Rail workers get 10.28 cent wage rise after talks
About 450000 non-operating railroad workers win a 10.28 cent hourly increase retroactive to last February. Negotiators from unions and carriers stated the one year deal follows a presidential fact finding board. Estimated annual industry cost is $105 million with potential job losses if operating staff pay bills rise.
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Chicago
Theailroads
Lic
Kennedy
Wolfe
Arthur Goldberg
Police Bonds and Fines Rise in May Report
May police bonds and fines totaled 854 dollars, up from 447 in April and bringing year to date to 2 800 dollars. Parking meter penalties fell to 368 dollars with 1 510 dollars year to date. 1 244 tickets issued in May versus 1 577 in April.
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Animal Control Officer
Pastors Told to Live The Gospel They Preach
Retired Methodist Bishop Arthur Moore challenged ministers at the Kansas Conference session to abandon a habit of telling others what to do without leaving their home towns. He urged pastors to offer sanity amid a troubled world and to embody the gospel they preach. The Ottawa District report noted church projects valued at 1.7 million and a 1963 budget of 953 thousand for missions and benevolences.
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Emporia
Arthur Moore
Birmingham
Ala
Moore
Atlanta
Kansas
Methodist Church
Melvin Booth
Ottawa
Wet Fields Stall Wheat Harvest in Southern Kansas
In Great Bend area fields remain too wet for combines as rain and soggy ground hinder the harvest in southern Kansas, delaying ongoing wheat collection and field work.
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Great Bend
Kan
Weather report and forecast for Topeka and Kansas
Partly cloudy with little temperature change through Thursday. Scattered storms likely late afternoon or night with tonight’s low 65 to 70 and Thursday’s high in the mid 80s. In northern Kansas showers and thunderstorms predicted tonight as a front spans the state. Glendale reported .90 inch of rain with hail near Cedar Bluff and Russell.
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Topeka
Kansas
Cedar Bluff
Russell
Trescott
Abilene
Manhattan
Glendale
Weather Bureau
Street Dance Tonight Promotes Local Band
A free street dance runs tonight from 8 30 to 10 30 on Main between Lincoln and Highland in Chanute. Arlie Neuville and his rock n roll band will provide music while the block is closed to parked cars after 6. The event aims to introduce the band to local teenagers with weekly dances planned at the Armory or Masonic Temple if interest remains high. On opening night Friday the Armory hosts a dance from 8 30 to 11 30 with free admission for parents accompanied by teens, and a no alcohol rule will be enforced at future dances.
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Main
Lincoln
Highland
Chanute JayCees
Arlie Neuville
JayCees
National Guard
Masonic Temple
Armory
Two Workers Die After Sewer Ditch Caves In
In St Joseph Missouri construction foreman Arthur Hugh Smedley 54 and helper Henry George Myers 35 were buried under five feet of earth after the trench collapsed during sewer work for Dugdale Packing Co Two hours later volunteers pulled them free but they were dead Kenneth R Smedley 15 the son of the foreman watched from the bottom of the hole as vibrations from a jack hammer may have caused the collapse.
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ST. Joseph
Kenneth R. Smedley
Arthur Hugh Smedley
Henry George Myers
Kenneth
Independence
Dugdale Packing Co
Underground Blast At Nevada Test Site
The Atomic Energy Commission detonated another underground nuclear blast at the Nevada test site in Washington.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Slain New York socialite found after Topeka quarrel
Police in Topeka say they have no solid clues on the killer of 26 year old Daphne Rhodes, a New York socialite slain after a dispute with another Menninger patient. Detectives trace a recent argument, and say the motive remains unclear as they review angles.
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Topeka, Kan
Daphne Rhodes
New York
A. A. Roth
Mrs. Rhodes
Menninger Foundation
Roth
Kansas Traffic Fatalities Rise in June
Kansas traffic death log shows 3 fatalities in June, 208 for all of 1962, and 229 for the comparable 1961 period. The 24 hour period ending 9 am Wednesday reported zero deaths.
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Topeka
Kansas
Chanute Entrant to Miss Kansas Pageant in Pratt
Miss Chanute Carol Ferguson and chaperone Mrs Jim Kensett left Chanute early today for Pratt to compete in the Miss Kansas Pageant. She is backed by Chanute JayCees with a $50 entry fee and support from local residents as she attends events through Friday with final judging Saturday night and a return Sunday.
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Carol Ferguson
Chanute
Jimgeant
Atlantic City
N.J
Miss Ferguson
Chants
Reva Ferguson
S. Central
JayCees
Chanute Kansas
Chanute JayCees
Chanuteen
Pratt
Western Union
Kansas
Cam
Carol Knox
Kensett
Miss Knox
Miss Kansas
Jim Kensett
Pratt Today
Carol
Circus Parade and Show Set for Chanute Optimists Event
The Kelly Miller Brothers Circus comes to Chanute with a 1 15 p m parade on Main led by Royster Junior High band and featuring 218 wild animals. Performances at 3 and 8 p m follow, with tickets sold today at local stores and tomorrow at the grounds. proceeds stay in Chanute.
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Main
Kelly- Miller Brothers
Chanute Optimist Club
Optimists
Tioga Hotel
Orville Moulton
Royster Junior High
United States
Optimist
Sherwin- Williams
Johnson's
Ben Franklin
Chanute
Floyd West Jr
Optimist International
Kansas City
Jack Bennett
Richard Bohling
Loren Marsh
Wayne Smith
Changes in Highway Patrol Fourth Division Leadership
The Kansas Highway Patrol announces July 1 transfers and promotions in the fourth division. Capt. Tom Glasscock retires after 25 years and will join the Alcoholic Beverage Control as an investigator in southeast Kansas based in Chanute. Lt. Charles L. Hall moves from Chanute to Kansas City, remaining in a supervisory role as a fourth-division lieutenant. Carl Gray Jr. will assume Glasscock's post after completing FBI National Academy work, with Howard Starr moving to first-division supervisor in Topeka. Hall is the other Chanute transfer, and no local replacement is named here.
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Highway Patrol
Patrol
Topeka
Tom Glasscock
Charles L. Hall
Chanute Station
Kansas City
Glasscock
Kansas
Chanute
Morris County
White City
Independence
Dodge City
FBI
National’ Academy
Washington, D. C
National Traffic Institute
Northwestern University
Evanston
Hall
Junction City
Carl Gray Jr
FBI National Academy
Gray
Howard Starr
Parsons Sta
Son
Inpost
Topekaterest
Labette County
Johnson likens today to D-Day at Air Force Academy
Vice President Lydon B. Johnson told graduates the current world challenges rival D-Day, noting U S forces are again on guard in Europe and in the Far East. He cited Thailand deployments as a timely move for freedom and warned against despair over reform and growth.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Lydon B. Johnson
U.S. Air Force Academy
Johnson
Normandy
Europe
Far East
Thailand
Public Trial Focus Shifts to King-Anderson Bill
President Kennedy says the King-Anderson medical care bill is on trial not the AMA. He cites AMA history, questions its stance on Social Security and presses Congress for record clarity while defending the bill’s merits amid an administration AMA dispute.
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AMA
Chicago
Kennedy
King-Anderson
Leonard W. Larson
Larson
Social Security
American Medical Association
Congress
House of Delegates
Unofficial U S Ambassadors Briefed For Europe Tour
Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy told 200 unofficial U S ambassadors they must tell the truth about America on a 60 day People to People tour of Europe. They will start in Berlin and live with German families before touring other nations. Most travelers come from the University of Kansas and several other universities.
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Robert F. Kennedy
U. S
Europe
United States
Kennedy
America
Berlin
Ival
Dwight D. Eisenhower
University of Kansas
University of Missouri
Kansas State University
Ottawa
Odor and Flies From Feed Lots Value Home Near Emporia
A Kansas jury found odor and fly nuisances from nearby feed lots lowered the value of Dale and Fields three acre home near Emporia. The panel awarded 4500 with 3000 against Cattleman's Feed Lots Inc and 1500 against Blue Stem Feed Yards Inc, Anderson Cattle Co. cleared for lack of evidence. Judge will rule on continued operation of the lots.
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Emporia
Kan
Dale D. Fields
Cattleman’s Feed Lots Inc
Blue Stem Feed Yards, Inc
Anderson Cattle Co
Jay Sullivan
Bunker Denies Windfall From Molybdenum Contract
Industrialist Arthur H. Bunker told a Senate subcommittee that Climax Molybdenum Co. did not gain a windfall from canceling its molybdenum sale to the government stockpile. He said the government drove a hard bargain and noted a $1.2 million penalty payment settled with the General Services Administration after cancelling the contract.
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Washington
Arthur H. Bunker
Molybdenum Co
Bunker
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Symington
James P. Morgan
Climax
Morgan
Daphne Bunker Rhodes
Topeka
Kan
General Services Administration
Climax Molybdenum Co
Harbold waives preliminary hearing in burglary case
Donald R. Harbold 1319 S Highland waived his preliminary hearing in city court on a second degree burglary charge. He was bound over to district court for trial with $2000 bond and jailed in Erie County. Police arrested him at 2:20 am inside the Owl Drive-in tavern at 1702 S Santa Fe after finding a kicked in back door.
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Donald R. Harbold
S. Highland
Harbold
Erie
Owl Drive-in
S. Santa Fe
5000 Man Draft For Army In August
The Defense Department announced a draft call of 5,000 men for August matching July’s quota. The figure is 1,500 below the month’s allocation despite the unchanged overall target.
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Washington
Army
Defense Department
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Fee
Western Railways
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Coon
Ferguson
Memorial Hall
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