Oil Depot Bombed Again Near Haiphong In Viet Nam
U S Navy planes bombed the Haiphong oil storage complex northeast of the city for the second time. The depot held about 476 000 barrels prior to the raid and was previously hit on June 29. A Skyhawk from the Hancock reported all bombs on target with one aircraft lost but the pilot rescued.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
Haiphong Dock
U.S
Haiphong
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Hancock
U.S. Command
Mekong
Navy
Viet Nam
Wind Lifts Roof Again At K State
High winds swept away the Jardine Terrace roof at Kansas State University for the second time in a month. The tornado in June damaged 24 buildings. 22 were evacuated after repairs. Restored roofs on at least three other buildings were damaged. reoccupation for the first building is hoped for this weekend weather permitting.
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Manhattan
Kan
Jardine Terrace
Kansas State University
Klein to Testify on Dodd Ties in Senate Ethics Probe
Julius Klein owner of a Chicago public relations firm will testify July 19 about his relations with Senator Thomas J. Dodd in the Senate Ethics Committee hearings. Klein, a registered agent for West German interests, is expected to be the last witness in this phase. Dodd had testified June 27 that a April 1964 West Germany trip was not to help Klein retain clients there.
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Washington
Senate Ethics Committee
Julius Klein
Chicago
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Klein
Dodd
West Germany
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Surveyor 1 Cameras Test In Pasadena
Scientists briefly tested Surveyor 1’s cameras in Pasadena at 8 40 a m for twenty minutes. Engineers said no scientifically valuable images would be taken until shadows lengthen next Monday as solar batteries recharge after the lunar night.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Surveyor
State Tax Take Exceeds Estimates by 12.2 Million
A preliminary Budget Division report shows fiscal year income tax receipts totaling 72.8 million, 9.2 million above estimates, with withholding and faster processing boosting receipts. June income tax receipts were 6.2 million, 7.5 million below prior estimates, while corporate taxes topped estimates by nearly 3 million. Sales and use taxes reached 113.4 million.
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Topeka
Budget Division
Legislative Council Research Department
Two Juveniles Re-sentenced to Topeka Bis
Two youths aged 16 and 17 were moved from Hutchinson reformatory to the Boys Industrial School in Topeka after a Kansas Supreme Court interpretation of the juvenile code barred reformatories for such cases. They had been sentenced in February for breaking into an Erie home and taking money and were remanded by Probate Judge Alberta Gough for sentence modification.
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Hutchinson Reformatory
Neosho County
Boys Industrial School
Topeka
Hutchinson
Kansas Supreme Court
Erie
Don Harding
Alberta Gough
Sioux Indians Plan Rain Dance in Missouri Drought City
In Columbia Missouri today Sioux Indians planned a rain dance led by Chief Red Fox age 96 with recorded tom tom music. The weatherman forecast thundershowers as the drought relief ceremony was set to take place.
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Columbia, Mo
Red Fox
Weather update and rainfall totals across Kansas
Area forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms through Friday while heat and humidity rise. Rain totals from overnight Kansas storms include Harveyville 4.26 inches and reports near Sharon Springs, Lacygne, Auburn, Onaga, Emmett, Olathe, Grantsville, and Overbrook. more storms tonight.
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Topeka
Kansas
Chanute
Salina
Glen Elder Dam
Harveyville
Sharon Springs
Lacygne
Auburn
Onaga
Emmett
Olathe
Grantsville
Overbrook
Pathologists Accused Of Conspiracy In Antitrust Suit
The Justice Department charges the College of American Pathologists with conspiring to fix prices and monopolize the medical laboratory field. The civil suit says labs are majority-owned by college members and earn about $3 billion annually. It alleges an unlawful scheme begun in 1947 for profit of pathologists.
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Chicago
Justice Department
College of American Pathologists Today
U.S. District Court
Department
Antitrust Division
Bats In Yard Prompt Police Advisory In City
City police issue notice after several residents report flying bats in yards and porches this week. Officers warn bats can bite and carry rabies and should not be handled with bare hands. Children may intrude on fuzzy bats. mothers with babies may drop to ground. If bitten, seek veterinary test for rabies.
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Earl Whitworth
S. Evergreen
Whiworth
Whitworth House
Gladys Scribner
Youth Killed in One-Car Crash in Topeka
Robert A. McClure Jr. 17 son of a Topeka attorney was killed in a one car accident in North Topeka.
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Topeka
Robert A. McClure Jr
North Topeka
Draft Calls Are Boosted for July and August
Washington AP reports a lag in Army enlistments led the Defense Department to raise July draft calls by 2 000 to 28 500 and August by 4 000 to 36 600. Selective Service was asked to provide 31 300 for September. Navy Marine and Air Force enlistments showed no offsetting lag. The May call of 40 600 remains the peak since the Vietnam buildup began.
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Washington
Defense Department
Pentagon
Selective Service
Navy
Marine
Air Force
Youngest 20 Year Air Force Retirement at 35
M. Sgt. Amiel L. Guitz, age 35, retires after 20 years in the Air Force at McConnell AFB Wichita. He began service by falsifying birth records in 1945, later corrected age during re enlistments in 1954, and served in Panama Europe and Korea before his 1964 European tour. He plans civilian work in Wichita, aims for pilot's license and studies in aircraft engineering at Wichita State University.
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Wichita
Amiel L. Guitz
Panama
Europe
Korea
Rome
Guitz
McConnell Air Force Base
Wichita State University
Oil Policy Stands Commended by KIOGA Leaders
The Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association praises Interior Secretary Udall and Defense Secretary McNamara. John H. Knightley, KIOGA president, lauds the Gulf offshore lease pause as in the midcontinent and public interest and notes offshore output affects U.S. oil searches and import balance. He also commends switching 30,000 barrels daily in military purchases to domestic sellers as a step for national security.
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Wichita
Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association
Interior
Stewart Udall
Defense Department
Robert McNamara
John H. Knightley
KIOGA
Udall
Interior Department
Gulf of Mexico
Knightley
U. S
McNamara
Sen James Pearson to attend Friday events in Neosho
U S Senator James Pearson will visit Neosho Friday for a 8 p.m. coffee at Tioga Hotel ballroom and a 6 to 8 p.m. Young Republican reception at Dr. and Mrs. Reuben Burkman home 911 S Highland. Neosho GOP chair Marlin Blackstone noted the campaign stop and constituent meet and greet.
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U.S
James Pearson
Tioga
Marlin Blackston
Neosho County
Sen
Pearson
U.S. Senate
Kansas
Reuben Burkman
S. Highland
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death log shows 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Thursday with totals for July 18 and year 1966 at 336 compared with 307 for the comparable 1965 period. Data lists local fatalities and trends for Topeka and surrounding counties.
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Topeka
Kansas
Poison spray in Argyle sparks mass flee and police action
In Argyle Minnesota a mistaken aerial spraying used parathion a lethal poison prompting health officials to assure safety water vegetation and clothes were to be washed authorities set up an emergency hospital in the town auditorium as about two-thirds of the 800 residents fled overnight Firefighters hose down streets and property while police traced the spray pattern and noted three passes before the error was found
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Argyle
E. E. Pumala
Warren
Marshall County
Pumala
Dennis Rousseau
Kansas Seeks Dismissal in Road Oil Antitrust Suit
In Topeka AP report, Kansas seeks federal dismissal of a $12.5 million case over alleged illegal sale of road oil. Union Asphalt and Roadolls of Kansas City Missouri and Warren Smith challenge the suit, seeking three judge review denied earlier. The case remains in Shawnee County District Court and involves state officials and the highway commission.
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Topeka
U.S. District Court Today
Attorney General
Shawnee County
Union Asphalt and Roadolls, Inc
Kansas City
Warren Smith
Union Asphalt
State of Kansas
State Highway Commission
Robert C. Sonderholm
Smith
Pentagon Allows Hardship Discharge for Sole Survivors
Pentagon authorizes immediate hardship discharge for sole surviving sons in families. Policy applies to all armed services except during war or national emergency declared by Congress. Viet Nam war excluded from this classification.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Congress
Police Court Finances And Activities In June Report
Police court bonds and fines for June totaled 1 001 up to a six month sum of 4 303 with May at 707. Parking meter penalties reached 382 and 440 50 the prior month totaling 2 293 75 for the year to July 1. There were 1 787 parking tickets in June and 287 police service calls, 70 more than May. No felonies, misdemeanor arrests dropped to 49. Traffic accidents numbered 16 with two injuries. Age groups 17 19 25 29 and 55 59 led accident counts. Patrol car mileage 8 110 and fuel 861 gallons. Twenty one meals served to prisoners. Two DWI charges in June. Family calls rose to 10. Animal control: 42 dogs picked up, 9 placed, 40 killed, 23 on hand.
Chanute Fire Loss Report Shows June Toll
Fire loss for June estimated at 4125 dollars as Chanute's fire department reports nineteen runs last month including two residential and two business building calls, three grass fires, a car fire, fireworks stand blaze, four service calls, a trash fire, two smoke alarms, a resuscitator, a false alarm and a cat in a tree. Six month total runs reached 132, up 62 from the previous year. June 1965 had nine runs.
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Chanute
John Erickson
Mrs Showalter Named Republican Candidate for Neosho County Treasurer
Wilma Showalter of Erie R 2 is the Republican nominee for Neosho County treasurer. She helped her husband Marion Showalter, the current county treasurer, as deputy since 1963 and earlier in 1948 49. A 51 year old Erie native and Erie High School graduate, she has been a rural school teacher and Olson Mercantile bookkeeper. She belongs to Erie Christian church Rebekah Lodge 499 and the American Legion auxiliary.
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Wilma Showalter
Erie
Erie Christian Church
Rebekah Lodge
The
American Legion Auxiliary
Youth given probation after negligent homicide in two deaths
Ronald Zahl 22 of Wellsville Kansas received one year of probation and a $500 fine after being convicted of negligent homicide in the deaths of Willie Crenshaw 35 and Marvin Crenshaw 14 on Interstate 35 near Wellsville when their car was struck while changing a tire on the roadside.
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Paola
Kan
Brooks Hinkle
Ronald Zahl
Wellsville
Zahl
Willie S. Crenshaw
Marvin Crenshaw
Kansas City
Intercepted Letter Highlights State Tax Burden
The intercepted note to Cha argues the state is taking too much from workers’ paychecks, echoing long held complaints about tax burdens and cost of living. The message stresses clear frustration over payroll deductions.
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S. Evergren
West Virginia
California
Sen. Pearson
Argyle, Minn
Minnesota
Grand Forks, N.C., Air Force Base
City Auditorium
Attorney General's Office
District Court
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