City dads chart steps toward planning board here
City commission moves to draft an enabling ordinance to establish a community planning board and allocate funds in the 1963 budget following a Chamber of Commerce led development seminar. Other actions include lease termination on farm land, parking enforcement changes, and animal control provisions.
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City Commission
Planning Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Dean Kepley
Santa Fe Park
Tioga Hotel Chamber Adopts 13200 Budget For Year
The Tioga Hotel district chamber adopts a 13200 operating budget matching last year. The action followed committee recommendations from Bodley Morley Gorton and Mc Creight. The session also discussed milk inspection fees and city projects including alley vacation for St Paul Lutheran, drainage improvements, street work, elevator upgrade, and Buick unit planning.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ithe Tioga Hotel
William G. Bodley
Mahlon Morley
John Gorton
Dwight McCreight
LeRoy S. Davidson
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Dye’s
Bill Gerken
14Th
Henry
Gerken
Wilson
Cherry
Beech
R. 0. Browning
9Th
Lafayette
R.J. Hayes
Memorial Building
Hayes
Melva Russum
Hail storms ruin crops and flood pastures in Elsmore area
Mrs. Mark Parrott of Elsmore recalls a severe hail storm east of town with drifts and heavy rain totaling three to five inches. Corn wheat gardens and fruit were destroyed while a pond overflowed flooding pastures. A bobcat near Vilas was killed by a resident after it fed at a cats pan. An UNESCO exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair features Henry Watkins and a Santa Fe box car. A blue jay disturbance ends with a 50 inch black snake killed near 409 North Grant.
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Charles Reaves
Vilas
The
American Assn. of
United Nations
Watkins
Johnson
Mike Trumbull
Kenneth Trumbull
N. Grant
Alienation of Affection Suit Filed in District Court
Loren Newton Elleman of Humboldt sues Earl G. Witmer for 109,500 actual and 100,000 exemplary damages. The petition alleges Witmer's attentions caused Mrs. Elleman to seek divorce after she began work as his secretary and bookkeeper following their January 5, 1946 marriage and three children. The suit cites events after mid March 1961.
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Loren Newton Elleman
Humboldt
Earl G. Witmer
S. Plummer
Elleman
Witmer
Independence
Estes Seeks Reelection For Neosho County Clerk
Merle Estes announced candidacy for re election to the Neosho County District Court clerk position subject to the Republican primary in August. She was born and educated in Chanute and is a lifelong county resident living at 115 S Steuben.
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Merle Estes
Neosho County District Court
Miss Estes
Chanute
S. Steuben
Tornado, hail report as Kansas weather turns unsettled
Weather bulletin notes 1 p.m. temperatures and a steady barometer as partly cloudy warm weather returns through Wednesday. Reported Monday storms brought rain and hail across western Kansas with a tornado touching ground near Cassoday and Matfield Green. Cassoday recorded .55 inch, Francis reports unknown totals, other cities logged multiple inches and hail in the storm area.
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Topeka
Kansas
Cassaday
Matfield Green
Cassoday
Francis
Neosho Rapids
Paola
Achilles
Oberlin
Atood
Bird City
Three bank robbers escape rock on driftwood raft
Alcatraz escape effort from the San Francisco Bay prison appears under way as three inmates John Anglin Clarence Anglin and Ferris Morris allegedly cut through a pipe tunnel and used a driftwood raft to reach the water. A massive manhunt by police FBI and Coast Guard covers Angel Island and the mainland with the search ongoing.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz
Arthur M. Dobson
Rock Island
San Francisco Bay
Rock
Golden Gate
Dollison
Themen
John W. Anglin
Clarence Anglin
Montgomery
Ala
Ferris A. Morris
New Orleans
FBI
Coast Guard
Angel Island
Leavenworth Federal Prison
Kansas
Marina Green
The
Aaron Walter Burgett
Missouri Post Office
Ralph Coe
Theodore Cole
Paul J. Madigan
Health Care Plan Compromise Sought
Washington AP reports President Kennedy and supporters seek a compromise version of the health care plan. Ribicoff signals major concessions while urging Social Security financing and committee approval. Halleck deems administration efforts defeatist as talks hinge on benefits, costs, and coverage for non Social Security groups.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Abraham Ribicoff
Congress
Ribicoff
Ways and Means
Halleck
General Fund of
the Treasury
KU Summer Session Opens With 3180 Enrollees Expected to Reach 4000
0000 registration at the University of Kansas began Monday for the summer session with 3180 students enrolled. James K. Hitt registrar and director of admissions noted the figure may climb to about 4000.
Death Takes Dr. Vestle of Humboldt
Dr. Charles E. Vestle 57, Humboldt physician, died unexpectedly after a Humboldt City Council meeting. He was taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital in Chanute and died on arrival from a heart ailment. Vestle held medical and civic leadership roles, survived by his wife Alma Baskett and others, with graveside rites planned at Mount Hope cemetery.
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Humboldt
Charles E. Vestle
Vestle
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Chanute
Westle
Holton
Alma Baskett
Jefferson City
Grace Episcopal Church
Pacific Lodge No
Valley
Iola
Pittsburg
Fort Scott
University of Kansas
Lawrence
University of Tennessee Medical School
Knoxville
Tenn
Neosho County Medical Society
Kansas Medical Society
American Medical Association
American Academy of General Practitioners
New York Academy of Sciences
The
World Medical Association
State Chamber of Commerce
Humboldt School Board
Rotary Club
Humboldt Chamber of Commerce
Myrtle Vestle
Thomas Vestle
Wichita
Karl Vestle
Davenport
Iowa
Mount Hope Cemetery
Pacific Lodge No. 29
Af&am
Price Funeral Home
Group Votes To Dissolve Greater Neosho Enterprises
Stockholders of Greater Neosho Enterprises Inc met yesterday and voted to dissolve the corporation formed last year to handle financing of the state centennial celebration. An accounting shows $827.72 in outstanding accounts against $263.17 in assets. Assets will be prorated among owed accounts as the corporation ends its financial responsibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Neosho Enterprises, Inc
Morehead Declares Run for Sheriff Nomination
Tom Morehead former Chanute police chief announces he will seek the Republican nomination for sheriff in the August primary. He served 14 years in Chanute police, eight as chief, resigning in May 1959. Now 45, he works as a salesman and resides at 326 W. 3th.
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Tom Morehead
Morehead
Chanute
McVey Seeks Reelection in Kansas 5th District
Rep. Walter L. McVey of Kansas announces filing for reelection in the new 5th district. He argues the district cannot afford a series of freshmen, noting he is currently serving his first term.
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Washington
Walter L. McVey
Kan
Kansas
McVey
Kansas traffic fatality log for June 8 1962
Traffic death log for Kansas records 1 fatality in the 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday. Includes June data with 1962 total 213, comparison 1961 period 236, plus an unreported fatality from June 1.
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Topeka
Kansas
Brother shoots secretary’s escort at railroad terminal
In New York a brother of secretary Mary Mullooly shot and critically wounded her employer Taylor Gay 55 a Phillips Petroleum vice president at a Hudson and Manhattan Railroad terminal. Gay’s wife Berta 48 separated from him and was at the hospital as he underwent a five hour operation with multiple blood transfusions. Mullooly 41 told police I can’t see any married man fooling around with a single girl Somebody had to kill him He was jailed on felonious assault and anti weapons charges.
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NEW York
Taylor S. Gay
Phillips Petroleum Co
Beekman- Downtown
Berta
Mary Mullooly
James Mullooly
Mullooly
Gay
Jersey City
Exclusive Creek Club
Locust Valley
Long Island
Manhasset
Georgeanne
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
Manhattan
New York-New Jersey
Hudson River
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Marie Galt
LaRue
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Joe Melnyk
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Elon Randle
Phil Cooper
Safari Museum
Osa Johnson
Cooper
Martin Johnson
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Neosho County
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Ottawa-South Assn
Tioga
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Elsmore
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Salina
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Charles A. Halleck
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