after illness. long Chanute residence with husband Clyde Bicknell and daughter Margaret May. Services and graveside rites are listed for area churches and cemeteries.
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Eppers
William Eppers
Fire Baptist Holiness Church
Altoona
Milo Clyde Hazen
Thayer
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Pomona
Alexander Hazen
Mary Lambdin
Ottawa
Chanute
Latham Packing Company
Colby
Omaha
Neb
Neosho County
Frances McHenry
Thayer Lodge No. 149
AF & AM
Thayer Methodist Church
Pear Chapter
CES
Thayer American Legion
Kathleen Forbreyd
Kristin
Lisa
Danville
Ind
Lucy Pritchard
Edward
William
Ray
Kansas City
Ernest
Williams
Calif
Earl
Corning
Howard Caskey
M. C. Johnson
Harrison Cemetery
Clyde Bicknell
W. 2Nd
Everest
Margaret May
Robert
Ida Steinman
Albany
Pittsburg
Iola
Springfield
Auto Workers Present Plan To Car Firm
The United Auto Workers issued an eight point program to General Motors aiming to create more jobs by reducing work time without pay cuts. The union urged flexibility and highlighted contract violations by supervisory staff and student trainees. Ford received identical proposals for salary shifts and enhanced severance and unemployment provisions as GM. American Motors signaled a strong negotiating stance as industry talks opened.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union Today
General Motors Corp
UAW
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
American Motors Corp
Church union proposal seeks one to unite 20 million Christians
Initiated last May by the United Presbyterian Church at Rev Dr Eugene Carson Blake’s urging the proposal faces Episcopal Church convention review this fall. If approved, talks will be invited with Methodists and the United Church to pursue union. The assembly welcomed the idea and the United Church invited Disciples of Christ with a favorable response.
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United Presbyterian Church
Eugene Carson Blake
Episcopal Church Convention
United Church
Christian Churches
Disciples of Christ
Traffic Fatalities Logged in Kansas in July 1961
The Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic death totals for the week ending Friday 9 AM show 1 fatality in 24 hours, 13 in July, and 276 for the year to date. It notes figures compare with 245 in the prior year and that one earlier fatality was not previously reported.
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Topeka
Kansas
Salina Engineer elected president of national society
Murray S. Wilson of Salina Kas was elected president of the National Society of Professional Engineers at the annual meeting held here Thursday.
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Seattle
Murray S. Wilson
Salina, Kas
National Society of Professional Engineers
Principal Resigns from Hutchinson High School
R C Guy principal of Hutchinson High School since 1950 resigns to become director of secondary education in the Boulder Valley Colorado school system.
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Hutchinson
R. C. Guy
Hutchinson High School
Boulder Valley
Colo
Eureka Republican Named Chairman Of Kansas Tax Appeals Board
Sam Brookover, a Eureka Republican and senior board member, was chosen as chairman of the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals, succeeding Perry Owsley. The reorganization gave Republicans control of the board after a July 1 membership change. Lee Graham of Gardner replaced Keith Martin as part of the shifts.
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Topeka
Sam Brookover
Eureka Republican
Nhew
Kansas Board of Tax Appeals
Brookover
Perry Owsley
Pittsburg
Democrat
Lee Graham
Gardner Republican
Keith Martin
Mission Tat
Hospital Admissions Highlight Local Surgeries Reported
Yesterday at Neosho Memorial Hospital admissions included Mrs Roy Cleaver 312 N Steuben undergoing surgery and Mrs John Edwards Eric undergoing surgery. Also listed was Mrs John Montgomery 210 N Franklin for surgery. Births reported yesterday to Mr and Mrs.
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Roy Cleaver
N. Steuben
John Edwards
Eric
John Montgomery
N. Franklin
Merger Plans by Churches
The United Church of Christ opened its arms to a plan for broader Protestant reunion with Methodists Episcopalians and Presbyterians. The General Synod voted to respond affirmatively to the Blake plan for negotiations aimed at deeper church unity.
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Philadelphia
United Church of Christ
General Synod
Admissions and dismissals listed for Central area
Admissions today include William Blackwood Buffalo medical and Mrs James Ferguson Yates Center medical. Dismissals today include Jennie Giascoma Evergreen and Mrs Don Wyatt plus several others at 15 W Kim 701 S Plummer 106 N Forest 619 N Highland 1220 N Garfield 221 E 8th.
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Larry Bitts
Central
William Blackwood
Buffalo
Medical
James Ferguson
Yates Center
Jennie Giascoma
Evergreen
Don Wyatt
W. Kim
Eugene Morris
S. Plummer
Marvin Wolfe
N. Forest
Thomas Staggs
N. Highland
Kimberly Cole
N. Garfield
William Brazil
Obituary notices for Mrs. Bicknell and Mrs. Rath
Members of the Christian church and the Woman's Benefit Association. Survivors include husband two sons Clayton and Marvin Bicknell and two granddaughters. Funeral Saturday 2 pm at Roy S. Gibson Funeral Home with Rev LaMoine Waldron officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs Emma Rath 76 Humboldt died after illness at Neosho Memorial Hospital. Born Oct 23 1884 Waymansville Ind she came to Humboldt in 1899. Survived by husband John C Rath daughter Margaret Rath son John H Rath brother Martin Igel sister Mrs John Mueller four grandchildren. Funeral 2 pm Saturday at St Peter's Lutheran Humboldt with Rev Herman Seyfert officiating. Burial Humboldt Mt Hope Cemetery. Johnson Funeral Home Humboldt is in charge.
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Christian Church
Woman's Benefit Association
Clayton Bicknell
Wichita
Marvin Bicknell
W. 2Nd
Charles Steinman
W. Evergreen
Otto Steinman
Kansas City
Furn Steinman
North Hollywood
Calif
Roy
Gibson Funeral Home
LaMoine Waldron
Memorial Park Cemetery
John C. Rath
Emma Rath
Humboldt
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Waymansville
Ind
Margaret Rath
John H. Rath
Pine Bluff
Ark
Martin Igel
Chetopa Township Budget Hearing Set For July 1961
The Chetopa Township Board in Neosho County Kansas will meet at City Hall at 3 PM on July to hear taxpayer objections to the proposed budget and consider amendments. Officials Harold F. Sutton clerk John Ewen trustee and M Umbarger treasurer sign the notice.
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Chetopa Township
Neosho County
Kansas
Harold F. Sutton
John Ewen
M. Umbarger
Humboldt School Tax Levy Increase Due to Budget Rise
Humboldt announces a 2.92 mill tax levy hike by Supt W S Scott and the Board of Education to fund a new school year with total expenditures of 328 638 57 up from 281 615 35. A 15 mill playground levy adds to the levy while bonds and interest decline.
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General Fund
Township Auditing Board
Humboldt
Supt
W. S. Scott
Humboldt Board of Education
Erie Community Notes and Local Visits
Word from Wichita announces the death of Mrs. Sidney Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Hand of rural Erie. Funeral plans not set but burial will be in Wichita. Navy man Billy Dean Locke and family visit his parents before moving to Des Moines. MYF Federated church to picnic at Hines rock quarry Saturday evening meet at church 5:30 with sack lunches. Visitors include Mrs Blair Nelson and Dol lie Craig, old friends. Other items cover fishing trip to Table Rock Lake funeral in Lavonburg and Federated church MYF officers and counselors.
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Erie
E. Z. Duvall
Wichita Tues
Sidney Smith
Earl Hand
Billy Dean Locke
Navy
MYF
Federated Church
Hines Rock Quarry
Blair Nelson
Oklahoma
Rita Richey
Dol
Lie Craig
Richey
Louis Edwards
Gene
Table Rock Lake
M. E. Howard
Lavonburg
John Nelson
C. M. Barsby
Federated Church Myf
Harvey Grandman
Glenn Crosby
Baxter Springs
G. R. Crosby
Ellis Stroup
Local family visits span Topeka Sterling and Kansas City
Mrs Loyal Lowe brings Don Lowe back to Topeka after a week with relatives and friends at Eric. Mrs Pearl Redmond travels to Sterling to visit daughter Mrs Don Lawrence and family. Grandchildren Melanie and Brian will return home with her next week. Mr and Mrs Carl Foxworthy of Kansas City visit Mrs Mary Stevenson and Tilman Foxworthy. Wilbur Hughes of Larned and Robert Hughes of Wichita return home after several days with Eunice Hughes and Mary Stevenson.
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Loyal Lowe
Don Lowe
Topeka
Eric
Pearl Redmond
Sterling
Don Lawrence
Melanie
Brian
Redmond
Alice Hester
Carl Foxworthy
Kansas City
Mary Stevenson
Tilman Foxworthy
Wilbur Hughes
Larned
Robert Hughes
Wichita
Eunice Hughes
Neodesha Edges Chanute 4 3 In Legion Baseball
Neodesha defeated Chanute 4 to 3 after trailing early, with two late runs in the sixth. Chanute's Baseballers had six errors and six hits off Ronnie White while Neodesha tallied six hits, all off White, as Allen and Perry worked the Neodesha battery. Bob Franklin drove in two Chanute runs with a second inning double and an early run, while Sam Dixon said a Sunday doubleheader is being arranged though scheduling remains incomplete.
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Neodesha
Chanute
American Legion
Ronnie White
Bill Kobert
Gary Steele
Allen
Perry
White
Bob Franklin
Sam Dixon
Moore and Fields win near equal matchups in title-free card
In Las Vegas Davey Moore from Springfield Ohio beat Gil Cadilli of Mexico City on points 10 rounds in a non title bout. In Los Angeles Jimmy Fields defeated Al Grant of New Orleans on points 10 rounds in another non title light middle clash.
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Associated Press
Las Vegas
Nev
Davey Moore
Springfield
Ohio
Gil Cadilli
Mexico City
Los Angeles
Jimmy Fields
al Grant
New Orleans
Washed Out Wichita Showing of The Kansas Story
The third Wichita performance of The Kansas Story was washed out by rain and hail. Pageant showings continue nightly through July 16 except next Monday. Advertising is Your Guide to Safe Buying.
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Wichita
Kan
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J. A. van Nice Jr
Oklahoma City
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Main & Highland
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Allen Monument Company
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Home Savings Association
Lincoln & Walnut
Chanute, Kansas
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