Big Creek Watershed plans move toward construction
At Odense school a planning meeting outlined 17 proposed retention dams for the Big Creek Watershed spanning 70 000 acres in Allen County. Land rights maps will guide dam siting with local financing up to two mills. construction could start within a year with contracts for two to four dams annually.
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Big Creek
Norbe
Odense
Bnee
Joel A. Wentz
Salina
State Soil Conservation Service
William Patterson
C. P McKinnie
Erie
Bill Qualls
Iola
Neosho
Allen County
Ebur Schultz
Chanute Chamber of Commerce
SCS
Odense School
Harner Family Marks Betty Joan's Graduation Week
A Humboldt family celebrated Betty Joan Harner's milestone, starting with a May 20 baccalaureate service for her class and culminating with her May 24 graduation from Humboldt Senior High School.
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Betty Joan
Humboldt Senior High School
Eichmann Defiant Dies on Gallows
The article reports Adolf Eichmann's execution in Israel after a death sentence for Nazi crimes. It notes his defiant stance, rejection of a religious pledge, and the haste of the process from conviction to death. It also mentions related personal notices and local life events interwoven in the page.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Adolf Eichma
Eich ‘Mann
Gestapo
Eichmann
Hitler
President Kennedy to Visit Mexico Next Month
President Kennedy will confine his Mexico trip to Mexico City and its surroundings. He and Mrs. Kennedy will depart June 29 and return July 1, the White House announced.
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Washington
Kennedy
Mexico
Mexico City
White House
Kodak makes usable prints from water damaged film of Carpenter flight
Eastman Kodak Co has produced prints from water damaged movie film of Navy Lt. Cmdr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter during his three orbit flight on May 24. Kodak said the new prints are not fit for publication but are adequate for engineering evaluations.
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Rochester
N.Y
Eastman Kodak Co
Navy
Cmdr
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Kodak
Iola Youth Fined For Disturbing Peace
Larry Stevenson an 18 year old of Iola pleaded guilty in city court to disturbing the peace and was fined 25 dollars plus 8.80 dollars costs. The charge arose from a complaint by Mr and Mrs Glen Niver who said Stevenson forced his way into their home and verbally abused the family the night of May 18. No testimony was taken. The attorney said the youth has enlisted in the Navy and would enter service next month.
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Larry Stevenson
Iola
Glen Niver
S. Larson
Stevenson
Navy
X15 Streaks Into Space and Faces Descent Hazard
Edwards Air Force Base reports Bob White piloting the X15 to 129000 feet at 3750 mph before a perilous descent. The dive reached the highest angle of attack yet, 22 degrees, risking wing damage as White tests throttling and heat during reentry.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Bob White
White
California-Nevada
Here
Air Force
Mother Dry Lake
Las Vegas
T. O. Ward of The Tribune Retires After 50-Year Career
T O Ward of The Tribune retires after a half century in journalism ending his 50 year career in Columbus. He began as an apprentice in 1912 in Ottawa and Topeka before stints in Kansas City and Missouri University. He worked under six publishers, suffered a heart attack in March, and will travel with wife Inez to pursue antiques and Mason pins.
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Ottawa Herald
T. O
Tim Ward
Tribune
Harris Publications
Ward
W. R. Smith
Cowith the Tribune
Jambus Advocate
Topeka
State Capitol
Arthur Capper
Kansas City
Kan
Missouri University
Columbia
Ottawa
Jack Harris
Clarence Moody
Charlie Jones
Fred Harris
Ernest Johnson
Dwight McCreight
Ben Nicholas
Wards
Don Ward
Lexington
Emmett Ward
Pittsburg
Monty Ward
Masons
N. Lafayette
Kansas Unemployment Drops to 1.8 Percent
Kansas unemployment fell to 1.8 percent this week from 1.9 percent last week and 3.5 percent a year ago. Insured unemployment totaled 5,589 claimants, with benefits totaling 204,571 dollars, down from 6,025 claimants and 216,811 dollars a week earlier.
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Topeka
Kansas
Missionaries Sought After Kidnapping in Viet Nam Jungle
Search teams roved 150 miles northeast of Saigon for three American missionaries kidnapped from a leper camp by Communist guerrillas. Rev Thomas G Mangham led an allied mission group at the camp while U S Army special forces would join the hunt if asked. Missing are Rev A E Mitchell Ellensburg Washington Daniel Gerber Dalton Ohio and Dr Eleanor A Vietti Houston Texas. The guerrillas left Mitchells wife and four children and four American nurses at the camp. The camp overrun by the Viet Cong saw large stocks of food and medicines seized with about 250 patients under treatment.
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South Viet Nam
Thomas G. Mangham
Christian and Missionary Alliance
U.S. Army
Ban Me Thuot
A. E. Mitchell
Ellensburg
Wash
Daniel Gerber
Dalton
Ohio
Eleanor A. Vietti
Houston
Tex
Mitchell
May fire losses total $200 in Chanute report
Fire Chief C W Brennan reports May losses in Chanute at about $200, bringing year to date through June 1 to $5,750. The five month figure trails 1960’s $11,100. Seventeen runs were logged last month including seven residential alarms and three Tioga township calls.
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Chanute
C. W. Brennan
Tioga Township
Earlton
Burlington Mfg. Co
Weather warns of severe storms and tornado reports in Kansas
The forecast calls for considerable cloudiness and cooler temperatures with scattered thunderstorms today through Saturday. Thunderstorms were reported across Kansas with tornado funnels observed in several counties though no confirmed ground touchings. Rainfall included 2.36 inches in Brewster and up to six inches in Hartford with river flooding Neosho near three feet above banks.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Brown County
Doniphan County
Weather Bueau
Clay
Lincoln
Goodland
Brewster
Hartford
Strawn
Neosho River
Kennedy drives FBI probe into Estes case and Marshall death
President Kennedy's interest prompts an FBI widening probe into the death of Agriculture Department official who investigated Billie Sol Estes. A Texas grand jury also probes the fatal shooting of Henry H. Marshall near Franklin, with a pathologist deeming murder likely.
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Kennedy
FBI
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Dallas News
Texas Grand
Henry H. Marshall
Franklin
Tex
Marshall
Justice of the Peace
Robert F. Kennedy
Estes
Pe‘ces
House
Senate
Lois Smith
Houston Chronicle
Jury verdict for Berthot in Chanute case over house build costs
District court jurors returned a verdict for Charles A. Berthot against Fred W. Montague Jr. for 13 861.27 plus interest and costs. The dispute centered on total cost limits set by a post construction instrument versus verbal agreements. The trial spanned three days ending after Memorial Day. the couple are Erie county residents in a farm accident suit.
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District Court
Charles A. Berthot
Fred W. Montague Jr
Chanute
Steve Satchell
Ralph Foust
Erie
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka Log
The Topeka traffic death log shows 48 deaths in May and 205 for 1962 year to date through May. Comparable figures for 1961 reached 224 in the same period.
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Topeka
Kansas
FBI chief warns rise in assaults and murders this season
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warned that the approach of the vacation season will bring higher crime. He cited seasonal trends predicting forcible rape about 16 percent above average, with murder and aggravated assault up 12 percent each and a similar rise in attacks on children.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
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