Wide Interest Lacking In State Primary Election
Kansas voters face a light turnout in two weeks as no dominant issue emerges. The main contest is the Republican U S Senate race between James Pearson and Edward Arn. Democratic fights center on the regular Senate seat and the governor's race with write-in efforts by Dale Saffels and Andy Gray. The new 5th District sees four Republicans and three Democrats vying, while Breeding and Dole prep for the November clash in the First District.
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Topeka
Kansas
U.S. Senate
James B. Pearson
Edward F. Arn
Dale Saffels
Garden
John Anderson
Repub
K. L
Ken) Smith
Wichita
Kican
Harley
Rey F. Crouch
Minneola
Andy Gray
Anderson
Democratic Party
Prn
Denver D. Hargis
Coffeyville
Wade A. Myers
Emporia
Rob Russell
J. Floyd Breeding
Bob Dole
Help Sought On Long-Lost Michael Family in Kansas
A Coshocton Ohio woman asks readers for info about Rose A. and Solomon Michael who lived in Stark Kansas and their children Oren Viola and Oscar Michael. Solomon died in 1909 and obituaries or church ties are sought.
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Ohio
The
Tribune
Joe Melnyk
Chamber of Commerce
Rose A
Solomon Michael
Stark, Kan
Odense
Kan
Oren A. Michael
Viola S. Michael
Oscar S. Michael
Erie Driver J. E. Showalter Charged With DWI
Erie police arrested J. E. Showalter after a pickup hit Don Hawley’s car at 118 West Main and fled. Showalter, held on $200 bond, was located in a ditch on old highway K39 east of town and towed with a $15 tow bill charged to him.
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J. E. Showalter
Erie
Don Hawley
Chanute
W. Main
Hawley
Showalter
K39
Soviet planning for rule of world blocks arms ban
Geneva AP United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged a 17 nation disarmament council to halt Soviet backed pressure and pursue a workable inspection system for nuclear tests and arms elimination. He accused the Soviet bloc of blocking progress while Andrei Gromyko said the conference had made no real gains and advocated destruction of all nuclear weapons as a first step.
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Geneva
U.S
Dean Rusk
Domeign
Andrei A. Gromyko
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
Rusk
Gromyko
Soviet Union
High-Altitude Nuclear Test Delayed By Weather
The United States postpones its second high altitude nuclear explosion for 24 hours due to forecast weather conditions. Task Force 8 reported ten half hour holds, pushing the shot past the 3 a.m. deadline from an original 10 p.m. schedule. The test, in the submegaton range, would be between 20 000 and one million tons of TNT and occur at 30 to 40 miles altitude.
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Honolulu
United States
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Task Force 8
Flight Engineers Accept Plan to End Eastern Strike
Eastern Air Lines flight engineers said they would accept the government settlement proposal ending their month long strike. Secretary Goldberg urged the carrier to reconsider after the union offered to end the shutdown and said the plan had been acceptable earlier in the dispute.
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Pan American World Airways
American
Trans World Airlines
Lamar Farmer Drowns in Pond
William F. Haskell, 71, drowned Monday in a pond on his Lamar area farm seven miles east of Lamar. His body was found by skin divers after two boys saw objects from his pockets floating in the water.
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Lamar, Mo
William F. Haskell
Lamar
Haskell
Cory Named Topeka Nomination Commission Member
AP reports Gov. John Anderson appointed Robert J. Cory of Wichita to the State Supreme Court Nominating Commission from District 4. Cory is a certified public accountant and will serve a four year term.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Robert J. Cory
Wichita
State Supreme Court Nominating Commission
Cory
Traffic Fatalities Log For Topeka Region
Kansas traffic death log records 4 deaths in 24 hours ending 9 am Tuesday for July with 45 for 1962 and 301 in the comparable 1961 period. The Topeka AP bulletin lists fatalities and trends across the state.
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Topeka
Kansas
Vet Admin appoints Dr Albert Olsen to Topeka VA Hospital
The Veterans Administration named Dr Albert L Olsen 57 director of the Topeka Kansas Veterans Hospital. He is moving from Sheridan Wyoming where he led the VA facility. Olsen, a Richfield Utah native, earned a medical degree at Washington University and previously directed the Knoxville Iowa Veterans Hospital.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Albert L. Olsen
Sheridan, Wyo
Topeka, Kan., Veterans Hospital
Olsen
R. G. St. Pierre
Richfield
Utah
Washington University Medical School
St. Louis
Knoxville, Iowa Veterans Hospital
Sheridan
Catch-All Fund Bill Passes to President Kennedy
Congress sent to President Kennedy a $373,550,689 catch-all appropriations bill, stalled since April due to a prestige squabble between Senate and House Appropriations committees. The House and Senate approved the measure Monday, funding miscellaneous agencies by supplementing prior appropriations.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
Senate
House
Night Registration Deadline Ahead for Aug Primary
Chanute voters were reminded by City Clerk Howard Parsons that night registration runs through Friday until 9 p.m. before the Aug. 7 primary. Books close Friday then reopen for the general election in November. A note lists eligibility including first time registrants and address or name changes under state law. Seven voters registered during the opening night period.
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Howard Parsons
Parsons
McVey Highlights Record in Congress at Young Republicans Meet
Congressman Walter McVey spoke to about 50 at a Santa Fe Park watermelon feed. He touted voting on convictions, opposed in part the Medicare and education bills, and backed a public prayer amendment while stressing fiscal restraint and highway graft investigations.
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Walter McVey
Third District
Fifth District
South Shelterhouse
Santa Fe Park
Richard Good
Young Gop
McVey
House Public Works Committee
Hayes' Recovery is Satisfactory After Surgery
City Manager R. J. Hayes is reported to be recovering satisfactorily at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City after stomach ulcer surgery. Mrs. Hayes said no release date had been set and he was operated on last Tuesday.
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R. J. Hayes
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Seventy Kansans Involved In Helium Stock Scam
Seventy Kansas City investors who poured about 77 000 dollars into United State Helium Corp and Sedco Corp learned their stock holds no value. Receiver Richard L. Reid outlined assets and debts at a Wyandotte County hearing as state officials pursue liquidation. Senator Joseph McDowell called the case tragic and funny, noting promises of 10 to 20 million dollars.
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Kansas City
Kan
Tyman
Wichita
Thunderbird
Wyandotte County
Richard L. Reid
Reid
United State Helium Corp
Sedco Corp
Veulopment Corp
Sedco
Joseph McDowell
Plane Crash Fatal to Six
A Navy radar patrol plane on a training ground control drill crashed near the Illyneo Naval Air Station in Brunswick Georgia. All six aboard died and a ground crewman perished aiding them. The Jacksonville based aircraft carried Kenneth J. Moseler Lt Philip R McHugh Lt James A Broughton Ronald W Anderson James V Cawthon Harry C Willis. The ground crewman was Joseph Harold Pearson Jr. 19 Colton California.
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Brunswick, Ga
Navy
Illyneo Naval Air Station
Jall
Jacksonville
Fla
Kenneth J. Moseler
Philip Raymond McHugh
James Albert Broughton
Ronald William Anderson
James V. Cawthon
Harry C. Willis
Joseph Harold Pearson Jr
Colton
Calif
Kansas Increase In Oil Output
Oil and Gas Journal reports a 41 050 barrel per day rise in U S crude oil and condensate output last week led by Oklahoma and Kansas The national average reached 7 242 075 barrels per day up from 7 201 025 The Oklahoma gain was 8 200 to 546 900 barrels and Kansas rose by 6 850 to 311 400 daily.
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TULSA
Oklahoma
Kansas
The
Oil and Gas Journal
Redistricting Objections Overruled in Kansas Case
Dist. Judge Marion Beatty overruled state objections to a reapportionment suit filed by Hutchinson publishers and others. The ruling advances a challenge to legislative districting affecting 40 Senate districts and 13 counties with extra representatives, with a memorandum expected this week.
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Topeka
Marion Beatty
Kansas
Escondido Family Man In Good Condition After Western Kansas Crash
Dale Leak, 33, the most seriously injured of a five member Escondido family, remained in satisfactory condition at Neosho Memorial Hospital. His wife and their three children suffered only cuts and bruises after their 1960 Volkswagen station wagon left US 34 four miles west of Yates Center and overturned. Mrs Leak said she fell asleep at the wheel.
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Dale Leak
Escondido
Calif
Yates Center
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Leak
Anthony
Kirk
Deborah
Highway Patrol
Flaming Airplane Crash in Montana
In Livingston Montana a burning Air Force B47 jet bomber from Texas crashed into Emigrant Peak a 10960 foot mountain southwest of Livingston Ground parties found no signs of life in the wreckage Col W L McDowell of Dyess Air Force Base Texas confirmed the bomber was on a flight in the Livingston area The plane had a crew of four
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Livingston
Mont
Texas
Montana
Here
W. L. McDowell
Dyess Air Force Base
Tex
Doctors End Saskatchewan Boycott and Reopen Offices
Saskatchewan doctors resume practice today after settling a 23 day boycott of the government medical care plan. The agreement allows doctors to operate outside the plan and calls a special legislature session to adopt amendments. The College will dismantle emergency services in 41 of 154 hospitals over about 10 days.
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Saskatoon, Sask
Saskatchewan
Woodrow Lloyd
Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons
North America
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Chanute 1962 63 School Budget Highlights Levy Change
The 1962-63 Chanute school budget calls for a 1.63 mill tax levy increase with expenditures of 950 853 83. The levy will be 39 09 per 1000 assessed value up from 37 46, financed by state aid and carryover. A budget hearing is set for August 6 at 8 p.m. at the board of education office.
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Chanute
Tribune
State Tax Commission
Board of Education
Foreign Aid Bill Passes House to Kennedy for Signature
The House approved a $4.672 billion foreign aid program preserving the President's discretionary power to aid Communist nations. The compromise includes $600 million for the Alliance for Progress this year, with that amount as a ceiling for Latin American assistance in each of the next three years. The President had requested $800 million annually through 1966.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Senate
Alliance For Progress
Weather recap and forecast for Kansas region
Showers persisted across Kansas with Cimarron reporting up to 3.26 inches. Expect cloudy skies today with scattered thunderstorms and little temperature change. tonight’s low near 70 and Wednesday’s high in the mid 80s. highs ranged from 80 at Goodland to 89 at Pittsburgh, lows from 60 to 72.
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Topeka
Kansas
Cimarron
Goodland
Pittsburgh
Pittsburg
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