Summer year round schooling in Chanute persists
Almost 300 students and instructors pursue year round education during the summer in Chanute. High school offerings include driving education with 80 students taught by Jim Woods, Herb Snender and Bill Stanley from 7 a.m. to noon. Elementary Spanish has 35 students in three sessions led by Jane Elrod Martin, and a remedial reading course at the Special Services Building has 151 children enrolled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
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Chanute
Jim Woods
Herb Snender
Bill Stanley
Jane Elrod Martin
Murray Hill
Unified District 413
Special Services
Exertion Causes Visor Fogging During Gemini 9 EVA
Astronaut Eugene Cernan said overwork during his Gemini 9 spacewalk caused visor fogging and led to an early end after 2 hours 5 minutes. He and Thomas Stafford cited lessons for future flights including radar a must for moon rescue maneuvers.
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Space
Apollo
Moon
Cernan
Driver Cited After Crash
Police cited Melvin Stierwalt 24 of 33 W 4th on careless driving after a 1318 N Santa Fe crash about 5 15 p m. A 1955 Buick driven by Stierwalt and a 1957 Mercury driven by Raymond Orr 63 of 928 N Grant were northbound. The Stierwalt car hit Orr s left rear then careened off the road. Damage was $40 to Orr and $20 to Stierwalt. A four month old in Stierwalt s car Kelvin Baylor had minor injuries. Stierwalt blamed brake failure but witnesses said speed was excessive.
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Melvin Stierwalt
N. Santa Fe
Stierwalt
Raymond Orr
N. Grant
Orr
Kelvin Baylor
Enrollment Monday For Head Start At Murray Hill School
Head Start enrollment continues Monday at Murray Hill school. Mrs Aleene Jacobs director says pre enrollment cards indicate intent. Parents must bring children for enrollment at 8 30 a m and classes begin at 9 with transportation arranged for distant riders.
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Murray Hill School
Aleene Jacobs
Cosmos 121 Satellite Launch Report
The Soviet Union launched an unmanned satellite Cosmos 121, per Tass. The craft will orbit roughly 130 to 220 miles above Earth as part of the Soviet space research program.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
An intercepted message describes space travelers' fatigue from a brief walk on Pike's Peak. The tone suggests shared exhaustion with astronauts and a casual, personal closing.
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Cha
Wee
Space
Pike’s Peak
Traffic Fatalities In Topeka Logged Over 24 Hours
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours ending 9 am Friday with figures for June 25, 1966 and a comparison to 1965. two deaths previously unreported from May are included.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Summary for Topeka Kansas Area
Weather report notes high and low temperatures with 1 p.m. reading at 57 and 1 p.m. humidity around 41 percent. Forecast calls for cloudy skies with light rain across Kansas, showers returning tonight or Saturday morning, 10 percent precipitation, and highs in the middle 80s with lows 60 to 65.
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Topeka
Kansas
Cox Seeks State Representative Seat in 5th District
George Cox of 327 West Main, a retired Kansas State Highway employee and former district supervisor for 25 years, files to run for state representative from Neosho County in the 5th district. He headed Chanute schools maintenance for 10 years. married with a son Wilbur in California. Democratic incumbent is Henry Watkins of Erie.
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George Cox
W. Main
Kansas
Neosho County
Cox
State Highway Commission
Chanute
Wilbur
California
Henry Watkins
Erie
Tribune Contact Switchboard Phone Reference
Instructions to reach the Tribune by phone after business hours. If unavailable, call HE 1.3400 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
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Tribune
Fate of Buddhists At Stake in Riots in Saigon
A 16 year old Buddhist girl set herself on fire during anti government protests in Saigon as militant monks continue demonstrations for a fifth day. Police sealed the Buddhist Institute area while a 1 000 strong mob denounced the regime. Car fires including a U S Embassy jeep were reported and hundreds of children joined the street actions.
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Saigon
Dao Thi Tuyet
Buddhist Institute
Johnson
U.S
May Traffic Fatalities 61 in Kansas
Kansas recorded 61 traffic fatalities in May, up from 46 in May 1965, marked as one of the worst Mays on record by the Kansas Highway Commission. Safety director Claud R. McCamment noted 32 deaths occurred on weekends and 35 were caused by vehicle collisions.
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Topeka
Kansas
Safety Department of the
Kansas Highway Commission
Claud R. McCamment
Commission
Santa Fe Railway Shops Suffer Over 2 Million in Damage
Topeka AP reports damage to the Santa Fe Railway shops will exceed 2 million dollars with full operations expected in about three weeks. Since the June 3 storm, 46 new cars have been released for shop use. The damaged area included a production line for new refrigerator and freight cars. The plant, built in 1907, employs about 2 000 persons.
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Topeka
Santa Fe
Stark approves bonds for municipal gas system
The city of Stark passes a 21 000 revenue bond issue to fund a gas system with a transmission line and distribution belt. A 24 000 general obligation bond is also authorized. Work starts soon with 60 day completion. Eugene Lee, mayor, cites Cities Service connection and 30 initial customers. E V Finley and Sons of Hutchinson handle contracts.
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Stark
Tribune
Brian Corrigan
Wichita
Eugene Lee
Cities Service Gas Co
Savonburg
See
Lee
E. V. Finley and Sons, Hutchinson
Problems In Study By Council TOPEKA Kans
Lt Gov Crutcher presided as the Legislative Council prepares a June 27 meeting to study tornado caused issues. Gov Avery asks focus on land acquisition south of the Statehouse for expansion, plans for the state printing plant, and the health department laboratories relocation and operations.
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Topeka
Legislative Council
Tope
John Crutcher
William H. Avery
Avery
Statehouse
State Health Department
Trot in Banking Opens on Mackinac Island
Residents of Mackinac Island will gain a bank branch after July 1 when First National Bank of St. Ignace opens a Mackinac Island office next month to serve islanders who rely on horses for transport since cars are prohibited.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
Straits of Mackinac
First National Bank of
New York Ship Collision Kills At Least Twenty
In New York Harbor the collision of two tankers and nearby tugs caused a massive fire. At least 20 dead, 12 missing, 69 survivors with 40 hospitalized, after the Texaco Massachusetts and Alva Cape collided and a tug exploded scattering flammable naphtha. Rescue crews saved several, some heroic acts described.
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New York
Kill van Kull
New York Harbor
Coast Guard
The
Ing
Alva Cape
Texaco Massachusetts
Gulf of Mexico
Esso Vermont
Mississippi march resumes toward voter registration drive
Civil rights marchers in Greenwood Mississippi resumed their convoy along State Highway 7 on the last five mile lap to the Leflore County Courthouse. They planned a voter registration drive after spending Thursday night in Greenwood.
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Greenwood
Miss
Mississippi
Cottonlands
Leflore County
Washburn Regents Back Topeka Trafficway Route
Washburn University Regents endorsed a trafficway through Topeka tornado wreckage at the request of Mayor Charles W. Wright. The plan would run under the Washburn campus and connect disrupted areas to aid relief and access.
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Topeka
Washburn University
Charles W. Wright
Washburn
NASA eyes future Surveyor tests for manned moon walk
NASA officials say Surveyor 1 proves the moon’s surface can support man and future landings. with 10 388 pictures to date they note gritty granular soil rocks and light dust, and landing pods sank only an inch. future experiments will measure radioactivity and test a digging device beneath the surface.
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Washington
USS
Earth
Homer E. Newell
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Robert Gilruth
Manned Space Center
Houston
Surveyor 1
Moon
Oceanus Procellarum
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Eldon Penner
Berra
Russ Corbitt
Cosmos
Yours
Tute
Hue
Thich Tam Chau
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