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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1965
Page
1
The Senate and House moved toward final Medicare reform with a 68 to 21 Senate vote sending the bill to conference. The plan extends a basic health program for 65 plus, adds voluntary supplemental insurance, raises Social Security payments, and increases taxes to fund the program beginning next year.
In Carlsbad New Mexico the Carlsbad Caverns National Park notes a year round 58 degree interior and outside the 11th straight day of 100 degree or hotter weather reached 107 degrees, the hottest since the streak began.
Area forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy humid conditions with scattered showers or thunderstorms tonight and Sunday. Highs upper 80s to low 90s, lows around 60s to 70s. Topeka and Garden City report varied precipitation and temperatures, with firings of possible severe storms in the west.
In Galena Kansas on U S 66 near the east edge two Galena residents Mrs Ada Towden 56 and Mrs Sybil Fitzer 62 were killed when their car collided head on with a station wagon driven by Mrs Imma Jean Curry The Bishop car carrying James Bishop and Mac Williams and Mrs Curry all from Galena left four injured all in critical condition at a Joplin Missouri hospital with head injuries reported.
Ralph Hathaway of Chanute was arrested by Neosho county sheriff on a felony fraudulent check charge. He was arraigned in city court and released on a $500 bond for a preliminary hearing later. The check amount was listed as seventy five dollars.
Six helicopters covered the area around Kansas City as volunteers and officers swept the rural north edge for Denise Clinton who was abducted from a motel. The FBI issued a pickup order for Robert Lee Hays, 32, tied to the case by connections to prior crimes and a 1960s hospital treatment, though no official link to the kidnapping was established.
Robert B. DePugh, leader of the Minute Men, surrendered on state kidnaping charges. Police found arms and a submachine gun at his Missouri offices. Two young women, Linda Judd and Patricia Beal, said they were held for two weeks. DePugh denied the allegations and posted a $5,000 bond. Preliminary hearing set for July 20.
Intercepted letter claims riding on main trails today is more dangerous than frontier days. The missive warns Cha about increasing risks while traveling by horseback along popular routes.
The Tribune reports the 100-degree guessing contest has 29 entries left as 110 predictions have passed. In the last four days 13 votes were eliminated and yesterday saw only 91 degrees. Six entries remain for today though forecasts look weak with 11 am reading at 83.
Debra Irene Bryant 19 Overland Park won the preliminary swim suit contest and Narka Marie Frink 21 Lawrence won the talent division. Judges will select 10 of 30 entrants for semifinals and five for finals, with Gov. Avery to crown Miss Kansas 1966. Nicki McGuire of Chanute also competes in Pratt.
In Clovis New Mexico vandals broke into a furniture store during the night and destroyed about $2000 worth of sofas and chairs with a razor blade. The owners said they will proceed with a slashed furniture sale to recoup losses.
Twelve members of the Chanute Bit and Spur Saddle Club plan a 117 mile horseback ride from Chanute to Pawhuska Oklahoma for the International Calvacade Roundup July 23 to 25. They depart July 17 and expect to arrive July 21 with four women driving to cook along the route. The trip aims to win a trophy for the longest ride and includes riders ages 11 to 66 plus two women in the queen contest.
U S Phantom jets downed two MIGs near Hanoi bringing total air kills to five. Air strikes hit an ammo depot and bridges while leaflets were dropped over Nam Dinh. A naval battle at An Ho Island left Marines dead and Viet Cong detained, with civilian casualties reported.
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours ending 9 am Saturday July 13 1965 in Topeka with 305 total deaths for the year compared to 319 through the same period in 1964.
A 33 year old suspect from Kansas City Kansas is jailed in Osage County on charges tied to a 953 dollar armed robbery of the First National Bank of Overbrook Kansas. Dale R. Johnson was stopped after a pursuit on US 56 near Globe as deputies escorted a wagon caravan.
Mrs. E C Edwards, 44, paralyzed from the waist down for 14 years, raises livestock from bed and wheelchair in Wichita. She buys horses, paints to earn money, and even gelds a colt from her chair. She and husband butcher a steer and two hogs each fall for their year round meat. Her granddaughter Georgie Michelle Millar, 242, won fifth in a horse show at Atchison last May as the youngest entrant.
The House passed a tough voting rights bill aimed at enabling Negroes to vote in the South by 333 to 85. The measure would suspend literacy tests in six states and allow federal registrars to sign up voters, setting up a Senate House conference over poll taxes.
Ernest Hilderbrand 72 of Girard R 3 was arrested by Neosho county sheriff on reckless driving after a crash seven tenths mile west of Stark at about 7 am. His car ran off the road through a four wire fence and struck two steers owned by Smith Bros Stark killing both. Passenger Gladys Hilderbronn 55 left the scene and had not been located.
Irene A. Schavey 53 of Boulder Colorado was killed in a collision seven miles west of Smith Center Kansas Friday. Her husband Geoffrey 58 was with her and escaped with minor injuries when their car collided with a vehicle driven by John E Edmonds 74. Edmonds also sustained minor injuries.
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