Heavy rains and hail sweep Kansas with severe storms
Drought breaking rain and damaging hail hit much of Kansas with as much as 5.20 inches in Conway McPherson County. Reports include shattered wheat fields in Win dom Conway Groveland and livestock damage. Forecast calls for showers and thunder storms and a cooling trend Thursday with high in the 80s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Conway
McPherson County
Ogallah
Trego
McPherson
Windom
Ted Briggs
Reagan Domination Shakes California GOP Primary
In California Reagan crushed George Christopher and rivaled Brown in a volatile primary race. Yorty surged in Southern California challenging Brown as Mundt easily won the South Dakota Senate nod. Eastland led a strong Democratic showing in Mississippi primaries.
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Reagan
George Christopher
San Francisco
California
Brown
Capitol
Los Angeles
Samuel W. Yorty
Yorty
Christopher
Sioux Falls
S.D
Karl E. Mundt
U.S. Senate
Richard Murphy
Mundt
Dawn Wright
White Lake
Wright
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Sparks Space Mission Mockery
An intercepted note ridicules a human error that prevented Gemini 9 from linking with its target, suggesting robots find humor in the blunder and the mission’s hookup failure.
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Cha
Storm Watches Issued Across Eastern Kansas and Surrounding States
The Weather Bureau issued tornado watches for portions of south central and eastern Kansas and west central Missouri, with a 3 to 9 pm window in some zones and a broader 8 pm end time in others. Severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds are also forecast along a wide band from Hutchinson to Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Missouri
Hutchinson
Kan
Grant Enables Neosho Juco Construction Start
Federal funds of 412 079 were approved for the Neosho County Community Junior College plant at 14th and Allen. NCCJC President Buford Fisher said bonds of 1 550 000 were voted. 1 250 000 sold, leaving 300 000 unsold for use with the grant. HUD will review blueprints before bids, with contracts likely in 30 to 60 days.
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Neosho County Community
Buford Fisher
NCCJC
Fisher
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Fort Worth
Charles Wolfe Dies Of Shotgun Wound
Charles R. Wolfe 40 was found dead at his home 802 S Malcolm from a self inflicted shotgun wound. He worked as a Hagman’s driver salesmen in Pittsburg and had been in poor health. He died after his wife left briefly to pick up their daughter. a son is in the Army at Fort Riley. The body was taken to Johnson Mortuary.
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Charles R
Chuck) Wolfe
S. Malcolm
Wolfe
Hagman’s, Inc
Pittsburg
Army
Fort Riley
McWilliams Leaves 8.6 Million Estate
Homer McWilliams died at 98 on December 21 after living 19 years in Trinity Lutheran Hospital where he preferred to stay. The Kansas City man left 8,633,353 dollars to a charity trust and cash gifts to seven cousins a nurse friends and his longtime confidant Corelanus Thorp who received 50,000 dollars and was named executor.
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Kansas City
Homer McWilliams
McWilliams
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Corelanus Thorp
Thorp
Copper Shortage Delays Emperor Hirohito Palace
In Tokyo AP reports a world copper shortage delays the construction of Emperor Hirohito’s new palace. Plans require 800 tons of copper for roofing, with prices rising to 2500 per ton from 888 last year. Officials may add about one million dollars to the budget or wait for prices to fall.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Alma Roars Toward Florida Mainland
Hurricane Alma battered Key West with winds up to 70 mph and moved toward Florida’s southwest coast. Warnings extended north to Savannah with tides seven to 11 feet. evacuations were urged for low-lying areas as Cuba reported fatalities in Honduras.
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Miami
Fla
Alma
Key West
Florida
Cuba
U.S
Key West Naval Base
Weather Bureau
Florida Gulf Coast
Tampa-St. Petersburg
Florida Keys
Savannah
Cape Kennedy
Florida Straits
Havana
Honduras
Tampa Bay Area
Shooting Hastens Civil Rights Bill
President Johnson and Democratic leaders in Washington discussed the James Meredith shooting in Mississippi. After the White House meeting House Democratic Leader Carl Albert predicted the civil rights bill would pass promptly, favoring comprehensive protections for Negroes and civil rights workers.
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Washington
Johnson
James Meredith
Mississippi
Congress
House
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
White House
Albert
Civil rights marchers stall as King visits Meredith in Memphis
March through Mississippi pauses as civil rights leaders plan strategy and arrange supplies. Dr. Martin Luther King visited James Meredith in his Memphis hospital room as 18 gray shirted state troopers posted here look north for the marcher vanguard. Memphis lies about 35 miles north.
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Martin Luther King
James Meredith
Memphis
NATO Ministers Tackle French Troops in Germany
NATO foreign ministers kept alive the question of 72,000 French troops in Germany by sending the issue back to their governments. Dutch Foreign Minister Luns arranged renewed ministerial talks after last minute diplomacy with Michael Stewart and Dean Rusk. The compromise directs the NATO political council to decide the troops future, as France under De Gaulle has threatened July 1 withdrawal which would strain the Western alliance.
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Brussels
Germany
Atlantic Alliance
Josef Luns
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Luns
Secre
Tary Michael Stewart
Dean Rusk
Maurice Couve de Murville
France
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Buddhist Institute
Nguyen Cao Ky
Thich Tam Chau
Kontum
Screaming Eagles
Civil rights march leaders press on through Mississippi
Meredith and five major civil rights groups gathered north of Hernando to resume the march on foot through Mississippi. Negroes mobilized supporters while Memphis hospital officials suggested Meredith could be released today.
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Coldwater
Miss
Mississippi
Hernando
Here
James Meredith
Memphis
Meredith
U S Paratroopers Eliminate North Vietnamese Unit
In central highlands U S paratroopers fought two days of hard combat and decimated a North Vietnamese regular battalion. A military spokesman reports 292 enemy dead on a five mile battlefield.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Police court bonds and fines rise and fall in May report
May's police court bonds and fines totaled 672 dollars, down from 915 in April, with parking meter penalties at 440.50 and a five month total of 1,911.75. May saw 1,857 parking tickets, 217 service calls, 57 misdemeanor arrests, and no felonies. There were several traffic and larceny incidents plus 50 dogs picked up by animal control, nine dogs killed, and 7,563 patrol miles logged.
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Police Department
Corcoran Plans Move to Topeka
Tom Corcoran Kansas Democratic chairman will move soon from Overland Park to Topeka. Elected to the post in May 1965 he has become vice president of Arista Foods Inc whose home office is in Topeka. He resigned as vice president in charge of sales for Interstate Chemical Co. The move will not affect his political position.
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Kansas City, Kan
Tom Corcoran
Kansas Democratic
Overland Park
Topeka
Corcoran
Arista Foods Inc
Interstate Chemical Co
Rev Kendall Named To Methodist Post
Rev Robert B Kendall of Coffeyville is named executive secretary for the interboard council of the Kansas Conference of the Methodist Church with offices in Baldwin temporary. Bishop W McFerrin Stowe announced the appointment as the annual conference in Topeka votes on a proposed office building. Kendall has pastored Horton Topeka Humboldt and Hiawatha and was Kansas City District superintendent before Coffeyville ministry.
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Topeka
Robert B. Kendall
Coffeyville
Interboard Council
Kansas Conference of the Methodist Church
Kendall
Baldwin
W. McFerrin Stowe
Horton
Humboldt
Hiawatha
Kansas City
Traffic Fatalities Log From Topeka
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Wednesday, listing fatalities and related details. The report provides a snapshot of road tolls for the period and may reference comparable figures from 1965.
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Topeka
Kansas
Record-Holding X15 Pilot Joseph A. Walker Killed
World record X15 pilot Joseph A. Walker died when an F104 chase plane he piloted collided with an XB70A bomber near Barstow California. XB70A pilot Al White parachuted to safety. co-pilot Maj. Carl Cross fate unknown. Walker had pushed 4104 mph and 352000 feet in flight. collision ends two-aircraft test near Edwards AFB.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Joseph A. Walker
Air Force
al White
Carl Cross
Walker
Barstow
Desert Test Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Goodland
Great Bend
Ronald Reagan
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Thomas Abernethy
Jamie Whitten
John Bell Williams
William Colmer
South Dakota
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Uncle Sam
Board of Trustees
Charles Wolfe
Johnson Mortuary
Barbara Gench
Fort Scott
Doris Peters
Ottawa
Joan Ashley
Chanute
Miss Gench
Tribune
Russ Corbitt
Dave Harris
North Viet Nam
U. S
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101St Airborne Brigade
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
101St Airborne
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