Bombers Hit Truce Zone In First Planned Strike
U S B52 Stratofortress jets based in Guam bombed targets in the demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel. The raid hit an ammunition dump a weapons storehouse 26 gun positions and fortifications as U S forces press Hastings operations south of the zone. Casualties were light for an offensive of such scale with enemy dead estimated at 830.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Guam
Viet Nam
U. S
Ben Hai
North Viet Nam
Gia Linh
U.S
Hastings
Laos
North
Thant Warns Vietnam War Could Escalate if Trend Continues
U Thant after talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow warned a major war could develop if current trends persist. He suggested the conflict might spill over frontiers, but did not specify direct US-Soviet involvement. He said the Soviet stance on Vietnam remains unchanged and noted his UN peace proposals remain unpopular.
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Moscow
U.N
U Thant
Thant
New York
United States
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Leonid L Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Alexei N. Kosygin
U.S
Hanoi
United Nations
Truman Admitted To Research Hospital
Former President Harry S. Truman was admitted to Research Hospital in Kansas City today after an upset stomach. He remained in satisfactory condition and would stay several days for his annual medical check up, according to hospital attendants and a spokesman.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Traffic Fatalities Logged in Topeka Area
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hour period ending 9 a.m. Saturday July 55 1966 showing 24 hour total and year to date totals. The data compares with 1965 figures for the same period, noting 376 fatalities versus 359.
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Topeka
Kansas
Bolivian Search Debriefs On U2 Jet Crash Evidence
Wreckage in western Bolivia is being inspected for proof the missing U2 reconnaissance plane crashed after veering from a Florida flight. Pilot Capt Robert D. Hickman of Alexandria Louisiana is identified among the badly battered remains. U.S. and Bolivian officials coordinate at the remote site near Lianguera while evaluating flight path from Barksdale AFB.
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Oruro
Bolivia
Florida
Peru
Chile
la Paz
Robert D. Hickman
Alexandria
U.S. Defense Department
Hickman
Barksdale Air Force Base
Louisiana
Pentagon
Panama
Cuba
Colombia
Brazil
Ecuador
Lianguera
U.S
Hickan
Tucson
Ariz
Barksdale
Strategic Air Command
This Old Soldier Heads to Two-Week Amphibious Drill
Cleveland AP. Sgt. Steven M. Nugent 60 of the U S Marine Corps Reserve heads to a two week amphibious training at Little Creek Virginia. He will be the oldest man there yet says he can match the younger Marines. Nugent once boxed and runs a mile each morning to pass the Marine physical. He does not drink and turns 61 in September.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Steven M. Nugent
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
Nugent
Little Creek
Eisenhower Remains Under Observation
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remains under observation for arthritis at Reed Army Hospital. A spokesman said there has been no change in the 75 year old general's condition.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Reed Army Hospital
Pleasant weekend forecast for Kansas from Weather Bureau
Weather data shows yesterday precip 0.63 inch and a high around the 90s, with cooler evenings. Area forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and little temperature change through Sunday. Temperatures mainly in the 80s today and Sunday, a few 90s possible, with isolated thundershowers in the west today and southwest tonight and Sunday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Miss Madill and Lopeman Win Neosho 4-H Style Honors
Virginia Madill and Doug Lopeman of the Neosho Valley Busy Bees 4-H club were named county grand champions of style and groomed boys at a high school style revue. Reserve champions were Julie Brune and Marion Alford. Sixty 4-Hers from eleven clubs modeled garments to be judged at the Neosho County Fair August 4 through 6.
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Erie
Virginia Madill
Doug Loperman
Neosho Valley
Busy Bees
Neosho County
Julie Brune
Up and Atom
Marion Alford
Jolly Go Getters
Donna Shively
Joe Lon Smith
Casandra Lindberg
Doug Lopeman
FFA Names Four For Star Awards
The Future Farmers of America selects four young farmers Gary Organ Ralph Smith Richard Engelbrecht and Frank Albert Jr for 1966 regional Star American Farmer awards. Each receives 500 dollars at the national convention and one will be named Star Farmer of America with a further 500 dollars. Awards honor achievement in agriculture and leadership in FFA activities.
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Washington
Future Farmers of America
Gary L. Organ
McLeansboro
Ill
Ralph G., Smith
Booneville
Miss
Richard W. Engelbrecht
Madison
N.Y
Frank Louis Albert Jr
Stanwood
Wash
FFA
Kansas City
Star Farmer of America
Local draftees head to Kansas City for pre induction physicals
Melvin L. Janssen and John L. Tipping along with Eric and Donald L. Baughn Dale A. McCown and Gary L. Nichols of Chanute will travel to Kansas City on Monday for pre induction physicals. Harold L. King Jr formerly of Chanute now in Portland Oregon has been inducted, according to the local draft board.
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Melvin L. Janssen
John L. Tipping
Eric
Donald L. Baughn
Dale A. McCown
Gary L. Nichols
Chanute
Kansas City
Harold L. King, Jr
Portland
Ore
United Fund Approves 1967 Budget With USO Addition
The United Fund board at Neosho Memorial Hospital approved a 1967 budget of 22 720.84 including the addition of the USO to aid 280 armed forces area members. Increases over 1966 were modest with Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and others receiving raised allocations while Cerebral Palsy and Mental Health saw cuts or holds.
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United Service Organization
USO
Chanute
United Fund
United Fund Board of Directors
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Red Cross
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Salvation Army
Kansas Children’s Service League
USC
Les Lawrence
Rhodes Danehower
Magnus Mowrey
Great Bend
Glen Dormois
Airline Peace Pact Put to a Vote by Strike Members
President Johnson announced a tentative airline strike settlement aiming to end a 23 day walkout by about 35 000 machinists. Voting by some 70 locals Sunday will decide how quickly five strikebound airlines restore service and flyable planes.
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Washington
Johnson
Machinists
White House
Ruling OKs Wiles Dual Roles on Commission and Congress
Kansas Attorney General Robert Sonderholm ruled that Harry G. Wiles may run for Congress while remaining a member of the Kansas Corporation Commission as long as he continues the commission duties. Gov. William H. Avery said there is no prohibition if the chairman believes the workload is fulfilled. Wiles, a Democrat on the commission, seeks the 2nd District seat. his term ends March 20.
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Topeka
Robert C. Sonderholm
Harry G. Wiles
Congress
Kansas Corporation Commission
William H. Avery
William L. Mitchell
Hutchinson
Wiles
Kansas
Corporation Commission
Avery
Dr Curt Miller, 84, Dead in Junction City Fire
Dr. Alex Scott, coroner, concluded the Thursday fire killed Dr. Curt Miller 84, a retired veterinarian and school teacher. His body was found in the ashes of his home in Junction City Kansas.
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Junction City
Kan
Alex Scott
Curt Miller
Miller
Intercepted Letter Discusses Computers Replacing Teaching
An intercepted letter argues experiments are for computers to replace teachers and a neighbor boy anticipates the day when computers take the place of pupils, reflecting wartime or surveillance era anxieties about automation and education.
Two Teen-age Girls Injured in Traffic Accident
Two teenage girls suffered non life threatening injuries in a crash at Cherry and Western yesterday afternoon. Janette Chandler 17 received a head cut and went to Neo sho Memorial Hospital. Marietta Barker 15 sustained knee bruises. Police said Chandler was giving driving instructions when the Studebaker struck a curb hit a tree and was totaled.
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Cherry and Western
Janette Chandler
N. Steuben
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Marietta Barker
Chandler
Barker
Studebaker
Agnes Pierce
Racial unrest subsides in Amityville and Baltimore rallies enforced
In Amityville New York police report only isolated incidents after a night of sporadic fighting amid a largely Black village. In Baltimore Maryland the National States Rights party agrees to court orders banning racist rallies while five rioting suspects face charges after white youths disrupted Negro neighborhoods.
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North Amityville
N.Y
Long Island
Baltimore
South Side gunfire wounds two youths despite truces
On Chicago's South Side two youths Floyd Cummings and John Collins were wounded in separate incidents amid a week of gun battles after a peace pact between the Blackstone Rangers and East Side Disciples. Police say Englewood Disciples may have plotted the violence.
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Chicago
South Side
Floyd Cummings
John Collins
Blackstone Rangers
East Side Disciples
O.W. Wilson
Englewood Disciples
Professional Clown Mauled by Bull at Abdallah Shrine Rodeo
A rodeo clown named Tom LeGrand was mauled by a brahman bull before 4,500 fans in Kansas City. He was knocked down, butted on the arena floor, and admitted to Bethany Hospital with abdominal pain. his condition is listed as fair.
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Kansas City
Kan
Abdallah Shrine
Tom LeGrand
le Grand
Bethany Hospital
Sparse Primary Contests Loom In Neosho County
Light voter interest marks the Tuesday primary with three Republican races in Neosho County and a Democrat challenger for county attorney. Incumbent Thurman faces Barnhart for first district county commissioner while Allen, Wilson, and Woodson counties show lone races. Polling places consolidated in five townships and Chanute precincts list locations. polls run 8 a.m. to 6 p.m with double election boards and local ballots counted after state and national results.
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Neosho County
John Rubew
Join White
Chanute
Chester O
Chet) Bowman
Ralph Hoffman
Chapute
L. W. Wide
Thurman
Oswald Barnhart
Erie
James J. Smith
St. Paul
Allen
Wilson
Woodson
Wilson County
Hubert Harris
Lee White
Fredonia
Woodson County
Albert W. Jesseph
Humboldt
Bill Herman
Piqua
North Malcolm
Alcott
Royster Junior High
Central Park
Murray Hill
Lincoln School
Roosevelt School
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Navy
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Eisenhower
Miss Madill
D. Lopeman
Ginia Madill
P.L. (Roy) Siemiller
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
William J. Curtin
United
Eastern
Northwest
National
Trans World Airlines
Sonderholm
Dr. Miller
Cha
Allen County
Robert Stadler
Frederick G. Apt. Jr
Iola
Grant
Chetopa
Big Creek
Lincoln
Centerville
Stark
Thayer
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