Plan gaps delay Kansas toll road program
Kansas Republican leaders fault Governor Docking for not producing a comprehensive highway plan to back toll road construction. They advocate a statewide highway program and consider a gasoline tax rise, noting the 1967 law for a Kansas City to Oklahoma line and a $40,000 airport study as prerequisites, while cautioning on funding the Mid-Continent Airport study without Missouri agreement.
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PEKA
Robert Docking
Smith
Conard
Senate Republicans
Docking
Kansas Highway Commission
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Bill Fribley
Crestline
Fribley
House
Ways and Means Committee
Kansas City
Kan
Oklahoma State Line
Kansas
Kansas City, Mo
Mid-Continent International Airport
Gale Moss
Missouri
Moss
Oil price hike restores Kansas crude to 1957 levels
Rock Island Oil and Refining Co. of Wichita boosts top price for high gravity Kan sas crude to 3 15 per barrel effective Monday. Phillips Petroleum Co. of Bartlesville also raised its price. John P. Roberts of the Kansas Corporation Commission says the move nudges prices higher but still lags costs.
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Wichita, Kan
Kansas
Rock Island Oil and Refining Co
Wichita
Phillips Petroleum Co
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Rock Island
Arapahoe
John P. Roberts
Kansas Corporation Commission
Conservation Division
Roberts
Traffic Fatalities Log for July 20, 1967
Kansas traffic death log shows 306 fatalities for 1967 through July 20, compared with 354 in 1966. The 24 hour count ending 9 am Tuesday recorded no new fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
McNamara push to trim forces in Vietnam war effort
Defense Secretary McNamara, on his ninth Vietnam trip, signals removing excess staff and cutting back U S force levels while pressing for limited integration of Vietnamese troops. He says not to recommend full troop deployment despite Westmoreland’s request for 100 000 to 140 000 more troops to speed the war.
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Saigon
Robert
McNamara
U.S
Vietnam
Johnson
Westmoreland
Washington
Keller
M. E. McGregor
McGregor
Bill Dever
S. Allen
William C. Westmoreland
Park Animals to Be Removed From City Parks
Cha nute city commissioners voted to eliminate keeping of birds and animals in the park system with the exception of ducks and geese at Santa Fe Lake. Disposition of wildlife, including monkeys, will begin, with placement efforts to start immediately after a protest delegation spoke out following a deer injury incident at Santa Fe Park.
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Chanute
Santa Fe Lake
Santa Fe Park
Monkey Island
City Park
J. W. Kensett
E. J New
R. J. Burkman
John Minklers
Minkler
Clem Keller
Lige Matlock
Keller
George Justice
W. Main
Highland Park
Monkey on Porch Roof Stuns Prairie Village Couple
Mrs L F Dover heard a noise upstairs and found a telephone receiver off the hook hanging from an open window. Her husband spotted a small monkey on the porch roof wearing a collar and chain. Police efforts to capture it were abandoned as the creature vanished into trees.
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Prairie Village
Kan
L. F. Dover
Weather outlook cools with scattered storms across Kansas
Area forecast calls for partly cloudy and cooler conditions with a 10 percent chance of rain tonight. Highs near 90 Wednesday and around 85 to 90 in the north, with cooler weather spreading west and north. Thunderstorms dropped heavy rain in parts of northeastern Kansas earlier today. Sunrise and sunset times listed with humidity and barometer readings.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Viet Nam battle near Saigon ends with heavy enemy losses
North Vietnamese regulars attacked a South Vietnamese base in Binh Long Province near Saigon, then were driven back with at least 116 killed and many wounded or captured. U.S. paratroopers suffered 26 dead and 49 wounded in the central highlands as McNamara toured Vietnam and discussed troop needs. Air Force pilots reported destroying about 27 trucks and other vehicles in a convoy at the Mu Gia Pass.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Vietnam
U.S
Mu Gia
North Vietnam
Laos
Two Egyptian Bombers Lost as Israel Fires On
Israeli anti-aircraft fire shot down one of two Egyptian Sukhoy fighters crossing the Suez cease-fire line. The second plane was driven off as Egypt accepts UN observers along the canal. Soviet officials and warships arrive in Port Said amid signs of changed Middle East policy.
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Jerusalem
Suez Canal
Sinai Desert
el Qantara
Israel
U.N
Egypt
U Thant
Security Council
Middle East
Malik
Cairo
Nikolai Podgorny
Adm
Igor Molochov
Soviet Union
Port Said
Moscow
Kremlin
Woman sues for bigamy as carnival husband faces charges
Jean Martone accuses John C. Bence Jr. of bigamy after learning he has multiple wives. Bence pleaded guilty in Manistee Circuit Court and faces up to five years in jail. Martone says she married him in 1963 and traced marriages to Peggy Reed in Maryland and others under aliases in Virginia Massachusetts and Michigan.
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Manistee, Mich
Jean Martone
John C. Bence Jr
Bence
Manistee Circuit Court
Lower Michigan
Manistee
Martone
John Martone
Reed
Fredericksburg
Zoning Proposals Headed For Public Hearing Tomorrow Night
The city planning commission will hold a 7 PM public hearing in the Memorial building to consider revisions proposed by Burgwin and Martin to update the city zoning ordinance to state law. A vote on recommending changes to the city commission follows. final changes rest with the city commission.
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City Planning Commission
City Commission
Memorial Building
Burgwin and Martin
Planning Commission
Planning Board
Plane Fails Rescue Try in Congo Hostage Crises
A US Air Force transport plane failed during a rescue attempt of white hostages held by mutinous mercenaries in Kisan gani, northeast Congo, according to Congolese radio.
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Brussels
Belgium
Kisangani
Congo
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Highway Plan Critique
Intercepted note laments everyone advancing highway plans while those with power to build them lack progress. The brief passes a critique of political will and infrastructure effort without specifics.
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