Recreation Calendar Highlights Local Tonight Events
Tonight features a busy schedule across venues. Municipal Pool hosts swimming and a Red Cross event with multiple times, Central Park hosts a band concert, and various leagues play at EUB damons NuWay, City Park, Sante Fe Park, and Highland Park. A Chanute Community Theater show and semi pro baseball at Chanute Gray Lumber occur later.
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Central Park
IGA Diamond
Montgomery Werd
Koch Bros. Furniture
Pee Wee League
EUB Damons
Johnson Studio
NuWay Cleaners
Perk South Diamonds
Taylor Fireworks
Wella Clothiers
Busy Bee
Sante Fe Park
Elks
VEW
Highland Park
Chanute
Lela
Chanute Oilers
Oswego
Basepall
City Park
Chanute Gray Lumber
Bronson
Paol
Red Cross Chanute
Chanute Community Theater
Royster Auditorium
City Park South Diamonds
Hans’ Flowers
Mitchell Buick
Taylor Foreworks
Grant Avenue Baptist
EUS
Nezerene
Methodist
Columbus
Ed Williams Leads at Chanute Speedway in A Feature Victory
Ed Williams in car No. 7 gold extended his points lead with a 50 point win in the A feature at Chanute Speedway last night, pushing his total to 495 while Gary VanGotten trails at 441. Bud Purkey sits third with 314, Bob Thomas 299, and Howard Almond 278. Williams also won the B trophy dash and placed fourth in his heat. Bud Hatch topped heats and the A trophy dash, with runner up in the A feature. Trophy girls were Connie Wolfe and Beth Hutchison.
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Ed Williams
Gary VanGotten
Chanute Speedway
VanGotten
Ron Wiltse
National Guard
Williams
Bud Purkey
Bob Thomas
Howard Almond
Bud Hatch
Connie Wolfe
Beth Hutchison
Expulsion Ordered for Soviet Affairs Expert Bishop
K Anthony Bishop a Soviet affairs expert at the British Embassy in Moscow has been expelled from the Soviet Union after being named in the Gerald Brooke trial. The 28 year old’s expulsion follows the subversive activities case and the international inquiry.
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Moscow
K. Anthony Bishop
Soviet Union
Bishop
Gerald Brooke
Float Trip Abandoned After Prized Escape Misidentification
Louis Sibley a 19 year old Kansas City Kansas man abandoned a plan to float the Missouri River from Leavenworth to Kansas City on his day off. An Army Engineers river inspector mistook him for an escaped prisoner and alerted guards who released him after no prisoner report matched. Sibley was attempting the float as part of a bet and said he wanted to cool off.
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Kansas City
Louis Sibley
Kansas City, Kan
Leavenworth
O. J. Wheeler
The
Army Engineers
Wheeler
Sibley
Times
Channel
Missouri
Kansas
Dispatch
Kansas City Star
East Germans See Plan for Sunken West Berlin Barrier
Berlin AP reports refugee East German soldiers say the Communist regime plans a sunken border around West Berlin by 1970. Capt. Heinz Hackbarth describes a 500 yard wide cleared trench with a nine foot cement wall, parallel roads, patrols, and a camouflaged appearance to conceal the barrier from West Berlin.
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West Berlin
Zehlendorf
Hackbarth
Budget Strain Halts Sale of Noxious Weed Chemical
Neosho county commissioners halted selling noxious weed chemicals to farmers for this year to stay within budget. A limited amount is kept for county roads and Johnson grass infestations, with spraying by Merle Davis along state highways reimbursed. The county budgets $7,000 to $8,000 annually for weed control.
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Erie
Neosho
Merle Davis
Davis
Violence at Sumter County vigil leaves teen dead in Americus
In Americus Georgia a white 19 year old Andy Whatley died after a shooting from a passing car as 250 civil rights demonstrators gathered at Sumter County Courthouse. Two suspects Eddie Will Lamar and Charlie Lee Hopkins were arrested. Civil rights marches continued despite the fatality and a federal injunction was issued in Macon blocking segregation at voting polls.
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Americus, Ga
Sumter County
Eddie Will Lamar
Charlie Lee Hopkins
Americus
Andy Whatley
Macon
U.S
W. A. Bootle
Justice Department
Bootle
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