Fishermen plan trip to Wilson County Lake near Buffalo
Local anglers Herta Rush and Forrest Dugan prepared for a fishing outing at Wilson County Lake. Rush discovered he left his poles at home after unloading gear and setting up a base camp along the shore. A separate notice from Ernie King near Chanute seeks help removing a honeybee swarm in the attic. A. J. Willoughby reports finding money and awaits its rightful owner to claim it.
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Herta Rush
S. Santa Fe
Forrest Dugan
S. Plummer
Wilson County Lake
Buffalo
Rush
Dugan
A. J. Willoughby
N. Forest
Willoughby
Separate Divorces For Don Megowan And Wife
Los Angeles AP A judge granted separate divorce decrees to actor Don Megowan and his wife Bette in Superior Court. Megowan 39 who stars in the Beachcomber TV series accused his wife of jealousy. Mrs Megowan 39 charged he was too friendly with French actress Denise Darcel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Don Megowan
Bette
Superior Court
Megowan
Propane Truck Blast Ravages Berlin Hamlet
A propane gas explosion on a tractor trailer near Berlin New York injures one driver fatally and hospitalizes 160 residents as a fireball scorches a village of 400. Ten in critical condition, 12 homes and the 17 year old Baptist church are ruined. Fire spreads to a barn with two school buses. Postmaster Robert Moses and his wife suffer severe burns as neighbors report scorched clapboard and collapsing homes.
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Berlin
N.Y
New York
Gene Merrills
Grafton
Berkshires
Vermont
McLucas
Holden Gutermuth
Robert Moses
Moses
Kenneth McCumber
Florence
Clifton Shuhart
McCumbers
Break-in hits Thayer Dairy Dip cafe for 105 dollars
Sheriff reports a burglary at the Dairy Dip cafe on US 169 in Thayer with 105 dollars stolen from a nickelodeon and a pinball machine. Entry was forced by prying the front door. two other buildings saw similar entry attempts. Mary Jolly found the cafe damaged at 8 30 a.m. Norman Dougherty owns the business.
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Thayer
Sheriff’s Office
Erie
US 169
Lester Marts
Mary Jolly
Norman Dougherty
Marts
Smith Grocery
Main
Hoffa Challenges McClellan Over Senate Immunity Claims
James R. Hoffa President of the Teamsters challenges Sen. John L. McClellan to repeat statements made under Senate immunity Carried in an investigating subcommittee report describing Hoffa as showing disregard for members robbed by officers Hoffa calls the report a fabrication and accuses McClellan of being anti labor He notes a Florida hearing where McClellan invoked immunity and the Fifth Amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Ohio
James R. Hoffa
The
Teamsters Union
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate
McClellan
Hoffa
Ohio Teamsters
Florida
Boat Crash Injures Three Wichitans
A motorboat collided with a rowboat on Table Rock Lake injuring three Wichita visitors. Philip Meem and his grandfather John McCoy were hospitalized in serious condition with head injuries. Bill McCoy suffered minor injuries.
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Springfield
Table Rock Lake
Wichita
Kan
Philip Duane Meem
John E. McCoy
Bill McCoy
Ken Wildhaber
Missouri Boat Commission
Frank Highland
Kansas
Hanks
Woodson County Fair Set for Three Days at Yates Center
A three day Woodson County Fair program opens Monday in Yates Center with a Shodeo on night one. Entries come from Iola Garnett Pleasanton Bush City and Yates Center and will be accepted until 7 15 Monday. Tuesday features an amateur talent show at the football stadium hosted by the BPW Club with contact Norma Kress. Wednesday includes the Fat Stock sale parade of champions trophy presentations gilt scramble and a Community Building dance to 12 30 a.m. A carnival operates across all three days. Altis Ferree serves as a Woodson County Fair Board president.
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Yates Center
Woodson County Fair
Iola
Garnett
Pleasanton
Bush City
Norma Kress
BPW
Altis Ferree
Woodson County, Fair Board
Edie Adams Buys Kovacs Estate Racquet Club
Actress Edie Adams widow of Ernie Kovacs buys the California Racquet Club in Palms for 25 000 cash and assuming mortgages totaling 1 949 395. Court approval makes Adams sole title to the 442 acre property as estate claims exceed assets.
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Los Angeles
Edie Adams
Ernie Kovacs
Miss Adams
California
Sixty-Eight Voters Register For State Primary in City
City Clerk Howard Parsons reports fifty eight voters registered for the August 7 state primary during night sessions this week. Registrations: 18 last night, 33 Tuesday night, and 7 Monday night. Office hours extend to 9 p.m. tonight and tomorrow. Friday is the deadline to register.
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Howard Parsons
Parsons
True Blue Isn't, Wife Claims in Divorce Suit
Ollie Mae Blue alleges in a Knoxville divorce filing that True Ralph Blue has kept with other women and neglected her. The couple wed in 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville, Tenn
True Blue
Ollie Mae Blue
Ralph Blue
Boy Swims Five Miles For Help
A 14 year old boy swam over five miles through rough Lake Erie waters to reach shore and summon aid for a fishing party whose 14 foot boat overturned in a sudden squall near Monroe. Dennis Churchill wore one life preserver and reached shore after hours in the water. James Bomin Sr James Jr William Monday James Laney and Dennis Churchill were aboard. The Coast Guard and Toledo boat searched for the missing Laney.
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Monroe, Mich
Lake Erie
James Bomin Sr
James Jr
William Monday
James R. Laney
Dennis Churchill
Monroe
Young Churchill
Sheriff's
Dennis
Raisin River
Coast Guard
Toledo
Bomias
Monday
Lane
Big Creek Watershed Officials Review Plan, Costs
Soil officials brief Chamber of Commerce on the Big Creek watershed project detailing development plans with 17 detention dams, potential federal funds, and local costs. An August 10 election for three watershed district directors will determine the project’s future, with about 25 attendees at the Chamber office.
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Big Creek
Creek
Gress
Chamber of Commerce
C. E. (Pat
Iola
Bill Qualls
al- Crews
Oplen County
Neosho County
C. P. McKinnie
Allen
Neosho
Odense
Jack Jordan
Lavenburg
Robert Everhart
Eric R
Art Boeken
Moran
Jordan
Ralph Bauer
E. P. Glamser
Elsmore
Lyle Meyer
Earl Reinhardt
Chanute R
Bauer
Meyer
Reinhardt
Glamser
Ebur Schultz
Humboldt Reserve unit to train at Fort Story Va
Forty two members of the Humboldt Shore Platoon of the 662nd Transportation Co. Emporia join about 85 members from Emporia for two weeks of annual training at Fort Story Virginia from July 29 to Aug 11. They will train in cargo handling aboard ships and travel by bus and air to and from Emporia and Topeka.
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Humboldt
Army Reserve
Emporia
Fort Story
Humboldt Shore
662Nd Transportation Co
Leonard Robbins
Yates Center
Msgt
William Clifford
Chanute
Topeka
Norfolk
Camp Leroy Johnson
New Orleans
Fort Carson
Colorado Springs
Colo
Topeka Kansas City Weather Record Lows Hit July Date
A cool spell broke daily low temperature records in Topeka and Kansas City with Topeka down to 53 and Kansas City to 55. Highs reached 84 to 92 in various cities as a strong high moves southeast bringing unsettled air and scattered showers. Forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy conditions with night showers and possible thunderstorms through Friday.
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Wichita
Topeka
Pittsburg
Abilene
United States
Kansas
Mother and Daughter Tied to string of Home Burglaries
A 9 year old girl told police her mother sent her into seven nearby homes to steal. The mother and daughter face juvenile court next week. Neighbors described the girl entering a house through a window and dropping a shoe box containing a razor baby clothes jewelry a deck of cards and pennies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Busi
John McGilton
Traffic Fatalities Logged Across Kansas
Kansas traffic death log shows 52 fatalities in the 1962 year to July 7, with 24 hours to 9 a.m. Thursday marking 7 deaths. Comparisons note 303 deaths in the 1961 period and 312 in 1962.
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Topeka
Kansas
Arizona TV star seeks court OK for abortion
Sherri Finkbine, known as Mrs. Robert L. Finkbine of KTAR TV’s Romper Room, files suit in Maricopa County to obtain permission for a three month pregnancy termination. She cites thalidomide-linked birth defects and seeks legal relief to preserve her life and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Robert L. Finkbine
Scottsdale, Ariz
Good Samaritan Hospital
Finkbine
Sherri Chessen
Ktar - TV
Maricopa County Superior Court
Arizona
High Altitude Atomic Test Fails Again
A Thor missile exploded and burned on the Johnston Island launch pad during a high altitude nuclear test attempt. No detonation occurred, no injuries reported, and details were pending. the failure marked another setback in the Pacific test series and missile prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
United States
Johnston Island
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
U.S
Pacific
Kennedy
New Zealand
Hawaii
Mrs Born Pleads Innocent to Murder
Mrs Mary K Born 36 pleaded innocent at a District Court arraignment on a murder charge in the slaying of her dentist husband two months earlier Judge Laton Doty denied a request to reduce the charge to manslaughter and kept her free on a 25000 bond ahead of a possible September trial.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Mary K. Born
Dist
Laton Doty
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Lowry Air Force Base
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William F. Stevenson
Rockville
Edward G. Wieland
Orchard Park
N. Y
James F. Clarkin
Holland Patent
Earnest W. Poff
St. Francis
Wis
Larry L. Shay
Terry W. Lewis
Michael D. McKay
Lowry
Gibson
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Dave Dennis
Racquet Club
Judy Brazil
Leanne Mugrage
Jimmy Mugrage
Barbara Boaz
City Recreation
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Jimmy
Gene Mugrage
Barbara
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