Missile Site Hit In Furious Action Over N Viet Nam
U S fliers tangled with two MIG21s and avoided missiles over North Vietnam during raids on missile radar and fuel sites. One missile site was destroyed, two oil facilities and a radar site were bombed, and carrier planes attacked 200 barges. An F105 was lost. the pilot is missing.
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N. Viet Nam
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
U.S. Command
Haiphong
Safari campers help at NCHA national convention
Dwight McCreight writes on the Safari chapter of the National Campers and Hikers Assn at Kanopolis State Park aiding registration for the NCHA convention. Safari volunteers work shifts, assist at the site, and help welcome thousands while enduring July heat and sunburns. The growing townlike convention area features a fire department Red Cross unit police and 24 hour CB radio communications.
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Dwight McCreight
Safari
Kanapolis State Park
Kansas
NCHA
Kanopolis
Red Cross
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A fragment notes curiosity about what the Indians did during heavy weather beyond rain dances. It mentions weather like this and asks about past practices in a casual, dismissive tone.
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Cha
Chanute Police Log Reports Variety Of Incidents
Chanute police logged several items including a youth driving a dealer’s car attempting to sell a car tire at a filling station. A transistor radio was reported stolen from Steve Atkins’ car. A farm theft 200 gallons of gasoline and a 12 volt battery were reported stolen. A prowler alarm at daybreak and a bicycle damaged by being thrown from a retaining wall at Royster Junior High were noted.
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Chanute
Steve Atkins
S. Katy
Wilson County
Royster Junior High
Tire Blows Out on Bridge Causing Truck Crash Nearby
A farm truck driven by Kenneth Simmons 17 of Erie lost steering after a left front tire blew out on highway K146 two miles north and three miles east of here around 6 30 p m yesterday. Simmons uninjured. The truck owned by Dwight Foust of rural Erie sustained about 200 in damage when the south bannister broke loose.
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Erie
Kenneth Simmons
Here
Simmons
Neosho County
Dwight Foust
City Dads Approve Annexation Near Junior College Site
The city commission enacted another annexation of about five acres at the southeast corner of 14th and Plummer, part of a series around the planned junior college. The meeting also covered a bulldozer dispute near Royster and Lincoln school sites, a Santa Fe railroad pole yard lease, Alcorn plant lease, and ongoing Santa Fe Park improvements for the Mexican Fiesta. City officials warned drought and heat strain water and power systems and noted roof repairs at the Memorial Building. Reverend Arthur F. Solomonson offered the invocation.
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14Th and
Plummer
Junior College
14Th
Allen
12Th
Wible
7Th
Santa Fe Railroad
Santa Fe
Alcorn, Inc
Alcorn
Hayes
Santa Fe Park
Memorial Building
Arthur F. Solomonson
Vilas Bethel Lutheran Church
Mallard Duck Hatching Praised At Chanute Park
Chuck Graham, federal game warden, commends Chanute park department for hatching 75 mallard ducks at Highland Park. The ducks, produced by four hens and six drakes, will be used for stock and released to other state lakes to help tame wild populations. Program aims to have the birds mate with wild ducks and nest in Kansas.
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Chanute Park
Chuck Graham
Chanute
Graham
Highland Park
Chuck
Clem Keller
Kansas
Keller
Airline Strike Talks Show Some Progress in Wage Dispute
Washington AP reports union and airline negotiators made headway in the five airline strike with an exchange of cost figures. Asst. Labor Secretary Reynolds said both sides better understand cost implications though no final agreement. IAM disputed the airlines’ $114 million estimate, saying it is at least $25 million too high.
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Washington
Asst
James J. Reynolds
Joseph W. Ramsey
IAM
Ramsey
Asst. Secretary of Labor
Vandals Break Windows at Santa Fe Park Restrooms
Police reported vandalism in the early morning hours with two restrooms at Santa Fe Park showing broken windows after an officer checked them at 2 a.m. A second officer found the damage on a 7 a.m. patrol and later a beer bottle was thrown through a window at 401 S. Lincoln. Evidence of damage also appeared at two filling stations on South Lincoln, including a broken gas pump face and a shattered pop machine.
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Santa Fe Park
South Lincoln
S. Lincoln
Wingless Capsule Flies to Safe Landing at Edwards
At Edwards Air Force Base Milton C. Thompson piloted a wingless lifting body capsule from 45,000 feet, gliding to a dry lake landing at 200 mph. The craft, 22 by 10 feet, aims to ferry crews from space with controllable glide and rudders, with future tests adding a rocket engine for high altitude reentry simulation.
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Base
Calif
Thompson
Heat Wave Kills 17 In St Louis As Power Cut Bites
ST. LOUIS AP. City coroner reports at least 17 deaths since Sunday from a midwest heat wave with 100 degree highs. Elderly victims most affected. one nine month old child among the dead. Power shutoffs in the St. Louis area aim to conserve electricity amid prolonged heat through Saturday.
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ST. Louis
Helen Taylor
Midwest
John J. Thomas
Union Electric Co
Lumpp
Weather Bureau
Nebraska
Union Electric
National Broadcasting Co
Allstar
Busch Memorial Stadium
South Dakota
Big Fort Randall
Radiator Explodes Injuring Erie Man
Police responded to Lincoln and Walnut at 11 10 for an injured man identified as Cornelius Mc Henry of Erie. The overheated car radiator exploded while he inspected it and he was taken to Neodesha Memorial Hospital for treatment before an Erie resident transported him home to Chanute.
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Lincoln
Walnut
Cornelius McHenry
Erie
McHenry
Neodesha Memorial Hospital
Chanute
Saddle Club Plans Trek to Oklahoma
Chanute Bit and Spur Saddle Club will send Mrs. Jim Janice Taylor to Pawhuska Oklahoma for the International Round-Up Cavalcade July 22 24. Eight riders start at 6 am Saturday from 21st Street with overnight stops at Cherryvale and a roadside park near Caney and a Monday night at Hulah Dam. The group expects about 50 queens and 1000 horses in the cavalcade with riders from Pleasonton Saddle Club joining.
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Jim
Janice) Taylor
Chanute Bit and
Spur Saddle Club
Pawhuska
Okla
Chanute Club
Plummer
Cherryvale Park
Chanute Riders
Taylor
No Bear Found Near El Dorado
A two hour bear hunt near El Dorado Kansas last weekend yielded no game. Eight members of the El Dorado Saddle Club two Butler County sheriff's officers and several reserves searched a field near the Walnut River after two bears were spotted a week earlier.
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EL Dorado, Kan
el Dorado
Kan
el Dorado Saddle Club
Butler County Sheriff’s
Sheriff’s Department
Walnut River
All-Stars In Tie After Nine At Busch Stadium
In St Louis the All-Star Game was 1-1 after nine innings as Don McLain of Detroit out pitched Sandy Koufax for the first three frames. Brooks Robinson's second inning triple and a Koufax wild pitch produced the Americans lone run. Willie Mays Roberto Clemente and Ron Santo sparked the Nationals in the fourth with back to back hits.
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ST. Louis
Don McClain
Detroit
Sandy Koufax
Dodgers
Busch Memorial Stadium
Brooks Robinson
See and Sell Kansas Conference Coming July 20
The first See and Sell Kansas conference sponsored by the Governors Travel Promotion Committee will be held in Chanute July 20. It will cover travel promotion in nine southeast Kansas counties including Woodson Allen Bourbon Wilson Neosho Crawford Montgomery Labette and Cherokee. Mrs Frank Houcke chairs the committee and notes discussions will explore recreation potential in former strip mines.
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Topeka
Kansas
Governor’s
Chanute
Woodson
Allen
Bourbon
Wilson
Neosho
Crawford
Montgomery
Labette
Charokee
Frank Houcke
Weather forecast for Topeka and Kansas hot and dry
Area forecast calls for generally fair skies with little change in temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight upper 70s, high Wednesday 100 to 105. In Topeka continued hot and dry weather with only faint prospects of precipitation in western Kansas this afternoon and across the north tonight.
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Topeka
Kansas
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Russ Corbitt
Wible’s
Sunnyside
Crestview
Resi
Dents
English Construction Co
Royster
Lincoln School
R. J. Hayes
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Edwards Air Force
U.S. Space Agency
Milton C. Thompson
Future
James Lumpp
Union
Saddle Club
Oklahoma
Johnson
Jim Taylor
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