Iola Opens Gates Rubber Plant With Community Turnout
About 500 people attended the Iola open house for the new Gates Rubber plant. Speakers included Charles Gates, president and CEO, and Gov. Robert Bennett. Gates said each new job represents a $133,000 investment, and Bennett presented plant manager Burt Hoefs with a Kansas flag.
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IOLA
New Gates
Charles Gates
Gov
Robert Bennett
Gates
Bennett
Burt Hoefs
Kansas
Tidewater drug informants slain in gangland style killings
Michael Browne, 23, shot four times in a parked car near an elementary school hours after testifying to a federal grand jury. He was one of four informants killed in Tidewater Virginia in less than a year as authorities link the crimes to an organized heroin ring. Police report fear suppressing informants and hindering new sources.
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Norfolk
UPI
Michael Browne
Brown
Navy Town
Virginia
Tidewater
Tidewater Area
Nelda Browne
Edward C. Roberts
Browne
Norfolk State College
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
George Notel
Federal Drug Agency
Richard Whitt
Whitt
Fred Durham
Portsmouth
Durham
Morris E. Parker
Johnson L. Hunt
Chesapeake
Graduates listed from Chanute to Iola and St Paul area
The report notes Chanute graduates Dennis Molinow and others from Kansas State College of Pittsburg, with Humboldt and Iola students also named. It then covers a murder case with no witnesses or arrests and U.S. Attorney Wainger outrage over Browne’s killing, a potential narcotics case witness, and a court ruling to admit Browne’s grand jury transcripts and tapes.
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Chanute
Kansas State College of Pittsburg
Dennis Molinow
Robert Sellman
Norma Steinman
Barton Nelson
Duane Clum
Cherla Heaton
Karol Good
Don Coates
Richard Pierce
Mildred Hartung
Fredonia
Humboldt
Curtis Squire
Theodore Zuzzio
Jean Kettler
U.S
Stephen Wainger
Browne
Wainger
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West Street
Sola, Kansas
Mike Cooper
Tae
Gran Torino
Monte Carlos
Rickett’s Motor Co. Inc
N. Main
Roberts
Erie, Kansas
Aestac
Welcome Tigers
Tastee
Fanestil
Flint Hill Bacon
Nester
Coca-Cola
Pius Deposit
Self Service
Tigers
California
Stokely
Chef-Pierre
Kraft Delicious Barbecue
A&w
Léoc
Lincoln
STMT
Keebler
Brazil
West 21St St
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